USAF Mustache March

[Renegade One]

Some sort of USAF "tradition"? Never heard of it…anyone? Are mustaches normally "proscribed" by USAF regs, or "just not done" (even though authorized…), as with our Marine bros?

http://blogs.militarytimes.com/flig...-down-gauntlet-air-force-wide-mustache-march/

 

[ARAMP1]

Robin Olds on his mustache..."It became the middle finger I couldn't raise in the PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles...with higher headquarters on rules, targets, and fighting the war."

I've grown one every march. Seems like it loses some meaning when "the man" now encourages it.

 

[xj220]

Maybe that's their plan. Like when your parents think something is cool and you lose interest.

 

[Renegade One]

I've grown one every march. Seems like it loses some meaning when "the man" now encourages it.

Didn't really answer my question: Authorized by regs or not? If "authorized', why only in March?

 

[xj220]

Staches are allowed year round, but Mustache March has a nice ring to it. Also, despite what us guys think, mustaches don't carry the same mystique and appeal they did years ago so doing it year round really doesn't help with the ladies. It's more like a molestache

 

[Renegade One]

...mustaches don't carry the same mystique and appeal they did years ago so doing it year round really doesn't help with the ladies...

So I guess "shaved heads" is the new attraction? Seems to be a growing trend…don't ask me why.

 

[Spekkio]

Also, despite what us guys think, mustaches don't carry the same mystique and appeal they did years ago so doing it year round really doesn't help with the ladies. It's more like a molestache

This. I scratch my head wondering why mustaches are considered more 'professional' than beards.

 

[ARAMP1]

Didn't really answer my question: Authorized by regs or not? If "authorized', why only in March?

Well, the point is to see what you can get away with. AF regs allow males to have a "well groomed" mustache but no wider than your mouth and it mustn't overhang the upper lip. So, the wider the better and definitely over the lip for march.

Why only in march? I don't know. Growing the mustache was mainly a deployment thing. The story goes that Olds was left alone while deployed to Vietnam. When he returned home, he was ordered to shave. Maybe march was arbitrarily chosen for everyone that was not deployed. That's just a guess though.

 

[xj220]

So I guess "shaved heads" is the new attraction? Seems to be a growing trend…don't ask me why.

More like a "not-growing" trend. Get it? See what I did there?

 

[nittany03]

So I guess "shaved heads" is the new attraction? Seems to be a growing trend…don't ask me why.

Yes, but this is arguably an improvement. Guys like Vin Diesel and Bruce Willis made it cool, to the gratitude of every guy with male pattern baldness. They can now just Bic everything and look 10 years younger. I've run into several bald dudes who would look positively creepy, or at least Costanza-esque, otherwise.

 

[Renegade One]

Yes, but this is arguably an improvement. Guys like Vin Diesel and Bruce Willis made it cool, because chicks apparently dig it.

FIFY. Don't ask me why.