HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... Crying with laughter here (mainly at the comments of my former para reg partner as we watch this together) He has too much knowledge and info on this subject for me to type it all here now, but for those young guys watching this and wanting to know, here's the big three:- 1. 24hrs munchies / survival ration bits (which you NEVER touch) in your smocks. 2. 24hr rat pack (which you NEVER touch) broken down in your belt order. 3. 48hrs worth of scoff in your bergan (NOT the issued shite, but good stuff you put together yourself). Plus as much brew kit and hexi fuel as can be crammed in around your operationally necessary items (optics, additional ammunition, comms/ medic gear, explosives, water bladder, clothing, basha etc). Live out of your bergan - you only eat in secured positions anyway and expect to jettison the bergan in contact, or have to leave it behind for many many operational reasons (use your imagination). E&E (only) justifies eating what's in your webbing. lf you have to break into your smock munchies, then you're usually really in the shit and will probably have to share it all with your mates anyway because they were too jack to have anything left to eat on them. Oh, and forget the rat pack spork, it's crap. Get a decent cut down metal/wooden spoon and duct tape it for cam. The half spoon, half a toothbrush, lighter, cam cream, signal mirror, utility knife, compass, should all be in your pockets attached with a couple of feet of thin para cord (from illum flare parachutes). One end sewn into the pocket and the other end tied and duct taped to each item. You may have to run / fight with one or more of these out of your pockets, because they're being used at the time and you wouldn't want to lose them if you have to move in a hurry!
Another smashing video. Would you consider doing a video on how you prepare your kit before you would go on exercise/how you like to pack your kit? I know it’s been done to death by other people but they often seem to have their own individual ways of doing things.
cant beat the old packs the 5 man compo packs we used to get in the RA where the dogs bollocks sausages mash cheese jam and bacon grill food of the gods and yes i have tried the new ones but the tins where superior
So, I'm an American Army veteran, a lifelong military historian, and a reenactor in the American Civil War. My reenacting group is a very 'family friendly' hobby and a lot of kids are raised in it. This puts me in a position to give a lot of young men some good advice here and there about practical things that don't get talked about much. My personal soap box is the absolute necessity of taking care of one's feet, good socks and good boots. Because of all that, I LOVE practical videos like this! Keep it up!
Thank-you for the kind words buddy. You are right about the importance of feet, mine are pretty messed up from all the tabbing over the years but fortunately I learned early on how to tape them up properly etc. Have a great Christmas.
@@MilitaryFitness Hey, we're all in this together, brother. I tell my guys three things about feet: - take care of the ones you were born with; the factory replacements suck ass; - get wool hiking socks, NOT cheap assed cotton or polyester socks. WOOL, or a wool blend, is your friend; - and a good pair of broken-in service or work boots is one of life's little treasures. If you take care of your boots, they'll take care of you. I hope you and yours have a Happy Holiday [insert your winter solstice holiday here], and please accept the respects and regards of an old American cavalry corporal.
Everything should be in clear bags then inside your Bergman/liner in case you go swimming then it will float if you separate and hide you if your with it 👍🏻
Hi samual. Classic British name. As a U.S. Army veteran I have a question I’ve been curious about for 9 years now. Now that we Americans are independent from the British empire, (sorry for all that rebel war stuff by the way), my question is, is king George the third still an a$$hole towards his British subjects like he was to his once American colonies taking away guns and taxing us through the a$$
I don't believe they dashed the boiled sweets. Trade all the green and yellow ones for the red ones. I guess they expect you to bring your own haribos nowadays
A veteran of 13 years who was stationed in Korea twice and was sent to Iraq, I have found foreign MRE's rather tasty compared to ours. The Brits 24 HR MRE rocks, I found 2 cases for sale. I also find it interesting how the Brits pack their stuff pretty interesting.
