Didn’t we go through this with the afro back in the early 70’s?
Next “soldiers of ethnicity” will demand to be allowed to wear their pants halfway down their butts.
I think is was the 60’s
Yes, back in the 70s, some Black soldiers wanted to wear Afros, which were out of regulation. the ‘solution’ was the ‘dew rag’ that guy wore, (aka old panty hose or nylon’ that packed their hair down at night so it was in regulation during the day and then they combed out their ‘Fros’ when they went out in the evenings and on the weekends...but NOT while in uniform.
Once when out on field duty in Grafenwoehr a white guy in my unit got fed up with all the brothers walking around with “do rags”. He decided that he could be a cool one too. It went all the way up to the battalion SMG - who ended up banning it from everyone. As he should have.
Afro’s would be legal under this rule - as long as they are not more than 2” in length.