[tgusa]

So they’ll blend in with the ocean if they fall overboard?

PS - our Sailors snidely refer to these uniforms as ‘aqua-flage’.

[Goldsborough]

When I was in during the late 80s we were wearing the chambray shirts with iron transferred rank insignia, over a white tee shirt, with denim pants, web belt, black socks. and mid-cut leather boots called boondockers, though I sprung for some steel toed Danners. We either wore the "dixie cup" or the command ball cap.

They weren't the sharpest working uniform ever made, but they were a throwback to the uniform worn since WW2 and represented a tradition all of its own that way. The "aquaflage" represents an organization playing "me too" on BDU style uniforms. For a more durable working uniform, the Navy should just make the navy blue coveralls we all wore for dirty work the standard shipboard uniform, maybe put some better cargo pockets on them. If a squid is doing work among the ground pounders, just adopt the Marines' MARPAT, but with a Navy symbology repeating in the fabric rather than the globe and anchor theme in the USMC version.