While wearing personal protective equipment may get stuffy and hot, many motorcyclists are required to wear all prescribed gear on and off military installations. <\/p>\n
From over-the-ankle boots to a Department of Transportation-standard helmet all military and Department of Defense-civilian motorcyclists are required to don their head-to-toe gear appropriately on and off base. All others are highly encouraged to do so.<\/p>\n
Department of Defense Instruction 6055.4, DOD Traffic Safety Program<\/em>, and Air Force Instruction 91-207, The U.S. Air Force Traffic Safety Program<\/em>, explain PPE requirements for motorcyclists. Beyond military and DOD civilian members, the instruction also applies to anyone in or on DOD-owned motor vehicles, as well as anyone operating a motorcycle on DOD installations. While wearing personal protective equipment may get stuffy and hot, many motorcyclists are required to wear all prescribed gear on and off military installations. <\/p>\n From over-the-ankle boots to a Department of Transportation-standard helmet all milit…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201399\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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