{"id":156993,"date":"2024-05-23T13:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=156993"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:16:57","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T17:16:57","slug":"beards-for-airmen-and-guardians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156993","title":{"rendered":"Beards for Airmen and Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alec-Baldwin-Rust-Still-Ukraine-soldier-that-sent-missiles-into-Poland.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-156995\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alec-Baldwin-Rust-Still-Ukraine-soldier-that-sent-missiles-into-Poland-300x279.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alec-Baldwin-Rust-Still-Ukraine-soldier-that-sent-missiles-into-Poland-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alec-Baldwin-Rust-Still-Ukraine-soldier-that-sent-missiles-into-Poland-358x333.png 358w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Alec-Baldwin-Rust-Still-Ukraine-soldier-that-sent-missiles-into-Poland.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Navy did a study to investigate the effects that facial hair has on gas mask use. The Navy hasn&#8217;t released the study&#8217;s details yet. An amendment has been added to the annual defense authorization bill that would call for a pilot program for some Air Force and Space Force personnel to grow beards. The pilot program would look into things like the impact of beards on discipline, unity, morale, etc.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>From The Military Times:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Language unanimously adopted for the authorization bill on Wednesday would require the Air Force to conduct the pilot to test similar job-related complications of facial hair, and also to gauge &#8220;the effect of beard growth on discipline, morale and unity within the ranks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The pilot program &#8212; proposed by Rep. Marc Veasey, D-Texas &#8212; would also look at &#8220;whether allowing members to grow beards improves inclusivity, including for members with conditions like pseudofolliculitis barbae or those who wish to grow beards for religious purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Air Force policy currently bans beards for all airmen except those who have five-year medical waivers for pseudofolliculitis barbae &#8212; chronic razor bumps &#8212; or religious waivers.<\/p>\n<p>Military.com reported last month that shaving waivers for medical conditions in the Air Force and Space Force have nearly doubled since 2021. Service officials would have six months after the passage of the authorization bill to launch the pilot program. Some have suggested the Air Force study those who already have shaving waivers rather than finding an entirely new pool of participants.<\/p>\n<p>Committee members also included a provision in the authorization bill draft to force a congressional briefing on the Navy study, so lawmakers can better understand the impact of such a policy change.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shane III, L. (2024, May 22). Airmen, guardians could skip shaving under congressional plan. <em>The Military Times<\/em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2024\/05\/22\/airmen-guardians-could-skip-shaving-under-congressional-plan\/\">Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Navy did a study to investigate the effects that facial hair has on gas mask &hellip; <a title=\"Beards for Airmen and Guardians\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=156993\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Beards for Airmen and Guardians<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187,476],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-force","category-space-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=156993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}