Special Forces personnel often receive certain liberties that the garrison troops are denied. Perhaps, this is also extended to SF in regards to their CAC cards.
Beards downrange were seen as a bridge to the head choppers culture and to win some of them over to our side.
Especially common with top tier operators...
Understand how the face hair rules can drift a little for deployed guys but this one seems to be from Colorado Springs. Maybe he was trying to rent a room in Aurora?
There’s a bunch of Mil stuff in the area, AF Academy, Pueblo Depot, Peterson AFB, etc., but everything I can think of is pretty buttoned down.
His ID card was pretty fresh so maybe he just got back from someplace fuzzy?