Posted on Aug 21, 2020
What is everyone's must carry item be it in the field during training, deployment, or even activations?
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So a fellow veteran amd myself were talking on the range the other day and we discussed our attire with professionalism and jokes. However this brought up a fun question.
What is everyone's must carry item be it in the field during training, deployment, or even activations (state active duty for those in the guard)?
Mine is and always has been a baseball cap. I have one hat that i have always worn since my first deployment and take it with me everywhere.
Yes i keep my K-pod in a pack and near but i love my baseball cap and wear it when i can. However, it goes with me everywhere. Along with a picture of my wife and kids, but I'm talking about objects like my cap for example.
What is everyone's must carry item be it in the field during training, deployment, or even activations (state active duty for those in the guard)?
Mine is and always has been a baseball cap. I have one hat that i have always worn since my first deployment and take it with me everywhere.
Yes i keep my K-pod in a pack and near but i love my baseball cap and wear it when i can. However, it goes with me everywhere. Along with a picture of my wife and kids, but I'm talking about objects like my cap for example.
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A folded American flag. Carried in my pack, taped it up in the vehicle, hang it up inside procured compounds, etc. Now it happily hangs on my living room wall.
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Folding knife with a serrated blade. Not big, not a killing blade. Just a solid trusty knife. Things I’ve cut with said knife:
-pallet straps
-rigging
-impenetrable French dfac steak
-millions of MRE pouches
-hydraulic line
-strings
- venison
-used it as a jumper on a motherboard
- cutting 550 cord
- shrink wrapped in pallets
-zip ties, mostly on children’s toy packaging
-pallet straps
-rigging
-impenetrable French dfac steak
-millions of MRE pouches
-hydraulic line
-strings
- venison
-used it as a jumper on a motherboard
- cutting 550 cord
- shrink wrapped in pallets
-zip ties, mostly on children’s toy packaging
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A knife with a good chopping edge. it can be used as a hatchet, cooking utensil, a weapon, used to make other weapons, start a fire or as a hammer, and other tools. My grandfather told stories of the European theater during WWII of being isolated out of ammo and relying on his servicemans knife for survival until supplies and relief would show up.
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I'm a mechanic so multitool is a must. Plenty of other items I keep handy as well but a multitool is always with me.
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SMSgt Lawrence McCarter
I always have a few tools along, pliers, screw driver, wrenches, flashlight, First aid kit and a few other items. You never know when You might need them.
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Knife. As aircrew we were issued knife with parachute cord cutter and 4 inch switch blade. Not bad. Flight suit had handy knife pocket. Carried multiple blade 3 inch pocket knife for many years. Then TSA happened. No more carrying pocket knife. Still carry knife when working outside or around the house.
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A cleaning kit for my weapon, I could tell a long involved tale about almost getting run over by a goddamn tank while trying to clear my crappy,jamming M16,sooo boring but a cleaning kit W/ rod is what I’d bring.
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As with others, I always had/have a multitool on me. Got me out of more jams than I can think of.
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Knife, multi tool, American Flag, High Visibility light fabric for marking and attention of helicopters. Book for there is always downtime.
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