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[floundericiousWA]

This has now happened to me a few times...and I've finally decided it's...buggy?...enough to deserve mention and discussion.

A wave of migrants arrives, several of them have good skills in military stuff like swordsdwarf, axedwarf, or marksdwarf.  I tend to park on the migration entry point and interrupt as each new migrant comes in with a (v)iew unit command.  When I find a good military dwarf to fill a vacancy in one of my squads (and one who does not also possess a needed labor skill at good levels), I go to the (p)references screen and add them.  All of this seems to be one perfectly legitimate use of the more convenient "add dwarves to squads from (p)references" feature.

When I do that, though...the dwarf in question immediately DROPS all his clothes/gear and runs, naked to the fort to start picking up equipment. 

Anyone else observe this?  The immediate workaround is to note them and add them from the military screen after they've had a chance to finish migrating into the fortress.   Should this go in as a bug?  It's similar to http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=110 but not the same.  The dwarves not assigned to military squads keep all their gear...but as soon as I add one immigrant to a squad, his/her gear all (including all clothing), ends up in a pile wherever they are on the map.

[Di]

That works just as it intended to. You could have set 'armor over-clothing'  for this position in military menu, and set it back to 'armor replaces clothing' whenever you'd feel it's time.

[floundericiousWA]

I suppose what I'm wondering about is the "dropping everything they're wearing immediately" thing.  I could understand taking it to a stockpile...but dumping everything in one spot as soon as they're designated?