 Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and it's time to revisit the three-day pack. Welcome back to our series on American Minuteman Gear, and I thought it would be appropriate at this time to kind of review the three-day pack. I originally did a pack video earlier in the series, but at that time I had a 24-hour pack that I was kind of forcing into a three-ish day roll, and since then I've changed a lot of things and moved a lot of things around. I got a new pack. So I wanted to go through kind of what's currently in here because if you're anything like me, you're constantly fiddling with and messing with your gear. So let's go through what's in here. First thing is this is a DG3 pack from Crossfire. I have been really happy with it. A review will be coming out or already has come out for this bag by the time you'll see this. So you can look for that if you want to know more about the pack itself. I will say I do have a sleep roll. However, it's kind of in and out of the pack at this point. One of the primary reasons for that, if I do use it, I end up storing it right on top of this. If I do use it, I end up storing it under the lid and use the straps to just cinch it down. But one of the reasons that I have kind of removed it in part is because I have started utilizing a rain cover. And I really, really like the idea of having a rain cover on my pack because this is just a multi-cam rain cover. It just covers the whole pack. One, it protects it from rain, which is nice. But two, when it's on the pack, it gives it a much more blended in feel. It hides all the corners and the sharp edges and it just kind of makes it this amorphous multi-cam blob. And I think it does a pretty good job of blending in. And so there's an increased camel factor that I like from the rain cover that I wasn't necessarily expecting. And it just doesn't fit over the sleep mat. So that is in part why the sleep mat isn't on there. I will say I've watched several three-day pack videos recently and I've noticed that they don't have sleep kit. And I don't know if they just know something that I don't or if they just are faking it or what, but they will have these three-day packs and they don't have anything to sleep in, like a mat or a sleeping bag or whatever. And I just think that's kind of weird and I'm not sure what you're gonna do. The food and the sleep stuff's gotta go somewhere, right? And I think that's what you have to pack for, but that's probably a whole other video. Okay, so we'll start on the outside and work our way in. So like we talked about, we have the rain cover here. In this exterior pouch, I have like some ramen noodles and some soups, the lid for my cup, and then there's that little dragon fire stove, which honestly, I'm not too impressed with this. This is the fire dragon stove with a couple tablets. I have some hot cocoa mix in here, but not too impressed with the stove. I'll probably upgrade to like a pocket rocket or something at some point. These three pouches, by the way, are Blackhawk pouches. They're pretty roomy. I do like them a lot. The only downside is they are zippers, so you have to make sure to intertwine the zippers so they don't open on yet, but other than that, they're good pouches. Moving back over to this pouch here, in this pouch, this is kind of my general shelter kit. So I have a 50-foot hank, a paracord, and then I have a poncho. And this has a poncho that has its ends tied up, as you can see here. So one of the grommets, I have some leads of paracord on it so that I can already tie it to other stuff if I need. And I also have an extra length of paracord in there for a guy line. But that way, I can have some kind of shelter kit and put up some kind of bivouac or something like that. I do need to get some tent stakes so that we'll go in here when I get those. Moving up here, this is pretty obvious, right? This is just an extra iFAC. So, you know, all the iFAC goodies in there, right? Compression bandages, cellulocks, scissors, chesty compression needle, chest seals, blah, blah, blah. All the, just a second iFAC, I do have my running iFAC off my belt kit, but I have a second one here on the pack because, you know, why not? Up top here, this is just a bunch of MREs. I think I have three or four MREs that I have managed to stuff in here. These aren't the military MREs, these are some commercial brand, but I've just stuffed a bunch of MREs in there. In general, one of my philosophies when building the pack is to try to keep stuff that I'm gonna need more frequently on the outside, right? So that I can get to it easier. So that if we're just gonna sit down and eat, I don't need to open up my whole pack. I can just open up this pouch, get an MRE out, and then I can eat. I don't need to get into the whole pack or unbuckle things or whatever. I can just get quick in and out. On the exterior of the pack here, I have eight mags and then my canteen cup is stuffed down in this pocket right here. My main water source is gonna be my water bladder. I did have up to five liters of water in this bag. I put some canteen on this side and one on the other side. However, the weight was just too much. So I ended up ditching that and just going with three liters of water on the actual bladder. I will put an empty canteen cup in here and that will serve to refill from my water purification system, which we'll get into in the middle of this. On this side, we have another four mags and then these are the pants for my Gore-Tex bottoms. I also have my pouch for my canteen, my pouch for my compass that's on here. Usually my compass will ride on my kit but if for whatever reason I didn't want it to or I was gonna be in my pack a lot or whatever, I could always stow it here so it doesn't have to necessarily be on my person. Getting into the main lid of the pack, I will say on this little string thing here, I do have a red light and that I use to see inside the pack at night and see what's going on in there if I can't find what I need to be able to have a little key chain