{"id":16934,"date":"2012-03-22T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T03:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=16934"},"modified":"2012-03-21T23:34:07","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T02:34:07","slug":"mustache-march-grow-big-or-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/22\/mustache-march-grow-big-or-go-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustache March: Grow Big or Go Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/85359\/mustache-march-grow-big-go-home\">official DoD article<\/a> notes the fighter pilot tradition of <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/05\/mustache-march-has-a-website\/\">Mustache March<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It happens every March like clockwork\u2014men from all across the Air Force, who may otherwise normally be clean-shaven, grow out their cookie dusters, much to the amusement of many around them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted here, the tradition is linked to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/18\/general-robin-olds-fighter-pilot-hero-legacy\/\">BrigGen Robin Olds<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Olds was frequently at odds with senior leaders, and had his ways of defying the establishment\u2014most famously (or infamously), the decidedly out-of-regs, heavily waxed handlebar mustache <!--more-->he sported in Vietnam.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus, &#8220;maverick&#8221; fighter pilots continue the &#8220;rebellion&#8221; in a tradition every year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is thought to have given rise to the Mustache March tradition, where Air Force men stand in symbolic solidarity to good-naturedly \u201cprotest\u201d Air Force facial hair regulations, which state that, \u201cMustaches will not extend downward beyond the lip-line of the upper lip or extend sideways beyond a vertical line drawn upward from the corner of the mouth.\u201d (From Air Force Instruction 36-2903.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article fails to note Mustache March immediately follows Flattop February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An official DoD article notes the fighter pilot tradition of Mustache March: It happens every March like clockwork\u2014men from all across the Air Force, who may otherwise normally be clean-shaven, grow out their cookie dusters, much to the amusement of many around them. As noted here, the tradition is linked to BrigGen Robin Olds, Olds was frequently at odds with [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5285,2,1632,2044,613,40],"class_list":["post-16934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-military","tag-mustache","tag-mustache-march","tag-robin-olds","tag-tradition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}