BLUEJACKETS MANUAL

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BLUEJACKETS MANUAL

• CHAPTER 3
• UNIFORMS

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UNIFORM OF THE DAY

• Prescribed by local area coordinator
• Normally posted in the Plan of the Day (POD)
• U. S. Navy Uniform Regulations (NAVPERS 15665)
  describes what makes up various uniforms
• Different Uniforms prescribed for Officers/CPOs
  and Enlisted

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UNIFORMSENLISTED MEN (E1- E6)

• Service Dress Blue When in doubt uniform.
  Consists of Jumper, Bell-bottomed trousers,
  neckerchief, white hat and black shoes. Also
  worn with ribbons
• Service Dress White Same as Service Dress Blue
  except trouser and jumper are white.
• Full Dress Blue/White Full Sized Medals
  substituted for ribbons. Ribbons without
  corresponding medals worn on right side.

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UNIFORMSENLISTED MEN (E1- E6)

• Dinner Dress Blue or White Miniature medals
  worn in lieu of large ones on service dress blue
  uniform.
• Ribbons are not worn on right side.
• Alternate version Consists of short waist
  dinner jacket, evening trousers, formal dress
  shirt, silver cuff links, bow tie and cummerbund
  and miniature medals.

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UNIFORMSENLISTED MEN (E1- E6)

• Summer White Alternative to Service-Dress White
  when less formality required. Short sleeve white
  shirt, white trousers, white belt with pewter
  buckle and tip, white hat, black shoes and socks.
  Ribbons worn on left side.
• Tropical White White shorts and knee socks worn
  with summer white.

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UNIFORMS FORENLISTED MEN (E1- E6)

• Winter Blue Standard trousers, flap pocketed
  shirt with black tie, black shoes and black
  socks. Can be worn with garrison cap or white
  hat. Ribbons are also worn.
• Winter working blue Same uniform as Winter blue
  without tie and ribbons.
• Utilities Worn when performing tasks that is
  likely to soil clothing. Utility trousers with
  light-blue, long sleeved utility shirt, black web
  belt with pewter buckle, blue baseball cap and
  black steel-

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UNIFORMS FORENLISTED MEN (E1- E6)

• Toed safety shoes and socks.
• Tropical utilities Change the utility trousers
  to shorts and add black knee socks for tropical
  working conditions.

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UNIFORMS FOR ENLISTED WOMEN (E-1 THROUGH E-6)

• Service Dress Blue Blue Coat, unbelted skirt,
  white short-sleeved shirt, black neck tab,
  combination cap or black beret, black dress shoes
  and fleshtone hose. Blue, unbelted slacks may be
  prescribed for wear instead of skirt. Ribbons
  are also worn.
• Service Dress White White skirt with jumper,
  white undershirt, combination cap or beret,
  neckerchief, fleshtone hose and black shoes.
  White slacks may be prescribed. Ribbons,

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UNIFORMS FOR ENLISTED WOMEN (E-1 THROUGH E-6)

• Full Dress (Blue or White) Worn for formal
  occasions. Full sized medals substituted for
  ribbons on left side of Service-Dress White or
  Blue. Ribbons that do not have corresponding
  large medals are worn on the right side of
  jumper.
• Dinner Dress (Blue or White) When evening wear
  is required. Substitute miniature medals. No
  ribbons worn. Optional uniform is dinner jacket
  (both white and blue), floor length skirt, formal
  dress shirt, dress neck tab, black cummerbund,

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UNIFORMS FOR ENLISTED WOMEN (E-1 THROUGH E-6)

• Black dress handbag, black formal shoes and
  miniature medals.
• Summer White Alternative to Service-dress
  white, used for office work, watch-standing or
  business ashore. Short-sleeved white shirt with
  flap pockets, white skirt (white slacks may be
  prescribed), white belt with pewter buckle,
  combination cover

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UNIFORMS FOR ENLISTED WOMEN (E-1 THROUGH E-6)

• Or black beret, fleshtone hose, black shoes and
  ribbons.
• Tropical white Worn in extremely warm climate,
  substitute white shorts and knee socks with
  summer white uniform.
• Winter Blue blue, flap-pocketed shirt with
  black neck tab, blue skirt (slacks may be
  prescribed), black belt with pewter tip and
  buckle, fleshtone hose, black shoes and either
  combination cover

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UNIFORMS FOR ENLISTED WOMEN (E-1 THROUGH E-6)

• Or black beret or blue garrison cap. Ribbons are
  also worn.
• Winter Working Blue Remove neck tab and ribbons
  from winter blue uniform.
• Utilities When performing work that is likely
  to soil clothing. Utility trousers, light-blue,
  short or long sleeved utility shirt, black web
  belt with pewter buckle, blue baseball cap and
  black steel-toed safety shoes and socks.

