 I passed out the list of Missouri Militia gear checklist. I know every single one of you has this list, and every single one of you has all the gear you need. However, we were anticipating a lot of new people coming in here today, a lot of new people, including some new people to the militia who haven't had time to get their gear yet, but also a bunch of brand new people. And as Mike said, I think what happened was we had a lot of inquiries recently because it's like when Obama first got in the office, gun sales skyrocketed and there was a lot big interest, and we had more interest in the militia. Well, people were anticipating Hillary getting in there, and I thought she was going to get it because of fraud, not because of any fair enough, but because of the rampant fraud that they conducted. But I thought Hillary was going to get in it. But I think a lot of people thought that Hillary was going to get in it, and so we had a lot of motivated people. And now that Hillary was defeated, what's going to happen, I'm afraid, is conservatives are going to go back to sleep. They're going to say, OK, everything's fine now, Republicans are in charge. Well, guess what? Republicans are just about as bad as taking your rights away as the Democrats are. So we still need to keep Trump to the fire. We need to keep all these Republicans, we need to keep their feet to the fire. But anyway, that's my theory on why actually none of these people who made inquiries actually showed up today. Of course, today's the first day of gun season two, and that might have happened. Yeah, we have some excused absences here from guys who are actually out of town for that reason. Yeah, right. Yeah, so I mean, we were expecting a low turnout today anyway. But so I had prepared this list for our new people, but since I printed them up, I thought I'd go ahead and pass them out here in case you want to review it through my presentation today. Oh, now again, my presentation was meant for new people. I'm going to talk about this and I'm going to talk about, you know, your rucksack, think what things to put in your rucksack. And all you guys are, you know, old homers, you've already got your rucksack. All right, if you would just bear with me, though, I'm going to try to give you some new information, some things that I've learned, you know, that you might not have considered. So, you know, just kind of bear with me there. And also, I'm recording this as you know, I have a YouTube channel and I make prepper survival type videos. And I thought, well, this would be a good one because I'm talking about your get home bag or your, you know, your go bag or your bug out bag, whatever you want to call it, 72 hour bag. All right. And so that's a good prepper topic. So I'd like to make a video and advantage of making a video also is all these people who couldn't make it today because they're out, you know, hunting and all the new people who come along, you know, I can tell them about this video and they can, they can watch this video online and it may help them out, you know, so if you guys bear with me for that, the name of the title of this particular presentation is let your Missouri militia rucksack also serve as your get home bag. All right. So we have our gear list, we have our rucksacks, all right, and rather than, but we're also all preference. And one thing preference do of course, is we make our bug out bag or I think what's more helpful than a bug out bag though, because I'm not planning on bugging out or what happens, you know, if we have a disaster, you know, knee Madrid fault cracks, you know, St. Louis falls into a hole or whatever. The river runs backwards, or whatever disaster, economic collapse, right, an EMP electromagnetic force which knocks the grid down, knocks electrical grid down, terrorist attack which knocks the electrical grid down, all right, more than likely we're going to be where we are at that time is where we're going to stay. All right, however, if you're at work, you know, you're going to want to get home, right. And so that's the reason I think, you know, more than a bug out bag, what we need is a get home bag. And of course, the important thing is that you carry your get home bag in your car at all times, because it won't do you any good if it's sitting at home. Or I say if you work in St. Louis, but you live in, you know, outside St. Louis and the suburbs or something, or if the grid goes down, there's no electricity, all the lights are out, you know, traffic jams and everything, you're going to want to get home, right. You want to get back home where you take care of your family, where your supplies are, where your family is, hopefully, you know, they can make it home too. So that's the reason I think a get home bag is important. It's got to stay in your trunk at all times. Get home bag also can serve, though, as a 72 hour, 72 hour bag, it's got everything you need in it, hopefully, to sustain you for 72 hours. If you do need to bug out, say there's a train wreck close to your house, there's chlorine gas poisoning everywhere, and they, and you decide to evacuate, you know, again, you've got it, it is your, you know, your go bag. But also, a lot of the equipment that is in our get home bag, or our go bag, it's a lot of the equipment that is on this list, our Missouri militia gear list, including the bag itself. All right. So what I decided to do is rather than have two separate bags, you know, then you got to buy two bags, you got to buy, you know, water filter for this bag or water filter for that bag, and rather than have all these duplicate items, you know, why not have our Missouri militia rucksacks serve also as your go bag. All right. So when you put your items in here, you know, not only do you want to, you know, take care of the Missouri militia gear list, but also anything else that you want to put in here, because your go bag is going to be very personal according to you, and you know what your needs are, what your perceived needs are. And so, you know, this, what I'm telling you, showing you today is my go bag. Okay. This is not your go bag. It's my go bag. So certainly feel free to, you know, to adjust this to ever how you want to adjust. If you don't like the stove that I use, you know, you like yours better? Fine. If you want, if it's something you need to put in there, you know, I've got like certain medicines in there that I need, you're not going to want the same medicines. You know, if you have high blood pressure or whatever, you're going to want your medicines, all right, obviously. But anyway, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go down, we have the gear list, level one, we have level two gear lists. All right. What I have in my go bag includes items from both gear lists. All right. Now, one thing I mean, I want to point out is that not everything that's in the gear list is in my go bag. Okay. All right. And, you know, for instance, binoculars, binoculars are a good thing to have. I just don't have room for it in here. You know, many other things that are on here. So in this list, if you look at this list, I have highlighted things, certain things are involved. Those are the things that actually have in my go bag. All right. Now, then when we go off for UTX or JTX or something, I'll make adjustments to this, you know, because there are certain things that are on the gear list that I will want in my rucksack when we go to a special event where we need our rucksacks. So I do make adjustments to this from time to time, especially if we're going to go off to UTX or something like that. I'll go through everything and I'll say, okay, I don't need this. I don't need this. I don't need this. I do need this. I do need this. I do need this. And another thing you do is you might want to make adjustments according to the season because what you want in your go bag may be different in the summer than in the winter, right? In the winter, you might want to think about cold weather, maybe put an extra layer of clothing in there, just maybe a sweater. Hopefully you're wearing what you need. Sometimes I go to a grocery store or something. It's like freezing, freezing cold outside, blizzard winds blowing, even snow sometimes. And I've got my coat on, my gloves, my long underwear. I've got all