Time is running out to save the iconic United States Navy pea coat. As of Oct. 1, the pea coat will become an optional component of enlisted sailors’ seabags, replaced by a synthetic cold ...

It's 2012, and I have just acquired my second pea coat. The first one was issued to me in October 1968 at the Naval Training Center in San Diego, Calif., a Navy boot camp long since closed, along ...

Congress is questioning the Navy’s decision to phase out the peacoat – its best-known piece of outerwear – as part of its 2018 budget deliberations.

The woolen, double-breasted coat with its turned-up high collar has been a Navy standard for decades. Congress fights Navy decision to discontinue iconic peacoat By Kery Murakami CNHI Washington ...

For over 45 years, the Sterlingwear of Boston garment factory supplied peacoats to the Navy. Now, after losing that contract — and facing closure — it has been tapped by the City of Boston to ...