Dress policy...
personally, I think many aspects of the current policy are archaic.
CAF Beard policy-CANFORGEN 158/18
But, my
personal opinion doesn't count for much as work, right? There's rules for many things, dress is one of them and the current regulations tell us if we're supposed to enforce them...or not. We're all expected to enforce the rules as they exist.
Operations are different than photo ops. I know many people who bought and wore their own boots flying over the IMPACT JOA and have zero issue with that; but that probably wouldn't go over so well on a parade, right? We used to call that "being smart about being stupid', same as when we wore our american rainjackets in the field in G-town in the early 90s...
after we were thru the range control gates. No one was dumb enough to wear them on base.
I've said it two dozen times or so...change the regs to the 'actual' desired standard...or enforce the ones that exist. Part of my job is to correct the ones I see...and if they don't matter, change the policy so I don't have to waste my time doing that.
Shit, or get off the pot, NDCDC...maybe start with deleting para's 8-10, Chap 1 of 265, thanks.
DAP, your ref to 19.13?
This might help you out some....I'm sure that stretch really hurt...
