The Pentagon announced new grooming standards this week, including a mandate that members of the armed services be “clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance.”
In a statement on Monday, chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth “recently directed the Services to implement the following grooming standards for facial hair” following a “rapid force-wide review of military standards.”
“The grooming standard set by the U.S. military is to be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance,” Hegseth said in the statement.
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