Strength and conditioning.
Muay Thai and kickboxing.
Some things just go together.
But tattoos and the Navy? You might not know it, but like mixed martial arts athletes, Sailors in America’s Navy love their ink. In fact, one in three Sailors sport tattoos.
Like MMA athletes, tattoos and body art have a long history in the Navy. Some Sailors still follow in the sea-faring tradition of earning a new swallow tattoo for every 5,000 nautical miles traveled. [Photo: hands with swallow tattoos as seen in social post] And for fighters and Sailors alike, every tattoo is personal.