Posted on 10/14/2015 11:56:13 AM PDT by QT3.14
Under orders from Secretary Ray Mabus, the Navy has announced changes that will eventually make uniforms and covers more gender-neutral.
And so, the unisex "Dixie Cup," or enlisted white hat, will come into being and be available for wear by E-6s and below next April. Female sailors will also be allowed to carry bigger purses, so long as they match their shoes.
"Having service members don the same headgear is symbolic of a Navy that is gender-blind," said Lt. Cmdr. Nate Christensen, a Navy spokesman.
"We have been working hard to design covers and uniforms that improve uniformity across the force as well as improve the function and fit of sailors' uniforms" according to Mabus' plan for uniform and cover redesign, Christensen said.
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Yes, but for which side? F***ing traitor.
What a gender-insensitive and sexist comment. Aren't the men going to be allowed to carry bigger purses, too?
And many wonder why Beijing is taunting the 0bama; daring him to cross what they claim are now Chinese waters in the So. China Sea.
Weakness begets aggression.
“Female sailors will also be allowed to carry bigger purses”
What great thing. Our nation has long waited for the time when the Navy would have a regulation and encourage sailors to carry a purse.
It would be sad to cover Catherine Bell in a gunny sack.
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A Navy that is gender-blind is a Navy that is blind to reality.
The Yamato.
Why purses at all? Why can females carry these, and men cannot have some equivalent?
I take it the "male" sailors are already allowed larger purses as long as they match?
Our DI's told us all sorts of tales about sailors over at the NTC when I was at MCRD San Diego, but we thought it improbable.
Women will have no problem with bell-bottom trousers, bot today’s femen might.
I can't vouch for the authenticity, but I read recently that the 13-button dress blue trouser will still have 13-buttons, but they will be for cosmetic purposes only. There will be zippers of some kind, to ease ingress and egress.
How homosexual of them.
The jumper will incorporate a side zipper
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I seem to recall a Dress Blue Jumper purchased in Hong Kong - supposedly silk - with the ‘dragon on inside of cuffs’, 13 button trousers - all lined with supposed silk - and the jumper had a zipper on the side.
Believe the outer material was sharkskin (supposedly)
Can just imagine the ‘today’ me in such a get up. back then, as a (more than) skinny kid, you could almost ‘count your ribs’ with the ‘tailored Blues’.
Since I was a REAL liberty hound (was shocked to learn in later days that there was more to Liberty than the 2 mile radius that surrounded most ports) so I must have just shipped over to be able to afford them as I was probably making about 150- bucks a month as an E5 in 61
My friend/neighbor and his wife got upset when I told them ‘Spandex isn’t for everyone....(I was referring to me ..HA) but they both figured I was mocking them (Well, if the ‘foo shits’, wear it)....
Navy would have a regulation and encourage sailors to carry a purse.
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BUT its European (J Seinfeld)
Or the Chief or Gunny that said when he went in in, CSing was outlawed,
then it became Don’t ask, Don’t tell
SO
he got out before ‘they’ declared it mandatory
Served from 1985-1991.....Glad to be out...Just started the PC hogwash in 1990. Must admit something totally a-holish i did one time....A navy tug pulled up to a barge we were staying on while in the shipyard...a little navy gal was struggling handling the lines....a big bull dyke stepped out of the wheel house and hollered at me to help that girl...I just stood there and yelled “She can’t handle her job?”...She just glared at me...I walked away...This was the women can do anything era...before the fag stuff.
I will be so pleased when sanity is restored. Someday it will be.
The real question is can men carry bigger purses as long as they match the shoes? If not, then that’s discrimination.
This just sucks! A beautiful Wave in uniform is simply beautiful. And the hat tops it off. Now they’ll wear Dixie cups? And by the way, “Dixie cup” is racist!
It won’t be long, my friend.
“Drop your c**ks and grab your socks”
I thought it was the other way around.
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