Officers with tattoos
Perhaps someone could explain to me (as an ex-ranker) just how a tattoo adversely affects some ones ability to be a leader?
With the decreasing size of the British armed forces surely it is more important now, than ever before, to ensure that those selected for commissioning are up to the job of leading their ratings/troops/airmen?
If some of those people have tattoos, body piercings, jewellery fetishes etc, then so what?
I would rather our guys have a competent reliable leader than some chinless, clueless buffoon who just happened to go to the right school/university and knows instinctively which knife, fork or spoon one should use whilst eating a formal dinner.
It's the 21st century, not 19th century colonial India.......