The Expeditionary Hygiene System was designed for use by personnel who find themselves without readily available laundry services to do it for themselves. All too often in combat conditions, more personnel succumb to illness and other hygiene related injuries than enemy fire. Taking a look at this system you can tell that the inventor took a look at the various field expedient means deployed troops use to wash their clothing and adapted a product to these techniques.
It can be used as a Field Laundry System, Shower Bag and Waterproof Bag. Lets face it, it’s obvious this is a modified waterproof bag. In fact, it’s an 8 gal model and weighs in at 6.5 oz.
You can use it as a Field Shower by filling it with water, suspending it in the sun above head level to warm up and then using it. The pull valve can be used to control water flow. Sure, it’s not going to be a hot shower in a 5-star hotel but after a few days in the bush, it’s great to wash the dirt off.
Finally, the EHS can be used as a Field Laundry. The user places his clothing into the bag along with .5gal of water along with bio-degradable soap. After rolling the closure shut the clothing can be kneaded on a hard surface in order to dislodge dirt from the clothing. After a few minutes, the pull valve is removed and the dirty water allowed to drain. Next, the bag is swung windmill fashion to fully drain as much soap as possible. Finally, two rinse cycles with clean water are recommended. The EHS creator recommends that the user only wash underclothing and socks so as to conserve water and make the process quick.
Interested parties should contact Matt Grey at matt@xplore.is.
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That’s a pretty cool solution. As a former boy scout and now army reservist, I never understood why the military never embraced one of the old standbys of our scout troop: Campsuds soap.
Biodegradable, and usable for everything: dishes, laundry, personal bathing… it’s an obvious all-in-one solution, yet not available at PXs that I’ve ever seen. Maybe campsuds just didn’t have someone to jump through the hoops to get it out to the military? Or maybe the military didn’t like their hippy vibe/outlook? In any case, it’s part of my field kit…
Anyway, that would be the obvious (to me, anyway) biodegradable soap to pair with this device.
Mick.
It’s unfortunately not located in any clothing&sales that I have seen, but the BQM on the post I am at does sell them or an equivalent of some sort.
This was a great booth to check out. I would have used the hell out of this system on every one of my deployments if it were available. This fits very well into the Marine Corps’ Expeditionary culture. Matt Grey has a great demo video for his product – get it posted online, Matt!