hey buddy you okay you've been farming
all day you filter your water
you didn't filter your water okay where
your meds at
you don't have any nuts all right man
look at them around my packer and get
you taken care
so the question is
what
is my experience
with urban survival
well i served a long time as a survival
evasion resistance and escape instructor
in the united states military i got to
teach it
and unfortunately got to experience it
in multiple ways
both in exercises throughout the united
states both civilian and military as
well as in real life when i watch the
country fall into madness post a natural
disaster and you have to understand how
quick that spiral is and you have to
it's just not what you think it is
if you think you're going to be going
door to door kicking in that door and
raiding bottle caps and trading it for
right away you're going to kick in a
door and die
for my guys out there my g watt veterans
who have kicked indoors for a living you
know that if you're spending all day
kicking indoors with little support
if you're not going to live very long
probably not a good idea to do it for
very long for my guys who don't know
we're here to educate you a little bit
because
in this series which is a direct spinoff
of our becoming deadly in the mountain
series you have to understand how
complex and how large of a subject urban
survival is
it's going to be really hard for me to
explain everything to you in 10 videos
so there's no way i can do it in one
video but we are gonna give you a really
good intro to it and the thing i have to
explain to you guys really well
is just how brutal it is in today's
video when we're talking about urban
survival we're talking about a complete
breakdown of a government whether it be
united states or whatever country you
live in
we're talking about a
superior force has taken over this
country and you're trying to win it back
and when you're fighting a superior
force the thing you have to understand
is
no one gives a [ __ ] if you're not ready
no one
[ __ ] cares nothing about life about
urban survival about any of this stuff
is fair just look at what's happening
all over the world right now you might
think it's crazy to train or be ready
for something like this but the fact of
the matter is
your preparedness to be at the level of
a professional soldier could be the
difference between a life of slavery or
being able to defend your country defend
your family your religious beliefs your
beliefs this is serious stuff guys so i
hope
that you guys will join us as we talk
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ladies gentlemen i haven't forgotten
most certainly not by me guerilla
warfare welcome to the channel so glad
you can join us today as we talk about
urban survival so the first thing that
we need to talk about is we mentioned
we're fighting a superior force the
reason for this is we're coming down
from the mountains the mounds are a
great place to disappear however if you
want to retake a country you're going to
need to go into the city centers when
we're talking
at this point we're talking about a very
destroyed environment so you have to
understand that there are going to be
different considerations and different
setups depending
on what kind of phase of warfare you're
in
at the phase we're at we're talking
straight up open warfare we're talking
destroyed buildings destroyed cities and
if you've ever seen footage you've seen
videos simply look to europe there are
tons of examples of it right now so one
of the first things that i see brought
up when we talk about this type of setup
is camouflage camouflage is very
effective if you've looked at a
destroyed city a destroyed building
camouflage is going to work there's no
doubt about it whether it be multicam
whether it be atax whether it be muted
greens these are excellent camouflages
to have now what's going to be difficult
is what is your adversary wearing are
they wearing a digital green are they
wearing a multi-camera they're wearing a
ranger green whatever it is it might not
always
be in your best interest to be dressed
like them so consider your camouflage
but understand that it is incredibly
effective
a lot of people say they should dress
like a gray man well the fact of the
matter is we can't underestimate our
enemies
at the very least they're going to get
your biometrics so if you're caught in
the vicinity of where you were just
doing a raid where you're just getting
into a gunfight where you're trying to
retake a city being a silly little goose
and you get found even if you drop your
gear and you're looking like a normal
civilian they're going to look at the
patterns of the veins in your eyes and
they're going to get that biometric data
they're going to look at your
fingerprints they're going to have that
data they're going to of course swab you
for explosives for gunpowder residue for
anything you have a cut on your cheek
there's going to be a lot of questions
and at minimum they're going to know who
you are they're probably going to detain
you that's only if they follow the rules
of war if they don't
probably it's going to tell you to dig a
hole and they're going to shoot you and
throw you in there so understand that
the level of warfare that we're talking
about it doesn't really matter as far as
blending into the population that this
is always going to depend on the
situations but we're talking all about
