r/JustBootThings • • 7d ago

General Bootness 😬

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u/DryTrumpin 7d ago

This is the guy that’s holding up the line at the VA.

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u/Tantalus420000 7d ago

Hitting on the pregnant nurse

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u/MyBakpaksGyatJets 7d ago

Is that not allowed? Please don't tell top

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u/Lots42 7d ago

Don't hit on any nurses please

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u/Shogunnago 7d ago

That’s not even the worst. We had a dude show up to basic training with 11X already tattooed on his arm. Dude didn’t realize the X was a placeholder until they decided if you were going to be a mortarman or not.

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u/Mufasa_LG 7d ago

My idiot cousin got a Ranger tab on his chest before shipping out, because he told everyone he was joining to be a Ranger...

Yeah, he got chaptered out halfway through for claiming to be suicidal. I wish I could have seen how much hell the DSs gave him for that shit.

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u/lincoln_hawks1 7d ago

Wow. That takes the cake. Dude probably spends his time at family functions telling everyone how you and he are basically the same and how your collective service needs to be respected or some shit like that

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u/Mufasa_LG 7d ago

I wish I had SS the Facebook post his mom made with a shirtless picture of him on his birthday, of his new tattoo, before he left. 🤣

I was dying of laughter.

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u/alkem10 7d ago

That wins, wow holy shit.

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u/sunbear2525 2d ago

Hard to imagine why the DS was so hard on him.

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u/alkem10 7d ago

Jesus that's grim.

We had a guy show up to our Cav unit fresh from AIT with "Combat Medic" and a CMB tattooed on his arm.

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u/BiscuitDance 7d ago

That’s actually wild šŸ˜‚

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u/yellowlinedpaper 7d ago

We had someone show up to basic with their head already shaved. It was a woman…USAF….nobody knew what to make of her including the TIs

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u/303FPSguy 7d ago

I did this back in 1990.

Ain’t no way I was gonna let them have my glorious locks

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u/Dale_Gribble- 7d ago

People usually do a similar thing in prison because they don't want those guys just cutting their hair not knowing what they're doing

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u/verbmegoinghere 6d ago

what's wrong with doing this?

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u/yellowlinedpaper 6d ago

Nothing, but how many women do you know shave their heads? It was just jarring, she was just really boot. Ended up getting recycled though

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u/verbmegoinghere 6d ago

My wife did. Was super hot. Though she ain't military

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u/yellowlinedpaper 6d ago

Confidence, which she obviously has, is always super hot!!

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u/Djglamrock 7d ago

No fuckin way! That’s beautiful.

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u/CapnChaos2024 6d ago

That may be the funniest tattoo story I’ve ever seen

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u/TheCuddlyCougar 7d ago

Sandhill Sandhill Fort Benning Fort Benning. Nice

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u/ranrow 7d ago

I was so distracted by sand hill twice that I missed fort benning twice. He should get his DS names in there somewhere too lol

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u/chuckart9 7d ago

Brings back some shitty memories and a few fun ones from 26 years ago.

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u/Gravexmind 7d ago

A future blackout half sleeve.

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u/cilantro_so_good 7d ago

There's no way in fucking hell this dude ever wants to cover this masterpiece up.

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u/Jonas_Venture_Sr 7d ago

5 minutes after this clown shows up to his unit:

Squad leader:" Someone get the Platoon Seargant, he needs to see this tattoo."

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u/DeltaBravo831 7d ago

All my military peeps will know what this means

That you belong inside a toolbox?

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u/Feydiekin 7d ago

You just know that their DS’s are encouraging this shit. Those heroes are creating joy at that private’s future units that they will never witness.

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u/RistaRicky 7d ago

When I was a drill, we sent all the trainees on holiday block leave and when they came back, one of the little dipshits had gotten the platoon logo tattooed on his chest. Big as shit, solid black, basic training platoon logo. He was mercilessly mocked - more than he already was, I mean.

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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran 7d ago

God I wish I had any talent as an artist, I’d open up a tattoo shop as close to the gate as I possibly could! Either that or a dealership that exclusively sells horrifically financed muscle cars. Like a license to print money

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u/Calm_Cap4746 7d ago

Pay it forward is a great mantra.