kinds. I've got blankets in the car, all kinds of emergency equipment. And I watch these people up as I'm parking my car. I watch this guy get out. He's wearing short pants, a T-shirt, and he gets out and he's freezing until he runs into the grocery store. You know, it's warm in the grocery store. It's warm in his house. It's warm in his car. It's warm in the grocery store. And he just has to worry about that little run from his house to the car, from the car to the grocery store, et cetera, you know. All right. And I'm thinking, you know what? All right. But that's, you know, it looks like an idiot to me, maybe to the average person out there, you know, he doesn't look like an idiot, because I see a lot of people do this. But the thing is, all right, what happens if your car breaks down, you know. Yeah. And especially, you know, if you're out, you know, a little waste from the city or something like that. I mean, even if you just have to get outside your car, I mean, you know, heaven forbid you've got to change the car. I guess, you know, probably what he's counting on is calling, you know, for help or something like that. But, you know, help doesn't always come, especially on an emergency situation. It may take a long time, you know, for help to get there. It's the same principle. You heard me talk about plenty of times before about, you know, always keeping the gas tank in your car, at least, you know, half full. I top it off. Every time to us, the halfway, when we do this for years, does the halfway mark is empty. When it hits that halfway mark, I mean, I'm pulling over. I don't care where I'm at. I'm pulling over and just top it off, you know, because then whenever that situation occurs, because you never know when it's going to occur. When it occurs, you've at least got to half tank the gas, you know. People running around, I mean, I still see people who are on the side of the road carrying these gas, and that's kind of sticking right out of the gas. And I'm thinking, you know, you look at those gums that fell at the grocery store. You miss the same guy? Yeah, actually, probably, I still learn them, still. But anyway, that's what we're talking about in your, you know, one thing, one thing I'll mention, and again, this was going to be geared toward our new people, but I'm going to throw it out there for the sake of the video. And that is, you know, we gift people a year to accumulate what they need on level one. So we don't recommend that new people come in here and immediately run out and buy everything on level one. Or for one thing, you're going to spend a lot of money, which you might be better off spending in other places. But another thing is, you know, you're going to buy something and then you're going to see, you know, gyms at bag and UTX or something like that. And you say, wow, I like that stove. I wish I'd gotten that stove. Let me show you one of the first stoves that I bought. Okay. And it's heavy. All right. It's a Kelly kettle. I learned from Doug. I like it. I've got two of them. I like it. But it's not for your go, you know, for your go bag. I've got two of them. I've got this little one is a medium and then there's a large one. I've got the larger one and I've got the small one. You know, the kettle does hold water. I mean, so it is another way to carry water. It's stainless steel. It's heavy. The kettle does hold water and also it burns anything like sticks. All right. So you don't have to have fuel. So you have an unlimited amount. You know, as long as you have sticks and things like that to burn, you have an unlimited amount of fuel. All right. I justified it in the fact that we, you know what, I don't have to carry fuel. I've got an unlimited amount of fuel. And so I used to like even strap this thing on the side of my bag like that. But it's heavy. And one thing I learned carrying this thing when we go to, you know, U2X. One of the most important things I've learned at U2X was to lighten your load. Right? Oh yeah. All right. So I'll show you the stove that I have now. It also requires no fuel. It also would burn sticks and things like that. And I love it. But anyway, this is an example of like what not to buy. And I'm going to do a lot of examples of what not to buy. Because I bought all the things that you shouldn't buy. All right. So when you're looking at this list, again, don't run out and buy everything. You know, you have time to get it, you know, buy a little bit at a time before you start buying a lot of stuff. See what other people have. And then also, you know, keeping don't let not being perfect prevent you from getting like good enough. All right. And if you're brand new and you don't have one of these military style bags, but you've got no backpack, you know, maybe one of your kids book bag or something like that. You know, go ahead and take that now. Put some bottles of water in it, put some food in it, put a blanket in it and put it in the back of your car. Right. Or at least you started somewhere. All right. At least you got something. Believe me, when something happens, having that little bit of food and water to blanket, you know, could be a big difference as opposed to having nothing. So get started regardless of what you do. Get started. Then work to improve your bag. But then when you find the bag that you want and buy the bag that you want, you know, then as you, you know, work and gradually, you know, acquire things, improve the bag. Now, on this list, there's some things on this list that I think are a little bit dated. One is M65 field jacket with liner. Okay. All right. That's what jacket is what and up to the Korean War or something like that. 65 is your clue. The M65 came out in 65. All right. All right. That's what I'm wearing today. Okay. I'm a gear junkie. I saw this list. I went out and bought it in 65 jacket. No, not really. Actually, I bought this jacket actually before I joined the militia. This is my um, this was my um, Apple seed jacket. See my Apple seed patches on there. So I, as an Apple seed instructor, I bought this and I got the liner. Actually, I like it. It's a good, I treated it rain proof. I like it. It's a good jacket. But what I'm saying is don't feel like you got to run out and buy some old nine to 65 jacket. There's a jacket like butter, you know, get that jacket. And pretty much the same thing goes with the rest of this stuff. He also on, on this list, he says something about Alice packs, you know, the old Alice pack World War II. I think it was when they used the Alice packs. All right. I am, I had me, I have a medium Alice pack with frames. I had a large Alice pack in frame. And when I moved, I left them at the old house. Tan has them now. If you want to buy an old Alice pack, see Dan, he might sell you one. But I had the medium and the large. When I moved, I had the downsides. You know, I went from a large place to a real small self place. And Dan can tell you, I left a lot of stuff in there. I mean, I appreciate Dan allowing me to do that. But anyway, I'm wearing this jacket to show you, you know, what not to buy. Let me put this down because I'm getting warm. All right. Now, another thing that I mentioned earlier, another thing I mentioned is about food. And, you know, a lot of people want to buy MREs. And of course, MREs, I think most of you know are totally inappropriate for a gold bag. Before you spend a lot of money on MREs, okay, our pack is supposed to have a three day food supply, right? All right, I'm managing a three day food supply. That's one meal. Right? You're going to put a three day food supply in there. You know, of course not. I don't like MREs. First of all, they're crappy. They're full of junk. I mean, if you read the ingredients, you know, it's a lot of sugar, a lot of corn syrup, and who knows what kind of chemicals they put in there. And they don't taste very good either. But anyway, I want to show you, this is, well, you know, some people like them, but some people like McDonald's, you know, sorry. You know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, you know, I want to show you, this is an MRE that I ate yesterday. All right. So I'm in an emergency. I'm not above eating stuff like that. You know, if I'm hungry, you know, I figure eating an MRE is better than eating your neighbor. Right? All