{"id":412,"date":"2025-09-15T22:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T22:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/?p=412"},"modified":"2025-09-16T13:06:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T13:06:57","slug":"pentagon-unveils-new-clean-shaven-grooming-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/pentagon-unveils-new-clean-shaven-grooming-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon unveils new &#039;clean shaven&#039; grooming standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon on Monday unveiled new grooming standards, which now require service members \u201cto be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.war.gov\/News\/Releases\/Release\/Article\/4304293\/statement-by-chief-pentagon-spokesman-sean-parnell-on-grooming-standards-for-fa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in a statement Monday<\/a> that following \u201ca rapid force-wide review of military standards\u201d Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u201crecently directed the Services to implement the following grooming standards for facial hair.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The grooming standard set by the U.S. military is to be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance,&#8221; Hegseth said in a quote in Parnell\u2019s statement.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, President Trump signed an order to <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/5489181-trump-rebrands-department-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">change the name<\/a> of the Department of Defense into the &#8220;Department of War,&#8221; framing the change-up as a sign of American strength. He also suggested that prior lengthy wars under the old moniker were caused by political correctness.<\/p>\n<p>The president signed an executive order that allowed the department\u2019s name change and for Hegseth\u2019s title to change to secretary of War. A permanent name change will require an <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/defense\/5488531-congress-rebranding-defense-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">act of Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCommanders must apply consistent criteria and appropriately consider the Department&#8217;s interests in safety and uniformity when authorizing individual exceptions,\u201d Parnell said in his Monday statement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMilitary medical officers will provide a written recommendation concerning a shaving waiver to the commander who is the final approval authority. Service members with an approved shaving waiver will participate in a medical treatment plan,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Pentagon on Monday unveiled new grooming standards, which now require service members \u201cto be clean shaven and neat in presentation for a proper military appearance.\u201d Chief Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement Monday that following \u201ca rapid force-wide review of military standards\u201d Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth \u201crecently directed the Services to implement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globaltalentholding.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}