he’s so good at explaining it you can tell they ask him that a lot

The editor didn't let this man finish a single word

I had a beard waiver and people used to get so mad that I had one 🤣🤣🤣

Every other military in the world: "because i can"

I convinced my friend with this condition to stop shaving. He looks great and his skin is much less irritated

I mean look at this dude. He’s built, he’s disciplined, he’s a marine. To loose marines over an otherwise harmless condition would be wasteful. I’m glad he’s there

That’s like 98% of black marines

He's not lying either we had someone in basic training with the same condition as that and was allowed to keep his beard. Had to keep it trimmed and neat though not grown out

In other words, he has a shaving profile. You too can get one if you suffer a similar, if not the same, condition as the marine in the video.

I'm a white guy. After 7 years in the Army, I had a minor operation on my face and had a surgical scar with 12 stitches. Doc told me not to shave near it. Then he said, 'Wait, I'll give you a profile for it.' I made him rewrite it to say 'No Shaving Entire Face' because I assured him that my command would make me shave half my face, and I'd have to walk around a week looking like a doofus.

Bro just explained ingrown hairs mathematically

Eyyyy norway in the backkk

“I am not clean shaven because they gave me a no-shave chit when I joined”

Had a Cuban battle buddy who grew facial hair so fucking quick. He had at 5 O'clock shadow at 0900. Halfway through the day it would look like he hadn't shaved for 3 days. The SGT's got on his ass, but eventually the whole platoon started defending him and the SGT's began to listen and leave him alone.

One would think that daily shaving would be the best solution for that, since if the hair never has a chance to be stubble it shouldn't have an opportunity to go back into the skin. Apparently one would be mistaken about that assumption. It does make a certain amount of sense that if you can grow the hair to the point that it won't curl back into the skin that you're safe from that happening, so I'm glad they allow guys with that issue to just grow the beard out so they don't have a constant battle with skin problems.

It’s more than just bumps, the ingrown hairs can root VERY deep into the skin and can create more problem down the wrong To top things off he would look even more out of uniform with his face torn up from his condition so props to his commanding officer for allowing him to do this

Imagine a full battalion of American soldiers with full on beards. To the enemy, that is x10 scarier than looking at dude with a clean shave.

The loop was so good I was like "dude what aren't you getting?" "The guy has told you like 5 times already"

Had the same problem , took years to get a profile for it i feel way better.

Looks like Marlo Stanfield went on to join the army.

“Hey devil, where’s your fuckin shave?!” “Nah Gunny, I’m training for MARSOC!”

As a white male with a curly dark beard, I understand so much. It was embarrassing in high school

To clarify, it causes the hairs to do that after being cut short. By letting it grow out, the hairs don’t do that. The way he described it kinda sounds like it would be better to shave

Thank you so much for the info, much needed tbh

35 years later and this is still an issue.

I just imagine Sgt McCrea to walk up shaking a hand full of skittles, "buuuullllshtttt!" "You know what is back going down? Your pay and rank!"

My Italian husband has this condition. He was diagnosed when he was in the military back in the eighties. Thankfully, he was exempt from shaving as well. Stopped bothering him years ago, so it seems like it goes away after a while. Hopefully for this soldier as well.

I finally started growing some facial hair at 19. My husband hated it because it was scraggly and childish. I shaved cause marriage is love and he was a bit right. That’s how I found out that shaving or trimming too close to the skin causes severe cystic acne to break out everywhere. Wasn’t an allergy to the shaving cream, aftershave, or incorrect usage of the razor. My face is just like this. I no longer shave and he has signed a peace treated with my slightly less teenage boy beard.

In Norway (btw the Norwegian flag is in the background at the start of this vid) you can request the right to have a beard. As I’ve understood it you need to have a reason and you have to describe exactly how the beard you want is going to look (if it’d longer than that you have to cut it back down). A guy in the same troop of a friend of mine requested to grow out a beard so people could distinguish him and his identical twin brother which is a pretty good reason if you ask me.

I knew guys in the Air Force who were miserable when they tries to be clean shaven. I am glad the service has gotten sensible about that now!

This is an excellent recruiting tool. Dispels various myths while making the military more attractive to new recruits.

Yep. Our TI explained this condition when I was in BT.