right. This is the trash that an MRE leaves behind. This is a consumed MRE. One MRE. One MRE. That's the trash right there. All right. Now, I want to show you this is an MRE that I ate yesterday. All right. Now, so after you eat, you don't want to leave a trail behind you, right? After you leave, what do you have to do? You got to bury the trash, right? There you go. You can burn it, but what if you can't, you know, have a fire for security reasons? So anyway, one thing I'm going to show you in here, I'm going to show you some other types of food like freeze dried foods and stuff like that. The one other thing about your emergency bag, I want to mention is your go bag is not your car emergency kit. You need a separate car emergency kit. Here's mine. In your car emergency kit, of course, you know, you need a few things I have in there. I have gloves, a tire repair kit. You know, I've got a tow strap. I've got jumper cables. I've got them. I used to carry those flares with me. I got those. But look at that. I mean, you got not only a light there, but look at that. And that's really, really bright. And I got three I'm in here. You know, with the technic kit, here's mine. In your car emergency kit, of course, you know, with the technology, LED technology, and all that kind of stuff, you know, who in the world wants to carry around flares? Of course, flares do have an advantage. One is you can leave them behind. You don't have to pick them up. And another is you can like start fires with flares like that stuff. Like I say, if you like flares, you know, fine. I'm just explaining why you have to click this thing like a hundred times. Because it has so many options. So, you know, the subject of this presentation is not what they have in your car emergency kit. My point is, you need this too. You know, and you're not, you know, when you get home bag, you're not going to carry this, right? If you're stuck on the highway because it's, you know, highway's full of cars, you know, incapacitated because of an EMP or just traffic or whatever. And you have to head out on foot. You're not going to grab this, right? But you will grab this. Sorry. A car bag. But I wanted to mention that because you do need, you know, a car bag as well. Another thing is, if I have to head out on foot, there are certain things that I might actually take out of here, you know, got a long walk. You know, this is kind of heavy. You know, I don't really need this. I may leave it in the car, you know, so you can make adjustments like that. Otherwise, you may end up like leaving it on the side of the road somewhere. And I've done that too. Here, a little quick sideline. Back in 1979, I did a two-month hitchhiking tour of Europe. And I had a backpack and everything. And I had this little gasoline stove. And I got over there and heavy, you know, gasoline stove. And I couldn't find gasoline for it because it required un-leaded fuel. And back in 1979, there's no such thing as un-leaded fuel in Europe. Everybody's using these little propane things, you know. I was hitchhiking tired of carrying it. I was sitting here for like two hours on the ride. And I just left it right there on the side of the stove. Brand new. Actually, I haven't even used it yet. But, you know, when you start walking long distances like that, and you know, sometimes you start leaving a trail like console and grattle of things that you don't need. I will mention, though, at that time I was not smart enough to put an American flag on my backpack. I had read in a tourist book. You know, if you're hitchhiking, put an American flag on your backpack and you'll get picked up more often. So I actually carried an American flag with pins. I put it on the back of my backpack. And when I was hitchhiking, I turned that toward the road. First car stopped. I started getting rides like crazy at that point. Because everybody wanted to practice their English. Everybody wanted to talk to Americans and everything like that. I started getting picked up, including by chicks. Unfortunately, I didn't. Right. It's 1979. Still what the chicks it is. I was in 1979. Really, today, depends on where you are. I was in Europe, which is pretty US-friendly city. City, but they've let a lot of country, but you're a continent, but they've let a lot of people in who hate Americans. So really, I probably would not do that today. But anyway, that's a side note. And speaking of side notes, I have a tendency sometime to get off track. And when I've exceeded my time here today, I want you to kind of give me, you know, when it's like 10 minutes, you know, do that, and then I'll, you know, wrap it up. And another thing I want to mention, if you look at your gear list, again, this is intended for neat people, and I need people to, you know, that you're not going to carry in your in your go bag. That's what I did was unzip, unzip that to take to take out the MRE. Okay. Well, my mommy not to sit there. All right. Now, you know, I made I made a video on my YouTube channel. You want to see my YouTube videos, go to survivaldoc.com is the easiest way to do that. So, if you, if you, if you, if you bug out, I made a video called, what not to wear when bugging out. All right. This is what I call tacto cool, right? I mean, tacto cool. But if you bug out, if you look like that some people have a hosted with a, you know, pistol right here. If you bug out looking like this, you know, you're asking for trouble. And that's the video that I made was in what not to wear when bugging out. And when I made it, I really kind of made it as kind of a funny video because I watched a lot of Prepper videos and I was making fun of Preppers including myself, you know, who go out and buy all of this, you know, militarized looking equipment, camera equipment and stuff like that. You want to be a gray man, you know, you don't want to stick out. If I'm walking down the road like this, I stick out like a guy, you know, it's on the gear list, is it said, like a Y harness or an H harness or a load bearing vest? You know, it's like the Alice packs. I think the Y harness and the H harness and I've got them is, you know, I think most people, I haven't seen anybody lately wear one of those. Everybody's getting these load bearing vests right here with the Mali things are just, I mean, there's a reason that the army replaced all that old equipment with this new equipment. They learn from experience. But anyway, there are certain items that are on the gear list that are on my load bearing vest here. All right, these items I don't need when I'm bugging out or in my get home bag. And I certainly don't want to look tactical. So this has got to go. You know, I don't even, I mean, that doesn't go in my car. What that does is that goes with me. That goes with me. You know, when I go to UTX or something like that. All right, this is what goes in my car. So my point is, again, not all of the gear that's on your gear is as appropriate for your get home bag. All right, so I'm going to go through you're going to see a lot of the items that's on our gear list. When I start the bag, all kinds of options with the bag. You know, military surplus, I think is better and reason for that cost of cost, you know, primarily. This bag is German military surplus, brand new online for like 50 bucks. It comes in this version or also a chemo version, but the chemo version is not woodland. What's that German stuff? Flicktern. Yeah. Flicktern stuff. And actually have one of those. Oh, just a gear free. Now, the reason I have one of those is because I have a bag from my wife today. And it's different from this bag, but I do have one. She'll stand out. Yeah. Well, you know, you see, you know, you see a woman with a bag. You don't automatically think, you know, military or, you know, pipe. Right here, one of the items, of course, is your poncho. Certainly poncho is important. It's heavy and it takes up a lot of space, but I think it is something that's important because if it's raining, you know, you're going to need it for sure. Especially if you have to spend the night out, you know, outside somewhere, the poncho will also serve as some protection, you know, from dew and cold. It'll help keep you warm. So I think even though it takes up a lot of space, the poncho is important. Another