The Real Reason Kane Brown Decided Not To Join The Military

Posted by Abbie Anker on Friday, May 17, 2024

When Kane Brown was a teenager attending Chattanooga High School in Tennessee, he initially hoped for a future career as an athlete, and for good reason. Not only had he been playing sports since the tender age of 3, he really made a name for himself in high school, as he was the "quarterback of the football team ... captain of the basketball team," and was the baseball team's pitcher, according to a 2018 interview with People. The country music artist was confident he would land a sports scholarship to a university, telling the publication that he "was always one of the best players on the team." When scholarship season came and went and Brown came up empty-handed, he changed course, determined to join the Army alongside a bunch of his school buddies. 

It would turn out that becoming a military man was not in Brown's cards either, due to one of the U.S. military's strict rules: no tattoos. The "What Ifs" singer relayed the experience to People. "I ended up doing my test and I was about to get sent off," he said. "They told me I had to get my tattoos removed first." According to Brown, his reaction was a firm "Hell no!" This was an understandable response given the country singer's penchant for tattoos. According to Taste of Country, Brown sports a number of visible tats, including a wolf on one arm and angel wings spread on his shoulders and the tops of his arms.

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