What about those dungarees? These were the official, work uniform of the Navy blue-shirt which, interestingly enough could not be worn off base other than to drive to base to and from duty/work.
After your time if obligated service is complete on a few occasions you might want to show your pride of being a Nuke after your tour is complete and you can live like a regular human being. Once you stopped participating field days and going through ORSE workups you may take pride in being a nuke, being in the Navy and most importantly serving your country with distinction.
Before you never really been in a position to get the nuke related tee shirt other than the one you were issued during boot camp or purchased after the completion of A School. Not until now.
Think about the idea of wearing your Ex-Navy gear out in the civilian world knowing the folks you will encounter will have little clue of the places you have been, the things you’d seen, and the hardships endured during you time as a Nuke.
If you are interested in getting Navy nuke gear on a nostalgia basis check out this site where to get Navy Nuke gear and place your order. And tell them this blog sent you.
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They changed the dungaree uniform back to traditional chambray work shirts and denim bell bottoms from very faggy doubleknit early 70s outfits about the time I got out of sub school.
I didn't want to spend any money on new clothes ever, so I acquired a lot of the old stuff that people were getting rid of, for free, dc'd them in red and stenciled my name over. They never actually forced everybody to switch, so I just wore the old stuff while I was in.
After I got out of active, I was living in on of the worst Barrios in Santa Ana, somebody stole all my Navy clothes, first thing. No shit. I bought one set of dungarees and wore them every reserve duty weekend. They never made me wear anything else. If there was an awards ceremony or some shit like that, I just went to the bowling alley and got drunk. If you're just in the reserves, as long as you sign in, there's not a lot they can really do to ya.
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