An army squadron commander left ‘supersensitive’ to the cold after he was not given warm mittens during winter training exercises is suing the Ministry of Defence (MoD) for more than £200,000.
Darren Stoddart, a Tactical Commander in the Light Dragoons, said he suffered a ‘mild freezing cold injury’ after prolonged exposure to the cold between February and March 2022 during a six-week training exercise on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire.
The 40-year-old was acting as a ‘vehicle commander’ at the time, giving training to his squadron when his hands became increasingly cold while driving and he ‘developed a feeling like [his hands] had thousands of tiny
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