Fuzz Face

Date: 10/31/2019

I report onboard a carrier right before they leave for a big deployment. I'm barely staying out of the way of a hose team doing a fire drill. I walk across the mission bay. A high-ranking embarked staff officer with 2 or 3 stars on his weird uniform pulls me aside and asks, "Now, I'm new here, but I'm assuming you have a chit for that mustache and all that?" I say, yes, of course, I got a waiver for it. "Well, do you have a way to measure it?" I do, in my shaving kit, and I measure my long handlebars. As I look in the mirror, I realize I've forgotten to shave everything else, my goatee and my extra fuzzy cheeks. I find out from someone that the guy is an O-7 equivalent civilian Vice Undersecretary of Defense for something. He was nice. So that's good.