When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off? Enjoy asphyxiating because you couldn't get your gas mask on, dumb frick
When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off?
When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off? Enjoy asphyxiating because you couldn't get your gas mask on, dumb frick
I'm tired of you gays telling me to cut everything off of my body. Frick off.
>YOU WILL REMOVE THE HAIR
>YOU WILL RMEOVE THE PENIS
>TOXIC MASCULINITY WILL END TODAY!
>you will remove your penis
Nobody has ever said this to me
They took one look at you and assumed you'd already done it.
>making up your own demons
>except for foreskin, yeah go ahead and remove that goyim
>I’m tired of dealing with authority figures in a modern professional army
Chinlet picked the wrong career.
Kek. We all know this is the real reason.
There’s no way you weigh less than 250 pounds
>There’s no way you weigh less than 250 pounds
There's no way you don't look like a twink who can't even grow a single body hair between his little dicc and the eyebrows
>thinking gas masks do anything for the individual.
Gas masks an MOP suits are designed to keep the majority of a force alive long enough to complete an objective.
Beyond that survivability of the soldiers isn't important.
Hence why actual valuable people who work around chemical agents where pressurized, PAPR/hazmat suits.
Exactly. If you don't look like this guy, it's basically a matter of time before you have some issues.
>When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off?
GWOT indiscipline
Shaving is standard military behaviour since ww1
>Operator types did a lot of work with Islamic militants. Muslims think guys without beards are gays.
I see so because some scruffy frick wants to larp as taliban the entire US militaries appearance has to go south and tell me do you think islamic militants respect US SF for immediately folding and adopting their standards for personal appearance or do they just think US SF are weak for doing that because I know what I would think, weak, desperate to fit in without actually belonging. Take OPs pic, arms bared in afghan sun, he's ntop dressed anything like a ;local fighter, just that dumb frick beard and dumb frick shares and baseball cap. If this is US SF then US SF don't matter. This is quite possibly true and unimportant as long that the US Navy and Arirforces and military alliances exist
>ENFORCE THA GROOMIN’ STANDARD
Actually yes.
I have had massive beard because of actually being places I was unable to shave, just about the only reason to have one. It is horrible, unhygienic. disgusting and slovenly
c**t "served" cleaning shitters on some aircraft barge or is 12
>muh clean appearance
>b-b-but I had a massive beard, grew it in like a week
I've never served anyone in my life. I'm not American and I'm not a waiter. I kill people
Nobody cares what you think, homosexual.
>Shaving is standard military behaviour since ww1
because of gas masks, you silly little boy.
Lol /k/ unironically has the same opinion as the dumbfrick career senior NCO with his head so far up his ass he's twisted over some fashion statement uniformity homosexualry. This same NCO has probably dodged deployments like an American Ninja warrior mind you, but that doesn't stop muh grooming standard trolling. Frickin kek
Nobody cares about your favorite homosexual e-celeb boogieman to bring up, dipshit
you sound fat
don't you have a 0600 formation to attend, gunny?
Operator types did a lot of work with Islamic militants. Muslims think guys without beards are gays.
Correct, unfortunately then fat DYELs back home with funko pops and fridges full of IPAs co-opted them.
Then why not just issue some fake beards, like wigs, and only put them on when needed
are you a complete idiot?
It's something SF guys can do that grunts can't, growing one signals to everyone that you are SF. SF guys have always done shit like this and the brass has always let them.
Also in the case of ME.
>SF guys have always done shit like this and the brass has always let them.
Absolutely accurate, but b4 GWOT it was unsat moustaches and hair touching your ears sometimes. Usually moustaches.
There was also a very wide array of uniform that might be used, and they get to choose their own tactical shit pretty much, from a great big toybox of the sexy milspec shit or stuff from Cabela's.
But 'on Parade', it's all spit and polish. Usually SEALs had perfect dress uniforms because they'd only wear them to mingle with the paeans, like a trip to dental.
I personally never wore my Johnny Cash.
Yes. Even Delta guys need to to clean up once a year for the annual Department of Army photo day.
I love that pic
Thats how I imagine a true badass SOF type of killer, instead of all those bearded homosexuals or steroid larpers
Back in 2003. I was at AIT at Gordon. Walking around base on a Thursday after school. I see this special forces guy in his pickle suit class A with a pretty good beard.
