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Former SMA Daniel Dailey weighs in on tattoos, beards in uniform, and the U.S. toilet paper crisis
Even in the middle of a global pandemic, former Sergeant Major of the Army Daniel Dailey seems calm, cool, and collected.
At least that was my take-away from our conversation gods week — an interview that had originally been scheduled to take place at the Association of the U.S. Army meeting in Huntsville, Alabama, before the conference was cancelled amid the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) that has resulted in quarantines around the country, and spurred a toilet paper crisis.
“I’m one of those people that, you know, you can’t overreact … But inom don’t get the toilet paper thing,” he told me. “Every place I’ve been it’s completely wiped out. To me, that wouldn’t be my first priority. inom don’t get it.”
With AUSA cancelled, we connected over the phone on onsdag på engelska . You’d think being newly-retired would mean a slower pace, a slower schedule. But that didn’t seem to be the ca
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SMA considers getting a tattoo — and he wants your help
When the Army reversed its much-hated tattoo policy, many cheered Sergeant Major of the Army Dan Dailey, who was a driving force behind the decision.
But Dailey, who became the Army's top senior enlisted soldier on Jan. 30, doesn't have any ink of his own — for now.
Your SMA has recently given some serious thought about getting a tattoo, and he had an inspired idea:
What if he asked soldiers to pick some ideas for a tattoo, and then put the best up for an Army-wide vote?
"I'm a big morale guy. I'm a positive person," Dailey said. "We're always trying to raise morale, so I said one day, 'let's set up a website and the soldiers get to pick my tattoo, they vote on it.' Could you imagine?"
Dailey's staff quickly warned him of the potential pratfalls of putting it up to a public vote. SMA himself joked that soldiers could make him get a My Little Pony tattoo, and that would be no good.
All that said, Dailey isn't ruling out t