While coronavirus sequestering has millions sporting longer locks as they go without haircuts, that’s not going to happen for one group: the US Marines. From their boot camp buzz cuts to the “high and tight” style standard for the Marine Corps, a spartan trim is inseparable from their war-fighting discipline, Pentagon Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley said Tuesday. Milley was asked whether social distancing practices, which have prevented many worldwide from keeping their barber appointments, should be implemented in the US military, after a video surfaced of about two dozen of Marines lined up for their regular cut at Camp Pendleton in California.
