[Jabberwalker]

Delwin Delwin:

From Jamaican Military handbook:

And the answer appeared in the very definition of dreadlocks as seen in one military academy's handbook where dreadlocks were described as "unkempt, twisted, matted individual parts of hair". It is clear that both locally and abroad there appears still to be a preconceived notion that locks are unclean and unwashed and exist only because of lack of proper grooming and maintenance and attention to hair hygiene.
http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/col ... s-_9721254

Ahhh, but it does show that it doesn't stem from some sort of anti-black bias if the Jamaican military doesn't allow them. The "race card" is sometimes a little too easy to play. Would it show anti-white bias to have the army get this guy to ... put his hair up?

[Goober911]

If I recall correctly in the Canadian Military signing such a petition was classed as Mutiny.
I wonder what the US has?
Next- the hair styles are ethnic, cultural??
Now if it was headdress, such as a Turban, Sikh than it should be allowed.

From the link-
"These new changes are racially biased and the lack of regard for ethnic hair is apparent," Sgt. Jasmine Jacobs of the Georgia National Guard wrote in a White House petition she started in late March asking the Obama administration to reconsider the policy.

[Guy_Fawkes]

Goober911 Goober911:

If I recall correctly in the Canadian Military signing such a petition was classed as Mutiny.
I wonder what the US has?
Next- the hair styles are ethnic, cultural??
Now if it was headdress, such as a Turban, Sikh than it should be allowed.

From the link-
"These new changes are racially biased and the lack of regard for ethnic hair is apparent," Sgt. Jasmine Jacobs of the Georgia National Guard wrote in a White House petition she started in late March asking the Obama administration to reconsider the policy.

Not really classed as Mutiny; QR&O 19.44 covers -

means an activity by which an individual approaches another individual to gain support for the election of a candidate for federal, provincial or municipal office or to gain support for, or to encourage some action in support of, the maintenance or change of a policy that is the responsibility of government at the federal, provincial or municipal level;

I think mutiny would just be under disobeying a lawful command.

[stratos]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Delwin Delwin:

From Jamaican Military handbook:

And the answer appeared in the very definition of dreadlocks as seen in one military academy's handbook where dreadlocks were described as "unkempt, twisted, matted individual parts of hair". It is clear that both locally and abroad there appears still to be a preconceived notion that locks are unclean and unwashed and exist only because of lack of proper grooming and maintenance and attention to hair hygiene.
http://m.jamaicaobserver.com/mobile/col ... s-_9721254

Ahhh, but it does show that it doesn't stem from some sort of anti-black bias if the Jamaican military doesn't allow them. The "race card" is sometimes a little too easy to play. Would it show anti-white bias to have the army get this guy to ... put his hair up?

He would get it all cut off. Buzz cut or a high and tight.

[Jonny_C]

I'd prefer if our armies didn't look like some third-world militia.

[Jabberwalker]

Jonny_C Jonny_C:

I'd prefer if our armies didn't look like some third-world militia.

I'd prefer if out neighbours militias didn't look quite so much like armies.

[ShepherdsDog]

Their country, their rules.

[andyt]

Let's bring that up next time somebody wants to wail about some Muslim country.

[Jabberwalker]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

Their country, their rules.

We could always put up a three thousand mile long wall, I suppose.