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The Pentagon unveiled a new overhaul of grooming standards to further ensure service members are ‘clean-shaven’ this week.

War Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops needing a medical exemption can retain facial hair for one year as long as they are following a plan to treat the condition. After that, they must remove facial hair or face separation.

“The Department must remain vigilant in maintaining the grooming standards which underpin the warrior ethos,” Hegseth wrote in an Aug. 20 memo made public on Monday.

Leadership will also be required to conduct a review of how grooming standards have changed over the last decade.

FEMALE MILITARY RECRUITS SURGE ACROSS ALL SERVICE BRANCHES

“The grooming standard set by the U.S. military is

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