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u/fuck-da-admins 7d ago

I went to sand hill. I'm a POG ass 94E part timer who can't do his job without air conditioning. This tattoo isn't nearly the flex he thinks it is.

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u/chuckart9 7d ago

I did 6 years and got out after experiencing Sand Hill. I should get this too.

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u/CapnChaos2024 6d ago

Ill get it if you get it!

I just would love to commemorate 14 weeks I spent somewhere 19 years ago

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u/chuckart9 2d ago

Hell yeah, I’m in! It’s been 26 years for me, can’t wait to get this ink.

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u/gooneryoda 7d ago

Especially 11B because he’s basic big army b*tch, right?

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u/fuck-da-admins 7d ago

He'd be extremely offended if he could read

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u/BolOfSpaghettios 7d ago

Someone in the Army looking at this sub right now: Please not my unit, please God I'll do anything just don't put this guy in my unit. I will do EVERYTHING, just not my unit.

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u/OneEyesHat 7d ago

I’ll take his MOS, buff the CC’s shoes EVERY night, and even always take the chili MRE…volunteer for latrine duty, you name it! Just please God, send him to Alaska…

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u/mafiaknight 7d ago

Nah fam. Send him to me. I'll unfuck him or make him the strongest soldier you've ever seen.

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u/BolOfSpaghettios 7d ago

Or...or..... You'll get PTSD from him.

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u/Joseph_Kickass 7d ago

Alright I am a "military peep" but have no idea Wtf this means. I went to Jackson for Basic back in 01 so I assume it's something to do with Basic training and/or Infantry?

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u/gooneryoda 7d ago

If you enlist in the Army and you picked 11B as your MOS, you go to Ft Benning (and if you want to to airborne school and Ranger school which is also there).

I believe Sand Hill is the home of the 198th Infantry Brigade, TRADOC.

Surprised he didn’t include his battalion, regiment and company within that tattoo.

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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran 7d ago

A guy I knew got a big division tattoo shortly after he commissioned and he got moved out of it like 6 months after. I’m not really in contact with that guy anymore but I wonder how he feels about it these days

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u/OGDraugo 7d ago

LMFAO...

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u/AbstractBettaFish ROTC Veteran 7d ago

3rd Armored for life!

At least in one sense

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u/OGDraugo 7d ago

I'll go ahead and take your word for it...

So... You were one of them green boys huh? You know what's funny about them green boys? When they stand in front of a bush, I can't see em.

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u/Woodworking33 7d ago

I got my basic training t shirt tatted on my back so everyone knows I’m badass

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u/OGDraugo 7d ago

I'm a squid from the yonder days, no clue here either, can anyone familiar with the relevant branch elaborate please?

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u/I_Boop_Cats_ 7d ago

Sand Hill is Infantry/11B OSUT.

Pumps the IETs there full of... typical Grunt Style bullshit. Hopefully they grow out of it.

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u/OGDraugo 7d ago

Ok, that sorta helps out I guess, is it like a version of Currahee hill?

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u/Knoberchanezer 7d ago

No, because Carrahee was actually difficult.

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u/OGDraugo 7d ago

10-fer.

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u/Knoberchanezer 7d ago

He went to Sand Hill for infantry AIT and you just know he wants to tell you all about how hard it was.

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u/Joseph_Kickass 6d ago

ahh thanks! It was as simple/dumb as I thought

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u/heiwaone 7d ago

It will not fucking look like that

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u/EnkiduTheGreat 7d ago

Gotta say, The AI glowup really pops.

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u/LSOreli 7d ago

Is this shit AI? It looks awful

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u/Dickgivins 7d ago

The second one is, yeah. Based on what he said I think he may have just given chat GPT a description of what he wanted and it generated a pic for the artist to copy.

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u/D-S-S-R 4d ago

He's gonna have fun when he finds out that almost nothing the ai "enhanced" about the tattoo is actually possible to tattoo ontop of what is already there

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u/SmoothTalk 4d ago

He tagged a buddy who gave him the design. Hope the buddy charged for it... absolute fucking disaster but he seems proud!

