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  2. Military tattoo - Wikipedia

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    The biannual Hamina Tattoo in Finland is the official military tattoo event of the Finnish Defense Forces. The National Military Tattoo in the Rotterdam Ahoy indoor stadium, held since 1948, is the official military tattoo of the Armed forces of the Netherlands. It was formerly held in Delft and Breda before moving to Rotterdam in 2006.

  3. Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    The 2022 Edinburgh Military Tattoo pipes and drums. The term tattoo derives from a 17th-century Dutch phrase doe den tap toe ("turn off the tap") a signal to tavern owners each night, played by a regiment's Corps of Drums, to turn off the taps of their ale kegs so that the soldiers would retire to their billeted lodgings at a reasonable hour. [1]

  4. Religious symbolism in the United States military - Wikipedia

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    The "Shepherd's Crook," the original insignia authorized for U.S. Army chaplains, 1880–1888, and still included as part of the U.S. Army Chaplain Corps regimental insignia Early army chaplain uniforms used the color black as a symbol of a ministerial presence, before corps insignia had been instituted WWI Army uniform coat with Christian Chaplain insignia WWI Army dress uniform coat with ...

  5. Category:Military tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Military tattoos" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  6. The tattooed Secretary of Defense: Here is all of Pete ... - AOL

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    President-Elect Donald Trump’s controversial Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth is a war veteran, double Ivy Leaguer, a two-time Bronze Star recipient – and is covered in tattoos.

  7. Sailor tattoos - Wikipedia

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    Drawings of tattoos, including initials, hearts, and an anchor, recorded in protection papers [5]: 529 There is a persistent myth that tattoos on European sailors originated with Captain James Cook's crew, who were tattooed in Tahiti in 1769, but Cook brought only the word tattoo to Europeans, not the practice itself.

  8. Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo - Wikipedia

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    In 17th century Dutch villages when British soldiers were required back at their barracks, a drummer would march through the streets playing the drumbeat doe den tap toe. [1] While the first Nova Scotia Tattoo actually took place in 1979, the event that had the greatest impact on the Nova Scotia Tattoo was the Canadian Armed Forces Tattoo.

  9. Purple Heart recipient gives free tattoos to fellow veterans ...

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    There are other shops offering tattoo therapy, such as Tattoo Therapy BK and Therapy Ink NYC. But Wright appears to be one of the only artists offering free tattoos for veterans.