I think the unusually long deployments might have really spured this on
This. Beards and mustaches are a sign of seniority in the brass; if you can get away with facial hair, that's usually the indication you're above the rank and file.
what said is correct but the details are worse. Beards on men started in Afghanistan because in that culture men had beards and boys did not. In their backwards logic boys were literally viewed as OK to frick because they weren't men and fricking men is gay and not OK. SOF would literally have to grow beards or the locals would flirt and/or attempt to sex them up and then get super butthurt when they were told to frick-off, so butthurt they would actually shoot each other over the perceived slights. "Man-Love Thursdays" was (and maybe still is?) a running joke from the GWOT times since Muslim holy weekend starts on Friday so they would get their "we're not gay at all we just love each other" in beforehand.
In walks in US hero-worship andconsumer culture. Mouth-breathers latched onto tier-1 operators that operate operationally have big beards so they have to have a big beard too so they can be big and strong like big boy operators but have no ideas what it's all about. Once someone with enough smarts realized you can make money off these morons they run with it. A lot of people coming back realize they can make money too banking off their veteran status and it spirals out of control.
So many people just don't understand how shit the valley dweller culture is in Afghanistan.
So does that mean the locals think the sof sof guys with beards were fricking all the regular military guys without beards? Nice
I believe it.
>boys were literally viewed as OK to frick because they weren't men
Actually, it's because in their culture you can't just walk around with a woman and have casual sex with them. They can't jack off, either. So for guys who can't get a wife or just don't want to be married, boys are the only option for relieving sexual urges on a regular basis.
Boys are not the only option. They are quite delighted to bugger livestock as well.
Why, oh why, did we waste 20 years trying to win over those backwards fricking savages?
dod made a lot of munies and afghan was a great way to keep our ranks full of combat vets. we go to war every 20 years anon. At least they were able to milk it dry
>"Man-Love Thursdays" was (and maybe still is?) a running joke from the GWOT times since Muslim holy weekend starts on Friday so they would get their "we're not gay at all we just love each other" in beforehand.
I can confirm I've heard the Man-Love Thursday joke from military guys, though it's been a couple years. They didn't mention the flirting with beardless US guys though.
Someone find the story of the guy who asked for manlube and got CLP instead
.
they also eat their own poop
>a bunch of little boy frickers think youre a homosexual
yeah ok
horse shit. locals in afghanistan trusted bearded soldiers less than the shaved ones because they figured out that the ones with beards, being sof, are a bunch of autistic psychopath buttholes that run around beating their elders and causing problems, while the clean shaven "normal" troops were actually held to a standard. no one with a brain would have continued to field a beard except just to show off, especially when as you say they do a lot of work with locals
>sof, are a bunch of autistic psychopath buttholes that run around beating their elders and causing problems, while the clean shaven "normal" troops were actually held to a standard
Qrd? I thought borderline conscripts fresh out of boot camp were usually the ones committing unsanctioned war crimes.
This is the opposite of true.
No anon. It's half the truth. look at what the frick the australian Sof guys were doing. They were really psychopaths
Completely false. Bearded sof solved problems while beardless "professionals" fricked them over for complicated indecipherable reasons
Cope, it's the opposite.
>Taking advice from and trying to assimilate to durka durka muzzie sand people
As if this shit trend couldn't get more depressing
Not exactly true. Muslims are sexually attracted to clean shaven men. The levels of creepy homosexualry of these c**ts is off the charts. If they catch a westerner/white dude alone and he's clean shaven they will try to rape him.
I knew a mortarman who claimed Pagan religion so he could grow a beard ,,,always talks about going SF,,, can barely pass the acft
This, it was to blend in. Mash-allah!
>dude we're totally blending in so well right now speaking english to each other, with white skin and carrying M16's
God guided them to strengthen the faith of the believers. Soon also you will see the truth.
Jawlets, simple as.
Same reason baldies love ball caps. Both are copes while trying to imitate special operations.
All of this is true and I'm tired of pretending it's a bad thing to look better. EAT ME
You are insecure about your physical appearance, a very womanly thing to care about
I'd post a picture but this isn't /soc/, homosexual. Go look at some dick rate threads
It literally grows on me bro
>fastest possible beard hair can grow is .75"/month
>"haven't shaved for a couple weeks"
>claims to have a "big beard"
>at most beard hair length could only be .375" long in two weeks of growth
big =/= long
no, moron, that's what it means
Are you talking about hair follicle thickness?
