Posted on Feb 6, 2018
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As an old Navy veteran, this is a step in the right direction. Get back to the way sailors looked for generations. The old Dungaree uniform doubled as flotation, as well as the Dixie cup! What does a sea going sailor have to be in camouflage in the first place? And stop changing the uniform every other year!
Khakis at sea? The Navy’s plan for a new operational uniform
Posted from militarytimes.com
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Khaki historically has been for Officer and Chief Petty Officers. Rank and file sailors in blue denighm . If the military would stop re inventing the uniforms every 10 years or so, they would save millions of dollars, which can be spent more effectitvely on more important items. It makes me wonder who, if anyone benifits from these changes. Sailors at sea do not have enough storage as it is to take all the required uniforms
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I'd be fine with it, except for the fact that we went to a new uniform about 8 years ago when they adopted the Navy Working Uniform Type I (blue cammies). Then just last year they announced that we were ditching the Type I's for Type III's (green cammies). We are literally still in the rollout phase for the Type III's (mandatory wear date is 1 October 2019) and they are already talking about changing the uniform yet again. If we keep up at this pace they will begin wear testing of the uniform that will replace those talked about in the article before they ever announce their rollout dates.
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Good Gawd. Go back to Khaki's for the Goat Locker and Wardroom...Dungarees or a similar low maintenance/high wear uni for E6 and below. I never understood wearing blue cammie at sea. Just what I'd want to be wearing if I got tossed into the drink...Ocean camouflage. Who comes up with this stuff???
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CWO3 Dennis M.
PO1 James Booker I think the leadership that comes up with all this stuff are the same ones that changed the entire Navy and are the ones that think change is good for the sake of change! They just can't believe the old phrase, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it!" All this change is just not working out very well for them or for the Navy!
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PO1 James Booker
CWO3 Dennis M. - You got that right. Dungarees or coveralls were the ideal uni for shipboard life for "bluejackets". Ships were/are just "dirty" environments most of the time. I can't imagine wearing those ridiculous cammies all day long out in the gulf or on WesPac. I think they just wanted to keep up with the Army/Marines and indeed...changed just for change sake. No practical reason for it. We'd been wearing the same basic uniforms for 50+ years for a reason...ESPECIALLY at sea.
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