Duane Peters Wrote:For my two cents worth, I always thought that was one of the few things wrong with Down Periscope; Captain Dodge was way too *clean*. After all, not only was his command a boat, it was a diesel boat...not at all the sort of thing where you can even stay clean just walking out of your quarters.Old ships for certain. Most ships in the USN are either nuclear or gas turbine (which, funny enough, runs off a variant of diesel). Conventional steam is extremely rare - only a few of the older amphibs run off steam nowadays. The only ships in the fleet that are diesel chuggers are mine sweepers and other ships just as small or smaller.
I think the real reason for everyone going to coveralls is because they've been aimig for smaller crews, which means more messy maintenance for everyone. The Navy getting rid of Utilities/Dungarees altogether probably doesn't help... and the NWUs are just too nice (and too expensive) to get dirty.