The frick man, you got owned, and proven to be a younger person who can't grow facial hair, just shut up and maybe you won't get made fun of too much.
I was 27 before it really came in fully
Well I'm bald. It's more than a cope, though that's half of it I suppose. Getting sunburned on your head sucks ass. But at least I have a masculine chin and I'm tall. Can't win em' all I guess. Good idea to start getting into the gym a few years ago, so that I look more like Hitman and less like a cancer patient.
absolutely based agent 47 cosplayer chad
if i were bald i would try to imitate hitman as well
I wear a ball cap because after 3 weeks of my last hair cut my hair starts sticking out to the sides and gets long on top. This is with a two on the sides and the back and the front in a short combover. 0 balding my hair is just really thick
I’m too cheap to get more than 1 haircut a month
Getting your head sunburned sucks dued
>Getting your head sunburned sucks dued
Not him but since I'm balding since 2000-ish and buzzing the rest since 05 I mostly wear hats of all kinds
>Regular and trucker ones alldayerryday
>Boonies and bucket hats for gardening/outdoor stuff
>A bowler when I'm wearing a suit
It's not only about sunburn (which really sucks) but I somehow feel naked without wearing a hat. I know its weird and probably just started because hats became part of my clothes in the first place but thats how it is.
>A bowler
My homie
walter white
i have a pronounced jaw
but i still like having a beard
although i miss the ability to shave completely sometimes, as if i shave it off in the israeli army, without a medical reason for it(or in time of war when there is a threat of chemical weapons being used), i lose my exemption from shaving
>Israel
Can't you just offer a infant sacrifice to your israeli blood mage commanders so they let you shave and regrow it whenever you want?
>Same reason baldies love ball caps
But rain is cold :'(
I wear caps cause I have a haircut like once a year. I ain't bald.
That picture doesn't show a jawlet, it shows a man who has become a solid tube of pure fat. Who even knows what his chin looks like underneath all that blubber.
ball caps are for morons anyways. Most of those wearing ball caps are tattooed, too, which is no coincidence, because they are even more moronic.
>gimmick
So is letting fatasses, homosexuals, trannies, and shitskin morons with a room temp IQs into the military.
ENFORCE THA GROOMIN’ STANDARD
BUT ONLY FOR MEN FEMALES CAN BE AS NAPPY AND DISGUSTING AS THEY WANT
This. I always report females for violating ucmj. When my COC asks why I say it's because they haven't been shaving their legs. I also report karens for Bob cuts. One inch of bulk with a shaved and tapered side, or a bun!
Chemical weapons are a meme so low T officers can justify banning facial hair out of spite
Mustaches are ok, that's it
>baseball cap turned backwards
>and sunglasses
fricking WHY. If you wore the cap properly you would only need ONE
What? No.
Have you never been outside?
What tactical advantage does turning the cap backwards provide? If you have sunglasses and don't need the cap's visor, why wear one at all?
Look at him mother fricker, the sun is hitting his back, the cap is protecting the back of his neck from the sun.
You're operating at room temperature IQ levels.
>the cap is protecting the back of his neck from the sun.
Uh, anon. He's wearing a fricking muscle shirt, I don't think he's very concerned about sunburn
Holy shit you really don't go outside.
sun off back of neck? anons right, youve never been outside
so the wind doesn't blow off your hat dumbass
You can see up more without moving your head, the cap is in the back so you have better view of hills and mountains in your peripheral vision
to lock down the absolute mane he's rocking
But the worst o' your foes is the sun over'ead:
You must wear your 'elmet for all that is said:
If 'e finds you uncovered 'e'll knock you down dead,
An' you'll die like a fool of a soldier.
Fool, fool, fool of a soldier . . .
>properly wearing a baseball cap keeps light and UV out of your eyes just as good as sunglasses
Have you ever gone outside before?
Dumb moron
Forward facing baseball cap impairs vision. Backwards facing cap does not, but keeps sun out off your head and back of neck, and absorbs sweat.
>t. Underage gayggot without a beard
Actually I have a big beard right now because I haven't shaved for a few weeks, but I recognize that having one while soldiering is a liability.
