there were those with “sensitive skin” asking for waivers so they wouldn’t be required to shave in the 80s
Ain’t no bias - 1/8-inch clipper guard, take it to everyone.
I wonder why they want to get rid of dreads. If they are done nicely, they look professional. I don’t think they would get in the way of emergency gear. Kinda silly to get rid of a policy that worked for a long time.
Everything wrong or amiss in America can be directly attributed (imo) to the satanic effort to enslave and kill a free people.
ANYthing muzzie is satanic, so there's about half the problems there.
We tend to water down or completely forget the impact of Jesus and holiness in our formative years.
Air Force 35-10 regs barred Mohawk style haircuts in the late 70s.
The armed services will now be cutting back on maneuvers, firearms training, and instruction in the use of explosives to arrange for extra time to be spent on fashion sense, grooming, counseling in personal appearance and racial sensitivity, and instruction in homosexual techniques.
It’s an Obama kinda thing.
Our president is a joke. Congress is a joke. Public schools are a joke. Now our military is becoming a joke.
I don’t recognize America any more.
To my knowledge, dreadlocks were not allowed by the old regs.
Mostly, the new regs define hairstyles more narrowly and specifically than the old regs. Before, the female regs stated that hair must be above the bottom of the collar, or be put up—there may have been more to it, but I don’t recall since I haven’t read it in a while. The new regs state what is acceptable in a hair style—no changes in length more than 1” (so none of the really short in the back, long in the front), parts must be straight, short hair cannot be shorter than a certain minimum, long hair cannot be put up in a lopsided fashion, etc. The new regs also state that females can only wear clear nail polish, where before, we could wear “conservative” colored polish.
I’m not sure why anyone would want to wear dreadlocks in the first place. It’s hard enough to keep hair clean, why would anyone want to make it even more dirt and germ catching?
That has to be one of the silliest uses of the PC phrase “ethnically diverse” I have ever seen.
How precisely does one have “ethnically diverse hair”? Hair characteristic of three or four different ethnic groups on different parts of the head? Blonde hair that naturally forms an afro if grown out?
I see what she did there. It's actually pretty clever.
The military is not a jobs program. If you want to do things your way go work at Burger King.
No neatness at all when it comes to dreadlocks. Go ahead - call me racist!
What’s next? Perhaps allowing recruits to wear fatigues “gangsta style” with their underwear showing. It will be hard to run in those though…...
How will that work out for NBC gear, firefighting gear aboard ships etc.
The really stupid thing on display here is that nobody in charge seems to know history or reality well enough to remember or figure out that the whole reason for the requirement of short hair, which has been in known since the time of the Romans... was that long hair is a serious vulnerability that your opponent can grab and hold in a hand to hand situation. Dreads would be even easier to hold on to then loose hair!
But the truth is, now that they put women in harms way, everyone already knows that if she gets into the situation where long hair could be a vulnerability....she is already screwed.
So I would argue this is a reason she doesn’t belong in the military but I’m old fashioned. But the same reason could be used to say it doesn’t matter what they do with their hair.
What a bunch of LIB race-baiting twaddle. Cut your hair short...STFU.