RAF Pilot Scraps Over Stache

Posted by Christopher Eger Jul 15, 2008

Flight Lieutenant Chris Ball, regularly a RAF Tornado driver, has been on exchange with the US Air Force. This is a long standard practice with officers often being exchanged between the two countries military's for decades. During the first part of WWII when the US was still a neutral, many US Army Air Corps pilots were even given temporary furloughs to travel to Great Britain and join the Eagle Squadron of the RAF flying Spitfires during the Blitz.

Lieutenant Ball however has had an experience with coming into contact with US Air Force regulations due to his facial hair. Ball sports a prominent Handle-Bar mustache that would make Freddie Mercury envious. While the Queens Regulations on moustache length is not the same as the Uncle Sam's, he was given orders to conform. The Lieutenant won is battle and is still flying F-15s in Afghanistan with the USAF.

There's a war on terror going on, let's belay the chicken**** until we get it sorted out.