My buddy Nick Palmisciano, who is on the Soldiers’ Angels board of advisors and President of the best MMA apparel site Ranger Up, has come up with an innovative way to raise awareness and money for a good cause.

“From now until the MMA fight on 10 December 2011, we’re asking every MMA fighter, celebrity, or organization that wants to make a fundamental difference in the lives of our men and women serving abroad to “Mustache Up” and sign up for a team. Your team can be as many or as few people as you want. We’ll post anything you want about yourself and your team. We’ll link your page, your sponsors, anything. What we ask of you is that you get the word out and ask your fans and friends to donate to your team via this website.

Our dream is that on 10 December when Jon Bones Jones faces Lyoto Machida, the cage is full of fantastic facial hair, showcasing amazing support for our men and women in uniform.

All donations are tax deductible and will go through Soldiers’ Angels accounts.”

And lest you get the idea that growing a stache is some easy feat, think again. Guys like Tim Kennedy – while able to kick the living snot out of me for saying this – will most likely require expensive pubic implants from their nether regions to pull it off. They’re really making huge sacrifices to support the troops (and so am I for making these accusations!).

With that said, I feel it important to the extension of my lifespan that I throw my hat in the ring to support Team Ranger Up. I’m going to need the protection when Team America hunts me down in my fobbit hole here in Afghanistan and decides to rip my head off and urinate down the resulting orifice (can I say that?). Besides, if you are thinking, “hey, did I recently see Brian fight with a face as smooth as a baby’s butt? How’d he grow that stache?” Well, here’s the secret to his stache success.

Don’t be caught walking around with a bare upper lip or the terrorists win. Go to the StacheBash.org website and donate to the team of your choice.