Sgt Grit's Marine Tattoo Page Volume 23

USMC EGA Tattoo

Just wanted to submit my tattoo.

My tattoo artist did an amazing job of capturing the things I love. I have the flag over my heart because I truly love this country. The Eagle, Globe & Anchor is over the flag to protect it, I replaced the continents with a bald eagle because the freedom we provide is global. I served with 9th comm. Bn. as a crypto tech (2881) my loyalty to the corps will always be through my service as a crypto tech hence the 2881 has replaced the “Semper Fidelis” in the ribbon.

Thank you Sgt. Grit for providing an outstanding place for Marines, new and old, to converge.

Cpl. Kirby

Tattoos for the Marine

I just wanted to drop you this note. I have been trying to find the right tattoo artist that could fix my tribal band and turn it into an incredible Marine Corps Tattoo. I have been looking for about 10 years for the right artist. In Pittsburgh PA I found such an artist. His name is Cliff and is the owner of Angry Moon Tattoo.. www.angrymoontattoo.com Here is the before and after.

He is going to be redoing my jump wings over the next few weeks and I’ll send you a picture when I get them done.

Semper Fi
MSgt Craig F Hodgkins

Crest Tattoo

Lclp Cook 3rd mar div, Recon kick ass,
The tattoo say it all, stay frosty marines
It is my family crest, it is a blood seal the C is for COOK.
The men in my family get to make there Owen family crest and this is mine. It is in honor of my dad who died on 03-17-08 Richard Raymond Cook Jr . he did U D T in the late 1960.
Semper Fi
LCpl Cook

Bulldog Tattoo

This one is getting faded. I got it in 1963 in Viet Nam. I served 4 years.

Charles Black L/Cpl #1880773
8934 Linda's Lane
West Des Moines, IA 50266

Desert Storm and Emblem Tattoo

Memorial Tattoo

Hi Sgt. Grit –

My Marine son just returned from Iraq two weeks ago. The first thing he wanted to do was go skydiving – which he did. The next thing he did was to get a tattoo that included the names of the fallen Marines in his Company.

I was touched that my “tough Marine” wanted to have such a permanent memory of his fellow Marines that will stay with him no matter where his life leads him.

I hope you agree enough to include this in one of your newsletters.

Thankful that my son made it back home safe (again) -
Very Proud Marine Mom
Leslie Burkett

United States Marine Corps Arabic Tattoo

hey Sgt Grit,

I'm stationed down in Quantico VA, at TBS I decided to get the ink done in the pic when I graduated from school and became active in the Marine Corps. I took three years of Arabic in College, loved every minute of it and decided to get something to remember the important things in my life put together, Arabic and the Marine Corps. the result is what is across my back now. hope you enjoy. the page is very motivating. keep up the good work.

It's United States Marine Corps in Arabic. Translation is "Qawat misha al-Bahryihal al-Americaia" army of the sea of America is the literal translation. But essentially the trans means USMC in English.

Semper Fidelis
2nd Lt Greg Meyer

New Eagle Globe and Anchor Tattoo

Hi Sgt Grit,
I read your news letter religiously and see that people share their new tattoos. So I figured what the h3ll. Enclosed is my freshly done Eagle Globe and Anchor. It was done by a lovely gal named Sierra at Psychedelic tattoos in Pensacola, FL

Semper Fi,
2ndLt Ripley
USMC

Memorial Side Tattoo

Good evening Sgt Grit,

I was wondering, how would I be able to get my tattoos input onto your site tattoo page. The following tattoo I got for my best friend Sgt Christopher B Melancon. We both join bootcamp together back in May of 2003. We basically done everything together since middle school. Our only big change was, he decided to stay on the east coast at Lejuene and I went to Camp Pendleton. He passed on Sept 30 2007. So for his birthday a few of us went out and got tattoos.

Emblem Tattoo

Aviation Ordnance

Hello Sgt. Grit,
I didn't see a direct link to you tattoo section so i thought i would send my tattoo image to the only address i could find. I got this tattoo after i was in the fleet for about 2 years and it was a gift from parents. Prior to my EAS i was 6541 Aviation Ordnance and i loved my job. Thank you for you time and help.