>big beared
>because haven't shaved in a couple weeks
KEK
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LARPing no beard homosexual.
Growing a beard makes it easier to cooperate or communicate with islamic tribes people. Guess two decades of nation building in the middle-east had its impact on the perception of a what a Real Operator® looks like.
>When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off?
Beardlet detected. Anyways, delta never had to follow the army regulations so they often had facial hair that set them apart from everyone else in the military. My guess is it became a sign of being elite and others picked it up as regulations for them were relaxed.
Probably took off with Afghanistan where in the early part of the war you had operators trying to blend in with the locals because it was more Green beret shit and less navy seal shit. Beard + Tan + wearing shabby clothing of mixed camo and civvie shit = at a distance you look like just another Afghan. Split second mistake could be to your benefit.
Also tale is as old as time of elite fricks lookin cool so everyone wants to imitate. Same reason every rank and file tries to look like a call of duty character now.
Liberals. Either neocons back in the day or bonafied proper liberals who for all their hemming and hawing about imperialism and colonialism fricking love to do it when they hold the reins. Wanted to turn Kabul street into Manhatten street and their motivation for let's say 15 or so years of the 20 years was
>We should keep the war going to let girls yass qween slay in schools and kabuli kids get to enjoy pop culture and not live like it's the 7th century.
Not saying we should be dumbly ruthless but putting idealism before the realpolitik goal is the cart ahead of the horse.
Based and bismarkpilled realpolitik poster.
stop..
I think that they're cool and getting rid of them was gay
geez, that man on the top left could have been my twin brother
It's always having them being the gay thing.
Submariners have an excuse not to shave.
It's also moronic how le tier 1 opr8tors tend to either not wear helmets, or wear helmets that are so stripped of their protective material they might as well not be
That's because current US Doctrine sees helmets more like a "load-bearing" sytem rather than protection, and since T1 1337 oper8tors gets to choose their gear for each raid/mission they ditch the fricking helmet if they think the chances of needing NVGs is close to zero (i.e. contacting some village in the middle of the day for some recon/intel)
/k/ - beards & mall-shooter fashion
Let me ask you this.
Do you think the average mall shooter has a beard, or no?
Only on their neck.
I'm 30 years old and can't grow a beard.
I'll never be operator 🙁
>You'll never be an operator
Don't let your memes be dreams anon, don't listen to jawlet propaganda
Give it a few years
Only lazy people grow out beards and people who are insecure about their chin, shave. Beards disgusting
>Enjoy asphyxiating because you couldn't get your gas mask on, dumb frick
Gonna need to see your optic's height over bore on your rifle, gasmask-anon.
October 2001.
A mask will seal with a big beard. It's a total military myth that it won't.
PO-LICE THAT MOOSTASH
i love when my face is smooth as a babies bottom so i can shlick it around wet and slimy areas if you know what i mean. but if i was surrounded by dudes facing my enemies then id probably be rockin a thick mustache to let em know who daddy is
>i love when my face is smooth as a babies bottom so i can shlick it around wet and slimy areas if you know what i mean
>He doesn't want oral sex to be a wet hairy mess
>He probably even likes shaved pussies
An ex-colleague of mine always sad: If sex was real good you gotta have shit on your fingers and hair between your teeth.
tl;dr: You're vanilla as frick
Disgusting freak.
ok israelite
>An ex-colleague of mine always sad: If sex was real good you gotta have shit on your fingers and hair between your teeth.
most vile thing I've read here today, please have a nice day immediately
based
porn is not real life
Your inability to understand other people aren't hair loving freaks like yourself astounds me.
that just means other/most people are very susceptible to marketing and peer pressure. your head hair is fine if properly cared for but body hair isn't?
Nah we're just not attracted to prepubescent girls like you are. Pretending a hairless snatch is normal and attractive on an adult woman is cope.
I think that we should castrate our soldiers. Nuts are superfluous.
There are advantages of blending in. Be in a Muslim country where by religious doctrine says all men SHALL not shave
Haji Bob looking through a scope or binos see a clean shaven male(s) and stand the frick out as the infidel enemy and must smite for the glory of Alaha praise be his name.
Just like SOG pointmen in Vietnam wearing black pajamas of the VC.
