24 jun 2026
Naval Academy brings back short haircuts for new female midshipmen
The U.S. Naval Academy is bringing back a requirement for incoming female students to cut their hair below the chin. As the new freshmen arrive in Annapolis, Maryland, for Induction Day, the start of what is known as “plebe summer,” women will have to report with hair “cut to the chin,” academy officials said. The academy originally required short haircuts when the first class of women entered in July 1976. Among the 1,300 new students that year, 81 were women . For more than 40 years, female midshipmen were required to cut their hair at or below their chin.
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The U.S. Naval Academy is returning to grooming standards it last instituted before 2018, the school announced. Incoming female students for the class of 2030 will have to chop their hair so that it does not exceed their chin, a standard the the academy abided by until 2019 when it only required students to follow Navy-wide grooming standards for female recruits. “Returning to a short haircut for women on I‑Day aligns them once again to a common standard plebes have maintained for generations,” a U.S. Naval Academy spokesperson told Military Times.
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Incoming female students at US Naval Academy must cut hair below chin
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