Tourist wrote:
What Standards?
Why does uniformity matter any more? We no longer aspire to vast hordes of unthinking troops who obey orders without thinking. We now expect more professional troops who will obviously have personality.
This is not the whim of one person. This is the vast majority of the military target recruitment population now having tattoos, many of which are visible.
Do you actually believe some of the nonsense you write, or are you simply intent on being provocative?
As for
Society has moved on and I know loads of aircrew officers with tattoos
I have never known a professional pilot with a tattoo. Perhaps it's different in the navy, given the historical traditions applicable to seafarers?
This woman has 20 tattoos according to the local paper. If she doesn't like the RAF regulations on the subject, she could always apply to the army - particularly as she used to be an army reservist