2008 Navy Uniform Update
NAVADMIN 004/08 announced the following major Navy uniform changes in 2008
- Navy Working Uniform (NWU). A blue, black and gray digital pattern uniform will be issued to all Sailors. It replaces both the wash-khaki and dungaree uniform.
-Physical Training Uniform. All Sailors will be get a Navy PT uniform for the first time. The PT uniform should be available in exchanges during spring of 08.
-E-6 & Below Service Uniform (SU). Junior Sailors will begin to replace the summer white and winter blue uniforms by a year round model called the Service Uniform. The new uniform consists of a khaki shirt, black pants, garrison cap and pin on collar devices.
The Service Uniform and Navy Working Uniform will be phased in to the fleet over the 24 month period. The Service Uniform will begin in summer and the Navy Working Uniform will begin in the winter of 2008.
Active duty enlisted sailors will receive the first of two increases in their uniform allowance of approximately $300 to cover the cost of purchasing new uniform items. Reserve sailors will be issued uniforms once they become available. Officers are required to pay for the uniforms.
Sailors should see NAVADMIN 004/08 for more information.
WHAT THE HELL IS MY NAVY COMING TO...MUST BE THE SUPPLY OFFICER, OR SOMEONE HAS BEEN CONVINCED THAT THIS NEW UNIFORM WILL BE TREMENDOUS...SOMEONE IS ONE HELL OF A SALESMAN...I think the White uniform for summer is great, but the rest SUCK to be perfectly Blunt..This is the U.S. Navy, we were founded by John Paul Jones and due to some admiral trying to flex his muscles, like Admiral Zumwalt, this is going to be as disasterous...with the exception of the enlisted whites, leave everything alone. Gee wilikers...Yes, I am old school CPO, but who listens to us...I know, this is the "modern" navy...get with the program Chief...
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If it wasn't broken do not try to fix it. I enlisted in the Navy in 1947 and was happy with the uniform, If I was still in the Navyi would still want the old uniform.. I still have the Neckerchief I was issued in San Diego.
I see navy honor guards at funerals now and they certainly look sharp in their crisp Whites or Dress Canvas as we referred to it(Blues)
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PTU good idea.NWU I can except,but prefer the dungarees.The SU I don't like at all.They are trying to make sailors look like the other branches of services or E6 thru E1 to look like a CPO.All the Navies of the world have uniforms that are similar and go back hundreds of years.We will be loosing a lot of tradition. One uniform for both summer & winter, I question.As an old ex sailor I am sadden & hope I will be able to recognize a USA sailor should I see them on the street.
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The new summer working uniform is hedious. A khaki shirt/blouse and black pants is flat ugly and is remeniscent of the uniform worn by a infamous regime. Khaki is tradtionally reserved for Chiefs and Officers. When questions arose, the crew looked for the Chief or Officer by looking for the khaki. This new uniform takes away from this tradition.
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The E-6 and below uniform looks pretty good; though I would have preferred we retain the old blues and whites. The new working uniform, in the Navy as well as the other Services, is hideous. Come on, if we were in the jungle somewhere it would be appropriate. But in an office setting ashore or on a ship, come on - get more real.
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The whites & blues are tradition. Without tradition the is no Navy.
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This entire change is a disaster. Adm. Mike Mullen hang your head in shame! Will sailors be called the Black and Tans or is that to be reserved for the Irish? The traditional dungaree working uniform has been and remains user friendly and a recognizable boundary between chiefs and those up to E6. Keep them! Dress blues have an aire all their own and carry years of tradition. Where will the traditional pea-coats go? Will the "Lone Sailor" statue also get a new set of clothes? Whites - OK with officer-style white collared shirts and white pants for up to E6. I've never been a fan of dress white jumpers. Keep sailors looking like sailors!
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Great gobs of heifer dust !!! I thought we hit bottom with Zumwalt.
What are those clowns drinking who dream up this stuff ?
I served as a recruiter & the OLD uniform drew them in.
As another said, are they planning to redo the Lone Sailor too ?
Makes me ill. Almost glad I won't live to see it OR to explain it.
Pride is in performance, appearance, tradition etc.
Thanks, idiots, for stripping away some of the pride. Must be YOU want name fame.
I noticed they canvassed mostly YOUNG folks who, I submit, watch too much of everything except history, custom and tradition.
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Last that I checked, at least when I got out of the Navy 2 years ago. the only thing that was going to be changed were the Johnny Cash's, the Ice cream man uniform and the gas station attendant uniform. From what I understood, the dress uniforms were to stay the same. I don't know what everyone is complaining about, I think it is great that they are changing these. Granted, I know everyone would rather have the dungaree's, but they were out years ago. At least they are trying to make sailors feel like they are in the military, and not working at a citgo. Tradition is great, I loved that part, but it isn't everything.
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