Air Force officials will have to brief Congress on a pilot program that would allow service members to grow beards.

The committees want to know if beards could be compatible with gas masks, among other issues. The military already grants ...

Congress has decided to pass on ordering the Department of the Air Force to establish a pilot program examining whether airmen and Guardians should grow beards, one of the most highly requested policy ...

A potential program to allow beards in Air Force and Space Force is being considered. The Secretary of the Air Force will ...

Under President Fernando de la Rua (1999-2001), Navy officers were allowed to have a beard by then-chief-of ... also known as the Dictionary for Joint Military Action and the Glossary of ...

Currently, beards are prohibited in the Air Force except for approved religious exceptions and medical waivers related to a ...