This has proven to be every bit as popular as Zumwalt’s Navy uniform experiments back in the 70’s were. The number one thing that Sailors wanted back was the Cracker Jack dress blues uniform, instead of the half-assed Air Force messcook uniforms old Elmo came up with...
At least the army didn’t go back to making the troops grease the hair with lard and powdering it with flour.....
Any other old salts out there still have a set of South China Sea Liberty cuff embroidered dragon patches for their Blues??
Did you have zippers put into your dress blues jumper in the PI??
How about in the 13 button pants??
Did you keep your Liberty Blues folded inside out under the mattress of your rack to make sure the creases stayed crisp??
What was sewn under the flap of your “Liberty Blues” jumper...??
I was in the Air Force in 1960. After basic, I was assigned to Goodfellow AFB at San Angelo, TX, for radio school. We had ten man classes, five airmen and five sailors. While in school, the airmen wore 505 (khakis) and the sailors wore the white uniform with the flap (undress uniform?). Then both services switched to blues on 15 Oct. The sailors had those uniforms to which you referred, with the dragons on the reverse of the cuffs, even though none of them had ever been overseas before. It was bad enough for airmen, soldiers and Marines having to travel wearing Class As, but those Navy uniforms struck me as being awfully uncomfortable during the summer. I spent a lot of time at the flight line at Clark Air Base in the PI, and saw a lot of sailors passing through, wearing those dress blues when it was about 95 out with a humidity to match.
All I can tell you is my present fly says “The best there is” on the inside. LoL
To bad I’m the only one that has read it LoL