thing that's on our list is a poncho liner. I do have a poncho liner. I meant to bring it, they actually didn't bring it today because it's not actually in my kit right now. The poncho liner quilted thing that, you know, ties to this thing and you can put it on this thing and kind of make a, you know, when it's a little bit cooler and the reason it's not in there is because my bag's set up, you know, for summer right now. Although actually, I probably won't put that in there in winter either. But this bulky, it takes up a lot of space in here. Now one thing I will mention there are a couple other things that I keep in my car besides my go-back and the kit, the car kit. And I'll show a couple, one here's a sustainment patch, a sustainment patch. I don't keep this in the car all the time because, you know, the car gets high cold so it's never too extreme. I don't want to expose a lot of foods at high cold. If we're going to go on a trip, like we're going to go away for the weekend or something like that, like a low-visit family or something like that, you know, I've got two of these filled and I'll throw these in there. Each one of these has full three-day supply of, you know, freeze-dried food. I'm not going to pull all the stocks because I've got, I'm going to pull some out that's in here. Freeze-dried food and also some ready-to-eat foods too. So I mean, I do sometimes I do have extra because there's a limited amount of food that you can put in here. It's hard to get three days of food in here. So I do have a couple of things to throw in there sometimes. Is this right here? It's a sleeping bag. All right. I throw this in there in the wintertime. If we're ever going somewhere, even if it's just going from, like, out to where I live, you know, into St. Louis for like the day or something like that, all in the wintertime. Well, in the wintertime, this pretty much stays in the back of my car. Sleeping bag. I mean, you never know. It's not something I keep in there in the wintertime. All right. So we saw the poncho. Right here, you want to put your items. I read different opinions on this from Preppers. They say, put light things on the bottom, heavy things on the top, you know, because if you shift the weight up higher, it's easier to carry that. All right. That's something to keep in mind. You might want to do that. All right. The same people also say, but put your items, you need readily access to put those where you can readily get to them. Right. All right. The problem is that doesn't always work out. Sometimes the heavy items are things, you know, that you don't need to get to. Again, this is the bag that I've used. I've lived out of this bag, you know, for weekends at a time, you know, primarily when we go to UTX or JTX, I live out of this bag. All right. So this is not something I just put together and put in the trunk of my car, or something that has evolved over the last, you know, a few years as I found out what works, what doesn't work, what do I need? One thing I found out is when we're at UTX or JTX particularly, is when they call us for food, like knives and, you know, eating kit. All right. I want to get it quickly so I can get there and get the food, right? All right. So food, you know, for some of us, it may be a high priority and so you might want to put your knife up high. All right. One thing I want to get to quickly is like my gloves. All right. You might get out and maybe cold. You need to protect your hands immediately. You might want to, you know, might need to get out to change the tire when it's cold. Now I also have a pair of gloves that's in the car kit. All right. This right here is a strap that I have that goes across here to hold this. One disadvantage about this is it doesn't have, it does have the belt here, of course, but it doesn't have the strap that goes across this way and it works okay without that but I like it. So what I did is I put these things on there. These are things you can buy and that's a good thing about this strapping, this molly strapping is you can do so much with it. But I bought these and put on them and I made this thing right here so that I do have that across my chest. So if you buy that bag, if you buy this particular bag and I do recommend this bag. Explain to them why you do that. Well, the shoulder straps they can have a tendency to like slide out this way and this kind of keeps them pulled in so you're not like doing this all the time. It really kind of depends on your anatomy, your build. This bag works okay without them but I'm you know, I work at Spenders and so I mean I have trouble keeping holding things up anyway. So and while I'm back here on the back of the bag I will mention also one thing that I have in here this bag also comes with a place to put your hydration kit here. And so as you can see I do have my hydration. This is a three liter. All right. So it's good to have actually don't have water in this thing right now but I do have water in my canteen. But anyway also in here I have a few other items don't necessarily need your go bag. I have protective glasses and the reason for that is we're going to be doing some shooting. I need to grab glasses. You know, this is same with earplugs. If you're staying with a bunch of people and you got a snore you know, if you're being kept awake all night by somebody snoring you know, you can put these earplugs in to help you sleep. I only do this though when you have a watchman. Now, otherwise you want to hear you know what's going on but if you've got you know, people like we do you know, watching we have people on watch at night. You got people watching for you. I got keepers. These are things I've learned from experience very handy. These are you have your belts or your whatever it is your low burn vest or they should have the belt that comes around the keeper you know, goes around your belt and that other belt or especially if you're if you're not wearing suspenders like I am you know, then you can use your bag to help hold your pants up because sometimes when you're carrying a lot of stuff you know, got stuff in your pants weight you know, including your concealed carry a lot of weight because you use your you know, you use these straps here to help, you know, keep your belt keepers are very very handy things. Couple other things I have in this bag is I have net mosquito netting if you're out at night and you know, mosquitoes are biting you know, just put that over your hat over your face you know, make it a lot more comfortable and then I have notebook and pencil you know, make any kind of water you know, waterproof notebook um so, that's what's in and these are all you know, in this particular pouch right here for a reason these are items that you know, they say we're going to go okay, we're going to do some target practice you know, grab your eyes and ears you know, they're right there where I can get to them um and of course the gloves come in handy all the time for all sorts of reasons okay, so we've been over this pouch this pouch all right, the bag has a couple of different departments all right, see we've got a compartment here and we've got the main compartment here we look at the next compartment here now, first of all, I'll unfasten these right here this helps hold everything together another nice thing about a lot of military bags here, I'll just loosen that um this pouch right here is where I have a lot of items that I need to get too quickly on top like food um flashlights I have several different sources of lights in here this I have because it's on the gear list if you want to use a different type of flashlight, I think it's okay but I have an LED whatever you get I would get an LED flashlight you can even have a flashlight that you like that has the old type of bulb you can get LED bulbs to replace them I don't recommend you use rechargeable batteries in these um but they make these now that are real small like Uncle Sam's you can get these that are a lot smaller and they still put out a lot of light because of the LED technology um I might replace this this one is actually it's pretty light it's not as heavy as the old ones the military used to use um also in here I have salt and pepper and some spices in us it's a personal thing alright and I have is this is who recognizes