Green cammies are coming to the Navy this fall

[Zarvan]

The Navy’s ramp up to putting every sailor in the green Navy Working Uniform Type III is on track, officials announced today.

This means that boot camp issue is still slated to begin on Oct. 1 and soon after, the uniform parts and pieces should all be on shelves in Navy Exchanges. They are already officially authorized for wear — if you have them.

“The NWU Type III is on schedule for introduction at Recruit Training Command Great Lakes beginning 1 October 2017,” Vice Adm. Robert Burke, the Navy’s chief of personnel said in a uniform update NAVADMIN released Jan. 26.


No firm dates for the exchange roll-out have been set, officials say, but updated schedules will be announces once they're available.

It’s the first update to a roll-out plan that was introduced in August 2016, when the Navy announced that they’d shift away from the “aquaflage” NWU Type I’s and put everyone in green digital instead.

At the time, Navy officials told Navy Times that it would take the better part of a year to ramp up production of the uniform, previously only worn by about 50,000 sailors at officially authorized commands.


As of Oct. 1, the uniform became the Navy’s official working uniform and the phase-out of Type I’s began.

Sailors who already have them through command organizational clothing issue can wear them even if they transfer away from that command, as long as those uniforms are serviceable. But issue Type III’s must be turned in to the Navy once they are damaged or worn out, officials told Navy Times in August.

Officials say it will be at least a year until green-and-tan cammies go on sale at uniform stores.
Photo Credit: Navy
Once the uniforms show up on exchange shelves, there will be a two-year lead time until the stated mandatory wear date of Oct. 1, 2019. After that date, Type I’s are no longer authorized and sailors will be required to have a minimum of three sets in their seabag.

Officials could change that required number in the future, but that all depends on whether the service develops a two-piece fire retardant “at-sea” uniform in the next couple years and whether the service adopts that into the seabag.

Fleet officials announced earlier this month that such a two-piece variant of the new fire resistant coveralls will be developed and tested in the fleet.

With the fleet in green, the Navy has said the traditional blue command ball caps will remain authorized, but the message now authorizes the coyote brown ball caps to work fleet-wide with the NWU Type III. The cap also remains authorized for those wearing the desert NWU Type II’s.

The Navy initially authorized the brown caps last March and this approval expands that wear fleet-wide, should commands choose to.

The Navy continues to wrestle with the issue of boots and research and development continues to try and make boots more comfortable for sailors, while still meeting shipboard safety requirement. The message reiterated that the boots used with the Type I’s are also the primary boots for sailors to use as they shift to the Type III’s.

The seabag nine-inch black safety boots will remain the shipboard boot for now.

Ashore, there are both the nine-inch black smooth leather Navy Working Uniform boot as well as the 9-inch black rough-side-out leather NWU boot. These rules apply to both the outgoing Type I’s as well as the Type III’s.

But as the Type III’s become available, there will now be more boot options, the message said.

Brown safety boots issued for flying duty and Seabee duty can be worn.

In addition, the Navy certified desert tan or coyote brown rough-side-out leather non-safety boots are an option if your CO authorizes them when for when safety boot aren’t required. Normally, sailors are issued these boots by commands, but they can also be procured by sailors out of their own pocket.

https://www.navytimes.com/articles/green-cammies-coming-to-the-navy-in-fall-2017

 

[GumNaam]

that is messed up. the whole purpose of having camo is to blend in, navy is normally surrounded by blue water.

 

[war&peace]

that is messed up. the whole purpose of having camo is to blend in, navy is normally surrounded by blue water.

It is not about Pakistan Navy but US navy and perhaps it is about marine corps.

 

[Penguin]

Navy Working Uniform Type I

the official explanation:

• NWU Type II and Type III should not be confused with NWU Type I (Blue/Gray). NWU Type I is a service utility uniform for all Sailors as part of their seabag. The NWU Type II/III are tactical uniforms for our expeditionary Sailors.

• The NWU family of uniforms is intended to replace multiple and less capable legacy uniforms, reduce the Navy’s total ownership costs, modernize the warfighter, and complete the vision of Task Force Uniform. As such, two more uniforms in the NWU series have been developed for use in the tactical expeditionary mission of today’s Navy, tailored for desert and woodland environments.
• NWU Type II, a desert digital camouflage uniform of four colors, will be worn by Special Warfare Operators and Sailors who support them.
• NWU Type III, a woodland digital camouflage uniform, also with four colors, will be the standard camouflage uniform worn in non-desert environments, including most stateside environments requiring a camouflage uniform.
• NWU Type II and Type III are unisex.
• NWU Type II and III were developed by Naval Special Warfare Command (NSWC) to increase the probability of mission success and survivability in combat operations.
• NWU Type II and Type III are organizational clothing and will be issued by authorized commands or units to Sailors. The uniforms will remain the property of the issuing command. [emphasis added – guess they won’t be showing up in surplus stores then…]
• NWU Type II and Type III began conformance testing July 26, 2010, to validate design, form, fit and function, to be followed by a phased fleet distribution beginning in 2011. Deploying combat and direct combat support commands and units will receive priority in the distribution process.
• The desert camouflage uniform is not going away. Sailors not authorized to wear the NWU Type II will continue to wear the current tricolor desert camouflage utility uniform in desert environments when issued by authorized command.
• The NWU Type III will replace the existing tri-colored woodland camouflage utility uniform, will be the standard camouflage uniform worn in CONUS, and can be worn while deployed as prescribed by combatant commanders. Occasion for wear of the NWU Type III will be the same as the current woodland camouflage utility uniform per NAVADMIN 188/09. Commands and Sailors currently authorized to wear the woodland Camouflage Utility Uniform (CUU) will continue to wear the CUU as their primary daily uniform until their transition to the new NWU Type III.