Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year

Pete Hegseth goes to war against military beards, stresses 'grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos'

The Defense Secretary has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service.

Hegseth orders about face on Pentagon's slipping grooming standards

War Secretary Pete Hegseth announces new Pentagon grooming standards requiring troops to be clean-shaven, limiting medical exemptions to one year maximum.

Pentagon Enforces Clean Shaven Grooming Standards

The Pentagon on Sept. 15 unveiled grooming standards for facial hair, which orders military personnel to be clean shaven, with those granted medical exemption needing to be put on a treatment plan. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell said in a statement that Secretary of War Pete Hegseth “recently directed the Services to implement the following grooming standards for facial hair” following the rapid force-wide review of military standards. Th…

Military's New Facial Hair Rule May Mostly Affect Black Men

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service, the AP reports. While commanders are still able to issue service members exemptions from shaving—a policy that has existed for...

Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should now be kicked out of the service.

Hegseth orders change to policy on troops’ facial hair

While commanders are still able to issue service members exemptions from shaving they will now have to come with a medical treatment plan, Hegseth said.