light to look in there is super helpful. This is just a ferro rod that I have paracorded on the outside. I do have a lighter in my kit and my belt kit. I also have a lighter in the stove portion that we covered earlier. However, if I ever need some other form of fire, it's just nice to have it, right? On the exterior of the pack, I do have a broken set of Ranger beads. I say broken because this originally had nine beads and now I'm only down to five on the bottom but I have a set of beads on my belt kit but I also have one on my bag just in case I'm trekking and it'd be easier to use these. And then I used a little push to talk holder to hold my bladder cord in here. Getting into the lid of the pack before I get into the actual pack. This lid is removable from this pack which can be nice. Just gonna set that aside so we can talk about the lid. So in my lid in the bottom portion here, I have some extra CR123 batteries because you don't want to run out of those. Some extra AAA batteries for the headlamp. The headlamp itself, a little glasses cleaner, a little orange signaling panel, some zip ties and some bungees, an extra spoon and just a pair of chem sticks. That all goes in the bottom part of this lid. In the top part of the lid up here, I have a couple of snacks because again, something I can get into easy in the outside of the pack and then a hat and a little neck scarf baklava thing. I also have a set of hand warmers. It's getting to be summer now so these probably will come out but that's in there just in case it gets cold. Into the second pocket on the lid here, I have a huge thing of baby wipes because you don't want to be having problems with that. And then this is kind of my little toiletries kit. I need to add a toothbrush in here but I do have some listerine. That'll probably come out. Toothbrush will probably go in. Some powder for your feet, balls, whatever. Tape, so I have athletic tape and then luco tape. Highly recommend the luco tape. That is great at stopping blisters on your feet or any other part of skin that's rubbing together like between your legs or on your shoulders or whatever. That stuff is super helpful. And then just a set of chapstick because that's always good to have. Additionally in here I have some large Ziploc bags because those are always super helpful to have. A red marker. I try to keep permanent markers around because you never know when you need to write stuff down. Okay, getting into the actual center part of the pack itself. So first thing I have on top here is a dirty water bag. So this is a gallon bag from Sawyer. This is just my dirty water bag. I put some paracord on here so that I can hang it up from a tree or something like that to let it drain. But that's right on top so that if I had to get dirty water I can take the cap off, dunk this, either throw it back on top or tie it to my bag or whatever and go. Makes life a lot easier. Up top here I just have another unopened MRE. Then in the center here I have one of these old Willy Pete waterproof Vietnam-era bags. This Willy Pete bag here really contains the majority of what's in the bag. So this is just a waterproof bag that I don't like fold down and make sure it's fully sealed so I probably couldn't do a water crossing. If I wanna do that, I probably need to get a better dry bag. This is really just my thought is to keep most of the rain off. So I have three pairs of socks, three pairs of underwear, a couple shirts. It looks like I have three shirts in here and then my sleeping bag. Which is a Recon 3 Gen 2. So this is my sleep system here and that's what all goes in here. Again, I just put this all in the waterproof bag just to have it have extra rain protection so that no matter what, no matter how much it rains between my rain cover and this nothing's gonna get soaked and it'll be okay. Open this up here so you can see the rest of kind of what's going on in this pack. Here is my water bladder, right? Which we talked about earlier. It's my three liter water bladder. On this side, this is my water purification kit. So in here I have the filter, the syringe to backwash it and stuff like that and then just a little squeeze bottle here so that's an extra way to carry dirty water. But primarily my plan is to fill this up and then use the filter to filter the water out of it. Additionally, in here I have a jar of peanut butter because that's always good. I need to add some kind of bread or some kind of vehicle for the peanut butter in order to make that a little bit more edible. Down here I have a little repair kit for this bag that came with the bag. So this is extra buckles and different velcros and little patches and stuff like that. So if something with a bag goes wrong, I have a little repair kit for the bag. And then I also down here have an extra set of mechanics gloves. These are brand new, I've never really used these. But these are just my extra set of gloves so that if my gloves fail, I have a backup pair. Coming around to the other side of the bag here. So this is like a sniper veil thing. So it's basically a good way to have extra camouflage. You can drape over you, drape over your bag, whatever. I like that it's woodland on one side and then green on the other. So that gives you some different options there. Turns out I have a second set of gloves in here so those will probably come out because I don't need two sets of backup pair gloves. On this side here, in this pouch, this is my weapons cleaning kit with just an extra rag. So, you know, rod, lube, rag, just all the general stuff to clean your rifle. And that's it. That's really my entire three day pack. So it's pretty boring. It's just water, food and sleeping stuff is the vast majority of it with some other little knickknacks and extras in there that you might need slash will need. So I hope this was helpful to give you some ideas of a three day pack, what should be in your pack. And I hope that you're able to get out there and ruck around with it and make sure it works for you. Do brave deeds and endure.