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[–] 4 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Can you give a source on that or a general direction on where to look? I've heard about the tattoo and looked into it during the initial controversy and did not find that information at the time.

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  • [–] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

    I must've misread. He actually says the marines rejected him for having visible tattoos on his arm, not the actual skull tattoo.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (4 children)

    If you know about MARADMIN, can you elaborate on what he means? I looked it up and understand it as a kind of code of conduct, but don't see what changed in 2007, just that he said a USMC based tattoo was what prevented him.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)
  • Thank you for this. I gave it a good (confusing) read, they could stand to type in less capitals.

    I can see the regulations outlined, but not that he was turned away for it being a known nazi symbol or anything based on that description, it sounds like he got a tattoo without clearing it or reporting it on his paperwork and chose not to appeal, based on his words there in the reddit post.

    I appreciate you finding that for me, it was hard to parse all the google garbage

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