{"id":45610,"date":"2014-05-02T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T11:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=45610"},"modified":"2014-05-01T18:31:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T22:31:24","slug":"guardsman-to-sue-army-for-tattoo-regs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=45610","title":{"rendered":"Guardsman to sue Army for tattoo regs"},"content":{"rendered":"

PintoNag sends a link from MSN<\/a> which reports that SSG Adam C. Thorogood, a Kentucky National Guardsman, plans to sue the Army over it’s new tattoo regs;<\/p>\n

[Thorogood] said the tattoos covering his left arm from the elbow to the wrist aren’t harmful, but the Army is using the body art against him and stopping him from fulfilling a dream of joining “The Nightstalkers,” the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Thorogood’s attorneys said the new rules are preventing their client from seeking appointment as a warrant officer.<\/p>\n

Thorogood, 28, sued Thursday in U.S. District Court in Paducah, Kentucky, seeking to have the new rules declared unconstitutional. He is seeking $100 million in damages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think this is as stupid as the folks using the CBC to get the Pentagon to change hair regs. Of course, I also think that the new reg is cumbersome and stupid. We can all hope that the Army comes to the realization that they need talented warriors more than they need pretty soldiers. I have no tattoos, but that was my choice, I always figured that I’m pretty enough the way I am, so….<\/p>\n

If the Army wants to make a previously allowed practice not allowed, then just make a cutoff date and stop it. There should be no repercussions for the people who had the tats before the date. But no one has ever accused Ray Chandler of having any smarts. And then the annual tattoo inventory is more unnecessary BS – obviously contrived by a POG who has nothing to do but inspect police call areas all day. If they’re going to be hard and fast with the inventories, they should make sergeant majors certify every inventory personally, and it should be monthly. On pay day. Then the practice would go away before it even started.<\/p>\n

Ray wants a pretty Army and he wants to drive the ugly ones out;<\/p>\n

“The Army is a profession, and one of the ways our leaders and the American public measure our professionalism is by our appearance,” Chandler said. “Every soldier has the responsibility to understand and follow these standards. Leaders at all levels also have a responsibility to interpret and enforce these standards, which begins by setting the example.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, time travel hasn’t been invented yet, so the soldiers can’t know that some bozo sergeant major is going to change the regs on them. Of course, this is the same sergeant major of the Army who lectured the troops in Afghanistan that their cultural insensitivity was getting them killed in green-on-blue attacks – and still supported their commander’s decision to force the troops to be unarmed in a combat zone. So, we really can’t expect him to have a measure of common sense on something so simple as tattoos, can we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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