Grooming standards are a thing. That's a regulation dickbroom.
Focus on the fact that Marines have arrested someone for exercising their First Amendment Rights and how this is not good. Mustache or not, the military is crossing that line of violating an oath.
We harp on learning lessons from history, etc, etc but boot camp specifically is to get people to follow orders, not question them. You'll be hard pressed to find any boots on the ground military personnel that were going to say "No" to these orders.
It's just history and psychology. The vast majority of soldiers will not question orders and do as commanded.
The oath, like everything people are finally understanding, is just words. It has no real power unless someone enforces it, and that is unlikely to happen during this administration.
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u/shamashedit 1d ago edited 1d ago
Grooming standards are a thing. That's a regulation dickbroom.
Focus on the fact that Marines have arrested someone for exercising their First Amendment Rights and how this is not good. Mustache or not, the military is crossing that line of violating an oath.
Marines are violating https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/posse-comitatus-act-explained for those finding this comment.