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===Appearance & Uniform===
Catachans are known to wear red bandanas that symbolize a blood oath they take when joining a regiment, also marking them out as having the skill and toughness to survive on the worst death world in the Imperium. {{Fn|17}} They sport tattoos and commonly dull their regimental badges with soot and soil so as to not reveal their position.{{Fn|7b}} Disdainful of the acquisition of medals by other regiments, tattoos are used as a way of marking battle honours such as the use of skull emblems to mark five years service, daggers to mark a decade of service {{Fn|16}} and the skull and crosshairs to denote a marksman {{Fn|17}}{{Fn|17}}
A common rite of passage among Jungle Fighters is for junior soldiers to earn their ''"Catachan name,"'' a sobriquet that acknowledges their battle experiences and/or some notable quality of theirs.{{Fn|11}} For example, [[Colonel]] [[Straken]]'s nickname "Iron Hand" comes from the [[bionic]] arm which replaced the one he lost to a [[Miral]] [[Land Shark]]{{Fn|7h}}, while [[Gunnery Sergeant]] "Stonetooth" Harker's reputation for toughness is such that he was able to kill a [[Tyranid]] [[Ravener]] by crushing its neck between his biceps, and was rumored to chew glass the way other men chew tobacco (though the latter is probably an exaggeration).{{Fn|7i}}