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UNIFORMS FOR ENLISTED WOMEN (E-1 THROUGH E-6)

• Tropical Utilities Change the utility trousers
  to shorts, the shirt to short-sleeves and add
  black knee socks. Used for tropical working
  conditions.

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UNIFORMS FOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER/OFFICERS

• Male Officers and Chiefs do not wear the
  traditional Crackerjacks, but instead wear
  straight-legged trousers and jackets (called
  blouses) with a white shirt and black tie for
  Service Dress Blue. Female Officers and Chiefs
  wear the same Service Dress Blue Uniform.
• Service Dress Whites are the same for both male
  and female as the summer white uniform for E-6
  and below except white shoes are worn.
• Full Dress and Dinner Dress Whites for males

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UNIFORMS FOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER/OFFICERS

• Includes a choker style blouse with white
  trousers and white shoes.
• Most of the uniforms worn by female Officers and
  CPOs are modified versions of the uniforms worn
  by E-1 through E-6.
• The working uniform and uniform for less formal
  occasions consists of khaki trousers and shirt
  with combination cover or optional garrison cap.
  Black or brown shoes and socks are worn. A skirt
  may be worn in lieu of trousers for females.

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COVERS

• Covers are rarely worn indoors.
• The white hat dixie cup is the standard cover
  worn by E-6 and below males with jumper-style
  uniform, summer whites, winter blue and winter
  working blue uniforms.
• Enlisted women wear a combination cover or black
  beret.
• Garrison cap may be worn by both male and female
  E-6 and below with the winter blue and winter
  working blue uniform.

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COVERS

• A baseball style cap is worn by both male and
  female E-6 and below with the utility uniform.
  The ballcap will either have the word NAVY on the
  front in gold letters or the name and insignia of
  the command.
• Ballcaps may also be worn with service uniforms
  on or in the immediate vicinity of the command
  work-centers.

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COVERS

• Male officers and CPOs wear either combination
  cover or garrison style cap.
• Female officers and CPOs wear covers similar to
  E-6 and below.
• Ballcaps may be worn as prescribed for E-6 and
  below.

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Nonrated enlisted personnel wear stripes as
  indicated below
• E-1 No stripes worn
• E-2 Two diagonal stripes worn on the upper
  left sleeve.
• E-3 Three diagonal stripes worn on the
  upper left sleeve.
• Seamen and Seamen Apprentices wear white stripes
  on blue uniforms and blue stripes on white
  uniforms.

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Firemen and Firemen Apprentices wear red stripes
  on all uniforms.
• Airmen and Airmen Apprentices wear green stripes
  on all uniforms.
• Hospitalmen and Hospitalman Apprentices wear a
  specialty mark (a medical caduceus) above their
  stripes. Both speciality mark and stripes are
  white on blue uniforms and dark blue on white
  uniforms.
• Dentalmen and Dentalmen Apprentices wear a
  specialty mark (a medical caduceus with a

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Superimposed D) above their stripes. Both
  specialt mark and the stripes are white on blue
  uniforms and dark blue on white uniforms.
• Apprenticeship Training Graduates wear either
  Seaman/Fireman/Airman symbols until they are
  designated.
• Striker Marks Once designated members wear
  rating specialty above stripes to replace
  apprenticeship marking.

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Petty Officers wear on their upper left sleeve a
  rating badge with three parts
• a. An eagle with up-raised wings and its head
  facing right (crow).
• b. One or more V-Shaped stripes called
  chevrons which tell the individuals paygrade.
• c. Between the eagle and chevrons a
  specialty mark representing the members rating.
• All three parts of the rating badge are dark blue

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• When worn on white uniforms.
• When worn on blue uniforms the specialty mark and
  eagle are white and the chevrons are red. The
  exception is when an individual who serves for 12
  consecutive years or more under conditions of
  good conduct wears gold chevrons instead of red
  and the eagle and specialty mark are silver
  instead of white.

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Chief Petty Officers Add an arc (also known as
  a rocker) that connects the ends of the top
  chevron and passes over the specialty mark on the
  rating badge.
• Senior Chiefs add a star centered above the eagle
• Master Chiefs add two stars symmetrically
  arranged above the eagle.

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• On winter blue and khaki uniforms,
  Chiefs/Senior/Master wear metal collar devices
  instead of rating badges.
• Collar devices are a miniaturized version of the
  device chiefs wear on their covers with a gold
  anchor with silver block letters USN centered
  on the shank of the anchor. One or two silver
  stars are added above the

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Anchor to distinguish E-8s and E-9s.
• Soft shoulder boards are worn by E-7 through E-9
  on white dress shirts and black V-neck sweaters.
• The MCPON replaces the specialty mark with a gold
  star and wears three gold stars above the eagle.
  A third star is added to the collar device as
  well.

