Day #1 went pretty well and here’s day #2. Today, two lucky readers will receive High Loft Jackets from WT Tactical.
Designed to be worn over body armor, the High Loft Jacket provides ultimate warmth, featuring 6 oz PrimaLoft® Sport synthetic insulation. The shell is made of 70 denier textured nylon, with 330d Cordura® reinforced abrasion resistant panels on the elbows. The two hand warmer pockets are lined with 2 oz quilted PrimaLoft®, keeping your hands safe from frostbite. Two interior mesh pockets provide storage and a place for wet goods to dry out. An adjustable shock cord hem blocks the wind, and adjuster clips are located in the hand warmer pockets to make cinching the wind out even easier. A fully adjustable helmet compatible hood with laminated brim keeps the head warm and protected. A separate collar keeps the neck nice and warm even when the hood is down. The wrist cuffs are adjustable with Velcro® wrist stays and half elastic, allowing the wearer to put a gloved hand in and out.
Don’t forget, today’s winners as well as every other winner, will receive a 2012 Tac Girls Calendar. (Just the calendar, not any of the girls)
To Enter
In the comment section of THIS post here on SSD tell us about the worst weather you’ve ever encountered. In a few hours we’ll close the comments section and randomly select a winner. Remember to use a valid email address so we can inform you in case you win. One entry per email address.
Details at soldiersystems.net/the-12-days-of-tactical-christmas.
Tags: Wild Things, WT Tactical
Winter storm in Indiana. 26 inches in 2 hours. Well, that and a Florida hurricane, but I hate snow.
Hurricane Rita, post-Katrina.
Worst has to be Hurricane Irene. Having lived on the east coast for my whole life I had never experienced a hurrican before. Truly horrible weather!
’98 and enough snow to close down i90 for days and trying to navigate snow covered back roads with out a map.
The worst weather I was ever in was when I went to visit my grandma for christmas as a kid. On christmas day it ended up being about -50 with windchill, and if you were outside for more than 10 minutes you would start to get frostbite even while bundled up in lots of warming layers.
violent thunderstorm in the middle of the night in Djibouti while in the “field”. We had the 60’s and 81’s set up in one position and there was lightning everywhere and a torrential downpour. Apparently we set up in a wash and when the rains came it washed our stuff 200m. We were still digging mortar rounds out of the mud 2 days later. Good Times!
Worst Weather for me, was at the start of the year when cyclone Yasi came through Townsville, Australia. My house flooded and the front door blew off. That was the least of the damages around the area as people lost roofs and cars. My Bn was tasked to travel all over Nth Queensland for the next month, cleaning up roads, natural parks, cleaning peoples back yards and were treated like dirt by the people we were helping. Many people were getting upset that we weren’t doing more to help them when we were already removing all the foliage that the cyclone dumped on their lives. To add insult to injury, we were on rats so when we did decide to go get food at the local shops, the locals put up the price to $8 for a coke.
So this experience for me was the WORST weather situation for me. Happy Boxing Day
Winter of ’07-’08 in Diyala. Never been so cold before in my life. Got a couple of inches of snow too. Couldn’t get to our cold weather gear because we were detached from our battalion and for whatever reason, the connex with our CW gear in it, wasn’t a priority. I actually ended up ordering some crap off of AAFES.com and it got to my faster then our connex did.
Winter 93 Ranger School Florida phase……..Storm of the Century. Walk all night to get to high ground……Rain turned into Snow. That was cold!!!!!!
3 day wilderness hike in the Cederberg mountains in South Africa. Day started out beautiful and sunny, but within two hours we were in freezing conditions; howling gales, ice and snow storms and lost dexterity in our hands. Fleece just doesn’t cut it. Wild Things Tactical could have spared me the pain for the next few hours hiking out.
Coldest was Christmas of 1980 spent in Montreal. It was -25 F with 20mph winds. It was the coldest I’ve ever been!
It was at Spinny Mt. in CO. It was so cold the diesel geled in the gens.
Working night shift patrol during a blizzard in maryland. I ended up all by myself since my partner had to cover the desk at the station. We got over 80 inches of snow that night. The plows didn’t run at all so I ran calls by myself during the storm. Had to stop every 15 minutes to clear snow and ice off the light barand headlights. Then the wipers stopped working. And everything shutdown so I couldn’t even get a hot cup of coffee. Longest night of my life.
