Since you guys gave me such warm and glowing feedback (SARCASM) for my last video. I thought I’d post another!
This one questions why the Navy wears camo uniforms aboard ship.
Enjoy!
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I can’t see the issue…
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Utility uniforms, like the Coast Guard’s dark blue utilities, make sense. Woodland/ACU camo makes zero sense, unless the sailor is serving in a joint billet ashore or is a Naval CB member or a special operator.
As to the why, probably the same reason the USAF and SPACE FORCE (!) recently decided recruits would carry inert, practice rifles throughout basic training. Not because they are infantry (unless they are security forces airmen, and then they kinda are), but because "It fosters the combat-ready mindset necessary for addressing future challenges.” – whatever that means.
Everyone wants to be a warfighter, I guess, even though (according to the NPRC) less than 15% of all service members see combat or are assigned to a combat role.
In other news, dungarees are also stupid.
with you right to the end - by a mile Dungarees where my favorite uniform - nothing else even came close -
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Why did the dungarees go away in the first place? Why do they not have high viz working uniforms for shipboard use in case of a MOB?
The CG does fine with their navy blue working uniforms.
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Of course not, how else can you hide from sharks?
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Every sailor in our navy can form part of a landing or boarding party and is trained in small arms including mortars. Even a cook.
Having said that when our ships are opened to visitors they would wear uniform not combat clothing or dungarees.
Great video & two great interesting points. Ending with the statement saying that having navy personnel wearing sailor uniforms is the best free recruiting tool is true imo. In fact, I’ve pounded the idea of not joining the military into my kids heads since they were toddlers because I became disgusted by all the bullshit wars reallly fast. My boys like the Space Force & Air Force branches & probably have a favorable opinion of the Navy. I told them a half million times not to go get killed in some stupid jungle or God foresaken desert to make oil tycoons & arms manufacturers richer. I hope many smart young people are turned of by that camo garb. Space Force, Air Force & Navy should seek different marketing strategies than camo.
Second point that resonated with me was about the old British Impire. I first read it over 25 years ago in a Thomas Friedman editorial. How could a tiny Island like England come to control 3/5th of the world when Spain/Portugal had all the colonies that produced most of the world’s gold? Spain/Portugal had the worlds printing press of money with all their New World gold & tiny England whooped their asses & took it all with ship building, commerce & work ethic.
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The Navy shipboard coveralls were my favorite when I got my hands on a few pairs for wear on the gray hulls. Lightweight, simple and practical. Never understood the need for trousers bloused over combat boots for shipboard personnel regardless of branch… I like to be able to kick off or pull on my boots in a hurry when alarms sound or the ship blacks out.
The Navy seems to be the only branch that loves putting on taxpayer funded fashion shows. Blueberry camo to whatever camo they wear now, chambray/dungarees to the slacks and shirt combo that replaced it (same color) to the khaki and black “black and tans” now or the brief service dress khaki throwback of circa 2011, coveralls, etc…
Look at the USMC — digi cams and tossing the khaki uniform in the 60’s was about all they’ve really done over the past century aside from some very minor cosmetic changes to existing uniforms/insignia… though as a kid, I always thought all Marines wearing the campaign covers in their dungarees and khaki uniforms looked super cool… (like Gunny Haney in The Pacific…)
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I don’t think we’re seeing the forest for the trees…
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Fair enough. I never wore them, but from my Army woodland camo BDU vantage … Bell-bottom jeans looked a little funny. 
If you have the bandwidth, watch the vid, it’s 7 mins long. OP breaks it down pretty simple. Why should U.S gov/navy want the 400k active & ready reserve US Navy personnel dressed in anything but traditional Navy garb? If McDonald’s, Burger King & Wendy’s are all competing for same market share why should Wendy’s employees dress in Burger King or McDonald’s garb while out in public? It makes no sense. As for me, many people associate camo for a bunch of people fighting out in a desert or jungle somewhere. Air Force, Navy & Space Force should work that to their advantage concerning recruiting imo. @freighterman1 , how would you feel if an employee showed up to a cc or a company event with a logo on their shirt associated with a competitors??
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I think the solution is hidden in plain sight…
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new proposed Navy uniform - flame retardant - but smokin’ 
when I was enlisted - still give me my dungarees, roper boots, and ball cap any day. When I was an Officer - Khaki’s -
didn’t mind tropical blues when not working as enlisted, Dress blues as an officer - hate the whites
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Don’t keep us in suspense.
That’s probably a large part of the issue, in the age of participation trophy culture and video game battles who wants to wear a funny little hat and out of fashion trousers?
The Navy used to lure recruits with the promise of superb technical training and a sense of adventure swathed in tradition. Time has moved on, Navy ships these days are defense contractor pork barrels that go directly from the ways to the breakers and the swabbie is just a faceless piece of deck gear who might one day anonymously help deliver a real “warfighter” clad in the latest techno-warrior gear to the latest political clusterf**k.
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Sorry but, as someone who also once wore BDUs, I couldn’t resist 
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Beat me to it. Short sleeve, lightweight, blue coveralls. Without a belt.
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everyone wants to dress like a SEAL, no one wants to go to BUDS
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