after watching many survival kit videos, the most useful thing I got from this one was the suggestion to roll the aqua tabs up in the water bag. Details matter!
Not sure if you ever heard about this but emptying your bladder before bed is also a way to help conserve body heat. Your body uses energy to keep warm including all the fluids in your body, emptying your bladder is one less thing your body has to keep warm. Thanks for all your great videos.
Yeah, I have learned that if I wake up cold in my hammock, I usually have to pee. I don’t want to get out of my nice warm downy quilts to pee, but have learned that the faster I do, the quicker I can get back to sleep.
Another great video, as far as a button compass goes there's some good one's that can attach to your watch band. I keep one on my watch since I got turned around at a friend's small park he was a Ranger at.😂🤣
Another excellent practical video. The family used to make fun of me for what I carry, until someone needs a knife or lighter or flashlight. Thanks for your regular new content!
Top quality content as always. I was poised to mention an additional way to keep small items on you is a cache belt. Mine is just a cheap zip money belt made from strong nylon, in this I keep alcohol wipes, water purification tablets, stormproof matches, small ferro rod, brass wire and a small fishing kit and other bits like cable ties and cordage. In my pockets I always have a lighter, knife, and small flashlight. This is just at home in London England and on me whenever I go out within a mile radius on foot. If I go any further I'm on my bike and have a daypack with poncho, mylar bivvy bag with a couple of handwarmers, heavy duty trash bag, canteen cup, Sawyer mini water filter, and some food and instant coffee and sugar, even if it's just a couple of miles and not out of the city. Also a small first aid/hygiene kit and bike repair tools. This just means in the unlikely event of civil disturbance or another event preventing me returning home, I can spend a relatively comfortable night out in some woodland.
This was an awesome video, I learned a lot! However, personally I would add a 3rd way to make fire: stormproof matches. When you don't have the right conditions to use a ferro rod (time to gather dry tinder, the tinder is too moist, its too windy, etc.), and if the lighter breaks or doesn't work because it is too cold or windy, a stormproof match is a guaranteed fire. Super light and takes up virtually no space, it is a worthwhile addition to your kit. 1 way to make fire is better than none, but can still fail. Two is even better, but 3 is foolproof. Liked and subbed
Great tips! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. A coffee filter or two take up hardly any room and virtually no weight, and can help filter pond water pretty well. When they get too dirty to use again, just wait for them to dry and they make great tinder. Going to try to use your disposable map idea on a coffee filter when I get home from work.
While camping in the Blue Mountains, I went for a bush walk and not noticing the time, it got dark really fast. Got disorientated and practically lost buy eventually found my way back o camp. That simple pocket survival kit save me from being lost & malnourished. Thank you for sharing. Now my updated Pocket Kit always stay on me at all time, even in the city where I work. Greetings from Australia.
Ruck rack pockets... I memorized that many many videos ago. I just love it that I have a ranger instructor myself. You're the best Andrew keep them coming.
Hey Andrew, outstanding instruction. One point: one need only to nick those water vines to capture water, allowing it to drip into a container while tending to other camp priorities. That way, it can be used again! Plus it also serves as a potential water source for years down the road. Thanks again for sharing this good knowledge.
Dang that’s what I learned that as a kid growing up in The Ranger Florida Training Area. We where still the Local Native American Tribe. You have produced a damn straight forward Ranger Survival dvd! Well done Ranger!
Good video. Thanks. My senior Tactical Officer in state OCS in the Army National Guard was Ranger Qualified. I was lucky enough to be on an aggressor force he ran to torment the senior class when I was in the junior class. He was very big on always having our GI poncho with us. It paid off multiple times then and in my National Guard/Army training afterwards.
Toss in a pencil sharpener. Produces paper thin wood shreds. Even if wood is wet the majority of the pieces are dry. Thin enough to catch a spark from the fero rod. or up grade to a carpenter pencil sharpener. Double the size of the initial stick. And it leaves a pointy stick for arrow or mini spear.
My Wazoo survival kit is an essential part of my EDC and it has a lot of survival gear. Get creative in placement because sometimes those pockets fill up quick
We hate the space blanket. But wish we had one when we needed it . Line one side with duck tape. Last a lot longer. Great video good job. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
Excellent minimalistic kit and great advice Andrew! ALWAYS have the bare minimal essentials (redundancy) in your pockets, you never know when you will need them!!
Years of somewhat remote fishing, camping, hiking, trail motorcycle, I have always carried a similar version of survival tools. Never had to overnight. Did need to improvise repairs, and short term first aid, to "reset" before returning to base camp. Personally, I carry about 4 energy bars in my pocket/vehicle at all times! And a small pocket tissue pack. This simple little set would make a swell gift for friend who enjoys even daily walks in the woods. Simple to have under the car seat in case stuck in road closed traffic situation. Thanks for the demonstration explanation. So clear and simple! Anyone can assemble kit at a visit to the local drud store, and/or from household items. Question: alternative household item that can replace the water purification tablets? THANKS!
