Female sailors may immediately begin wearing their hair in ponytails, locks, wider buns and sometimes even below their collars -- but they must follow strict guidelines when doing so. The Navy ...

This week the Navy updated regulations extending to 19 approved hairstyles. It included a new style - the two strand twist - and increased the bun size from two inches in diameter to four ...

Sims, a 12-year veteran, was recently discharged from the Navy after disobeying orders wear a wig or cut her locs — a style she has been wearing for almost a decade.

The Navy said Thursday that it is halting, at least temporarily, its practice of cutting female recruits’ hair short when they arrive at boot camp.