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First up, the Navy has a draft problem.<\/p>\n
No, not that they need to institute one –\u00a0 their sailors are about to FEEL one.<\/p>\n
Specifically, service officials confirmed Friday that pants for the Navy Working Uniform, or NWU, the go-to uniform for most sailors, are out of stock at Navy Exchanges.<\/p>\n
Courtney Williams, a spokeswoman for the Navy’s Exchange Service Command, told Military.com that it is “experiencing severe shortages of NWU trousers” both in physical stores and online.<\/p>\n
Williams said that current pants stock levels are around 13% worldwide, and the exchange is focused on providing what inventory it has to new recruits at Recruit Training Command in Illinois, the Naval Academy Preparatory School in Rhode Island, and the officer training schools.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Guess they don’t want their recruits BVDs flopping in the breeze? Is it significant that they can’t get a ‘working’ uniform – have they stopped? How can we tell? There’s just so many directions to go with this, and I’m not near inventive enough.<\/p>\n
The issue appears to be coming from the Defense Logistics Agency, which manages acquiring and providing all the military branches with the myriad supplies and goods that they require.<\/p>\n
Signs inside Navy Exchanges say that the shortage is “due to Defense Logistics Agency vendor issues.” Williams said that they have “been in communication with DLA on a timeline for the uniform’s production and supply chain.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I’m sure DLA has been in crisis mode and just overlooked these….what, were they trying to get accountability for what we left in Afghanistan?<\/p>\n
Lt. Meagan Morrison, a spokeswoman for the Navy’s personnel boss, told Military.com that the command has been getting word out to leaders in the fleet that, while the shortage is ongoing, sailors have other working uniforms — such as coveralls or its replacement, the “2POC” uniform — that they can be asked to wear.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
2POC? Isn’t he dead?<\/p>\n
Mikia Muhammad, a spokeswoman for the DLA, told Military.com in an email that while the agency has put out new contracts and expects initial deliveries in October, those will also go to places such as Recruit Training Command. Navy exchanges should expect \u201cfull support\u201d starting in January.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So four months with limited uniforms….who says the Navy can’t learn from the Marines?<\/p>\n
In April, the Marine Corps said that it was finally able to get more of its iconic woodland camouflage uniforms in stock for Marines after nearly two years of shortages. Military.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
All you Navy guys and guyettes – might want to start being a little nicer to your pantaloons, they’re going to have to last you a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"