Good video. By the way, you have four fire-starters in your kit (not two). Your mirror can be used to heat a dry bird's nest. Also, your flashlight's battery -- is a fire starter, too. Some old school flashlights can be used also. You simply remove the bulb and put some dry in its place and point it at the sun. Soon, it will catch the grass on fire.
Andrew, I have watched several of your videos. You are the most entertaining Prepper out here. Funny how everything you say seems a life or dead matter. Have thumbed up all comments and the video itself. Like you demand sometimes. Keep it up.
@@cardiacbob My father was a Death Squad Paratrooper, so I know the drill. I wandered around in the Colombian jungle when the guerrilla war lit up, so I recognize the pressure. But I couldn't be in survival mode all day. I realize that this is what it's going to take in times to come. So I'm working on that by watching these videos. So far I like this channel the best.
Great vid, and absolute essential items! One thing I always carry is a large contractor garbage bag, also helps with shelter either as a top level or ground sheet, though I certainly wouldn't go out with the Mylar sheet either for it's uses! Of course we never want to forget a comms device in order to call for help given the area and respective service reception - a certain app is really being promoted lately which won't send a message without service. What I did learn here was to keep a lighter with me, I haven't carried one in ages as I rely on my ferro rod and steel, and have a backup up a few matches... Keep up the great vids!
Always appreciate your time spent. Yep, very important to get out there to practice and keep skills sharp! The kind of down and dirty vids I like. Have a great week!
Pocket/purse survival kit.. excellent! Your videos never disappoint, but always empower us to know that , with a few supplies and “know how” We will not be defeated by life’s circumstances… I added a pocket Bible 🙏🏻😊💕 (I’m glad you shared what that water tasted like… haven’t tried that technique yet🤢)
I like the pocket bible idea, you have to stay cool in a survival situation so having a reason to get home is a motivator and reading at night a stress reliever.
Great to see you on the trail today Andrew!!! Excellent reminder that our pockets are containers, and should be utilized. Cross loading gear makes it really easy to carry essentials and hardly be noticed. I liked tossing a mini-Bic with two Ranger bands in my jackets… extra insurance to back up my larger one in my pocket along with an ferro rod. Fire, fire, fire… gots to have it! No mention of a hip flask as an additional container? I mean, it probably shouldn’t carried empty, but…lol. Great stuff as always Ranger! Keep up the fire!
Great philosophy Andrew, thanks for sharing the words of wisdom from your CO during training! This is so true 👍 Great videos, look forward to seeing these pop up in my recommended !
I like your pace. You keep moving along and yet your lessons are easy to grasp. The tree scraping technique was a great method that I will now remember. It's so simple, yet most guys collect sticks and shave them and so on. That method was quick and uses little energy.... and one is supposed to conserve energy in a survival situation. I also think based on their uses that having two bandanas, cravats, or towels and two emergency blankets seems practical and worth carrying.
Hello ! Nice, a small kit !! Thanks. Regarding fire most people forgot their clothes as fire tinder when all is wet outside. Taking some parts of you shirt or else works well to get those wet tinder on fire.
Hello again, Major Andrew! Good video. Minimal gear might make for maximum suck if you have to rely on nothing but, but you if it sucks you're alive. Going to be another voice that recommends the AMK-SOL Heatsheet. Stronger than your standard mylar baked potato sheet and quieter. Also about as subtle visually as a circus clown, but...
As usual, a great video. I have the same kit in my cargo pockets. I just add a field dressing kit. Greetings from Switzerland and sorry for my English.
Great stuff but you did not mention the Duct tape that you have wrap around other items. As ex Military thanks for the refresher, always great videos. 👍👍👍
Maybe in the paracord roll or the zip lock for the space blanket, a cotton ball or two. Even without Vaseline on them, a cotton ball catches from the spark. A Vaseline corona ball in tin foil inside an2x2 craft baggie is my go to daily tinder carry. Just a thought.
Upgrade your emergency blanket to a Heetsheet. It's bigger, tougher, and quieter than mylar. Add a tealight candle to your kit. The light from it will make building a fire after dark a lot easier. I use my old desert camo shirt as an EDC survival kit. Show the use of a cravat for a sprained ankle. Nobody seems to know it anymore. Good Luck, Rick
@@neoaliphant The Heetsheet folds up a little smaller than a mylar blanket. I use the left breast pocket with a first aid kit, emergency poncho, and blood clot powder. The right breast pocket has an Altoids survival kit and a mylar blanket(to help someone else). The left bottom pocket has a knife, flashlight, Heetsheet, notebook, and a left glove. The right pocket has a right glove and whatever other things I need for the day's activity. In cold weather, I keep a Heetsheet in each of my coats.
