Navy Deletes Phrases Like 'Faddish' and 'Complement the Skin Tone' from Grooming Regs
Retail Specialist 3rd Class Jakerion Brown maintains the ships grooming standards aboard the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Shiloh. (U.S. Navy/Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Isaac Maxwell)
5 Apr 2021
The Navy is out with the first of a series of uniform policy changes following a monthslong study the service did to identify and end unintentionally discriminatory regulations.
Sailors will no longer be subject to leaders' interpretation about what grooming standards are in "good taste," "eccentric" or "complement the skin tone." Those are three of the eight phrases that will be deleted from the service's grooming standards.