Okay so a good 70% of Marines I know have tattoos. Almost all of them have “moto” tats. Basically, tattoos that show off their “esprit de corps” which is a stupid French term for saying the pride Marines have for serving and being Marines doing what we do. Hell, I even have a moto tat: Sailor Jerry’s Eagle Globe and Anchor (EGA); the man created an entire book dedicated to military tattoos.

I got some flak by quite a few Marines for having the EGA not facing “inboard” (towards the chest) just like every single EGA adorned in any Marine Corps uniform. And to that I respond, “What am I? A fucking ship?”

In the past year the top brass decided to create an even more stringent policy concerning getting sleeve tattoos which kinda pissed off a lot of Marines. My command also banned any Marines from wearing the “Infidel” shirts in Iraq because they considered it politically incorrect and that it deters any winnings of hearts and minds in the country – yeah, as if that’s the real reason why we’re over there.

Because of this, we have a Marine who did a “fuck you” to all that by getting the word “infidel” in Arabic sleeved on his arm. That’s one thing I love about some Marines. They are one of the most punk rock people on the planet and they don’t even know it.

Then there’s the Marines who aren’t. HALF of the Marines I know that get ink have tribal tattoos.

Now the reason why Marines get tribal tattoos above anything else, besides moto tattoos, is because they secretly think Vin Diesel was such a badass in that movie xXx with tribal tattoos and so they had to adorn their bodies with such ugly things to make up for the small pen… errr lack of bad assness that they desperately crave in life. It’s probably the most homosexual reason to get a tribal tattoo in the first place although tribal tattoos are gay off the bat.

It’s sad that it’s pretty common knowledge if you truly want to be a badass, you would get a Germs tattoo. Because it can turn one average Korean guy into the sexiest man alive….

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