As an ex Royal Signals LCpl - i left in '03 and i remember the crap we used to get in card board boxes. Lancashire hopot for breakfast ... mmm! The only time i saw tobasco and peanut butter was when i robbed it from some US guys we were stationed in Bosnia with.. made that hotpot bearable! My son is now in the RAF and he came back with some rations in the plaggy bag, again this must be what they must've ripped off from the Yanks and the menu's look pretty decent. We used to get primula cheese and something like meat paste in a tin that got pulled due to being rotten (can't remember what it was called)
Thanks for video, a lot of tips I wish I knew before basic. Would you take a jetboil or similar? Where would you pack it? Some of the guys in my section had them, seemed to make life so much easier
I don't think I ever got to finish a rat pack , also don't forget the spare batteries, Mortor rounds , spare ammo , water ........ christ then if you was lucky some spare clothes , then comms kit
Hi. Some of that stuff I wouldnt touch with a barge pole. Read the ingredients in those powered drinks. They contain Aspartame. You really don’t want that in you. Give it to the enemy! Regards
Dont just tear the bag open, as he just rips the bag apart with his teath ... maybe prep your demo and have a penknife at hand.. lost interest quite quickly
Just wondering what would you say is the best way to light the matches that you get in the ration pack. I've used them before and I tried on the strip of abrasive and on a normal match box and neither worked. Brilliant video and very useful 👍
Thanks for the kind words mate. They are a pain in the arse to light sometimes. If the lighter strip didn’t work I would try and find a rough rock or something hard
In the 80s we had canned rations in Australia. Made things easy. Keep the can of fruit, tubes of jam, coffee tea and survibal biscuits. Back then Nestle made condensed milk with coffee in it. 3 tubes 2 days. Just drink it from the tube. Rations took bugger all room and weighed stuff all lol
Hiya ! Back when I was "in" they issued us WWII era wood alcohol tins to heat our rations... wow, they were efficient... NOT !!! 🙂 First acquisition out of basic training was a Coleman "Peak One" Multifuel Stove ! I was wondering which type of stoves you currently are issued... and what you actually buy and use for a hot brew and /or meal ? ATB, Cheers, Rob
Hi buddy. We get issued hexamine and a metal stand for heating up water etc. I use a gas jet boil though which is far better. I hope you have a great day today. Merry Christmas
@@MilitaryFitness We were issued those in 70/80s but We all had a extra pouch on our webbing ('58 pattern Water bottle pouch ) which was perfect for a gas stove and canister. Our webbing was customised for all sorts with extra pouches etc and "wired up" so that it was shaped to fit your body and didn't bounce around causing webbing rash.
how times have changed, when i was doing cadet training at RAC luworh in 1967, we used to put the rations for the day in the back of the land- rover or 3 tonner Bedford RL, they used to be 4hr or 8hr rations,the food in the cook house was great in 1967 eat as much as you want.
@@MilitaryFitness I must say, as much as being a NCO, life was quite different as i a infantry rifleman. You didn't have have the luxury to cherry pick what you wanted in a ration.
@@c0ckyclown every tour I have ever done was on the front line embedded with the infantry on patrols. Everything I got rid of in the video I got rid of on tour.
@@MilitaryFitness Well, I'd lie if I say I didn't throw away some of the stuff, replacing it with things bought like chocolate. But most of it was brought along, because cold and hungry most goes down.
That is not properly, one persons right is another persons wrong, there is no properly. One packs Rations individually where it fits and how one can access the rations, and dont put it all in a Bergan. Drop the Bergan, Bravo 2 Zero, you have lost all, pack as per 1980's in webbing/kidney pouches, belt kit, no lost rations means you will eat and the kit is always wrapped around you.
Those 24 hour rat packs are amazing. In my time they were so expensive, much cheaper to set up a field cook house in the woods 55
The rations have improved by miles recently.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA ... Crying with laughter here
(mainly at the comments of my former para reg partner as we watch this together)
He has too much knowledge and info on this subject for me to type it all here now, but for those young guys watching this and wanting to know, here's the big three:-
1. 24hrs munchies / survival ration bits (which you NEVER touch) in your smocks.
2. 24hr rat pack (which you NEVER touch) broken down in your belt order.
3. 48hrs worth of scoff in your bergan (NOT the issued shite, but good stuff you put together yourself). Plus as much brew kit and hexi fuel as can be crammed in around your operationally necessary items (optics, additional ammunition, comms/ medic gear, explosives, water bladder, clothing, basha etc).
Live out of your bergan - you only eat in secured positions anyway and expect to jettison the bergan in contact, or have to leave it behind for many many operational reasons (use your imagination).
E&E (only) justifies eating what's in your webbing.
lf you have to break into your smock munchies, then you're usually really in the shit and will probably have to share it all with your mates anyway because they were too jack to have anything left to eat on them.
