SOURCE: http://www.navytimes.com/
“It’s been more than 20 years since the Navy has measured its personnel, and the men and women of the force have physically changed in that time,” said Capt. Robert Gantt, deputy commander for uniform programs at Navy Exchange Service Command. “U.S. Navy body dimensions were last measured in 1997 for males and 1988 for females.”
The Navy Exchange uses the data to create the sizes and patterns for all the uniforms in a sailor’s seabag. But with the Navy’s data 30-40 years out of date, in some cases, they needed new data to create new patterns, Gantt said.
A comprehensive study that would provide all new data on sailors’ sizes and shapes would have cost many millions of dollars — a tough sell in such fiscally constrained times.
