New Navy ‘cammies’ trickle into fleet

By Travis J. Tritten, Stars and Stripes
Pacific edition, Saturday, July 4, 2009

SASEBO NAVAL BASE, Japan — Strange blue "cammies" are showing up here and there at bases overseas.

Those servicemembers aren’t from a visiting military. They’re wearing the Navy’s newest wardrobe addition.

An updated Navy working uniform has been under development for some time and is now on exchange shelves — and sailors — in the United States.

But don’t expect to buy it off the rack this summer or next summer in Japan, Guam and Europe. Sailors in those areas must wait until October 2010, according to the schedule published in a Navy-wide bulletin.

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