what that is this is the um the um entre this is the entre of the MRE alright this is really the part of your MRE that you need just the entre you can buy these separate I bought a bunch of that about several cases these you can buy these online separately just look for MRE entre alright but anyway so that's like one of these things here I have in here ok beverage based powder orange beverage based powder ingredients number one sugar citric acid natural artificial flavor FDC yellow number five FDC yellow number six I mean really this what this is like 99.9% sugar you know I'm just not into sugar that much um you know heater that's nice strawberry jam if you read the ingredients the number one ingredient this strawberry jam first ingredient is like corn syrup no sugar sorry actually this doesn't have corn syrup most of them do sugar strawberries um so number one ingredient still is sugar but anyway you know you get a lot of sugar a lot of junk there um yeah you know maybe you want a lot of sugar when you're burning a lot of energy I don't know what you get is you get a spike in your blood pressure and then you get a crash right if you eat protein your protein can convert um your body can convert protein into energy just as easy as to convert sugar but it doesn't slower if you protein then what you get some you know gradual increase instead of a spike gradual increase and then a gradual decline in your blood sugar level it's much better alright some other things that are on our list magnesium fire starter you know you know what these are I'm sure you know has a magnesium here and a striker alright what you do is um you scrape off some magnesium filings and then you strike it with that and it helps it helps you light a fire the good thing about this is as long as there's magnesium there you know you got a light now um starting fire is important sometimes you just want to you know something quick I mean so I also have matches in here these are your water waterproof and wind waterproof water and wind waterproof matches and then also my favorite which is one that I use the other was really kind of backups you know um and then some then some other things here is your saw one thing that's on our list is your saw you know that's your little cable saw if you need to cut you know small sapling in order to make a litter you know improvised litter or something now I have a few other things in here you might not necessarily need in your go bag but they don't take up much space it's right here it's a mouth and we use these when we go in UTX and JTX I also have you know compass in here and also my counting beads our compass is something you definitely need you know the pace beads um don't anticipate using these you know when I'm trying to you know get back home but I have it in there because it doesn't take up much space and um and we use them you know and then also not an e-tool a um multi multi-tool I have an e-tool too but it's not in here because it just an e-tool is an entrenching tool it's like a shovel it's heavy I got one little T small one too yeah I've got a pretty small one too but it's you know it's still like this big and it's heavy yeah mine's heavy too I've removed it from my bag and of course you're eating utensils very important eating utensils you know you may end up in a chow line people you know in a chow line you want to be ready with your utensils all right that's what's in this pocket um they also function as a uh weapon too weapon your plastic and the reason I use these plastic I mean I've got all kinds of you know Boy Scout kits Girl Scout kits which are better than the Boy Scout kits actually in the sand um but you know that's adding weight these are in here like so light these are almost weight than those so I mean for the sake of weight yeah I use the plastic ones which I got at um my Bass Pro all right let's talk about the saw and then the other thing I have done here in the bottom of this is food you know freeze dried food this food right here these are um the long range patrol rashes I got for freeze dried guy these are really extremely hard to find a freeze dried guy freeze dried guy but anyway these do require um some preparation uh what you do is you know this is like you know you eat your entree instantly ready to eat you eat that for like when you're on the road but eventually you're going to get somewhere where you're going to be sleeping or you know camping out or whatever and you got a little bit more time start a fire maybe um but anyway with these all you got to do is boil water um this is beef stew um but I mean this and this this is baby elephant military this has 40% more protein than an MRE they actually are good they actually they're great food alright when you rehydrate this and they also have breakfast like scrambled eggs and helm and stuff like that and when you rehydrate those it only takes just a couple of minutes and if you eat out of here but if you pour it into a plate or something like that they think you scrambled up eggs you know stuff like that I mean that's the thing about free-dried food I mean it's once you rehydrate it and you call it different oh these things are here by 5 bucks a piece what's the shelf life yeah the shelf life is long time you see it's compressed you know I mean there's like no air in there stuff like this actually last longer than MRE's yeah it should not last longer than MRE's right most pre-dried stuff is 25 years yeah right and then you got really easy you know if you're down break the leg or something like that you're down people looking for you know and you know you think you're over there or something you know what emergency risk is for alright but another thing there's other free-dried food besides those because you probably are not going to find those but you know there's all kinds of free-dried food you guys know about you buy these at Bass Crow and stuff places like that for the most part is you can open it and eat it right out of the pack you know you don't have to rehydrate it and I don't care what it is I mean even if it's chicken it's cooked but for this right here you know I could just open it and it's delicious and it's like eating dried you know dried food only yeah but it's better than sure be careful if you're going to eat it right out of the pack make sure you have enough hydration because that will pull a lot of water yeah there's no water there's no water in here definitely well hydration is something you know you should I mean you should definitely be doing anyway but yeah and if you want to you know you can add water you can reconstitute these all you gotta do is just open it pour water in there let it sit for a while and this will soak up the water and and eventually that soak up long enough this would be just like eating like pineapple chunks just like eating pineapple chunks out of the out of a can if you rehydrate these put it in a bowl you could not tell the difference between eating these and eating like pineapple chunks out of a can so you can rehydrate them but you do have the option of just you know if you're in a hurry need quick food so that's the reason you know I prefer freeze dried food you can also get you know these kind of protein bars and stuff like that that's what this is it's a protein bar but anyway those are some of the food options again I have you know the entrees which is really you know that's really the meal if you want you know to eat something with it I mean you can carry you know freeze dried food eat with this if you don't want to just eat this by itself or crackers you know this doesn't include crackers or something like that I mean you can always make adjustments stuff like that alright the entrees much less costly than the MRE yeah they're they're they're very reasonably priced yeah they definitely do they call them eating kits I mean you actually they do sell eating kits yeah I know separately you know I don't call them we'll take them out of MRE and use those eating kits you know yeah I mean I you know if you want eating kits you know just there you go yeah I don't I don't need one I've got plenty of them alright before my alright I mean you can yeah sometimes when they get old alright now the main compartment before I get the main compartment let's look at the side here