Beyond the well-known Mylar emergency blanket, there's a healthy market of light, portable emergency gear and wearables built for fending off hypothermia and providing insulation in cold-weather ...

Powder aims to feature only the best products and services. If you buy something via one of our links, we may earn a commission. Safeback made a bit of a stir on the tradeshow circuit last year with ...

About a year ago my youngest son joined an organization and became (almost immediately) a part of their search & rescue team. He needed a vest. He inherited mine and we reconfigured it for his ...

I am a grunt who fought with 3 I.D. in 03 and 05 in Iraq and was a Sniper in 05. I can tell you I used to spend up to four days at a time in OPs. The R.A.C.K. gear is great, until you have to go prone ...

WESTFIELD —U.S. Air Force Air National Guard Maj. Matthew Mutti said that if the pilot whose F-15C jet crashed in Virginia on Wednesday ejected, that pilot is trained, if not equipped, to survive in ...

From initial training to everyday flying, Air Force pilots prepare for the possibility of being shot down. As part of combat training, Air Force pilots go through at least three weeks of survival ...

When the U.S. Army invaded Iraq in 2003, its helicopter crews had just begun to wear a water-cooled vest to fight overheating during long combat missions. Now, a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, the ...