Posted on Apr 27, 2018
A Soldier Just Got Permission To Rock A Beard Because He’s A Metal-As-F*ck Heathen
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This is ridiculous! Everyone can say that their ancestor was a son the Confederacy or the army of the Potomac and could be entitled to porkchop sideburns, big mustaches and look like General Grant! I could say that my forefathers were conquistadors who came with Pizarro and Cortes and I should be able to wear a mustache or beard as well! This political correctness is gone out of control. When I was in basic, if it was an African-American with a skin condition, I could understand them not being able to shave period that condition was understandable.
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PO1 Tony Holland This seems to be a popular subject here on RP over the last day or so. The beard was a cultural norm, not a religious tenet. If he was told he could not wear a symbol of his faith, fine, fight it. The beard thing is a BS argument. It is a small faith, practiced in small groups, or more often in solitary. There is no standardized liturgy, which makes it hard from a military standpoint to approve or disprove anything a soldier requests. By this logic, he should be asking to keep his weapon at all times as it is actually in the texts. "From his weapons in open country a man must move less than a pace; no man knows for sure, when he’s out on a trip, when he might have need of his spear."
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