@@neoaliphant The SOL HeetSheet is made by Adventure Medical Kits(AMK). There are many demonstration videos on YT. This one is pretty good ruclips.net/video/rV5ddHGeolM/видео.html . MidwayUSA usually has the best price. There are two sizes. I always go with the bigger. Good Luck, Rick
@@neoaliphant I think that there is a similar product in the UK but it is a different company. It is 5' x 8'. Many good products are geared towards hikers and campers. Check with your sporting goods store. Good Luck, Rick
@@neoaliphant Pretty sure you're confusing a couple of things. Adventure Medical Kits' SOL line has several items in their Heatsheet line. One is the "Rescue Blanket" which is about the size of a altoids tin folded and out of the retail package or few mm bigger in every dimension compared to the cheapest of mylar sheets, which is about big enough for one skinny person. I use the "Emergency Blanket" which folded up is a smidge bigger, and fits two skinny people barely or a full sized American comfortably. These are both orange. They have a green blanket of the same material they call the "Heavy Duty Emergency Blanket" which seems to be the size you're thinking of (AMK calles theirs the "All Season Blanket" but there a dozen makers), or you might be thinking of a casualty blanket which is a woven tarp and is silvered on one side. AMK also make a heatsheet bivy which is as big around as a soda can but not as tall, and thier Thermal Bivvy and Escape Bivvy. Yes, they have a lot of products. Their blankets and bivvies are excellent. www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com/shelters.html for the whole lot of them, and they do invite people to contact them about international sales Ive seen some "survival bags" that were like 6mil plastic from the UK and EU. Bright orange, kinda builky but robust as hell, package is like 7x5x0.75 inches and it weights about half a pound/quarter kilo. Highlander and Proforce all stick out in my mind for brands and they usually have morse, air-ground signals and really basic directions, usually in half a dozen languages. We sometimes get them in job lots on this side of the pond. I think the Heatsheets from SOL might be an evolution of the material. I don't remember the brand name, but I think they did call it "heatsheet" on one I saw a few months ago.
Firefly is better- lets you keep the micro driver, and you can still stick in Tortise's shorter tinder. It is also a longer rod, so you get more sparks. Plus scales, open the third slot for 58mm toothpick and add a second pin.
Excellent video, its amazing what you can do with so little. Alot of this stuff is penetrating even my thick skull and it becomes second nature, l walk my yard almost every night and l have a kit on me and a double barrel shotgun. Hey ,you never know. Thanks Sir.
Good stuff to remember and have on you. I would use the lighter first to start a fire, since it's typically quicker and easier. When using the ferro rod, scrape some filings into the 'bird nest' and strike into that; it should provide s small, intense ignition spark to the tinder. You could also use the yellow Duck/Gorllia tape as an improvised suture as well as for tinder and trail marking. Depending on how precise your navigation must be when using a map, and where on the planet you are, make sure to refresh where the Magnetic North actually is, since its movement has increased ~ 5% per year over the past few decades.
Nice video, The bic lighter can be attached to a small zip tie to prevent fuel leakage. Then it can be connected vertically to a chapstick roll with about a foot of paracord wrapped in duct, gorilla or gaffers tape. A spare cotton ball soaked in petroleum jelly, can be placed in the cap. The empty bic can be useful even when empty, the plastic can be shaven, the wheel when rolled but not sparked can make a firestarter for the shaved plastic, when used that child safety device can then be removed with leatherman pliers can also be made into a improvised fishing hook and sharpened. If carefully removed, the two springs underneath the sparking wheel and the fuel cable button, can be bent into fishing hooks and a snare.
Great video Andrew, thank you so much for sharing this one. The information covered could very well save many lives. Stay safe and healthy out there. 🤗
Awesome Information Maj Andrew !! And thanks for the survival information from the Ranger cadre. Now that the smokey sky's have cleared here in Western Colorado I'm heading out for some cool survival skills training. Thank You Again for sharing your knowledge. 🇺🇸⚕️
Andrew great video as always can't wait for the next one. Heetsheet is a must, great knife I have two of them. Small thing of stormmatchs and you are golden. Plus lighter. 1 is none 2 is one. See you next time Major.
I had to tie a tourniquet to get me to a life flight helicopter once. Always carry a tourniquet or material to improvise one. It will save your life. Hooah ranger! Lead the way!
In real cold areas, your body has less tolerance of water being in it at night. If you fill up a lot at night when cold, be prepared to find the area you designated for bodily functions many times during the night.
I think maybe Les Stroud mentioned the Altoid kits, but, having each individual small tin be an 'item container', having several of the tins in your pockets, since one tin cannot possibly really contain everything, and having them in separate containers makes for easier access.
Another great emergency water container that takes up minimal space is an unlubricated latex condom. I wouldn't keep it as a primary but it's a no-brainer redundancy item.
Thanks Andrew, I now know what to do with all that survival gear I got in the kit that was mostly food...I am making my own bag for the zombie invastion,lol... but I have this little pouch that tool and things came in that is just right for a hidden hip carry emergency kit and now I know what to do with the space blanket and the life bivy I have...along with a food bar and maybe a pouch of water...lol love you, and what you do always a fan
Depending on the size of your bandana and the available pockets and space and all, if rescue and being seen is your end goal (or just having available cloth) I try to have 3 different colors to contrast against my surroundings. Thanks for all you do, Leading the Way by doing and actually using all the gear. Sometimes for years.
