… troops claim to be Nordic pagans so they can grow a beard and no one challenges them on it because no one's upheld standards for a long time. So now A quarter of the platoon is sporting beards because they're now suddenly Nordic pagans. We're not doing that stuff anymore. The idea is it's sort of the broken windows theory of policing. There'll be some people that say, well, Pete, why would a secretary care about beards and PT standards? (05:56–06:01)
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Asserts that a significant portion of troops claim Nordic paganism to grow beards.
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