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'Green Side' Navy Docs Now Need To Get Haircuts Just Like The Marines They Serve With

Paul Szoldra
September 25, 2018 at 11:19 AM Code Red News

Well, it finally happened.

The U.S. Navy has taken away the beloved perk of keeping that long, flowing Navy hair away from its corpsmen and other sailors assigned to Marine Corps units.

The service issued an administrative message on Friday updating its uniform policies, one of which says that "sailors assigned to U.S. Marine Corps units who wear the Marine Corps uniform will abide by Marine Corps grooming standards."

The new rule, effective immediately, makes sailors adhere to the Corps' uniform regulations requiring specific hairstyles, lengths, and shaving guidelines they were previously exempt from. In the past, corpsmen, chaplains, and other Naval medical personnel assigned to the Marines followed their own regs, which allowed a bit more than the Marines "neat and closely trimmed" hair guidelines.

Still, this probably doesn't mean your platoon's doc is going to have to get a high-and-tight haircut, although that's perfectly acceptable. Male sailors serving with Marines will be able to take a seat at the local barbershop and request a "low-reg" haircut that will get them within the standard just fine.

The sergeant major will still be annoyed, however.

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7,500 boots are on display at Fort Bragg to honor US service members killed since 9/11

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More than 7,500 boots on display at Fort Bragg this month served as a temporary memorial to service members from all branches who have died since 9/11.

The boots — which had the service members' photos and dates of death — were on display for Fort Bragg's Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation's annual Run, Honor and Remember 5k on May 18 and for the 82nd Airborne Division's run that kicked off All American Week.

"It shows the families the service members are still remembered, honored and not forgotten," said Charlotte Watson, program manager of Fort Bragg's Survivor Outreach Services.

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The Navy's electromagnetic railgun may finally see testing on a warship

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After more than a decade of research and development and upwards of $500 million in funding, the Navy finally plans on testing its much-hyped electromagnetic railgun on a surface warship in a major milestone for the beleaguered weapons system, Navy documents reveal.

The Navy's latest Northwest Training and Testing draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Assessment (NWTT EIS/OEIS), first detailed by the Seattle Times on Friday, reveals that " the kinetic energy weapon (commonly referred to as the rail gun) will be tested aboard surface vessels, firing explosive and non-explosive projectiles at air- or sea-based targets."

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Congress fails to provide fix for Gold Star family 'widow's tax' just in time for Memorial Day

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Congress fell short ahead of Memorial Day weekend, failing to pass legislation that would provide tax relief for the families of military personnel killed during their service.

Senators unanimously approved a version of the bipartisan Gold Star Family Tax Relief Act Tuesday sending it back to the House of Representatives, where it was tied to a retirement savings bill as an amendment, and passed Thursday.

When it got back to the Senate, the larger piece of legislation failed to pass and make its way to the President Trump's desk.

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An NSA cyber weapon is reportedly being used against American cities by the very adversaries it was meant to target

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In less than three years after the National Security Agency found itself subject to an unprecedentedly catastrophic hacking episode, one of the agency's most powerful cyber weapons is reportedly being turned against American cities with alarming frequency by the very foreign hackers it was once intended to counter.

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Thunder's end: the final Rolling Thunder motorcycle ride will fall silent on Memorial Day

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Editor's Note: This article by Richard Sisk originally appeared on Military.com, a leading source of news for the military and veteran community.

The spectacle of hundreds of thousands of motorcycles roaring their way through the streets of Washington, D.C., to Memorial Day events as part of the annual Rolling Thunder veterans tribute will be a thing of the past after this coming weekend.

Former Army Sgt. Artie Muller, a 73-year-old Vietnam veteran and co-founder of Rolling Thunder, said the logistics and costs of staging the event for Memorial Day, which falls on May 27 this year, were getting too out of hand to continue. The ride had become a tradition in D.C. since the first in 1988.

"It's just a lot of money," said the plainspoken Muller, who laced an interview with a few epithets of regret over having to shut down Rolling Thunder.

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