Oh man, those cadet haircuts are brutal.
My brother went through this a couple years ago (August 2017, I think). Your top (first) photo shows how the boys get their high and tight haircuts.
My brother ended-up with the long-haired woman (er man!!) barber in the far back of the shop when he got his initial high and tight. This barber surely has a "take no prisoners" approach of using clippers on the shaggy heads of the cadets. It is kind of ironic, if he hates long hair, being that he looks like a woman with that messy hair!
Majority of the returning cadets and upper-classmen try to wait for any of the other barbers when they return to THAT barbershop during the school year. Just so you will know, there are a couple other barbershops near the campus other than the famed Southgate Barbers in College Station.
As you can see in these excellent photos, the boys all get nice clipper-skinned high and tight "fish" haircuts as freshman cadets, but that bitch can really skin a boy's head with those clippers.
Denny told me that while they all know the haircut was to happen and how short it would be, he said they saw at least two of the guys tear-up or be embarrassed to feel their heads and be shocked at how they look after the haircut. Everyone was together and its kind of a small shop, so it was hard to be private or hide their emotions from others, but he said two did have tears during or surely after the severe clipper shearing and that first look in the barbershop mirror.
My brother and others in his group or class learned of a rumor that this guy must re-adjust his clippers to a much lower blade level with the clipper teeth, as its downright painful to have his clipper scraped up the sides and back of your head. And then the guy tells each cadet as the barber cape is whipped off the kid with small mounds of clipped hair flowing to the floor: "Enjoy the haircut............NEXT"
Having sudden exposed "whitewalls" is totally the norm at Southgate Barbers each August, in case anyone wonders.
However, my brother left that barbershop with his head very sore, totally whitewalled, and looking like that big-eared guy in the tenth photo with his nice fresh high and tight. At least that kid was smiling. My brother hated it, and he said that the haircut was itchy and he had high and tight stubble that stuck to his pillow and t-shirts for several days.
Thanks for posting these Texas A&M cadet "fish" haircut photos. I had to look closely for my brother if he was featured in any, and will send him this link so that he can see these posted photos you did today. It will bring back memories of a few years ago.
https://theeagle.com/gallery/photos-fish-haircuts/collection_a0ee97c0-a25e-11e8-a696-fb8a6be2dd07.html#10
http://www.thebatt.com/multimedia/videos/freshman-orientation-week-fish-cuts/youtube_f4f0ea8a-aa99-5bdd-9b32-852150543747.html
https://theeagle.com/gallery/gallery-haircuts-for-freshmen-in-texas-a-m-corps-of-cadets/collection_64f55fb0-c076-11e9-a6b4-6bc315ef48b1.html#1
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