Thank you, I’ll keep that in mind.
Or just say it irritates, and if anyone in your wing says to get a chit, ask if the funding for the wing demanded medical check is going to be covered by the wing. Get them to pay for it. 
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In the Forces you can get a medical chit.
If it’s causing you distress, you are entitled to do what you need, it’s a Cadet volunteer organisation. Why put yourself through unnecessary discomfort? Even just keeping a clipped short beard.
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As said above. It’s a voluntary organisation. If they want to pay for the expenses to aqquire said chit, then they can.
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Thanks guys. It doesn’t necessarily cause me distress, as I said, it isn’t for cosmetic reasons that I sport a beard. Any improvement in looks is simply a bonus… 
By day I work in the primary care sector of the NHS and I have never been told that my beard makes me look scruffy. I ensure its kept neat and trimmed.
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A Warrant Officer of mine had a medical chit for the same reason as you. It caused some palpitations, but he initially waved the chit around and everyone got use to it!!
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Haha! We have our annual inspection on Monday so I intend to speak to the wing commander, as I am attending OASC early next year.
I’ll provide a sitrep then!
Army joining the beard wagon!
#RunByHipsters
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Que the Facebook comments of ‘It’s not the same Army I joined back in the day’ from some old boy who could never grow a beard anyway!
About time! Unlike the RAF, the Army had a history of beard wearing, and until relatively recently, so this shouldn’t have taken them so long.
RSM at pirbright has apparently gone nope 
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I sort of get that at a training environment, but this is where at a regimental level the seniors need to slap “well not in my regiment” attitudes down.
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Ironically, any regiment newly formed in the 20th century could legitimately argue that beards are not part of their heritage. I say ‘ironically’ as this would include the SAS Regiment. Any regiment tracing its lineage back to Victorian times or earlier has worn beards before, however.
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As he should. It’s a training establishment.
Abide by the rules for three months then hit unit and grow the beard.
Why does it being a training establishment mean anything in particular?
I’d just like to say for anyone reading my initial comments on this subject, I was wrong and I apologise. Without beards we are nothing and without us, our beards are nothing.
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You’re being introduced to the military lifestyle.
Basic training is nothing like the real job. There is a huge amount of 
factor there. Whilst the military bearing is being ingrained I see no reason why it shouldn’t be enforced. Phase two onwards, sure, whack a beard on.
This is coming from someone who is bearded. I’ve worn one since the rule was lifted in the RAF.
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Get that…but that should be in the regs then.
A RSM just chosing not accept a policy is a different thing though
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But just because training is fiddly doesn’t mean it has to be obnoxious. There’s no reason, given the wider army now allows beards, to ban them for the first few months.
It’s a recruiting tool to show the Army isn’t stuck in the 1970s, defeats the object if the first thing you’re met with is some sheep shearers