Current Dress Regs

[dapaterson]

The boots were delivered by the Naval Improved Clothing Ensemble (NICE) project.

Look up NICE in the Defence Services Project List - and possibly the Capabilities and Investment Database - for details on the requirements.

 

[Cloud Cover]

Don’t forget to bring your anti flash hood to Carling in case that someone tries to burn you.

 

[Navy_Pete]

Don’t forget to bring your anti flash hood to Carling in case that someone tries to burn you.

Thanks, I can smell that hood now lol!

It's hilarious how much of an afterthought those hoods and gloves are for anti-flash when the old NCDs worked really well. There was a test video being used for training that basically had a dummy wearing them getting blasted with 4 flamethrowers fora 4 second exposure. The NCDs did really well; the major burns are on the hands and face, even with the flash gear on. Better than not wearing them I guess.

We haven't repeated the same testing with the NECUs but without the second layer and loose tailoring they won't perform as well. Still good enough, but holy shit that black shirt is hot, so people walking around in a tshirt versus the old blue shirt would be in a bad way if they did some rapid response without putting the shirt on (which we all know happens IRL).