US forces face close shave as Pete Hegseth steps up his war on beards

Source: New York Post

Things are getting hairy in the US military. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth was stunned to find during a recent visit to a US Navy ship that American forces had been flouting a new Pentagon grooming policy, CNN reported Friday. Hegseth issued a memo this past September restricting most service members from having beards — but several sailors who greeted the secretary weren’t bare-faced, as expected.