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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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SSG(P) (Join to see) Doesn’t the Army allow Special Forces personnel to grow a beard when deployed to certain areas. The real reason there are no beards is because about 15 percent of soldiers cannot grow a beard.
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MSG Dan Castaneda
Yes. But the reason is not to blend in. They can smell us a mile away. Its because we deal with locals everyday. We live with them. They see us a men solely because we have facial hair. It helps in our interaction. In their culture, if you are a man and do not have a beard, you are not a man.
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If I could properly grow a beard I'd definitely be all in with that notion lol.
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I have an extremely stupid question. Do chicks dig beards? Nothing else matters.
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For the same reason you can't walk on the grass, because they fucking said so.
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I find it difficult to understand why this is even an issue, perhaps the Army is too automated now days and there's not enough K-P to keep soldiers minds occupied. Hold yourself to a higher standard, demand more from yourself. I'm sorry if I've offended anyone but you were not drafted, you volunteered.
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CPT William Jones
Look around on this post at all the different beards. Which one would be the regulation one and how would you enforce it? Define neat and straight
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Beards are for pirates. We are not pirates. Professional military members are clean shaven. What else should we dispense with? Ironing uniforms? Daily bathing? Hair cuts at all? If you don't think it matters to have discipline and uniformity (which cannot be accomplished with beards) in the ranks, then there is no talking to you. Even the special forces take the beard thing too far. Do the taliban really think they cannot discern US SF from the regular Afghanis? Really? Most SF have no need for beards unless working undercover in a mostly bearded country. When operating in uniform, why they have beards escapes me. In civilian law enforcement, we always joke that identifying undercover cops was easy. Look for the guy with the beard.
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