Several of the recruits on my course sport tattoos, although I haven‘t bothered to ask if they got them during the course or before.
One would figure the right time to get a tatty is after you just completed a course that is significant, or some other major event in your life.
At present, I don‘t feel a need to sport a tattoo which announces my allegience either to Canada, the CF, or my regiment. I am a Canadian citizen. I am a CF member. My regiment‘s name is on my shoulders, and soon to be on my cap badge. If this is not enough for some people to realize where my preference or loyalty lies, then bully for them. As for impressing the girls, I have no need for it. Girls are either turned on by army guys, or they run away from them. And besides, I have a girlfriend.
Failing that, I have an advantage over most of you lot anyway, being that I belong to a regiment which has the good sense to wear a kilt and proper headdress, not those ugly green slacks and crap-hats that the majority of the army seem content to befoul themselves with. But there‘s no accounting for taste. And, everyone knows: Chicks dig men in kilts!
Scots wae hae.
