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I'm a fan of Rick Tscherne, who wrote several books on what we would now refer to as survival hacks and diy stuff like whar is shown on Waypoint Survival. Even if we don't have that specific Smock I can still see how all these ideas can be utilized and adapted to different types of garments and pouches or other types of kits. It blows my mind how even after years of being interested in survival that there are still tricks and tips and techniques that we can learn.
One improvement to this jacket would be, to make it reversible into a solid color Trench Coat. This way you don't stand out by wearing military camo, & allows you to blend in to the general public. Great video Andrew! The regular surplus German Flecktarn Parka's are also an incredibly made garment.
Hands down best& most informative on survival and bushcraft on you tube ,great presentations anyone can understand, never skip forward,rewind and take notes,what does this man not know ? Andrew you are awesome. If I'm ever in a situation I will survive thank you for all your knowledge. First time watching a new one on Sunday won't miss another
The only other channel that comes anywhere near the level of information is maybe Bear Essentials or Woodsbound Outdoors, but they are still not on the same level 🙅🏻
Loved my Smock during my service in the German Army. You really need to discipline yourself though, otherwise you’ll end up putting 20lbs in these pockets and you’ll look like the marshmallow man.
Yep, me to, I would have everything under the sun in every pocket, including an inflatable pillow, hey I was A. F. sue me, for wanting creature comforts. But I would look like the MICHELIN MAN walking in the woods. Lol.
I've got Varusteleka's Sarma smock. I waxed it and I've adjusted the buttons to accept my M65 liner. That combo plus a wool sweater kept me warm and dry in a Midwestern snow storm last year. Based on my experience with them, European militaries generally do field craft better than us, at least better than conventional infantry guys like I was.
@@KevinSmith-yh6tlThat's partly due to it being a very thick and heavy polycotton canvas with thick brass snap buttons on every pocket. The jacket weighs almost 5 lbs by itself. The other reason is that you're wearing all of your equipment on your uniform, so it's all jostling around when you move, and if you want to shed some weight to take a breather you'd have to empty all of your pockets since you don't have a rucksack carrying everything like every other military.
The bigger pocket on the right sleeve is supposed (in the german military) to carry one or two field dressings. The smaller pocket on the left sleeve can be used to carry your compass.
Always carried a 20rd mag in my back pants pocket while on base in Sadar City Baghdad. It was just incase we got attacked and needed to get back to our fighting load. Also carried a multi tool, folding knife, mini flashlight, two way radio, water, pen & paper, cigarettes and lighter, leather gloves, ear & eye pro, hard candy or gum. This was 2003-2004. Lots of things have changed since then but I’d probably just add Medical & mini pocket survival kit.
Reminds of the Brits, they big about storing their kit this way. I learned this working with in 82', good lessons. Been using it all these decades, I am 63.
I have the Flecktarn, Goretex bibs and jacket and several of the older cotton ones. Gave my 60 yo sister one with the zip in liner 10 years ago and it's her goto winter jacket. 😅
The buzz saw used at night is super cool. Can also deploy a baton-like flashlight that changes color creating a psychodelic effec when you rotate it. I never knew the German made jacket had so many compartments.
For that grenade pouch on the sleeve, what I've done is take a red plastic travel soap dish and put my fire making kit in it: ferro rod, wind/water proof matches, a small lighter, some lint balls duct taped to inside of lid. Also, everything except the ferro rod is put in its own small ziploc baggie.
Andrew, that's a sweet German camouflage jacket! A Man has to remain stylish while trying to escape. Kidding! Anyway great video! Keep up the outstanding work 👍
I really like your survival and evasion gear choices for your smock . However , I agree with Corporal Kelly when he says unless you make a living at sucking , getting anything but a few sips of water here and there with filter straws will leave you with really sore mouth muscles . I'd rather sling a Grayl Geopress &/or Canteen and Cup Set over my shoulder if I had a choice over the filter straw . The little glass iodine tablet bottle is something that I slip into an empty plastic prescription pill container to help further protect it from breakage . I also carry a survival tin with similar items ; but also a second tin as well , packed with Tylenol , Advil , Imodium , Senekot , Gravol , Benadryl , Aerius , Pepto , and the like . . .
