Turns out, sailors have been wearing hats marked with the names of their ships since at least 1869, according to records on file at the Navy Heritage and History Command in Washington.

3. If a Sailor is authorized to wear NWUs out in town, he or she may wear the Navy or command ball cap. Ball caps may be worn with civilian clothes provided they do not have rank insignia or ...

Sailors stand bridge watch aboard the amphibious dock landing ship Gunston Hall in Rota, Spain, on Oct. 18, 2014. The Navy has altered its policy on how female sailors wear Navy ball caps.

Sailors sound off on ball caps. When the Navy announced Aug. 26 that service officials had approved wearing command ball caps with NWUs as an optional replacement for the eight-point covers, ...

Navy’s Famous 'Dixie Cup' Hats to Be Worn by Women . Female Navy recruits will now ... The hat has been used for decades in Hollywood movies and Broadway plays as the symbol for a U.S. Navy sailor.

The Navy anthropometric correlation study will measure 4,000 sailors and compare those findings to Army data. Wear tests of a new female combination cover also are underway.

During a June 6 all-hands meeting at Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego, California, an officer asked if female sailors could start wearing their hair buns through the hole in the back of ...