The U.S. Army (not sure about the other branches) will no longer allow the enlistment of anyone with a visible tattoo. If someone already has a tattoo who is already in the military then they will have to leave once their contract is up or have the tattoo(s) surgically removed. They enacted their policy a couple of years ago so if the military can go against enlisting tattooed individuals then I imagine the same policy can be legally enacted by civilian employers but it might depend on state law rather than federal.
If in the event that the draft was ever reinstated the reasoning would have to be so catastrophic that even a bow legged last daughter of a nearly dying farmer would be called and confirmed.
My brother tried to enlist three times during the vietnam war and was turned away for being to short. A year later they drafted him.
I sometimes see people with a tattoo of barbed wire around their neck. I have to wonder, "WHY?????????????"
I don't know why above any other facial or neck tattoo, but I particularly dislike the ''teardrops'' on faces..errkkk...blue teardrops from their eyes down their cheeks..yuk!!...also the dotted line around the neck saying ''cut here''...
I wouldn't have a clue CC... no gangs where I live but I've seen those types of tattoos on people occasionally in the cities, and on Tv documentaries..
I don't have any tattoos. But even working in the medical field there are people who have them on their neck. And forearms. Some quite large and unattractive. I worked with one nursing assistant her had some guys name on her neck. I watch Pit Bulls and Parolees. A favorite show. But a lot of those people have extensive neck, upper chest tattoos and even facial tattoos.
I think it's supposed to signify you lost someone close. I also saw that couple on TV and the man's facial tattoo.
Teardrop tattoos in gang lingo are supposed to be a marker of how many people the tattooed individual has killed. One murder per teardrop. I saw so many young adults in the Phoenix area, hoiwever, with several teardrops, I cannot imagine they were not applied as a "macho" thing. Frank
I personally don't have a tattoo and wouldn't dream of getting one. I don't understand the weird aesthetics behind them and I don't like them on women but I'm fully aware that that is completely irrelevant anyway. lol What I do understand are the psychological reasons for getting all kinds of tattoos. Wherever sported, tattoos get people talking about the person ( as we are doing just now) and that's precisely what the tattooers are up to apart from other messages. Facial and neck tattoos, just as any other one, spark the question Why? among the viewers. If full sleeves, bodysuits and the like have become kind of normal, what can a person do to attract attention and, above all, to distinguish themselves not just from other, more traditional tattooers but also from the rest of society? Having a facial or neck tattoo. My impression is that these people don't think about any consequences such as not getting a particular job. On the contrary, with tattoos becoming more and more normal among younger generations they rather (rightly) expect societal standards to change in the sense that literally any tattoo gets accepted by the (future) decision makers such as personnel managers. A first celebrity who shows a facial tattoos just seems to be just a question of time and then it will enormously help those tattoos become popular more than ever.
Audie Murphy was technically too short for service but as it turned out, he went on to be the most decorated soldier in history. Rod Serling was 5’4” and was refused but was later accepted and went on to serve in the 11th Airborne Division during WWII. If either of them had a tattoo, it was well hidden.