Check out the new Air Force Uniforms
Posted on 09/04/2015 9:45:06 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
The United States Navy announced that it will be phasing out certain out-of-date styles and items of the working uniform through Oct. 1 and introducing other new styles, the military publication Stars and Stripes reported Tuesday. Authorities said they wanted to update the uniform using new technology and limit the number of items a sailor needs to buy each year, and to keep the seabag each person brings onboard a naval ship as light as possible.
The most significant change was to the Navy coveralls, eliminating the blue set except for work that would soil other uniforms. Officials had already begun to phase them out on an unofficial basis, and they will be replaced with flame-retardant coveralls to be worn on board Navy ships at all times, the announcement said. The new guidelines also lowered the required number of coveralls from four to three, with a replacement set each year.
The Navy has changed its uniforms several times over the past year, and not everyone was happy with the latest changes, saying new regulations would be time-consuming to maintain. “I really wish we would stay with four pairs of NWUs; it’s a working uniform, and I’m already having to wash them all the time,” Seaman Mark Troncoso, a serviceman who said he often works with paint and oil, told Stars and Stripes. "I understand not wearing coveralls to the PX, but you should be able to at least wear them near the ship," he said.
Unbelievable.
Our military change uniform designs like I change my underwear because some queer does not like the “design”.
It is costing the taxpayer 100s of thousands of dollars just in research to come up with the new “in” uniform.
Out of date...... *facepalm* By all means, change what works.
I suppose though that since the rules don't actually let anyone fight anymore that they have to do something. Still...
Yknow, pretty soon we will be just like France where the military is just another fashion opportunity.
They've got to work on the increased possibility of flash burns, but at least they're inclusive.
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Search the world for treasure
Learn science technology
Where can you begin to make your dreams all come true
On the land or on the sea
Where can you learn to fly
Play in sports and skin dive
Study oceanography
Sign up for the big band
Or sit in the grandstand
When your team and others meet
In the navy
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In the navy
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Man, I get seasick even watchin’ it on the TV!
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What am I gonna do in a submarine?
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In the navy
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In the navy
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I still have an old (20 years) pair of my Navy coveralls. I loved them.
Of course that zipper is harder to get up my fat belly these days.
Bob Dylan wrote about this 50 years ago...
They’re selling postcards of the hanging
They’re painting the passports brown
The beauty parlor is filled with sailors
The circus is in town
Here comes the blind commissioner
They’ve got him in a trance
One hand is tied to the tight-rope walker
The other is in his pants
And the riot squad they’re restless
They need somewhere to go
As Lady and I look out tonight
From Desolation Row.
Tutus for everyone!
Are they still keeping the ‘sea camo’ pattern that makes it all but impossible to spot a ‘man overboard’?
I wonder how much money is squandered changing uniform styles. The uniform I wore in the 50’s was just fine!!! It would great today!!!
Amen, though I wore "tailor mades" whenever I thought I could get away with it.
[sidebar] I was told this back then: A U.S. sailor was in a bar with some British tars. One of them asked what the two stars on the back flap represented. He replied that it was for the two times we beat the crap out of England and there was room for plenty more. It took a lot of Shore Patrol to break up the fight.
“Amen, though I wore “tailor mades” whenever I thought I could get away with it.”
Lo these many years ago, I showed up in formation for an Admirals inspection at NAS Millington in a set of blues tailored by my Aunt. The Master Chief was not pleased. Later, I was not pleased.
Crony capitalism, corporate welfare.
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