They're intended as a safety measure to increase visibility to vehicles while running along roads during periods of darkness, yet they have become part of the uniform, regardless of visibility and whether or not the individual soldier is any where near traffic. AR 670-1 doesn't say anything about the belts. It's similar to the reflective PT belt situation. Of course, I still shave every day before work, cause changing that policy is well beyond my pay grade. It's all very subjective and I happen to disagree with it. It's an irrational and arbitrary opinion of the established military that a clean shaven, short haired man is what a soldier should look like. The real answer isn't medical/surgery considerations or the seal of gas masks. Of course they shave the scalp, so why is it a bigger deal for the docs to have to shave the face before surgery? How often would it even be an issue? If the medical considerations are the reason for a ban on facial hair, why no ban on scalp hair? That was a rhetorical question, which would be more obvious without the snipped quote. It would have been much easier if I had been bald. In my case, they run all over Balboa Naval hospital looking for a razor, and by the time they find one the novacaine has worn off so it hurts like hell They have to shave it before they stitch. So what's the procedure for a scalp wound? mil, but actually wrote in a patient's chart (after a nearly impossible ICU reintubation complicated by a Santa Claus beard/stache): "STRONGLY recommend shaving patient prior to considering extubation. As an anesthesiolgist, I loathe facial hair for dealing with an airway. Navy Nurse Anesthetists and Anesthesiologists would in years past frequently order Sailors to shave their beards etc. ![]() It is much easier to mask ventilate someone who doesn't have facial hair. So I was told in Airborne School, way back in 1979. Medics and surgeons are usually in a hurry. The regs are designed to make it easier for a combat surgeon to treat facial wounds. Can some one explain how a flat-topped high & tight isn't faddish? It certainly isn't conservative or professional looking to anybody born in the last 40 years. We pretty much have grooming standards left over from the 1950's. I don't understand how a beard would make me less effective at killing mujaheddin. Army regs on facial hair are silly and antiquated.
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