Posted on 04/30/2014 1:50:15 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Following an outcry by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel is considering changing hairstyle regulations that affect female African-American servicemembers.
On Tuesday, Hagel sent a letter to lawmakers announcing that, within 30 days, each of the services will review the definitions of authorized and prohibited hairstyles contained in each of their respective policies and revise any language that might be considered offensive.
Caucus members had complained that a recently updated Army regulation governing troops’ hairstyles was racist and unfairly targeted African-American women.
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Hagel has also ordered the services to conduct a three-month review of their hairstyle policies as they pertain to African-American women. The purpose of the review is “to ensure standards are fair and respectful of our diverse force, while also meeting our military services’ requirements,” Hagel said in the letter, which was obtained by Stars and Stripes.
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Racism—what non-white people use to obtain privileges that white people neither desire nor can obtain if they did desire.
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?
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...
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.
High and tights for everybody.
No exceptions.
Of course this works best if you happen to be black.
If women are allowed to wear long hair in the military, so should the men.
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.
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.
Cornrows for Combat!
——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...
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?
The world is coming apart at the seams, and this fool is worried about military hair styles??!!
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!
“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!
I thought hair styles were suppose to allow the head to fit inside a helmet...
What’s next?
Letting the guys wear their pants halfway down?
The nerve of the Army trying to ban the 'Rutger's-do.' Paging Don Imus.
Who joins the military to remain an individual?
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