Deployed soldiers are constantly loaded with gear, but nowhere more so than when operating in a cold weather environment.In ...

A new U.S. military manual defines the survival and tactical needs of fighting a war in the Arctic and extreme cold weather ...

A researcher from the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental ... Arctic recently to study improvements to military cold-weather gear. Dr. Karl Friedl, senior research scientist for ...

USMC adopted Extreme Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS) in 1985 to replace Korean War era Cold Weather (EW) Clothing. Over the last 20 years USMC made periodic low risk product changes to ...

The Salvation Army takes clothing donations and has ... missing buttons or broken zippers). Cold-weather clothing includes long-sleeve shirts, pants, sweaters, winter jackets and coats, shoes ...