I pulled mine out of storage a couple months ago to try it on and somehow it had shrunk........
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Along about 2000 went on the USS Enterprise (CVN65) for a ‘day cruise’ and the most significant thing I noticed about her was - even though she was built in ‘my era’ - that the ladders were steeper and the passageways narrower.
Amazing how something that big can have ‘shrinkage’.
Must be from the time it spends in the water????
I don’t have my original issue Navy jumper but I can imagine how small it would be. It was a size forty and now I need a size fifty. I weigh eighty six pounds more than when I signed up fifty two years ago. The amazing thing is that I am not actually fat now. I was a six four beanpole when I joined. People have commented on my forearms in recent years because when I move my fingers they can see the muscles, tendons and even veins move in my forearms, my forearms are an inch bigger in diameter now than my upper arms were when I joined the Navy.