Military.com spoke with eight women serving in the Army across different units and bases, ... Braids and singular ponytails may be worn down the center of the back in all uniforms.

Thursday marked the final day of mandated buns for soldiers as the Army announced that it will now permit ponytails for women, regardless of uniform.. The change, formalized in ALARACT 040/21 ...

The U.S. Air Force is expanding its approved hairstyle options for female service members, allowing them to wear their hair in two braids or a single braid or ponytail that extends as far as the ...

Today marks the first day female soldiers are allowed to sport ponytails and braids. And, so far, so good. Our enemies have not invaded, and Western civilization isn’t crumbling (or maybe it is ...

Can’t help it, sorry, but over three decades of watching the Calgary Stampede Parade I’ve not just been entertained every ...

Fashion and war don’t seem an obvious pairing, but the military jacket is a fashion staple. It may take the form of a double-breasted dress uniform with brass buttons and epaulettes, trimmed in ...

Allowing ponytails and braids – not buns only – affords female troops more safety and signals a shift toward a more inclusive military.

He was, he believed, the first Native American in the U.S. military to win the right to wear his hair in a long braid as a symbol of his indigenous heritage and faith.

With more than a hundred military posts between them, they have enough uniforms to clothe an entire company. And when the Royal family turn out in force, there are enough medals and gold braid to ...

At the start of the Second World War in 1939, Canada’s active service military numbered about 23,000. In one month that grew to 57,000. Young men — and women — flocked to sign up.

The Marine Corps currently has no plans to change its hair policy, remaining the only U.S. military service branch to not allow women to wear ponytails or braids in uniform.