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Kris Thomas Flory just added his dog tags to the pile in the American Atheists Military group on Facebook. Kris Flory: Today was my last day in the US military. These tags cause a minor shit storm when I had them made by another soldier on an army tag making machine at our mobilization station prior to deploying [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dog tags’
Jedi dog tags are actually 100% legit
January 14th, 2012 
Justin Griffith 
Posted in Atheist 
Tags: dog tags, Dogtags, Jedi, Jedi Dog Tags, Jedi in foxholes, Kris Flory, NO-REL-PREF 
3 Comments »Canadian foxhole atheists also have trouble getting accurate dog tags
January 6th, 2012 Justin Griffith It’s like the guy at almost every dog tag machine all of a sudden forgets about pluralism when an atheist approaches. Len Blakely wrote to me about his experiences in Canada. It sounds all too familiar. After trying about 150 times to photograph it I decided it wasn’t working. I managed to cobble together a [...]
Captain Ryan Jean: “Getting ATHEIST on my records took two minutes”
January 5th, 2012 Justin Griffith A while back I posted about a heart wrenching and debate-ending example of why foxhole atheists need to demand NO-REL-PREF be accurately updated on their records to ATHEIST. Many are being told that it’s not possible – and on the contrary it has been for decades. Captain Ryan Jean wrote to me: It took me two minutes [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: army atheist, Atheist, atheists in foxholes, Captain Ryan Jean, Chaplaincy, dog tags, Dogtags, humanist, lay leader, NO-REL-PREF, Ryan Jean 4 Comments »The atheist Marine Corps recruit that fought the NO-REL-PREF and won!
December 16th, 2011 Justin Griffith I needed a bit of good news. I’m sure many of you are of the same mind. Readers may recall a short burst of posts about people being screwed over with NO-REL-PREF on their records at the first stop in their military career. It started with a Marine Corps recruit who was very adamant about [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: dog tags, Dogtags, Facebook, Justin Griffith, Marine Corps, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF, reddit, SGT Griffith 10 Comments »Atheist soldier killed in action, family proselytized due to NO-REL-PREF
December 12th, 2011 Justin Griffith Another debate-ending story on whether or not it is important to get ATHEIST on your records, rather than the inaccurate and inappropriate NO-REL-PREF. Text below the fold…
Posted in Atheist Tags: dog tags, Dogtags, Foxhole Atheists, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF 20 Comments »Many more Atheists being forced to accept ‘NO-REL-PREF’
December 12th, 2011 Justin Griffith This morning’s article about a Marine recruit who got NO-REL-PREF against her will got a bit of attention. Much of it was from people who had almost the exact same experience. I’ve seen hundreds of comments to that effect in the few posts I’ve made that dealt with this topic. For instance, shortly after I [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Atheist, dog tags, Dogtags, Marine Corps, New Foxhole Atheists, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF 10 Comments »Another foxhole atheist given “No-Rel-Pref” against her will
December 12th, 2011 Justin Griffith I’ve written previously about my difficulty getting both my dog tags and my Enlisted Records Brief to accurately reflect ‘ATHEIST’. Some of the story is kind of funny and even eventually made it on the Flying Spaghetti Monster website. My corrected dogtags even made it on Wikipedia! NO-REL-PREF makes you a target for proselytism (even [...]
Posted in Atheist Tags: Atheist, dog tags, Dogtags, Marine Corps, MEPS, No religious preference, NO-REL-PREF, Recruiter, Religious Preference 17 Comments »Air Force atheist makes a new friend at the dog tag machine
November 8th, 2011 Justin Griffith My friend over in the Air Force, Daniel Rawlings, is an ex-Mormon and out of the closet atheist. He drove hours to make it to many of our awesome MASH Fort Bragg meetings. He has now been reassigned much further away to Travis Air Force Base, in California. Such is the transient nature of military [...]
Posted in Atheist, MASH Tags: Air Force, Air Force Atheists, Daniel Rawlings, dog tags, No religious preference 17 Comments »My ‘Atheist / Flying Spaghetti Monster’ military dog tags
July 22nd, 2011 Justin Griffith 
My dog tags are now featured on the Flying Spaghetti Monster Wikipedia entry. I have some funny stories about FSM and the Army, including a priceless exchange with a Drill Sergeant.
Posted in Atheist, Press, Rock Beyond Belief Tags: Atheist, dog tags, Flying Spaghetti Monster, Foxhole Atheist, FSM, Justin Griffith, SGT Griffith 43 Comments »
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