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