The ‘gig line’ is back in the Air Force even if you didn't know it ever left

The ‘gig line’ is back in the Air Force even if you didn't know it ever left

A basic rule for uniform that all service members learn early in their military careers is how to keep their gig line straight, meaning that their trouser fly, belt buckle and shirt buttons on their uniform all form a straight line. But if a rule — even one as well known as the “gig line” — isn’t written down, is it even a rule? That was the issue facing the Air Force, whose uniform regulations stopped spelling out for airmen exactly what the gi…