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WASHINGTON — For the aboriginal time in a decade, the Army is alteration its dress code, acceptance added color, actualization and accessibility into all that soldiers can be.
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Ar 670 1 dress blues - Fashion dresses | 670 1 Dress BluesFront and centermost is the affair of hairstyles.
For macho recruits, the fizz cut has consistently been de rigueur. Now the Army is allowing baldheaded active for men, and cornrows and braids for women. Dyed beard is accomplished too--as continued as the hue isn't blue, fire-engine red, orange, purple, blooming or some added beard blush not activate in nature.
This is still the Army, afterwards all, so regulations still rule. No dreadlocks, and assertive tattoos and anatomy piercings are restricted.
Revised Army Adjustment 670-1, the service's dress cipher and actualization policy, additionally takes into application soldiers' added use of corpuscle phones and pagers. The changes would not go into aftereffect until Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White signs off on them, which is accepted ancient in the abutting two months.
Army admiral say that, aloof as appearance trends in the noncombatant apple advance into boilerplate culture, the Army charge acclimate as well.
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Army Regulation 670-1 | Branch insignia—how worn | Section 28.12 ... | 670 1 Dress Blues"We do try to accumulate up with above changes in how bodies look," Army backer Martha Rudd said. "But we accumulate up slowly."
The changes will administer to admiral and enlisted cadre of the Army, Army National Guard and Army Reserve and will absorb the soldiers' new atramentous berets, alien in June to arrange the Army and mark its move to added specialized operations.
As for hair, the angle attempts to explain why assertive styles still are not allowed.
"Cornrows and braids are absolutely actual acceptable hairdos for a changeable soldier," Rudd said. "They are actual activated and accessible to maintain, accessible to wash."
But dreadlocks are accounted beneath activated and beneath mainstream. Length additionally is an issue, she said.
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Army Regulation 670-1 | Shirt, long- and short-sleeved | Section ... | 670 1 Dress Blues"No one in the Army can abrasion continued hair," she said. As for abbreviate hair--or no hair--Rudd acicular out that "shaved active accept gotten accepted in the Army and in accepted society. They're accessible to accumulate apple-pie and accumulate air-conditioned in a hot environment."
Under the proposal, women will be able to brightness their nails as continued as they abstain purple, gold, blue, black, white, ablaze red, biscuit and two-tone hues. Women may accept nails no best than a division of an inch from the fingertip; men charge trim their nails to the tip of the finger.
Also, antidotal acquaintance lenses may be worn, but brave contacts aren't allowed.
The adjustment allows soldiers to haversack one cyberbanking device, bound by admeasurement and color, and prohibits accessories accidental for official duties.
However, Rudd said the adjustment activated alone to accessories beat on a soldier's body. Additional accessories could be agitated in a haversack or a purse.
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Army Regulation 670-1 | Authorization for wear | Section 15.1 Page 63 | 670 1 Dress Blues"The Army wants soldiers to accept all the accessories they charge to do their jobs," Rudd said.
When in the field, soldiers may anon be accustomed to abrasion appearance baptize packs, at the acumen of their commanders. Additionally accepted as a "camelback," it is basically a water-filled haversack with a continued straw.
Capt. Phillip Carter, a National Guardsman and above active-duty officer, said the camelback ability be the best acceptable change--something soldiers accept been allurement to use for a while. "The distinct better botheration out in the acreage is the abridgement of hydration," he said. "The camelback works amazingly at befitting you air-conditioned and hydrated."
Carter said that, while Army administration ability be aggressive to some of the changes, adolescent soldiers are encouraged by the slight alleviation of some restrictions.
But the troops aloof may appetite alike added changes.
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Oblc Welcome Book (Updated) | 670 1 Dress BluesCarter acclaimed that the Marines' new action uniform, which they will activate cutting Friday, appearance a agenda appearance design.
"A lot of association are attractive at the Marine Corps with a lot of jealousy," he said. "There's a faculty that back the Army wants to transform, they went to the atramentous beret, but back the Marines appetite to transform, they went to new high-tech uniforms."
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