00:00 This is a M4A1 carbine, magazine fed, gas operated.
00:08 As you can see, my barrel is a little short.
00:10 When it comes to close quarter battles, it's easier to get around corners and also with
00:15 tactical security details, it's a whole lot easier to conceal these than it would be a
00:18 normal barrel M4.
00:20 Hi, I'm A1C Devin, Dagger Team Member at the 27th Special Operations Security Forces Squadron
00:26 at Cannon Air Force Base.
00:27 And this is everything I carry with me on a mission.
00:31 So this right here is our battle belt.
00:32 This is what we consider our line one.
00:34 As you can see, it's a two-piece system.
00:36 You have our actual belt right here.
00:37 And then you see myself wearing an inner belt and it just velcros on here.
00:41 It's a Cobra belt, so it just snaps into place.
00:45 And then it also has a D-ring right here.
00:47 So starting from here, going to my left side, my D-ring, I have my aircraft tie-in.
00:52 It has a quick release here, so if I just pull this, it'll quick release from here.
00:56 And then I have it routing it to the back of my belt.
00:59 I have it secured with 550 cord right here.
01:03 This is the actual part I would tie into the aircraft.
01:07 I can quickly put it on that D-ring as well.
01:10 Then I have another carabiner I can secure it from there.
01:13 Going on, I just have a little wiring ring where I can attach chemlights if need be for
01:18 the mission.
01:20 That's just secured onto the D-ring as well.
01:24 And to the left, I have two M18 mags.
01:27 I usually carry three, one in the actual M18 and then two here on the side on our belts.
01:35 So you have my ready mag, or my M4 magazine would be.
01:43 Moving on, right behind it I have my multi-tool.
01:47 It has multi-functional capabilities.
01:50 Especially if my M4 jams, this tool right here I can unjam my M4 with that.
01:54 It has pliers, it has a bunch of knives, it has screwdrivers on there.
01:59 I can fix just about anything with this multi-tool here.
02:03 This pouch here, we're really big on multi-purpose pouches.
02:07 So as you can see, I held my M4 and my multi-tool.
02:10 If you open this up, I have the capability of holding smokes, grenade, whatever else
02:15 I need to stuff in here.
02:17 I always have a notepad with me to take notes.
02:21 Continuing, I have sheet sheets in here.
02:25 So any military reporting that I forget in the heat of the moment, I can always reference
02:29 this and then it's right there.
02:34 And then you always want to have a Nine Line on you.
02:37 So a Nine Line medevac, if anybody needs to get medically evaced, it's a military report
02:44 that you up-channel so that casualty can get up-routed.
02:49 It relays information of how many patients, what the care, that the patient could potentially
02:55 care if there's security at the site being picked up or any sort of that matter.
02:59 This right here is a carabiner.
03:01 I talked about it a little bit.
03:03 Currently have fast rope mags.
03:05 So if we need to do fast rope insurgents from a helicopter, these are the gloves you would
03:10 use on top of our shooting gloves.
03:13 So we don't burn our hands going down that rope.
03:16 This is a dump pouch.
03:18 I currently have a water bottle in there.
03:20 It's 32 ounces.
03:22 But that's typically what I keep in there.
03:25 You can also obviously dump your magazines in there, snacks, wrappers, whatever you need
03:30 to dump and have on your person, you can keep here.
03:32 I always personally have mine open just because I always need it.
03:37 Have a knife.
03:39 This is kind of just in case both my weapon systems go down.
03:42 I can still remain in the fight.
03:44 So right here I have my M18 holster.
03:47 M18, it's on safe.
03:48 There's nothing in here.
03:50 This is a SIG M18.
03:52 If I don't have my M4, this is going to be, I guess you could say my primary weapon I'd
03:57 use.
03:58 But if my M4 runs out of ammo, I'm going to transition to my M18.
04:02 My M4 jams and I can't fix it at that moment.
04:05 I'm going to transition to my M18 here.
04:07 Moving on, I have a tourniquet right here.
04:11 It's just secured by some bungee cord.
04:16 So I have a tourniquet and then I have a red chem stick, which we mark whenever there's
04:21 a tourniquet.
04:22 We place a tourniquet on somebody, we'll mark it with a red chem stick just in case somebody
04:26 comes by and lets the other person know that that person has a tourniquet on them.
04:31 The tourniquet would be placed to somebody, so I'll do it on myself just for show.
04:40 Tie and tight, right?
04:45 The tourniquet and then with this excess material, this is where you can secure the tourniquet.
04:50 So after it's tightened, then you have all this excess material that you can mess around
04:55 with and then you can just Velcro it in there.
05:02 Or you can take this chem stick and just put it in one of the pockets in our uniforms for
05:09 our limbs.
05:12 And then lastly, I just have my shooting gloves, some personal protection equipment.
05:17 They just serve the purpose of protecting my hands so that it doesn't get burned by
05:21 brass or I fall down and don't scratch my hands.