Had to be the blizzard we had in Minnesota a few years back. Snow was coming down incredibly fast while the wind blew it around in every direction. Couldn’t see the lights of the car in front of us if it was more the 5 or 6 feet away. That and the subzero temperatures actually froze the windshield wipers to the car as well as created a heck of a lot of black ice which was a nightmare to drive on. Once the storm had cleared you saw a couple cars in the ditch for every half mile of road.
About two years ago we had an ice storm that knocked our power out for over a week. People where in the ditch about every twenty feet, but we still had to go to work. People on the outskirts of town where without power for up to a month.
The worst weather by far that I’ve experienced was living in a sleeping bag above 10,000 feet for three months; punctured the therm-a-rest the first night out sleeping on sharp granite talus; countless days of waking up with the bivy covered in a foot of fresh snow; boots so wet the leather would just fall apart like some sort of baked potato; jumping in the ice covered lake to washup; no warming fires allowed. Weather conditions were usually so bad up there that our helo resupplies were usually cancelled, up to the point that the local marmots were getting concerned! 😉
Afghanistan 2004, and NYC last winter. That NYC blizzard came out of nowhere. when we left the hotel that morning everything was great. by mid afternoon, it was a nightmare.
Worst weather was last December when my mother-in-law came to Austin: HURRICANE STEPHANIE.
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Bosnia 1995-96. Snow, mud, cold and a foot of water inside the gp-medium tent.
Running ranges up north winter of 03. Boots froze to top of HMMWV.
The 1998 ice storm in southern Quebec (Canada) when we had over FOUR INCHES of ice coating on EVERYTHING, with massive power outages… Luckily for me, I was at school back then and it just got canceled and we stayed home living off our supplies for the couple days until public workers had brought back power to stores and houses in my area.
3″ of snow on the side of Mt Tiefort at NTC after coming back from Panama with only hot weather uniforms and poncho liners for warmth.
Freezing rains in north carolina on a Bivvy, my sack froze over. Both sacks.
My entire childhood in Minnesota. Snow blocking your door so you had to crawl out the window, hair freezing if you didn’t dry it after a shower, and snow so deep we jumped of the roof for fun….. All regular occurrences.
36inch of snow coming in on the top of great mist tor on dartmoor in 3hrs .having to abandon half are equipment then cross a 20ft deep 30ft wide fast flowing river to get to the lynx’s at the evac point. Out of a team of 8 4 went down with hypothermia and 1witha fractured ankle and exposure. And this was April ! A week later we were getting sun stroke.
Worst weather I’ve ever encountered was parallel squal lines on a hot summer evening that kept popping up over the same area, which happened to be where I needed to land, so I had to skirt the edge of the driving horizontal rain, and ran into some windshear that damn dear dropped me out of the sky. As far as on the ground, -30*F without windshear in indiana with an ice storm, I sure coukd have used this jacket!
Nighttime in ghazni prov. Just crazy cold . It went right through the gen III stuff. So cold it hurts.
First month of basic training they dump our asses on the Baltic coast. Rain. Rain. Rain. F*cking sleet and rain coming sideways (or from underneath). Rain. Wet sand everywhere. Rain. More sleet. Cold and snow is one thing, you dress and stay dry and you’re gtg. Rain though, rain just sucks.
I turned 19 during that time. Worst. Birthday. Ever.
Early February in NE Ohio. Barracaded subject (coming down off heroin) allegedly just shot his wife’s cat after a domestic. She fled the home and called police. Our team stacked on the 1/4 corner with snow coming down like crazy. every 20 minutes we literally had to brush the snow off of each others armor as we waited and waited to go. At one point the male actually came out the back and put hot coffee out for us. We were stacked outside for about 1.5 hrs until we were allowed to make entry, it was either that our our medics were going to recommend we stand down due to frostbite. If I had the WT Tactical High Loft Jacket, I could have stood out there all day.
12 straight days of rain while on FTX. Stopped being fun around the 3rd day…
Two feet plus in about two hours. Just got past the pass closure but the highway was backed up for miles on the other side and cars were getting snowed in from not moving. Now I have a full winter kit in the trunk for the cold months.
-15*F with 30-40 mph winds that I had to walk through every day from my dorm to my classroom freshman year of college.
1978, 2-237th “No Slack”, Black Rapids Alaska going through NWTC. 03:00 to 04:00 guard shift on the M-60 during the FTX, no wind chill factor, -37 F, and had to get “exposed” to get rid of several days worth of winter LRPS!