I've been using that jacket with similar load out for a couple of years in the high desert areas of NM. Especially in fall and early winter. Love my smock! It weighs about 8 pounds. With a 30 liter backpack, I can be comfortable for three to four days.
OH WOW, I HAVE AN OD GREEN SMOCK, LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME, ITS FROM MILTEC, AWESOME PIECE OF EQUIPMENT GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURN BROTHER SUA SPONTE RANGERS LEAD THE WAY
I liked this video very much. Very interesting things and uses for that jacket. Want one like that. You get so much in that jacket. Says as always. Your videos are nice to watch. I have learned a lot from watching them. Keep it up Andrew
I have had a Fanny pack for a long time and it’s very handy and easy to change it up for the duty it’s needed for wether it’s just a day trip into the bush or a longer stay. Something in the pack always comes in handy. Water tablets mostly and an energy bar ha ha don’t judge me😂
Would be good to model the smock in various configurations with base layers and other gear and without so we can see how well it wears and moves with you with all that weight in the pockets.
Delete weapons and our young ones would do well with a setup like this at school, when/if there an emergency occurs. Hang this jacket with load-out in a locker and they will be good to go.Wonderful to see you are a student of history. Your reference to Japanese solider, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is accurate. I often get blasted when I praise him for his honor and attitude toward his service. I never said I loved what he did for twenty nine (29) years. He surrendered only when a former commander came here to the Philippines and broadcast messages over loudspeakers into the jungle that the war was truly over. There are pictures of Hiroo Onoda hading over his sword to former president Ferdinand Marcos sr. Marcos pardoned him and he returned to Japan to live out his life.
I do have the British Smock, it just doesn't have those other pockets / pouches that one does. But that is what drew me to the smock was those hidden breast zippered pockets. I would prefer that style you showed. Another excellent video///
Back in my day in the infantry (roughly 1986 to 1998 when I became a REMF chemical officer) we would probe enemy defenses at night. (Mind you this was at Benning and Bragg, not real war, for me anyway). Anyway, my probing uniform was BDUs, no head gear, black Chuck Taylors, a magazine in each bottom pocket of my BDU shirt, a grenade simulator in my thigh pocket, PVS-5 or PVS-7 with no helmet, and an M16A1 or A2 with one 30 round magazine. Sometimes I had a 203 with parachute flare grenades. If I ran into a security patrol (actually did this once), I’d lay prone on the ground, yank the cord on my grenade simulator, throw it a few feet away from me, let it go off, and then run like a rabbit. Good times.
I only wish somebody made these in M-81 Woodland Camo. I know the brits are big on smocks, as are the Germans. Very neat piece of kit for sure. One thing I will say Andy, you keep it real, an this is the real deal. The only thing I would add to it is, some sort of lightweight pistol an spare ammo/ mag. As there are choices for that, an some sort of shelter that could be housed inside the back of the smock, as in a tube tent ( Noisey ) contractor bags 2, or a lightweight tarp of some sort. An a bug headset but I'm in Fla, so headsets are invaluable for Skeeter, don't weigh anything, an take up no room either, but thats just me. Thx for the vid Andy, an I truly hope the young enlisted troops that you serve with listen to you, much respect Bro.
Good video. I own a similar smock in OCP/multicam. I think it’s British. I bought it for all the reasons you demonstrated, but I’ve never really used it. I think you motivated me to get out and experiment with it.
Great video as always, but in my honest opinion, you can never really have too many knives! When I go into the woods I bring my SAK Officer variant, my Mora Bushcraft Black(carbon) a beater knife, a small whittling/carving knife, a big knife and of course a saw and axe! 😂😂 But as soon as I get my hands on the Terava(Terävä) Skrama 240 I'm leaving the axe, my big knife and my beater knife home, but for now I just appreciate the extra weight because it provides good and very much needed training! 😝 Cheers from southern Sweden 🇸🇪🙏
Absolutely would like a follow-up video of you moving, crawling with the fully loaded smock on. That water straw outer package seemed to make a lot of crinkle when you ran your hands over the pocket you stored it in. Maybe transfer to a double ziplock bag? Would you consider individually wrapped aquatabs in place of a glass bottle? Thanks for all you teach us, sir.
