The Army released new uniform and appearance standards today that largely erase the total hash that Joe Biden's Army made of the situation.
In 2021, Biden's Army released a relaxed set of grooming standards. Some of the innovations included allowing hair highlights, exotic cuts in hair, nail polish for women, and a very amorphous hairstyle guide that field leaders found nearly impossible to interpret, much less enforce.
The biggest changes here are that women can no longer wear lipstick or nail polish. On the other hand, neither can men. The ponytail hairstyle can only be worn in combat or physical training uniforms. It can't be worn with the Army Green uniform. Hair highlights are out for everyone. Where women could wear their hair down to the "middle of the shoulder blade," now it can't go below six inches from the top of the collar. Generally speaking, it ends with the more extravagant hair, makeup, and nails that have become sort of a mark of Biden's Army. I didn't see any hard guidance on beards and the tattoo policy, as far as I can tell, remains the same. As my personal axe to grind, I can't understand why, if everyone can be assigned to all jobs, everyone doesn't have the same grooming standards.
Also changing is the way the "fat boy" program is administered. If you're in the program, it will be harder to evade discharge.
All in all, it is a good, tentative first step toward making the word "uniform" mean something.
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ReplyDeleteWhen I was in1975 to 1981 it was tougher than that.
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