Why do the Marines and Navy roll their sleeves differently?

The Army no long rolls sleeves and hasn't since the wear out date of the BDU. Rolling sleeves in The ACU in UCP and OCP is not authorized

I was in a Reserve outfit for a while that used cammies as their “uniform of the day” (early 90s, the “fleet” was still in Dungarees) and they rolled them the USMC way which I thought was a real pain in the butt. Had a friend who served in the Air Force show me they did it and decided it was not only easier but looked a heck of a lot better. The next drill weekend, I wore my sleeves the way my buddy showed me, got some pushback but was not ordered to change back to the “old way” and superiors noticed that it did, in fact, look much better. From there, I watched my work center (I was the LPO) then my division gradually change over and by the time I left, Almost everyone did it the Army/USAF way so maybe I was the instigator?

Went to MCRD San Diego with a prior service Corporal from the Army. He asked the Senior about rolling sleeves and the Senior explained the difference. As stated previously the Army could pull them down quickly in an NBC environment. Marines fold them ( at that time in the early 80’s) in 2 inch folds so they don’t slip down while on a working party or doing your MOS Duties.

Well it just gives you two extra pockets for necessary
items. Take that.

When BDU's first can out the material they were made from was all polyester and they where really hot to wear. The dye used to do the camo print was special in that it had anti infared properties, that's why you were not suppose to starch them. So any way soldier wanted to roll there sleeves in a manner as to not breakup the anti infrared ,that all was a mute point when command wanted to allow the BDU to be starched.Guess old habit die hard. Google BDU's and read.

I always thought it was because we are immune to all those sissy chemical, and biological threats that scare the rest of you....lol

It's easier!

They could just roll their sleeves like the Army....just don't.(I'm only a little bitter)

I was dungaree Navy and we wore either long sleeve or short sleeve depending on POD instructions. We didn’t have a “roll up” option.

We rolled the blueberries the army way for general quarters purposes.