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Let the NEX handle it!
The NEX is your sole source for Navy-certified uniforms. NEX Uniform Shop associates are trained uniform experts who know how to help you select, fit, tailor, hem, embroider and dry clean your uniforms properly - and nobody can do these things better than your NEX.
Best Dressed
Whether it’s a Change of Command or your shipmate’s wedding, the NEX offers a premier Service Dress Blue uniform option manufactured by Brooks Brothers. The U.S. Navy Premier Collection by Brooks Brothers is a high quality line that includes Service Dress Blue jackets, pants and skirts, non-iron dress shirts as well as formal shirts and silk ties.
“There are 12 section supervisors involved in the process of making U.S. Navy uniforms,” says Brooks Brothers Manufacturing Manager Jim Murphy. “Brooks Brothers uses a combination of elite sewing and pressing technology as well as hand sewing to ensure the highest level of quality for the U.S. Navy.”
Navy-certified Uniforms
Our services departments are trained to assist customer for embroidery, tailoring, laundry, and dry cleaning in the locations available. Free hemming is available on all newly-purchased Navy uniforms.
Online Uniform Shop
Place your uniform order online at myNavyExchange.com/nex/uniforms or by calling one of our toll-free numbers.
To order by phone 24 hours per day, 7 days a week from CONUS*, Guam, Hawaii, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico, please call our Customer Contact Center at 1-800-368-4088.
A “Chief Petty Officer” Did You Know:
- Chief Petty Officer established April 1893
President Benjamin Harrison established the rank of chief petty officer Feb. 23, 1893, when he signed General Order 409. April 1893 was the date the rank of the Chief Petty Officer was officially established. Today, ceremonies are held across the fleet and include a cake cutting ceremony in which the youngest and oldest Chief present cut the cake together. There were 57 Sailors that were actually advanced to the rank of Chief Petty Officer when classification was created.
- John Henry “Dick” “Turpin”, Chief Gunner’s Mate, USN. (1876-1962)
Turpin was one of the first African-American Chief Petty Officers in the U.S. Navy and enlisted in the Navy in 1896. He was a survivor of the explosions on USS Maine (1898) and USS Bennington (1905). By 1941, all chief petty officers were authorized to wear khaki working uniforms.
- First Female Chief Petty Officer, Loretta Perfectus Walsh
On March 21, 1917, Loretta Walsh made history by enlisting in the Naval Reserve – the first woman to officially enlist in the military, and also the first female Chief Petty Officer.
