Cannot become an officer or warrant officer because of tattoos: What do you think?

If you were allowed to enter with them it shouldn't be a problem, if you got them WHILE you are active well....you messed that up on your own.

I have visable tattoos and im an officer...i thought we were over this?!

I agree son of the regulations need to be changed. You should be denied on qualification not tattoos

Get them removed, decide what is most important to you rules are rules

I'm a retired SGM and I believe you should be able to be an Officer or Warrant even if you have tattoos. If you have one tha is vulgar or racist you should get it cover with another tat. Otherwise we have Officers that are in now and have neck tattoos and they can be seen at all times.

Don't get tattoos.

I've been out of the army for 17yrs now and I realize that things change with time. I remember one of the 2LT's in my company having tattoos, a couple of Harley's and when you saw him away from work you would never guess he in the army let alone an officer. Now in saying this, I must say that he was on of the best junior officers in my company.
A book laying on a table is just a book, once open the contents are revealed. In today's society we deal with the PC that comes from our government officials which impart don't know anything about being a leader of men / women. Most never serving in the military but yet put standards in place to govern the services.
It never mattered to me if you had tattoos, or anything else. A leader will be measured by his/ her strengths and the respect of those they lead, not by the art work on his body.
I will say that having it above the neckline is ridiculous.
Hopefully, they'll change their stance on that policy, because many good men/ women will be lost. And we all know good leaders are hard to come by and only great ones come once in a lifetime.
HEAD UP EYES FORWARD SOLIDER.

Policies is policy and it's policy for a reason sometime standards is more appropriate then ability even in today's world first impressions sometime still is the best impression if you want to be an officer remove the tattoos and adapt to the military

I've seen plenty of 09S come in with full sleeves and some with tattoos on there knuckles.

My question is did the tattoo come before or after joining? If it was after then tough suck it up you knew the standered and chose to ignore it now it is biting you and you don't like it. Well welcome to the army where you can't just do whatever the F you want and expect it to be ok