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From JQP's Facebook page. I can confirm its existence.

Using the RWR antennas as the twist in the mustache was artistically genius.

I've been chewing on this since it was posted--I find myself returning to it several times a day. I'm not prepared to argue with a single word of that paper. In the interest of full disclosure, I'm a retiree--but, recent enough to have seen, more or less, all of the factors the author mentions. My question is simply: why?? Is the author (and a large portion--a majority in my experience--of his peers) simply wrong, nothing to see here, move along? As waltopfor said, many of these things are discussed on BODN, so I guess we're all delusional, too in that case. Is it really so impossible for todays CGOs & FGOs to retain that impression when they make the GO ranks? (While I take Blair's point, I don't believe that 100% of those promoted are the "yes men.") Of course, it was several years ago (as many as 15 or so?) when I first started to hear inklings of this line of thought--so the "today's" FGOs of that timeframe have either departed the service or have become today's GOs.... Or, as I'm becoming more convinced, does the time literally never come when the officer who feels this way gets promoted "enough," to a position where he "can do something about it"? Is the only thing worse than our current system of, say, performance reports every other possible system? How can this issue of ingrained bureaucracy & "yes men" (the proverbial self-licking ice cream cone) be fixed, if those at the bottom are powerless with an ever-increasing tendency to centralized control (no one makes a decision) and those at the top are predominantly those who believe in the system ("it worked for them") and/or cannot effect the system-wide changes needed, despite their high rank?? That's the more interesting question to me. I think the point that there's a problem, as laid out far more eloquently in this paper but discussed informally in every corner of the AF, is made, and I haven't heard any serious rebuttal from any corner. What now?? I have no idea, but I sincerely hope my successors are more successful than my own meager (and largely meaningless) attempts going forward....

It's apparently always March for the Royal Danish Air Force. Photo by Nikon ambassador Casper Tybjerg during the RDAF's Estonia / Baltic deployment.

Fellas, It's been a turbulent March--for people and mustaches alike. I created this gem a few weeks ago when a friend of mine attending SOS confirmed that a champion of the victim culture complained about Mustache March and its inherent sexism. On behalf of all decent females in the AF, I apologize. We hate these women's studies majors just as much as you do. To all the dudes I serve with, it's been a blast being an honorary member of the boys' club. Mustache March 2014.pdf

For you old timers here: how far back do you remember Mustache March? Although the article says it goes back to the 70's, I don't recall seeing it in the 80's or early 90's. Maybe just bad memory on my part. Was it pretty much a TAC-only thing until '92?

All I know after reading through that link is that if I ever commit rape, I am glad I am in the Air Force and an officer, jail for a couple weeks (maybe) and I walk free? Those punishments are disgusting. Especially the ones involving children, sometimes their own. Punishments of 6 mos, 40 mos, etc? If I was the JAG, those motherfu**ers wouldn't make it out of the courtroom before they were lethally injected. I thought the UCMJ was supposed to be tougher on us because we are held to a higher standard. I am truly disappointed in every single one of those punishments. My daughters are no longer allowed to be in the military.