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[GulfCoastie]

Us Coasties just changed our work uniform as well, we kept the solid blue color, just changed from our janitor uniform to what is basically the standard BDUs except we decided to remove the bottom blouse pockets and tuck it in. Also, every enlisted was issued a standard seabag worth of it as long as they had more than a year left active so no one had to pay out of pocket.
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Wayne Kidd
CPO, USCG
OPS, USCGC Wrangell (WPB 1332)
Patrol Forces Southwest Asia

[Snipe]

Back in the mid-70s, I was a brand new Chief stationed at Naval
Construction Training Center at Port Hueneme, CA. One day the
CO called me up to his office, took me over to the window overlooking
the back door to the Personnel Office. There were about 20 brand new
SeaBees milling around out there, just out of Boot Camp, and wearing
the new "suit & tie" uniform. The CO was not a happy camper. He
told me to find out why some of the sailors out there were wearing black
socks and why others were wearing white socks.

"Aye, aye Sir"

So I ask a "white sock" sailor.

"Chief, I went to Orlando and the uniform is with white socks."

"Chief, I went to San Diego and the uniform is with black socks."

"Yabut Chief, I went to boot camp at Great Lakes and the uniform
is black socks OVER white socks."

The Chief: "Uniform in 11th Naval District is black socks. Make it so."

Went back and told the CO.

CO: "I knew there was a reasonable explanation."

That was really a great tour.


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Tin Can Sailor

[1991932]

[HOV1]

Oh the humility of it all........ Since I joined the Georgia State Guard I've done nothing but give them sh*t over having to wear a "girlscout hat" (beret) and "What the hell are you supposed to do with all these F***ing pockets if you can't put anything in them?" Now I am reaping what I have sown and the smart alecs are sharpening their knives.... OY!
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USN 78-84 STS1(SS) USS George C. Marshall SSBN 654(G)



HOV1

[Hondo]

After reading a couple of the above, I just couldn’t resist . . .

I be standin’ here, patch over me bad eye, earring shined, cutlass sharp as a razor, wearin’ me Sunday best, parrot on me shoulder - and I’m hearin’ that the US Navy be GIVIN’ UP ITS DUNGAREES!

Shiver me timbers! Ain't nothing better for wrappin’ round yer loins than some ’o that certified uniform navy twill! How’s an honest pirate like meself supposed to find it now? It ain’t to be found growin’ on palm trees, ye know!

Next, ye’ll be tellin’ me there ain’t no such thing as mermaids, and that we can’t keelhaul prisoners, nor make ’em walk the plank, and that there ain’t no longer cat nor grog in the Royal Navy!!

Arr, it’s enough to make Davie Jones ’imself become a landlubber!
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"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse."
-- John Stuart Mill

[shooter]

OH NO!!!

Uncle Sugars' Canoe Club is dropping the Skirt requirement for women!!!!

Shame, shame, shame......

I remember when the "Word of the Day" was LEGS and we did our level best to "Spread" the word.

Guess they'll just have to check for lumps in the shirt now......
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ADC USN Ret.

For those that fought for it, Freedom has a flavor the protected will never know !!

Harley Davidson - If you have to ask, you don't understand !

Gun Control = Double tap - center mass

[JB Stone]

Well, well, well....the PC Navy has FINALLY arrived....!!!!



I've been reading the various posts and they're a hoot.

The argument about "hiding little spots" would have been expanded in the Good Ol' Days [1967-70] to places unprintable here.



But, since they allow GIRLS on ships now.....I'm HOPING they don't opt for Fleet Wide shoulder bags for all swabbies as well.



Heck, when I was on the Granny [USS Granville S. Hall, YAG-40]** jamming my dungarees into my microscopic "locker" with my foot was the most space-saving method ever devised....and OCCASIONALLY I'd even put on socks for morning muster....just walk slow and NOBODY knows.

But, after several million washings, they WERE the most comfy damn things I EVER owned. And, if they DIDN'T have any "spots" on them....the Chief would FIND some way to get something on them....eh....???

I'm with the guy who requisitioned the DAYGLO Flourescent stuff...good for hunting when you go home.

I SERIOUSLY think this whole thing is just a ploy to support the South Korean economy as we ALL know there couldn't POSSIBLY be any "logical" explanation to the whole mess.

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**I'm not saying that things were 'LAX' or anything during OPS, but newbies of all ranks were often somewhat amiss to discover that the Uniform du Jour in the Marshall Islands was shorts, a ball cap, and flip flops.....no joke...!!!

How'd we get away with all that....???

Let's just say you ain't seen NUTHIN' yet until you step onto the very literal "Wackiest Ship in the Army" or one of its accompaniment of "ocean going" tugs...which were actually Army harbor tugs with points welded onto them.


http://home.comcast.net/~kknowlto/navy.htm

And, to a Granny Boy, the thought of "Glow in the Dark" uni's was, well....beyond histrionics:

[hosemonkey]

Holy Crap! Bellbottoms and dungarees are for SAILORS and I wore them with deep pride for twenty-two years and cried when I took them off for the last time. I will be buried in my dress blues and when I (hopefully) get to heaven, I won't look like an explosion in the paint locker.
Hosemonkey said that!

[Snipe]

"...an explosion in the paint locker." That's a great line. I gotta
remember that for later. I'll save that one for when #3 SinL gets
out of basic at Ft. Benning. He'll probably have enough wherewithall
to stuff me in a dumpster though.


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Tin Can Sailor