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Intel private who got classified tattoo now living in SCIF

No video games, no Dodge Challengers, not a single luxury

Intel private who got classified tattoo now living in SCIF
Spitters, shit cans, and shredders are Pvt. Davidson’s life now.

FORT MEADE, MD – In a twist of reality that would make Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller cringe, Pvt. Joe “Ink” Davidson – a recent addition to the ranks of the military’s finest intelligence professionals – is confined to living in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) after getting separate tattoos on each buttock that, when associated, are classified.

Davidson had just graduated basic training when he decided to celebrate his newfound status as a wielder of classified information by permanently stamping some of that information on his buttocks. He explained the lapse as only a 19-year-old analyst could.

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