Dress Blues

[LivinSoFree]

Got them suckers buttonholed... amazingly the civvies didn't screw up but one thing on it, which was easily fixed with a needle and thread... now trying to press these things at the moment, since I didn't have time to get them to the cleaners... now THAT is a chore...

[greensideout]

Getting it done yourself---or should I say, keeping the old Corps new?

[Sgt0811]

Enviro,
The uniforms are made about 18 miles from me . In a city called Vineland, NJ. This place makes just about all of them. That is where Cash Sales had to special order my Blues for me. I could not just walk in and buy them.
Cjwright, if you know a disabled Marine, one that is 100%, he can go to cash sales to purchase items.
Thats how I was able to get mine.

[enviro]

http://www.marineshop.com/

[1stSgtMell]

Just like the red stripe on the NCO's trousers, Officers are not authorized to wear nor the hash mark.

[Sgt0811]

Quantico is about 3.5 to 4 hours from me. I have been to the shop. All they had was the Blues Blouse for Officers. Trousers they do have as the difference between the two is the width of the stripe. They do carry just about everything else for the inlisted.
Very nice shop and great people to deal with. The gentleman that helped me was an Officer in the Corps.

Semper fi

[cjwright90]

Cjwright, if you know a disabled Marine, one that is 100%, he can go to cash sales to purchase items.

I was only listed as 10%. Has to be 100% disabled?

[Sgt0811]

Yes. 100% disabled are entitled to a ID card that allows them to use the commissary and other stores. They also can get a sticker that allows them onto the bases. You remember the decals you had to have on your car to get into the base, its the same thing.