This nylon jacket comes in three colors: Silver Fern (green), In the Navy (navy blue), and Black Jack (black). The jacket is made of 100 percent nylon, and the mesh lining is 100 percent polyester.

Renata Cannon remembers the summer of 1988, lying wide awake on her bunk the first night of Navy boot camp in a new-recruit barracks at the Naval Training Center in Orlando. The uneasy silence of ...