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The Navy traditionally allows beards due to their need to PRESERVE drinking/hygiene water for the vessel's crewmen. The Army allowed beards for partly for the same reasons prior to WW1. From WW1 onward, beards had to be removed for men to be able to properly fit (wear) their gas masks.

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