Cold Weather Clothing And Equipment Conference Report PDF Download

A report is presented of the Cold Climate Clothing and Survival Equipment Workshop held 24-27 September 1974 at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Recognition of needs for improvement in aviation cold climate equipment prompted the U.S. Army Agency for Aviation Safety and the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory to jointly sponsor a workshop to identify shortcomings in the Army's cold climate clothing and survival equipment and recommend solutions. The workshop focused on specific problems encountered by Army aviation in Alaska. However, requirements of aviation units operating in other cold climates were also addressed. The workshop resulted in identification of deficiencies in cold climate flight clothing, cold climate survival kits, individual vest-type survival kits, cold climate training, emergency locator transmitters, and management of life support equipment. Attendees were representatives of concerned agencies and commands. They recommended actions to expedite short-term improvement of U.S. Army Alaska's cold climate equipment and to effect long-term overall improvement in Army aviation's cold climate life support and survival equipment and management. Also included is a report on the Workshop to Draft Requirements for a Cold Weather Flight Clothing System held at Fort Rucker 9-13 December 1974. (Author).