You can't get them into their gear and I can't get them to get out of it!
I switched to the bridge to take a look around on patrol and all of my men are in their foul weather gear. There wasn't a cloud in the sky mind you and the ocean was about as calm as I've ever seen it but they had their gear on. I saved the game, reloaded it and they came back without it on. It's happens quite alot. Maybe it's a little bug in RuB 1.44?
More of an annoying bug than a playability bug.