Posted on Sep 2, 2020
Can I be forced to shave if I have a shaving profile?
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What’s up everybody I’m pv2 jones and I been in the army a little over 9 months, I love serving until it comes to shaving. I’ve tried everything and my face bumps up terrible man I’m talking about it looks disgusting, plenty of my Drill Sgts in AIT tried teaching me how to shave but it doesn’t work. So I just got to my new unit about 2 and a half months ago and I was still shaving even though it was painful and it looked Terrible, one day an NCO From another unit told me that I NEED to go get a shaving profile because my face just looks terrible and she can tell I was in pain so I promised her I will go get one and have them check it out . After my first appointment the dermatologist gave me a permanent shaving profile and told me that I don’t need to shave atleast until my bumps are clear. So a few weeks go by and I have a little beard (still in regulation 1/4 of an inch) so After pt my squad leader pulls me to The side and starts cursing me out at the top of his lungs saying I need to shave , I told him respectfully I have a shaving profile and it hurts for me to shave he stares at me and replied Under his breath “like every other black person in the army that can’t use razors” I didn’t say anything but it kind of hurt because I don’t want to be a odd ball in my company (I’m in a infantry company btw) so later that day we go into work to clean weapons and he calls me over and apologizes about this morning and I told him it was ok he then said that I need to shave still if I want to make it in the military and I replied and told him I’m not shaving so he can F’ing forget about it he then told me since I cursed him my punishment will be to shave or receive a article for disrespecting a NCO so later I went to my barracks room and shaved during lunch and came back in he then told me that no matter what my profile says I need to listen to him and shave I told my platoon sgt about this whole Situation and he told me I need to listen to my squad leader and shave because the army just gives shaving profiles to anyone. Is this right?
Platoon Sergeant
Platoon Leader
Commander
CCMSgt
NCO Academy
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It is kinda funny because it seems like every colored person gets a shaving profile but anyways no if you got a shaving profile permanently then they can’t tell you to shave. However if your senior NCO or your team/ squad leader wants you to shave you should. Reason being is if you want to make a career out of this it would make it a lot easier to just shave
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Well Bud your sqd ldr and platoon SFC is some what right. When you are on a profile, that paperwork needs to be on you 100% of the time. We had to teach some black soldiers about saving at night under a got shower and it seemed to work. When you lost your military bearing with your squad leader, you was in the wrong. But profiles are there for a reason and should not be broken. On the other side of that coin a soldier can get in trouble for riding a profile.
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Stop complaining and looking for a way to bend or manipulate the system. Purchase an electric razor and get on with your tour of duty.
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My opinion: First off, even if you are a PV2, you need to speak to another soldier like you are a soldier. If I had a soldier who said "It hurts me to shave", instead of giving a copy of their profile (which you should have been carrying at all times anyway), I would have probably had something to say as well, being that I expect a soldier to be a soldier and not a baby. There may be times when you will get a REAL hurt, like a bullet wound, and you will understand the difference between that and shaving bumps. Secondly, you do not tell a ranking soldier that you're not fucking doing anything. That was disrespectful; once again, you should have had your profile ready to whip out. Stop with the cryinging about what the NCO said about Black people and shaving; a lot of men do fall back on the shaving profile. So, watch your mouth and carry your profile. Stop being a baby.
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