alright I have my my medic kit here alright now you know this is I'm the you know official medic for our group and so I have more stuff and I carry a bigger medic kit than you guys are gonna carry right alright so you don't you know the ones that most of you guys carries the little iFACS the improved first aid kits this is everything that the iFAC has in it but it also it had more room um now one thing you want to do is ever wherever how you have your your kit you want to have your tourniquet right there where you can put that and get to it on the outside you don't want to bury it in your bag you don't even want to bury it in here whatever you have you want to be able to see the tourniquet you know from outside and be able to scrap it just like that because you may um and you don't want to be you know your shot you're bleeding to death you know you don't want to be messing around with that this particular max expedition is nice because you just put it off like that and carry it with you um it has a lot more room you know for a lot more stuff I put a lot more stuff in here including you know some pain pills and some silver gel and stuff for diarrhea um I just wanted to explain that and the main key is you know you want to have your tourniquet right there your other pouch and what and the other pouch the other pouch is my communications pouch this is my working my helm radio alright I've got um my helm radio right now it's in an imp bag with some electronics and while we're on the subject of helm radio you know you want to have an extra batteries extra battery alright this is a where I can plug it and this is not a battery this just allows you to plug it into 12 volt right here so you can plug this in your car and use it you know without a battery just using directly alright here is the um this allows you to use a double A batteries alright so if instead of using you know that one you want to use double A batteries because maybe you got a charger you got double A batteries and maybe you've got a charger where you can charge your batteries with the sun right and here of course this um that's a solar I don't know I'm going to have both of these in there that's a solar panel a charger you charge you know not only radio but also charge your um here's my radio antennas in here and um here's another here's another this one that I like this is um another charger and also serves as a light but it's um what kind of bag is that again? this is an EMP EMP brief bag but anyway so you set up your charger there charge your batteries with it this is a nice waka waka I actually did a video reviewing this because what they did they sent me one of these for free they sent me a video and um of course we should get the EMP bag yet I got that from John Moore's website deliveryman.com but you just do a search for them and here's a little battery charger I can plug that into that solar thing this holds like double A but anyway so this is really what I call my electronics pouch but primarily you know primarily what it's for is this for my that's you know for my communications that's what this thing is for got room for everything but the helm radio actually when I'm in when you know when I'm not in a hurry I can spend more time like packing it in here a little bit you know a little bit neater but sometimes you know if you're in a hurry I mean you should be able to alright now the main compartment oh before we get to the main compartment I'm talking about my canteen there's all kinds of ways to go with the canteen that contains the purpose you can find if your canteen comes with these little pouches on the side the reason for that is for these water purification pills alright they're not expensive you can get them on Amazon.com got water purification and then there's another one that you put in there to take out the bad taste water purification pills this particular one has two different pouches on each side I also put some hydration salts in there that I made up myself that I can you know I can add in there when I want to rehydrate and over here I have more of the I've got the the water purification tablets and then the ones that take out the bad taste of the water purification pills I've got all kinds of ways to purify water because your primary concern I believe is going to be clean water you know first of all you can't go over along you can go for a while without food you can't go over along without water and second of all water is going to be polluted it already is but especially in the SHTF situation you know people going to bathroom outdoors and stuff like that the streams that are already polluted are going to contain a lot of fecal matter they already do you drink them now you're going to get sick alright you get diarrhea you know drink that water get diarrhea I mean so water purification is important I've got other water filters in here but that's the reason I really have you know a lot of duplication alright I opted for the stainless steel canteen one of the advantages I mean one of the things you want to do when you put together your bag is you want to how things serve more than one purpose if possible so the stainless steel canteen serves also as a way to heat water you can put that you know I put this thing like on a count fire you know taking the top off I've got a little clip here where I can actually remove the top because it is plastic I can remove this chain here entirely and I'll put this thing just set it like right in the ashes alright alright in the cold heat water very quickly another thing I like this is my you know you need to carry something to put food in right you're in a channel line of course they'll have paper plates and stuff like that probably you're in a channel line you just give them this this actually holds a pretty good bet you know so you're in a channel line they're putting out soup or something like that you know actually holds pretty good but it's stainless steel too you know your canteen fits in it but anyway that's what I use to cook in the summer question your hydration salt is there a particular type or I use like Himalayan or sea salt yeah alright it's a mixture that I put together it's like one teaspoon per quart it's like of water no actually it's not per quart yeah I think per quart it's one teaspoon of regular salt like sea salt a quarter teaspoon of salt substitute which actually is potassium chloride another form of salt for people who are low sodium but it's a form of potassium and then there's also a little bacon salt alright so it's like it's a teaspoon of sodium chloride regular salt table salt or sea salt or mineral salt and then half a teaspoon of potassium iodide which is salt substitute you get to gross for a red sheet so Himalayan is okay? yeah yeah and then and then a half a teaspoon of the of bacon soda alright um four um I think that's a quarter I tell you what so or a liter if you mix that up and it's too salty it's watered down so but I think it's for the it's for the sodium bicarbonate it's another form of it's just for the electrolyte okay that's it alright anyway here's the main compartment here now what I have in here I have my towel I have an extra pair of socks you know from my list I have three more entrees because again we won't have you know three-day food supply this right here is just other straps I have because one thing I mentioned about the molly here is you know you can if you have the strapping material you can attach all kinds of things I've actually got this set up to where I can also carry my sleeping mat also my sleeping bag and also my tent all on this you know putting the tent on top the sleeping roll you know on the bottom so anyway that's where the strapping comes in alright this right here is a homemade bug spring sorry don't like bugs one of the things that's on our our list is the the camo face paint I don't anticipate using this when I'm bugging out or going home it's in here it's on our we need it at UTX and JTX you know we need it so it just happens to still be in there you put on stuff like that and you start you know get yourself all camo without stuff like that when you're you know again you're you're you're flagging yourself now one thing I have here is this is the bivvy cover you know for the sleep system the four piece military