(Master Sailor Dan Bard, Canadian Forces Combat Camera, CAF) Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that ...

New sleeping bags for the Canadian Army — that came with a price tag of more than $34 million — cannot withstand harsh winter weather, according to an internal report. The General Purpose ...

Rucksacks and sleeping bags are currently issued to all Canadian Army recruits both in the regular and reserve forces. (Cpl. Peter Ford/DND) Chenard said the military is procuring new equipment ...

The Canadian Army’s recently-issued General Purpose Sleeping Bag System (GPSBS). (DND Handout) The general unsuitability of the new sleeping bag system has prompted the Department of National ...

Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that hundreds of soldiers headed to a joint northern exercise in Alaska ...

(DND Handout) The briefing note recommended that soldiers deployed on that exercise with the U.S. be loaned 500 of the army's old Arctic sleeping bags — the ones the new system was meant to replace.

Despite the defence department spending more than $34.8 million on new sleeping bags, the Canadian Army asked late last year that hundreds of soldiers headed to a joint northern exercise in Alaska ...