• Please take a moment and update your account profile. If you have an updated account profile with basic information on why you are on Air Warriors it will help other people respond to your posts. How do you update your profile you ask?

    Go here:

    Edit Account Details and Profile

Cold weather issue

They give you Goretex stuff. The only cold weather gear you might need is the stuff you'll wear the first couple of days in civies. After that they'll issue you everything you need.
 
It is up to your platoon staff as to what you can wear as far as bringing your own cold weather gear.

You will get issues gortex top and bottom, fleece gloves and beanie. Thats about it except for the sweatshirt.
 
Cavrone said:
It is up to your platoon staff as to what you can wear as far as bringing your own cold weather gear.

You will get issues gortex top and bottom, fleece gloves and beanie. Thats about it except for the sweatshirt.
Click to expand...

The gortex top and bottom are great to keep you dry, but they don't do much to hold in the heat. They were life savers at TBS (Alpha Co, yut yut) but that was with some other warming layers under them, plus cammies. I was a summer boy for OCS, best of luck to those doing the Quigly in the winter. :shake_125 Steel balls ...
 
Cavrone said:
It is up to your platoon staff as to what you can wear as far as bringing your own cold weather gear.

You will get issues gortex top and bottom, fleece gloves and beanie. Thats about it except for the sweatshirt.
Click to expand...

Depends on company staff.
 
Didnt they screw with you all when you went outside and each platoon had different stuff? The company GySgt chewed us out because one of the platoons had their rifles slung differently.
 
Slammer2 said:
Didnt they screw with you all when you went outside and each platoon had different stuff? The company GySgt chewed us out because one of the platoons had their rifles slung differently.
Click to expand...


My Platoon was the only platoon in the company that had to have ALL of our OD shirts marked for PT. On flag days, while in formation, there were plenty of candidates from other platoons that wore shirts with only their last names marked. Platoon staff all have their own little quirks
 
Theoretically everything is supposed to be uniform throughout the company, although I agree that this is only an occasional reality.
 
theblakeness said:
My Platoon was the only platoon in the company that had to have ALL of our OD shirts marked for PT. On flag days, while in formation, there were plenty of candidates from other platoons that wore shirts with only their last names marked. Platoon staff all have their own little quirks
Click to expand...

*sigh* I miss the days when the biggest concern was if you marked your PT shirt dark enough or not .... or maybe I dont :yuck_125:
 
devil_dog said:
*sigh* I miss the days when the biggest concern was if you marked your PT shirt dark enough or not .... or maybe I dont :yuck_125:
Click to expand...

yeah yeah yeah...Give me a break, it was the only specific example I could think of at the moment that related to my point.
 
theblakeness said:
My Platoon was the only platoon in the company that had to have ALL of our OD shirts marked for PT. On flag days, while in formation, there were plenty of candidates from other platoons that wore shirts with only their last names marked. Platoon staff all have their own little quirks
Click to expand...

We were the only Platoon in Alpha that did inspection in uniforms without white name tapes. It never turned around to bite us once while we were their, even when the other SI's inspected us. I guess if the Platoon was uniform good enough.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top