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I just thought there should be a place anyone who served at any time at any command could go and throw out a thought, ask a question or gripe!
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I saw an old post about age requirements to advance.I don't think there was an age requirement.I was a kiddie cruiser.Joined 2 weeks before my 18th birthday.I hit the testing schedule just right.I was a Radioman when they were rating at 100% during the Cuban missle crisis.I made RM2/E5 in less than 3 years.
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Actually they wouldn't work floating in the water. If you find yourself floating in the water you probably need to be rescued. In that case wearing bright orange would be best.
During one of my numerous Med Cruises, we would run around half naked, anyways. That was during Operation Desert Shield. One of my shipmates was sunning himself on the 02 level when a CNN helicoper flew overhead. N-I-I-I-I-I-C-C....LOL
Might work if you are floating in the water! Seems they forgot that the background is usually a gray ship! When have they ever considered the sailor's comfort? I wonder if one would ever see the one's who made the decision or the one's that designed them ever wearing them! Doubt it!
I wonder if anyone ever thought of painting the side of a ship to look like an island? Then the crew could run around deck half naked and look like the natives on the beach!
I believe that they were tryig to "match" the basic sea colors (dark blue, grey).
I also don't believe that they were taking the sailor's comfort in consideration. I have talked to a few sailors and it is not a uniform you would want to wear duing the summer in SE Georgia or NE Florida. Can't imagine the heat in that garment.
re: the SS#, I wonder what the new guidelines are for "prisoners of war"? My name is, my rank is, my service number is 11456xxxx, oh wait a minute it's 9879988 or it's ......or maybe it's........!
re: uniforms, so much for the meaning of the word "uniform"! As a corpsman I was either in my whites or scrubs!, only wore my dress blues on the way home or back, and only got to wear my utilities rarely! Matter of fact, I found I still have 4 "new" unworn utilities in my seabag these 35 years later! Good thing too! I'll be wearing them on board my new ship! (museum ship, USS Slater DE-766).
Those new NWU's look like there is a risk of things getting caught in equipment and machinery! So, I am betting the coveralls will remain!
I wonder if now that "Don't ask, don't tell" has been repealed if they will allow "flamboyant accoutrements"?
I just posed the question to a 1st class that was in until 2004. So, we'll see!
Good question! In 72 mine did too! I think we have to find one of them youngins to answer that one! I thought I recently saw a couple of active duty folks that joined here.
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