Shaving & CBRN.....

[Ranger Psych]

Yeah, you can use vaseline, pomade, or pull a pardus and smear bunkmate special sauce on your face like you're a burger with mayo... but here's the thing with that whole deal.

Are you as a troop with a beard, going to slather yourself with a trowel's worth of vaseline on your face, EVERY MORNING that you have an NBC defense posture above "don't worry about it"?

I call bullshit, and unfortunately if you fail to do that and encounter a NBC environment... congrats, you be dead and now your buddy to your left and right has to deal with watching you die, then more than likely you being a field burial since it's not like they're going to ship a slimed body home...

 

[Brill]

You may be a ball checker, but I'll use the scruff as my chosen delineating marker that PV2 shizboll didn't do personal hygiene.

Why not just look at his weapon instead of checking his junk?

 

[Ranger Psych]

Why not just look at his weapon instead of checking his junk?

So you want to look at his gun? Figures.

 

[Arrow 4]

We had to deal with this as narcs on a Meth Lab Task Force. Some guys had beards or other facial hair. The rule was, keep a pair of scissors or electric razor on hand in case you had a warrant and we had to send you in to process it.

I get the whole CBRN threat, but realistically when was the last time we faced a potential threat? One of the more likely methods of attack is chlorine or anhydrous ammonia and your gas mask aint going to do shit for you anyway.