OK, geardos, what is your packing list? What do you tote? What kinda high-speed stuff do you tote it in? What are your preferences, and what do you like to do about food?

I pack a camelbak mule....with all the standard 24 hour gear.

As extras I pack a firelite strobe (why these are not required I'll never know), two signal panels (I have a total of 10...so I spread the others to the rest of my team).

I carry my first aid and survival gean in a converted assult vest (OD GREEN).

I carry both MREs and regular camping dehydrated food. I also carry a Peak 1 camp stove.

For my shelter material I have a bivy sack made of space blanket material.

My compass of choice is the military lensatic....it make taking bearings more accurate. (I got nothgin against silva type compasses....I got one of them too...I just like the accuracy of the lensatic).

I carry a Garmin Rhino GPS...gives me FRS capability and instant location information.

I was wondering if there were others that thought using some type of assault vest to carry personal survival kit was a good idea.

What about those small, individual flares, or, a pen flare launcher? I know that it is a fire hazard, but, for emergencies only.

I pack a standard campers backpack. Paracord, chem sticks, sealpup knife, mult-itool, 2 MREs, GPS receiver, map compass, ISRs, Johnson 51XX HT, notebook with 101 form 60 etc, flashlight and bottles of desani water.

Do any of your squadrons have packing lists for individuals on missions? Posting them would be interesting.

Something good to pack for overnight expeditions is hot cocoa powder, tea, or instant coffee. It souds kind of stupid, but after a hot cup of cocoa on a cold winter night's fire watch duty on Hawk Mt.... It works wonders. It also acts as a morale booster. I always bring some!

In my 24 hour gear I usually have: 2 quarts of water (one on my belt one in my pack), orange helmet, orange vest, orange hat, HMRS clipboard with all my paperwork waterproofed in one of those 1 gallon plastic bags, usually 1 MRE and a few snacks plus some Vienna sausages or something, whistle, flint, first aid kit, survival kit, poncho, paracord, 20' 1" width tubular webbing, and a nest of steal wool, dryer lint, and wood chips, in a sandwich bag to catch sparks from the flint.

Coffee and Cocoa sound stupid? Not at all.

Lemme tell you how valuable those MRE cocoa powder packs and coffee packs become after a while in the sticks (this is the Army 11C "inner child" talking here)...

Like your own personal "Starbucks"...Infantry style.

Oh so much I could have learned about fieldcraft and proper gear choices while I was still a CAP cadet...but nooooooooooooo...I had to do it the hard way as Uncle Sam's employee.

This is what I want. I've got a regular Infantry bergen, but I want the Ultimax. It is in my near future.

http://www.militarykit.com/products/bergens_rucksacks_c...x_ultimax_bergen.htm