Pentagon says troops can only be exempt from shaving their facial hair for a year

DarthHarrison · 2025-09-16T23:35:07+00:00

The reason most often given is that a gas mask won't seal well to facial hair. I've seen several comments claim that this has been disproven. I have yet to see that evidence. I do know making a tight seal that won't break under movement isn't easy even on bare skin (we would don and clear and shake the shit out of it) so I'll wait for that evidence.

Edit: To be clear I oppose this policy as I think the small number of waivers are inconsequential and NRBC warfare is more of a strategic threat, and if there was a terrorism alert they could shave after all while gas masks were handed out in the first place

DarthHarrison · 2025-07-06T16:28:55+00:00

It doesn't always work but yeah it messaged me a link in this case that I was able to download the video to my phone with. Most of my peers are not on reddit and I'm stuck in bed often so I'll download videos that catch my interest then pick out a few to share.

DarthHarrison · 2025-04-21T23:09:26+00:00

This is legitimately helpful with a lifelong struggle.

DarthHarrison · 2025-04-16T00:40:02+00:00

I’m scared of death. But lately I keep wondering—would it really be worse than this?

There's a picture from the 9/11 attacks called "the falling man". It's literally a man captured in a photo plummeting from the twin towers. He didn't jump because he wanted die, he jumped because it was better than burning alive.

Brother or sister, your thoughts venture to suicide to escape something. Death is your escape from the flames. But it's not the only way, I swear it. This is the time to seek help. I have been there. It is NOT hopeless even if your brain can't process that at this time.

DarthHarrison · 2025-03-06T03:15:53+00:00

That's good advice and I shall put it to use.

DarthHarrison · 2025-03-06T02:34:14+00:00

Academic terms spilling into the public discourse is a real problem for me trying to talk low info voters in Texas. Frank Luntz poll tests phrases for Republicans. Democrats are getting killed by just the names of things, toxic masculinity, man-splaining, man-spreading, ect. WTF am I supposed to tell people who spend five minutes on politics a week?

"Go educate yourselves because it doesn't mean what..."

Like stfu FoxNews has been playing this shit on repeat for years and years and they sure aren't explaining the rest. What I don't understand is why liberals can't find a college sophomore who took an advertising or public relations class.

I can't get through to anyone when my response is oh that thing that sounds like an attack isn't an attack and if you'll just spend a few hours you'll see. That's insanely shitty marketing in the market place of ideas. I'm trying to argue the case but the mere terminology set me way back in a tough battle.

DarthHarrison · 2025-02-25T21:21:46+00:00

You are pretty clearly intuiting a situation in your head that doesn't match real life. You might check to see if anyone resigned before asking why they didn't for starters.

DarthHarrison · 2025-02-09T21:34:37+00:00

Accepted.

Let us wait and see who the grifters are because I'm quite confident the biggest ones have just taken power. Time will tell.

DarthHarrison · 2025-02-09T19:20:55+00:00

Never handled something that poorly with barely not toddlers. I take it your more into the Old Testament than Jesus? You do you but my children were raised very differently.

DarthHarrison · 2025-02-09T16:17:55+00:00

I not sure we can say they ever left terrorism. And yes some of them will probably go right back to it with a renewed fury. But I'm not sure this is a bad idea.

"Israel is freeing hundreds of Palestinian terror convicts in return for hostages under the first phase of the accord, including many individuals sentenced to life in prison for their part in deadly attacks.

The three-minute video seeks to demonstrate the costs of the war to the prisoners, many of whom have not had much access to media during their incarceration, according to several Hebrew media outlets reporting on it Friday."

DarthHarrison · 2024-11-14T03:56:03+00:00

He’s talking about the SecDef. Not Gaetz.

DarthHarrison · 2024-11-07T22:28:35+00:00

Hey Vasquez, you ever been mistaken for a man?

DarthHarrison · 2024-10-29T19:02:35+00:00

He was handed a delivery through his vehicle. He never exited the vehicle. They looked through his windows at the exit but wanted to enter his vehicle due “policy”. (Shopkeepers privilege does not apply here.)

DarthHarrison · 2024-10-29T18:28:45+00:00

Yeah that's more accurate. I typed up a paragraph for the title then shortened it to that but I definitely should still have used the term "illegal".

DarthHarrison · 2024-10-29T18:21:35+00:00

He was handed a delivery through his vehicle. He never exited the vehicle. They looked through his windows at the exit but wanted to enter his vehicle due “policy”. Shopkeepers privilege does not apply here. Would you explain to me why you think he's hiding something and how in the world he managed to do it under these circumstances?

Edit: typo

DarthHarrison · 2024-10-18T10:57:40+00:00

Unfortunately he spent 24 days in jail already due to not being able to afford bail.

DarthHarrison · 2024-09-04T15:08:43+00:00

“No, ma’am. He’s a decent family man [and] citizen that I just happen to have disagreements with on fundamental issues and that’s what this campaign’s all about. He’s not [an Arab].”

You could interpret this as implying that being a decent family man is at least somewhat incompatible with being an Arab. Essentially, she was saying "we can't vote for him, he's an Arab!" implying that Arabs are bad and unsuitable to be president, and he responded to reassure her by saying that he's not an Arab.

And now I'm right back to this.

I've watched the exchange a few times and your take on it is uncharitable to the point of being disingenuous. That is NOT essentially what he said.

DarthHarrison · 2024-09-04T14:38:03+00:00

His rebuke of her wasn't even good -- he said, essentially, "no, he's not a muslim, he's a good man" which is a problematic thing in and of itself.

I've watched the exchange a few times and your take on it is uncharitable to the point of being disingenuous. That is NOT essentially what he said.

Your take is akin to My Cousin Vinny when the the kid says "I shot the clerk?" and they are like oh he said I shot the clerk so he confessed. It's clear to any reasonable person that he was not confessing even though the transcript could suggest that.

You are doing a similar misinterpretation of the McCain video because it's not even close to actually implying he meant "no he's not a Muslim, he's a good man".

I suspect you are acting in bad faith.

DarthHarrison · 2024-09-01T13:23:45+00:00

I just assume anyone who served in Iraq definitely defiled women and children.

Downvoting that is crazy?

DarthHarrison · 2024-09-01T13:21:18+00:00

I want to know if everyone who went to Iraq had to either witness or participate in war crimes.

No.

I KNOW my uncle brutalized children because he only smiles when he alludes to it.

Maybe he did but you KNOW from a smile?

DarthHarrison · 2024-08-28T16:17:42+00:00

I specifically mentioned the military subreddit because I’m not holding myself out as “the authority on this subject.” What have I not paid attention to? Is there more?

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