A couple of points from a former AF Security Policeman:
First, that airman is going to learn (eventually) that when he tries to break up a bar fight or a domestic disturbance…that braid is going to be an excellent target for an idiot to grab and do some damage to the airman.
Second…this is all on the path that the Dutch military took when they allowed troops to unionize. Long hair, smoking joints on post, male ear rings, etc. I worked with many of them, and they had to be the least professional force in NATO. Unions for active DoD troops is coming…
…and NO, I will never recommend the military as a career anymore.
I bet his off duty time he’s got it unbraided and just long.
Back when I was in (68-76) guys would go through tremendous regimes with hair gel and their long hair to make it seem like it’s regulation. Sold so much of “Dippity Doo” they put it in the PX......
We will soon be separated by way of our tribes; Euro, Indian, African, Latin, Arab.
Yep. Now an enemy can just grab him by the braid and snap his neck.
I’m from the Marshallese tribe and demand to wear my tribe’s uniform or shorts, no shirt, and bare feet!
ROTFL! I’ve never seen so many idiots obsessed with their hair. I suppose he’ll want the unindigenous airmen to call him “chief”. I suppose the boy will want to be the first Air Force airman to count coup and take ‘em scalps too. Ugh.
Could be worse, does he want to use the ladies bathroom too?
It looks like a girl’s pigtail. In the olden days the most important part of a warrior’s hair was the SCALPLOCK. Well taken care of it was a challenge to the enemy tribe to COME AND TAKE IT!
You don’t see scalplocks even in Hollywood movies. On the other hand you see plenty of them in the paintings of C.M. Russell.
Scumbag POS!
