I thought the TACAIR community generally didn’t wear gloves as a cultural thing, similar to the way that O2 masks are used less than 100% of the time?
There's several threads on this in the past, usually with Chuck surprised to learn what was mentioned in a previous thread, where he was also surprised to learn the same thing.
A lot of it goes back to how 3710 was written in a time before there was such a thing as fingerless gloves (or at least "approved" versions). 3710 stated gloves were not required over water due to water egress and survival. The Koch fittings on an ejection seat are a bitch to release with the old school gloves in the water when being dragged and the old SV-2 had some clips (leg straps, lobe straps, and the leash clip) on it that were much harder to manipulate with wet gloves on. Also that annoying chest clip on wearable parachutes was a pain in the ass to find and release with gloves on when wearing a vest with inflation.
3710 was revised some time in the early 2000's-ish where it removed the above blurbage. About that time, the CMU-33 was coming on line which allowed better dexterity (even though it still sucked), in part by just removing leg clips, which was just dumb. They then went through several iterations of leg strap releases. Koch fittings are still Koch fittings, though, so no help there. By 2008-2010, "approved" fingerless gloves started to be come available for open purchase.
@sevenhelmet A month or two ago, I got an email from Outdoor Research that said they started making their Overlord gloves again, albeit with a new design. I haven't tried them, but my Gen 1 Overlord gloves are light years better than the Wiley-X. If/when yours wear out, you might want to check out OR. OR also gives a nice .mil discount.