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RATING DEVICESENLISTED

• Force Master Chiefs (F/MC)replace their specialty
  marks with a gold star and wear two gold stars
  above the eagle on their rating badges.
• Command Master Chiefs (C/MC) replace the
  specialty mark with a silver star and wear two
  silver stars above the eagle on their rating
  badges.
• There is no change in collar devices for FM/C or
  CM/Cs.

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RANK DEVICESOFFICERS

• On full, dinner, and service-dress blue uniforms
  gold stripes are worn on both lower sleeves.
• On overcoats and white uniforms officers wear
  shoulder boards with the same blue stripes they
  wear on blue uniforms.
• Female officers wear gold stripes on the sleeves
  of their full, dinner and service-dress white
  uniforms.
• On khaki and winter blue uniforms officers wear
  metal collar devices.
• A soft version of the shoulder board is worn on

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RANK DEVICESOFFICERS

• White dress shirts and sweaters.
• Navy and Coast Guard wear similar shoulder boards
  and sleeve markings.
• The collar devices worn for other services are
  virtually the same as for Naval Officers.
• Stars worn above the stripes on shoulder boards
  and sleeve markings indicate an officer is known
  as a line officer, which means they are
  eligible for command of line units.
  (Ships/squadrons)

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RANK DEVICESOFFICERS

• Staff corps officers wear different symbols above
  their stripes to indicate which staff corps they
  belong to (medical, dental, JAG, Chaplain).
• Metal versions of the staff specialty device are
  worn on the left collar with the rank device on
  the right.
• Line officers wear rank devices on both collars.
• Warrant officers wear special symbols above their
  stripes similar to staff corps officers.

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UNIT IDENTIFICATIONMARKS

• Unit Identification Marks (UIMs) are arched
  shaped black patches approximately five inches
  long and half an inch high with ¼ letters
  spelling the command name of the command or unit.
• Worn on the right sleeve of shirts, jumpers and
  jackets (both blues and whites but not dungarees
  for E-1 through E-6.
• They are sewn on 3/8 below the stitching that
  joins the sleeve to the rest of the garment.

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SERVICE STRIPES

• Service stripe (hashmarks) indicate how long a
  member has been in the service.
• Each stripe signifies 4 years of service active
  or reserve or combination.
• Diagonal stripes worn on the left sleeve below
  the rating badge by all enlisted personnel who
  have earned them.
• Service stripes are red when worn on blue
  uniforms and Navy blue when worn on white
  uniforms.

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SERVICE STRIPES

• Enlisted personnel with a total of 12 years of
  active duty or drilling reserve service who have
  fulfilled the requirements for successive awards
  of the Good Conduct Medal or Naval Reserve
  Meritorious Service Medal change the color of
  their Rating Badge and Service Stripes to Gold.

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AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

• Medals are metal pendants hung from pieces of
  cloth.
• Ribbons are rectangular pieces of colored cloth 1
  ½ inches long and 3/8 inches high.
• Medals always come with a ribbon, but some awards
  consist of only a ribbon and do not come with a
  medal.
• The term award is used to describe any medal,
  ribbon or attachment.
• Decoration is used to describe an award given to

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AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

• An individual for a specific act of gallantry or
  meritorious service.
• Medals are only worn on very formal occasions
  when prescribed uniform is full dress.
• Miniature versions of medals are worn with dinner
  dress uniforms.
• Ribbons are worn on summer and tropical white,
  winter blue and service dress blue and white
  uniforms.
• Ribbons are not worn on working uniforms.

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AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

• Your first ribbon is worn centered ¼ above your
  left breast pocket.
• As you add ribbons build them in rows of threes.
• For numbers not divisible by three the uppermost
  row contains the lesser number with the extra one
  or two ribbons centered over the row beneath.
• On full-dress occasions when wearing medals you
  should line them up in rows of three, side by
  side or you may put five in a row if you overlap
  them.
• Awards having only ribbons should be worn

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AWARDS AND DECORATIONS

• On the right breast pocket when full-sized medals
  are worn.
• Do not wear ribbons when wearing miniature
  medals.
• If you earn the same award more than once you
  will wear a special metal attachment that goes on
  the original medal or ribbon.
• Precedence for wear of awards can be found in the
  Uniform Regulations manual.

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WARFARE AND OTHER QUALIFICATION INSIGNIA

• Metal pins attached to the uniform.
• May be embroidered or stenciled on utility and
  coverall uniforms.
• Designate specialty in a particular warfare area
  or a special qualification.
• Worn on left breast over ribbons/medals.
• You may wear a maximum of two, one above ribbons
  and one below.

