Sometimes you can’t see what you have, even when it’s right in front of you…
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Oh, don’t I know it.
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He’s making camouflage puns…
I seem to remember a “blue, speckled” Navy uniform at one time. Fall overboard, and they would never find you.
Outasight!
see that now
That makes more sense than what figured. I thought he was cleaning out a drawers in the breakroom & posting whatever was written on the old fortune cookies he found.
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Oh, gee…the chocolate chip dessert pattern is right there, too!
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yes
On 4 August 2016, the Navy finally decided to retire the much-maligned Type I Navy Working Uniform (NWU), a move many Sailors had been eagerly awaiting. Dubbed the “blueberries” for their distinct digital camouflage pattern, these uniforms were criticized for being anything but practical—hot, uncomfortable, and, let’s be honest, not exactly helping anyone blend in on a ship. The Navy Times even celebrated the move, calling it the end of the “dumbest uniform ever.” But in the Navy’s quest to fix a bad decision, they may have overlooked one small detail:
The new uniform is green camouflage.
Blueberries:
New green camo:
I agree. I’ll even go beyond and removing the blue coveralls if someone falls overboard it will be difficult to detect. I understand it’s highly unlikely that would happen. It should be orange or white, but definitely camo is not needed.
It’s all about tacticool, not practical.
Like I said earlier — blousing trousers into combat boots on a ship? Why? Silly. The old boondockers were hideous and resembled American Civil War brogans but three eyelets was far simpler to kick off in a hurry.
And the blueberries were silly and universally despised. They claim they hid stains better but if you’re a machinists mate, aircraft mechanic or boatswain aren’t you gonna kinda get dirty no matter what?
I think those camos on the bottom aren’t even what they’re wearing now. I think they streamlined it so they wear the same as the Army and USAF across the board unless it was just the Seabees I saw in that particular style — but they get a pass on that.
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Chambray shirts and Seafarers work great. 
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I wore them back in the day when I started sailing. After they broke in they were very comfortable — but the coveralls were my favorite.
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With ya cap
F’k yeah. Natural fabric & flame retardant blue [E1-E6] and khaki [E7-E9 + all officers] coveralls. I went from dungarees & boondockers to some stupid polyester fabric in the 70’s when the Navy did the first working uniform change. For whatever reason, with the dress uniforms all enlisted got hats and uniforms like the officers and chiefs, instead of the dixie-cups. Pissed off the Chiefs. Pissed off the E1-E6’s because there was no space to store them aboard ship. . . The polyester working uniform crap was dreadful in the tropics. I never had crotch-rot with the cotton dungarees - but that polyester shit? DREADFUL.
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I got out three months before I would have had to buy a full seabag of those abominations.
I agree fully that Navies in general should ditch camo/disruptive pattern uniforms. We have them in Australia and they are ugly, un-Navy, and simply copy cat of the Army’s camo gear in a supposedly Navy colour.
There’s no good reason to wear camo at sea. We used to wear shorts and sandals adding shirts on at meals. Officers wore white shorts and sailors blue. So it was common to have the captain and officers on the bridge (open bridges especially) without shirts or any rank insignia. In winter uniform sailors wore trousers akin to jeans and long sleeved cotton shirts with rank sewn on. We got great suntans.
It is particularly ugly to see these uniform worn ashore. I disapprove utterly.
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Although I was a twidget in OPS, those pics brought back fond memories of me visiting the fire rooms and main-control on the FRAM Cans. Looks like a 650lb system? What ship?
Not my pics — bottom I don’t know but the top photograph is from the USS Missouri, circa 1986.
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