The last week of May is here, which means 3000 sailors from the US Navy will be descending the city for Fleet Week. Apparently, this year marks the 20th anniversary. So, for a week, we can expect to see men and women in gleaming white uniforms traipsing the streets of New York.
I don’t know why I find the iconic uniforms with white bell bottoms and sailors caps so campy. It’s just so… On the Town. That is, they haven’t seemed to change since WWII, because our memory of that war has been tempered through time and cinematic revision. Where as, current images of the US Army that we tend to see in the media reflect modern warfare.
