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Basic Training |
In all seriousness Iron if you're considering joining then I'd keep your afflitation with the skins (sharp or not)under wraps because the involvment in any skinhead group will disqualify you. If you have any of the skin tattoos they better not be there when you go to MEPS. That will disqualify you.I served with a Marine who claimed to be a SHARP skinhead and he was still racist as hell and had the tattoos but that was before the Corps gave a shit about tattoos.
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Non racist skinheads...............quite possible the stupidist thing I have heard today.........its still early. |
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AKA: pimplslapin |
absolutely correct! It's been a long time since I've seen anyone talk about SHARP. The first time wss on recruiting and the kid was trying to join. Trying to explain it to operations darn near required a thesis project. Then trying to validate that the kid was indeed one.wheeeeew two problems: It's still considered an extremist group, and what got the kid was the tattoos. He had to go on a psychological consult originally because of the total number of them and it did not come back favorably for the kid. In retrospect, had the kid had some of them covered and never told us of the affiliation, he would have made it in. It's rare to get dq'd just for lots of tats, or it used to be that way. They have gotten really crazy about the tattoos lately. |
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Basic Training |
I hear you brother I had a kid who had the west coast chopper tattoo with the maltese cross and was DQ for it. Said it was a racist skinhead tat. The OPSO and OPS Chief have a database now with all (as of now)gang tats as well as skinhead and neo-nazi tats
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AKA: pimplslapin |
My favorite tattoo, was one that I thought might not get through because of it's eccentric location.
A girl had a set of cherries tattood flanking each side of her labia. At the time, in order to get a tattoo waiver we had to take pics and forward them to ops before the applicant went to meps, because all waivers had to go to region and it took longer than a day for approval. We called ops to explain our situation, because none of us were going to chance having to explain who took the pics and we didn't have any female recruiters in the building. We ended up having to have a female come over from another substation and take them. Evidently this caused a bit of a stir with the network administrators when the pics were emailed. A week later I had to go to ops for something and the Opso just looked at me, smiled and said thank you for the best waiver he ever had to run. |
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by SSgtRSP:
My favorite tattoo, was one that I thought might not get through because of it's eccentric location. A girl had a set of cherries tattood flanking each side of her labia. At the time, in order to get a tattoo waiver we had to take pics and forward them to ops before the applicant went to meps, because all waivers had to go to region and it took longer than a day for approval. We called ops to explain our situation, because none of us were going to chance having to explain who took the pics and we didn't have any female recruiters in the building. We ended up having to have a female come over from another substation and take them. Evidently this caused a bit of a stir with the network administrators when the pics were emailed. A week later I had to go to ops for something and the Opso just looked at me, smiled and said thank you for the best waiver he ever had to run.[/QUOTE ____________________________________________ LMAO!    |
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That is classic. One of the my fellow recruiters tried to convince meps that a tatto on his applicants hand said "CRIS" not "CRIP"
and of course we had a poolee who got a tat after he enlisted that was a picture of two bulldogs having sex, it said " im not a player, I just **** alot........he was DQ'd |
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The opportunity to have been the proverbial 'fly on the wall' would have been priceless |
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I've just gotta go with it as is... |
why in the hell would HQMC care if her beava was tattoed?
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AKA: pimplslapin |
They have become very picky about all tattoos. Fora long time it was simply nothing above the collar and nothing below the wrist, and no profanity, racist,overtly sexual or anti-gov. Then it got down to more than 6 tattoos and it was a psych consult, then it was three. Then every tattoo had to be screened by the Opso. The sillier part was that if you had a name tattood on you that was block letters, then each letter counted as an individual tattoo. i really cannot follow the logic on this either. i knew of a few recuiters that became pretty good with henna tats to cover other tats or link the letters in a name. Most people who have been in or more than 10 years would be very surprisd at a lot of the new restrictions. The fact is, a lot of people that have been in for a while, wouldn't qualify to come in on initial entry any more. the military will take a rock with lips before they will take a kid that was on welbutrin for a month because his parents got divorced. I won't even start on the legal and med waivers. I lost a lot of faith in the legal and medical professions while on recruiting |
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Basic Training |
had a kid one time with the "Insane Clown Posse" tattoo and the OPSO tried telling me it was a gang tattoo.The kid was from a small town in Nebraska with about 400 people. Yeah they tend to go overboard
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AKA: pimplslapin |
Hey man you gotta look out when the cornshuckers and the hogtusslers go at it. They get to sippin on that silage and the cowfloppers start flying |
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30 Days and I will learn to act more civil. |
OI Mates just got back on after a while but yeah i got a Trojan Helmet centered on my back just below the neck with S.H.A.R.P. in olde English lettering in an arch over top of it and the Union Jack on over vertical with an English bulldog on my right arm between my shoulder and my elbow half sleeve. Old Glory (same way) w/Pitbull on my left arm. shoulder to elbow half sleeve tatt. think this would DQ me?
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I don't know about the trojan helmet but I believe the S.H.A.R.P. will DQ you. Without a doubt they will ask what that means if they don't already know. But if it were to change to something else before the pics are taken and sent to MEPS then there may not be a problem. You may believe that the SHARP's are non-racist but in reality it doesn't matter what you believe it's what the Marine Corps believes. I'm not an expert on the skin's by any means but my experience as a recruiter will tell you that you'll be DQ'd with that tat.
s/f SSgt H |
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F-yeah! I posted something worthy of a temporary position at the top of the forum! |
Out of curiousity, are you English? Or is that a SHARP or "oi-punk" type of thing?
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The tattoo regulations are posted 1,000 times all over this website and you didn't bother to check them before you got two half-sleeves? It'll probably get waived but I'm sure your recruiter is going to be very thankful.
And if you're not english...drop the act. Good luck when your DI's see a bulldog on half of your arm. |
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MODERATOR, MARINE FORUMS I'm innocent! I'm the John Boy.......  |
Holy crap! That means I now have 13 Tat's on my body.  Semper Fi Johnny Blaze If you're gonna shoot, shoot! Don't Talk. |
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30 Days and I will learn to act more civil. |
More than half English Mate. then I have the rest of the U.K. in my blood; and bloody proud of it. As far as geting the sleeves on my arms I've had them since before I started posting and asking questions on here. but I'll get the "S.H.A.R.P." removed or covered before I go to MEPs thanks for the replies though. |
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AKA: pimplslapin |
I'd say you are right. The SHARP affiliation is probably not going to be understood as anything other than another type of gang or undisirable group. Get it covered or something |
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30 Days and I will learn to act more civil. |
I have an appointment to get it removed next week. 40$ down the drain in total but fu ck it being a Marine is more important to me than a bloody tatt. |
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