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04-02-2008, 10:14 AM
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| Older Than Dirt   Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| What's This Man's Navy Coming To ?? Was so mad this morning. Two female US Navy officers (a LTjg & a Lt) were in the dealership this morning. Both were dressed in dress blues. One had black cowboy boots on, big dangling earrings, and too much make-up plastering her face. The other had brown flight deck shoes on. Both of them looked like the flood was imminent.... their trousers were two inches too short. What the hell has happened to our Navy ? Don't officers care what they look like out in public ?? Ask me if I'm  ed......Charles
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04-02-2008, 10:19 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Escondido,Ca
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| Thats just wrong, bet they dont dress like that on base! p.s. were they cute?
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04-02-2008, 10:25 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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| Need to go back to the days of "wooden ships and iron men", like when you were in Charles.  TO
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04-02-2008, 10:32 AM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Escondido,Ca
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| ooohhhh..........ducking right now
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04-02-2008, 10:34 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Texas
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| I cannot tell you how often I see BDUs and the new cammies in public after duty hours. I cannot believe it. I do not live in a military town. These kids are coming home on leave and wearing cammies. They do it to get attention and because there is no one here to catch them. I would never dream of being seen in class "D", fatigues off post. Unless we were stopping for fuel, we had to change before going anywhere. No personal standards. DBII DBII |
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04-02-2008, 10:40 AM
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| Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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| I'll be the first to admit that times have changed. I retired in 1971. When I got out you couldn't get off your ship, let alone out the main gate in anything but "dress canvas". They had a rule for shore duty types: you could wear dungarees while in a vehicle, to or from base, but no stopping at the local watering hole or the supermarket. I guess times have really changed. Sure, TO, we had wooden ships ! Most of the minesweepers were wood ! Charles
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04-02-2008, 11:12 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: my azz is in Mississippi, but, I am a true Texan.
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| WOW..the things I learn on this site!
__________________  "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving. - Albert Einstein Life is tough..its even harder when you're stupid. -John Wayne |
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04-02-2008, 11:45 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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| I agree with you Mr C! I have a question for you, what's the difference between the blues, canvas and the white USN uniforms, when and where do you where them......? And....what the h*ll is this? 
__________________  JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!"  |
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04-02-2008, 12:21 PM
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| Der Crewchief  Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| I called out a female US Army Col. in Washington DC one time. I had just gotten back from Iraq and me and my wife were on vacation in the States. We stopped in Washington for 10 days to check out the museums and I see this female Col. walking by with here beret looking like it was a chef hat. I walked over to her and pulled out my ID Card and showed it to her saying that I was Active Duty Army and that is in a very visible and high profile place and she needs to wear the Uniform like she cares and in the proper way because people are watching her. She just looked at me and walked on...
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04-02-2008, 01:09 PM
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| Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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uniforms: Dress Blues (referred to as "dress canvas") which is as the name implies, a dress uniform. There are also undress blues, which is a working uniform. The jumper doesn't have "piping" (white stripes) and the cuffs don't button. The only different between dress white and undress white is the neckerchief is worn with dress white. Then,there are dungarees, for working personnel who may get their hands dirty. And, navy personnel on combat duty wear cammo...... I don't know why, the cammo stands out like a sore thumb. When each uniform (blue or white) is worn is determined by the Commandant of the particular Naval District. Norfolk is in the 6th ND, and whites usually go into effect April 15th. Dress Blue is a traveling uniform and is in worn Sept 15th to April 14th. Charleston, SC is HQ for the 5th Naval District (and includes Ga. & Fla) and being further south may have different dates. Hawaii, being in the 14th Naval District,would probably be different, also. There are other exceptions, too. A USN Corpsman attached to the Fleet Marines would wear the Marine uniform, with his proper rate insignia [called a "crow"] instead of the red stripes of PFC, CPL or whatever. SeaBees also wear greens as a working uniform. Charles
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04-02-2008, 01:15 PM
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| Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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04-02-2008, 01:31 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Jersey Shore
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TO
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04-02-2008, 01:43 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Texas
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| Maybe she was Col Sanders?  DBII Last edited by DBII; 04-02-2008 at 01:47 PM. |
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04-02-2008, 01:45 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: A Swede living in Glasgow, Scotland
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__________________ JAN "Felicis Tredecim" "I´m going back to the front to relax" "THE BLACK CATS FLIES TONIGHT" "Find your enemy and shoot him down - everything else is unimportant!" "When you're out of F-8's... You're out of fighters!" | |
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04-02-2008, 01:52 PM
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| Older Than Dirt Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
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All ya gotta do is ask, Jan. If I don't know the answer I know where to find it. Charles
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