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First Female Recruits Issued ‘Dixie Cup’ Covers at RTC

GREAT LAKES (NNS) — The first female recruits at Recruit Training Command were issued their new enlisted white hats, or Dixie cups, as part of the Navy's efforts for uniformity in service members' uniform, April 4. While the rest of the enlisted female E1-E6 Sailors have until Oct. 31 to begin wearing their Dixie cups,…

GREAT LAKES (NNS) — The first female recruits at Recruit Training Command were issued their new enlisted white hats, or Dixie cups, as part of the Navy's efforts for uniformity in service members' uniform, April 4.

While the rest of the enlisted female E1-E6 Sailors have until Oct. 31 to begin wearing their Dixie cups, the recruits at the Navy's only boot camp have already begun to do so as per NAVADMIN 236/15.

The Navy redesigned several uniform elements for Sailors that improve uniformity across the force as well as improve the function and fit of their uniforms. The changes will eventually make uniforms and covers more gender neutral.

via www.navy.mil

I know some Sailors are unhappy with this, but I'm in favor of it.

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  1. LT Rusty

    The whole point of a uniform is to be … uniform.

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  2. Ron Snyder

    I think that it is an honorable tradition.

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  3. Quartermaster

    OK, other than the sex mixing on ships and combat units.

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  4. Rick

    But let’s be honest, guys and admit the truth.
    The old “bucket” cover that the female enlisted, chiefs and officers had been required to wear for God knows how long was probably one of the ugliest piece of uniform crap any single gender had been stuck with.
    At least now, everybody in the fleet will look like a sailor.

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  5. LT Rusty

    QM- there’s been sex on ships and combat units since time began. Just, now it’s straight sex.

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  6. Quartermaster

    Granted Rusty, but while there are problems with queer sex (just as the French Foreign Legion about that one), it isn’t near as damaging as boy-girl stuff on the ship, or in combat units.

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