That headline is not an error. And just in case you think I plucked this story from obscurity, the hair-raising tale of American troops enjoying a good eyebrow grooming session was featured in the Wall Street Journal.
We're not talking about servicemembers correcting a monobrow, a la Bert from Sesame Street. No, as the WSJ reports, it's more about venturing into metrosexual territory.
The extreme grooming may have started as miscommunication between Afghan barbers and U.S. servicemembers. But Gulam Farooq, camp barber at Forward Operating Base Joyce, tells the WSJ:
[H]e happily performs the service, using a razor or a special threading technique, for an average of one or two U.S. soldiers a day. "I trained for it at a barber school in Kabul," where religious strictures are less rigidly observed, he says.
There are military regulations on uber-grooming. The Marines' grooming regulations say...
"excessive plucking or removal of eyebrows is not authorized, except for medical reasons."
For more on this unusual story, click here to read the Wall Street Journal article.