sleep system the bivvy covers if you don't need a lot if it's not that cold but you want something just to sleep in at night partially protect you because it gets cool at night in the summer it gets cool at night and it's waterproof you can you know zip yourself up in this thing it can rain on you you stay dry it also protects you from the wind and gives you some partial but it is it is something that does you know fit in your bag fairly easily you know rather than putting you know sleeping bag in there this pocket here these are some things that are you need that are on our list you know cord 550 cord parachute cord this is just a little sleeping blanket alright this is the live straw I think most of you are familiar with the live straw water filter you know you can drink out of anything you know just open up just stick it down in the stream you know suck it up like a straw this thing will filter 100,000 liters of water but one thing about the live straw is you can't fill up your canteen with it you know unless you right so I do have something else in there and I do have this this is ceramic water filter basically it works the same way as the straw but it lasts but this is a filter a million gallons of water alright this right here the foam thing kind of keeps out large particles of trash alright and this is a little pump here but this thing what I like about this is it's real light weight it's a little bulky but it's real light weight anyway you clip this onto your canteen or your hydration pack you know stick this in the water and you can fill your hydration pack or your canteen something I just picked up somewhere I've got better water filters you know but they're like in housing you know pretty expensive and they add weight to the box what I like about this is I mean this is really light does the ceramic filter out chemicals? it yeah yeah you know they do I've chucked into them the ceramic the ceramic pretty much will get everything out the water that's gonna harm you not the fluoride I think it's a special kind of but you know what on a short term basis drink a little fluoride it's probably not gonna kill you but yes it does I mean you can pretty much put a ceramic filter in any water and drink it you know without harm in yourself and then also I'm probably just gonna tell you about my stove this is my stove this is a solo stove there are all kinds of options with your stove of course you know you got your you know your little German folding stove and you got your little Swiss stove which burns alcohol you know it's like what do you call those things sterno it's like a sterno it has a little stand with it and it matches right there everything you need right there but you know with these you run out of fuel this has fuel in it too it has a trioxane tablet in it you know I've tried to boil water with a trioxane tablet you know good luck it takes like an hour and you use every trioxane you got this right here really really lightweight alright I have some trioxane tablets in here they're not for this stove I put them in there because it's not a gearless you know I like them you know obsessive compulsive you can say if it's on the gearless you know I've got it even if it's an Alice pack you know but the thing about to try out saying the thing about the trioxane is if you need to start a fire in a hurry and you know you can just light it and start a fire you got you're dealing with wet materials or something like that it's hard to get it started you can always just fall back on one of these you know like this it'll burn you know for a while it's a tablet and then you can it'll dry out you know what you're trying to burn this right here what I have is a solo stove actually I have two of these they're coming three different sizes I've got the large size which I have in the kitchen of my home which is large enough for the pressure cooker I mean you can with our frying pan anything it's big it's not bigger than a you know coffee can a three pound coffee can question a tablet to you sure if you don't use all of it is the way of putting it out and using it again or is it done when you light it it's gonna burn okay alright what I like about this stove is one piece no rattling except for this right here alright that will rattle this is one of those real high tech stoves you know that does a double burn air goes in here it's a double container and what happens is that your material burns here and then the gases come up and it burns the gases so it produces no smoke you get a complete burn without smoke and when you see this thing running it's amazing the flames come out of here looks like like a natural gas like you turn on a natural gas burner what's the fuel go sticks and where is the fuel go right there inside there that's like kelly cattle yeah it's the same principle as the kelly cattle the difference is the double burn you know if the kelly cattle you'll notice you get a lot of black soot it burns that the double burn and also what it does there's like a vent you know slot down here what it does is air flow makes it burn really really well and fast like a rocket stove it works like a rocket stove same principle air goes in here come to here quick burn second burn here I mean it just really really burns efficiently this goes on here like that what's the name of it solo solo solo stove you search for solo stove you got a website it's expensive there are a lot of knockoffs in this stove too you go to amazon.com you'll find all kinds of knockoffs none of them are but they are pretty good looking ones you want to spend a lot less this right here is I think at least $75 wow you get knockoffs about $30 the thing about this one thing I like about this stove is look at that there you go and you have this cut out here that's where you continue feeding it you can continue feeding sitting on there also this thing right here you'll get some there same going so they work together real good and when you have content that cut pretty much it'll hold as a light want to fall you just you just have to make sure it's level but anyway I found her hit that rally noise you just put that in there like that totally and it's hard to get a stove it doesn't rattle you know and I have this thing way padded to prevent rattle alright so that's what's in the main compartment and the main compartment also is where you know if you want extra clothes you can put them there you know extra underwear you got a sweater you know a little layer alright the only other compartment I've got remaining is this part here alright a couple of things I want to go over one you want to make sure you have a mouth you know GPS might not be working alright but if you're in the city you want to sit him out too I've got a mouth in Missouri because I live in the country but if you're in the city you might want to sit him out as well as whatever mouth for your area of operations there bags this is just a bag toilet paper alright wait till your roll of toilet paper gets down you know so you don't have wasted space there bags plastic bags all purpose soap you can use this to wash your hair wash your body wash your dishes anything I think I'm going to put that in a smaller container though this is something extra it's not on our list that I threw and this is a little like a little sink you open this up put water in there you can put you know heat water put hot water in there and to wash dishes rag inside I've got there but I like it because it really comes in handy and it folds up this is military surplus this is not U.S. I don't think would you get that online somewhere I don't remember exactly where and then you got your personal items here now what I did is I put a few band-aids in there this is where you put you know chap stick toothbrush whatever your personal items are including your essential medicine I put tweezers and that's not part of your regular first aid kit but you know splinters are common and one very very important thing you want to have is you want to have mole skin right if you get a blister start getting a blister on your foot you know cut this mole skin mole skin you cut you know cut the size that you need and it sticks directly stick it directly like if you're rubbing the sock back on the top of it absolutely essential because if you if you