Area Pressure recruits can be allowed to have tattoos that stretch to infinity and past — or at the least to the neck.
An Air Pressure memorandum shared by the favored Air Pressure amn/nco/snco Fb web page reveals that the tattoo coverage for incoming guardians can be completely different from requirements for airmen.
Whereas the service will permit all recruits for each Air and Area Forces to have hand tattoos that don’t cowl greater than 25% of the hand’s floor, solely guardians can be allowed to have neck tattoos.
“Candidates with neck tattoos should not licensed to ‘twin observe’ with the USAF or listing any USAF particular AFSC within the job choice tab,” the memo says.
However don’t go getting a sick choker tattoo in the event you’re hoping to drift among the many stars. The neck tattoo coverage remains to be pretty strict.
Guardians can be allowed just one neck or behind-the-ear tattoo, and it can’t exceed greater than 1-inch in dimension.
Commenters on the Fb web page, nonetheless, appeared a lot much less within the new ink coverage, calling as an alternative for beard allowances.
“However we will’t have a beard trigger it’s unprofessional…” wrote person Chris Capkovich.
To date, the up to date coverage hasn’t been added anyplace on both the Area Pressure or Air Pressure web sites. The memo additionally doesn’t present any details about present airmen and guardians, and whether or not or not they may be capable to get hand or neck tattoos if they’re already enlisted or commissioned.
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Sarah Sicard is a Senior Editor with Army Occasions. She beforehand served because the Digital Editor of Army Occasions and the Army Occasions Editor. Different work could be discovered at Nationwide Protection Journal, Job & Function, and Protection News.