Oh, and forget the rat pack spork, it's crap. Get a decent cut down metal/wooden spoon and duct tape it for cam. The half spoon, half a toothbrush, lighter, cam cream, signal mirror, utility knife, compass, should all be in your pockets attached with a couple of feet of thin para cord (from illum flare parachutes). One end sewn into the pocket and the other end tied and duct taped to each item. You may have to run / fight with one or more of these out of your pockets, because they're being used at the time and you wouldn't want to lose them if you have to move in a hurry!
Some great points there.
Totally agree with your partner 👍🏻 CANT FORGET the Airborne spoon sharp,On one side 👍🏻👍🏻
Absolutely love this channel, thank you so much for so much value in all videos
Thanks so much for the kind words, they really mean a lot 👍🏻
Another smashing video.
Would you consider doing a video on how you prepare your kit before you would go on exercise/how you like to pack your kit?
I know it’s been done to death by other people but they often seem to have their own individual ways of doing things.
Yeah ok mate, I will try and figure something out
This is great advice, which I use everyday to pack my bergen before I have a shovel recce and get on the train to my office job in the city.
😂😂😂😂😂
The best way to pack ANY ration is to take 3 days of Imodium all at once.
Hahahaha you got that right
Does the same job
cant beat the old packs the 5 man compo packs we used to get in the RA where the dogs bollocks sausages mash cheese jam and bacon grill food of the gods and yes i have tried the new ones but the tins where superior
I enjoyed the tins as well
So, I'm an American Army veteran, a lifelong military historian, and a reenactor in the American Civil War.
My reenacting group is a very 'family friendly' hobby and a lot of kids are raised in it. This puts me in a position to give a lot of young men some good advice here and there about practical things that don't get talked about much. My personal soap box is the absolute necessity of taking care of one's feet, good socks and good boots.
Because of all that, I LOVE practical videos like this!
Keep it up!
Thank-you for the kind words buddy. You are right about the importance of feet, mine are pretty messed up from all the tabbing over the years but fortunately I learned early on how to tape them up properly etc. Have a great Christmas.
@@MilitaryFitness Hey, we're all in this together, brother.
I tell my guys three things about feet:
- take care of the ones you were born with; the factory replacements suck ass;
- get wool hiking socks, NOT cheap assed cotton or polyester socks. WOOL, or a wool blend, is your friend;
- and a good pair of broken-in service or work boots is one of life's little treasures. If you take care of your boots, they'll take care of you.
I hope you and yours have a Happy Holiday [insert your winter solstice holiday here], and please accept the respects and regards of an old American cavalry corporal.
@@carlhicksjr8401 3 perfect bits of advice. Have a great Christmas and a prosperous new year👍🏻👍🏻
The content of this guys video is in the Title and Description, it's got nothing to do with Socks and feet...idiot
I remember the good old days of tins, it seemed the only place to put them was your resperator case.
😂😂😂😂
😂 I would pack all of that. 😂
😂 I would not discard any of it.😂
That’s the way
Rubbish? Best save them to trade off for the good shit!
No one will trade for some of that 😂😂
Clear plastic bag is perfect to use for storing , keeping dry spare socks, skiddies and warm kit 👍
You got it buddy
Everything should be in clear bags then inside your Bergman/liner in case you go swimming then it will float if you separate and hide you if your with it 👍🏻
Hi samual. Classic British name. As a U.S. Army veteran I have a question I’ve been curious about for 9 years now. Now that we Americans are independent from the British empire, (sorry for all that rebel war stuff by the way), my question is, is king George the third still an a$$hole towards his British subjects like he was to his once American colonies taking away guns and taxing us through the a$$
Mate, he literally died in the 1800’s, how can he still be terrible towards his British subjects. Time for you to have a history lesson I think.
I don't believe they dashed the boiled sweets. Trade all the green and yellow ones for the red ones. I guess they expect you to bring your own haribos nowadays
😂😂yeah they do
Are you regular army or TA? The reason I ask is because your bergen and pouches seem to be DPM and not multicam.
Other than that, top notch thinking.
I am regs mate. I only have the old style bergens as they are the best in my opinion.
A veteran of 13 years who was stationed in Korea twice and was sent to Iraq, I have found foreign MRE's rather tasty compared to ours. The Brits 24 HR MRE rocks, I found 2 cases for sale. I also find it interesting how the Brits pack their stuff pretty interesting.
Thanks for the comment. I really like MRE’s.
@@MilitaryFitness Thanks. How do you Brits pack your Bergen? We always used waterproof bags when I was in years ago in the days of Alice gear.
