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The Navy is introducing several uniform changes in 2023 — including a new, lightweight safety boot and adjustments to the maternity service dress blue coat. The changes come as the Navy is ...
"We will test the uniform on women of varying body types, who will wear it at different events in different locations," said Cmdr. Chris Servello, spokesman for the Chief of Naval Personnel.
The Navy first launched the Maternity Uniform Pilot Program in 2022 with the idea of offering sailors maternity uniforms, ... and one type of dress uniform, along with the sweater.
More than 200 female midshipmen, chiefs and officers will don the new service dress whites in the first of a series of wear tests slated to last through the summer. The uniform prototypes have the ...
The Navy is planning to overhaul women's service dress whites, a long-sleeve service uniform, to look more like those of male peers. Female chiefs and officers currently wear a white coat and ...
The Navy is rolling out a five-year program aimed at "improving the design, form, fit, and function" of uniforms for women in the fleet, according to the service. The program, known as the Size ...
The Navy is still conducting wear tests of women’s khaki pants for the chief’s uniform, and officials said they were expected to be available for purchase at the end of 2017 or beginning of 2018.
More than 850 sailors have received one set of each type of authorized maternity uniform since the program launched in January 2022, a Navy administrative message said last week.
The Coast Guard will ditch its current operational dress uniform in favor of a blue version of the Navy's Type III working uniform beginning in late 2022, service officials announced last week.
The Navy’s last major overhaul was during the rollout of the Navy working uniform type I and Navy service uniform in 2010, ... Otherwise, the female dress uniforms are sharp, ...
A midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy on Wednesday stood up amid a sea of white dress uniforms and asked Navy Secretary Ray Mabus why the service is trying to make women look like men.