Top 12 changes for the Navy in 2009

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Top 12 changes for the Navy in 2009
Times staff
Posted : Tuesday Dec 30, 2008 16:28:34 EST

The coming year will bring new uniforms, missions and benefits to sailors and new ships to the fleet.

1. New uniforms

Jan. 15 marks the beginning of the largest uniform rollout in Navy history. The blue digital pattern Navy Working Uniform will begin its two-year rollout in the Norfolk, Va., area and will be authorized on the whole East Coast by Dec. 31 before heading to the West Coast in 2010.

Meanwhile, the new khaki shirt and black pant service uniform for sailors E-6 and below will continue its rollout.

Also, a final determination will be made in 2009 on whether the service dress khaki test uniforms will make an official return to the fleet, along with improvements to the blue and white crackerjack uniforms.

2. New evals?

In 2008, then-Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (SW/FMF) Joe Campa pushed through an overhaul of chief petty officer fitness reports. He renamed them evaluations and rewrote the performance traits to mirror his “Mission, Vision and Guiding Principals” that he’d rolled out to the chiefs’ mess in 2006.


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