{"id":108832,"date":"2020-12-30T09:58:09","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=108832"},"modified":"2020-12-30T09:58:09","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T14:58:09","slug":"armys-making-some-changes-to-the-grooming-standard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=108832","title":{"rendered":"Army’s making some changes to the grooming standard"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From Task & Purpose via Military.com<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Senior Army leaders are discussing making long-awaited changes to hair and grooming regulations and they plan to announce the finalized changes in January 2021, Task & Purpose has learned.<\/p>\n

The changes being discussed among Army leadership include allowing some women to wear ponytails in uniform and removing wording from the existing regulations found to be offensive or racist in an effort to “reflect the Army values and the Army’s commitment to diversity and inclusion,” according to slides obtained by Task & Purpose.<\/p>\n

A series of recommendations were first presented earlier this month to a “review panel” made up of representatives from around the Army, including from Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC), Army Forces Command (FORSCOM), Army Special Operations Command (USASOC), and the Army National Guard.<\/p>\n

An Army official familiar with the panel said the majority of representatives were women.<\/p>\n

The panel voted on the recommendations outlined in the slides; those recommendations have since been passed to Sgt. Maj. of the Army Michael Grinston who is expected to sign off on them, and then deliver them to Secretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy and Chief of Staff Gen. James McConville, for final approval. It’s unclear which of the changes will be finalized and implemented in the new year.<\/p>\n

Grinston teased that changes were coming on Twitter last week, saying hair is “absolutely” something the team leading the Army’s Project Inclusion initiative were working on.<\/p>\n

The recommendations were identified after a July directive from then-Secretary of Defense Mark Esper which ordered a review of hairstyle and grooming policies for racial bias.<\/p>\n

Hair regulations are meant to reinforce uniformity in the military, but many women \u2014 specifically Black women \u2014 have said that the stringent regulations don’t take into account different textures and lengths of hair.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Raciss hair regulations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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