Phra Thepwisutthikawi, deputy president of Mahamakut Buddhist University, said that sak yant tattoos were for centuries a sign of dangerous professions: soldiers, gangsters, Muay Thai fighters, soldiers, police.
Fighter, patternmaker, soldier.
"One of the requirements for a fighter or soldier is that such a conscript must reach the age of moral majority, put around 15 to 17, depending on when a male youth reaches puberty," he added.
Their roles have grown over the centuries from nurses, cooks and seamstresses, who maintained the camps of the Continental Army, to fighter pilots, soldiers, sailors and Marines who are battling the Islamic State in the Middle East and Afghanistan.
They provide quick, effective help for anyone who needs to enhance concentration -- college students, fighter pilots, soldiers in war zones and increasingly larger numbers of our country's children.
The men are all fighters or soldiers.
Humvees in the hands of Taliban fighters confuse soldiers and pack a large payload.
Bullets struck all of the lead Taliban fighters, the soldiers said.
I have interviewed dozens of former L.R.A. fighters and soldiers who say much the same.
The title of "The Insurgents" is a clever reference to the rebellious, Petraeus-led faction within the American military, not to the guerrilla fighters American soldiers fought abroad.
