WH1_T-Type
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- Jun 1, 2009
Today I had an interesting thing happen to me. I was in the USN's newest working uniform on my way home, and I stopped at BP (local gas station), I held the door for the woman behind me (common thing for me to do) and she placed her hand on my shoulder and said:
'Bless you for serving our country'
then, as she walked away, she asked:
'You are in the service, right?'
which of course I replied:
'Yes ma'am'
This just really made me feel weird. Our newest uniforms have basically ZERO pride associated with them. People don't even KNOW that I am IN the military, let alone that I have served almost a decade and am actually fairly high ranking (for Navy enlisted, that is).
Here they are for anyone that hasn't seem them:
(^^^that's the one I was in...pics aren't me...just general google images)
and:
What do y'all think of these new uniforms for the Naval service? Some aspects I like. They are much easier to take care of and wear. Some I don't like. I don't like the level of recognition there are for the uniforms. I understand that they are new and will just take time for people to recognize them...but I just don't understand why they changed them.
Thoughts?
'Bless you for serving our country'
then, as she walked away, she asked:
'You are in the service, right?'
which of course I replied:
'Yes ma'am'
This just really made me feel weird. Our newest uniforms have basically ZERO pride associated with them. People don't even KNOW that I am IN the military, let alone that I have served almost a decade and am actually fairly high ranking (for Navy enlisted, that is).
Here they are for anyone that hasn't seem them:
(^^^that's the one I was in...pics aren't me...just general google images)
and:
What do y'all think of these new uniforms for the Naval service? Some aspects I like. They are much easier to take care of and wear. Some I don't like. I don't like the level of recognition there are for the uniforms. I understand that they are new and will just take time for people to recognize them...but I just don't understand why they changed them.
Thoughts?