For a Pocket Survival Kit, it does help to wear Clothing that has Pockets. I'd never go into the Back Country w/o wearing at least Cargo Shorts/Pants to hold Survival Gear. Some of those Videos where the Ultralight Crowd wear a Tee Shirt and Bicycle Sorts...
And get lost and perish lol geez wonder what went wrong. I live in California I see a lot of the ultra lite crowd as well as day hikers in t shirt,shorts and a bottle of water probably why we have a high percentage of lost hikers yearly
@@trenchantsometimes5149 I have done that also I have sowed up a pouch to the inside of jeans that carry peanut knife of carbon steel,ferro rod and button compass usually along the fly area. My boots have 550 cord with a ferro rod inserted into end also then burnt shut. I also have used those plastic cards that come in junk mail at times and tape 2-3 small fish hooks and about 20-30 ft of fish line in a straw taped to card and it goes under boot insole pad. You can sew full fishing kit into a hat crown or sew loops on inside of hat to wrap cordage.
Thanks once again. I started carrying a small backpack with my "EDC Survival" items in it, but of course it grew out of control. time to pare back down! For us old Army Retirees (11B4H Retired) that work in offices with ties on now 😞, I also keep a duplicate kit in my office that I can grab if SHTF when I'm at work.
Great kit. Pretty much the same as what I have in my pocket kit, though I also have a Sawyer Mini and some snare wire and a small fishing kit. Where I'm at we don't really have frogs so food would be mainly squirrels, rabbits and/or fish. I also have a small Suunto compass clipped to the watch strap on my Garmin Fenix, so along with my small Silva I have 3 forms of land navigation. People often underestimate the need for redundancy when it comes to their kit and will just throw some stuff in a bag when they go for a hike, not considering that there's always a chance (even if it's remote) that they can get seperated from their main kit.
Great pocket survival kit! I really liked the idea though i would add a small bottle or container with potassium permanganate to treat water and use it for cleaning wounds too. Keep up the great work!
U can put a lot more in yr pockets & that cache belt like 55 gallon Construction grade trash bags, 21 inch dry wood blade so U could make a bucksaw out of
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after watching many survival kit videos, the most useful thing I got from this one was the suggestion to roll the aqua tabs up in the water bag. Details matter!
Not sure if you ever heard about this but emptying your bladder before bed is also a way to help conserve body heat. Your body uses energy to keep warm including all the fluids in your body, emptying your bladder is one less thing your body has to keep warm. Thanks for all your great videos.
Never knew that. Thanks
Yeah, I have learned that if I wake up cold in my hammock, I usually have to pee. I don’t want to get out of my nice warm downy quilts to pee, but have learned that the faster I do, the quicker I can get back to sleep.
@@dannyh9010 lol ya, I’ve felt the same. Get it done, get back to sleep.
@@remley8877... and never drink lemonade on the trail...
@@thankmelater1254 why not?
Very good young man. Semper Fi (I know you are Army, but we are all brothers,) GOD BLESS
I love this video and you are very great good work brother
Another great video, as far as a button compass goes there's some good one's that can attach to your watch band. I keep one on my watch since I got turned around at a friend's small park he was a Ranger at.😂🤣
Another excellent practical video. The family used to make fun of me for what I carry, until someone needs a knife or lighter or flashlight. Thanks for your regular new content!
Top quality content as always. I was poised to mention an additional way to keep small items on you is a cache belt. Mine is just a cheap zip money belt made from strong nylon, in this I keep alcohol wipes, water purification tablets, stormproof matches, small ferro rod, brass wire and a small fishing kit and other bits like cable ties and cordage. In my pockets I always have a lighter, knife, and small flashlight. This is just at home in London England and on me whenever I go out within a mile radius on foot. If I go any further I'm on my bike and have a daypack with poncho, mylar bivvy bag with a couple of handwarmers, heavy duty trash bag, canteen cup, Sawyer mini water filter, and some food and instant coffee and sugar, even if it's just a couple of miles and not out of the city. Also a small first aid/hygiene kit and bike repair tools. This just means in the unlikely event of civil disturbance or another event preventing me returning home, I can spend a relatively comfortable night out in some woodland.
Gots to give thumbs down on fanny packs =)
A Great Post!!!!
This was an awesome video, I learned a lot! However, personally I would add a 3rd way to make fire: stormproof matches. When you don't have the right conditions to use a ferro rod (time to gather dry tinder, the tinder is too moist, its too windy, etc.), and if the lighter breaks or doesn't work because it is too cold or windy, a stormproof match is a guaranteed fire. Super light and takes up virtually no space, it is a worthwhile addition to your kit. 1 way to make fire is better than none, but can still fail. Two is even better, but 3 is foolproof. Liked and subbed
No one should travel away from home without carrying items to affect keeping core temperature working. Good job Andrew!
Great video. People should realize this kind of situation could be a reality one day.
