 Hey everyone, I'm Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and today we are going to review my plate carrier. So about once a year, I kind of want to do a check-in with you guys to just say this is kind of where I'm currently running on my plate carrier. If you're anything like me, things change all the time. You know some things rotate in, some things rotate out, try some stuff, whatever. But I don't want to bore you guys with any time I make any micro adjustment or update to my plate carrier. No one needs to see that. So I think a once a year check-in is sufficient to just say this is where I'm currently running. This is how I'm currently trying and experimenting with and hopefully I don't give you some ideas. If you don't like my plate carrier setup, that's fine. You can set your plate carrier however you damn well please. So currently this plate carrier is the AR500 armor plate carrier. I believe this is the Tostito carrier and then I have level four ceramic plates in the actual carrier itself. I believe those are battle steel plates if I'm not mistaken. Up front this is a Velocity Systems placard. So you don't know how swift clips and placards work. That's how that is. It just clips on up here and then velcro. It just clips on up top and then velcros down. A big fan of that system carries four up front and then you have just two little kind of GP pouches. Currently I have a little clip bar in there and I don't think I have anything in this main one either. So just kind of three GP pouches up front. On this side, this is just my iFAC, you know all the basic iFAC stuff, bandage, typhoon chest seals, scissors, gloves, whatever. I do keep a tourniquet here in this little convenient TQ pouch. I don't know if I like this. This is just a cheaper thing I got off Amazon. I might get rid of that. I was running the tourniquet in this pouch and I might just go back to doing that to just kind of save the weight and distraction. I just don't know if I like this red. It's kind of garish but you know whatever. We're still figuring that out. I did get this cool little dangle pouch and clearly I have nothing in here. I haven't really found a use for this yet. I'm really just experimenting to see if I like it or want it. But this currently just sits pretty empty and again that's an experimentation thing to see if I like it or need it or whatever. Over here I have a nice knife because hey I need one of those. This is a cold steel, I believe it's the SCS, it's the SRK cold steel knife. So that's currently the knife that I have on my plate carrier. On the back I have this backpack-y thing. This was some $40 add-on I got off Amazon actually. Some cheap, not-made America piece of nylon and it's actually really good for what it is. If you were to buy a different one I'm sure you could get them for like two, three hundred dollars and I'm sure they'd be very nice but for 40 bucks or whatever this serves a great purpose. So in here right now I just have some extra like socks and underwear, a gun clean kit, right in the rain pad, batteries, right in the rain pen and a Sharpie. That's kind of all I have. That's just a kind of sustainment kit so if I had to grab this thing and go I would have some stuff that I would need in order to carry on. On this outside here I just have two more clip bars and that's it. It's all I got on the outside one. This does have a water bladder. It's a three liter water bladder. I think it's about two-thirds-ish full right now so about two liters of water. What I'm not so sure about right now with this is I don't like how it distributes the weight. When you wear a pack it distributes the weight better but when you attach it directly to your carrier it kind of shifts the carrier and I'm not sure if I'm going to keep that or not. One other thing here so I do have this pouch up here and all I keep in here is a blue Sharpie just to have a spot for quick access to a marker. You may notice that I do not have any pistol mags or anything like that on my plate carrier. Some guys choose to do that. I moved away from that. My current theory is that the plate carrier is designed to support the rifle so I carry four rifle mags and that's that's kind of how I set up my plate carrier and then of course obviously it needs to stop bullets and it needs to carry some kind of medical because you got to have that on your one way or another. So that's kind of my current philosophy for a plate carrier and as you've seen I've just integrated the backpack directly into the plate carrier rather than carrying a separate pack. I'm not sure how I do or don't feel about this yet to be honest. I haven't given enough wear time or experimentation time. One thing in general that I've started to move to with my color schemes is I've moved more to a green. I've tried to most of my recent pouches are going to be green. I try to keep things in that color shade-ish that are coyote brown and I'm moving away from multi-cam on my plate carrier proper. My reasoning behind that is that if I'm out and about in a rural area chances are I won't be wearing plates just because that's a lot of weight to be carrying whereas plates are probably used in more of an urbanized environment. So I've just kind of gone with the subdued green rather than a full camo. One, the multi-cam pouches always cost more, right? And two, I just don't think there's a need for multi-cam pouches on your plate carrier or a multi-cam plate carrier. Again, that's just the philosophy of use that I'm currently running with. That's it. That's my current plate carrier setup. If you like it and appreciate it, thank you. If you don't like it, again, set up your gear. Hover you damn well, please. Do brave deeds and endure.