Facial Hair Accomodations
06-01-2023, 03:45 PM
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Originally Posted by Jaww
Air Force shaving waiver comes to mind for African Americans.
06-01-2023, 03:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Justabusdriver1
As someone with a medical background not sure I’ve ever heard of a medical condition that would prevent anyone from being clean shaven. Plenty of diseases that prevent people from having hair not that I know of that forces someone to have it.
06-01-2023, 04:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Justabusdriver1
Not sure what air force and African Americans has to do with delta or the original question that this was a medical condition. Unless being in the Air Force or Afrian American is a medical condition to you.
06-01-2023, 04:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Justabusdriver1
As someone with a medical background not sure I’ve ever heard of a medical condition that would prevent anyone from being clean shaven. Plenty of diseases that prevent people from having hair not that I know of that forces someone to have it.
Originally Posted by Justabusdriver1
Not sure what air force and African Americans has to do with delta or the original question that this was a medical condition. Unless being in the Air Force or Afrian American is a medical condition to you.
As someone with a “medical background”, I’m actually shocked you’ve never “heard of it”.
*edit* DanBlum beat me to it.
06-01-2023, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by FangsF15
Pseudofolliculitis Barbae, affecting a disproportionate number of African Americans, is an example of a medical condition meriting a waiver in another, larger organization with even stricter appearance standards.
As someone with a “medical background”, I’m actually shocked you’ve never “heard of it”.
*edit* DanBlum beat me to it.
As someone with a “medical background”, I’m actually shocked you’ve never “heard of it”.
*edit* DanBlum beat me to it.
tell me this doctor what’s the treatment? A quick journal search says frequent shaving with proper technique improve the affected areas. Improper technique and instruments facilitates the disease.
06-01-2023, 04:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Justabusdriver1
Not sure what air force and African Americans has to do with delta or the original question that this was a medical condition. Unless being in the Air Force or Afrian American is a medical condition to you.
06-01-2023, 04:42 PM
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
The current FOM which is a FAA document requires pilots be clean shaven. Having dealt with a request for an accommodation from a FOM item I can tell you it’s a long difficult process. Expect a year minimum.
It doesn’t say clean shaven.
06-01-2023, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Justabusdriver1
tell me this doctor what’s the treatment? A quick journal search says frequent shaving with proper technique improve the affected areas. Improper technique and instruments facilitates the disease.
fairly “common” waiver in the air force allowing people to not shave. If you think its super easy to clean it up, maybe you should email the air force doctors tell them they are doing it wrong.
06-01-2023, 04:55 PM
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Laser Hair Removal
Not to hijack the thread here, but has anyone had laser hair removal on their neck? Or know anyone who has? I try my best to use good shaving practices but the combination of having to shave every other day and wearing a collar for this job leaves my neck constantly red and irritated. Nothing I've tried has worked to stop the irritation I might just have sensitive skin. My theory is if I don't have to consistently shave my neck after laser hair removal, the bumps and irritation will go away.
06-01-2023, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Hossharris
the FOM says no beards.
It doesn’t say clean shaven.
It doesn’t say clean shaven.
Even with max duty days, seeing a single 5 O'Clock shadow in a calendar year is a rarity. Whatever the rules are, those who enforce them shave against the grain twice a day because they want to.
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