start messing up your feet you know you're going to be in trouble you got to take care of your feet and speaking of feet another thing I didn't mention you know I'm assuming you're going to be dressed appropriately appropriate for the season you're not the guy wearing the short pants and the t-shirt right dressed appropriately for the season but you know probably keep additional you know clothing in the back seat if you need it and particularly you know like good footwear very very important or if you work in the city you know you have to wear dress shoes or something like that those might not be the shoes that you want to walk three days in so you know take your well-broken and good foot gear and just put that in there yes there may be things that you want to you know put in there that I don't mention here but you know make sure you do help or if you dress up to go to work if you're going to you know you think about okay I need to change clothes something appropriate to walk home you know have that in your car it's additional layering you know to keep warm when it turns cold or at night if it's you know better footwear than what you normally wear at work but anyway that is survival docs get home back any questions I said enough right probably no no no oh and one other thing I'm sorry I knew there was one other thing no this is important this is important this is very important because it's something that people fail to do and that is here you remember that little thing I showed you with my mouth I've got like 60 bucks cash in there or you need cash or if electricity is off you know credit cards are not working there are a lot of people who run around no cash in their pockets right Jim a lot of people run around with no cash I think that's as crazy as the guy who is walking into that grocery store wearing short pants being with that cash or what if you know the system goes down there's no electricity or you need to buy something someone's got extra gas you know he's not going to take a credit card stores are not going to take credit cards they might not take anything but they will they will take cash you know one thing I do in my wallet at all times is and my wife does this too at all times in my wallet I got a little thing right here I got 100 bucks there's my address book because again I'm not relying on technology you know you guys have all your addresses and your little smart phones and everything my address is right there alright and I also got 100 bucks in there my wife does the same so between the two of us I got 100 bucks cash she's got 100 bucks cash and I've got about 60 bucks in my go bag so we got about 260 bucks that's enough to you know brava brava whoever needs to bribe or buy a gas or what buy somebody but you also want lots of small bills 90% otherwise everything is the $20 bill that you got rather than the ones with the price the money that I have in here I've got several fives I've got a 10 I've got like a couple of things question what about the alternative to that if there is something we're all trying to do and nobody's taking our bills sold some of the new coins you're going to do better off you know that may change in the future you're going to be better off with cash cash is liquid right now you can carry silver you might find people who will take it I'll take it I've got a bunch of whole quarters and we don't have a currency in this country anymore that's what you're going to be using as long as we're using paper currency that's what you need to carry you need to carry the most liquid form now I have that at home and if we really get to the economic collapse and get there which I think we will actually I think we'll get there at that point you might want to take some of that silver coins and put it in your I'm going to tell you if you gave me 10 quarters or a $50 bill oh yeah don't reason I ask that it's because there might be people after when we do have to clap even if it's only temporarily that might say well our dollars even though we know it is they might be you might come across some of those who are inclined to say I don't want anything to do with that paper when we get to that point carry silver but until we get that point that guy knows that he can take that $50 bill and then turn around and pay this guy he'll accept it and you're driving and you need to get gas the gas station is some guy online tried to give away gold gold rounds and people would not take it you know he tried to sell it to them like a dollar or two and people would he was giving it away like either that or like a piece of chocolate or something candy bars and people did not recognize that gold you know I think because that thing is worth like $1200 and it's liquid you can instantly turn it into cash alright I think though we're going to reach a point fast you know the people who don't know what gold and silver are they're going to learn because when their dollars are no longer good and everybody else is out there exchanging gold and silver they're going to take it you know alright but anyway when you're at that point where gold and silver is the commodity even you know dollars the big commodity is going to be ammunition because if somebody's low on ammunition they'll trade anything for ammunition well you know what I mean barter is all kinds of things we use for barter but the big lighter I have in there you know that lighter for someone who doesn't have a way to start fires that lighter may be worth a lot some of them may need to give me $20 for that lighter how much ammo do you have in your bag alright ammo I don't have ammo in my bag because I carry that have what I carry I've got my concealed carrying and then I've got my extra and then I've also got some in my car alright now if I'm going to go I will grab a large you know I'm not going to cross-country with carrying a rifle around me and not going to wear these things like that I just don't you know it may be wise to do that it may be wise to carry a bigger gun I tell you one thing about a 380 a pocket holster and a 380 it's always in my pocket and your gun is not going to do you any good when it's sitting at home because it was too heavy to carry now I've gone through all kinds I've got a super tuck holster you know I've got a 19 o'clock 22 you know I've got all kinds of guns and all kinds of holsters they're heavy pull your pants down and you know what I see people all the time oh what are you going to do with that 380 I'm sitting in a restaurant eating what we've got oh you know 380 is not big enough caliber you know and this guy someone had a a concealed carry right and I said do you have your weapon on you right now no and I said I do and I learned I can wear this this is always in my pocket all right if I was carrying a bigger gun even if it's concealed you know so you're going to go outside you know to mow the grass or something like that oh you're going to sweat you know it's really uncomfortable you take it off and set it what if someone costs you you know you're out in the yard or something like that this thing is always in my pocket and that's the reason you know a 9mm 38s you know I got all those concealed carry 40 Smith & Wesson I've got all those concealed carry got a shoulder holster and everything like that you can always wear that in the summertime when you're wearing a t-shirt right this right here is all what he's in my pocket and so when you know a 380 in your pocket is better than a 45 magnum in the bush right okay I've talked long enough here that's a pretty slim model what is that this is a Ruger the Ruger LCP LCP yep is it the new one have you seen the new one I've got the new one I've got two one is none two is one one thing about how two of the same guns is you always have spare parts you have two of the same gun you've always got spare parts everything now also have spare parts too I've got extra for all the guns that I have I have extra you know firing pins extractors springs you know the things that can go wrong for every single gun I have a kit every single that's one important thing you want to have and you want to know how to this is simple and use your gun but one way to do it is if you have two of the same guns and you've always got a full set of spare parts three three what the same gun oh great no you should