05:27 So next is our plate carrier, what we consider our line two.
05:30 So start from top to bottom here in the front plate.
05:36 So off the top, right in this little pouch I have here, I just have a non-permanent marker.
05:43 The sheet sheets I showed you earlier, I can write on that with this.
05:49 And then I also have FrogTape, which is just basically duct tape compact like this.
05:54 It's usable for multiple occasions.
05:56 Going down, you see these two things secured onto my plate carrier here.
06:00 So these are my PTTs, push to talks.
06:03 So we have our headsets set up to this and then to our radios.
06:07 So anytime I need to communicate with my teammate, I can just press one of these PTTs and it'll
06:13 signal for me to transmit over the radio.
06:15 As you can see, I have two.
06:17 So I have the ability to run two different frequencies on two different radios.
06:21 Going down, we have our magazines, our M4 magazines.
06:24 I personally have three up front.
06:37 Going down into our admin pouch, just miscellaneous stuff.
06:42 We're always going to have a red light capability with us when it gets dark.
06:46 For us, we put this around our neck.
06:47 So anytime it's getting dark, we're going to put this around our neck so we can always
06:50 have red light with us.
06:52 The red light is your eyes.
06:53 It's easier for you to adjust compared to any other light.
06:56 If you're working, let's say, with a patient that has a gunshot wound, you would switch
07:00 over to blue light just because the blood is easier to see with blue light.
07:03 But we stick with red light because it's easier for our eyes to adjust.
07:09 Next thing's a neck gaiter/face covering.
07:12 In our line of work, you never know when media is going to show around and we don't want
07:15 our faces to be revealed.
07:18 So we'll just throw this on.
07:19 Also if it's really dusty coming out of a plane or a helicopter, it's not fun getting
07:23 dust in your face, so we'll throw this on as well.
07:26 Always keep a lighter on you.
07:28 It could be a survival situation or you just have some loose ends that you need to burn
07:33 off your uniform.
07:34 A lighter will get that done.
07:35 Again, I have a roll of duct tape.
07:38 Duct tape fixes many things.
07:42 And then I also have rubber bands just secured by a little alligator clip right here.
07:47 And that is it for my admin pouch.
07:48 If we keep going down, this down here, this is our blowout kit.
07:56 Each person is supposed to run an IFAC, an individual first aid kit.
08:00 So they're supposed to run that and they're supposed to have a certain amount of things
08:03 within the IFAC.
08:04 If they don't, this is something we could work out of.
08:08 So if they have any missing items, for example an MPA.
08:13 So this would be useful when a patient is not breathing properly through their mouth,
08:16 we put this through their nose and it allows air to flow into their lungs.
08:21 This would be a decompression needle.
08:23 So if there's unequal rise and fall of the chest, this is something you could use to
08:29 fix that I guess you could say.
08:32 As you can see, I have another tourniquet.
08:34 We have a rule of thumb.
08:35 We always have three tourniquets.
08:36 So far you've seen two out of three.
08:40 We have medical gloves.
08:44 We have lube to get that MPA into the nose that we talked about earlier.
08:49 Oh yeah, combat gauze.
08:53 So to treat any gunshot wounds, you just pack it into the gunshot.
08:57 Then we have a chest seal.
09:00 So if someone were to get in the chest, this is something you would place over it.
09:07 Going back to the radios, as you can see I have two radio pouches.
09:10 Like I stated earlier, I have the ability to run two radios.
09:13 I'm not always going to run that.
09:14 But if I don't run it, this can just easily be stored away.
09:17 As you can see over here, I have a radio.
09:20 My PTT was attached to it.
09:23 This is a 152 Alpha.
09:26 The difference between the Alpha and the normal is the Alpha has the ability to have GPS,
09:30 where the 152 does not.
09:34 So moving on to my left side of my cummerbunds, I have this pouch here which allows me to
09:41 store more magazines if I need to carry that on the mission, depending.
09:48 Or I can store smaller water bottles, smokes, grenades, whatever.
09:52 Like I said, they're really big on multi-purpose pouches.
09:56 In here, I have chem sticks.
09:59 These are used to mark different things.
10:01 So if we're not making entrance into a building, we'll mark it with red.
10:06 Let the team know that we're not entering in that building or if the building's clear
10:11 we'll throw a different color on the floor.
10:14 Also I have a compass in here for land navigation.
10:21 Then I have a protractor as well for land navigation.
10:26 I have a grenade pouch back here.
10:28 For us, the main purpose is not to hold a grenade pouch.
10:32 This is actually meant to hold a 152 radio battery.
10:35 So if we're going on a prolonged mission and I know I'm going to need an extra battery,
10:38 I'm just going to throw that in here.
10:40 I can run a grenade on it, but we typically don't.
10:43 As you can see here, I have another tourniquet.
10:45 Like I said, rule of thumb for us is three.
10:48 It's just secured by bungee cord like it was on my belt.
10:51 Moving on to the back of the plate, I like to keep it pretty slick.
