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The Army allows people with full sleeve tattoos, criminal history, drug/alcohol abuse problems, overweight people, and now psychotic people serve in the military. Clearly the Army isn't worried about looking professional or being professional. Numerous other Allied nations allow their service members to grow beards and have no problem with their SMs utilizing gas masks. Uniformity definitely isn't an issue either, since we have different hairstyles, uniforms, etc. What are your thoughts on this?
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If your saying that the Army dosnt have any of these characteristics then you dumb as shit the army has fat people soft people and people who think they can do what the want people get caught doing drugs and let's them walk free so what army are you talking about quit being dumb or ignorant or stupid their is no problem with facial hair seeing as the special forces can have them
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PO2 Vince Walsh
Well now, after reading and re- reading this comment, I have to conclude that beards are not our biggest problem.
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People who are commenting that we aren’t letting people in with mental health issues need to come down to your local BCT and I can show you at least 10-15 privates with documented mental health diagnosis. It’s getting pretty ridiculous.
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Because your CSM grows out a beard that looks like he glued a 12yos first pubic growth onto his face, and he hates you for your luxurious beard.
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The official reason that the Army has provided in the past is thatthe facial hair will the chemical mask from getting a proper seal. I'm not entirely satisfied this is true, particularly if facial hair is kept neat and trimmed.
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I think the army should stop bitching like a college kid and do it's job. You are an imbarrassment to the history of the army.
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On the other hand, when you watch the French Foreign Legion on parade and you see the leaders of their units, the grenidiers, marching with full beards, wearing leather butcher aprons and carrying axes at right shoulder, you just know know you are looking at the baddest of the bad.
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PO2 Vince Walsh
AND, you can be the worst kind of psychopathic felon, the french foreign legion gives extra points for that. Then again, maybe you could describe the great french victories in the years since Waterloo? Baddest of the bad? Rommel or Guderian might dispute that. Ho chi Minh might call BS also. PS, they're carrying acres in the parade because they left their actual weapons on the ground when they ran off to wait for the United States of America to recover their country so they could have the parade you speak of. But hey, they got cool beards.
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So I had heard at one point that they were testing the beards In the military.
There is a unit somewhere doing tests with the PT test with beards. Of course the beard does need to be neatly trimmed. But all these tests and the moral component of it as well. If the army allows beards you may have a happier fighting force.
There is a unit somewhere doing tests with the PT test with beards. Of course the beard does need to be neatly trimmed. But all these tests and the moral component of it as well. If the army allows beards you may have a happier fighting force.
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Allowing soldiers to grow hair is often mission or region specific.
I went TDY once to an Army base (can't say where) where all the soldiers there had long hair and facial hair. Of course, having never been exposed to that look on an active duty soldier, I thought "WOW, this is a really laid back base". I soon learned every single one of them were Army DEA and they had to be able to blend in with the locals.
I went TDY once to an Army base (can't say where) where all the soldiers there had long hair and facial hair. Of course, having never been exposed to that look on an active duty soldier, I thought "WOW, this is a really laid back base". I soon learned every single one of them were Army DEA and they had to be able to blend in with the locals.
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