Not just any button, mind you - the Navy button. These men in blue vocalize distress over the button shortage. This is a fearful removal of the one thing that supports these seamen and petty officers in their daily mission as members of the world's finest Navy. These guardians of the seas feel threatened by a rumored change in Navy policy - a change that would strike them "below the belt." It's a change of enormous consequence to these members of a Navy associated with hundreds of years of tradition, symbolism and legend. It's not concern for their pay they voice, nor complaints of the demanding work load they endure. On the Button: The Crackerjacks' History Isn't Just a Sea StoryĬoncern has echoed throughout the male ranks of the fleet. Navy Uniforms." OPNAV Information Bulletin. "Uniforms and Insignia: Engineering and Construction Corps United States Navy." Bureau of Ships Journal. "Three Centuries of Tradition." All Hands. "The Significance of the Uniform." All Hands. "Board of Attire? Your Request Can Change Navy Dress." All Hands. "Present Uniform Favored by 3 to 1, According to 5,000 Letters to BuPers." All Hands. "Have Bell Bottoms … Will Travel." All Hands. "Notes on the Introduction of Gold-Embroidered Cap Visors." Washington, DC: Navy Department Library, 1982. "Needed: A 5-Button Tradition." All Hands. "Navy Uniform Worn by Commissioned Officers, Warrants and CPOs has Long History Too." All Hands. (Menasha, WI: George Banta Publishing Co., 1941): 112. Correspondence, concerning ornamentation of cap devices, dated 3 June 1983. "Evolution of Navy Uniforms: Two Centuries of Change and Progress." All Hands. "First Enlisted Man's Uniform." All Hands. "Evolution of Cap Device." Washington, DC: Historical Research Branch, Naval Historical Center, 1978. "EM Uniform in the Early Navy a Colorful Affair." All Hands. "What's In, What's Out: Navy Uniforms: 200 Years of Change." All Hands. "On the Button: The Crackerjacks' History Isn't Just a Sea Story." All Hands.
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