New Navy Uniform Changes
To the Navy Working Uniform(NWU)


Update #16
NAVADMIN 312-08 announces the E1-E6 Service Uniform distribution schedule
Update #15
Effective immediately NAVADMIN 193/08 allows the following items are authorized to be worn
with the Camouflage Utility Uniform: Brown Brushless Boots, slip on rank insignia and the
"Riggers Belt"
Update #14
Navy News Stand article of 7/11/08 Announcing the New Service Uniform will be available
July 31, 2008.
Update #13
NAVADMIN 191/08 Codifies the guidelines for the new Physical Training Uniform (PTU)
manner and requirements of wear.
Update #12
NAVADMIN 190/08 Announces the Navy Uniform role out plan. The Uniforms will start being
issues in July in Great Lakes, and finish in April of 2010.
Update #11
NAVADMIN 094/08: The New Navy PT Uniform is now ready to hit the shelves. The first
wave of issues will be in April 2008.
Update #10
NAVADMIN 004/08. Major contracting glitches have delayed the New Navy Working
Uniform (NWU) role-out plan! This message explains what changed, and how the change will
effect you and your sailors.
Update #9
NAVADMIN 311/07 announces the New Navy Uniform Clothing Replacement Allowance
(CRA) policy. This allowance is strictly for the Navy Working Uniform (NWU) and additional
new uniforms.
Update #8
NAVY NEWS STAND ARTICLE OF 9/24/07 announces that selected officers and sailors will
begin limited wear testing of the uniform proto type, service dress khaki for chiefs and officers,
and service dress blues for E-6 and below, later this fall or early winter.
Update #7
NAVY NEWS STAND ARTICLE of 8/17/07 announced that the CNO has just approved a
change in the New Physical Fitness Uniforms for Navy wide use. These uniforms can be used
for both command sponsored physical training or the PRT test.
Update #6
NAVADMIN 351/06 announces the Navy Task Force Uniform implementation plan for tne new
E-1 through O-10 Navy Working Uniform (NWU) and the E-1 through E-6 Service Uniform.
View the NEW NAVY UNIFORM PICTURES
Update #5
NAVY NEWS STAND (NNS) article of 3/2/06 discusses the approval of the New Navy
Working Uniform and New Service Uniform to replace the current Navy Uniforms.
Update #4
NAVADMIN 070/06 States that phase-one work of Task Force Uniform (TFU) complete.
Update #3
NAVADMIN 197/05 Announces that soon a proposal and implementation plan will be
delivered for a new set of us navy uniform regulations for the 21st century.
Update #2
NAVADMIN 209/04. The CNO has approved wear test studies of the proposed New Navy
Uniforms for both Officers and Enlisted. Wear Testing will soon begin.
Update #1
NAVADMIN 154/03 requests fleet wide participation in a BUPERS uniform Survey.
Download the Navy Uniform Regulations (NAVPERS 15665I) (Caution, this is a 81 mb file)
New-Navy-Uniform Link Exchange -- Please let me know if you run a website and are
interested in exchanging Navy web links
Update #23
NAVADMIN 188-09 announces the Navy Working Uniform is now
allowed to be worn for "routine stops" out in town.
Update #22
NAVADMIN 186-09 announces an update to the service uniform
availability, quality concerns with the NWU and the Generation 2, PTU
Shirt.
Update # 21
NAVADMIN 149-09 announces new changes the Navy Uniform to
maternity uniforms, physical fitness uniforms, the Air Force Space
Badge and changes to uniform board membership
Update #20
The Navy Working Uniform Official Wear Guide (pdf) and
NEX Uniform Distribution Map (pdf) is now posted online.
Update #19
The Navy Working Uniform is now authorized for wear in the Tidewater
Region. This transition shall occur by 1 October 2009.
Update #18
New Navy Working Uniform Posters are now Available for download
Upatate #17
The New Navy Working Uniform Rules are outlined in NAVADMIN
343-08