Beard Liberation Front
13th December
contact BLF Organiser Keith Flett 07803 167266
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal netwok of beard wearers, has backed Defence Secretary Grant Shapps who has called for the ban on beards in the Army to be lifted.
The ban which applies to nearly all ranks in the Army was introduced after the Crimean War in the 1850s.
Shapps is reported in the Times (12th December) as noting that Armies in other countries function effectively with beards and the British Army’s ban is proving a bar to recruitment.
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said, since both the Navy and RAF allow beards it seems entirely sensible to allow it in the Army too. Their should be no room for prejudice against facial hair in 2023
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