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Started by Walkman, March 02, 2011, 04:10:50 AM

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Walkman

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.

SarDragon

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.
Dave Bowles
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AT1, USN Retired
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C/WO, CAP, Ret

Major Carrales

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.
"We have been given the power to change CAP, let's keep the momentum going!"

Major Joe Ely "Sparky" Carrales, CAP
Commander
Coastal Bend Cadet Squadron
SWR-TX-454

indygreg



No one could wear a 'stache better.

MSgt Van

#4
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...}

bosshawk

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.
Paul M. Reed
Col, USA(ret)
Former CAP Lt Col
Wilson #2777

niferous

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.
Any advice I give is worth exactly what you are paying for it.

MSgt Van

Quote from: niferous on March 02, 2011, 03:48:51 PM
Or the Quaker Oatmeal guy.

You have GOT to post a picture now!!

EMT-83

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.

Jerry Jacobs

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

SarDragon

Oh, you gotta give it at least a week, especially if your hair is light. (Medium brown constitutes light)
Dave Bowles
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AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

Dad2-4

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.

Shotgun

I'm in!

I'll probably shave it at the end of the month.

I'm going for the 1920's pencil thin version!

BradM

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.



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=







BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

Walkman

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'.

James Shaw

My contribution for the Stache
Jim Shaw
USN: 1987-1992
GANG: 1996-1998
CAP:2000 - Current
USCGA:2018 - Current
SGAUS: 2017 - Current

BradM

#16
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=
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

BradM

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)! :)
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

SarDragon

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.
Dave Bowles
Maj, CAP
AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

BradM

What does WIWOAD mean?
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

jimmydeanno

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. - Winston Churchill

Jerry Jacobs


BradM

Got ya! But SarDragon it says you are USN (ret.) so your Navy mustache was ok, right?
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

SarDragon

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.
Dave Bowles
Maj, CAP
AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

raivo

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.

CAP Member, 2000-20??
USAF Officer, 2009-2018
Recipient of a Mitchell Award Of Irrelevant Number

"No combat-ready unit has ever passed inspection. No inspection-ready unit has ever survived combat."

Thom

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

BradM

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? :)
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

SarDragon

Like I said, we worked it out.
Dave Bowles
Maj, CAP
AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

manfredvonrichthofen

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.

The CyBorg is destroyed





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.

Exiled from GLR-MI-011

SarDragon



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.

Dave Bowles
Maj, CAP
AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

a2capt

Wind up your radios! ...

That is the first thing that came to mind.

SarDragon

Dave Bowles
Maj, CAP
AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

a2capt

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.

SarDragon

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.
Dave Bowles
Maj, CAP
AT1, USN Retired
50 Year Member
Mitchell Award (unnumbered)
C/WO, CAP, Ret

BradM



"Blazes! What do you mean I can't wear my blues uniform and service cap with my chin hairs!?"
;)
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

Walkman


Mustang

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.
"Amateurs train until they get it right; Professionals train until they cannot get it wrong. "


Walkman

Here is the final result:



Anyone else got pix?

AC

#39
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.


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!

Terence Maroste      "We're Paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're
Maj, CAP                   supposed to be surrounded."
AEO
SWR-TX-293                  -Captain Richard Winters

ColonelJack

Quote from: SarDragon on March 08, 2011, 06:42:11 AM
I suppose I ought to let y'all see the entire get-up.



Awesome!  But ... where does the girl go when you take off the cape?

Jack
Jack Bagley, Ed. D.
Lt. Col., CAP (now inactive)
Gill Robb Wilson Award No. 1366, 29 Nov 1991
Admiral, Great Navy of the State of Nebraska
Honorary Admiral, Navy of the Republic of Molossia

BradM



Here's a recent pic of me.
BRAD MELILLO, 1st Lt, CAP
Finance Officer
Asst. Professional Development Officer
Brackett Composite Squadron 64
La Verne, CA

AC

Here's a recent pic of me, too. Looks like I got a little older! :-[

Terence Maroste      "We're Paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're
Maj, CAP                   supposed to be surrounded."
AEO
SWR-TX-293                  -Captain Richard Winters

AC

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]


Terence Maroste      "We're Paratroopers, Lieutenant. We're
Maj, CAP                   supposed to be surrounded."
AEO
SWR-TX-293                  -Captain Richard Winters