Anyone participating in Mustache March?
If you are we should post pix at the end of the month for a good laugh. I'm in.
I, for one, am a permanent participant. I've had the current iteration since early Nov 1999. The prior iteration went from some time in 1974 until late Oct 1999 (I had it off for a week). For the record, I can grow a decent 'stache in less than three weeks.
Quote from: SarDragon on March 02, 2011, 04:29:08 AM
I, for one, am a permanent participant. I've had the current iteration since early Nov 1999. The prior iteration went from some time in 1974 until late Oct 1999 (I had it off for a week). For the record, I can grow a decent 'stache in less than three weeks.
I can grow a good 'stache in 5 days. I sport one from Thanksgiving to Christmas these days.
(http://www.paunchstevenson.com/photos/john-oates-250x253.jpg)
No one could wear a 'stache better.
Started mine Sep 23, 1978, the first day I transferred overseas out of tech school. Never had a bare lip since.
Colonel Robin Olds knew how to sport a 'stache...
{count down until this becomes a uniform thread in 5...4...3...2...}
I have had mine continously since Fall 1984, when I cut my lip for the ten thousandth time and said "S-----it".
Van: you are right, our uniform Nazis will soon descend on this and start quoting regs, rumors and opinions.
I've never grown one just because I started losing my hair when I was fourteen and I figured facial hair would make me look like some kind of biker. Or the Quaker Oatmeal guy.
Quote from: niferous on March 02, 2011, 03:48:51 PM
Or the Quaker Oatmeal guy.
You have GOT to post a picture now!!
Then there's the time a group of cadets were being instructed on grooming standards...
One cadet asked if moustaches were allowed. The cadet in charge responded, "Don't worry about it. No one has worn a moustache since the 1970s."
I had just walked in and responded, "Cadet, I've worn this moustache since the 1970s". A few minutes of laughter before the class could proceed.
I'm going on 2 days of trying to grow a mustache, not very impressive at all but I'm doing this mainly for laughs
Oh, you gotta give it at least a week, especially if your hair is light. (Medium brown constitutes light)
I've had my current one since......I don't remember, but it was sometime around '95. I shaved it off then immediately started regrowing it. I'll try to get a current pic loaded.
I'm in!
I'll probably shave it at the end of the month.
I'm going for the 1920's pencil thin version!
This was my mustache on October 29, 2010 at my work. I work at a retirement home and I participate a lot in the activity programs to relieve the monotony of accounting. :)
I dressed as a WWII fighter pilot in the 8th Air Force flying P-51Ds escorting B-17s. Also, a pilot who used to be in the Eagle Squadron.
(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/154602_181623075198049_100000510722888_612014_4565958_n.jpg)
And this last Presidents Day I dressed as President and General Ulysses S. Grant (but with a goatee instead of a full beard). Next year for Presidents Day I'll try a full beard. I never grew one of them before so I dont know how think the sides will grow in. :{D=
(http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/185945_202785216415168_100000510722888_762668_731219_n.jpg)
Great photos, Brad!
My wife's not crazy about the idea, she thinks I'm going to look like a 70's sleazeball. It's coming in pretty well, so far, tho'.
My contribution for the Stache
Quote from: caphistorian on March 04, 2011, 01:50:59 PM
My contribution for the Stache
One of the reasons I grew back my goatee was because of the verticle guidelines for the mustache of the Air Force to be at the corners of the mouth. I like the Navy's regs better allowing the mustache to extend a 1/4 inch past the verticle lines of the mouth. Your left photo is a Navy mustache and your right photo the Air Force mustache :{D=
Quote from: Walkman on March 04, 2011, 11:11:59 AM
Great photos, Brad!
My wife's not crazy about the idea, she thinks I'm going to look like a 70's sleazeball. It's coming in pretty well, so far, tho'.
Thank you Kristian (Walkman)! :)
Quote from: BradM on March 04, 2011, 07:03:56 PM
Quote from: caphistorian on March 04, 2011, 01:50:59 PM
My contribution for the Stache
One of the reasons I grew back my goatee was because of the verticles guidlines for the mustache of the Air Force to be at the corners of the mouth. I like the Navy's regs better allowing the mustache to extend a 1/4 inch past the verticles lines of the mouth. Your left photo is a Navy mustache and your right photo the Air Force mustache :{D=
Bizactly! I had some "issues" when WIWOAD in an overseas squadron at an Air Base. My "Navy" 'stache was wider than the AF/CAP spec.
What does WIWOAD mean?
Got ya! But SarDragon it says you are USN (ret.) so your Navy mustache was ok, right?
It was OK in the Navy. It wasn't OK in a CAP uniform, on an Air Base, with an AD USAF First Shirt as a squadron commander. But we worked it out.
I started March with the intention of growing a 'stache, but I'm starting to think it's in the best interest of myself and everyone who sees me on a daily basis that I quit now.