warfare right here now going from that
we're going to be talking about general
principles of urban survival and we're
going to be talking about pack setup
because they're pretty much related
now when it comes to a pack i don't want
you guys to simply
copy what i'm doing that's what you do
every time please don't do that there
are many packs are going to work well in
this case we have a mystery ranch tricep
but the whole point of a pack when we're
talking about an urban situation is
going to be staying light on your feet
and being able to move to maneuver with
it to be able to fight with it on to be
able to have it to sustain ourselves for
my g-walk guys out there
this is in many ways going to be really
familiar
except with a little bit less
sustainment of the giant united states
government for my mountaineers for my
people who live in west virginia you're
going to understand this these setups
pretty well because you guys are used to
hardship
but in general here are the things i'm
looking for i want a pack that is not
going to be wider than my body in my kit
i want that because if i can fit my body
and kit through i want my pack to be
able to fit through with me in addition
to that i don't want the top of my pack
to be going over the bottom of my neck
right here the reason for that is if i
go prone i want to be able to look up
because if you've ever tried to go prone
and look up with one of those high frame
packs it's pretty hard you have to go
into a modified position for an assault
pack
we just want to be able to do that this
is going to be geared towards about four
to five days of sustainment and again a
lot of that is going to be traveled to
the cities and then fading back out of
the cities because if you're living in
the cities you're probably having a lot
of hardships going on there but in any
case before we do the thing i want to
talk to you guys about is the most
important things that you guys can have
on your kit
and that is going to be your situational
awareness this is something that i
cannot teach
because it's something that you have to
begin to practice
get your faces out of your phones
probably a lot of you guys have your
faces in your phones right now that's
okay for right now but i want you to
start practicing actually
paying attention to what is going on
around you this is something that is
imperative that you get good at and when
it comes to that we have a very
simple acronym that we use in our recce
video that we'll talk about here that is
sills
stop look listen smell
so when you're getting into an urban
area when you're going with your boys
because you should not be going alone
you should have a team with you if
you're alone
very high probability of death make sure
that you have a team with you whether
that team be
people that you've linked up with after
whether it be neighbors that you're
training with right now you should be
getting out there
because there's a lot of people out
there who tell you
that practicing in your military kit if
you haven't served is larping we'll tell
that to the civilians in multiple areas
throughout multiple times in history who
have had to take up arms to defend their
freedom
wear your kit as somebody who's served
in the military for a long time i give
you permission
who gives a [ __ ] what people think about
what you're doing because it could mean
the difference between life and death
later on should anything ever happen so
talking to sills the first thing we want
to do when we're on patrol
is stop
the reason we want to stop is we want to
be able to get a better picture of what
is going on
typically when i have my
squad halt or when i've halted with the
squad we wait till all noise dies down
now to see that might not always happen
and that's what brings us to our next
point
look
what you want to do is you want to look
around what is occurring around you what
do you see on the ground simple things
like you see fire on the ground somebody
was just cooking you see footprints
there was a recent rainstorm you can see
the wet prints from their boots what
type of footwear do they have on is it
footwear common to that military is it
footwear common to their special
operations forces or is it simply
civilians scavenging for food look
around what's around you you should be
looking for bullet casings for
everything do you see helicopters flying
those are things that you should start
to note
because you should always have some type
of pad on you to begin to get these
things down so that you don't forget
them so again you want to look
next thing you want to do is listen so
again as that sound dies out from your
squad you want to look around and listen
what are you hearing are you hearing the
dis and crackle fire do you hear gunfire
do you hear explosions do you hear
helicopters jets is it signs of your
forces is it signs of enemy forces
because if there's one thing that you
can tell really well
it's a helicopter
different helicopters have very distinct
noises and these are things you should
become very familiar with again so
listen finally smell what are we
smelling for well if you've been living
in the woods for a long time you're
going to have a different scent that's
probably one of the most interesting
things
about
being out in the woods for a long time
is seeing how your scent changes or
simply going to another country or a
different area you will notice that your
