Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth won’t meet with any “beardos” serving in South Korea.
Service members stationed in the Pacific recently received notice that enlistees with shaving waivers will not be allowed to attend Hegseth’s upcoming Camp Humphreys rally, according to military site Task & Purpose.
The former Fox News host arrived in Hawaii on Monday for a trip that will later take him to Japan, Malaysia and Vietnam. Korean station KBS World Radio said Hegseth is scheduled to spend two days in South Korea beginning next Monday.
He recently summoned the nation’s top military officials to Virginia, where they heard their boss deliver a speech deriding soldiers with beards.
“No more beardos,” Hegseth said during his late September address. “The era of rampant and ridiculous shaving pr

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