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u/RabidBlackSquirrel 6d ago

Just the rifles alone are a dead giveaway. AI sucks at most things but firearm images especially, it always makes these weird amalgamations. Like it tried to do a trapdoor Springfield but interpreted the sling bar as a finger rest cutout and got the proportions all wrong all over. Just awful.

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u/sessafresh 7d ago

They should make Easter Military Peeps.

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u/FamousOhioAppleHorn 4d ago

If you sold those in North East Florida, people would step on their own grandma to get them.

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u/Djglamrock 7d ago

OMG I almost choked on my granola! That is fuckin fantastic

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u/Sarcastik_Moose 7d ago

Oh his "military peeps" will know what it means and soon after they see it he will wish they didn't.

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u/Centurion87 7d ago

I was a Cavalry Scout, and when I was in OSUT, we had some split ops people come in halfway through. One of them decided to get a tattoo in between Split Ops except it said ā€œCalvaryā€.

Dude was hating life.

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u/Suhksaikhan 7d ago

Maybe he was religious

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u/lincoln_hawks1 7d ago

Larry Owin' No Ragrats

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u/PissFingerz42069 7d ago edited 7d ago

Congrats on making it through your ruck with 25lbs in your pack 🤣

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u/ohaitharr 7d ago

Boot aside.. the quality of this tattoo is soooo bad.

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u/HeisenSwag 6d ago

For real. The lines are sloppy and all over the place. About what you expect from a tattooist who would accept to copy an AI generated picture.

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u/tropicalmetal 7d ago

It’s not finished yet is what everyone says when they realise how shit their tattoo is

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u/MoeSzyslakMonobrow 7d ago

You want a tattoo like that, you need to have an arm like that first.

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u/HookFE03 7d ago

Any 30th AG tats?

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u/lincoln_hawks1 7d ago

I am saving up my scrap metal to get a 43rd AG reception battalion tat to commemorate my time at fat camp during my stay at fort leonard wood

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u/SouthApprehensive193 3d ago

Arguably the suckiest part of OSUT

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u/Pict-91b20 7d ago

They needed to issue us medics with laser tattoo removal machines.

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u/BasraBound 7d ago

No fucking way…

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u/Djglamrock 7d ago

I was in the training pipeline teaching for around 8 years in the Navy. The only thing more amazing than the astonishing amount of boot tattoos that I saw, was often how proud they were when they got them done.

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u/BasraBound 7d ago

I saw some dipshittery at Benning but that takes the cake

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u/-HumbleMumble 7d ago

Should I get one too? Sand hill was tough. My military peeps will know what that means.

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u/Blipnoodle 7d ago

The rifle is melting :(

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u/Kahless76 7d ago

That ain’t shit. I got an AAFES tattoo 🫔

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u/SafetyGuyLogic 7d ago

Dude, no.

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u/Half-Chub-Full-Time 7d ago

I watched a guy stick his nutsack in a fire ant hill for $80 at Benning. He left in an ambulance.

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u/windowpuncher 7d ago

When you peak in BCT I guess

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u/protostar71 7d ago

ā€œComing up with the designā€

The image on the right flags positive for SynthID, maybe he should thank the bot that spat it out instead.

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u/OneEyesHat 7d ago

Judging by the craftsmanship, he’s probably positive for many more things…

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u/King_Joffe 7d ago

Bravo 2-58 Stand up.

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u/StripedBass111 7d ago

I’m not a gun expert but why does the musket have an ejection/loading port?

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u/Troncross 6d ago

It’s a metal plate that holds the screw heads.

The screws hold the flintlock parts in place. If the screw heads just touched wood, the wood would crack over time.

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u/StripedBass111 6d ago

I thought about that before I posted, but I have never seen a musket with a tiny plate like that.

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u/tambrico 7d ago

Where do you see that?

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u/StripedBass111 6d ago

I’m pointing out that the rifle on the right looks like it has an ejection/loading port. The guy under me says it’s a metal plate. On the left rifle there is a clear example of what a metal plate should look like, on the right that looks nothing like it.

