Navy guy gets yelled at for wearing kilt into work!

**JimB** · 1st November 06, 04:25 PM

The way it works today, is that sailors park their car in the parking lot, walk up the pier to the ship, go down to their "at sea" living area and change into their uniform for the day. They stay in uniform all day during working hours. When the ship is in port, they change into their civilian clothes at the end of the day and go home to their apartment or house. Almost nobody stays in uniform for their off work time.

At sea is a different matter. It's uniform all the time then.

I've got to say though, that I would have come to work just like that lad in the picture if I could (or maybe I would have never made it)

**Freedomlover** · 6th November 06, 05:27 AM

Originally Posted by JimB

The way it works today, is that sailors park their car in the parking lot, walk up the pier to the ship, go down to their "at sea" living area and change into their uniform for the day. They stay in uniform all day during working hours. When the ship is in port, they change into their civilian clothes at the end of the day and go home to their apartment or house. Almost nobody stays in uniform for their off work time.

That sure is different from when I rode the boats back in the 60's and 70's. If you had private arrangements ashore, or lived in the sub barracks, you were required to commute in proper uniform, either blues or whites depending. You could, if you were qualified, commute to a locker club just outside the gate and change into uniform there. If you were a non-qual you lived on the boat. Period. No exceptions, and if you were allowed liberty (for being ahead on qualifications) it was in full uniform. And my boats were not the floating palaces they have today.

**Freedomlover** · 6th November 06, 05:40 AM

I should mention also that all the COB's I served with were great men. They all had basically only one requirement: DO YOUR DUTY. If you did you had no problems. If you didn't you generally either got a new brown round installed, or got the bum's rush off the boat. And that is just as it should be.