Excellent video. Thank you for sharing. Always grateful for the knowledge. Old Vet here and still learning. Thanks again.
Great tips! Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
A coffee filter or two take up hardly any room and virtually no weight, and can help filter pond water pretty well.
When they get too dirty to use again, just wait for them to dry and they make great tinder.
Going to try to use your disposable map idea on a coffee filter when I get home from work.
You drank the cool aid. Above and beyond the call :) Nice job ranger.
Oooorah! I really like downsizing useful needs . This was outstanding. Thanks Major Andrew. 👍
While camping in the Blue Mountains, I went for a bush walk and not noticing the time, it got dark really fast. Got disorientated and practically lost buy eventually found my way back o camp. That simple pocket survival kit save me from being lost & malnourished. Thank you for sharing. Now my updated Pocket Kit always stay on me at all time, even in the city where I work. Greetings from Australia.
Ruck rack pockets... I memorized that many many videos ago. I just love it that I have a ranger instructor myself. You're the best Andrew keep them coming.
Hey Andrew, outstanding instruction. One point: one need only to nick those water vines to capture water, allowing it to drip into a container while tending to other camp priorities. That way, it can be used again! Plus it also serves as a potential water source for years down the road. Thanks again for sharing this good knowledge.
Dang that’s what I learned that as a kid growing up in The Ranger Florida Training Area. We where still the Local Native American Tribe.
You have produced a damn straight forward Ranger Survival dvd!
Well done Ranger!
Amazing vid. Great info. 1) Don't forget nothing, but if you do pray on your knees think on your feet and any obstacle you can meet 👍😁⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
You are missing a candle-useful in humid environment. Great clip mate as always.
Good video. Thanks. My senior Tactical Officer in state OCS in the Army National Guard was Ranger Qualified. I was lucky enough to be on an aggressor force he ran to torment the senior class when I was in the junior class. He was very big on always having our GI poncho with us. It paid off multiple times then and in my National Guard/Army training afterwards.
Great video..👍🏻
With a few exceptions, that is basicly my EDC pocket setup, add a jacket & I store more gearnin those pockets, add a bag..etc..👍🏻😂👍🏻
Hi Andrew. Once again right on the button. US Miltary Cravat = UK Triangular bandage. Stay safe. ATB. Nigel
Great stuff! You're in rare air on RUclips, Andrew. Best survival channel out there, all-killer and no-filler.🔥🌳⛺
Very informative video, I would make up some cotton balls coated with vaseline to make starting fires easier.
Toss in a pencil sharpener. Produces paper thin wood shreds. Even if wood is wet the majority of the pieces are dry. Thin enough to catch a spark from the fero rod. or up grade to a carpenter pencil sharpener. Double the size of the initial stick. And it leaves a pointy stick for arrow or mini spear.
I never would have thought of that, and I had to read it a couple times to wrap my mind around it. Great idea. Lots of wood slivers in little time.
Yeah, great and helpful. I will ad some more items to my pocket kit. Thank you Andrew. 👏
My Wazoo survival kit is an essential part of my EDC and it has a lot of survival gear. Get creative in placement because sometimes those pockets fill up quick
Nice show and tell there and informational Ranger so that was bandana red flavor water 💦 awesome 👏 😂🤣👍👌✌️🇺🇸
We hate the space blanket. But wish we had one when we needed it . Line one side with duck tape. Last a lot longer. Great video good job. From Glenn CATT in Massachusetts.
Excellent minimalistic kit and great advice Andrew!
ALWAYS have the bare minimal essentials (redundancy) in your pockets, you never know when you will need them!!
Years of somewhat remote fishing, camping, hiking, trail motorcycle, I have always carried a similar version of survival tools.
Never had to overnight. Did need to improvise repairs, and short term first aid, to "reset" before returning to base camp.
Personally, I carry about 4 energy bars in my pocket/vehicle at all times! And a small pocket tissue pack.
This simple little set would make a swell gift for friend who enjoys even daily walks in the woods. Simple to have under the car seat in case stuck in road closed traffic situation.
Thanks for the demonstration explanation. So clear and simple!
Anyone can assemble kit at a visit to the local drud store, and/or from household items.
Question: alternative household item that can replace the water purification tablets?
THANKS!
Good video. By the way, you have four fire-starters in your kit (not two). Your mirror can be used to heat a dry bird's nest. Also, your flashlight's battery -- is a fire starter, too. Some old school flashlights can be used also. You simply remove the bulb and put some dry in its place and point it at the sun. Soon, it will catch the grass on fire.
Andrew, I have watched several of your videos. You are the most entertaining Prepper out here. Funny how everything you say seems a life or dead matter. Have thumbed up all comments and the video itself. Like you demand sometimes. Keep it up.
If you had his job you'd know it is a life or death matter.
@@cardiacbob My father was a Death Squad Paratrooper, so I know the drill. I wandered around in the Colombian jungle when the guerrilla war lit up, so I recognize the pressure. But I couldn't be in survival mode all day. I realize that this is what it's going to take in times to come. So I'm working on that by watching these videos. So far I like this channel the best.
