The Ministry of Defence: Chuffing Wonderful

The Ministry of Defence has just published this wonderfully informative article about soldiers cutting each other's hair.



This is how it starts:



"Forget crimps and curls, tints and blow dry, soldiers both male and female are queuing up at their local hair salon for a simple short back and sides. Except the salon in question is in Afghanistan and the only styles available are a short back and sides or a crew cut! The 'hairdressers' responsible for introducing this service are Captain Emily Brookes...."



I must say it makes me frightfully proud to be British. And it gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling inside, knowing that the MOD has got both Afghanistan and Iraq covered, has sorted out the unmitigated disaster that is defence procurement... and has found time to write thought-provoking, informative and insightful pieces on hair-cuts.



Just in case anyone is wondering, British soldiers have cut each others hair since at least Gulf War One (and, lets face it, probably since we first decided that Afghanistan would be a nice place to spend the winter in 1839). It's about as 'newsworthy' as the fact that there are bad men with guns in Iraq.



If you happen to know the poor benighted cretin who wrote the drivel in question, or indeed, if you are a poor benighted cretin working for the MOD who'd like to stick up for this kind of pointless money-wasting tripe, please feel free to post a reply.