Are you butt snorkeling the retired chiefs that invented NWUs?
No. I'm saying that's the reasons given for inventing the uniform. The party line makes a lot of false assumptions. First, anyone who has seen a Sailor come out of doing extensive maintenance can attest the NWU does not hide dirt and grease. In fact, it ends up turning brown, ripping, and just looking generally terrible at 4x the cost of coveralls. Additionally, I don't know who thinks servicemembers would feel more like a warfighter in blue camo, but that was a bit off the mark. So we traded making enlisted Sailors look like prisoners to making them look like clowns in public while loosening wear restrictions. Then there's...
The hiding stains feature is a complete farse. The uniform is unfit for an industrial environmemt due to fire issues. It is unfit for outdoor work due to being dark colors and thick material. The cost to obtain it is astronomical compared to the uniforms that already existed.
Agreed on all accounts, and I believe I said that the Navy 'fucked it away' several posts ago. Although the thick material is nice in the winter if you are in a northern climate, none of this has anything to do with the color scheme chosen.
Could refer to a surface ship or her associated crewmembers.
BLOB, what seagoing force in the entire world has anything remotely close to this uniform?
I actually like the Brit working uniform, too. It's kinda like utilities but more comfy (according to them) and without the silly rules.
And by the way, despite what some chiefs said, nowhere is it written that creases were required on the utilities or dungarees.
Doesn't matter. If you're the E-6 and below getting chewed out for it, are you gonna run to a LT afterward or put creases in the uniform?
When I think about what Navy warfighters wear, I think about 4 groups of warriors- 1) Aviators, 2) SEALs, 3) Surface and 4) Submariners. Pretty sure none of them wear/wore anything close to blueberries. In fact, I'm pretty sure the Surface guys in the destroyers and destroyer escorts in the Battle Off Samar wore khakis and dungarees when they fought tooth and nail with the Japanese. I wonder if those guys worried about looking like warfighters... Seems to me that they were too busy fighting a war to really care.
Not a single service wore camo prior to 'Nam, and I'm not sure if it started at the end of 'Nam or shortly after. Point is, plenty of real "warfighters" fought for our country without spending so much time on whether they looked the part. Besides, when they came back they got into their service or dress uniforms, anyway.