Quote from: raivo on March 06, 2011, 11:26:38 PM
I started March with the intention of growing a 'stache, but I'm starting to think it's in the best interest of myself and everyone who sees me on a daily basis that I quit now.
"A man's got to know his limitations." -- Inspector Harry Callahan
Thom
Quote from: SarDragon on March 05, 2011, 03:29:44 AM
It was OK in the Navy. It wasn't OK in a CAP uniform, on an Air Base, with an AD USAF First Shirt as a squadron commander. But we worked it out.
Did you split the difference? The mustache could extend 1/8th of an inch beyond the verticles lines at the corner of the mouth? :)
Like I said, we worked it out.
Personally, I can't go the stache. It feels weird! I can't get over the feeling that I have a booger hanging out or that my nose hairs are so long that they are itching my nose. For some reason that is what I always feel. Not to mention all of the derogatory comments that the Army has for them, that have been drilled into my head. Plus I would be the ONLY one in my squadron to have one.
Heck I feel weird enough that I have stopped using a Gillette on my head. It is only a number one on the side of my head, but it still feels wierd. I don't know if I can take it anymore. I have gone from DI Ermy, to Ben Afflec in Green Zone.
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Never could get mine to look like this...plus it's obviously out of regs...
I thin mine out once a week, on the morning of a meeting night.
(http://members.cox.net/dragnd/snidely2.jpg)
That's from April '05. I usually grow it out for Hallowe'en, but that year it was a bit earlier, for a costume contest, where I went as Snidely Whiplash.
I suppose I ought to let y'all see the entire get-up.
(http://members.cox.net/dragnd/DoRight.jpg)
Wind up your radios! ...
(http://alumni.imsa.edu/~data/images/autographs/demento.jpg)
That is the first thing that came to mind.
Thank you.
Well.. ya gotta admit .. swap the RCA 88 for an HT... and the 45's for comm logs, and it's just like mission base! ;)
I tried to grow one several times.. too itchy, and the feeling isn't worth it at all. Even after the forced 14 days from being 'stuck' in Florida after a hurricane named Wilma.. first thing I did when I got home was get rid off all it.
Too bad. I'll bet you could grow a righteous 'stache. You seem to have the right facial for it, certainly darker than mine ever was. The itch goes away for me after about 4 days, if it itches at all.
(http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/189522_205402909486732_100000510722888_783258_183186_n.jpg)
"Blazes! What do you mean I can't wear my blues uniform and service cap with my chin hairs!?"
;)
^ AWESOME!
Was looking at the photos released by the Air Force of crews getting ready to go give our friends in Libya a hug and a kiss, and was humored by all the obvious "Mustache March" participants.
Here is the final result:
(http://eurekaville.com/yay_images/stache.jpg)
Anyone else got pix?
Here I am in about 1978. Still have the stache I grew in 'nam in 1966. I met Robin Olds in Udorn. Could be he influenced me! He looked just like the picture.. I have a pic of me AD getting the BSM in this stache.
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b397/AirCommando/scan0001-1.jpg)
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b397/AirCommando/scan0002.jpg)
This pic was made right after I grew the stache to hide my split lip from an encounter with a bad guy. No Purple Heart!
Wings on the right side are Thai PARU wings.
I still have the stache. It has never been shaved off since I grew it.
BTW Brad, that top pic was taken when I was with Brackett Sq. 64!
Quote from: SarDragon on March 08, 2011, 06:42:11 AM
I suppose I ought to let y'all see the entire get-up.
(http://members.cox.net/dragnd/DoRight.jpg)
Awesome! But ... where does the girl go when you take off the cape?
Jack
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Here's a recent pic of me.
Here's a recent pic of me, too. Looks like I got a little older! :-[
(http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b397/AirCommando/scan0002-2.jpg)
About Robin Olds and "Mustache March".
Olds was known for the extravagantly waxed (and decidedly non-regulation) handlebar mustache he sported in Vietnam. It was a common superstition among airmen to grow a "bulletproof mustache",[81][82] but Olds also used his as "a gesture of defiance. The kids on base loved it. Most everybody grew a mustache."[83] Returning home, however, marked the end of this flamboyance. When he reported to his first interview with Air Force Chief of Staff General John P. McConnell, McConnell walked up to him, stuck a finger under his nose and said, "Take it off." Olds replied, "Yes, sir."
For his part, Olds was not upset with the order, recalling:
To tell the truth, I wasn't all that fond of the [darn]ed thing by then, but it had become a symbol for the men of the 8th Wing. I knew McConnell understood. During his visits to Ubon over the past year he had never referred to my breach of military standards, just seemed rather amused at the variety of 'staches sported by many of the troops. (It) was the most direct order I had received in twenty-four years of service.[84]
The incident with the mustache is given credit as the impetus for a new Air Force tradition, "Mustache March", in which aircrew, aircraft maintainers, and other Airmen worldwide show solidarity by a symbolic, albeit good-natured "protest" for one month against Air Force facial hair regulations.[85]