Flight Suits and NWUs?

[Hammer10k]

When is the flight suit change supposed to take place? I was issued tan flight suits pretty recently.

 

[RadicalDude]

If you're not in a RAG yet... don't worry about it.

Watch what the guys ahead of you do, and do that.

This shit is not rocket science.

 

[Gatordev]

When is the flight suit change supposed to take place? I was issued tan flight suits pretty recently.

This is part of the issue. SNAs get issued tan flight suits but then show up to some fleet locations where they're not authorized and now only have one green suit to wear. Said individual than annoys everyone with their stink and gets counseled by RAG IP. Repeat 40 weeks a year.

 

[Flash]

This is part of the issue. SNAs get issued tan flight suits but then show up to some fleet locations where they're not authorized and now only have one green suit to wear. Said individual than annoys everyone with their stink and gets counseled by RAG IP. Repeat 40 weeks a year.

Do studs still get 4 sets of bags, 2 khaki and two green?

 

[Pags]

This is part of the issue. SNAs get issued tan flight suits but then show up to some fleet locations where they're not authorized and now only have one green suit to wear. Said individual than annoys everyone with their stink and gets counseled by RAG IP. Repeat 40 weeks a year.

There used to be a little known building at Whiting where, if you asked, they'd give you the flight suits of attrites. I went there prior to leaving for the RAG and got a pile of thermals, flight suits, etc.

 

[Uncle Fester]

There used to be a little known building at Whiting where, if you asked, they'd give you the flight suits of attrites. I went there prior to leaving for the RAG and got a pile of thermals, flight suits, etc.

All the VT bases have one of those, I believe. I went to the one in CC and tried to swap out my leather for one that fit. They couldn't find one but they did try.

 

[Gatordev]

Do studs still get 4 sets of bags, 2 khaki and two green?

Historically, everyone got 3 greens and one over-sized green. Then at some point (I think when I was an IP), studs got 3 sets of some flavor of sizing, but all green. By the time I was leaving (or maybe shortly thereafter), they started issuing 1 green, 2 tan, and 1 over-sized green since everyone was eventually wearing tan anyway by the time they hit the fleet (and the Marines needed them to abide by their rules).

The last I heard (which was a couple of months ago, in part due to the tan bag endeavor) was that studs were getting 1, 1, and 2 still, even though they can't actually wear the 2 tans while going through most of their training pipeline (at least for most communities on the Navy side).

 

[Flash]

Historically, everyone got 3 greens and one over-sized green. Then at some point (I think when I was an IP), studs got 3 sets of some flavor of sizing, but all green. By the time I was leaving (or maybe shortly thereafter), they started issuing 1 green, 2 tan, and 1 over-sized green since everyone was eventually wearing tan anyway by the time they hit the fleet (and the Marines needed them to abide by their rules).

The last I heard (which was a couple of months ago, in part due to the tan bag endeavor) was that studs were getting 1, 1, and 2 still, even though they can't actually wear the 2 tans while going through most of their training pipeline (at least for most communities on the Navy side).

Oversized green for survival suits? We just 4 of the same size when I went through ages ago, I wonder when it changed.

Makes perfect sense as usual.

 

[Gatordev]

Yes. Over-sized for the dry suit. In 2000, that was the thing to do.

 

[Pags]

Yes. Over-sized for the dry suit. In 2000, that was the thing to do.

That's what I got back in aught-4.

 

[Hammer10k]

Do studs still get 4 sets of bags, 2 khaki and two green?

Yessir. Two tan and two green. All same size. Oversized green sounds pretty nice. My shoulders feel like they are going to pop-out every time I take my flight suit off.

 

[Uncle Fester]

Yes. Over-sized for the dry suit. In 2000, that was the thing to do.

I thought with the new bags you didn't need to wear a flight suit over? They've a nomex outer shell, pockets, all that jazz.

 

[SynixMan]

I thought with the new bags you didn't need to wear a flight suit over? They've a nomex outer shell, pockets, all that jazz.

Correct. In 2010ish they stopped doing oversized bag for exposure suits and went to an exposure suit with integrated pockets. Got mine in the FRS. Kinda nice actually. 2 green, 2 tan of your normal size was issued in API. Some folks get IOUs if they're oddball sizes.

Break break.

Supply at Whiting will swap out one for one any green or tan bag for a new one with your NATOPS jacket. Just saying.

 

[Gatordev]

I thought with the new bags you didn't need to wear a flight suit over? They've a nomex outer shell, pockets, all that jazz.

True...if you get issued such gucci equipment. However, the old ones are still out there. My suit expired in 2014 and turned it into the PRs, assuming I'd get a new one. Nope, they RFI'ed my old one. Great. Then again, I have never worn an exposure suit, and since I'm still stuck with the old one, I don't plan to ever wear it before retirement.

Correct. In 2010ish they stopped doing oversized bag for exposure suits and went to an exposure suit with integrated pockets. Got mine in the FRS. Kinda nice actually. 2 green, 2 tan of your normal size was issued in API.

Good to know. So now studs have one extra day before they're stinky.

 

[picklesuit]

What is a dry suit?