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After outcry, Hagel orders review of female hairstyle policies
Stars & Stripes ^ | April 29, 2014 | Jon Harper

Posted on 04/30/2014 1:50:15 AM PDT by Timber Rattler

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Never mind whether or not said minority hairstyles are suitable for harsh combat conditions...
1 posted on 04/30/2014 1:50:15 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
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To: Timber Rattler

Racism—what non-white people use to obtain privileges that white people neither desire nor can obtain if they did desire.


2 posted on 04/30/2014 1:59:38 AM PDT by the anti-mahdi
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From civil rights to special rights to special privileges to revamping the militaty to accommodate Black sensitivities regarding “style.”

Is there anyone who did NOT see that coming?

The Black definition of the word “fair” is pretty strange.

Or was “fair” always a smokescreen?


3 posted on 04/30/2014 2:30:18 AM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To be fair...and have equity and not to discriminate....

Crew cut for all service personnel....male or female...

Just think how much money they would save on hair care products...


4 posted on 04/30/2014 2:38:34 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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A trip through the CS chamber training should be sufficient for illustrating the need for the regulation. Perhaps some of the members of the CBC with the proscribed styles would like to join their military brethren for the exercise??? Naaah, that would be too much like leadership for that whiny crowd.


5 posted on 04/30/2014 2:41:38 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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High and tights for everybody.
No exceptions.


6 posted on 04/30/2014 2:55:32 AM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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Don't like a policy?
Cry "Racist!", and it'll change in short order.

Of course this works best if you happen to be black.

7 posted on 04/30/2014 2:59:53 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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If women are allowed to wear long hair in the military, so should the men.


8 posted on 04/30/2014 3:00:36 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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I concur. High and tight for all. One would think America’s Secretary for Defense would spend his time focusing on the ability of our armed forces to defend and fight, rather than on haircuts or hair styles. Keep it simple.


9 posted on 04/30/2014 3:01:09 AM PDT by Tudorfly
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EVERY policy from the Obama administration is designed to splinter, divide the American people.

As America moves further every day into a bickering cacophony of self-interested groups clawing at each other’s throats, the only means to keep order is through the heavy hand of an all powerful government backed up with national police forces.

It is a recipe for dissolution of the republic. It is what the rats work toward, and what the GOP will do nothing to stop.

10 posted on 04/30/2014 3:05:16 AM PDT by Jacquerie (By their oaths, it is the duty of state legislators to invoke Article V.)
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Cornrows for Combat!


11 posted on 04/30/2014 3:10:28 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (Operating out of weakness? Imagine if he was working from a position of strength!)
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——One would think America’s Secretary for Defense would spend his time focusing on the ability of our armed forces to defend and fight, rather than on haircuts or hair styles. ——

Well...under this regimen Hagel job is to reform the worlds best military into complete poltical correctness to implement the left social experiments....

As for defending his country....only at the expense of not offending some filthy muzzie dog...


12 posted on 04/30/2014 3:11:20 AM PDT by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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In harsh combat you don’t want hair that can be grabbed by your enemy and yanked to break your neck.

What are these people thinking? And why are they in charge?


13 posted on 04/30/2014 3:11:58 AM PDT by plangent
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The world is coming apart at the seams, and this fool is worried about military hair styles??!!


14 posted on 04/30/2014 3:13:16 AM PDT by Shane (When Injustice Becomes Law, RESISTANCE Becomes DUTY.----T.Jefferson)
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It really does never change wrt hair in the military.

I remember Elmo’s Navy - long sideburns, relaxed hair length policies. As an Airman at the time, I remember seeing Elmo’s sailors out an about in the civilian world and felt kinda jealous.

The had 75% of the hippie look already down. Shoot, they even had the bell bottomed jeans!


15 posted on 04/30/2014 3:24:32 AM PDT by Gaffer (Comprehensive Immigration Reform is just another name for Comprehensive Capitulation)
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“A trip through the CS chamber training should be sufficient for illustrating the need for the regulation”

Do they even do this any more?? You know the gas could be dangerous and I am not sure the EPA would allow it!


16 posted on 04/30/2014 3:25:13 AM PDT by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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I thought hair styles were suppose to allow the head to fit inside a helmet...


17 posted on 04/30/2014 3:42:13 AM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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What’s next?

Letting the guys wear their pants halfway down?


18 posted on 04/30/2014 3:45:03 AM PDT by digger48
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“The use of words like ‘unkempt’ and ‘matted’ when referring to traditional hairstyles worn by women of color are offensive and biased."

The nerve of the Army trying to ban the 'Rutger's-do.' Paging Don Imus.

19 posted on 04/30/2014 3:58:15 AM PDT by DaBroasta
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Who joins the military to remain an individual?


20 posted on 04/30/2014 4:10:20 AM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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