The United States Air Force has issued new grooming mandates for enlistees wanting to wear facial hair.
Among the matters it addressed are the length of an airmen’s mustaches and sideburns, according to Task & Purpose.
RELATED: Pete Hegseth refuses to meet with bearded soldiers in South Korea
“The new guidance mandates that sideburns must be above the ear opening and that mustaches are prohibited from going beyond the corners of the mouth or into a respirator seal zone,” an Air Force spokesperson told the military publication Monday.
A memo detailing Air Force grooming standards was reportedly issued last week. It requires service members who choose to wear mustaches to keep them shorter than what was previously necessary. Mustaches must also match its wearer’s natural hair color.
Handlebar mustaches, twists, curls, and goatees are forbidden entirely, according to Task & Purpose.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, 45, an Army National Guard veteran, made cutting back on facial hair one of his first orders of business after being tapped by President Trump to run the Department of Defense in November 2024.
The former Fox News host summoned top ranking military officers to Virginia on Sept. 30 to lay out his vision for the Pentagon.
“No more beardos,” he declared in a speech deriding troops who wear beards.
According to Hegseth, seemingly small issues like allowing soldiers to have unruly facial hair leads to larger problems going unaddressed.
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