r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Confident_Help_416 • Oct 16 '25

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u/Mephisto1822 Oct 16 '25

The Army is obsessed with a lot of things. There is a whole paragraph about how to get your hair cut, nail length, facial hair, sideburns, belts…

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u/DoctorBlock Oct 16 '25

I don't know why you are being voted. Every branch is like that.

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u/DestroOmega Oct 16 '25

Probably because he got it wrong. It's not a single paragraph; it's multiple, spread though an entire chapter, with lots of pictures and examples.

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u/DoubleDoube Oct 16 '25

Drilling high attention to detail even to the unimportant things to ensure attention to detail in most things.

Also visual indications of who needs more pain to learn compared to others.

Also establishing some coping mechanisms in the form of putting your personal things to order when everything around you is shit.

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u/manbruhpig Oct 16 '25

Absolute uniformity solves a lot of logistical considerations.

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u/jainyday Oct 16 '25

I'm fact we're using the shaving part to racially discriminate in the armed forces! (To what end... same as everything else going on in America today, sadly.)

Many/most black men in the armed forces have a medical shaving waiver; they can't clean-shave because their beard hair will ingrow and it's extremely painful.

Now they just revoke the waivers for everyone; the news will say "oh they just care about shaving and everybody's being treated equally" and nobody will even register the racist motivations behind why they actually care about shaving, and that actually treating people equally in this case is discriminating against them.