This is a very common problem I have seen during my time in the military. It is very typical with soldiers and sailors who are African American, or just have very curly hair. You can get a shave chit like this fairly easily, they just stipulate that you still have to be well groomed, I think the limit is 1/4" from the face, but there are other shave chits for different reasons such as religious exemptions which have their own regulations.

“Why aren’t you clean shaven” “Because I’m allowed to have a beard.”

"Causing your face to turn red" Not for us buddy.

I was British military and had the same shit. That's only if you let it grow out, wet shave everyday and you don't have that problem. Man up!

Basically your hair went out, feel the freeze air and say: "f*ck this shit, I return to bed". Edit: woah guys. Thanks for the likes. 😉✌️

I think the US military should drop it's shaving rules when they're out of boot camp because literally the only excuse for shaving would be so that your gas mask has a better seal on your face but most people only go to the gas chamber once in their whole time serving

"follicules" 💀

Dermatologist should give a Shaving Pass. Gets Renewed every year.

Black men in particular are prone to this because their hair is tends to be very curly. It can be incredibly painful and can cause keloid scarring, infections, cysts and tracts under the skin. If you have this and DO shave, one of the best things to do is to exfoliate and make sure you're using a sharp, clean razor. Exfoliating is key. - Esthetician here....

I walked around with a laminated doctor's note in my pocket all the time....as soon as any sergeant went "Hey.." before he could finish his sentence I'd whip out the note explaining why I was the only one not shaven. Then they'd look at the rest of my uniform trying to find something wrong...never found anything, I knew that this exception meant I couldn't afford anything else being out of place.

Dude looks like Terrance Crawford

Bro just diagnosed like half of us

I use to whip the shaving profile out like it was an Amex Card cause it was always that one NCO or Officer that had to make something out of nothing.

“Folicules”

Norwegian flag in the BG absolute W

Bro pulled the “I got a bad sickness” move on the higher ups now he livin with a beard.

When my dad used to be in the military (in Germany, back when it was mandatory for young men), he just grew a full on beard instead of shaving everyday because that was apparently acceptable, too lol. Whenever they had to put on gas masks and such, he had to grease his beard full of vaseline and facecream to make sure that it was tightly sealed

Fun fact: this was a landmark lawsuit against dominos because delivery employees had to be clean shaven and they fired a guy for not shaving. He won, setting precedent

99% of people didn't notice the Norwegian flag

I had the same thing when I was in the Marines. You can't shave everyday, common in Black men

Im glad that they addressed this shit. I was denied opportunities to grow in career because of this. Im glad they are changing the laws because this caused multiple issues for black service members. Its sad that its a know medical condition and they are just now correcting the issue. It took over 40 years to change a dumb ass rule.

Yeah that a Shave Chit was a lifesaver.

Sounds like her just BARELY passed the ASVAB

I’m in the military too, and I don’t have to shave. I have seborrheic dermatitis, which is a form of eczema that is exacerbated with qualities of burning skin when I do shave. Also the condition this sergent is talking about is not correct. It’s pseudofolliculitus (barbae) He just pronounced it wrong. It affects the African American community more so than any other race, and it is widely accepted and easy to get no shave chits from your corpsman if you know you have this condition. Don’t be afraid to join if you have this condition. You will likely not have to shave and suffer the pain that comes with razor bumps if you just talk to one of us corpsmen.

We need to petition for our troops to have the right to grow beards. Would make our military look significantly more respectable.

Some men who come into the military between 17 and 19 years old never shaved before. They usually learn to shave wrong. This includes men who can shave but were taught wrong. This could also cause it, too.

I heard that sometimes that condition can even lead to infections because of how it effects the skin.

I had this condition real real bad on my neck.. I studied up on it and the remedy that helped Me was plucking each individual hair with tweezers ( that shit hurt) than putting on tea tree oil ( that shit really hurt! ) Than after that anytime I would shave my neck area you need to go With the grain, not! Against the grain. Haven't had any bumps since then

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE

Me too bro me too it runs in my family

To any black brothers out there we all have that. Simply means we have curly hair so when it grows back it curls back into our skin and causes irritation

We had a dude like this in my battalion. He grew an impressive stubble beard in a day and when he shaved it looked like his face had fire ant bites all over it. Poor guy didn’t get a shaving profile for months and when he finally did he caught so much shit until basically every NCO in the battalion learned who he was and that he had a profile for it.

