Tattoos are very popular among military personnel of various special forces around the world. Often, special forces tattoos are unique paintings with a clear plot and drawing.
Russian commandos traditionally portray a tattoo machine gun, a symbolic beret, ribbons and the abbreviation CH. Other images specific to special forces tattoos are also known.
What For Special Forces Tattoos
Uninformed people may have a question about why special forces are tattooed. After all, everyone knows that wearing any drawings on the body of the army command is not encouraged, especially if it is special forces. Nevertheless, each special forces tattoo has its own role: it unites military personnel in certain groups. Thanks to the picture, you can easily define "your". Also, the special forces tattoo is a vivid confirmation of the heroic past. Considering the demand of their command, many servicemen put a tattoo already on the "demobilization".
GRU emblem
More recently, few ordinary people knew about the existence of such a secret service as the Main Intelligence Directorate. Today, the themes of "special forces", including the GRU, are often addressed by many directors and authors of action-packed novels. As in any army formation, the tattoo tradition is also popular among the military personnel of the Main Intelligence Directorate.
The Main Intelligence Directorate, established back in 1942, uses a bat as its symbol. The article presents what the GRU special forces tattoo looks like (photo below). The fact that the choice of the secret service fell precisely on this creature is understandable: this beast leads a nocturnal lifestyle and personifies everything that is imperceptible, secretive and shrouded in mystery. In addition, bats in many creatures cause fear. Employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate carry out their tasks, like bats, secretly and quietly. The bat is the main emblem in the GRU special forces tattoo.
What other tattoos do special forces
Since an owl is also associated with the dark time of the day, except for the bat, the image of this creature is also used in tattoos by military intelligence officers. In other departments, images of a tiger, a leopard, a wolf, a bear, a lynx and a wolverine are very popular. They can be used by soldiers of the SOBR, special forces of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Special Operations Forces. There are also patriotic symbols in the form of a two-headed eagle.
It is known that the main motive must be present in the tattoos of the employees of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: a fist, a squeezing Kalashnikov rifle. This picture can be located on the background of a shield, or a five-pointed star. There may also be an image of a predator in a beret.
Often, special forces put an image of scorpions. It symbolizes stamina and constant readiness to repel an attack. Scorpions are stuffed mainly by those who happened to serve in hot latitudes.
Soldiers of marine special forces apply sharks and dolphins tattoos. Stuffing one or another image on the skin, the kolshchik applies all his imagination, as a result of which tattoos become unique paintings. They may interweave elements used in various law enforcement agencies. Special Forces soldiers stuff numbers of their units, dates of service. In addition, tattoos may contain various statements, images of skulls in berets and parachutes.
