 Hello everyone Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense and this video is a little bit different. I'm making this video for a specific purpose. This is a loadout video for a private patrol class that I'm going to be teaching in July and in order to better facilitate that class I decided to make a video for it. So if you are coming to that, that might be a reason that you're watching this video and this will hopefully help you figure out what you need to bring to class and if you are not coming to that well then you know maybe this is just for your entertainment purposes. So for this class just so everybody understands the parameters are about two days and we'll be in the field doing stuff about four to eight hours each day kind of depending on how things go. So really what we need to do is we need to have enough equipment on us to sustain us in the field for we're going to say up to eight hours during the daylight. That's really the mission parameters and that is what we are packing our gear for. There's another unique requirement in that all of the stuff actually needs to be able to fit inside your ruck because when we transport out to the field we'll be taking limited vehicles and so you need to pack really tight and so everything actually needs to be able to fit inside your ruck. If you can't, if you have like a bunch of different bags and different things that's not going to work for this class. So one of the unique requirements for this class is that all the stuff barring the rifle okay the rifle being separate but everything else needs to fit inside your ruck. So at the end of the day when it comes time to load up into a vehicle you take your ruck, you take your rifle, you put that in the vehicle and we're off and then when we get to the field and the work site you can pull your chest rig out and put it on and that kind of thing but you need to be able to fit everything in your bag otherwise you're going to be you're going to be hurting. So that is one of the requirements for this. That being said let's go through it right? So you obviously have your rifle because that's important you got to bring a rifle, a real American rifle. You're going to need to have at least two tourniquets. This is representative here. I have a rifle on the sling but you need to have at least two tourniquets. So there's one. You also need to have some kind of IFAC that's obviously important in case accidents happen. We're not going to have any but just in case. So that's what this is over here. This is an individual first aid kit. You'll need some kind of load bearing equipment. So again this is representative. This is just a knock-off Haley chest rig and this has four across the front, right? Four mags. If you're like Dylan how many magazines do I need to bring? For this specific class that's not really important. This is a live fire class. We will be doing some live fire but not that much. So I would tell you to bring what your you know standard combat load is. If you're newer to this and you're like I have no idea what the hell that is bring about four to five mags. And we'll make it work. That'll be fine. Don't worry about it. But that is what I would do. Bring about four to five mags and if you want to go more well because that's your standard loadout or whatever then hey knock yourself out. You're going to have to carry it, not me. You do need a way to maintain water. So these are two single-court canteens, right? You need some way to carry water. If that's a bladder, if that's the canteens, whatever. But a two-court minimum is what we're going to say so that we can go out and move around for a while. We will have some water resupply so that's not a big deal. But you need to carry at least two quarts on you so that we can be out and moving and grooving for a while. You need to have a rock and that rock needs to have extra room. So again this is representative. This is just an army three-day assault bag that I dyed a much better color. So the rock needs to be big enough to fit the stuff in the bag, right? That's important. And then needs also have extra room because when it comes time to actually get out in the field and stuff we're going to have extra items that we issue you. So there'll be a couple MREs that are handed out. There might be an E-tool. There will be some extra medical. There'll be other stuff that you're probably going to get handed and someone's going to say, hey, you have to carry this now. So make sure you leave room in your bag, whatever that is, right? One, because you've got to fit your chest ring in there, which you normally wear, but leave room for that. And then two, you need room because after you take that chest ring out you're going to get handed something else that you've got stuff in here. So pack light, feel free to leave extra room in there because you're going to need it because you're going to have to carry other stuff that you didn't bring. That's some kind of team thing that someone makes you carry. I have some kind of rain gear. This is just a poncho. Again, this is representative. We are going rain or shine, okay? So do whatever you want, but I suggest you bring something to potentially keep you dry if weather turns on us. For PPE gear, right? Pretty simple eyes and ears, which I actually forgot. I don't see that I have that out here, but you have to have eyes and ears. So make sure you bring that. That's important. Knee pads if you want them, not required, but if you want them. Gloves, again, if you want them, I would highly recommend gloves. We're going to be walking around in the woods with all kinds of whatever. And just gloves protect your hands from getting cut up and everything else. So I'm a big fan of gloves. Would recommend that. Some kind of cover, okay? Again, this is representative. This is just a bump helmet. You can have a boony hat. You can have a ballistic helmet. You can have a bump helmet, whatever. Whatever your preferred thing is. You can just wear a baseball cap. I would highly recommend at least a boony hat because those do a really good job of protecting you from the sun. And again, when you're out two days in a row for, you know, eight hours of the stretch, you don't want to get sunburned. That's not going to be a happy thing for anybody. So some kind of cover for your head is important. A camouflage top. You can wear any camouflage top you want as long as it's not multi-cam. For this specific class, again, the instructors and the cadre all can be wearing multi-cam. So it makes things a little easier to identify. But you can wear any camouflage top you want, green, flektarn, Polish woodland, normal woodland. This is a desert top from the Marines, the United States Marine Corps. Whatever. Any legitimate camouflage top that you want, as long as it's not multi-cam, you should be fine. The environment tends to have a lot of browns. So anything like this will actually do probably do pretty well. Last but not least, some personal care gear. So you're going to want to have some wet wipes. That's important. I would highly recommend the biodegradable ones because then you can just leave them out there and it's not a big deal to degrade. You need a multi-tool of some sort. That's important just for when things break and you've got to fix stuff. And then some way to take notes. So this is just a little notebook with some pens. And I should have a Sharpie in here. No, I do. I do have two Sharpies in here. So some kind of way to take notes because that's important. You'll be needed to take notes out in the field. And as you move along and you can write down questions, whatever. Take notes. Always take notes at a class. But have a little notebook and then have a big notebook because we will have some classroom time. And you will want to take notes in the classroom. And then from when you're out in the field, you just want to carry around a little notebook. So have a way to take notes in both places. If you just want to have a medium-sized notebook that you carry both places, that's fine too. Do whatever you feel. But have a way to take notes. One other thing that I just remembered that is not out here is some kind of gun cleaning kit. If you get a stuck casing or something like that, you'll need a rod to ram that out. So have some way to fix your gun. Show up with your gun lubed, ready to go, zeroed, all that kind of stuff. This is not a rifle course. This is a patrolling course. So you got to kind of show up with your gear in order. And I know some of you will probably actually end up borrowing gear from some other people that are attending and some cadre that are coming. And that's fine too. We'll square you away. But I hope this is helpful. I hope this gives you a good overview of the stuff that you will need for the July patrol class. And I hope we have fun. Do brave deeds and endure.