Posted on 01/06/2017 6:42:05 AM PST by mandaladon
I think that SecDef Mattis will have some input on this in due course.
I hope all this crap ends in 2 weeks.
well, maybe for the next 14 days.
Then you claim that you are undeployable because your religiously required beard makes a gas mask useless.
I’m wondering how the Sikhs are going to fit their beard into a gas mask. Wasn’t that one of the major reasons for the shaving requirement?
While I respect the Sikh tradition as soldiers, unlike yarmulkes which can be worn under a cover and hidden, the turban cannot be worn under the standard uniform nor can the hijab. It’s a uniform for a reason unless they want to form separate units with those variations. These are US soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines not Sikh soldiers, or Moslem soldiers. This is a choice the individual will have to make to comply or not serve. They are not drafted, they are volunteering so perhaps they should not be accepted if they set preconditions.
Not anymore. All of this comes to an end in 2 weeks.
Me too.
I was thinking the new recruits would have fun during the gas mask training. :)
Anything goes ...as long as you don’t profess your Christian faith.
Welcome to a post-christian America, brought to you by our know it all leftist Academia.
Won’t be long and our military people won’t be unable to determine who is the enemy and who is not. Can you imagine seeing an entire football team with each player wearing something different from the other players on his team? CHAOS! I hope Trump will change back to a “standard” uniforms and stop all the politically correct crap.
So claims the openly gay Army Secretary.
Pretty much everyone in the Obama Administration is gay.
Same with Hillary Clinton’s inner circle
Barack Hussein Obama said, “tear down that military.”
It’s actually bigger than that - it’s “infected” almost all staff across the board in Congress - that’s why everything coming out of that cesspool is tilted toward the “gay culture!”
Anyone remember how they purged even scripture on rifles then burned hundreds of thousands of Bibles in Afghanistan? Meanwhile four times more soldiers have been killed there since soeter0 took over. Is the army going to just scrap the uniform code(s) to be PC? Lip service or real?
This isn’t really new. I did a short TDY to Fort Bliss back in the 70s and noted that a number of soldiers in the 3rd ACR were Sikhs and wore beards and turbans while in uniform.
Those responsible should be discharged.
Something which I had never heard before popped up in a recent documentary about Adolf Hitler. During WWI he had a big mustache, almost a handlebar. During a gas attack, his mask leaked because of the big mustache. Thereafter, he shaved it down to what he wore thereafter.
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