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dex armstrong

Posted 2008-10-21 1:13 PM (#20636)

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Subject: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I got one...anyone else? DEX

Doc Gardner

Posted 2008-10-21 1:16 PM (#20637 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I got one; still have it and use it every year as part of a Memorial Dinner I host.

PaulR

Posted 2008-10-21 1:30 PM (#20638 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Hopewell Junction NY

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I still have my original issue (8/61), but never have worn it.

I think they eliminated them from the sea bag in April of 1963.

TSpoon

Posted 2008-10-21 1:31 PM (#20639 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Got mine in Oct 1961 at San Diego. Still have it in a trunk someplace.

T.Spoon, DBF

Launcher Lary

Posted 2008-10-21 1:50 PM (#20640 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I was issued a flathead when I was launched...does that count?!?!?

heh heh heh...how are ya' yew ol' reprobate?

Billy Bob

Corabelle

Posted 2008-10-21 1:55 PM (#20641 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

My brother did; had it when he came home on leave after boot camp. He wanted me to help him find it so that he could take it to the one-and-only Sterlet reunion that he attended, but we were unable to locate it then. His daughter found it along with his dress blue uniform after he died. It will soon go in our local museum along with the uniform.

Cora

Edited by Corabelle 2008-10-21 1:57 PM

whalen

Posted 2008-10-21 2:59 PM (#20643 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Citrus County FL

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

FLAT HAT?

HOW GAY IS THAT?

DIDN'T ONE OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE WEAR A FLAT HAT?

Mac McCoy

Posted 2008-10-21 3:20 PM (#20644 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I was issued one in Boot Camp Aug 59 Glakes. Have no idea what may have happened to it. Never wore it that I can recall. It was something like what The COB told me one time. He said that you NQP'S "Matter" because matter has weight and occupies space and thats the only Damned thing you are good for. The flathat had weight and occupied space so I guess I tossed it out.

SOB490

Posted 2008-10-21 3:55 PM (#20645 - in reply to #20643)

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Location: San Freakcisco CA area

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

whalen - 2008-

FLAT HAT?

HOW GAY IS THAT?

DIDN'T ONE OF THE VILLAGE PEOPLE WEAR A FLAT HAT?

I heard they borrowed yours, Bill - is there any truth to that one?

Edited by SOB490 2008-10-21 3:56 PM

Park Dallis

Posted 2008-10-21 3:56 PM (#20646 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Anchorage, Alaska

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Had one in my seabag in June '60. It was too small so I never wore it. Don't have a clue where it is now.

Don Winslow, USN

Posted 2008-10-21 4:12 PM (#20648 - in reply to #20646)

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Location: Lac Labelle, MI

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I got issued on in sept 59, I still have it to show my grandkids and great grandkids.

It still fits but I don't ever wear it

Rock AGSS 274

jerrydf

Posted 2008-10-21 4:28 PM (#20649 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Ormond Beach, Florida

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Issued one in 1949 with standard sea bag. Don't know I ever wore it.

CA-124, SS-377, SS-480, SS-337, SSN596 Plank Owner, SSBN-644 (B) Plank Owner, SS-347, SSBN-657 (G), SSN653

whalen

Posted 2008-10-21 4:38 PM (#20650 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Citrus County FL

Subject: FLATHAT to GOLD BRAID??

enlisted

From a snipe......

officer

to the Wardroom!

A Village People MUSTANG!

GaryKC

Posted 2008-10-21 4:53 PM (#20651 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Still have mine, issued in '71.

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Flapper

Posted 2008-10-21 5:13 PM (#20652 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Tucson AZ

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I still have mine, issued at RTC San Diego in July 62. They were just getting rid of things, I think; it never did fit me ... way too small ... but it was never uniform of the day, so no biggie. Still have it in my memento drawer.

