Keeping cool in the summer heat
 

Summer is coming soon and I'm looking for some tips on keeping cool even with my BDU and OTV on.

Do any of the UnderArmor-esque products actually help you keep cool underneath?

UA Works... Try this
http://www.bodycool.tv/english.html

I actually have a post up about the Tru-Spec combat shirts. There realy nice and keep you cool and dry. Get one of those and a shemagh(?) to keep your neck cool.

Also interested, not going to be a fan of my Ghillie in the Summer. Don't think alot of water will keep me cool :P

I use a tight fitting underarmour shirt under my regular BDU.
It's goot at getting heat and sweat away from your skin and dry very fast. Fast drying is what's cooling you. It make my BDU feel weird though, like it's floating on me. Anyway.

Combat shirts that are made of underarmor-esque fabrick have 2 downside for me: moskitos bite right trough, and it melt and stick to your skin if exposed to a flame or coal. (pyro grenade, campfire, other field fire hazard...)

I thought combat shirts were designed to *not* melt?

The Under Armour shirts melt and stick to your skin, Combat shirts, such as the Tru-spec combat shirt, are made of material that dosnt even support flames. The Under Armour melts because of its high concentration of polyester, which most good combat shirts arent made of (materials like treated cotton, ect.)

if underarmour melts how can i throw it in the dryer and it comes out just the same...

....because a dryer isn't as hot as burning stuff....

I think you are not supposed to trow them in the dryer anyway. I dry mine on a cloth hanger. It take less than 8h to dry on it's own, inside the house.

+1
This will ruin them in the long run.

Purchase a hydration system. Go to your local Sports Check and buy a CamelBak bladder and then get a pouch for it....Your good to go

http://www.cpgear.com/StoreBox/cloth...ies/1029_2.htm of of these would work and its cheap too

synthetic FTW! :P

http://www.baltimorecs.com/older/com...t_woodland.jpg
Tru Spec combat shirts are definitely comfortable in the summer. My collection now includes MC, ACU, Woodland, and 3 color. Then again, I'm sort of a geardo when it comes to uniforms.