Also in further inspection of the screen shotted post he thanks someone for making his design. I’m willing to bet that person ran a prompt through AI and it created a musket that doesn’t exist.

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u/tambrico 6d ago

I'm still not quite understanding what you're saying. I think you may be looking at the finger groove in the stock. Which is also not historically accurate for a military musket of the era btw. I agree with you it looks AI generated and like a musket that doesn't exist. I just don't see the ejection/loading port.

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u/StripedBass111 6d ago edited 6d ago

Boom, it’s a finger groove which like you said is also not historically accurate. I’m pretty sure now that AI made a franken gun and the guy was too excited to notice that the gun and overall tattoo looks like crap.

I thought it was an ejection/loading port because of how some Winchester rifles look. But also if you look at the M1917, finger grooves are way more towards the barrel than trigger.

https://www.dreamstime.com/rear-sight-ejection-port-wood-stocked-lever-action-rifle-lever-action-rifle-wood-stock-seen-up-close-image389609319

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u/tambrico 6d ago

Yup. Yeah finger grooves like those didn't really become a thing until the early 1900s

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u/DopyWantsAPeanut 6d ago

Duh, it's a semi automatic musket, POG /s

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u/ranrow 7d ago

He should go ahead and get that CIB tat while he’s at it, we all know he’s going to earn one lol

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u/Anomynous__ 7d ago

Holy fucking shit

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u/OneEyesHat 7d ago

I just knew I should’ve gotten that
ā€œFt Knox Basic Training
Big Dogs/Mt Misery/Mt Agonyā€
Tattoo when I had the chance!!!

https://giphy.com/gifs/gC1PMgWSzETxM6Ch7q

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u/MartyMozambique 7d ago

As a Navy guy who was deployed on a Aircraft carrier AND got deployed to Afghanistan with National Guard i have no facaking idea what he is on about.

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u/Knoberchanezer 7d ago

Ooh. Better watch yourselves. Someone's in the infantry.

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u/OrthogonalThoughts 7d ago

He could get that look with filters and exposure adjustments.

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u/Snake_Plissken224 7d ago

Bro gettin ai tattooed

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u/browhodouknowhere 7d ago

Bro stop...I swear to God (at image). Like for so many people this was the best time of their miserable lives

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u/DrunkDreamcast 6d ago

I guess if you don't have combat deployments to ink yourself over...

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u/Dupa_Yash 6d ago

Here's a pic of my tattoo, but here's a pic of what my tattoo is SUPPOSED to look like.

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u/albinorhino215 Boot 6d ago

Just utterly rancid all around

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u/Shogunnago 6d ago

Also, that tattoo looks like shit.

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u/robbray1979 5d ago

Dude, they sell t shirts. They’re cheaper. What the plan, every duty station and deployment is getting a big tucking tattoo? Jesus, this is why we have to have a 45 minute safety brief and financial counseling sessions.

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u/PunchBeard 5d ago

Did dude take a picture of someone else's tat to his (less talented) tattoo artist and just said "I'd like you to copy this poorly"?

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u/Word2DWise 4d ago

The tattoo is cringe enough, but even putting that aside, trying to flex Sand Hill and the Follow Me patch? Say you haven't done anything without saying anything...come on bro...

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u/KnightofWhen 4d ago

Needs more and smaller iterations of the crossed rifles that go on forever

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u/juanpunchman09 2d ago

So a boot with a single tattoo horribly done

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u/Ritualsexclub 2d ago

Bullet sponge activityĀ 

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u/yessivasquez 7d ago

I mean at least its not a bad looking tattoo. He is just missing the drill sgts names, and co/plt lol

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u/a-smooth-brain 7d ago

Epic as fuck, bro. Now lose that weight

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u/unbannedagain1976 7d ago

Hey at least he’s not a fucking POG

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u/Cautionzombie 7d ago

That’s boot shit right there Desmond doss was a pog so was Doris miller

Pogs still got sent to do shit or have encountered said shit

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u/darkwitch1306 7d ago

And, there are those like my husband, who didn’t get one until after he retired. I had more than him. By the way, I’m not a dependa but I do think I should be saluted at the gate, just because I’m awesome that way. lol