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The Mountain and Arctic Warfare clothing and equipment must protect, insulate, camouflage the operator, provide bouyancy, be durable and versatile. It must be very good gear. The operator's clothing issue will include thermal underwear, a wool insulating layer, a Gortex protective layer, headwear, mittens with liners, wool socks with liners, Gronell or Sorell cold weather boots, gators, over-white cammouflage suit and glacier goggles. Specialized equipment is carried for traversing hard to traverse places. Mountaineering equipment includes a silicone impregnated nylon climbing rope, slings, caribiners, "D" rings, pitons, a piton hammer, chocks, pulley's, ascenders/descenders, mechanical belays, a sit harness, ice ax, ice screws, snow saw and crampons. And as if that is not enough to carry, the operator must haul his snowshoes, skiis, and pulk (sled) for additional operational gear. Of course in a low threat environment, "skijoring" is the favored method of movement. This technique has a snowmobile tow platoon members in formation, covering great distances without the exhaustion associated with skiing or snowshoing. Skijoring is a good method to travel to within striking distance of the enemy. From there the Platoon will use more stealthy modes of infiltration to the target area. - - The information on this page is from NavySeals.com. |
