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Title: Some see bias in Army's ban on dreadlocks, other black styles
Category: Military
Posted By: maldonsfecht
Date: 2014-04-09 03:56:09

[maldonsfecht]

switch to universal high and tights...?

[Regina]

I'm shocked that they allow any braiding at all.

[Jabberwalker]

Does the Jamaican army allow dreadlocks?

[Freakinoldguy]

Better yet. No more women in the Military, problem solved.

This is much ado about nothing since I'm pretty sure White, Latino and Oriental women can have unkempt hair to. This is just some woman who wants her cake or in this cornrows and eat it to.

[stratos]

My thought is you were not drafted thus you joined of your own free will. Maybe you should have looked into what was going to be acceptable before you joined.

[Delwin]

Just as long as they don't outlaw the mullet. Otherwise, how are we supposed to avert potential nuclear disaster?

[Gunnair]

CAF is pretty lax. Any woman can have cornrows irrespective of culture.

[Guy_Fawkes]

Gunnair Gunnair:

CAF is pretty lax. Any woman can have cornrows irrespective of culture.

Dont think I have ever see it though...

[BartSimpson]

Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:

Does the Jamaican army allow dreadlocks?

Does Jamaica have an army? If so then the best time to attack Jamaica isn't at dawn but at 16:20

[Tyler_1]

If I was the general or whatever they call the big cheese, I would say keep it out of your way and it will be okay.
Which means off your face so you can see, and don't leave it dangling in case it gets caught in something because ouch!
Peeps have got their ties stuck in printers, what if that was your hair!
What if your hair got stuck in that bullet holder thing and the big gun got jammed!
Try to keep it under your helmet.
This isn't football.
Happy Thursday.

[Guy_Fawkes]

Jamaica does have an army, they came up to train with 2 RCR in CQB. They weren't the greatest, but not horrible. I can't remember if any had dreadlock, if they did they were not very long.

[BartSimpson]

Guy_Fawkes Guy_Fawkes:

Jamaica does have an army, they came up to train with 2 RCR in CQB. They weren't the greatest, but not horrible. I can't remember if any had dreadlock, if they did they were not very long.

(The question was sarcasm. )

[Gunnair]

Guy_Fawkes Guy_Fawkes:

Gunnair Gunnair:

CAF is pretty lax. Any woman can have cornrows irrespective of culture.

Dont think I have ever see it though...

I have.

[Delwin]

Unless a whole lot has changed in Jamaica over the last 15 or 20 years, I would not think dreads are allowed in their army.

The societal view of dreads in Jamaica were very similar to that of the hippies in North America.

It was very much an anti-establishment movement, and growing up in Rexdale, and Scarborough, most of the Jamaican friends I had who were from working families were not allowed to wear dreads.

The sentiment is captured best in the Bob Marley song crazy baldheads:
I and I build a cabin
I and I plant the corn
Didn't my people before me
Slave for this country
Now you look me with a scorn
Then you eat up all my corn

We gonna chase those crazy baldheads
Chase them crazy
Chase those crazy baldheads out of town

Build your penitentiary, we build your schools
Brainwash education to make us the fools
Hate is your reward for our love
Telling us of your God above

Now dreads have become more of a fashion statement and less of a movement but I highly doubt they allow dreads in the Jamaican military.