Military paid $34.8M for sleeping bags unsuitable for Canada’s winters

https://tnc.news/2024/09/15/military-paid-34m-for-sleeping-bags-unsuitable-for-canadas-winters/

Canada’s Department of National Defence sent troops on a joint mission to Alaska last year with bed rolls from the 1960s for sleeping, despite recently spending $34.8 million on new sleeping bags.

According to an internal briefing note from last December that was obtained by CBC News, troops who used the newly issued General Purpose Sleeping Bag System found “several critical issues” relating to “lack of warmth with the new GPSBS.”