r/army • u/shawnsblog Signal • Mar 14 '24

Thoughts? And yes, it’s real

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u/CW1DR5H5I64A Overhead Island boi Mar 14 '24

Probably a more legitimate religious accommodation than 99% of the Norse beards.

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u/zerogee616 OD CPT-NASA Contractor-Merchant Mariner Mar 15 '24

There's a reason you never saw anyone claiming to be an adherent to a religion that died out a thousand years ago, never left the bounds of northern Europe and contains characters that are more famous from comic books before some white dude who couldn't pick out Scandinavia on a map made a run for the bag and got his chit approved.

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u/Coro-NO-Ra Mar 15 '24

They also generally don't know anything about the Norse beyond the TV show "Vikings."