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 Snake26
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< on 8/31/2003 10:16 PM >
|  | | | Hi! I'm new to this website, but have been doing infiltration-esque stuff for several years now....anyway, I was wondering what kind of clothing/gear you take on "missions." For example, I usually wear dark blue jeans, a black sweatshirt, and a black beanie with a headlamp. I also carry a backpack with a bike multi-tool and some home-made etriers made from 1 inch webbing. I can use the multi-tool to unscrew and pry stuff, and can attach the etriers to things using fifi hooks and carabeiners(sp?). In addition, I have a small monocular for helping to identify cars as police or non-police from far away. So do any of you guys have a standard set of equipment that you carry when you go infiltrate stuff?
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kowalski
  
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 1 on 8/31/2003 10:29 PM >
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See also: About three dozen other threads in this forum.
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Snake26
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 3 on 8/31/2003 11:38 PM >
| | | | Well, I saw a bunch of posts about specific types of gear and camo, but I didn't see any about everyone's personal "bag of tricks" that they take with them on every outing....
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 4 on 9/1/2003 12:33 AM >
| | | | When I'm wandering around campus, I usually have a minimag in my backpack or pocket, my camera, and sometimes pieces of coat hanger wire bent a certain way. 
If I'm doing a drain or tunnel system, I'll take along appropriate stuff like rubber boots when there'll be water, headlamp, big maglite, etc.
I've found a crowbar to be almost worth carrying it for certain manholes, and some homebrew tools have been very nice to me. Certain shapes of prybars and un-latchers I have made especially. I don't use crowbars or prys to smash or vandalize, or even to permenantly change a place. They are best for opening heavy and stuck things.
This help?
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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RevSM
Location: South Central Texas
| |  | Re: Gear
<Reply # 5 on 9/2/2003 6:29 PM >
| | | | I take my camera EVERYWHERE I go these days, including every day when I go to work. In my camera bag I carry my 9 LED flashlight, a leatherman tool, mini tripod, and a grate key I recently found.
(It's a L shaped peice of metal that some tunnel grates require to be opened.)
Edit: When I go on an actual mission I take a few extras like a video camera, extra flashlight, first aid kit, screwdriver etc.
[last edit 9/2/2003 1:30 PM by RevSM - edited 1 times]
Tetanus for Breakfast!
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j0lt
Location: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Gear
<Reply # 6 on 9/3/2003 5:37 PM >
| | | | pants: black army cargos (faded to dark grey, for reasons posted a long time ago in a thread far, far away)
shirt: tight long sleeve black shirt
footwear: either my black shoes, or my grey trail-runners
other: black leather fingerless motorcycle gloves
maybe a black bandana (long hair might get caught)
watch
parachute cord (very small, very light, VERY STRONG)
dog spray (if the site might have guard dogs)
mini-maglite (once I get a red lens and new batteries)
mosquito repellent (I got eaten alive during one Wraiths mission) http://www.wraiths.org/120seconds.htm
[last edit 9/4/2003 12:31 PM by j0lt - edited 1 times]
j0lt: Larger than life and twice as ugly! |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
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<Reply # 7 on 9/3/2003 5:44 PM >
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Yeah, I did a good job feeding the little bloodsuckers myself... Hehehe, and guess where we're heading again soon... Better get that repellant ready.
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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Chainsaw
 
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Location: Underground, Colorado
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Gear
<Reply # 8 on 9/4/2003 5:25 PM >
| | | | I'm kind of a safety nut...I always bring a first aid kit - spare light - linemans tool.
On larger expeditions I'll bring along "Search and Rescue Gear" including a 3 foot crowbar - 24" bolt cutter - small welding torch. We haven't ever used any of it for B&E, I'm happy to say - we've always been able to get access the old-fashioned way.
My favorite piece of gear is the superlight - it's serious overkill for a lot of places, but when we do the big underground missile bases out here it comes in handy. I mounted a 1M candlepower spotlight on a hardhat - i have a motorcycle battery on a strap over the shoulder - lots of light for at least 5 hours - gets heavy by the end of the night.
We invited a new guy along one night, we all met up at a Village Inn (aka Dennys/Perkins) - this new guy comes walking in with his headlight on, equipment belt with all kinds of pouches and a respirator hanging off it...What a freak! Everyone else was dressed all in black (fit right in with the goth crowd there at 11pm) but this guy - man like Tackleberry in Police Academy.
We had like a 3 hour drive to get to the target too - so we all geared up once we got there - a little too prepared...
Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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j0lt
Location: Kobe, Japan
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Gear
<Reply # 9 on 9/4/2003 5:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by Commander Chainsaw
- linemans tool.
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As in multitool/leatherman, or lineman's handset?
j0lt: Larger than life and twice as ugly! |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 10 on 9/4/2003 5:53 PM >
| | | | probably slang for some kind of linesman's pliers.
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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Chainsaw
This member has been banned. See the banlist for more information.
Location: Underground, Colorado
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Gear
<Reply # 11 on 9/4/2003 6:10 PM >
| | | | Yup - plies, cuts AND bludgeons!
