GenXTalkin Whats In A Bag - GXT-EP03

08/20/21 • 82 min

Hello there again and welcome back to GenXTalkin...

In one of our recent shows we reviewed the several different types of bags one could build or buy to start the process of becoming more prepared. We thought we’d take some time in this episode to review some details of what goes into building a bag, and maybe even answer the question why.

Of course there could be a lot of bleed over between the several different types of kits, so lets consider some of the fundamentals. Within every kit, no matter the name or purpose, we should consider the survival rule of threes, and we’ll bring these up fairly regularly throughout the existence of this podcast.

A person can survive 3 min without air
3 hours in a harsh environment, extreme hot or cold
3 days without water
And 3 weeks without food

The reason we start from this framework is to establish a baseline of need for every situation no matter what it is.

Heres a few links. Just click on the items of interest:
MSR Dromedary Water Bladder
Camelbak Water Bladder
Emergency Food Rations
Brita Water Filter
Berkey Water Filter
Rain Poncho
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Would you be prepared? Are you prepared?

Choosing to be more prepared every day is a skill. One that should be honed. Focusing on growing just a little everyday will allow us all to be prepared to respond well and recover faster.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments about prepping, so please reach out and share as you can.

Until next time... this is monk signing off... better be prepared

Hello there again and welcome back to GenXTalkin...

A person can survive 3 min without air
3 hours in a harsh environment, extreme hot or cold
3 days without water
And 3 weeks without food

The reason we start from this framework is to establish a baseline of need for every situation no matter what it is.

Would you be prepared? Are you prepared?

Choosing to be more prepared every day is a skill. One that should be honed. Focusing on growing just a little everyday will allow us all to be prepared to respond well and recover faster.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments about prepping, so please reach out and share as you can.

Until next time... this is monk signing off... better be prepared

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GXT Unboxed Prepping - Head For Survival Bandana - GenXTalkin

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Hello again and welcome back to the next installment of Unboxed Prepping brought to you by the team at GenXTalkin - on being prepared.

Here's where you can get one... Click belowSURVIVAL METRICS
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It’s the Head for Survival Triangular Bandana and along with it comes a couple of really nice, larger safety pins. All of it folded up nicely in a little zip locked packet. It set me back about 12 bucks.

For those of us with any sort of medical, or even just your simple first aid training, if you think triangle bandage you already get a sense of what this looks like. It’s an Isosceles shaped triangle with the long side being about 52 inches and the short, equal sides being 39 inches. Of course it works perfectly for its more common first aid purposes. Namely:

Sling to stabilize an arm or support a shoulder injury

Head cover for injury or keeping the head out of the elements
Stabilizing sprained ankle, Using in conjunction with harder item to splint leg or arm breaks
Possible tourniquet or means to slow bleeding down
Covering an injured eye
Or holding a broken jaw in place
Pre-filtering water
A Simple face mask
it can be used as cordage
or tinder for fire starting

Printed on these little beauties is a whole host of survival concepts. It’s broken down into sections for:

Navigation, Knots, Signaling, Fire starting, Water collection and purification, And shelter

Each section contains very clear instructions on how to perform steps to success in these areas. For instance, within the Signaling section, it breaks down ideas on how to best use a cell phone in urgent situations. It also explains how many signal fires (three) you should build and in what shape... a triangle of course.

There’s a section on ground signaling, offering recommendations on how big to make an SOS sign on the ground - think about 18 foot tall letters!!! And when trying to hail a searching aircraft, make sure you wave frantically, not friendly. If you can, wave with a bright colored cloth... did I mention this triangle bandage is bright orange!!

Also within signaling, it breaks down ideas for SIGHT signals (SOS in Morse code) versus SOUND signals - think whistling or banging metal objects together. These sounds travel farther or course. And this is just the section for signaling.

Personally I love this item and will probably look for more to add into each pack I have; edc, bug out, get home pack. Doesn’t matter I can always use one of these, or two.

So yep definitely give it a thumbs up and recommend it for anyone.

I’m Matt Marshall. So long and thanks for all the FISH!!

Would you be prepared? Are you prepared?

Choosing to be more prepared every day is a skill. One that should be honed. Focusing on growing just a little everyday will allow us all to be prepared to respond well and recover faster.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments about prepping, so please reach out and share as you can.

Until next time... this is monk signing off... better be prepared

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GenXTalkin Thinking Preparedness GXT-EP04

Hello all you GXT fans out there, and thanks for joining us. Today we’re talking a bit about Risk assessment, determining YOUR why, and reminding us all to always be thinking preparedness...

I am one of your hosts, Matt Marshall, here to remind us that with preparedness comes comfort, with preparedness comes peace, something we could all use a bit more of...

Ed, in today's show, I think we’ll take a bit of a different turn. I thought it might be interesting to share with our listeners some of our personal history... and maybe explain a bit about why preparedness is so important to us as individuals.

What got me started in preparedness?

SO, asking myself the question, “what got me started in preparedness”, I really had to do some soul searching. I mean first off, how can you go through 2020 and even into 2021, and not start thinking about being more prepared for difficult times? Nothing like a pandemic to trigger that fight or flight response inside of a person, right? But then I had to start looking back...

Would you be prepared? Are you prepared?

Choosing to be more prepared every day is a skill. One that should be honed. Focusing on growing just a little everyday will allow us all to be prepared to respond well and recover faster.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and comments about prepping, so please reach out and share as you can.

Until next time... this is monk signing off... better be prepared

GenXTalkin - On Being Prepared - GenXTalkin Whats In A Bag - GXT-EP03

Transcript

00:00:16 Matt Marshall

Well hello there again and welcome back to Gen X talking in one of our recent shows we reviewed several different types of bug out bags or I should say I should say.

00:00:28 Ed Wasson

Hold up then.

00:00:30 Matt Marshall

Bags in general right.

00:00:31 Matt Marshall

We talked a little bit about bug out bags and about everyday carry we talked about get home safe bags and then a little bit about what what the.

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