The great NWU's

[Renegade One]

Yyyyyeah, part of the check-in brief to my fleet squadron was, "We pride ourselves on being professional. We're the only squadron, in the wing, where you wear our khakis unless you're on the flight schedule that day..."

Oh…the humanity! Prescribed "uniform of the day" when not flying?!? I'm sure "Bull" Halsey and Marc Mitscher are rolling over in their graves…

Color me "old school"…cuz you'd be PERFECTLY correct. At least when shore based in our warm and friendly Hangar 4 at NAS Miramar when not deployed/embarked…yeah…the troops don't get to wear cobbled-together flight deck uniform and YOU don't get to wear NOMEX jammies unless you're going flying or to the SIM. Now, it wasn't as Draconian as you might think…except for the Duty Officer and ASDO. Penetration (into the flight schedule…however slight…) generally gave you a pass.

I can only assume that weekly All-Hands Quarters for Muster and Inspection are also a thing of the distant past?

If your only reply is going to be to tell me me that "You're out of touch, R1…"…save your keystrokes. I understand that.

 

[SynixMan]

Maybe it was different when wash khakis were around? Now that it's awful poly-wools, NWUs, or flight suits....seems an easy choice...

 

[CommodoreMid]

Oh…the humanity! Prescribed "uniform of the day" when not flying?!? I'm sure "Bull" Halsey and Marc Mitscher are rolling over in their graves…

Color me "old school"…cuz you'd be PERFECTLY correct. At least when shore based in our warm and friendly Hangar 4 at NAS Miramar when not deployed/embarked…yeah…the troops don't get to wear cobbled-together flight deck uniform and YOU don't get to wear NOMEX jammies unless you're going flying or to the SIM. Now, it wasn't as Draconian as you might think…except for the Duty Officer and ASDO. Penetration (into the flight schedule…however slight…) generally gave you a pass.

I can only assume that weekly All-Hands Quarters for Muster and Inspection are also a thing of the distant past?

If your only reply is going to be to tell me me that "You're out of touch, R1…"…save your keystrokes. I understand that.

Uniform regs say you can wear flight suits doing any "flight related duties." How loosely you want to define flight related duties is another story. I maintain my ground job is a duty that relates to squadron flight operations....

 

[BusyBee604]

How loosely you want to define flight related duties is another story. I maintain my ground job is a duty that relates to squadron flight operations....

Isn't it more like "how your CMC & goat locker denizens want to define it"?
BzB

 

[CommodoreMid]

Isn't it more like "how your CMC & goat locker denizens want to define it"?
BzB

Sadly there are probably squadrons in the Navy that this is the case.

 

[Renegade One]

Maybe it was different when wash khakis were around? Now that it's awful poly-wools, NWUs, or flight suits....seems an easy choice...

Never wore wash-khakis ashore. I guess we were always forced to wear crisp "awful-awfuls". With ribbons and highly-polished low-quarter browns. Shame on us.

 

[Renegade One]

Uniform regs say you can wear flight suits doing any "flight related duties." ... I maintain my ground job is a duty that relates to squadron flight operations....

Yep, pretty sure the regulations were specifically designed to accommodate whatever YOU think …Lieutenant.
Your avatar/profile "motto" sez it all to me….good luck with that.

 

[helolumpy]

Maybe it was different when wash khakis were around? Now that it's awful poly-wools, NWUs, or flight suits....seems an easy choice...

Before you go and bad-mouth the Poly-wool khakis, let me tell you about Certified Navy Twill or CNT's.... Dry clean only and 100% polyester!!!

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Before you go and bad-mouth the Poly-wool khakis, let me tell you about Certified Navy Twill or CNT's.... Dry clean only and 100% polyester!!!

Nothing like having to wear CNT's in 90 degree weather!

 

[Spekkio]

Yep, pretty sure the regulations were specifically designed to accommodate whatever YOU think …Lieutenant.
Your avatar/profile "motto" sez it all to me….good luck with that.

Better a LT than a CPO with a bug up his butt. There are Chiefs who try to apply the NWU sleeve rolling guidance to poopie suits.

 

[scoolbubba]

Yep, pretty sure the regulations were specifically designed to accommodate whatever YOU think …Lieutenant.
Your avatar/profile "motto" sez it all to me….good luck with that.

I will be a goddamn Navy LIEUTENANT for life!

Good luck with being retired. Keep those fucking kids off the lawn, too.

 

[exNavyOffRec]

Better a LT than a CPO with a bug up his butt. There are Chiefs who try to apply the NWU sleeve rolling guidance to poopie suits.

Sounds like an Admin CPO thing

 

[Renegade One]

Better a LT than a CPO with a bug up his butt. There are Chiefs who try to apply the NWU sleeve rolling guidance to poopie suits.

Don't know nuthin' about the Chiefs doing anything else other than what command leadership requires/desires. YMMV.
Not even the CMC got out of his "box" during my time. Others defined the "box". Outside of the box? "CMC…take care of the troops…stay in grass-roots touch….lemme know what their concerns are. Fix/help where/what you can at your level. I'll do my own "management by walking around". Let's agree to keep each other fully informed. Check?"

 

[Renegade One]

I will be a goddamn Navy LIEUTENANT for life!

Good luck with being retired. Keep those fucking kids off the lawn, too.

This is not your fight, my friend.

Apropos of nothing whatsoever, retired life is working out well…thanks for asking. Took a long time to get here…and another career after the Navy.

Kids of all sorts are always welcome on my lawn.

You have issues of some sort….I just can't help with those.

 

[scoolbubba]

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