Growing up in Montana, I’ve experienced multiple-foot snow storms and -50 degree temps. But the worst weather I ever experienced was Korea in 2005-2006. Nothing can stop that cold, right to the bone.
I am a cop.
I was on a solo surveillance for some looters on a Civil War battlefield. A violent pop up thunderstorm hit and forced me to take cover in some Civil War era earthworks. I had to resort to the old “kiss your ass goodbye” position while I watched a huge pine tree snap and wound up getting hit in the head by a falling branch.
The worst part was that it got cool right after that, and I never thought to bring any insulating layers as it was late summer.
I got my guys a few days later though.
-40 on the ground after a jump into Ft. Greely Alaska and then 5 days in the field. And it was never fun.
About two years ago my son was born and at the time we were getting released from the hospital winter storm came that shut down all the interstates in the area to include 95. Got called in to work the EOC and had to drive back into the city.
The coldest weather I ever encountered was a freezing night in the Botswana desert. It’s never fun when you don’t have the right gear. I won’t make that mistake again!
hammered on mount rainierat 10,000 ft., good times
Last 8 guard shift in Iraq. January…night time, rainy, windy, then snow, all in an open concrete tower about 6 feet across. My buddy and I wondered who we had pi$$ed off to get that peach of a shift.
Probably not the worst weather I’ve been through, but a rough night of it. Afghanistan in mid-winter, about to bed down on the FOB when the QRF call comes in…in the trucks with just enough time to grab kit and and med bags and out the gate. Half an hour later there she is, one of our MRAPs upside down in a river. Everyone was alright, even the driver – who took a turn under blackout a little too sharply and rolled the truck off a low bridge – although only by virtue he was able to avoid the team sergeant for the rest of the night. Sub-freezing temps, we had to climb into the river to pull the sensitive items from the truck then pull security the rest of the night while waiting for a wrecker.
The new record low in Northwest Arkansas last February, -17 F. That’s the coldest. Quantico gets pretty nasty during the summer.
Two years ago I was just dating my now wife. On a rainy Saturday afternoon I decided to clean my OBR. Using her tweezers out of her makeup bag I was plucking all the bolt parts out of a bowl of Hoppes #9 when she walked by and noticed. What unfolded next was not something any man should ever have to weather. That was probably the worst storm I have or will ever have to survive. I hope.
The worst weather I have been in has to be the winter of 03 I was loading ships heading to Iraq and Afghanistan at the port of Philadelphia there was about 3 to 4 ft of snow on the ground the temp was well in the negatives with the wind chill it was so cold the Delaware River froze had to get a Coast Guard Cutter to break the ice to get the ships out
Spent 4 hours iced in freezing temps under a small rock outcrop on St Marys glacier. I was dressed for a quick spring-time trail run. Spent the whole 4 hours looking at the plaque bolted to the rock face noting souls who lost their lives in this very spot.
I thought I was toast. Never been unprepared since then.
Personal low point, was staring into the eyes of my girlfriend that I talked into the run, I felt like I was the one responsible for killing her. I should have known better.
Kotzebue, AK. -75 F with 10 mph winds walking 3 1/2 miles to and from the cemetery on the hill in jeans, tennis shoes, and a hoodie under a goretex shell. awesome.
Tagab District, Kapisa Province, Afghanistan Winter of 2005. Cold, wet, muddy, miserable and loving it. We got fired up one night when it was around ten degrees with about forty mile an hour winds. I had nowhere to go to get out of the weather because we just slept in a tight patrol base with our light GMVs which at the time had no doors/armor. The only warmth I got for two weeks was my morning hot chocolate cooked with my jet-boil.
January 27, 2004. Edmonton, AB. Canada -40C(-40F). The condo I own in a 68 unit building was evacuated because of a fire. It was so cold that the water in the fire hose lines froze. Units from all over where called in for their hoses. My condo unit did end up burning to the ground because they couldnt get water to the fire. Good thing that no one was killed. Many people from the condo units and many of the fire fighters did suffer some exposure but nothing permanent. I really sucked because I lost everything.
Coldest I’ve ever been is on a 25,000 foot AGL Night time HAHO jump in December. Temperature with wind chill worked out to -50 at exit altitude. It was so cold that everyones chem lights froze on exit and stopped glowing. Most people’s goggles iced over instantly on exit and everyones electronics stopped working until we were at a lower altitude. My hands were so cold that I seriously contemplated disconnecting my RSL and cutting away my main and going back into freefall so I could get on the ground quicker, even if it was off the DZ.