Big fan of the flecktarn camo pattern. I know somebody had to ask where you found that smock. I was thinking you would put your battle dressing and cravat in the sleeve grenade pouch but I see your logic in placing them in the other pockets. I can see where one might get carried away with loading that thing down to where you look like that kid in “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Bravo Zulu.
Have a German rain jacket/poncho that I purchased used and love the camo pattern they use. Excellent for many backgrounds! I like it better than woodland in many cases. Especially in the fall foliage.
At about 24:28 you've got a stealthy Ladybug advancing on your position using the table and concealment from the camouflage smock she almost blends into to sneak up on you -- luckily, she's friendly forces. 😁 I picked up a British DPM smock years ago and it has the same setup on big, roomy pockets that seem to naturally collect items you might need in an emergency.
It's not a grenade pouch on the sleeve. It's a field dressing pouch for the old FFD but an Israeli bandage fits in just fine. It was an SOP in my unit that it must contain a dressing so if you were treating someone else you could always find their dressing.
The smock looks like an Arktis KSK/Commando smock or copy thereof. The basic Arktis (note spelling) smock’s a copy the old UK SAS smock, albeit has added buttons on the front storm flap. In itself this KSK smock is a copy of the SASS, not a typo but the alas defunct private smock manufacturer Special Air Sea Services, Kit Karry smock with the extra pockets, hip and rear, and camo loops. The large pocket on the arm is for an old school UK first field dressing (FFD) and can be seen on the SAS windproof, Arctic windproof, Para, and 84 pattern smocks. It was universally hated, pretty much. On the Para smock it was at least a press stud but on all others a button, perfectly positioned to get caught on every cam net you walked under. The old arctic windproof trousers also had such a FFD pouch between the right front pocket and the fly. Now dive for cover and have a guess what will yield, the FFD or bits of you? Now fight away the nausea and tears and engage the enemy… By the way, the inside pocket on the back on all UK smocks (and Barbour wax jackets) is known as a poacher’s pocket, of use when you’re talking to the local game keeper trying to look innocent and explain your presence while not holding fish, fowl or small game you shouldn’t really have. While the US worked out in WWII what combat trousers should be in regards pockets, the UK crushed it at the same time with smocks. It genuinely blows my mind the US still don’t have or issue a breathable, camouflaged, robust, windproof overlayer with pockets.
Sir, amazing kit! I might throw in a raised anti-thermal-detection overhead tarp, 2 refillable hand warmers, and silken mountaineering gloves. For your K-9, warm wrapping for the ears, tie-on sled-dog boots, and rations that you can joyfully share. T Y again.
Great Video. I always look forward every week when you put the video. I have a video idea for you. I think my favorite video you have ever done was the mini ALTOID survival kit. A few weeks ago I got a pack of Altoids Smalls and thought that is would be a great video on what you would put in a mini mini survival kit what will fit anywhere. I would love to see what you would put in. I will happily send you some if you want. Great video.
I don't know if it's a sign from above, but you got some what I think is some old German or English gear. My neighbor down the road just had an old German tank delivered to his house. Adapt and overcome baby.
I prefer the *Swiss M-70 Alpenflage parka* for a survival jacket. They're about ¼ the price of this aftermarket military style garment, with about ten times the cargo storage capacity. (Even more with the snap-on patrol pack)
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1. I'm an ammo whore and would rather carry extra ammo vs an MRE. 2. I do not like zippers because they make noise and easily break.
What exact smock is this?
I'm a fan of Rick Tscherne, who wrote several books on what we would now refer to as survival hacks and diy stuff like whar is shown on Waypoint Survival. Even if we don't have that specific Smock I can still see how all these ideas can be utilized and adapted to different types of garments and pouches or other types of kits. It blows my mind how even after years of being interested in survival that there are still tricks and tips and techniques that we can learn.
One improvement to this jacket would be, to make it reversible into a solid color Trench Coat. This way you don't stand out by wearing military camo, & allows you to blend in to the general public. Great video Andrew! The regular surplus German Flecktarn Parka's are also an incredibly made garment.