I think your forgetting the whole “shitskin vs not shitskin” way of telling if they’re an infidel.
sorry for your lack of testosterone homosexual
Operators did it because they could (and i hear some echoes of some moronic misguided notion that it made the locals "trust" them more, based on the same dumbfrick early 2000s bro logic that gave us abu ghraib)
The rest of the military, as usual, aped the high speedsters; they couldnt do it in the service but they hopped right on as soon as they got out
The rest of the country that dickrides the military did it because they saw the vets doing it. Failed males also think it assigns them some sort of personality or masculinity that they are aware they lack in life
As a bonus, baldgays LOVE it because they're insecure as frick about being bald and cope beards let them think no one notices their chrome dome
>misguided
Iraqis and Afghanis think you're weird if you don't have facial hair
It makes a lot of sense to grow out a beard when you are dealing face to face every day with people from a culture where beards are a big part of their religion and rites of passage.
>Enjoy asphyxiating because you couldn't get your gas mask on, dumb frick
Yeah anon I remember all the guys who have died in the last 20 years of chemical attacks in Iraq and Afghanistan.
>Why would SF grow beards to integrate into Islamic countries.
Beards are hella gay. Y'all look like a bunch of hipster leather daddies.
>the most manly thing is now gay because this Black person lets hipsters life rent free in his head
lmao
At the very least beards with a cap and sunglasses is cringe to me.
American Civil War, to disastrous effect among military personnel
Is there anything one can actually do to make one's beard grow faster?
Androgenic steroids and performance enhancing drugs that raise your IGF-1 blood serum concentrations will induce faster beard growth. Not recommended.
Smear rogaine on your face every day
It's unnecessary and inadvisable to smear it on your face. You'll grow facial hair putting it on your scalp.
>Is there anything one can actually do to make one's beard grow faster?
Man up
Who fricking cares? All that matters is the job. Do job, go home, beat meat, sleep, repeat.
Tactical moustaches > stupid SEAL beards
>mfw moustaches are making a comeback in my coutries military
Extremely tempted ngl
>Enjoy asphyxiating because you couldn't get your gas mask on
you're actually moronic
>When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off?
t. babyfaced low t twink who can't grow one.
>Enjoy asphyxiating because you couldn't get your gas mask on, dumb frick
Yeah... because the risk of NBC usage was sky high in Afghanistan, right?
>Doesn't know why combat beards became a thing
>Doesn't know when combat beards became a thing
>Lots of opinion, very few knowledge
Tell me how I know you're a sub-20yo
I'm not asking for a beard. I'm asking for grown men to not have a tantrum because of my in-regs mustache.
Infantrymen are autistic as shit
Is his terrible posture a gimmick as well?
I fricking hate beards. Few people can actually make them work and in general they look extremely homosexual. Any span of time they're in fashion is invariably shitty, case en point
>be tier one operator
>can't spent 10 seconds a day running a shaver
they have a point
>arent professional
that's gay tho
SAS were rocking long hair and beards as early as back in the 60s. When Beckwith went to do a year in the exchange program with them, he noted the practicality behind it. 15-20 years later when he finally got Delta green-lit as a project it was implemented from day one.
Black Hawk Down had a lot to do with the impression of that GWOT gave birth to SOF beards, whereas Unit guys had to shave and get haircuts for Somalia as in not to stand out from the other rangers on that particular mission. It's all about blending in
Guys with beards are all tryhard homosexuals
The Afghan beards showed up because in Afghanistan you’re only a man if you have a beard.
Female solders basically have no hair grooming standards anymore. Just put it in ponytail and pin it up off the collar in fatigues and dress uniform.
Men for some reason still need hair cut A, B, or C and clean shaven. Unless you're a snowflake religion or an operator. Its purely fashion choices at this point. Otherwise everyone would have the super short hair and shaved faces.
one of many reforms I'm naming once I come to power. Is relaxing male groom standards.
You can't have discipline and relaxed standards of any kind in conventional line units
Hair length, beards, and such will not turn good soldiers into bad ones.
My brother's sub had beard growing competitions every cruise.
>sub
>conventional line units
Subs are just frigates with less vitamin d.
There are many ways to learn disciplin...as there are many places where one can dig a hole
because if you were captured by the taliban it meant you were a little boy and they could rape you.
bro Im pretty sure Taliban were against it, if you read on how they started this was one of main things they were fighting against
Which is why they continue to rape little boys to this day.