Lcpl. Stephenson (eas 10/29/2005)

EGA Tattoo Submission

Attached is my first moto tat. I wanted an EGA, but the standard one is pretty boring, in my opinion. So, here's the custom one I had done. I'll send in my next one when I graduate EOD school in 2 months.

After 23 years I did it.

I always wanted a Bulldog USMC tattoo while I was in and never got .Well I finally did it. One of the proudest moments in my life was becoming a Marine and I wanted to show it forever. Semper Fi and Once a Marine Always Marine

Chuck Fink 81-85
SGT
2ND FSSG

Canadians who had the honor

All three of the men sporting these USMC tattoos are Canadians, who served in Vietnam,they are all combat vets, two have Purple Hearts.

G. Love, Lantzville, BC

Really Cool Marine Tat

Semper Fi, Marines

Lcpl. Mark Hepfer here, I got this tat about 3 months ago and I'm loving the response. I would like to know what you think.

USMC and Emblem Tattoo

Was in the Navy for 4 years as a gunners mate. in the Army for 3 yrs as a Cav Scout , and then in the Marine Corps for 4 yrs as a Aviation clerk. been out since 89 and just finally got my EGA, .To all you folks across the pond , God Bless.

Ron Morneault

EGA Tattoo

Upon returning stateside (San Francisco) in 1966 from my 1st tour of duty off the coast of vietnam with the Marine Detachment aboard USS Enterprise, I got a tattoo of a bulldog with U.S.M.C. on either side. I always regretted not getting an EGA and now forty-two years later I finally got one to cover that faded and almost unrecognizable bulldog.

Semper-Fi
Sgt. Jerry Reinhardt

USMC TAT

I have been retired from the Marine Corps since 2000 and just got another motto tat last winter. It was an add-on to an older tribal, but the guys at the tatoo shop designed this!!! My other eagle, flag and "semper fi" tat is still being worked on. As soon as its complete, I will have it on for all to see!! Semper Fi and God Speed.

Sgt. McBride
1371/Combat Engineer

My EGA

This is the EGA I decided to get this past weekend. I loved the shirt on Grit with the greek letters and the quote, "brotherhood of the world's greatest fraternity" and decided that could be the little something different in mine.

Rose and Dog Tag tattoo

Hello Sgt. Grit.

My name is Tracy and this is my very first tattoo. My husband served in the Marine Corps for 20 years. He went to the gulf war in 90 for 8 months. I wanted to get something to symbolize our love plus, his time in the Marine Corps. I am very proud of him and I showed him thru this tattoo that I received. I want to thank Mimi who works at Taggurs in Yuma, AZ. She did an amazing job.

Semper Fi

My life's turning point

I got out in 1992 and have never found a tattoo that signified what the corps has given me. So after years of searching I made one. following the statement " You can take the Marine out of the Corps but you can never take the Corps out of the Marine".

My USMC tattoo

Legacy

--
~Evan Charles Brown~
Son, Brother, Uncle, Friend...
U.S. Marine

Finally

I was active duty in the Marine Corps from September 1992 through May 1999. I went to a parlor several time while I was in to get my EGA. It never worked out. I finally got it on 10 Nov 2007! I couldn't think of a better day to get the ink I have been looking for 15 years!

Marc Young
Former Sgt USMC

IYAOYAS!

Just thought I'd show you my ordnance tattoo on my ribs. IYAOYAS!

Jay

Cpl. Tabb's Memorial Tattoo

I am a Marine until I die and am proud to say that I've served with some of the finest young men and women this country has to offer. I am sending you this photo of one of my newest tattoos. I have an Eagle, Globe and Anchor on my chest, but this one is more important to me.

A good friend of mine, Steve Szwydek, was killed in action Oct. 20, 2005 and this tattoo is in honor of him.

Respectfully Submitted,
Cpl. Jonathan A. Tabb

Marine Corps Tattoo

I got this for my fallen brothers in the first attack of Fallujah.
I'm an 0311 and I was over there with 1/5 B CO.

Wade Agin
Sgt USMC

Finally got it...

