dress blues
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On the tarmac, standing at attention and saluting, were sailors in their dress whites and an honor guard in service dress blues and campaign hats.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 8, 2024
Dozens of RAF officers and enlisted personnel wore dress blues.
From Washington Times • May 25, 2023
He disliked the Army’s “old brown wool uniform” — the “ugliest thing in town,” he told The Washington Post decades later — and much preferred a Marine’s dress blues.
From Washington Post • Jun. 29, 2022
Aside from Becker’s family, local Marine cadets also attended the party in their dress blues to honor Becker and his military service.
From Fox News • Jan. 26, 2022
To my surprise, almost all my classmates had family members packed into the motel’s conference room, where, in dress blues, we were presented with diplomas and badges.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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