Great vid, and absolute essential items! One thing I always carry is a large contractor garbage bag, also helps with shelter either as a top level or ground sheet, though I certainly wouldn't go out with the Mylar sheet either for it's uses! Of course we never want to forget a comms device in order to call for help given the area and respective service reception - a certain app is really being promoted lately which won't send a message without service.
What I did learn here was to keep a lighter with me, I haven't carried one in ages as I rely on my ferro rod and steel, and have a backup up a few matches...
Keep up the great vids!
Always appreciate your time spent. Yep, very important to get out there to practice and keep skills sharp! The kind of down and dirty vids I like. Have a great week!
So glad I found this channel. Great info for the everyday person! Keep going!
Always look forward to your vids! Thanks for putting up the links to the kit items. It's very helpful.
Pocket/purse survival kit..
excellent!
Your videos never disappoint, but always empower us to know that , with a few supplies and “know how”
We will not be defeated by life’s circumstances…
I added a pocket Bible 🙏🏻😊💕
(I’m glad you shared what that water tasted like… haven’t tried that technique yet🤢)
I like the pocket bible idea, you have to stay cool in a survival situation so having a reason to get home is a motivator and reading at night a stress reliever.
Lol I wouldn't be able to read that find print hahaha but good idea lol.......
Great video I keep most of that in my pocket for my EDC. So was more realistic than most of the pockets survival videos I have seen.
Great to see you on the trail today Andrew!!! Excellent reminder that our pockets are containers, and should be utilized. Cross loading gear makes it really easy to carry essentials and hardly be noticed. I liked tossing a mini-Bic with two Ranger bands in my jackets… extra insurance to back up my larger one in my pocket along with an ferro rod. Fire, fire, fire… gots to have it! No mention of a hip flask as an additional container? I mean, it probably shouldn’t carried empty, but…lol. Great stuff as always Ranger! Keep up the fire!
Great philosophy Andrew, thanks for sharing the words of wisdom from your CO during training! This is so true 👍
Great videos, look forward to seeing these pop up in my recommended !
I like your pace. You keep moving along and yet your lessons are easy to grasp. The tree scraping technique was a great method that I will now remember. It's so simple, yet most guys collect sticks and shave them and so on. That method was quick and uses little energy.... and one is supposed to conserve energy in a survival situation.
I also think based on their uses that having two bandanas, cravats, or towels and two emergency blankets seems practical and worth carrying.
Hello ! Nice, a small kit !! Thanks.
Regarding fire most people forgot their clothes as fire tinder when all is wet outside. Taking some parts of you shirt or else works well to get those wet tinder on fire.
man i love this dudes vids
We were in boy scouts before mylar was popular. Our scoutmaster had us use plastic sheet dropcloths and twine to make shelters one trip.
Excellent. Never seen the water bags before . I’ll have to check them out online. Have a good one
Hello again, Major Andrew! Good video. Minimal gear might make for maximum suck if you have to rely on nothing but, but you if it sucks you're alive. Going to be another voice that recommends the AMK-SOL Heatsheet. Stronger than your standard mylar baked potato sheet and quieter. Also about as subtle visually as a circus clown, but...
As usual, a great video. I have the same kit in my cargo pockets. I just add a field dressing kit. Greetings from Switzerland and sorry for my English.
Pascal, your English is wonderful! Take care!
Great stuff but you did not mention the Duct tape that you have wrap around other items. As ex Military thanks for the refresher, always great videos. 👍👍👍
Maybe in the paracord roll or the zip lock for the space blanket, a cotton ball or two. Even without Vaseline on them, a cotton ball catches from the spark. A Vaseline corona ball in tin foil inside an2x2 craft baggie is my go to daily tinder carry. Just a thought.
Another great survival kit, everything explained very well. What we have in our pockets can really change the game. Thank you and stay safe Andrew!
This is an exceptionally high quality and information packed video! Thank you!
The video was great and educational and from one veteran to another thank you for your service
Great video! Some of those water bags are oven rated...get close to a heat source and actually boil in the bag!
Upgrade your emergency blanket to a Heetsheet. It's bigger, tougher, and quieter than mylar. Add a tealight candle to your kit. The light from it will make building a fire after dark a lot easier. I use my old desert camo shirt as an EDC survival kit. Show the use of a cravat for a sprained ankle. Nobody seems to know it anymore. Good Luck, Rick
@@neoaliphant The Heetsheet folds up a little smaller than a mylar blanket. I use the left breast pocket with a first aid kit, emergency poncho, and blood clot powder. The right breast pocket has an Altoids survival kit and a mylar blanket(to help someone else). The left bottom pocket has a knife, flashlight, Heetsheet, notebook, and a left glove. The right pocket has a right glove and whatever other things I need for the day's activity. In cold weather, I keep a Heetsheet in each of my coats.