Hands down best& most informative on survival and bushcraft on you tube ,great presentations anyone can understand, never skip forward,rewind and take notes,what does this man not know ? Andrew you are awesome. If I'm ever in a situation I will survive thank you for all your knowledge. First time watching a new one on Sunday won't miss another
The only other channel that comes anywhere near the level of information is maybe Bear Essentials or Woodsbound Outdoors, but they are still not on the same level 🙅🏻
A J squared away. Got it together and under your hat.
Loved my Smock during my service in the German Army. You really need to discipline yourself though, otherwise you’ll end up putting 20lbs in these pockets and you’ll look like the marshmallow man.
Danke shoen, mein Herr
LOL, yeah that would be me... 20lbs of stuff in the pockets. You give me pockets, I fill 'em!
Yep, me to, I would have everything under the sun in every pocket, including an inflatable pillow, hey I was A. F. sue me, for wanting creature comforts. But I would look like the MICHELIN MAN walking in the woods. Lol.
Pilots commonly carry 15 pounds or more of stuff in their survival vests.
@@peterbogart4531 that’s obvious. Although “carry” is not the right word here. And that’s where the difference is.
I know a few guys that did the same kind of thing with a fishing vest. Outstanding
@@chrismoore600 let me guess… mostly in the late 90‘s early 2000 years.
Andrew's video's are always an instant like for me, down and dirty life saving video's! Ranger's lead the way!
Most soldiers should watch your videos 🫡
Had to wait until the end, but I knew supple Ranger lips would get in there somewhere. 😂
Why the hell dont we have smocks like this? Geez. Excellent video Andrew. Thank you for your service sir.
I've got Varusteleka's Sarma smock. I waxed it and I've adjusted the buttons to accept my M65 liner. That combo plus a wool sweater kept me warm and dry in a Midwestern snow storm last year. Based on my experience with them, European militaries generally do field craft better than us, at least better than conventional infantry guys like I was.
Thanks Col. Great content as always
the swiss took this to the extreme and basically built their load bearing gear into their jacket
Yes I remember seeing a vid about that.
But I was told by a member of the Swiss military, that system was widely disliked by the troops.
@@KevinSmith-yh6tlThat's partly due to it being a very thick and heavy polycotton canvas with thick brass snap buttons on every pocket. The jacket weighs almost 5 lbs by itself. The other reason is that you're wearing all of your equipment on your uniform, so it's all jostling around when you move, and if you want to shed some weight to take a breather you'd have to empty all of your pockets since you don't have a rucksack carrying everything like every other military.
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Yes.
Makes absolute sense.
Thank you for the reply.
The right sleeve pocket is for a first field dressing.
I love all Ranger Survival and Field Craft videos! Thanks for doing them and sharing with us.
Can't wait for the demonstration video!
The bigger pocket on the right sleeve is supposed (in the german military) to carry one or two field dressings. The smaller pocket on the left sleeve can be used to carry your compass.
Another great video…
Always something new to learn…
Thanks for sharing…
Happy Sunday…
Be blessed 😇🙏🏻😍
Awesome!! Thank you, Andrew!
Major Andrew a Great Demonstration on how to utilize a smock jacket thank you sir 👍🇺🇸
Always carried a 20rd mag in my back pants pocket while on base in Sadar City Baghdad. It was just incase we got attacked and needed to get back to our fighting load. Also carried a multi tool, folding knife, mini flashlight, two way radio, water, pen & paper, cigarettes and lighter, leather gloves, ear & eye pro, hard candy or gum. This was 2003-2004.
Lots of things have changed since then but I’d probably just add Medical & mini pocket survival kit.
Thank you for another great video.
Thanks Andrew. 👍!
Thank you for this video. Excellent review of gear options with insights as to the whys and wherefores. Outstanding!
That smock makes a outstanding piece of gear, really like that Flectar pattern. Enjoyed this video, thanks Andrew!
Absolutely love your videos and insight!
Reminds of the Brits, they big about storing their kit this way. I learned this working with in 82', good lessons. Been using it all these decades, I am 63.
its an S.A.S coat the pocket at the back takes the sas surivalkit
L9ve the smock... now need the skills to go with it!
