Tag Archive: Recruiter

Dec 11 2012

Considering a military career? What every atheist needs to know first.

believe in yourself

Dear Justin, I am considering joining the Navy, and would like advice on how to go about it as an atheist. What do I tell the recruiter? Are there atheist chaplains? What do I put on dog tags as my religion? Is being an atheist in the military looked at like being gay/lesbian, in regards …

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Sep 01 2012

The Army? It’s just like call of duty bro, you’ll be a hero.

Army recruiter meme

A friend of mine just posted this on my Facebook wall. I hadn’t seen it yet, and thought it was pretty funny. Do you know any ‘recruiter jokes’ or memes? In related news, the school for Army Recruiting no joke. I have very little free time, and I’m under the impression that I’ll have even less …

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Dec 12 2011

Another foxhole atheist given “No-Rel-Pref” against her will

Sergeant Justin Griffith's Dog Tags - Atheist / FSM

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 …

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