‘Mission Complete’ for Task Force Uniform

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First Marine Logistics Group Command Master Chief German Fiesco and other Navy senior enlisted leaders stretch before a workout while wearing the Navy's PT uniform.


‘Mission Complete’ for Task Force Uniform
By Mark D. Faram - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Nov 23, 2007 5:42:27 EST

Navy officials have pulled the plug on Task Force Uniform after a nearly five-year run revolutionizing Navy uniforms.

In NavAdmin message 310/07, released Wednesday, Vice Adm. John C. Harvey, the Navy's chief of personnel in Arlington, Va., pronounced TFU “Mission Complete” and announced the re-establishment of a formal Uniform Board, effective immediately.

“Task Force U advanced several uniform initiatives to improve Navy uniform designs, fit and functionality,” Harvey wrote in the message. “Most notably, our Navy will soon benefit from the consummation of three major uniform initiatives: the Physical Training Uniform, the Navy Service Uniform and the Navy Working Uniform.

“Building on our lessons learned from Task Force U, we are now ready to carry forward with a newly established and reorganized uniform board.”

TFU was established in February 2003. In its nearly five-year run, it brought about the single largest uniform overhaul in Navy history. Those three new uniforms are now in the early stages of implementation that will take the next two years to completely reach the fleet.

The newly revamped board will be headed by Harvey, who will be assisted in the task by Rob Carroll, who retired from active-duty as the uniformed head of TFU and was later hired to become the civilian head of the Navy Uniform Matters office at the Navy Annex, providing that office with long-term continuity and corporate knowledge on uniform issues. It will be Carroll who runs the day-to-day aspects of Navy Uniforms while advising Harvey in the admiral's capacity as the president of the uniform board.


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