Navy Working Uniform (NWU Type III)

Where you can wear it

This is what people actually look up, and the regulation is unusually specific about it. The NWU Type III is authorized for wear at all locations, commuting and all normal tasks and associated stops, before, during and after the workday. The examples given are stops at child care, gas stations, off-base shopping, banking, the DMV and dining. NAVPERS 15665J Ch. 3

Two specific carve-outs worth knowing:

• Recruiters may wear the NWU Type III in the continental United States, Hawaii and Guam at their commanding officer's discretion — but not for school or college visits, presentations, or 72-hour indoctrinations.
• The National Capital Region permits NWU wear except in the National Mall area bounded by Capitol Hill and the surrounding Senate and House staff offices, the White House and Executive Office Building, the Department of State, and all monuments and memorials, unless specifically authorized for a Joint Task Force NCR mission.

Full component list

The NWU is the most consistent uniform in the regulation — the lists are close to identical across all six categories. Pick yours to confirm.

What happened to coveralls

If you go looking for a coveralls component list in Chapter 3, you will not find one. That is not an omission.

The 6 November 2023 Summary of Changes to NAVPERS 15665J re-designated Navy blue coveralls from a seabag item to organizational clothing. Organizational clothing is loaned by the command and returned on transfer — it is not bought out of your uniform allowance and it does not belong to you. Because it sits outside the seabag, it has no component list in the uniform regulation. Summary of Changes, 6 Nov 2023

That is the same reason the 2POC — the Two-Piece Flame Resistant Organizational Clothing that supersedes coveralls at sea — is not in NAVPERS 15665J either. Its manner of wear was promulgated by a U.S. Fleet Forces Command message instead.