Army Revamps Appearance Regulations After Controversy

[W Brewer]

In the Army, you can no longer refer to dreadlocks as <unkempt> or
<matted>. They are now more sensitively referred to as <permanently
twisted, or locked coils or ropes of hair (or extensions) or hair
tangled closely together>. And, regardless of what you call them, you
still can't wear them in the Army anymore. Maybe.
Your bifurcated tongue may have been okay before April 24, but best
keep your mouth shut thereafter.
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2014/09/17/army-revamps-appearance-regulations-after-controversy.html?ESRC=army.nl
But dread naught, for Obama is now a Nobel Prize-winning War President
(sorta like Wilson [no, not WG or Tom Hank's volley ball]), and that
forehead swastika could well be back in military fashion any day now.
Keep yer fingers crossed, the ones with the gang name tatooed on them.

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