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Mayflower Low-Vis E&R Bag

Thursday, January 31st, 2013

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Mayflower knows how to build an E&R bag and now they’ve upped their game with the official release of their Low-Vis model. This grab and go bag looks like pretty much any mild mannered computer bag. But it’s designed specifically to carry the tools to get you safely out of Dodge and back home.

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The main compartment will carry a 15″ screen lap top computer or smaller but it does so much more. In addition to a removable shoulder strap there is a fixed carrying handle as well as two external open top stash pouches and two external flat pouches that combined, are designed to discretely carry seven M4 or similar sized magazines. The top flap is designed to carry maps or other 8 1/2″ x 11″ documents in a zippered enclosure and also features a flip out velcro IFF panel for attaching flags, IR devices etc. Internally the Low-Vis E&R Bag is divided into one large pile velcro lined pocket and two small compartments with d-rings for securing essential equipment.

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Made in the USA, the Low-Vis E&R Bag is available in these nondescript colors: Grey, Black, Dark Blue, Dark Green.

www.mayflower-rc.org/store/7018/11/Low-Vis-ER-Bag

Compact Emergency Signal Mirror from Battle Systems

Wednesday, January 30th, 2013

Compact Emergency Signal Mirror

Although this new mirror came out right before SHOT Show I waited until now to tell you about it so that it wouldn’t get caught up in the whirlwind. Battle Systems offers some really great products and this is one of them. The Compact Emergency Signal Mirror is intended as a modular accessory to their Marker Panel, Individual, LW (MPIL). These are made in the USA exclusively for Battle Systems LLC by SI Howard Glass, Inc and feature a true retroreflective aiming grid and hook velcro on the back for attaching to the MPIL’s loop fields or for storage in pouches with loop fields.

Compact Emergency Signal Mirror

battlesystemsllc.com./Compact_Signal_Mirror

Inside Combat Rescue Starts February 18th on Nat Geo

Tuesday, January 29th, 2013

Inside Combat Rescue, a 6-part series starts February 18th on the National Geographic channel.

OR – UtilityFlame

Friday, January 25th, 2013

UtilityFlame was originally developed s a firestarter for the military. Unlike the old trioxane that was toxic, UtilityFlame is water soluble, non-hazmat, smokeless and odorless. It’s a gel format that burns hot (blue flame) and can boil water in as little as 3 minutes. Not only that, but it works up to 10,000′ and has a shelf life of 30 years.

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Randall’s Adventure & Training Survival Notebook

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2013

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Randall’s Adventure & Training offers specialized, jungle-based survival training as well as a line of knives and survival aids. Their latest project is this notebook with Rite in the Rain. It’s waterproof pages include basic survival information as well as 45 blank note pages in a 3″ x 5″ format.

www.eseeknives.com

USAF Selects Storm SRTV as GAARV

Saturday, January 19th, 2013

In an award announced 17 January, 2013, the US Air Force has selected the HDT Storm SRTV as the Guardian Angel Air-Deployable Rescue Vehicle. As you may recall, the GAARV is an airdroppable, all terrain vehicle designed to transport Guardian Angel Weapon System members which consists of the Combat Rescue Officer (CRO), Pararescue (PJ), and SERE careerfields and their patients/survivors out of bad guy territory. As PJs are the guys who generally do this for a living, it will be for their use.

It’s good to see that the Storm SRTV won considering they have been chasing this requirement from the beginning. Since we first wrote about this BC Customs design, HDT purchased the rights and saw it through to the win.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a photo yet of the exact model that won but this is a photo of a Storm variant and looking back at the earlier BC Customs photos should give you a good idea of how this went.

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SHOT Show – Solkoa

Tuesday, January 15th, 2013

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Solkoa continue to develop new SERE products and training courses. One of the n concepts they are cultivating is modular SERE kits. These allow the user to select modules based on mission and TTPs. It also means that modules can be updated quickly rather than replacing entire kits when dated items expire.

www.solkoa.com

Dual Survival – Season 3

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013

Watching “Dual Survival: Unbraided”, a special that introduces Cody Lundin’s new co-host Joseph Teti to the popular Discovery Channel show.

I don’t feel that he brings the same level of woodcraft to the series as we’ve seen in the past but his can-do-no-matter-what experience is a welcome addition to the show. I also appreciate his extensive tracking experience reportedly gained under the tutelage of the legendary David Scott-Donelan.

As Cody Lundin said, “This is what Dual Survival is supposed to be.”

It’s worth watching this season, and it starts now on the Discovery Channel.