Sgt. Bobby Price
What does your tattoo symbolize?
Usually people get tattoos of other people’s names to pay homage to them. Why did you all decide to get tattoos with I was a part of a team in intelligence in the Marine Corps and your information? we used to go and gather intelligence for the infantry. We had a team of nine and we came back with a team of six. So the Well we all got the same tattoo of dog tags with our information. people who came back, we all got tattoos to remember the team We did that because one of the guys, and the way he lost his by and to remember each other by. life, there wasn’t a lot to distinguish him by. If he would have had some kind of distinguishing mark, we would have been able How did the death of your team members affect you? to identify him. However, it was always our plan to finish what we started and get dog tags for the guys who we lost. We are It made me more appreciative of life and more willing to settle actually trying to get together this year because it’s coming up down and start a family because the three who passed were all on the 10 year anniversary. guys who had families. The rest of us were single and living life. It made me realize that we were not invincible. Why does it seem as if the dog tags are coming out of your skin? We wanted to symbolize that it is forever. That’s why we wanted to show it coming from our body. We will always remember and it will always be a part of us. It really changed who I was and how I looked at life.
Transportation Management Coordinator, 529th Regimental Support Company
Staff Sgt. Dallas Lockley
What does your tattoo symbolize?
important to me. They are the only three women I would go to prison I always told myself that when I for. I love my wife, without her got my tattoos, they would be very they would not be here. But my meaningful. The angel represents daughters, they are my flesh; my me as the guardian of my kids blood; I helped create them. looking at a cross towards the Lord because He is the only one How does your service in the Army who has the answers. I am a very correlate with you being a father? religious guy and since I have three daughters, I look to God for help Me being in the Army is a service to my country but more so to my and guidance in raising them. kids and my family. I'm protecting How important are your children to this country but ultimately I'm' you? protecting them also.
Does your tattoo provide any source of motivation or help you put those things into perspective? Always. I put them on my chest because when I look at myself in the mirror, the first things I see are these tattoos. It keeps my mind focused on remembering the man above, the giver of life. If it wasn't for him, I would not be here. And looking at my kids' names, it reminds me that, hey, I am a father and I cannot forget that.
My daughters are very very very
Infantryman, Honor Guard Company
Staff Sgt. David Loyal
Corps in a magazine and knew this was something I wanted to do. I grew up playing this style of drumming and this was the This tattoo is an interpretation of drum art from a man named best place for me to do it. Gus Moeller who built drums from the 1920’s into the 1940’s. This is called the Moeller Eagle and it’s on a lot of military drums. In your opinion, how does music display the Army to the world? Why was this specific drummer important to you? What is the significance of your tattoo?
I have one of his drums that I play a lot at civilian performances. He was a very influential drummer and drum maker so I’ve taken a lot from the style and the way that he played. It’s been a big part of my life because that’s what I do for a living in The Old Fife and Drum Corps. Did you come into the Army wanting to play drums? Yes. I’ve been playing since I was nine and wanted to join this unit since I was 15. I started out through fife and drum corps with civil war reenactments and saw The Old Fife and Drum
Tattoo inspired by above drum art
I think that specifically the type of music that we play is a slice of Americana that you can’t get [anywhere else]. There’s a lot of military music out there that a lot of the Army bands play but some of the music that we play is so unique to our Nation’s past. People have a very limited knowledge of the Revolutionary War and the Civil War and this music is such an integral part of the Army’s story throughout those time periods.
Bass Drummer, The Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps