Service members are often in danger of experiencing cold weather-related injuries because of cold and wet conditions present during various training and operational activities. Wind chill and ...

Conduction - through direct contact between objects, molecular transference of heat energy Water conducts ... This decrease in fluid level makes the body more susceptible to hypothermia and other cold ...

In the nearly 20 years since the last edition of the Army’s technical bulletin on the prevention and management of cold-weather injuries, called TB MED 508, research conducted at USARIEM has ...

Pook said frostbite can develop in just minutes. “You can have a cold injury to your extremities, especially first your body temperature can go down, it can become hypothermic, especially if wet ...