@@neoaliphant The SOL HeetSheet is made by Adventure Medical Kits(AMK). There are many demonstration videos on YT. This one is pretty good ruclips.net/video/rV5ddHGeolM/видео.html . MidwayUSA usually has the best price. There are two sizes. I always go with the bigger. Good Luck, Rick
@@neoaliphant I think that there is a similar product in the UK but it is a different company. It is 5' x 8'. Many good products are geared towards hikers and campers. Check with your sporting goods store. Good Luck, Rick
@@neoaliphant Pretty sure you're confusing a couple of things. Adventure Medical Kits' SOL line has several items in their Heatsheet line. One is the "Rescue Blanket" which is about the size of a altoids tin folded and out of the retail package or few mm bigger in every dimension compared to the cheapest of mylar sheets, which is about big enough for one skinny person. I use the "Emergency Blanket" which folded up is a smidge bigger, and fits two skinny people barely or a full sized American comfortably. These are both orange. They have a green blanket of the same material they call the "Heavy Duty Emergency Blanket" which seems to be the size you're thinking of (AMK calles theirs the "All Season Blanket" but there a dozen makers), or you might be thinking of a casualty blanket which is a woven tarp and is silvered on one side. AMK also make a heatsheet bivy which is as big around as a soda can but not as tall, and thier Thermal Bivvy and Escape Bivvy. Yes, they have a lot of products. Their blankets and bivvies are excellent. www.surviveoutdoorslonger.com/shelters.html for the whole lot of them, and they do invite people to contact them about international sales
Ive seen some "survival bags" that were like 6mil plastic from the UK and EU. Bright orange, kinda builky but robust as hell, package is like 7x5x0.75 inches and it weights about half a pound/quarter kilo. Highlander and Proforce all stick out in my mind for brands and they usually have morse, air-ground signals and really basic directions, usually in half a dozen languages. We sometimes get them in job lots on this side of the pond. I think the Heatsheets from SOL might be an evolution of the material. I don't remember the brand name, but I think they did call it "heatsheet" on one I saw a few months ago.
Awesome pocket survival kit!!! You always have great survival advice and tips. Thank you for your videos.
Great Pocket Survival Kit Add or Replace what you EDC the Huntsman plus with the FireAnt firestater and a THRUNITE Ti3 with lithium L92 batteries .
Firefly is better- lets you keep the micro driver, and you can still stick in Tortise's shorter tinder. It is also a longer rod, so you get more sparks. Plus scales, open the third slot for 58mm toothpick and add a second pin.
Excellent video, its amazing what you can do with so little.
Alot of this stuff is penetrating even my thick skull and it becomes second nature, l walk my yard almost every night and l have a kit on me and a double barrel shotgun.
Hey ,you never know. Thanks Sir.
Thanks Andrew another informed AF video enjoy your Sunday
Good stuff to remember and have on you. I would use the lighter first to start a fire, since it's typically quicker and easier. When using the ferro rod, scrape some filings into the 'bird nest' and strike into that; it should provide s small, intense ignition spark to the tinder.
You could also use the yellow Duck/Gorllia tape as an improvised suture as well as for tinder and trail marking. Depending on how precise your navigation must be when using a map, and where on the planet you are, make sure to refresh where the Magnetic North actually is, since its movement has increased ~ 5% per year over the past few decades.
Nice video, The bic lighter can be attached to a small zip tie to prevent fuel leakage. Then it can be connected vertically to a chapstick roll with about a foot of paracord wrapped in duct, gorilla or gaffers tape. A spare cotton ball soaked in petroleum jelly, can be placed in the cap. The empty bic can be useful even when empty, the plastic can be shaven, the wheel when rolled but not sparked can make a firestarter for the shaved plastic, when used that child safety device can then be removed with leatherman pliers can also be made into a improvised fishing hook and sharpened. If carefully removed, the two springs underneath the sparking wheel and the fuel cable button, can be bent into fishing hooks and a snare.
I use a wire twist tie to prevent fuel leakage as they can be used multiple times!
Great video Andrew, thank you so much for sharing this one. The information covered could very well save many lives.
Stay safe and healthy out there. 🤗
Awesome Information Maj Andrew !! And thanks for the survival information from the Ranger cadre. Now that the smokey sky's have cleared here in Western Colorado I'm heading out for some cool survival skills training. Thank You Again for sharing your knowledge. 🇺🇸⚕️
Hi Andrew, greeting from Australia, thankyou for your time to make these videos, muchly appreciated. Thankyou
I love to get lost in your videos..... Thanks man. You're doing excellent work.
Andrew great video as always can't wait for the next one. Heetsheet is a must, great knife I have two of them. Small thing of stormmatchs and you are golden. Plus lighter. 1 is none 2 is one. See you next time Major.
Another great video! Excellent survival information, thanks for filming it!
As always well done, entertaining and educational. I especially like the pink water, thats how you know its a new bandana
Thanks for sharing
I’ve been going back and re-watching some of your vids. This was one of the best. ANYBODY can do this. Well done.
Thanks Andrew for another great video with really info and ideas I’ll try this one out sometime when I’m out hiking 🥾👍
That tip about eating before bed to generate heat through digestion is ingenious.
