Lt Col Jim Coe4673516<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Noticed in fleet week video that some sailors had three rows of blue piping on collar and cuffs. Some were jr enlisted and some were POs. Others had none. Some were of the same rate and rank. Please enlighten on old Air Force guyWhy do some enlisted sailors have blue piping on the cuffs and collar of their white uniforms?2019-05-27T18:24:37-04:00Lt Col Jim Coe4673516<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Noticed in fleet week video that some sailors had three rows of blue piping on collar and cuffs. Some were jr enlisted and some were POs. Others had none. Some were of the same rate and rank. Please enlighten on old Air Force guyWhy do some enlisted sailors have blue piping on the cuffs and collar of their white uniforms?2019-05-27T18:24:37-04:002019-05-27T18:24:37-04:00LtCol Robert Quinter4674100<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Well Lt Col Coe, since none of our naval buddies want to jump in and satisfy your curiosity, adding the piping to the whites was a change and they have until 2021 to comply. I wondered the same thing because I swear my Dad had the piping on his whites during WWII and when I saw the sailors without the piping, I wondered how they got off their boat wearing undress whites. Shows what we old guys know!Response by LtCol Robert Quinter made May 27 at 2019 11:33 PM2019-05-27T23:33:24-04:002019-05-27T23:33:24-04:00SFC Michael Hasbun4674106<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Service Dress versus Service Dress Whites<br /><br /><a target="_blank" href="https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter3/MaleEnlisted/ME_ServiceDress/Pages/EM_ServiceDressWhite.aspx">https://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/support/uniforms/uniformregulations/chapter3/MaleEnlisted/ME_ServiceDress/Pages/EM_ServiceDressWhite.aspx</a> <div class="pta-link-card answers-template-image type-default">
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Response by SFC Michael Hasbun made May 27 at 2019 11:37 PM2019-05-27T23:37:17-04:002019-05-27T23:37:17-04:001st Lt Padre Dave Poedel4674171<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>I saw it too, and as an old Navy Sea Cadet from the 1960’s, our whited had no piping. Then I went back in the Navy Reserve before I was commissioned in the Air Force and we wore these weird white shits, a hat and black slacks. I didn’t stick around long enough to get a set of the “new” old dress whites without piping. I kind of like the look, as it parallels the dress blue “Cracker Jack” uniform, but remember how hard it was to keep whites clean. I wore whites as my work uniform when I was an enlisted ER and ambulance medic in the Air Force, and they were impossible. When they went to the polyester blend whites, they were impossible to keep from yellowing. Anyway, looking good Navy!Response by 1st Lt Padre Dave Poedel made May 28 at 2019 12:15 AM2019-05-28T00:15:53-04:002019-05-28T00:15:53-04:00CDR Ron Miller4680346<div class="images-v2-count-0"></div>Jim Coe . . . Off Topic: USCINCTRANS?Response by CDR Ron Miller made May 29 at 2019 9:43 PM2019-05-29T21:43:36-04:002019-05-29T21:43:36-04:002019-05-27T18:24:37-04:00