Radio voice, extremely well informed, amazing content. Subscribed.
Great video! Keep em coming.
Thank you for your video. Very helpful.
I always remember concave is hollow like a cave.
Convex is the opposite, so knives with a round bevel are convex and a hollow ground knife is concave.
I have a Britsh DPM SAS smock. Love thst thing!
Thats a great coat good load out andrew
Yes! A part 2 of this would be great! Maybe go and do some rabbit hunting with the jacket and do an overnighter.
I have the Flecktarn, Goretex bibs and jacket and several of the older cotton ones. Gave my 60 yo sister one with the zip in liner 10 years ago and it's her goto winter jacket. 😅
The buzz saw used at night is super cool. Can also deploy a baton-like flashlight that changes color creating a psychodelic effec when you rotate it. I never knew the German made jacket had so many compartments.
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Fantastic presentation as always brother!
For that grenade pouch on the sleeve, what I've done is take a red plastic travel soap dish and put my fire making kit in it: ferro rod, wind/water proof matches, a small lighter, some lint balls duct taped to inside of lid. Also, everything except the ferro rod is put in its own small ziploc baggie.
Another excellent video my friend!!
Such an informative video in a concise practical presentation. Everyone will learn something here. 100% Subbed.
Andrew, that's a sweet German camouflage jacket! A Man has to remain stylish while trying to escape. Kidding! Anyway great video! Keep up the outstanding work 👍
I think that is a Swiss smock.
@@jasholden9741 I think it's one of the Arktis or Mil-Tec models.
Excellent info as always, thanks!
That was an excellent video, very detailed and well explained.
Where do you get your maps?
I really like your survival and evasion gear choices for your smock . However , I agree with Corporal Kelly when he says unless you make a living at sucking , getting anything but a few sips of water here and there with filter straws will leave you with really sore mouth muscles . I'd rather sling a Grayl Geopress &/or Canteen and Cup Set over my shoulder if I had a choice over the filter straw . The little glass iodine tablet bottle is something that I slip into an empty plastic prescription pill container to help further protect it from breakage . I also carry a survival tin with similar items ; but also a second tin as well , packed with Tylenol , Advil , Imodium , Senekot , Gravol , Benadryl , Aerius , Pepto , and the like . . .
I've been using that jacket with similar load out for a couple of years in the high desert areas of NM. Especially in fall and early winter. Love my smock! It weighs about 8 pounds. With a 30 liter backpack, I can be comfortable for three to four days.
OH WOW, I HAVE AN OD GREEN SMOCK, LOOKS EXACTLY THE SAME, ITS FROM MILTEC, AWESOME PIECE OF EQUIPMENT
GOD BLESS YOU AND YOURN BROTHER
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This is very helpful. I'm contemplating making like , a go- jacket, and the the majority of the resdt of your supplies. Take care
Excellent information. Thanks brother!
Love your videos. Most USEFUL information that I have found. Thanks brother for sharing 👍
Andrew with the hip hop, "old school again, old school again" 😂
If it ain’t broke. . . 😊
Another good video, sir.
"Behove", a very good word!
Hi Andrew fantastic video. The pouch on the arm is not for a grenade it is for your first field dressing. Cheers Jc😁🇬🇧👊🏻
I liked this video very much. Very interesting things and uses for that jacket. Want one like that. You get so much in that jacket. Says as always. Your videos are nice to watch. I have learned a lot from watching them. Keep it up Andrew
I have had a Fanny pack for a long time and it’s very handy and easy to change it up for the duty it’s needed for wether it’s just a day trip into the bush or a longer stay. Something in the pack always comes in handy. Water tablets mostly and an energy bar ha ha don’t judge me😂
Need to do a military theme squirrel hunting camp!🐿🤔😂
Canadian buttons for the win. That's a lot of kit to quiet for Battle Rattle. Next video do a jump in place test with it on. :)
Would be good to model the smock in various configurations with base layers and other gear and without so we can see how well it wears and moves with you with all that weight in the pockets.
