[brityank]

USN Reserve is a six year stint, with two years active duty besides any training duty required. OCS runs them through a shortened Middie school during their initial two to four year Reserve jaunt while in school getting a degree, then into the Fleet for two years and the balance as Inactive Reserve subject to Recall.

[P-Marlowe]

USN Reserve is a six year stint, with two years active duty besides any training duty required. OCS runs them through a shortened Middie school during their initial two to four year Reserve jaunt while in school getting a degree, then into the Fleet for two years and the balance as Inactive Reserve subject to Recall.

Aren't they required to shave?

Lt.JG Mabius in 1972

After completing his TWO YEAR STINT in the Navy.

To be honest, that is the first picture I have ever seen of an active duty naval officer with a hippie beard.

Wasn't the Navy a clean cut operation during the Vietnam period?