Can I join the Army with gauged ears?

Soldiers are prohibited from willfully mutilating the body or any body parts in any manner, including tongue bifurcation (splitting of the tongue), or ear gauging (enlarging holes in the ear lobes greater than 1.6 mm).

Can I join the airforce with stretched ears?

Stretched ears will not prevent you from entering the military, but wearing earring will. For one, stretching your ears is not allowed in the military. Also, according to UCMJ low, military bases do not authorize active duty males to wear earrings on base.

Can you join the Navy with pierced ears?

As for body piercings, they are not authorized in the U.S. Navy or U.S. Marines. Women are only allowed to have earrings, and men are not allowed body piercings of any kind.

How do you get gauges in your ear?

Just get your ears pierced at a local studio, then use professional tools like tapers and surgical tape to stretch the holes out over time. As long as you have patience and practice good hygiene, you can stretch your ears safely.

Can you wear earrings in the military?

In uniform (specifically BDU, hospital duty, food service, physical fitness, and field or organizational) soldiers are not permitted to wear earrings. On duty or off duty while on a military base. The only exception is for women. When in dress attire or mess uniform, women are permitted to wear “prescribed earrings”.

Can you wear earrings in basic training?

When on any Army installation or other places under Army control, soldiers may not attach, affix, or display objects, articles, jewelry, or ornamentation to or through the skin while they are in uniform, in civilian clothes on duty, or in civilian clothes off duty (this includes earrings for male soldiers).

What happens at a military boot camp?

When potential recruits show up to boot camp, they quickly realize what they are in for. While standing on the yellow footprints at either Parris Island, South Carolina or San Diego, California, young men and women are lined up, berated by drill instructors, and then go through a 36-hour whirlwind of receiving.

What happens at the Marine Corps recruit depot San Diego?

Once your bus arrives at the recruit depot, the fun begins. A DI will get on your bus and tell you that you are on-board Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego/Parris Island and you are no longer a civilian. He will then tell you that from now on, you will only speak when spoken to by a Marine or Sailor (US Navy personnel).

Do you have to pull fire-watch at boot camp?

But most will have to pull “fire-watch” during the night. Fire watch, put simply, is guard duty. But unlike a guard duty they may pull in Iraq or Afghanistan behind a machine-gun, guard duty at boot camp means recruits walk around aimlessly in the squad bay for an hour.

What do you bring to your first Marine Corps haircut?

Also while in this room, you will be issued your war bag (or ditty bag, as they call it on the east coast), which is just a MARPAT (Marine Corps Pattern [the camouflage we wear]) duffel bag, a money/valuables bag, and a laundry bag with some other gear inside of it. From here, it’s on to get your first Marine Corps haircut.