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[Avin]

There's something that I've been reluctant to test and was hoping that someone knew the answer to.

If you assign a miner or wood cutter to a military unit and then in their equipment list assign them the appropriate weapon (a pick or ax respectively)
will they continue to do their jobs with their weapon or will they have issues finding their tool for work and their weapon for fighting? 

[sal880612m]

This will cause conflicts as they go on and off duty. I have on occasion been able to draft wood-cutters/miners to the military in emergency situation where they are being attacked and had them not drop their weapon but for the most part the will try and find a different one. Miners can and will kill some creatures that attack them in such a manner in v0.34.11 even without being in the military.

[Avin]

I use the military to cheat clothing issues that show up when dwarfs decide that they'd like their new close to sit on the floor while their old stuff rots away. I'd tried before to put miners and wood cutters in the military just for clothing assignments however it never seems to work out.

were clothing or other equipment hang ups worked out in v0.40?

[kingubu]

Miners and wood cutters still have an invisible uniform they wear when asigned the mining or wood buying labors. And hunters too.

Easy enough to see in action. Put a dwarf in an off duty squad, let them get their armor on and pick up a weapon, and then turn on their mining labor.

They'll drop all their military equipment and go grab a pick.