{"id":39411,"date":"2014-01-22T11:30:23","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39411"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:30:23","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:30:23","slug":"dod-to-accommodate-individual-expressions-of-sincerely-held-beliefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39411","title":{"rendered":"DoD to accommodate \u201cindividual expressions of sincerely held beliefs\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pinto Nag sends us a link to an NBC article<\/a> that says that the Pentagon wants to relax grooming and uniform standards in order to “accommodate individual expressions of sincerely held beliefs” meaning that they’re going to allow religious symbols like beards and turbans and stuff. I guess Sergeant Major of the Army Ray Chandler, the fellow who wants to get rid of people who have tattoos is on board with this one;<\/p>\n

NBC News obtained an early draft of the new Department of Defense instruction which states that the military will make every effort to accommodate \u201cindividual expressions of sincerely held beliefs\u201d (conscience, moral principles, or religious beliefs) of service members.<\/p>\n

It goes on to say that unless doing so could have an adverse impact on military readiness, unit cohesion, good order and discipline, health and safety, or any other military requirement, commanders can grant service members special permission to display their religious articles while in uniform.<\/p>\n

Requests for religious accommodation can be denied when the \u201cneeds of mission accomplishment outweigh the needs of the service member,\u201d the directive will explain.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, if you can get a tight seal on your protective mask with a beard, I’d go along with it. Again, it’s people who don’t understand that military has standards for a good reason who are writing all of these fuzzy feeling rules. <\/p>\n

It goes on to say that \u201cit is particularly important to consider the effect on unit cohesion.\u201d<\/p>\n

Each individual service member has to re-apply for new permission at each new assignment, transfer of duty stations, and for each deployment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, that won’t last long. I can just imagine Joes telling their new sergeant that their last unit let them do something that they can’t do at their current assignment. I can’t imagine a beard being hygienic at all. When I had mine for a few months a couple of years ago, food would jump up into my beard from the plate, I swear. It smelled like my last meal for hours afterward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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