Ive been serving in the Air Force for nearly ten years now and in that time Ive come across many guys with
dare I say it
shaving waivers
You get one of these if daily shaving irritates your skin bad enough. I know some people are much more prone to shaving bumps and irritation then others but it seems like the last couple years Ive been seeing more and more guys in uniform sporting stubble. And not just the Air Force either, Ive worked extensively with the Army and Navy and seen it in their ranks as well.
This shaving waiver thing really irks me, especially now that Ive expanded my knowledge on the subject by joining this community. I lived for years shaving my face with the typical cartridge razors or electric razors and had just excepted the mild irritation and unpleasantness of it as the cost of doing business. Now that Im learning the art of straight razor shaving my whole outlook has changed. Even before my first razor arrived in the mail I spent two weeks using a cheap brush and some Col Conks soap w/ a cartridge razor and my shave quality and skin condition improved greatly. I think if these guys were to make a change in their shaving methods they would more than likely be in the same boat I am.
Any other service members noticed this trend in their respective units?
You get one of these if daily shaving irritates your skin bad enough. I know some people are much more prone to shaving bumps and irritation then others but it seems like the last couple years Ive been seeing more and more guys in uniform sporting stubble. And not just the Air Force either, Ive worked extensively with the Army and Navy and seen it in their ranks as well.
This shaving waiver thing really irks me, especially now that Ive expanded my knowledge on the subject by joining this community. I lived for years shaving my face with the typical cartridge razors or electric razors and had just excepted the mild irritation and unpleasantness of it as the cost of doing business. Now that Im learning the art of straight razor shaving my whole outlook has changed. Even before my first razor arrived in the mail I spent two weeks using a cheap brush and some Col Conks soap w/ a cartridge razor and my shave quality and skin condition improved greatly. I think if these guys were to make a change in their shaving methods they would more than likely be in the same boat I am.
Any other service members noticed this trend in their respective units?
, I agree with the OP and the responders who say this is B.S. I was on active duty from 1982 to 1992, so it's been a while, but the only guys who got waivers, pretty much, were African American men who had lots of trouble with ingrowns. Nobody had to be BBS and they were not inspecting your shave that close. To not use a cartridge in a simple WTG SAS routine is inexcusable in my opinion unless you have a serious skin problem. I shaved every day and it was often not fun in the tropics, that's for sure. So you lighten up on the shave quality a little bit, nobody got in trouble for 5 o'clock shadow as long as they looked clean shaven in the morning.
