The Pentagon recently put out new guidance for evaluating requests for religious accommodations to grooming standards—a lengthy new process that could make it more difficult for some Airmen and Guardians to keep their beards.
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New Religious Accommodation Rules for Beards By Matthew Cox Armen, Guardians, and other service members that wear beards for religious reasons will be deemed nondeployable as part of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s sweeping crackdown on shaving waivers—a move that would...