I proudly served from 1972-1986. I left the Corps and became a police officer in Orlando which I have done for 22 years. Thing is, the Corps never left me. Finally got my Marine Corps tattoo last month.

Semper Fi
Former GySgt Tom Vohringer

1st Marine Tattoo

I finally did it I went out and got my Marine tattoo. I wanted one when I was active duty but never got one. I got out in 1974 after 10 years of service. So at 61 yrs old I seen one on your web page and decided that that was the one that I wanted. I truly think that getting a Marine Tattoo should be something that happens when you graduate from boot camp. I have changed it a little bit from what I found on your site to make it my own. Would you please put it on your web site for me.

Mike Clark

Cpl Prince Mark's Tattoo

Hey Sgt Grit,

Just ordered some gear from your site and was looking at the tattoos. So I decided to send you a pic of one. It is the EGA with the USA wrestling symbol in the globe. Wrestled for ten years and always will be a marine so it felt right to get it.

Cpl Prince Mark
MWSS 472 (-) Willow Grove, PA

William Watson 1966-1972

my design hope all likes it

I wanted to share my tattoo

I have to admit i took the idea from another wife who had the idea first. My tattoo is a paragraph from a letter my husband wrote me while he was deployed to Iraq. We found out i was pregnant 3 weeks after he deployed. He made it hope 5 days before our first child was born! The tattoo is in his hand writing it says "I think about you every minute and cant stop thinking about being in your arms again and i cant wait to feel the baby i love you so much" I wanted to get the tattoo so i had something to show from the deployment we survived. Attached is a picture of the tattoo and me and my husband at the airport when he came home last year just in time for our sons birth.

Proud Marine Wife
Yani

USMC Tattoo

This is my second tattoo. It's the back of my left calf. I had it done about a month after I turned 18 right outside of MCRD San Diego.

Teufel Hunden Tattoo

This tattoo was just done last night by Mike "Doc" May, who owns the "Derma Design" tattoo studio in Port Richey, Florida. This is my 3rd Marine tattoo. The basic concept of the shield, devil dog, and "Teufel Hunden" lettering came from a design that I saw on a t-shirt. I changed the design to my liking by making the devil dog really look like a hound from hell, adding flames inside the shield, adding skulls on both sides of the shield, the lower half of a skull at the bottom of the shield, "0311" at the bottom of the shield, and some custom USMC lettering underneath it all. Still to be added is a concertina wire band connecting the USMC lettering, more detail in the skulls (including the top two skulls fading into smoke at the top of my arm), and the eyes of the dog will be red. I put a lot of thought into this tattoo, hope you all like it. Semper Fi.

- Bill Cabiness

Cpl Duke's Bulldog Tattoo

Sergeant Grit,

I got this tattoo back in 2005 with some other Marines to commemorate my first deployment, I just finished the final touch, adding my Marine name to it. Of all my tattoos this is my favorite, not only do I love the way it looks but the memories it brings up.

Semper Fi,

Corporal Duke

USMC Tattoo

Good morning

I have been a MARINE always even once discharged! I have always had pride in my MARINE Tattoo and would like to see if you guys would display it on your web site with all the rest of the awesome tattoos I have seen there. I have great pride and respect in all our brothers and sisters that are fighting OIF and OEF! I am currently in Iraq supporting our fine fighting men and women. Hope to see my tattoo on your site. Thanks.

Meat Tags

This is my first tattoo, and I wasn't sure before I got them, but now I don't know what it was like without them. I got the USMC in a Roman font for the Roman Legions. The meat tags are for the reason that every grunt gets them, and the Bible verses are some that have meant a great deal to me at turning points in my life.

Semper Fi Do or Die!!
Lcpl. Hindal 0331
E. Co. 2/25

New Corps Tattoo

it says 'one shot, one kill'

Tattoos and picture on the wall

Sgt. Grit:
I spent 25 years in the Corps and have 40 Tattoes on my body with most coming after I retired since tattoes on officers were taboo at least within the units and places I was stationed. I was in Force Recon and spent sometime with the Pentagon. I will not send you all my ink today, but I will send them periodically. I hope they are readable when you get them because I feel I have some unique ink. I heard that tattoes are whats in your soul and everyone has a special meaning to me and some are of family and other topics, but 20 have to do with what I did and where I was in Corps plus symbols and slogans I honor.