Delete weapons and our young ones would do well with a setup like this at school, when/if there an emergency occurs. Hang this jacket with load-out in a locker and they will be good to go.Wonderful to see you are a student of history. Your reference to Japanese solider, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda is accurate. I often get blasted when I praise him for his honor and attitude toward his service. I never said I loved what he did for twenty nine (29) years. He surrendered only when a former commander came here to the Philippines and broadcast messages over loudspeakers into the jungle that the war was truly over. There are pictures of Hiroo Onoda hading over his sword to former president Ferdinand Marcos sr. Marcos pardoned him and he returned to Japan to live out his life.
I do have the British Smock, it just doesn't have those other pockets / pouches that one does. But that is what drew me to the smock was those hidden breast zippered pockets. I would prefer that style you showed. Another excellent video///
Andrew,спасибо!
Back in my day in the infantry (roughly 1986 to 1998 when I became a REMF chemical officer) we would probe enemy defenses at night. (Mind you this was at Benning and Bragg, not real war, for me anyway). Anyway, my probing uniform was BDUs, no head gear, black Chuck Taylors, a magazine in each bottom pocket of my BDU shirt, a grenade simulator in my thigh pocket, PVS-5 or PVS-7 with no helmet, and an M16A1 or A2 with one 30 round magazine. Sometimes I had a 203 with parachute flare grenades. If I ran into a security patrol (actually did this once), I’d lay prone on the ground, yank the cord on my grenade simulator, throw it a few feet away from me, let it go off, and then run like a rabbit. Good times.
Benning and Bragg? C'mon man! Those are relics of our infantry past - get with the new program. (NOT)
A week from tomorrow I’m hoping they’ll be Benning and Bragg again.
@@Maryland_Kulak 🙏
This talk of escape and evasion reminds me of the book, I'd like to recommend - "Unscathed: Escape from Sierra Leone", by Ashby.
I only wish somebody made these in M-81 Woodland Camo. I know the brits are big on smocks, as are the Germans. Very neat piece of kit for sure. One thing I will say Andy, you keep it real, an this is the real deal. The only thing I would add to it is, some sort of lightweight pistol an spare ammo/ mag. As there are choices for that, an some sort of shelter that could be housed inside the back of the smock, as in a tube tent ( Noisey ) contractor bags 2, or a lightweight tarp of some sort. An a bug headset but I'm in Fla, so headsets are invaluable for Skeeter, don't weigh anything, an take up no room either, but thats just me. Thx for the vid Andy, an I truly hope the young enlisted troops that you serve with listen to you, much respect Bro.
Good video. I own a similar smock in OCP/multicam. I think it’s British. I bought it for all the reasons you demonstrated, but I’ve never really used it. I think you motivated me to get out and experiment with it.
Always a great video
Good video. Old school still has its uses. I have one of the British desert versions and woolly pully to go with it.
Bang on video Andrew. I have four smocks. Great to see, how it's used. For military application. Cheers 🍻
Good stuff to have on you
Great video as always, but in my honest opinion, you can never really have too many knives!
When I go into the woods I bring my SAK Officer variant, my Mora Bushcraft Black(carbon) a beater knife, a small whittling/carving knife, a big knife and of course a saw and axe! 😂😂
But as soon as I get my hands on the Terava(Terävä) Skrama 240 I'm leaving the axe, my big knife and my beater knife home, but for now I just appreciate the extra weight because it provides good and very much needed training! 😝
Cheers from southern Sweden 🇸🇪🙏
Absolutely would like a follow-up video of you moving, crawling with the fully loaded smock on. That water straw outer package seemed to make a lot of crinkle when you ran your hands over the pocket you stored it in. Maybe transfer to a double ziplock bag? Would you consider individually wrapped aquatabs in place of a glass bottle? Thanks for all you teach us, sir.
Nice video!
Great looking jacket
👍👍 one Andrew
Big fan of the flecktarn camo pattern. I know somebody had to ask where you found that smock. I was thinking you would put your battle dressing and cravat in the sleeve grenade pouch but I see your logic in placing them in the other pockets. I can see where one might get carried away with loading that thing down to where you look like that kid in “It’s A Wonderful Life”. Bravo Zulu.
