enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of United States Marine Corps individual equipment

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States...

   All Purpose Environmental Clothing System (APECS): Rather than issue the 3rd generation Extended Cold Weather Clothing System (ECWCS), the Marine Corps issues the APECS, consisting of a MARPAT parka and pant. [15] The APECS is structurally almost identical to ECWCS shell jacket and trousers. The Lightweight Exposure Suit offers similar ...

3. Personal flotation device - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_flotation_device

   Personal flotation devices being worn on a navy transport . A personal flotation device (PFD; also referred to as a life jacket, life preserver, life belt, Mae West, life vest, life saver, cork jacket, buoyancy aid or flotation suit) is a flotation device in the form of a vest or suit that is worn by a user to prevent the wearer from drowning in a body of water.

4. Survival kit - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survival_kit

   For personnel who are flying over large bodies of water, in addition to wearing a survival suit over cold water, a survival kit may have additional items such as a small self-inflating raft to get the aircrewman out of cold or predator infested waters, flotation vests, sea anchor, fishing nets, fishing equipment, fluorescent sea marking dye ...

5. Dry suit - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_suit

   The dry suit is a form of exposure suit, a garment worn to protect the user from adverse environmental conditions.The two most common purposes are to insulate the wearer against excessive heat loss, and to isolate the wearer from direct contact with a liquid environment during immersion or repeated multi-directional contact with bulk liquids or spray.

6. Totes Isotoner - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totes_Isotoner

   The "world’s lightest" Hip-"totes" thigh-length fishing waders appear in 1955, [40] while 1956 sees the introduction of Trouser-"totes", tough lightweight leggings for deer hunters. [41] The firm markets the "world’s finest" Skooba-"totes" dry suits [ 42 ] a year after a high-school student and a sporting-goods sales clerk trial the ...

7. Carley float - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carley_float

   Carley float cross-section. The Carley float was formed from a length of copper or steel tubing 12–20 inches (30–50 cm) in diameter bent into an oval ring. [3] The ring was surrounded by a buoyant mass of kapok or cork, and then covered with a layer of canvas rendered waterproof via painting or doping. [4]