Thank you.
I had to tie a tourniquet to get me to a life flight helicopter once. Always carry a tourniquet or material to improvise one. It will save your life. Hooah ranger! Lead the way!
Thanks for the video. The tips and your description of the items are very good.
Great vid as always. Thoughts about water before bed. Holding your urine in while in colder climates always seems to make the body core temp drop.
In real cold areas, your body has less tolerance of water being in it at night. If you fill up a lot at night when cold, be prepared to find the area you designated for bodily functions many times during the night.
I think maybe Les Stroud mentioned the Altoid kits, but, having each individual small tin be an 'item container', having several of the tins in your pockets, since one tin cannot possibly really contain everything, and having them in separate containers makes for easier access.
That's the best and easiest survival vid I've seen. I'm new to this so thank you!
Excellent video. Thank you for your time to do this video. Take care and stay safe over there.
Really good as always Andrew love the civilian tactical mix of knowledge 👍
Another great emergency water container that takes up minimal space is an unlubricated latex condom. I wouldn't keep it as a primary but it's a no-brainer redundancy item.
Thanks Andrew, I now know what to do with all that survival gear I got in the kit that was mostly food...I am making my own bag for the zombie invastion,lol... but I have this little pouch that tool and things came in that is just right for a hidden hip carry emergency kit and now I know what to do with the space blanket and the life bivy I have...along with a food bar and maybe a pouch of water...lol love you, and what you do always a fan
Depending on the size of your bandana and the available pockets and space and all, if rescue and being seen is your end goal (or just having available cloth) I try to have 3 different colors to contrast against my surroundings.
Thanks for all you do, Leading the Way by doing and actually using all the gear. Sometimes for years.
For a Pocket Survival Kit, it does help to wear Clothing that has Pockets. I'd never go into the Back Country w/o wearing at least Cargo Shorts/Pants to hold Survival Gear. Some of those Videos where the Ultralight Crowd wear a Tee Shirt and Bicycle Sorts...
And get lost and perish lol geez wonder what went wrong. I live in California I see a lot of the ultra lite crowd as well as day hikers in t shirt,shorts and a bottle of water probably why we have a high percentage of lost hikers yearly
I've often thought it would be a good idea to sew extra pockets to the inside of a jacket for hiking, etc.
@@trenchantsometimes5149 I have done that also I have sowed up a pouch to the inside of jeans that carry peanut knife of carbon steel,ferro rod and button compass usually along the fly area. My boots have 550 cord with a ferro rod inserted into end also then burnt shut. I also have used those plastic cards that come in junk mail at times and tape 2-3 small fish hooks and about 20-30 ft of fish line in a straw taped to card and it goes under boot insole pad. You can sew full fishing kit into a hat crown or sew loops on inside of hat to wrap cordage.
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Yep, sounds very creative. So many simple things can make an important difference.
@@trenchantsometimes5149 oh absolutely they can
I always enjoy learning something new from your channel major.
Have completed all videos outstanding information. Great presentation. Thanks for all the hard work. Looking forward to more. God bless.
Thanks for another informative and enjoyable video. Well done Andrew.
Thanks Andrew!
Thanks once again. I started carrying a small backpack with my "EDC Survival" items in it, but of course it grew out of control. time to pare back down! For us old Army Retirees (11B4H Retired) that work in offices with ties on now 😞, I also keep a duplicate kit in my office that I can grab if SHTF when I'm at work.
thanks for another great vid!! Keep them coming!!! Do you happen to give classes by any chance?
Great kit. Pretty much the same as what I have in my pocket kit, though I also have a Sawyer Mini and some snare wire and a small fishing kit. Where I'm at we don't really have frogs so food would be mainly squirrels, rabbits and/or fish.
I also have a small Suunto compass clipped to the watch strap on my Garmin Fenix, so along with my small Silva I have 3 forms of land navigation.
People often underestimate the need for redundancy when it comes to their kit and will just throw some stuff in a bag when they go for a hike, not considering that there's always a chance (even if it's remote) that they can get seperated from their main kit.
Great pocket survival kit! I really liked the idea though i would add a small bottle or container with potassium permanganate to treat water and use it for cleaning wounds too.
Keep up the great work!
“Judging by the color, it’s gunna taste like my bandana”. 😂😂😂
Great stuff. EDC + survival. Love it
Simple and practical, things that will be really useful and how to use them - a great video, thank you!
Thank you 🙏 for you service
Excellent Video!!
I like to have as many items on a neck lanyard inside the bag.
I like it. Maybe store it all in a small dry sack since it is more durable than a zip lock bag
I really love your videos and your tips and advice! Your channel is really great! Thank you for your work! 👍👍👍👏👏👏👏
U can put a lot more in yr pockets & that cache belt like 55 gallon Construction grade trash bags, 21 inch dry wood blade so U could make a bucksaw out of
Great video Andrew I carry my edc but if traveling through woods or water ways my pre packed kit rides with me as well as patrol pack kit