I have that bit everywhere including down there

I was actually a military constrict for the russian army and we had a kid with similar issue as him and while everyone was punished for not being cleanly shaved, he was the only member who never had to shave or cut his hair. So yeah good thing they can allow this.

This condition can get so bad that it becomes painful to touch your face

Same dude. It’s really annoying tbh. Sometimes I wanna be “clean shaven” but every single time I get bumps that appear after a day or two of shaving so I’d rather be bearded.

In England now , when you are in the army, you can have a beard that is a maximum length of 2 inches

I have the same condition, I trim my beard every few days and my skin is very healthy when i don't shave

This is very common among african american service men. A lot of them have "no shave chits" which are permission forms to not shave because when they shave they basically maim their face EDIT: idk why tf yall are arguing about race under this comment. This is an issue that is PREDOMINANT in black men. It CAN ALSO OCCUR in whites. Enough fighting about shit that doesnt matter.

"Welcome to the Corps, son. Also here's a no shave chit. You're gonna need it"

I’ve heard stories of people with similar conditions in the military. They got their beard shaven off while they were sleeping by their fellow soldiers and it lead to serious irritation for them.

For anyone going through this you can get rid of it with laser hair removal. It removes the hair from the follicles so they won’t grow back. Only problem is it’s expensive. Then when the irritation stops you can get rid of the discoloration with a chemical peel

A lot of black people have this. I’ve seen a video where they explain they need to shave down as short as possible without completely shaving in order to prevent irritation of that sort.

I had a basic training buddy with this condition. he got a shaving waiver. We were all jealous. lol. He ended up as a tail gunner on a B-52, I believe.

It’s called ingrown hairs, everyone gets them from shaving wrong, you have to go against the grain to lift the hairs up and keep them pointed up, not with the grain which pushes them down

I’m so happy to be in the swedish military, no rules on beards or not, only that it is well kept

This looks more professional than irritated skin.

When I was a cadet, a fellow cadet had that condition where he had a 5 a clock shadow at 10 AM. Could never say crap, because he shaved every morning at 6

Norway? The flag was a Norwegian flag

The Norwegian flagg is the best flagg

I told my boss I couldn’t shave because my beard gets too many compliments. Edit: thanks for all the likes. Geez😅

Soldiers with beards look badass

Eyelashes: *attacks eyes* Bro’s beard:

Also he doesn’t need to answer if you’re diagnosed with PFB. It’s in the order. You don’t need to carry a chit too.

the crazy part about a shaving waiver is you can't edge it up. so you be looking homeless through the whole enlisting

Same. I used to think it was my fault, like I was not shaving right. Then after years of discomfort I decided just to trim and not shave.

I have the same thing, but I'm a woman 🙃it makes shaving my legs and 👀 other 👀 areas 👀 very painful and problematic.. shaving my armpits actually isn't that bad it still happens, but not as much.. I don't even have a lot of hair, but my hair is very dark, so it looks way ""worse"" than it actually is

Shaving bumps..a lot of the brothers had them when I was in

I remember I got a shaving profile during basic and my drill sargeant laughed and ripped it up and told me I had to be black to get a shaving profile

Had a black dude im my unite that got in a shit ton of trouble for not shaving only to be closer inspected his whole face where a beard was a rash so bad the sgts thought he didn't shave. They straight up told him to go get a profile. Never seen something get that crazy

The amount of fellow Norwegians who became happy seeing our flag in the background is extraordinary

Facial hair also absorbs significant facial impact even with the presence of just a little bit of it. Not the reason but still a fun fact.

My grandfather had this when he was the captain of a destroyer. Imagining him with a thick beard shouting orders with a thick Puerto Rican accent chasing soviet subs around the Mediterranean always makes me proud

For those that don’t know. The length of a beard is written in the profile because it’s case by case basis. Not in the regulations. At least in the Army.

And hes still a damn fine looking soldier, let them fellas have a beard damnit. A clean and proper beard is absolutely possible

Because he got a profile.

I got it too... he didn't mention how painful all the bumps feel, and the excessive bleeding they cause...

Crazy how the civil war had all those bad ass generals with beards and now they don’t allow it at all which is honestly stupid. Let the men grow beards