@@popeadam25000 same, I use canoe bags
I just take 40 Bennies and a four-pack of Carlsberg.
😂😂😂
As an ex Royal Signals LCpl - i left in '03 and i remember the crap we used to get in card board boxes. Lancashire hopot for breakfast ... mmm! The only time i saw tobasco and peanut butter was when i robbed it from some US guys we were stationed in Bosnia with.. made that hotpot bearable! My son is now in the RAF and he came back with some rations in the plaggy bag, again this must be what they must've ripped off from the Yanks and the menu's look pretty decent. We used to get primula cheese and something like meat paste in a tin that got pulled due to being rotten (can't remember what it was called)
I remember all that old stuff. Biscuit browns and meat paste 🤮
Thanks for video, a lot of tips I wish I knew before basic. Would you take a jetboil or similar? Where would you pack it? Some of the guys in my section had them, seemed to make life so much easier
Jet boil in your webbing
No hate, but why tf is he using issued kit. Person as is so much better 😭😭😭
I always use issued kit
@MilitaryFitness may I ask why, it's so unnecessarily old
@@ashkechup7524 because you only use webbing on the ranges these days. It’s all UBACS and a day sack now
Munchies in my pockets, 24 hrs worth of cut down rations in my webbing and extended days rations in my pack.
👍🏻👍🏻
When you get given 5 days of rations and not 1 ounce of space in the bergen..
😂😂
I don't think I ever got to finish a rat pack , also don't forget the spare batteries, Mortor rounds , spare ammo , water ........ christ then if you was lucky some spare clothes , then comms kit
Hi.
Some of that stuff I wouldnt touch with a barge pole.
Read the ingredients in those powered drinks.
They contain Aspartame. You really don’t want that in you.
Give it to the enemy!
Regards
Hahahaha, good idea
Farmer phil ,great video mate,straight to the point, no messing, keep it up,love your bergen and webbing
Thanks so much for the kind words👍🏻👍🏻
This is excellent: very concise and very informative.
Thanks for the kind words 🫡
Looked at that Tabasco sauce like wtf probs not had a ration pack since they changed
They are decent now
@@MilitaryFitness il stick to my noodles and hot dog🤣
@@robleeman8612 😂😂😂
Copied from the USA 🇺🇸 kill the taste of stuff you don’t like😂 certain looks a lot more food in them now and decent options 🤔
Glad we didn't copy American in how to do friendly fire
The Tabasco comes in a mini bottle...that's rad, out here in Skippyland it's in a sachet which obviously is a once only thang 🍻🤙🍻🤙🍻🤙
There are a couple of different flavours aswell
A video on how to pack your Bergen would be a good helpful video 😁
Ok buddy, I will look into it
Dont just tear the bag open, as he just rips the bag apart with his teath ... maybe prep your demo and have a penknife at hand.. lost interest quite quickly
It’s called humour buddy.
Just wondering what would you say is the best way to light the matches that you get in the ration pack. I've used them before and I tried on the strip of abrasive and on a normal match box and neither worked. Brilliant video and very useful 👍
Thanks for the kind words mate. They are a pain in the arse to light sometimes. If the lighter strip didn’t work I would try and find a rough rock or something hard
@@MilitaryFitness thanks for that, I'll give it a try the next time I have the pleasure of using them.
disposable lighter
Bin the matches buy a zippo . I've had mine for over 30 years and it still works everytime.
@@georgerobert4709 Who smells like gasoline and asks for a light?
- A guy with a Zippo. :D
How do you wear you wear your webbing when your Bergen waist belt gets in the way, and vis-à-vis
Your webbing belt will be below your Bergen waist belt
Looking at that Stable Belt...Royal Signals? Asking from Canada...
Yes mate 👏👏
I've been out for quite a while now but when did compo start coming in a plastic bag?
Couple of years ago. They still come in the boxes as well mind.
In the 80s we had canned rations in Australia. Made things easy. Keep the can of fruit, tubes of jam, coffee tea and survibal biscuits. Back then Nestle made condensed milk with coffee in it. 3 tubes 2 days. Just drink it from the tube. Rations took bugger all room and weighed stuff all lol
That does sound a much better set up.
Only 2 tea bags in a brew kit now ? thats criminal !
