[RJS1950]

Absolutely, Merrill was the idiot who dictated among other things that all AF members within ACC would wear V-neck tee shirts to show their chest hair and look like "Manly men". Even other generals laughed about him and told jokes about him. He was a fighter jock who pulled too many G's and starved his brain (if he ever had one).

[Poohbah]

Absolutely, Merrill was the idiot who dictated among other things that all AF members within ACC would wear V-neck tee shirts to show their chest hair and look like "Manly men".

I imagine that the women looked...uh...womanly, showing off their cleavage?

We went through that phase in the USMC in the mid-1980s.

Try wearing a Charlie uniform (quarter-sleeve shirt, open collar), the overcoat, and a V-neck tee shirt.

You looked like a flasher!