Boy Throttleman

Posted 2008-10-21 6:25 PM (#20655 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Jan 62 issued one and never wore it. I think they were issuing them just to get rid of them.
My brother in law tells of being stationed at Elizabeth City and the CO of the base decided to get rid of them from the ships store. How to do this without throwing them away?
Simple,,,, uniform for next inspection Flat Hats.
Poor Swabbies that had thrown thiers away, lining up at the ships store to buy new ones for the inspection.
Almost all were sold and of course never to be worn again.
Officers like that should be flogged, keel hauled, hung and then cremated and have the urn used as a urinal at the EM club .
Moths ate mine its long gone

PatH

Posted 2008-10-21 8:16 PM (#20660 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Issaquah WA, USA

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I got one of them things. Got it in 1960. Never wore it.

Tom Curtis

Posted 2008-10-21 9:09 PM (#20661 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Fallbrook, California

Subject: From A Naval Uniform History Site

FLAT HATS--First authorized in 1852 the flat hat was eliminated on 1 April 1963 due to non-available materials. The original hats had unit names on the front, however, unit names were taken off in January 1941.

Edited by Tom Curtis 2008-10-21 9:17 PM

JrKrup, Skimmer

Posted 2008-10-21 9:53 PM (#20662 - in reply to #20660)

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Location: Oxnard, CA

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Hope to s**t in your flat hat!

January 1963 initial issue, never worn officially, but I still have it.

BlackBeard

Posted 2008-10-21 10:35 PM (#20665 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Inyokern, Ca.

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Weren't flat hats built to fit block heads?

dex armstrong

Posted 2008-10-22 12:24 AM (#20668 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I got one in my initial issue in 1959....At the time, they were required to be worn at the Boston Navy Yard...I think it had something to do with the USS CONSTITUTION being berthed in Boston. Maybe someone with better knowledge could clarify that. I once saw Morning Colors executed on a light cruiser in Halifax and the two bluejackets who ran the colors up on the fantail, wore flathats, white pistol belts and white leggings...They looked sharp. By the way, that hat being worn by the Village People isn't a flathat...it's a raghat. DEX

Palm Bay Ken

Posted 2008-10-22 5:23 AM (#20673 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

ET"A" School, Great Lakes, 1955
The Flat Hat was part of the required liberty uniform for non-rated folks (I was an E-3), and we could not wear civies through the gate. Riding your thumb was a preferred mode of travel then and several SSC students were struck by cars while hitch-hiking that winter. It was pretty hard to see us with the black gloves, P-coat collar turned up, and flat hat. I think that might have had something to do with getting rid of the flat hat.

Edited by Palm Bay Ken 2008-10-22 10:16 AM

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steamboat

Posted 2008-10-22 5:23 AM (#20674 - in reply to #20668)

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Location: Boydton, Virginia

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

I was issued one with my seagag in March 1960 at Great Lakes. We were told then that we would never wear them except at a funeral (they never did explain if it would be ours or someone elses funeral). No matter though, cause nobody died while I was aboard. Ain't got a clue what happened to mine, too many ships, too many brothers and nieces that pilfered what I brought home after 5 years in the Navy, nothing left now but a moth-eaten pea-coat.
Ya know, come to think of it, flat hats aren't too much different from the barrais (sp) that the Army wears today!
Steamboat sends

Ralph Luther

Posted 2008-10-22 5:40 AM (#20678 - in reply to #20636)

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Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

As Jon put it so nice in his post above--that is exactly what happened to my "flat hat". Four of us had a "snake ranch" out on Isle of Palms and at one of our parties, low and behold, there were all 4 flat hats lined up on the porch with deposits placed in them. Don't know who or why but it was a hoot to see that in the morning after.

Gary, does that "flat hat" mean you're a dickhead? Cheers, mate!

Edited by Ralph Luther 2008-10-22 5:42 AM

MAD DOG

Posted 2008-10-22 9:50 AM (#20687 - in reply to #20636)

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Location: Va.Beach,Va.

Subject: RE: How many here got issued a FLATHAT??

Somewhere , in the archivies of the Winnie & Moo,there is a photo of me
on the roof of that establishment in dress blues & flathat,playing a trumpet.
It is on the ocasion of the transfer of the submarine to the roof of the
Vally-jo location.I have e-mailed the establishment in Bremerton but the new
proprietors have not seen fit to return fire.

Edited by MAD DOG 2008-10-22 9:55 AM

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