Posted on Apr 9, 2014
APFU Pants: Why do I have to take them off when it's between 35-50° F?
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This has always been a pet peeve of mine. We form up in full Winter APFUs because it's friggin cold outside, and the 1SG tells us to take our pants off. WHY? It's COLD!
Am I the only person in the military who gets cold when my legs are exposed to cold air and wind? We usually just stand there waiting for who knows what to start the formation usually after it was supposed to begin. I once had to take an APFT at Ft. Huachuca while it was 30° with a really cold wind. We had to take off our pants for that one. Too cold. Way too cold. Am I just bitching? Is this because I am a Floridian?
All I really want to know is why do senior NCOs make this call? Can't we take the pants off when we actually start PT?
Am I the only person in the military who gets cold when my legs are exposed to cold air and wind? We usually just stand there waiting for who knows what to start the formation usually after it was supposed to begin. I once had to take an APFT at Ft. Huachuca while it was 30° with a really cold wind. We had to take off our pants for that one. Too cold. Way too cold. Am I just bitching? Is this because I am a Floridian?
All I really want to know is why do senior NCOs make this call? Can't we take the pants off when we actually start PT?
APFU
Physical Training
Formation
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I dont know about this story it just sounds a little to much like one of them fisherman stories, a Chief Warrant Officer doing PT especially when it's that cold, that's like a butter bar that can read a map, it's a myth or fairy tale I can't believe it happened.
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Have you attempted to run the same running routes, not just a test in the full winter PT uniform? If not, try it. Then you may have a better grasp of the question. Our winter pants did odd stuff just walking around. They would fill with air, made you look like a crazy arm noodle guy!
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Except for that time we had frost bite cases after our brigade run @Ft Cambell
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I took a APFT, in middle of March back in 2000, in Wisconsin for BNCOC, with shorts, shirt, socks and shoes and the temp was 10 above. I dont what the wind chill was but it was dam cold.
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It boils down to the leadership knowing, or being a part of, that group of individual soldiers who are too ignorant to know when to dress up or down for the current weather conditions, so they make the decision based on how they personally feel about it, all for that sometimes elusive beast called "uniformity". Has nothing to do with your comfort, or acclimation level at all.
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