Facial Hair Regulations and Mustaches. Where did you stand on those damned Hitleresque mustaches?

2015-06-18T17:01:32-04:00

My wife and I were talking about this last night and both hated how I had to trim my mustache.

Response by WO1 Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 18 at 2015 5:10 PM

2015-06-18T17:10:07-04:00

I hate it. I think if the military allows shaving profiles, religious shaving exemptions, we don't carry our promasks on our person, and that small beards won't affect the promask seal we should be allowed to grow neat and evenly trimmed beards.

Response by Sgt Aaron Kennedy, MS made Jun 18 at 2015 5:14 PM

2015-06-18T17:14:53-04:00

They are the perfect compromise. I'm pretty sure EVERYONE hates them.

They're just manly enough to look creepy, but not manly enough to be cool like old school Selleck or Reynolds.

Response by CPT Pedro Meza made Jun 19 at 2015 1:29 AM

2015-06-19T01:29:23-04:00

MSgt Eric "Tiny" Townsend my mustache helped keep me alive in South America in 1985, and during three deployments in Afghanistan. In 2008 a CSM told my mustache was not regulation, I told him I was going out the wire, asked him to join me.

Response by PO1 John Miller made Jun 19 at 2015 6:24 AM

2015-06-19T06:24:35-04:00

If he were still alive, try telling SOC(SEAL) Chris Kyle that his beard wasn't professional! :)

As for the mustaches, I prefer to call them Charlie Chaplain 'staches, not a Hitler 'stache, lol...

Response by PO2 Private RallyPoint Member made Jun 19 at 2015 9:10 AM

2015-06-19T09:10:02-04:00

The regulations set for mustaches make for quite an ugly example of a hairy slug on the upper lip. I'd be overjoyed if regs were to allow for neatly trimmed goatees or what have you, cuz I loved my beard when I had it. But now, when "No-shave November" comes around and the guys all decide to grow out their mustaches, just about none of them are within regs, and few of them ever even look decent, including my own. It's pretty awful.

Response by SGT Jeremiah B. made Jun 30 at 2015 3:56 PM

2015-06-30T15:56:10-04:00

Oh how I hated the In-Regs 'stache. I would rather go hairless than let that obnoxious caterpillar hang out on my lip. Just say no to DoD approved mustaches!

Response by MSgt Keith Hebert made Jul 2 at 2015 6:09 PM

2015-07-02T18:09:13-04:00

every time i tried to trim the stache i would mess up and have to shave it, after several times of trying i gave up

Response by PFC Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 2 at 2019 3:43 AM

2019-11-02T03:43:15-04:00

I agree that the regs can make many mustaches look bad and be a challenging to keep without getting flak for it. I myself who recently started one once I got back from Con leave, just how my face is (my top lip seems to be a bit wider than some) that my stache doesnt seem to look as bad as some peoples.