[last edit 9/4/2003 1:11 PM by Chainsaw - edited 1 times]
Quid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
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Aussie_Sniper
Location: Australia
Gender: Male
| |  |  | Re: Gear
<Reply # 12 on 9/16/2003 8:04 AM >
|  | | | it's best to wear gear most suited to your environment you must consider
Heat:
Shape:
Shaddow:
Colour:
Availability:
but i would recoment missions at night and in black
Aussie_Sniper
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DarkTreader
Gender: Male
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 13 on 9/16/2003 4:23 PM >
| | | | Still a work in progress, but this is my current incarnation of DT_Gear_Bag v.1.01:
1. One 3 D-battery MagLite (22,000 candlepower)
2. Rayovac 3-in-1 Sportsman Headlamp (with red/blue/white LEDs for lots of versatility)
3. First Aid kit containing:
- a) 1 minor/medium burn pack
- b) 1 roll of 2" gauze
- c) 1 roll of 3" gauze
- d) antibiotic ointment
- e) alcohol wipes
- f) band-aids
- g) adhesive tape
- h) 2 2"x2" gauze pads
- i) small pair of medical scissors
4. Leatherman's Tool
5. Extra batteries (both D and AAA)
6. Roll of twine (not sure how much it is)
7. 12' emergency rope
If I get the possibility to drive to a location, I take the full first aid kit and leave it in there - add about 8 or 10 more rolls of gauze, a shock blanket, large burn patches, 4"x4" patches... yeah, you get the picture =P
footsteps light, flashlights bright
-~ DT
Losers go home... winners go home and fuck the prom queen |
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Krenta
Location: Saint Paul, MN
Nope, wasn't me.
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 14 on 9/16/2003 5:02 PM >
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The unofficial and probably incomplete list:
Camera + lens(es)
Tripod and thread adapter, if necessary
lots o' film
cable release
flashgun
flash reflector
flashbulbs
2D maglite
2AA maglite
2AA Streamlight
spare D and AA cells
pocket knife
pepper foam
nitrile gloves
For clothing I prefer jeans and either a dark t-shirt or long-sleeved shirt, and combat boots or rubber riding boots, as conditions require.
Considering how often I injure myself, I really need to start carrying first-aid supplies... and some might argue that three flashlights is overkill. Bah.
Have Speed Graphic, Will Travel. |
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Jester
Location: Vancouver,B.C. Canada
Gender: Male
Always just out of sight...
| | | Re: Gear
<Reply # 15 on 9/16/2003 5:22 PM >
|  | | | Krenta, I've been out and had 2 lights go, so having 3 can be a damn good idea... But with the way you seem to injure yourself, forget a first-aid kit, carry a doctor with you...
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
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MacGyver
Location: St Paul, Minnesota
Gender: Male
"Someone go find me a paperclip, a D-cell battery, and a cheese grater"
| | Re: Gear
<Reply # 16 on 9/16/2003 5:39 PM >
| | | | Posted by Krenta
...and some might argue that three flashlights is overkill. Bah.
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Never! I usually have 3 when I'm doing something serious. I'll take my LED headlamp (I'm going to write a review on it in the knowledge section), at least one 2AAmag and a 4Dmaglite if it'll be useful and I'm taking a backpack.
Even when I walk around campus at night, I usually have a 2AAmag in my back pocket for all those pesky dark mechanical rooms, rooftops, and crawlspaces.
Like a fiend with his dope / a drunkard his wine / a man will have lust for the lure of the mine
"If you are not part of the solution, you are not dissolved in the solvent." |
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nakigara
Location: ca desert
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Gear
<Reply # 17 on 9/16/2003 8:33 PM >
| | | | every day life, i usually carry a pocket folder(spyderco or benchmade) a multitool(usually a leatherman) a space pen, weather-resistant lighter, and a pair of photons(mini-led lights). couple other odds and ends on my keychain, in my wallet and such. when im going out exploring/hiking/whatever, i usually take a messenger-bag type deal, and throw in some 550/para cord, a 4aa dive light(i love it, not much bigger then a mag-light, and significantly brighter), usually some spare batteries for the light,a space blanket, a pack of baby wipes, a compass, a roll of ductape(i shred the core out and squash it flat to save space), and some 5-minute epoxy putty. and depending on the day, i usually have a few pens/pencils, paper/notebook, wire, and extra multi-tool or two, and assorted other junk.
i used to have a carbide hacksaw blade, and a multi-tool adapter for hex bits, and all kinds of bits(3prong phillips type, torx, security torx,allen,philleps, spanner, etc; as well as a krill lamp(kinda like a battery powered glowstick, will stay lit for literally days on end) but i recently lost them, and need to get them replaced.
sounds like a lot, but most of it is pretty small, and packs together pretty well, and many of the items are multiple purpose. I dont carry specific first aid stuff, but ive never gotten an injury i couldnt fix with duct tape
no kidding, ive used it to tape up sprained ankles, and to temporarily bandage cuts/large abrasions, etc. and unless you shave, it hurts when it comes off
i figure my photons and krill can serve as backup lights in an emergency, wouldnt be good for exploring, but they should let me come out of a place if my light dies(and i forgot to bring extra batteries, lost them, whatever)
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