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2 Air Force questions, female hair regulations, and qualifying.?

First off, I joined the Marines 3 years ago, I’m 21 now and I didn’t make it because I fractured my arm pretty bad. It’s all good now and I want to join the AF. I was in boot camp for 5 months, 2.5 months training and the rest I was healing but then they realized how bad my injury was and let me go.

Anyway, when I tried to “apply” (the AF) or let them know my info online, it said they weren’t taking people with prior service, but are there any recruiters here that can tell me if I qualify or not? Cause technically I didn’t serve in the fleet. I was let go at boot camp.

I really need to do this because my life has just turned upside down and I have been wanting to go back to the military since I was let go. But didn’t because I had a husband in the Marines.

Also in the Marines, long female hair has to be a tight bun , NO fly aways, and NO VISIBLE hair clips (bobby pins, hair-ties). Is the AF the same way? Cause I had to get my hair cut there and I’ve grown it out, but I REALLY don’t want to cut it again, it means so much to me. That’s why I won’t join the Navy.

Thank you guys so much in advance!!

Please email me if you have anymore advice. I’m sure I’ll pass MEPS with flying colors cause I had no problems before.

How much money would be saved by removing the troops from the middle east?

How much money would actually be saved by pulling troops out of the middle east? Time after time critics argue that we are waisting money by being in the middle east..Money to rebuild will always be going to the middle east for a long time to come..If the troops were not in the middle east some of them would still be deployed. US troops get paid regardless of war or not..The military still trains and fires live rounds whether they are in Iraq or not..Ships still sail, jets still fly, Marines still deploy, reservist still drill, life goes on….All this cost money regardless of whether we are at war or not..So then why do some think we would be a richer Nation if we pulled out of Iraq?? Some claim the “recession” is due to the middle east..How are these two things tied together?? How much money would actually be saved? During times of peace everyone seems to be “ok” with the enormous defense budget, then why whine now about it??