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Re: overallsCoveralls are great, they look way better than that ugly bus driver outfit the Navy calls a uniform.
They are also way quicker to get in to at emergency, rescue and action stations than the layered uniform with buttons.
I guarantee you that if you put a person with coveralls beside a person with a regular uniform and time them jumping out of their rack for an alarm, the person with coveralls will be quicker every time. Not just by a couple of seconds either, I'm talking like by a minute. It's enough that it's statistically significant.
There is a performance incentive for issuing everyone coveralls. An institution that cares about performance would take that in to consideration.
This is the RCN we are talking about though so I won't hold my breath.
The RAN issued everyone overalls for a while, then returned to a 2 piece not unlike our “new” NCDs about 10 years ago.
I don’t know why they did that, but my guess is that fit was an issue.