Run away as fast as you can! The Army does this nonsense. I get it. "We can use the photo to screen out shitbags." That's the good part. The bad part, at least for the Army, is it turns into a nightmare in getting your office record brief (ORB) to match/sync with your photo. I took my latest photo back in February of this year. At the time it was accurate with regard to awards and regulations. We have to update our photos anytime we receive an award Army Commendation medal or higher, or once every three years. Last week I learned our LONG delayed awards for deployment are being awarded early November. My promotion packet is being submitted the second week of November. So I have to build a ribbon rack with my anticipated award, along with some other BS award I had no idea I was eligible for despite being in the Army for 10 years, plus service bars and a governor's award for hurricane relief. Then, I have to setup an appointment at least a month out because "It's the photo lab." If anything on my ORB does not match my uniform my packet is rejected. We had a female warrant have her packet rejected because someone on the board thought her wings were on crooked. They weren't. She just had 'bumps' in here uniform that made the wings not lay right.
Edit: Forgot to add that while reviewing my ORB, an Army Achievement medal I knew nothing about showed up in my record. Turns out it was from 2015. Nobody bothered to tell me about it. F' it. Time for a La Gloria Cubana Serie R.
TLDR; Use the photos to screen out shitbags. Don't use them as a uniform regulation trivia game/minefield to reject or delay promotion boards.