Navy guy gets yelled at for wearing kilt into work!

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I'm evidently missing something here, but if you & your Filipino buddy are in the US Navy, don't you guys have to wear a uniform to work? :confused:
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Yes, we wear a uniform while AT work. The guy wearing the kilt was on his way into work. Most of us come to the sub in civilian attire and then change into our uniforms. It's less restrictive that way... we're extremely limited in where we're allowed to go in our working uniforms. There's a rule that precludes us from stopping at a gas station or going grocery shopping on the way home, if in a working uniform.

Maybe I'm missing something here too but if you serve aboard a submarine how come you ride a bicycle to work?

We don't LIVE on the submarine.
I personally ride a bike to work for economic reasons as well as physical fitness reasons. Economically speaking, I'm not spending out my posterior for gas, nor am I putting the wear and tear on my car. I live so close to work that my car would never warm up completely on the trip... which is bad for the engine.
For fitness reasons... I get a workout every day, for the most part.

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.

He gets it. Very true.

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

Also true. On long deployments, we sometimes get "casual" days where we get to wear non-uniform clothes.

I wonder how that will turn out. If you have problems, you might consider contacting the Diversity Manager @ PNS. The Navy has put out all kinds of stuff about diversity and how much they value it. Maybe this is where the rubber meets the road.

Well, if the COB throws flack for me going to a civilian clothed function in a kilt, I'll just have to talk to the CO... or file a grievance.