RAF Female Hair Policy

[Herod]

This GOM is all in favour, but I have one question. Can the men wear their hair like that if they want to? I'm old enough to remember "what's under the beret is yours. The rest is the Air Force's"

[Bob Viking]

Meleagertoo

Maybe the kind of girl that wants hair like that depicted isn’t the kind of girl that wants to sleep in a ditch?!

It’s far too easy for some to find problems when rules are changed.

I prefer to just roll with it. It won’t affect me in the slightest so why should I care? And no, I don’t think the guys should fight for the right to grow their hair equally long.

BV

[ExAscoteer2]

Originally Posted by meleagertoo

This is all very well in theory for crabs who live at home and 5* hotels but how does it translate to squaddies living in mud-holes and under hedges? How is personal hygiene maintained with hairdos like that?

Oh FFS! What an utter non sequitur logical fallacy.

[NutLoose]

And I thought it was going to be about beards … nice to see a sensible policy being implemented.

[cynicalint]

This is all very well in theory for crabs who live at home and 5* hotels but how does it translate to squaddies living in mud-holes and under hedges? How is personal hygiene maintained with hairdos like that?]

It's not going to be compulsory regulations that everyone has to wear their hair like that - there is a choice!

[Ninthace]

Originally Posted by meleagertoo

This is all very well in theory for crabs who live at home and 5* hotels but how does it translate to squaddies living in mud-holes and under hedges? How is personal hygiene maintained with hairdos like that?

I seem to recall in the good old days of the Cold War, the Dutch managed
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...e35b50d4ed6bdd

[SASless]

I suggest more interest in PT Standards might be a priority over the length some of that hair shown by the OP's photo.

[MPN11]

Originally Posted by SASless

I suggest more interest in PT Standards might be a priority over the length some of that hair shown by the OP's photo.

Thank you! Tidy hair, however arranged, is OK with this old fart. But fat women (and indeed men) in uniform really pi$$es me off.

[tartare]

Just don't get it caught on the way out if you have to pull the yellow and black handle!

[dervish]

Originally Posted by SASless

I suggest more interest in PT Standards might be a priority over the length some of that hair shown by the OP's photo.

In fairness, I assumed they were models working for a PR agency contracted by MoD. After all, no serviceperson would wear their belt half-fastened.

[Haraka]

Among the many other howlers in todays ""Daily Fail" on line (e.g. Intentional Olympic Committee (IOC)) was this piece on hair policy ,including :
"In 2019, the RAF allowed bears, but they must be short and neatly trimmed"`

It looks like Paddington's in with a chance then........

[Less Hair]

German Bundeswehr ordered 74000 nets in 1971 to keep the (male!) recruits hair in place.
https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuel...an-hair-force/

[Barksdale Boy]

74,000 nets for one recruit - wow!

[Fatjoff]

I'm more concerned with how the young officer is sporting the forage cap. Surely tilted to the right, not the left? Or have I been wearing mine incorrectly for 30 years?

[Ninthace]

Originally Posted by Fatjoff

I'm more concerned with how the young officer is sporting the forage cap. Surely tilted to the right, not the left? Or have I been wearing mine incorrectly for 30 years?

Well, since the lady next to her could well be the SWO, or so the cane and Tate and Lyle suggest, I am sure she will put her right.

For SASless and MPN11's benefit, a SWO can be any shape they like as their word is law and they do not have to run around, they have a whole Station at their disposal for that. A mate of mine was a SWO, he was not above telling the Stn Cdr off. As in, "It may be your Stn sir, but that is my grass so get off it!"

[langleybaston]

Originally Posted by Ninthace

I seem to recall in the good old days of the Cold War, the Dutch managed
https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qim...e35b50d4ed6bdd

ReallY? The ones I saw didn't manage, that's for sure..

[Pontius Navigator]

Originally Posted by MPN11

Thank you! Tidy hair, however arranged, is OK with this old fart. But fat women (and indeed men) in uniform really pi$$es me off.

Fatist

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[622]

Originally Posted by Pontius Navigator

Fatist

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Nope, I think I'm the fattest!

[Union Jack]

Originally Posted by langleybaston

Slight and light hearted offer of a digression:

1. regarding a Met Man at a very SW airfield, whose wig was not a tight fit, such that if he turned his head quickly, there was a lag of several degrees.
2. and regarding one in the Vale of York who owned three, thus long, short [simulated haircut], medium, long, repeat.

Mine? They say that grass does not grow on a busy street, and I have to wear a hut in the sun, should it condescend to shine.

Called Jabba?

Jack

[dctyke]

Originally Posted by SASless

I suggest more interest in PT Standards might be a priority over the length some of that hair shown by the OP's photo.

It used to really wind me up when junior ranks with weight issues were getting threats of been thrown out when there was plenty of evidence of more senior ranks “getting away with it”.