Posted on 04/06/2016 1:59:56 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Junior female sailors are not the only women to get new uniforms.
Female officers and senior enlisted sailors will wear updated styles, such as new combination covers.
By the fall of 2016, both enlisted men and women will receive new service dress blues, what the Navy calls “crackerjacks.”
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The “Dixie cup” style dates back to 1886 when it was first incorporated into Navy uniform regulations, according to the Navy’s historical site.
“It can be squared, rolled, crushed, fitted with ‘gull wings’ or simply worn as it comes from small stores. It can be used as a flotation device or a sun shield or even, some claim, as a dog food dish. With its many shapes and uses, it may be the most versatile article of clothing a Navy enlisted man wears,” the site states.
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According to the site, approximately 140,000 white hats are made every month in Puerto Rico for the Defense Personnel Support Center.
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The rate of pregnancies on board U.S. Navy co-ed ships is staggering.
She can get her wish today ...
That’s one way of getting out of doing your duty.
Those hats are pretty cute, I must admit.
As a Coastie, who dated a coastie, I can say, through her first hand testimony, the women’s barracks were little more than a lesbian orgy.
Had my uncles. It was cool.
Not Sailor:
LOL!
What about turbans, burkas, etc...?
...that is soooooo bad!
Pregnancy rates are especially high on support vessels. The repair ship USS Puget Sound was such a love boat it became known as the USS Pubic Mound.
Actually, McQueen was a Marine and not a sailor (he was part of President Truman’s honor guard), and women have been sailors since the WAVES branch of the USNR was formed in 1942.
In that picture from “Sand Pebbles,” McQueen is most definitely a sailor.
Sand Pebbles. I think it was one of Steve McQueen’s best movies.
When I was in, dress whites were just whites with a kerchief.
Do the new dress whites have piping or is it just a gal thing?
That right there is why I clicked on this thread. ;o)
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