A-Day. If you try to do it during Beast, you will A. not have enough time and B. make a mess.
As a plebe do you have to have your hair "high-and-tight"? How does that all work, just curious?
You have to have your hair within the Army standard. There are no special haircut rules for plebes
Other than the initial mandatory buzz for Males on R-day, or was that dropped as well for 2016?
Although I can't speak for what the rules were for CBT this past year, during my Beast, new cadets received several buzz cuts during the summer. Once you transition from new cadet to plebe, you can start to make your own choices.
You have to have your hair within the Army standard. There are no special haircut rules for plebes