Get your tats out

New standards for visible tats for us after the Army and Navy changed the rules some years ago

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...allowed-RAF-loosens-recruitment-criteria.html

Time to get your tats out

 

[Witty_Banter]

To be honest, it won't change much - the 'finger tats' are only allowed if hidden under a ring, the eyebrow tats only refer to makeup, both of which people could have gotten away with anyway (nobody checks, nobody cares); it's only the back-of-the-neck tats that are a significant change, but I don't think that's going to provide a massive boost to recruitment...

 

[busby1971]

To be honest, it won't change much - the 'finger tats' are only allowed if hidden under a ring, the eyebrow tats only refer to makeup, both of which people could have gotten away with anyway (nobody checks, nobody cares); it's only the back-of-the-neck tats that are a significant change, but I don't think that's going to provide a massive boost to recruitment...

You’d be surprised, there’s loads of people got tats that we’re hiding behind the ears or just crept over the collar.


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[vim_fuego]

God damnit TB...I saw the thread title, thought ‘Scottish pronunciation’ and ripped off my bro-bra...

 

[Norman the Storeman]

Still think it’s odd that the airships are forward thinking on tattoos but a beard is still a step too far


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[Witty_Banter]

Very true, but how many of those actually want to join the RAF?

Whilst I'm wholeheartedly behind the idea of relaxing tattoo regs (and beard regs, but that's a different story), I just don't think its going to give recruitment the boost they're hoping for. Might go some way for retention though..

 

[Spearmint]

Might go some way for retention though..

I can't see it making the blind bit of difference to retention to be fair. There would be other reasons that convince someone to pull the plug and the beard/tatt thing might be used to strengthen their reason to bang out but doubt it would be the only cause.