10:55 Some other guys like to put other things back here.
10:58 I have the ability to do that.
10:59 Personally, I just don't like doing it, so I keep it slick.
11:02 As you can see, I have these flexi cups secured in the back.
11:07 So anytime we have a PUC, which would be a person under custody, we have the ability
11:12 to keep them under custody, handcuff them, and then put blacked out goggles over them
11:18 so they don't know where they're at.
11:21 Moving on, we have tubular nylon.
11:24 This has multiple purposes.
11:26 The way I have set it up right now, as you can see, it's secured by rubber bands.
11:30 So my teammates can just snap that off without having to pull off a bungee cord or anything
11:34 like that.
11:35 I can pull this off and then it extends about 10, 15 feet, and I can get pulled from a distance
11:41 if I need to be, or this can make a hasty litter as well.
11:44 So if anybody needs to get medevaced and we don't have a litter, then this is something
11:50 that we could potentially use to get them medevaced.
11:53 A litter would be equipment that you would use on a person that can't walk, and we could
12:00 get them exfiled out of that location.
12:04 Keep on going, I have another magazine pouch.
12:09 Again, big on multipurpose, so I can store up to two other M4 magazines in here.
12:15 I just have a clear eye pro when we go shooting on the range.
12:19 And that is it for my plate care line 2.
12:23 Moving on to my helmet, what we consider our line 3.
12:26 This is an OpsCorp ballistic helmet.
12:29 Standard issue.
12:30 As you can see up front, we have NVGs, night vision goggles.
12:35 These are PVS 15s.
12:38 They're a little outdated by military standards, but they get the job done.
12:44 As you can see, we have a mount here that allows us to adjust, flip up, and then adjust
12:48 according to each person.
12:49 So these are adjusted to myself right now.
12:53 Moving on to the left, you see I have a light secured by Velcro.
12:57 You can attach it to this railing right here, but I personally like having the option of
13:01 being able to take it off and off.
13:03 This has red, blue, and white light capability.
13:08 On the back here, we have our counterweight right there.
13:12 So inside here, there's our actual counterweights secured by elastic in there.
13:20 And then we also have extra batteries that can run in the back of our counterweight,
13:24 and it adds a little extra weight.
13:26 Then on top, we have a Hellstar.
13:29 It's an IR strobe.
13:31 It can do constant IR or flashing IR.
13:34 Not only that, but it can also do green light.
13:39 So that's constant, and that's going to be strobing.
13:42 And then on the right side, just a little American flag here.
13:47 Along with my helmet, some guys attach their Pelotors to their helmet.
13:53 Me personally, I don't like doing that because sometimes we don't have to wear a helmet when
13:57 doing training and missions.
13:59 So Pelotors, like I said, these connect, as you can see on the back.
14:05 These connect to the back, or excuse me, these connect to our PTTs, which was on my plate
14:11 carrier, and then those PTTs connect to the radios.
14:13 So then we have communications with our team or whoever else needs to.
14:18 These are also Bluetooth capable, so we don't even need radios.
14:22 If you're within the distance.
14:25 This is an M4A1 carbine, magazine fed, gas operated.
14:29 Has safe, semi-auto, and fully automatic.
14:33 In the back, I just have a standard buttstock.
14:37 As you can see, my barrel's a little short.
14:41 It's because I have a Mark 18 upper.
14:44 Just because some of the missions that we run, it's easier to run a shortened barrel
14:47 than a standard length M4.
14:50 When it comes to close quarter battles, it's easier to get around corners, and also with
14:54 tactical security details, it's a whole lot easier to conceal these than it would be a
14:58 normal barrel M4.
14:59 As you can see, I have an ambidextrous charging handle.
15:02 I have a three times magnifier.
15:05 I have an EOTech for my sight.
15:08 I have a standard issue PEG-15 up front, and then I have a light that can run IR or a white
15:16 light.
15:17 If we're doing a longer extended mission, longer foot movement, where speed is our security,
15:24 we're not going to be wearing our plate carriers just because it's going to slow us down.
15:27 We're going to be using our chest rigs here.
15:29 Everything, mission essential, that's on my plate carrier, I can transfer onto my chest
15:34 rig.
15:39 This is going to be our RUT, our 72 hour bag.
15:43 We are self-sustained up to 94 hours, so day of employment plus another 72 hours on top
15:48 of that, and this is what we would carry if we were dropped with one of those missions.
15:54 We're definitely going to have extra uniforms.
15:57 We're going to have MREs, so meals ready to eat.
16:02 Cold weather gear, depending where we're going.
16:07 Our jet boils to cook our food, because those MREs heaters kind of suck.
16:13 Snacks, and then bed down.
16:16 Clothes, definitely sleeping bags, tents if we need to depending on the mission.
16:23 This is everything I would carry with me on a mission.
16:27 So all together, weight wise you're looking about anywhere from 50 to 150 pounds depending
16:35 on what you're packing.
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