One of these days the Master Chief Mafia may finally realize how damn stupid it is to ban neatly trimmed beards in non-CBRN environments outside of imminent combat. Somehow literally every other English-speaking Navy doesn’t have a problem with this, and I doubt anyone can knock the pound-for-pound effectiveness of the Brits, Canadians, or Aussies.They might look a little different than you and the hairstyles have definitely changed among many other things (Hair below the collar now?! The horror!), but they are still great people on the whole and I am proud to serve alongside them.