>When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off?
Afghanistan. The locals think you look like a little boy if you're clean shaven so if you want to be respected at all you grow a beard. From there it became a meme.
The same thing happened with the Brits who went over to India in the 19th century and came back with big mustaches.
> if you want to be respected at all you grow a beard
Yeah, cause as we can tell the Americans were really respected over there.
Yeah americans never gave too much of a frick a out about them, also considering the fact that sandBlack folk have shitty beards that barely cover their cheeks, It all seems like a pointless exercise. If you ask me, they just didn't want to look like kids in front of the enemy. Because they were, lots of 18yo there.
Is this supposed to be a dunk? The 2021 pullout doesn't represent early days of the war. The ODAs inserted into the Northern Alliance in 2001 did a pretty good job with getting the locals on their side.
>The ODAs inserted into the Northern Alliance in 2001 did a pretty good job with getting the locals on their side.
The US presence in the Middle East is one of the most grotesque military failures on record. If the Chinese didnt eat each other while trying to do martial arts at machine guns, your big sandy failure would sit at #1. Nobody did a worse job at befriending or trying to kill people in a foreign land than you, American.
>Nobody did a worse job at befriending or trying to kill people in a foreign land than you, American.
lol
Nobody did a worse job at befriending or trying to kill people in a foreign land than you, American.
You must not read the news often.
>The same thing happened with the Brits who went over to India in the 19th century and came back with big mustaches.
Indeed
> It took off in Afghanistan
No homosexual, countries that had colonies in Arabic countries have had 'barbouzes' (translate roughly to 'beardos') for decades. It's a derogatory term for spies
No man, it was Iraq where we first encountered it. Gulf War 1. But I think it was the second gulf war and game of thrones which popularized it.
>Afghanistan.
But that mustache. Haram.
I have a huge dick, that's why I wear no underwear and pants
Frick the military and frick shaving every day
beards are for fricking gays
t.dirt stache
>Top enlisted officer
I sense a fake article
It's probably that vaxgay Colon-Hernandez or something
>muh gas mask
I hate gas maskgays so much. A mask is just an on the fly protection which you may fail to clear properly and die anyway
It really doesn't effect it as bad as everyone says. The Royal Navy has pilots with beards wearing O2 masks at altitude without issues. I've never seen a Jordanian trainee with a beard get gassed in MOP suit training. It's just an archaic leftover from the first World War that we solved during the second and refuse to acknowledge
>When and why did the gay trend of "operator beards" take off?
When Burgers started "operating" in the Middle East, where beard = manly, hetero and wise, and got you invited to the village chiefs' homes to smoke locally produced pot.
You people are not very bright.
because dealing with middle eastern locals you need one to be taken seriously, and the risk of bio/chem exposure in theater was very very low for a long long time
Proper gas mask compatible facial hair.
Smells like butthurt basedboy unable to grow proper facial hair in here.
Beard works ok with gas mask. Just slather on half a can of Vaseline to make a good seal. I've tested it, works fine.
Found the homosexual who carries around a jar of vaseline everywhere.
I concur. Even tho I'm fat bald ugly middle-aged man (clean shaven), bearded men are always trying to touch me up. When I object I'm just called a bawd and a pricktease. It's oppressive and scary.
The military works on the principle that if you're passing physical training, you can kinda get away with whatever the frick you want within reason. The regulations for mustaches is basically someone got the chance to make mustaches look like hitler staches so nobody would want to do them so they wouldn't have to complain about arbitrarily enforcing standards constantly. You can't have a bigger mustache than your commander they have to set the standard. If they find people they rely on they'll kinda let you get away with that since you're lower enlisted, you can't complain about a private having a better mustache than the sergeant if he's got a beard. 99% of your military career is straight up just being good at physical training scores. The retention problems they have they'll try to keep anyone that was especially good at some point. Most cool officers were just cool NCO's at some point.
The beard culture there is bullshit, I think the main driving force was remote FOB's where people didn't have to report to chain of command and would hurriedly try to get into regulations if someone high up enough showed up or they had to go back.
In most wars at some point people just stop carrying gas mask because it is useless or borderline useless.
It may have some use in areas where there is fires or chemicals and even then half mask would be enough as most soldiers already have some kind of eye pro.
