What does the morons in the Pentagon think sailors are hiding from? Yea it would be very difficult to locate a man overboard wearing it. Most sailors are on a ship and dungaree's are the most functional. I would not want to wear that uniform in The Hole that's for sure. It looks mighty hot to me. Why can't they just stand with tradition? It bet someone or someones fried, realitive, whatever, made a fortune with this ordered uniform change.
I think maybe they're trying to hide some of the fat behinds of the women sailors, or for that matter the men too.
There's a lot of extra room in the posterior of those pants.
Of course like you say the juicy contracts for some Congressman's cousin probably had something to do with it too.
Dungarees were a heckuva lot hotter than BDUs. Plus, since everything is always being painted, one misstep and those dungarees are ruined. With the BDUs, haze gray just blends right in. Helps with morale as well, since now sailors can actually look like they are in the military, rather than prison.
Their division officer. Like always. ;-)
Let me get this straight - they found a single sailor in open water? My hat's off to everyone involved. It's a little hard for someone who's never been out there to realize how very difficult that is even in the best of conditions. Awesome job. Bravo Zulu.