When I was stationed at LORSTA Marcus Island, we didn’t even have that!. Just whoever wanted to try it and if you were a willing guinea pig. The first guy put the shave too close to my head and I had an imprint of a razor blade. After that, I told the next guy to just give me a crew cut…I wasn’t leaving the Island. Most military people didn’t want crewcuts in the early 1980s…they want hair as long as regulations permitted.
We had to have regulation haircuts but had some leniency being in the tropics. We could wear plain white t shirt instead of dark blue work shirt, have work trousers cut into shorts and wear sneakers instead of boondoggers.