QRs, moustaches and the USAF
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That Guy got every anti-social award in the known to man. The Sqn sighed a collective thank f@#K when he left...His RAAF replacement was an utter star...only none could pronounce his name... Heard he went far in the RAAF.
That Guy got every anti-social award in the known to man. The Sqn sighed a collective thank f@#K when he left...His RAAF replacement was an utter star...only none could pronounce his name... Heard he went far in the RAAF.
As one who wore a Tash throughout 30 years in Her Majesty's RAF I had at various times some interesting discussions about the styles of moustache that could be worn as the regs only quote a minimum, i.e., the entire upper lip must be unshaven, presumably to head off any A...F H....R styles, therefore leading to some discussion at times on the maximum lenghth involved. I do have some photos of my upper lip in the 60s in Cyprus in the popular Viva Zapata style, with a good tan very Mexican, this at the time was kept by explaining that it was an inverted handlebar moustache, and I got away with it for a while, I was on the M.U. which was a world of its on!
Whilst on the Herc as a G.E. we had a captain who had a full set for medical reasons, seems he had no problem with it and oxygen masks, mind you the only time Herc crew wore oxy masks was for a quick puff in the morning to get the brain back on speed!
Whilst on the Herc as a G.E. we had a captain who had a full set for medical reasons, seems he had no problem with it and oxygen masks, mind you the only time Herc crew wore oxy masks was for a quick puff in the morning to get the brain back on speed!
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A well known Flt.Lt. at Leuchars, in the 50s said, "Why cultivate it on your upper lip, when it grows wild in your afterburner?" ( We didn't have afterburners then of course) Gerry Smith
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Beags, I think we went one better. After weeks of complaints about our grass, and threats from a civilian to report us, we returned from the Gulf. I cut our grass with the loudest thing I could find, then sprayed their grass with Round-Up.
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As a former USAF officer, I remember with no pleasure at all the period after the Vietnam war when the only standards USAF (or at least SAC) seemed to have were haircuts and shoeshines; the mission was let go to hell. So I am inclined to be in sympathy with someone who gives them a bit of a fight on appearances.