Air Force Mustache Regs and the art of pressing the standards

[USMCGrunt]

Saw this yesterday. Big news for the zoomies.

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/...8/air-force-may-allow-another-dash-of-stache/

It's only a matter of time before this is the prevailing standard!

 

[A6E Dad]

Robin Olds - Legend!

 

[THParent]

Yer moosestache hairs is growing outside of yer mouth areas, son!

All animals are equal, but triple ace animals are more equal than the other animals.

 

[unkown1961]

Might even have beards allowed if this AF doc's study is considered:
"They may have anecdotal evidence of 1 to 5 people who they see fail the fit test, but that can’t be extrapolated to hundreds of thousands of airmen.”
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/military-beards-break-gas-mask-seal/

 

[Humey]

I do know they have Mustache March and they grow them pretty large. If anyone has seen Bob's Burger, my son looks like Bob when he grows his

 

[Old Navy BGO]

All animals are equal, but triple ace animals are more equal than the other animals.

- Was gonna say, Robin Olds could pretty much do as he wanted...

On the other hand, junior officers are wise to follow their leaders-- my first TACCO/MC cautioned me to look around the squadron and notice that none of the CO, XO or Department heads had 'stache when I started to grow one on my first deployment.

You can always tell the new Ensign/2nd LT in Pensacola with the sparse, barely there mustache. More often than not it was a USNA grad, as the ROTC /OCS guys got that out of their system in college.