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German soldiers allowed to keep mullets
ananova ^ | 6/20/05 | staff

Posted on 06/20/2005 6:49:05 AM PDT by pissant

German soldiers will be allowed to sport mullets and ponytails after a court ruled army hair regulations were unconstitutional.

The ruling came after an 18-year-old soldier was locked up in a cell and fined £100 when he refused to chop off his 10-inch ponytail.

The teenaged recruit only agreed to let army barbers cut his hair when faced with three weeks in solitary confinement, but made a formal complaint at the same time.

The military court in Munich ruled in favour of the soldier and argued the varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible".

It said forcing male soldiers to cut their long hair went against their rights as individuals.


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KEYWORDS: businessupfront; fearthemullet; mullet; mullets; partyintheback; yikes
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I'm guessing Farrah-Fawcett hair is OK too. Zoinks!
1 posted on 06/20/2005 6:49:05 AM PDT by pissant
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varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible"

I guess this also means communal showers, toilets, barracks, etc.

Another question is, why should women soldiers be allowed to sport long hair?

2 posted on 06/20/2005 6:54:29 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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Where?


3 posted on 06/20/2005 6:56:47 AM PDT by pissant
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Anywhere. Especially there.


4 posted on 06/20/2005 6:58:34 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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LOL. You can be the inspector!


5 posted on 06/20/2005 7:01:21 AM PDT by pissant
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Now if Germany invades Europe, they'll win because their enemies would keel over from laughter.


6 posted on 06/20/2005 7:03:37 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flush Newsweek!)
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Do you think blow dryers and curling irons will be standard issue now? LOL


7 posted on 06/20/2005 7:04:35 AM PDT by pissant
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Well this sure ain't your grandfather's German Army. (Which frankly isn't a bad thing).


8 posted on 06/20/2005 7:05:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flush Newsweek!)
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Anybody who wears a mullet must be brave. They actually think they look good..........


9 posted on 06/20/2005 7:06:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (The Army makes the world safe for democracy. The Marines make the world safe for the Army.....)
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There was nothing wrong with the Wehrmacht and the General Staff - just something wrong with gub'mint givin' em marching orders!


10 posted on 06/20/2005 7:06:55 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a reactionary, hirsute, gun-owning, knuckle dragging, Christian Neanderthal and proud of it!)
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Are female soldiers allowed to "sport" long hair!?

Oh - and varying rules doesn't mean communal. But you clearly have issues with women in the military - or maybe women in general.

Is that the "cowboyway"?


11 posted on 06/20/2005 7:10:07 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Great hopes make great men. - - - Thomas Fuller)
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This kind of mullet? Image hosted by Photobucket.com
12 posted on 06/20/2005 7:10:13 AM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (LET ME DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, ALEX KOZINSKI FOR SCOTUS)
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There was nothing wrong with the Wehrmacht and the General Staff - just something wrong with gub'mint givin' em marching orders!

Don't buy into that myth. The Wehrmacht had plenty of complicity in atrocities, especially on the Eastern front.

13 posted on 06/20/2005 7:10:45 AM PDT by dfwgator (Flush Newsweek!)
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Oh No!! It's catching on in Iraq too! Eeeek!



14 posted on 06/20/2005 7:13:37 AM PDT by Millee (So you're a feminist......isn't that cute??)
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I guess their tanks will be the ones with the Lynyrd Skynyrd bumper stickers.


15 posted on 06/20/2005 7:14:49 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: Little Ray
Really? Read the Commas Order and the Commando order issued over Field Marshal Keitel's signature [concededly ignored by some some German commanders, such as Rommel]. Or try the Orders of the day issued in Russia by Reichenau or Manstein. Read the minutes of the conference where Hitler told his senior commanders that the war in the East would be fought with the gloves off, and with no regard to the rules and usages of war. Note any commander raising objections? How about the working relationship the various Army Commanders had with the Einsatzgruppen?

The German Army got away with one after the war. They blamed all the mistakes on Hitler, and all the atrocities on the SS. Not quite the truth.
16 posted on 06/20/2005 7:16:55 AM PDT by PzLdr ("The Emperor is not as forgiving as I am" - Darth Vader)
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Are female soldiers allowed to "sport" long hair!?

Obviously. Didn't you read the post?

The military court in Munich ruled in favour of the soldier and argued the varying rules for male and female recruits were "unconstitutional" and "incomprehensible".

Oh - and varying rules doesn't mean communal.

It certainly does. I'll bet there is more privacy in the womens quarters. That falls under 'varying' rules.

But you clearly have issues with women in the military - or maybe women in general.

Here we go, the personal attack. A former(current) liberal, I presume.

17 posted on 06/20/2005 7:21:48 AM PDT by cowboyway (My heroes have always been cowboys.)
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To: dfwgator

Germany is a basket case!


18 posted on 06/20/2005 7:22:01 AM PDT by pissant
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To: Millee
The Mullet Family


19 posted on 06/20/2005 7:22:15 AM PDT by Dashing Dasher (Great hopes make great men. - - - Thomas Fuller)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, the lovely plumage looks so dandy!


20 posted on 06/20/2005 7:22:42 AM PDT by pissant
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