Blood rank. Did you do it, did you get it? Was it wrong?

I might have gotten "blood wings" after airborne school, although that could not have happened as its illegal

SSG Robert Burns, I never got blood rank nor gave blood rank, and never got nor gave blood wings. I don't really think it accomplishes anything, but if that's what a service member wants, then I guess it's OK with me.
When I finished jump school at Fort Benning, nothing happened. I made my cherry jump (sixth) with SFTG at Fort Bragg. I kept waiting for all hell to break loose, but we just turned in our rigs, got on a bus and went back to post from the DZ. CW5 Charlie Poulton

I received blood rank as a young soldier and blood wings after graduating air assault school. Plus, in the past I've given blood rank. But now I'm happy to just give or get a hand shake.

I did not vote as I am a bit undecided on the matter. It is without a doubt an old tradition. The last rank I had pinned in this manner was SGT. My PSG was 6'5" and hit the scale at over 270. He came down wrong an cracked my collar bone. Funny, that I would not trade the memory for anything. I have done far worse to my body over the years for far less satisfying a reason. I would say it is a personal thing as to if you feel it still has a place in our day.

Did it, got it. As long as everyone is okay with it, it can't be hazing.

Never got blood rank but did get blood wings when I graduated from Airborne School as an ROTC Cadet. A lieutenant who graduated from my program had engraved wings made and punched them in my chest in front of Iron Mike at Fort Benning.

I got blood rank, ran the gauntlet, and suffered all the other usual indignities of the past. We didn't get out of hand, and our shenanigans were well intended and controlled by our own sense of not being an idiot.

However, we had a fellow company that acted stupidly and a Marine had his spleen removed while on leave after being promoted. I can see both sides of the argument, and our current force shows that the same moronic injuries still happen from time to time despite our efforts to erase these practices.

Here's what the leadership misses. The responsible leaders that weren't hurting people before are the same ones that just don't do it anymore and accept these practices as a thing of the past. The degenerates within our force don't care about hazing rules and continue to practice these traditions anyway, resulting in the same occasional injuries from the same type of idiot.

Service members should be allowed to have an identity by keeping time honored traditions. If a person doesn't want to get hit, fine. However, it seems that everything is hazing now. Don't axe qual, don't Kualafy, don't call privates by their rank, it's demeaning... How about we as a military start holding people accountable for their actions? We try to fix the problems we face by making new rules, but we still fail to hold those who make bad decisions accountable unless there's a catastrophic outcome.

No need to get too deep into this, it's against Army policy therefor prohibited.

I got blood rank and Expert Badge (rifle). If you have ever gotten tattoos, it's no big deal. Tradition runs deep.

We pledge life and limb and the promise to suffer pain and hardship to defend our country and democratic way of life and some are squeamish over blood rank as a badge of honor? I knew WM's who took their blood rank. I know it may seem dumb but it is an old tradition.