This Is The Shitty Parka JD And Usha Vance Wore To Greenland

The matching $250 jackets were not a match for the cold

“Nobody told me,” Vice President JD Vance remarked on the cold, upon landing at the Pituffik Space Base in Greenland on Friday. Located 750 miles north of the Arctic Circle, it was minus three degrees Fahrenheit out, a fact which shouldn’t have been surprising. Nor is it surprising that Vance and his wife Usha, wearing matching parkas, were utterly unprepared for such conditions.

The items in question are Alpha Industries N-3B Parkas. With a retail price of $250, insulated jackets don’t get much more basic than this. The exterior is nylon, the inner is polyester, and insulation is provided by polyfill. The synthetic fur hood trim is removable.

I reached out to Alpha Industries for clarification on the insulation material used, and the level of warmth it’s able to provide. “We use a polyfill,” a product expert responded. “We use 240gsm for the bo…