Undress Uniform Short and Long Sleeve Shirts
With this uniform you may wear either blue trousers with the NCO red stripe or the optional black
trousers. Other parts of the uniform are:
- Standard Cover
- Devil Dog collar, if authorized (optional)
- Name Tag (optional)
- White Short Sleeve shirt, with military creases (to be Airline pilot style with two (2) pockets with button down flaps and shoulder epaulets)
- MCL sunburst insignias on collar, centered ½ “ inside the collar tip, with wings on the emblem parallel to the deck
- Shoulder patches as authorized
- MCL ribbons or DOD authorized ribbons, wings, badges (MCL and DOD cannot be mixed) No medals can be worn on this uniform
- If the long sleeve shirt is worn, a black tie, with the MC or MCL gold tie bar shall be part of the uniform (No open collar).
- Trousers, blue dress (with NCO red stripe) with belt, MC khaki web, with web belt brass buckle
- Shoes, black, plain toe (Military style, highly glossed)
- Socks, black
- OPTIONAL: Black trousers, dress with black leather belt and square gold buckle with MC emblem.
C O V E R S
All members of the Marine Corps League are authorized the Red cover. Associates will replace the EGA with the Sunburst. Members elected or appointed to National office Staff/Committees are authorized to wear Gold covers. The National Commandant will wear a White cover. Members elected or appointed on the Department level are authorized to wear the Red with Gold crown covers.
Past Nat’l Commandants are authorized to wear a Gold with White crown cover. Past Chief Devil Dogs are authorized to wear a Gold with Black crown cover.
Past Nat’l Division Vice Commandants, Past Nat’l Executive Directors, Past Nat’l Directors of the Young Marines, Past Department Commandants, Past Pack Leaders, & Past Detachment Commandants, with the years displayed for holding that office, are the only members who are authorized to wear their respective cover after their tour of duty is completed. All other members revert back to the appropriate cover for their current elected/appointed office, removing prior officer identification strips.
CAUSAL UNIFORM MALE/FEMALE
- Standard cover
- Marine of the Year Medallion or Devil Dog collar, if authorized.
- White shirt (No button down collars and no sunburst insignias).
- Black tie, with MC or MCL gold tie bar
- Blazer, red, with two (2) MCL buttons on front and three (3) MCL buttons on each sleeve cuff
- MCL Crest
- Lapel pins (Max of two) Optional
- Trousers, black, dress
- Black belt leather, with MC emblem on square gold buckle
- Shoes, black, plain toe (Military style, highly glossed)
- Socks, black
- Optional: A black leather dress belt may be worn as a substitute to the black leather belt with MC emblem on square gold buckle. (The black leather belt with a ratcheting gold MC emblem buckle is an approved optional dress belt).
- One, two or three large (Standard) MCL medals or DOD medals may be worn centered over the left breast pocket of the MCL red blazer uniform. Sunburst insignias are not worn on the shirt collar and the MC dress blue trousers are not worn with the casual uniform.
FORMAL UNIFORM
RED BLAZER FORMAL
EVENING DRESS JACKET TROUSERS BLACK TUX OR TROUSERS BLACK WITH BLACK DRESS BELT
EVENING DRESS JACKET BLUE DRESS TROUSERS WITH RED NCO STRIPE
- Standard cover (recommended not worn at indoor formal events or ceremonies.
- Marine of the Year Medallion or Devil Dog collar, if authorized
- Military bow tie, black
- White shirt, formal (Standard collar) pleaded front (No ruffles)
- Gold cuff links and gold studs
- Cummerbund, gold or gold vest front (Only approved design)
- Trousers, NCO evening dress
- Standard cover (recommended not worn at indoor formal events or ceremonies.
- Marine of the Year Medallion or Devil Dog collar, if authorized
- Military bow tie, black
- White shirt, formal (Standard collar) pleaded front (No ruffles)
- Gold cuff links and gold studs
- Cummerbund, gold or gold vest front (Only approved design)
- Trousers, NCO evening dress, with NCO Red stripe OR
- Trousers, black tux or trousers, black, with black dress belt.
- MCL Red Evening Dress jacket, with MCL buttons, gold waist chain, and sunburst insignias at locating holes in jacket collar.
- Lapel pins, (optional)
- Shoes, black plain toe (Military style, highly glossed)
- Socks, black
- Miniature medals, wings, badges
EVENING DRESS JACKET BLUE DRESS TROUSERS WITH RED NCO STRIPE
EVENING DRESS JACKET TROUSERS BLACK TUX OR TROUSERS BLACK WITH BLACK DRESS BELT
EVENING DRESS JACKET BLUE DRESS TROUSERS WITH RED NCO STRIPE
OPTIONAL: The red blazer may be worn as an option to the red evening dress jacket with formal dress uniform.
If the red blazer option is chosen, the following applies:
• The blue dress trousers, with red NCO stripe cannot be worn
• The MCL crest is optional if miniature medals are worn.
• Medals may be worn per paragraph (s) I, II & III of enclosure three (3) uniform code.
EVENING DRESS JACKET TROUSERS BLACK TUX OR TROUSERS BLACK WITH BLACK DRESS BELT
EVENING DRESS JACKET TROUSERS BLACK TUX OR TROUSERS BLACK WITH BLACK DRESS BELT
EVENING DRESS JACKET TROUSERS BLACK TUX OR TROUSERS BLACK WITH BLACK DRESS BELT
UNIFORM ITEMS
RIBBONS, MEDALS AND MEDALLIONS
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