Should the U.S. Army have one grooming standard (i.e. hair) for male and females?

Yes. All Soldiers should have hair buns. 

Shaved heads for everyone in Basic!  :-)

I could rock this stache and beard.

I just had this discussion with a few fellow soldiers, we came up with this. If the military had the same grooming standard for all the armed forces, would it be better for each branch. Point one: If the army would let male soldiers grow beards like the navy, would that help soldiers patrolling in villages in the middle east be easy targets or help the military in those areas? In the middle east every male pretty much grows a beard, then a clean shaven soldier comes along, would it show the locals in those villages that we can be like them if male soldier grew beards in those areas. Granted they would have to be trim and neat, not shaggy. Any ideas?

Stop the madness!  This standardizing the physical characteritics of men and women the same needs to be met with smart limitations.  Our body parts are different with the exception of a few, men and women are not the same so lets not make it that way.  The Marine Corps as you may know have postponed their physical fitness changes for women because about half the women couldn't do the minimum 3 pull-ups required by both men and women under the new PFT.  

I think introducing beards into the US military will bring more slack into an already slack Army that can't even keep boot laces tucked in.  Once I start seeing people taking care of what they have, they should get no further privileges.

Unfortunately, most (not all) women in the military break the already fairly lenient rules as it is. Why when I go see our friends in the support role for something I have to see soldiers with 4 different colors of hair, or even 2 colors, or past the back of the collar? If I make the correction, some SGM jumps out like a ninja and tells me I'm being too hard on the females. I say enforce what we have, and senior leaders: stop babying soldiers just because you're scared of an EO complaint...Heaven forbid you hold both genders to the standard.

No, the gender hairstyles are different and we should not conform ourselves into robots. I would however consider revising the grooming standards on beards for males.

I am not certain about today's NBC/CBW/CBRNE environment.  But, in my day, facial hair substantially interfered with high altitude oxygen, diving masks, fire fighting gear, and gas masks.  

I feel that the standards that are set in place are good they way they are, it's a matter of Soldiers to actually follow those standards.  The other problem is for both males and females to be so qick to try and correct other Soldiers without reading the regulation and actually knowing what is within regulation and what is not.  Did you know females are allowed to have multiple hair colors as long as they are of natural hair color(s)?  The regulation does not say anthing about females not being allowed to have two-toned hair colors.  If you read the regulation, the only thing two-toned females are not allowed to have is nails.