😂😂😂😂 what has the world come to
Hiya ! Back when I was "in" they issued us WWII era wood alcohol tins to heat our rations... wow, they were efficient... NOT !!! 🙂
First acquisition out of basic training was a Coleman "Peak One" Multifuel Stove !
I was wondering which type of stoves you currently are issued... and what you actually buy and use for a hot brew and /or meal ?
ATB, Cheers, Rob
Hi buddy. We get issued hexamine and a metal stand for heating up water etc. I use a gas jet boil though which is far better. I hope you have a great day today. Merry Christmas
@@MilitaryFitness We were issued those in 70/80s but We all had a extra pouch on our webbing ('58 pattern Water bottle pouch ) which was perfect for a gas stove and canister. Our webbing was customised for all sorts with extra pouches etc and "wired up" so that it was shaped to fit your body and didn't bounce around causing webbing rash.
I don’t drink hot drinks or juice, and it’s a lot of liquid calories! But the meals and snacks look banging so I’m all in for food on exercise
They are pretty decent tbh.
When your cold wet and the weather still is a hot brew is a life saver and morale super booster 🤩
Great packing !!! Can tell you don't go in the field that much remf !
Have a great week mate and take care.
Left for life (brew kit and pudding) and right for rations
That’s a good one mate 👍🏻👍🏻
Cracking
Thanks
Random question: how do you pass phase 1 and how do some people fail it? (i wanna be 100% prepared sorry)
I have done a video about it mate
@@MilitaryFitness oh sorry i'll go watch it.
have a great day and thanks for yet another great video!
@@westay4924 no need to apologies buddy, and thanks for the kind words 💪🏻💪🏻
how times have changed, when i was doing cadet training at RAC luworh in 1967, we used to put the rations for the day in the back of the land- rover or 3 tonner Bedford RL, they used to be 4hr or 8hr rations,the food in the cook house was great in 1967 eat as much as you want.
Times really have changed. I don’t think the army has heard of eat as much as you want these days 😂😂
I suspect that was before civvies were given control of military catering . At which point it went to rat shit ..... Literally !!
@@georgerobert4709 hahahaha it sure did
@@georgerobert4709 hi yes, 1967 royal army catering corps, they looked after us,great days and great vehicles,!
Personell in the rear with the gear...
You got it
@@MilitaryFitness I must say, as much as being a NCO, life was quite different as i a infantry rifleman. You didn't have have the luxury to cherry pick what you wanted in a ration.
@@c0ckyclown every tour I have ever done was on the front line embedded with the infantry on patrols. Everything I got rid of in the video I got rid of on tour.
@@MilitaryFitness Well, I'd lie if I say I didn't throw away some of the stuff, replacing it with things bought like chocolate. But most of it was brought along, because cold and hungry most goes down.
British bergens packs ARE best
They are decent 💪🏻💪🏻
dont use the waterproof matches for a cig unless you want to throw up🤣
You are bang on there buddy
@@MilitaryFitness did it once not again🥲
Uuuurgh a scaleyback.
😂😂😂 someone has to be
@@MilitaryFitness our rations were mainly stuffed in our kidney pouches which were part of our 58 pattern webbing and it was tinned.
@@medic7698 I had a few of the tinned stuff in the past. Tinned fruit was the best 👍🏻
WOW! That's a ton of plastic right there given every day to thousands of soldiers. What a waste:(
It’s just a case of finding a cheaper alternative
@@MilitaryFitness we'll destroy everything alive around us including humanity to get something cheaper instead of doing it properly.
@@dhstudios1269 😂😂😂😂
Leeeeeets get iiiiit
😂😂😂 you got it buddy
Nice one yoz
😂😂 cheers bud.
@@MilitaryFitness gen great vids
@@smoothgarak9537 thanks buddy.
so don"t start ripping apart, as you just did!!!
Yeah
That is not properly, one persons right is another persons wrong, there is no properly. One packs Rations individually where it fits and how one can access the rations, and dont put it all in a Bergan. Drop the Bergan, Bravo 2 Zero, you have lost all, pack as per 1980's in webbing/kidney pouches, belt kit, no lost rations means you will eat and the kit is always wrapped around you.
We are nearly in 2022 buddy. The 1980’s are long gone. Not many people if any are going to lose their Bergan as when on patrol it’s left at the PB.
Why would someone need to know this if they are not a soldier? Gaay
Don’t watch it then
All those sugary drinks are easy intake calories, and you doo need it if you are working hard.
Maybe only one but not all of them