"Lady Sailors Get The Dixie Cup!" Topic

As a former sailor, I could never understand why ladies weren't issued the same dixie cup us male sailors were.

Now that's changing…

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I still have one of mine. Fun story- when I was qualified on small arms, I was issued an ancient M1911 and as I fired each round, the ejected casing would fly straight up into my Dixie Cup. When the range officer called us to police our casings, I simply took off my cap and emptied into the bin much to the amusement of the Chiefs observing the quals.

Iconic. Do you wish they still had flat hats when you were in? I have the band my dad saved from his time on the Oklahoma. Long overlap with the Dixie. I put a pic of my uncle in his Dixie on my profile page. He didn't make it off.

Sorry to hear about your uncle, Hafen. I would have enjoyed the flat hats when I was in, as frankly wearing the Dixie in a dress uniform felt a little weird to me, like wearing a nice suit and ugly shows.

Love the Dixie. Seems to limit the ladies hair styles however.

The local Police force has been issuing woman officers with the same standard hat as the men for more than a decade – as opposed to the bowler/fedora looking thing that many UK or Commonwealth countries have their woman constables wearing

Turns out it has nothing to do with gender equity – there were not rain covers for the woman's hats and the Chief was tired of having to replace them early because they got soaked and wore out

I hate when women wear the same cover as men. It's their choice however in the FD where I work…

Thanks for the thought,TG. Never knew him,of course I wasn't born til years later. There's more to the story that makes it sadder,but I won't go into it here.