Cooling vests like those you are describing are great when you have ready access to refrigerators. Armoured, Infantry and Engineers troops in operations don't.BYT Driver said:From the looks of all the posts, no one answered the original question.
When I was overseas, we used a cooling vest that got cold in the refrigerator. It lasted about 3-4 hours depending on how hot it was and how hot you were. It only covered the abdominal area and back. And it worked very well when the ramp was about 75 frakking degrees!! and we were doing fuel jobs!
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geo said:There was talk at one point of equipping the Leo C2 tankers with some sort of circulating pump style cooling vest - but I don't think they ever put the plan into production once we got the Leo 2A6Ms.
Tetragrammaton said:Obviously, any cooling system is no substitute for heat acclimation and training.
Maybe they worked better when new, but judjing by the amount of gunners and drivers I saw hauled out after they passed out from the heat inside a Leo, I'd say they don't work that good. Then again a lot of tankers were still wearing them (and TLAV crews) so I'm assuming they do something....Der Panzerkommandant.... said:They have them...and they work great.
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EOD teams have something.adaminc said:Hello all,
I was just wondering if anyone knew if the CF was using cooling vests out in Afghanistan or other high temperature places, and not in-vehicle systems, but personal systems?