Well, at least your new dress and appearance regulation does not mandate that women shave their legs, like the new AF one does.
I understand the need to ensure we look like a professional force, but one comment struck me: The army has a epidemic of suicides, reduction in force into an shitty economy, issues with PTSD being overturned to save money etc, and this is what leadership is focused on?
The Army is not alone in this. Last time I was at Al Udied, the morale on that base was so low they were starting to dig. And it all came from inane things leadership saw as issues. There were CMSgts stationed there whose only purpose in life was to ensure airmen were following uniform policies. Better make sure you have your disco belt on, better make sure your backpack had it's disco belt on. No flip flops back and forth from tents to the shower, actually no flip flops allowed anywhere. ETC ETC. When SNCOs have nothing better to do during wartime than to site uniform infractions, it is time to pack up and go home, we have been there too long.