Service dress khaki wear tests underway

[unhappycamper]

Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy Joe R. Campa Jr. is fitted for the new service dress khaki uniform.


Service dress khaki wear tests underway
By Mark D. Faram - Staff writer
Posted : Thursday May 1, 2008 6:08:54 EDT

Wear tests of a throwback service dress khaki uniform have begun at six Navy locations and will continue through the summer.

“Sailors should be aware the service dress khaki for E-7 and above are underway and they will soon see this uniform out and about,” said Rob Carroll, head of the Navy Uniform Matters office.

The khaki tests are part of a number of wear tests currently underway around the Navy. Other wear tests include attempts to improve the current enlisted service dress white and blue “crackerjacks.”

Chiefs and officers will test the khaki uniform in Washington, D.C.; Norfolk, Va.; Millington, Tenn.; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii; Newport R.I.; and Yokosuka, Japan. Carroll said testers are expected to wear the uniform as a travel uniform, too.

The uniform, popular during World War II, was worn through the Vietnam War. It was done away with in sweeping changes by then-Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Elmo Zumwalt.


Rest of article at: http://www.navytimes.com/news/2008/04/navy_khakiweartest_043008w/

[sam sarrha]

1. this is simple.. navy is being s ent to be ground fources in Iraq.. and Stop Lost'd like the rest

[tinymontgomery]

2. I really like that outfit

It's a good looking uniform with out being to formal.

[Captain Hilts]

5. Navy officers, CPOs are the only ones without a summer jacket.

They look like lard asses in the tropical white long, and the black jacket - no one wants to see that in the winter. Next to the other services they look fat and underdressed. At the Pentagon everyone else is wearing a tie, then there are the navy folks.

Test? We don't need no test!

[Clear Blue Sky]

3. Fashion runs in cycles. Even bell bottoms made a resurgence. Why not uniforms?

[Captain Hilts]

4. Yay! Dad wore his 'Capt. Binghampton' suit the last day it was regulation. nt