Why do new recruits need to have their heads completely shaved for Basic Training?

Moreover, I think I have scars, indentions, and etc.In the skin of my head from injuries I sustained in high school. I've felt them, but have never seen them. How would my fellow training-mates and superiors respond to seeing that?

Are there any benefits from having a shaved head in the military? Could anything good come out of that? Asked by EgaoNoGenki-Owari 25 months ago Similar questions: recruits heads completely shaved Basic Training Lifestyle > Beauty.

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Their heads are not shaved, just cut very close (for males). It serves a number of purposes. It is one of your first sacrifices for a group benefit.

You give up your right to wear your hair the way you want it. You will give up many other rights during training and in a career in the Air Force. It also helps create a uniform look between trainees.It also speeds up morning prep with no shampooing, blow drying, combing, gelling, or teasing necessary.

There won't be time for any of that during basic training. Nobody will care about marks on your scalp. The whole point is to ingore what someone looks like and evaluate them based on their performance.

I hope this helps.

It's a matter of equalizing everyone. The purpose of basic training is to strip you of everything that makes you an individual and then build you up into a military "clone". It's a form of indoctrination and psychological molding to make certain you're the kind of person who will obey orders without thinking, and follow all the procedures of the military.As to what's on your head - I don't think anyone is going to spend all that much time looking at your head or making comments.

Officers get to have hair. Enlisted get to bare it all for the group. By the way, have you ever wondered about the similarity between the words "infant" and "infantry"?

Not a coincidence. Both mean "that which does not speak. " Expect to have no rights but to be told what to do.

That's the military way.

1 I believe the official explanation is for hygienic reasons. I believe it is part of the training process--helping to reduce you and your fellow recruits to a common, basic starting position before building you back up. I believe women may have an option not to have their heads shaved.

This leads me to believe that it couldn't have been for hygienic reasons...unless men are intrinsically less hygienic... :)But, as I am not currently or formerly in the military, I will defer to someone who is.

I believe the official explanation is for hygienic reasons. I believe it is part of the training process--helping to reduce you and your fellow recruits to a common, basic starting position before building you back up. I believe women may have an option not to have their heads shaved.

This leads me to believe that it couldn't have been for hygienic reasons...unless men are intrinsically less hygienic... :)But, as I am not currently or formerly in the military, I will defer to someone who is.

2 I did not have to get a shaved head 30 years ago in the army. Real short, but not shaved. It is for convenience and uniformity.

You do not get a lot of personal time for showering and hair care, so it is much easier.

I did not have to get a shaved head 30 years ago in the army. Real short, but not shaved. It is for convenience and uniformity.

You do not get a lot of personal time for showering and hair care, so it is much easier.

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