For men, getting their head shaved on the first day of Navy boot camp has been a rite of passage for decades.Just plain wow.
Women are also required to get first-day haircuts to ensure their hair is trimmed to regulation length, equal to the uniform collar.
But the days of these old traditions could be numbered.
Women taking part in a three-month pilot program at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes, Illinois, and Officer Training Command Newport, Rhode Island, will not be required to get their hair shorn. A similar move is being considered for men that, if adopted, would eliminate the decades-long ritual.
Shaving off hair is about more than bad fashion sense. It deals with hygiene, removing a major "individual" item (haircuts remove a part of a persons past and they are then "reborn" when they graduate bootcamp) and to promote safety when operating weapons/moving over obstacles/during exercise...etc.
Are Navy officials serious? Must everything die to accommodate
the new breed of Sailor no matter how idiotic the move is?
Call me a caveman but I don't think this is a smart move. Its just another example of the pussification of the US Navy.
