MilitaryForge - Uniforms

While SDK is the best working uniform ever, this was my preferred mode of dress for going to work:



Babies are optional. (That was my son at about 9 months, right after I came back from my second deployment to Iceland- he's an 8th grade honors student now. )

Ah, the poopie suit. It's funny. The nearest military airstrip to where I work is on the other side of the island but you see fucking aviators running around the office in them every day.

Flight bags are comfy and they have lots of pockets and patches. Plus they're wash and wear.

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Out of rep.

Was a canadian company responsible for digital camo tech? Serious question i thought i read that somewhere. Marso what was your callsign?

The new Navy enlisted utility dungaree's are shit. The jackets and the pants!

What new dungarees? I thought dungarees were being eliminated.

They were. The new 'working uniform' is a blue-gray BDU.

I think for shipboard wear (at sea), sailors and officers both should be wearing nomex coveralls similar to aviation flight suits. Fire resistant, lots of pockets, wash and wear... the advantages are numerous, the biggest of which is that when you add gloves and a properly made hood, you have a battle dress that can protect the wearer from fire. It's also easy to don other equipment like OBA's and such over them.

When it's time for the ship to pull into port, break out the regular uniforms and look smart while flying the colors.

We don't use "group" laundry services like a prison does....we all wash our own clothes. But I know on a ship you don't have the room for dozens/hundreds of washers + driers.

Regardless, one of things I really appreciate since I retired....I wear whatever I want, as long as it's jeans, T-shirt + workboots (hat is optional...and mine stays on inside or outside).

Well, new in 2000. Traded in the bell bottoms with the ass pockets in front for cheap chinese made dickies rip-offs with weak seams. The utility jacket changed, too, and not for the better!

IMO the mother-of-all uniform FUBAR's....when The Army adopted the
black beret for all soldiers around 2001 or so.

The pilot for that was ongoing when I was still in (got out in 1999), so I have seen those. I think all things considered the pants were an upgrade. It was not possible to possess a penis and not feel like it was being split in two by the crotch seam with the old front mounted back pocket model.

That's the problem, the replacements actually made you want those back! At least the old pants stayed together for more than a couple of days, and could theoretically be used as a flotation device.

^^^ Of course, once I finished training and hit the fleet I probably wore dungarees about six times. All other times it was either coveralls or summer whites/crackerjacks.