Quote 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.