DYNAMITE
View Dynamite's Marine Room and visit his other tattoo section.

Blood Stripe Tattoo

I got this one shortly after I became a Corporal of Marines, I plan to have extend down my right side after we get a new tattoo policy, here's hoping so I can finish it. The reason I got it on my ribs instead of on my leg was because I heard it was one of the more painful places to get a tattoo. It was worth it and I love it.

Corporal of Marines,
Corcoran, D.P.

Weight of the World Tattoo

Just thought I would share my Moto Ink with you. Hope you like it, I certainly do.

Semper Fi
SSgt Boos

Lcpl Evan Edens

My Tattoo

I wanted to send a picture of my tattoo for you all to see and maybe put up on your site. I spent 14 years in the United States Marine Corps and very proud of it. Here is a picture of my work which was done at a place in San Diego called Superfly Tattoos. The artist Quinn did an awsome job and he is the only one that i will trust to do any of my work.

Thank you
Tammy H.

Brothers Forever

Thought some folks might get a kick out of my Marine brother's and my new tat. We meet in boot camp when at about 2am he (without saying a word) handed me a packet of syrup and a saltine cracker (he had appropriated during mess and maintance). We stuck together during MCT and in "A" school at Memphis (Millington, TN). He went west coast and I east cost. We did meet again briefly in NC when his duty station changed, but we were both married and had kids. Years after we went back to civilian life I (working in computers) started looking him up after a few months and phone calls I found him. We helped each other out with everything from 2am hunger pains to family deaths and failing marriages. He is my brother, and I can always count on him. Here are a couple picture of our matching tattoos.

Semper Fi
Cpl Jason Brown 1990-95
Plt 3087 HML/A-167

Polynesian Eagle, Globe, and Tattoo

Sgt. Grit,

I have been looking though the website for a while looking for a tattoo that I liked. I finally went out and got a tattoo, and I wanted to share it with everybody. I am a Hawaii Marine, and I really like the polynesian tattoo designs. So I had that incorporated into the EGA. I think it is really cool looking.

Semper Fi,
Bud Ellis

EGA Tattoo

Please find attached the Eagle Globe and Anchor tattoo I have on my left calf.

Thank you for all you do Sgt. Grit.

Chris L/Cpl 91 - 95

Bulldog USMC Tattoo

I first went to a tattoo shop in Okinawa in 1967 when I was a PFC, but I backed out from getting a tattoo. Here it is 41 years later and I finally got my USMC tattoo and am as proud of it now as I would have been then.

Gerry K McFadden- USMC 1966-1968- Cpl when released- served in California, Okinawa, and Vietnam.

Semper Fi!!

Eagle, Globe and Anchor Cross Tattoo

I got this tattoo shortly after my EAS. I love it because it incorporates my faith, heritage and pride in the corps all in one. Planning my next one right now.

5/10 Pain By Steel Rain

Here's a tat that I got many years after getting out of the Corps.

Sean Torres

New tattoo

Sgt Grit,

In volume 15 you published some of my USMC tattoos. I want to add the latest one to that group. I based this one on a couple of tee shirt designs from you website and catalog. Several changes were made before my artist Lance Norris of I-Drive Tattoo in Orlando FL an I agreed that we both liked the final design. I attempted to pay homage to the Vietnam War, your designs, and to make a statement at the same time. I think we accomplished the mission.

Dan Mills
Central Florida

Tattoo for your consideration

I was in the Marine Corps Reserves from 1990 - 1996, activated during Operation Desert Storm. I've been involved in the Young Marine Program, the Marine Corps League and the Military Order of the Devil Dogs. (I am the first female Devil Dog in Maryland). I have four other tattoos, but never went for the USMC until last week. I had my boy Brendon at Flaming Dice draw up a couple of designs and I went with the "old school" EGA. Hope everyone enjoys it!

Evie Remines

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