Afghanistan was an excuse for special forces to blend in with the locals, but it didn't do anything to endear them to us, so frick it.
I'm okay with trimmed beards and mustaches, but just growing your beard out like a goat herder is undisciplined and cringe.
I don't demand a soldier shave every day...just every other day.
Imagine obsessing over another man’s appearance. Buncha gays in here
>Operators go long periods of time without shaving
>During the early years of Afghanistan they were beards to end in with the Afghanis
It's not hard to understand
>If I wear a big gay basedboy beard the locals won't notice my sunglasses, camouflage, and Armalite
Did they think the Afghans were fricking stupid?
Real life isn't Hitman and they aren't magical going to be invisible. The main is to make them look like regular Afghans from a glace and to keep the locals at ease by dressing up like them
it's like we're sending cleetus and dwade out to kill people
>dwade
when you are a special operations team in Afghanistan you need to blend into the population, And when the locals are a bunch of bearded goat frickers you got to look the part. Also the same group of guys don't have ready access to shaving material. the problem was when Larpers and pogs see this and want to look cool stateside so they copy it, when in actuality it makes them look like a bunch of bushy gays
One reason was because the Afghan elders would show more respect to a man with facial hair than to a boy without.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-394749/British-troops-Afghanistan-told-shave-fit-locals.html
It was to blend in with sandBlack folk moron
>beards aren't professional
How did we go from men's men like these to the forever babyfaced homosexuals in the military today?
Gasmasks in WW1 was the biggest catalyst in Europe, although since the invention of the first modern safety razor in 1903 it was more common and trendy amongst young men to be cleanly shaven or have a styled stache and smooth face.
>How did we go from men's men like these to the forever babyfaced homosexuals in the military today?
>Beards=Masculine
>Masculine=Bad
>Bad=Whatever the weakest minority fringe groups determine is "oppressing" them
>weakest minority fringe groups= homosexuals and low-test cuckolds
>inb4 "nuh uh" "meds" and walls of text "correcting the record"
I'm right, and the responses of those who will disagree are not only predictable but also serve only to prove my point.
It is peculiar that we went from beards being par for the course for military men back then to the 1950s tier stuff of being clean shaven indicating discipline or whatever, cause otherwise you're a dirty beatnik smoking the devil's lettuce
t. Sixta
>top enlisted officer
How hard is it to do the barest modicum of research?
Everyone is currently doing some super homosexual high-maintenance tailored bread thing where they grow it out then cut it along the jaw and have it jut forward off their chin and taper it as it runs up the cheeks or into the sideburns
I'm going to grow my hair and beard like Christ
> you couldn't get your gas mask on
And how often is gas used in modern conflicts?
How many cases were there during the special military operation?
Why does he have such chubby soft arms
Because he is not a dehydrated bodybuilder.
>enlisted officer
???
just call Troxell an NCO ffs
Honestly. Who the frick cares? You want to be clean; cut. You want to have a full beard; grow.
No one cares. You're all like women, with Harry potter houses.
Hufflepuff would be the best house, it would be a much more pleasant experience and their supposed lack of prestige is meaningless.
>gas masks
Nobody use chemical warfare now you moronic soiboy
Norks will almost 100% slime South Korea if shit pops off there. They're pretty much the only reason the US military still requires regular CBRN training.
Only disposable people wear gas masks. Important people wear suits.
They ate. Beards are gay and are literally larp.
It's not 1910 anymore, doofus. Your gas mask isn't gonna do shit against modern chemical weapons.
>Over 200 posts
>Not a single mention of how trimming facial hair was a manufactured normalcy invented by Gillette "advertising" over a century ago
Yes, even in the military, that's how hard they went on their propaganda and it worked.
They didn't like straight razors because you buy one for life and that's it. Then safety razors, you sometimes buy replacement blades. Then coincidentally they came out with shit disposables that they "improve" every few years that are still worthless.
>trimming facial hair was a manufactured normalcy invented by Gillette
Shaving comes and goes in men’s fashion and has for millennia, unless you think republic era Romans were shaving because of gillette ads.
Dumb question, are tactical beards mandatory in SF or can you remain clean-shaven if you want? I’ve tried growing beards before but the tingling on my face is just unbearable. I can’t even handle stubble it’s that bad.
When is the last time anyone needed their gas mask in conbat you stupid pog homosexual?