I would to see a series on this where you look at different jackets and there benefits and down sides from around the world
Have a German rain jacket/poncho that I purchased used and love the camo pattern they use. Excellent for many backgrounds! I like it better than woodland in many cases. Especially in the fall foliage.
Tq, comprehensive instructions. ❤
At about 24:28 you've got a stealthy Ladybug advancing on your position using the table and concealment from the camouflage smock she almost blends into to sneak up on you -- luckily, she's friendly forces. 😁
I picked up a British DPM smock years ago and it has the same setup on big, roomy pockets that seem to naturally collect items you might need in an emergency.
It's not a grenade pouch on the sleeve. It's a field dressing pouch for the old FFD but an Israeli bandage fits in just fine. It was an SOP in my unit that it must contain a dressing so if you were treating someone else you could always find their dressing.
Good video, dude
The smock looks like an Arktis KSK/Commando smock or copy thereof. The basic Arktis (note spelling) smock’s a copy the old UK SAS smock, albeit has added buttons on the front storm flap. In itself this KSK smock is a copy of the SASS, not a typo but the alas defunct private smock manufacturer Special Air Sea Services, Kit Karry smock with the extra pockets, hip and rear, and camo loops.
The large pocket on the arm is for an old school UK first field dressing (FFD) and can be seen on the SAS windproof, Arctic windproof, Para, and 84 pattern smocks. It was universally hated, pretty much. On the Para smock it was at least a press stud but on all others a button, perfectly positioned to get caught on every cam net you walked under.
The old arctic windproof trousers also had such a FFD pouch between the right front pocket and the fly. Now dive for cover and have a guess what will yield, the FFD or bits of you? Now fight away the nausea and tears and engage the enemy…
By the way, the inside pocket on the back on all UK smocks (and Barbour wax jackets) is known as a poacher’s pocket, of use when you’re talking to the local game keeper trying to look innocent and explain your presence while not holding fish, fowl or small game you shouldn’t really have.
While the US worked out in WWII what combat trousers should be in regards pockets, the UK crushed it at the same time with smocks. It genuinely blows my mind the US still don’t have or issue a breathable, camouflaged, robust, windproof overlayer with pockets.
Great presentation! I'm playing around with a Swiss Army TAZ 57 M61/70 Field Jacket for hunting season. I will take your insights with me.
for flashlights a good option is a pocket clip like the ones on Olights, that is to say ones that double back on themselves to clip on both ways
Sleeve pockets are perfect for a RATS tourniquet.
Your "grenade pouch" would be a good spot for a compass or range finder type of gear....
Great video thank you 👍
Very informative. Thx for ur service.🇺🇸🦅🫡
pretty sure the shoulder grenade pouch is actually for a field dressing, I could be wrong ofcourse.
Sir, amazing kit! I might throw in a raised anti-thermal-detection overhead tarp, 2 refillable hand warmers, and silken mountaineering gloves. For your K-9, warm wrapping for the ears, tie-on sled-dog boots, and rations that you can joyfully share. T Y again.
Danke
Check out the smokeless fire (in a hole with additional hole upwind) method.
Looks like a Leo Köhler Smock. Great video!
Link to purchase this smock?
Having all those pocket help for keeping items separate and organized.
That's the German camo version of the SAS smock.
Great Video. I always look forward every week when you put the video.
I have a video idea for you. I think my favorite video you have ever done was the mini ALTOID survival kit. A few weeks ago I got a pack of Altoids Smalls and thought that is would be a great video on what you would put in a mini mini survival kit what will fit anywhere. I would love to see what you would put in. I will happily send you some if you want.
Great video.
Also what brand of sniper vail do you suggest??
I don't know if it's a sign from above, but you got some what I think is some old German or English gear. My neighbor down the road just had an old German tank delivered to his house. Adapt and overcome baby.
This is very informative I was wondering how to carry my grenade
Updings for the small angle head mods. Loyalty for hardcore, proven smock inventory.
I prefer the
*Swiss M-70 Alpenflage parka*
for a survival jacket.
They're about ¼ the price of this aftermarket military style garment, with about ten times the cargo storage capacity.
(Even more with the snap-on patrol pack)
Yes thanks enjoying the curry a pint ❤