{"id":38062,"date":"2013-10-20T08:03:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-20T12:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38062"},"modified":"2013-10-20T10:20:51","modified_gmt":"2013-10-20T14:20:51","slug":"time-running-out-for-new-ink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38062","title":{"rendered":"Time running out for new ink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the threat of new gun control laws cleared off shelves of firearms and ammunition earlier this year? Well, the same principle applies to new Army regulations forbidding certain tattoos according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/us\/soldiers-race-to-get-new-ink-before-restrictions-on-tattoos-begin-1.247656\">The (Raleigh) News &#038; Observer<\/a> as soldiers line up to get their &#8220;grandfathered&#8221; ink before the new Army regulations kick in in the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, the impending restriction is related to the supposed end of the wars in the Middle East;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> With that war over and cuts in troop strength expected as the United States withdraws from Afghanistan next year, Sgt. Maj. of the Army Raymond Chandler said last month a new, stricter policy is in the works and could take effect in 30 to 60 days.<\/p>\n<p>Current soldiers who have tattoos that violate the new regulations would be \u201cgrandfathered,\u201d but new recruits would have to remove skin art that stretches onto the extremities before they would be allowed to join.<\/p>\n<p>The changes have created a tick in business at some of the two dozen or so tattoo shops in Fayetteville whose customers include soldiers at Fort Bragg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess people with tattoos can&#8217;t kick doors down and can&#8217;t hump their rucks up and down the gently rolling terrain of Fort Bragg. They probably can&#8217;t shoot straight either. Or pick up pine cones. So, <del datetime=\"2013-10-20T14:20:50+00:00\">CSA<\/del> SMA Chandler is doing the same thing for the tattoo business surrounding military communities that the gun control people did for the firearm business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember when the threat of new gun control laws cleared off shelves of firearms and ammunition &hellip; <a title=\"Time running out for new ink\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38062\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Time running out for new ink<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}