Service members across multiple branches are being provided new grooming guidelines ahead of their implementation in 2026.

Air Force and Space Force commanders have the final approval authority for medical shaving waivers, the Air Force has ...

The Air Force Surgeon General’s office announced that all medical shaving waivers issued prior to March 1, 2025, will expire ...

Medical shaving waivers for thousands of airmen and Space Force Guardians will be reset and reevaluated, according to new Department of the Air Force memos, marking one of several new changes as the ...

Big news today for the many airmen out there who want to grow out their beards: not only is there little evidence showing that beards interfere with a gas mask seal, but the Air Force’s ban on beards ...

A document posted on Reddit shows the flow chart the Air Force uses to help determine if airmen and Space Force guardians should receive shaving waivers. The Department of the Air Force’s process for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a year should get kicked out of the service. While ...

The Air Force would study allowing airmen and guardians to grow beards under Congress' proposed defense policy bill. (Senior Airman Colville McFee/Air Force) Congress is set to order the Air Force to ...

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Corey Armstrong, 100th Logistics Readiness Squadron fuels superintendent, listens to a briefing ...

Airmen who receive waivers from the Air Force to grow beards due to a skin condition that worsens with shaving experience significant delays in promotion compared to their beardless counterparts, a ...