 Shouldn't in this video something different. What else am I gonna name it though? I just I Should have aimed at something different. Hey everyone Dylan Schumacher civil defense and today I want to talk about the Minuteman challenge, so here's the deal Historically right in America if you remember your third grade history We had what we called mint men and basically not that kind These these were the minute men that were ready to go to moments notice So that they had their their kit set up, you know, they must get their bag with their ammo and whatever they had I don't really know what a 18th century minute man kit was So they have all their stuff and that they're ready to go to minutes notice so that they can be called out to fight The British one moment you're working on your farm next minute, you know Charlie from down the street rolls up and he's like, hey, you know the British are coming We got it. We got to go grab your kit you go and you're ready to fight the British, right? And I like Continuing that American tradition of being a armed American who has his kit ready to go at a moment's notice Particularly in the world we live in With with the possibilities or they should say the increased possibilities of civil unrest Having your kit lined up and ready to go is not a bad idea So here's the somewhat arbitrary number that I picked I picked five minutes, okay? Five minutes should be the amount of time that it takes you to get all of your kit on and ready to go So if I call you or text you or show up at your house, and I say hey we got five minutes We got to go you need to have all your stuff together and ready to go in five minutes or less Five minutes somewhat arbitrary number. Okay However, if it's longer than that it kind of defeats the point, right? If it's like an hour or 15 minutes it that kind of defeats the point of being minute man ready And less than that I think it's just tougher with the amount of kit that you may or may not have So for some of us this might be pretty simple We might just have like a grab bag a go bag right with a couple mags stuffed in it some water and a snack and We grab that and grab a rifle and we're off to the races, right for others It might be a little more complicated. We might have a battle belt and plates and a helmet and you know everything else So that might take a little bit more time, but it should still be under five minutes if it's not under five minutes again That's arbitrary. That's made up, but if it's not under that amount to me It just defeats the point so five minutes or less is kind of my standard Now the key to this whole thing and I'm gonna prove to you that it can be done here in five minutes Or less in a minute, but the key to this whole thing is Preparation meaning having your kit prepped and ready to go right now If I came over to your house and we did it we did a surprise inspection Is your kit ready to go right now? That means are all your magazines loaded your magazine should be loaded all the time A magazine without bullets in it is useless. Okay Springs don't wear out. I don't know if I have to say that anymore, but Springs don't wear out from being loaded That's not how springs work So all your magazines should be loaded all the time the magazines then should be in the kit Right, it shouldn't just be like in a pile or you got one over here And you got a couple over here like they should all be loaded and in the kit So if you have a plate carrier, they should all be lined up if you have a bag They should all be stuff in the bag Battle belts same thing How you store your guns is of course up to you You know safes are good ideas Particularly from thievery, but especially if you have small children the house safe become even more important So how you store your guns is up to you for some of you You can probably get by just leaving the gun out and leaving it with your kid again That that's a consideration that you've got to make based on where you live and who you live with okay But to be able to access that firearm quickly in five minutes or less in order to get it loaded chambered ready to go So if you do store your gun in the safe particularly I would tell you to start with a magazine of the gun and probably even chambered just makes your life easier All you gotta do is open the safe grab the gun. You're ready to go But how you store that is up to you point being is it's all got to be coalesced in one area Don't have your your plates upstairs and your battle belt in the garage and your rifle in the basement Have it all coalesce around one area right so that you can go to one area That's where all your stuff is you can put your gear on you're ready to go Preparation is what makes this five minutes or less honestly the getting dressed part of putting all the stuff on part You should probably run through that a couple times But that's really the easy part is putting all the stuff on the hard part is making sure it's all coalesced It's all prepped. It's all ready to go all the time Especially if you go out to the range or you go shooting or whatever and you come back and you're tired And you don't want to prep the kid again You want to just drop it and I'll get to it later, right? I'll clean my gun tomorrow and that's where you get into trouble is over time It just degrades and all of a sudden three months from now You haven't done anything your magazines still aren't loaded, right? Because you went on vacation and then you got sick and then you were gonna do it that one night But something came up and so the struggle there is to keep it prepped keep it ready all the time That that's the biggest battle to fight in order to beat the minute man challenge is having your kit prepped and ready to go The putting it on the getting ready to go apart. That's pretty easy So it's all about preparation like I said the actual putting on of the gear That's pretty simple, which is what we're gonna do right now I'm gonna try to talk you through it as I do it which might slow me down a little bit But hopefully we'll still make it within five minutes So I'll put a timer on the screen here. That'll be a little bit more accurate than what I have But we're gonna go with five minutes starting Now so I'm gonna take off my carry gun because that's not gonna be part of my kit. I don't need that For some of you your carry gun might go in your kit. I Keep a shirt with my kit Because I want to wear a proper Combat shirt for lack of a better word. I guess that's what they're called under my plates I just find that a lot more comfortable. I'm gonna have to ditch my everyday carry belt because I'm not gonna need that I'm gonna put on my Velcro inner carry belt after I tuck my shirt in I typically wear my shoes in the house. So it's not something I have to factor into my time But you may have to factor that in to your time tuck my shirt in Finish putting the belt on You're gonna get my battle belt on and my battle belt has my pistol stored with it That's how I store my battle belt. However, you might need to transfer your everyday carry pistol to your battle belt Because you might just have the one pistol. I'm gonna line up my Velcro Make sure that's good to go Sinch down the belt from here. I'm gonna check all my mags and my battle belt make sure everything where it should be Yep, I'm gonna do a abbreviated ready process where I'm just gonna chamber the pistol Check the light. Yep, it works. Everything else is good I'm gonna holster the pistol. That pistol is good to go I'm not gonna do a full make ready procedure because I don't have the time I'm gonna throw my plates on My plates quickly looking to make sure my mags in place Take a big breath place on mags are good med kits here. Yep, plates are good to go From here, I'll grab my helmet make sure that's right pop my ears on Turn those on so I can hear There we go From here, I'm gonna grab my rifle Sling it over. I'm gonna come down and put my gloves on to make sure that those are on before I chamber my rifle So I'm good to go. I'm gonna throw my pack on Just to sustain the pack. You can sustain me for about 12 hours give or take Make sure that's clipped up Last thing I'm gonna do is chamber and check my rifle light works Nothing is good Stock is set And that's it. I'm ready to go So that was about three minutes and 35 seconds 40 seconds something like that The time on your screen will be a little bit more accurate That's it. That's been a man challenge again The Difficulties having all the gear ready right putting it on that's actually pretty simple even to get all this on Didn't take me that long if I defector in shoes or knee pads or something else You could of course do that and I still have time to do that and so make that five minute mark But at this point I'd be ready to walk out the door and deal with whatever problems I had to deal with So that's a minute man challenge. I Really should name it something different. I hope that you found this helpful. I hope that you have your gear ready And that it is accessible and that you're able to be ready in five minutes or less Do brave deeds and endure