Can you get a waiver for hand tattoos in the Army?

Can you get a waiver for hand tattoos in the Army?

The military services now have some of the most liberal tattoo policies they’ve ever enacted, to include allowing neck, hand and ear tattoos in the Army, Navy and Space Force.

What Army branch allows hand tattoos?

Hands: All the service branches prohibit hand tattoos. But they all have minor exceptions to this rule. The Army, Navy, Coast Guard, and Marine Corps allow finger ring tattoos, one per hand. The Marine Corps specifies that the finger ring tattoo cannot exceed 3/8 inch in width.

Why can’t you join the military with hand tattoos?

The hand is defined as any location below the wrist bone. With this in mind, it’s best not to have any ink on your wrists at all. As far as content of the tattoos, the Army prohibits anything that is: Racist.