the little things
Woobies. Two woobies and a poncho and you can sleep comfortably below freezing. If you get time to sleep.
WhisperYuke with MSR bottle.
Granite Gear compression bags.
Poly-p contact gloves.
WhisperYuke with MSR bottle.
Granite Gear compression bags.
Poly-p contact gloves.
A Co., 3/41 INF (M), 2AD 86-89
A Co., 2/187th INF "Rakkasans", 101st ABN 90-92
A Co., 1/501 PIR "Geronimo", 6th ID (L) 92-96
A Co., 2/187th INF "Rakkasans", 101st ABN 90-92
A Co., 1/501 PIR "Geronimo", 6th ID (L) 92-96
Poncho Liner aka: woobie
Heat Tabs aka: Hexamine
Small Mirror
Baby Oil, for removing camo
Nude Pics on the map
Small piece of a VS-17 panel
Hot Sauce is a Must!
Ranger Handbook
550 cord
A good knife
Map, compass and protractor
Strobe Light
Sleepin' shirt and a yota hat (same material as the shirt)
Poncho, "travel light and freeze at night"
I never left home without those items
Especially the woobie and the hot sauce!
Heat Tabs aka: Hexamine
Small Mirror
Baby Oil, for removing camo
Nude Pics on the map
Small piece of a VS-17 panel
Hot Sauce is a Must!
Ranger Handbook
550 cord
A good knife
Map, compass and protractor
Strobe Light
Sleepin' shirt and a yota hat (same material as the shirt)
Poncho, "travel light and freeze at night"
I never left home without those items
Especially the woobie and the hot sauce!
2/75 C Co. 81-84
Ranger Class 14-82
"Cry Havoc Let Slip The Dogs of War"
1st SPWAR Tng Bn (Abn) USAJFKSWCS 87'
RLTW !
Mentor to J.P. Deepwater
RIP Class 02-07
Ranger Class 09-07
Ranger Class 14-82
"Cry Havoc Let Slip The Dogs of War"
1st SPWAR Tng Bn (Abn) USAJFKSWCS 87'
RLTW !
Mentor to J.P. Deepwater
RIP Class 02-07
Ranger Class 09-07
- HarleyRider
- Paratrooper
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Wet wipes for prevention of "Monkey Butt" and "Swamp ass". You can let them dry out also and use them a s patches to clean your weapon. The Cho liner, I allways take a field Jacket liner "smoking jacket" they keep you warm when wet and dry quickly just like the cho liner.
90-94 A co 3/75 RGR Regt (2plt/HQ/Wpns)
94-97 75th RGR Regt (Pre-RGR)
Graduated Ranger Class 2-92 "Merrills Marauder"
94-97 75th RGR Regt (Pre-RGR)
Graduated Ranger Class 2-92 "Merrills Marauder"
I find it amazing that everyone still has their Woobie... Mine has made it's way to my son's room, however it comes out whenever the nights are a bit chilly and there are movies on or something... That Woobie is the one thing I would go nowhere without, no piece of equipment short of my comm's and weapon was more important.
"Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum"
(Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe)
Mentor to those who would seek to be CAS God's
(Sometimes I get this urge to conquer large parts of Europe)
Mentor to those who would seek to be CAS God's
- Creeping Death
- Ranger
- Posts: 2119
- Joined: April 14th, 2003, 10:11 am
Porn laminated to the backs of maps, SOIs, pinned to the inside of my boonie, etc.
Where the field is concerned, if my boots go out, so does my woobie. Period.
Poly Pro neck gaitor. Best damn invention since peanut butter. Worth its weight in gold.
Dip crammed into every available square inch of unused space in any pocket of any piece of gear.
I can purify drinking water from natural sources. I can eat worms and berries, or hunt for food. I can scrounge ammo from the dead. But dip don't just miraculously appear out of the fucking sky. Ain't nothing worse than being a freezing Ranger, shiverring in the cold, jonesing for a dip, without anything to beat off too. Feel free to march my ass right into the gates of Hell on a certain suicide mission, but Goddammit I want my dip, I want my woobie, and I want my fucking porn.
Where the field is concerned, if my boots go out, so does my woobie. Period.
Poly Pro neck gaitor. Best damn invention since peanut butter. Worth its weight in gold.
Dip crammed into every available square inch of unused space in any pocket of any piece of gear.
I can purify drinking water from natural sources. I can eat worms and berries, or hunt for food. I can scrounge ammo from the dead. But dip don't just miraculously appear out of the fucking sky. Ain't nothing worse than being a freezing Ranger, shiverring in the cold, jonesing for a dip, without anything to beat off too. Feel free to march my ass right into the gates of Hell on a certain suicide mission, but Goddammit I want my dip, I want my woobie, and I want my fucking porn.
A Co 1/75 '94-'97
Class 5-96
Class 5-96
- fireranger
- Ranger
- Posts: 2153
- Joined: August 25th, 2004, 2:02 pm
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- Tadpole
- Posts: 2143
- Joined: July 16th, 2004, 9:02 am
Poncho liner and Sleep Shirt.
C 2/75, 1st Plt, Wpns Sqd 76-79
RS 3-78
Mattoon's Goons
A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve --
is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.'
RS 3-78
Mattoon's Goons
A 'Veteran' -- whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve --
is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to, and including his life.'
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I'm a cho man myself. I also liked to bring the heavy guage plastic bag that was in your P-mask case. I never ever had wet socks :)
It appears we have all forgotten the most coveted item in the woods. Beef Jerky!
It appears we have all forgotten the most coveted item in the woods. Beef Jerky!
95-98 Aco. 3/75 2nd plt Weapons Sqd
98-01Hco 121st LRS
Former LEO
Former Contractor
LEO (round 2)
98-01Hco 121st LRS
Former LEO
Former Contractor
LEO (round 2)
Re: .
My Dad would make the best beef jerky in the world, I came back after block leave once with a huge bag of the stuff and 1st Platoon consumed it in a hot second, the bastards!RGR_Dan wrote:I'm a cho man myself. I also liked to bring the heavy guage plastic bag that was in your P-mask case. I never ever had wet socks :)
It appears we have all forgotten the most coveted item in the woods. Beef Jerky!
2/75 C Co. 81-84
Ranger Class 14-82
"Cry Havoc Let Slip The Dogs of War"
1st SPWAR Tng Bn (Abn) USAJFKSWCS 87'
RLTW !
Mentor to J.P. Deepwater
RIP Class 02-07
Ranger Class 09-07
Ranger Class 14-82
"Cry Havoc Let Slip The Dogs of War"
1st SPWAR Tng Bn (Abn) USAJFKSWCS 87'
RLTW !
Mentor to J.P. Deepwater
RIP Class 02-07
Ranger Class 09-07
One year the British Paras came to train with us and the one I was hanging out with gave me this really cool little heat tab stove that served me well the rest of the time I was in Bn. It's an Esbit Stove. Great for the cold NW for patrol base ops where Ft. Lewis is located. Folds nice and compact and works quite well:
http://www.nitro-pak.com/product_info.p ... cts_id/112
http://www.nitro-pak.com/product_info.p ... cts_id/112