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Identification Badges

• Worn by personnel in certain unique assignments
  such as White House, Recruiter, Career Counselor.
• Refer to Navy Uniform Regulations for proper wear.

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MISCELLANEOUS UNIFORM ITEMS

• Aiguillettes Colored cords worn by Navy
  personnel who are serving as attaches, aides to
  high-ranking officials, recruit division
  commanders, members of U.S. Navy Ceremonial Team
  and various other specialized duties. Aides to
  the President, Vice-President and foreign heads
  of state, as well as other various White House
  aides, all wear their aiguillettes on the right
  shoulder. All others are worn of their left.
• Brassards Bands of cloth, suitably marked with
  symbols, letters, or words, indicating a
  temporary

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MISCELLANEOUS UNIFORM ITEMS

• Duty to which the wearer is assigned, such as
  Officer of the Day (OOD), Junior Officer of the
  Day (JOOD), Master-at-Arms (MAA), Shore Patrol
  (SP).
• Worn on the right arm, midway between shoulder
  and elbow, on outer garments.
• Name Tags Worn on right breast but not worn
  when medals are prescribed.

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MISCELLANEOUS UNIFORM ITEMS

• Jewelry and Accessories Tie clasps, cufflinks
  and shirt studs are prescribed for certain
  uniforms.
• One ring may be worn per hand in addition to a
  wedding ring.
• One wristwatch and one bracelet may be worn.
• Necklace may be worn but cannot be visible.
• Enlisted women may wear small silver ball (1/4
  post or screw) earrings with brushed matte finish
  while in uniform.

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MISCELLANEOUS UNIFORM ITEMS

• Officers and CPOs wear gold with a brushed matte
  finish.
• Small, single-pearled earrings are authorized for
  wear with dinner and formal-dress uniforms.
• Men may not wear earrings while in uniform.

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OWNERSHIP MARKINGS

• Uniform components of all E-1 through E-6
  personnel must be marked with the owners name
  and the last four digits of his or her social
  security number.
• White markers are used on all dark-blue uniforms.
• Black markers are used on white uniform articles
  and utility shirts.
• Some uniform components have label areas for you
  to use. On others you have to use a stencil cut
  with half inch high letters and numbers.New

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OWNERSHIP MARKINGS

• Selling or trading of uniform articles is not
  normally authorized.
• The Commanding Officer may authorize the transfer
  of clothing under special circumstances.
• When articles of clothing are transferred the
  name of the former owner is stamped over with
  D.C. (discarded clothing) and the new owners
  name placed above, below, or next to it, whatever
  fits.

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GROOMING STANDARDS MEN

• Should be neat, clean and presentable at all
  times
• Hair should not exceed four inches in length,
  never touch the collar or ear, and should be
  tapered around the sides and neck.
• The hair on top of your head, after you have
  combed it should not exceed more than two inches
  above the scalp.
• You may have only one part, and plaited or
  braided hair may not be worn with your uniform.
• Sideburns must be neat, trimmed and end at the

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GROOMING STANDARDS MEN

• Middle of the ear in a clean-shaven horizontal
  line with no flare.
• Beards are not permitted except when medically
  authorized, and then only until the problem
  clears up.
• Mustaches must be trimmed and neat and cannot
  exceed below the top line of your upper lip, and
  not allowed to extend more than ¼ beyond the
  corners of the mouth.

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GROOMING STANDARDS MEN

• Fingernails must be kept clean and may not exceed
  beyond the tips of your fingers.

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GROOMING STANDARDS WOMEN

• Hair must be kept clean, neatly arranged,
  professional in appearance and no longer than the
  lower edge of the collar.
• In the case of the white jumper which has no
  collar, hair should not exceed more than 1 ½
  below the top of the jumper flap.
• Hair must not interfere with the wearing of any
  covers and must not show under the front brim.
• Pigtails and ponytails are not authorized.
• You may wear french braids or have a multiple

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GROOMING STANDARDS WOMEN

• Braided hairstyle, but you should read details in
  Uniform Regulations before doing so.
• No foreign material may be braided into your hair
  (beads or other decorative items).
• Rubber bands, bobbypins and one or two small
  barrettes, combs, or clips may be used provided
  they are similar to hair color.
• Hairnets may only be worn for specific duty such
  as in hospitals or galleys.
• When wearing cosmetics keep in mind a natural

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GROOMING STANDARDS WOMEN

• appearance is the goal.
• Artificial, exaggerated or faddish cosmetics are
  to be avoided.
• Lipstick and fingernail-polish colors must be
  conservative.
• Long false eyelashes are not authorized.
• Fingernails may not exceed ¼ beyond fingertips.
• You may have pierced ears for earrings (one per
  ear) but no other body piercing is permitted.