Originally Posted by
downsizer
The rules are quite clear. If they are visible in No1 SD, so essentially hands and necks, then they are to be rejected.
She isn't the first and won't be the last. Many people have them removed to get in.
As others have stated the Army policy is much more relaxed, she can jog on there if she likes.
There's one recently/retired AVM who had tattoos removed from his arm as a junior officer as he realized they would be career-limiting. He had also pierced his ears in his youth.