Marines will once again be judged by how they look in an official photograph when they are up for key career opportunities, according to a policy released this week, partially reversing a 2020 rule aimed at removing unintended bias that photos can add to selection boards.

Unchanged is the rule that photographs will not appear in files used by promotion boards, service officials emphasized.

The partial policy reversal will take effect April 1, according to a MARADMIN notice released Thursday. Under the new rule, Marines will submit their official portrait when they apply for command screening boards for lieutenant colonels and colonels, and in selection boards for educational and career opportunities like the Commandant’s Career Level Education Board, Naval Post Graduate School, Expeditio

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