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July 21st, 2010, 12:54 PM
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#1 | | Scout Sniper
Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Iowa
Posts: 743
|  Dress blues , who has had 'em or still got 'em or want to get them ?
I never got any , but wonder who here has or plans to own a set ? 
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July 21st, 2010, 02:11 PM
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#2 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Anchorage, AK
Posts: 964
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Still have my dress blues, my mess dress, and all my other uniforms. I got out in 1992. Note, I was in the Air Force, and not the Marines.
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July 21st, 2010, 02:31 PM
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Join Date: May 2009 Location: Mercer, Pennsylvania
Posts: 127
| Have two sets
issued to me in 1968. Good thing, Ill need the two sets to make one that I will fit into when I am buried. Weighed 145 at the time and 200 now, plus that damn gravity has shifted my shape.
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July 21st, 2010, 04:14 PM
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#4 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: WI
Posts: 1,317
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Nope didn't have them. They're on my "wish list" to get someday before I die. Maybe before I die I might actually fit/wear them? I hope I might be buried in them at least. Hard to say when that will happen. I expect not too many people will care at that time. Guess I'll have to leave a note for someone trustworthy. Dress blues, my M14 and a Colt by my side. 
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July 21st, 2010, 05:00 PM
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#5 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Bellflower CA.
Posts: 1,982
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Still have my Air Force dress blues from the early 70's. I tried to wear them but I look like 50 lbs of lard in a 5 lb sack.
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July 21st, 2010, 05:09 PM
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#6 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: texas
Posts: 634
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Still have a set of 'Blues. Wife had me try them on a couple of months ago. Needless to say, after 15 years and 20 pounds, neither the blouse or trouser fit.
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July 21st, 2010, 05:10 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Northern Wisconsin
Posts: 202
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Originally Posted by M21guy  Dress blues, my M14 and a Colt by my side. | I might have to buy myself a shovel, LOL
Siefly 
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July 21st, 2010, 05:39 PM
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#8 | | Old Salt
Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: People's Republic of Kalifornia
Posts: 1,510
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still got 'em..............
I never got issued a set though. I was 0311 from 1985 - 1989 and at that time grunts didn't get them unless you paid for them. A buddy in my platoon had a couple of sets issued to him when he was on Embassy Duty. He needed some $$$$ so I got a set.
Of course, after 20 years they look better on the hanger than they do on me.... 
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July 21st, 2010, 05:59 PM
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#9 | | Platoon Sergeant
Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Southern Indiana
Posts: 327
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Got mine, issued for Sea Duty. Can't even get my arm in the sleeves any more. My daughters, 17 & 19, who are athletes and in shape are too big for the waist of the pants. They have a hard time believing dad was that small.
Don
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July 21st, 2010, 07:22 PM
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#10 | | Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Western U.S.
Posts: 3,871
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Retired in 2000 and I still have my Blues, I got my first set for recruiting duty  man I hated that job!
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July 21st, 2010, 07:45 PM
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#11 | | Grunt
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: H'ville,tennessee
Posts: 119
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Please forgive the intrusion of a lowly squid into ya'lls domain, but this reminds me of something I've always wondered. How come it is that the Navy, Army, and the Air Farce (oops, did I really say that) all issue dress uniforms and the Marines don't? Is it they figure ya'll are going to be too busy shooting and pillaging to get dressed up, or just the ol' "the other services get all the nice stuff and the Marines just make due" thing?
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July 22nd, 2010, 06:27 AM
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#12 | | Master Gunner
Join Date: May 2009 Location: Salem Or
Posts: 939
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Still have mine, one of the things my ex didn't lose in the not paying the storage shed payment debockle. We didn't have time to dress up...
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July 22nd, 2010, 08:06 AM
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#13 | | Designated Marksman
Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Florida
Posts: 660
| Had 'em sold 'em when I Derosed
Still have my greens. And my Dad's greens from WWII. They are in a "space bag" under the bed SEERing from the moths.
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July 22nd, 2010, 10:00 AM
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#14 | | Platoon Commander
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: used to beTustin, CA, now Jackson, WY
Posts: 502
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My dad retired from the Corps in 1959 and still has his blues. Every November 10th he puts them on (still fit), looks in the mirror, and says "pray for war". Drives my mom crazy. Of course she could also be mad because her birthday is also November 10th. For all 41 years that they have been married they have celebrated her birthday on November 11th because as my dad likes to say every year "the Corps was born first".
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July 22nd, 2010, 10:07 AM
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#15 | | Lifer
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Western U.S.
Posts: 3,871
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Originally Posted by ExMR2 Please forgive the intrusion of a lowly squid into ya'lls domain, but this reminds me of something I've always wondered. How come it is that the Navy, Army, and the Air Farce (oops, did I really say that) all issue dress uniforms and the Marines don't? Is it they figure ya'll are going to be too busy shooting and pillaging to get dressed up, or just the ol' "the other services get all the nice stuff and the Marines just make due" thing? | I understand that the Marine Corps is now issuing Blues during boot camp but it is deducted from the service member's pay. It appears that they have been doing things this way for about 3 years now. I suspect that when the other services were getting theirs issued the cost was being deducted automatically without fanfare.
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