scent is going to be different that's
due to hygiene that's due to what you
eat and what you drink
so what you have to understand is these
enemy forces are probably going to smell
a little bit different from you can you
smell them do they use detergents to
clean themselves soap
that's going to have a certain smell to
it you need to be able to pay attention
to this you smell gasoline if you're
with a force that doesn't have any type
of
gas powered vehicles because they've
been long destroyed and you smell
gasoline that could be a good sign of an
enemy force when i used to teach evasion
back in the day when we'd have a vehicle
approaching we didn't have vehicles so
it's like that that oh [ __ ] factor right
everyone had prone out be completely
still and you just listen to that engine
coming closer and closer and closer and
hopefully it kept going you could hear
it fade away or if it stopped it's like
that pucker factor went up your heart
rate started increasing you have to
understand like how kind of amped you
might be and you have to learn to keep
yourself calm that's why we have to
continue to train with this type of
stuff so with those things out of the
way understanding our most important
tools aren't so much what we carry on us
but rather your mind
now you do need some stuff to survive so
we're gonna be talking about
several different topics when it comes
to what we have in our packs we're gonna
be talking about sustainment both water
and food we're gonna be talking about
mission essential gear we'll be talking
about entry and exit tools and finally
we'll be talking about michelana's
things that you should keep on you
but to start off we're going to talk
about the most important thing hydration
three days that's about the amount of
time you can go without water in a
military type operation before you're
dead i will tell you from personal
experience and going through
multiple dehydration exercises that
after about day one you begin to cramp
up to the point where you can't even
open your fingers or you have to use the
ground to pry them open
by the end of day two you are awaiting
death so yes
you can go three days in a military
operation before you die however after
about day one you're gonna find yourself
pretty mission ineffective it's
incredibly important that we have water
now the thing that you have to
understand about the city is how dirty
the water is in
scenarios that i've done
throughout the united states even in a
city that is working that is functioning
where water purification is happening
and there's no bombs being dropped the
water in a lot of cases is
not drinkable
so in a lot of cases we'd gather the
water prior to going into the city and
have that water on us and that's a
general principle i go with now let me
explain that a little bit further for
one moment
in a jungle type environment you never
almost never drink water that's falling
through the canopy and the reason for
that is animals
[ __ ] on that canopy and then the water
hits it it will liquefy that it will
drip down and you think fresh rain water
but in reality it's dripping through
those feces same thing with the city
birds rats whatever are going to crack
on the rooftop that water's going to hit
it's going to drip off that rooftop
meanwhile you're sitting there with your
bag just gathering all that water coming
off the roof being like uh
sweet nectar of the gods in reality you
might die with filtering it's going to
be better but just understand how dirty
water can become and especially when it
comes to groundwater it's going to be
contaminated with
gasoline is if there's explosives any of
that residue is going to be really bad
for you you want to try to keep yourself
in
fit fighting shape so here's how i
typically handle my urban water
situations it's fairly basic guys i have
multiple bags of water that i can plus
up water as necessary
and what's so great about these modern
water containers is they can easily
scrunch up when they're not being used
and take up virtually no space so i can
easily plus up to nearly 20 liters which
is a ton of water
but there might be times when it can be
necessary to hold that much now 20
liters is of course very excessive but
you never know when you're going to need
that much in any case i typically use a
soil filter when i'm doing any of my
water purification the reason for that
it is simple it can last a hundred
thousand gallons it is just what i go
for in the case of this msr bag right
here i can simply plug it in use gravity
and i could purify my water on the go
it's also really nice
is that
at any water source whether that be in a
city whether that be outside a city
if it's good water there's probably
going to be people there and if there's
people there there's a possibility of
getting spotted by somebody you don't
want to get spotted by try to minimize
the amount of time you spend at a good
water source so what's nice about these
bags is of course i can simply run over
i can dip this in fill this up to 10
liters i can scrunch it down i can go
ahead and shut it and i can take that
with me to wherever i need to go and i
don't have to purify at the source so
yes a lot of those filters that you pump
right there in the water are really
great just understand that that time
spent at that water source
could ultimately lead to your death so i
definitely recommend something that you
can dip and go one last thing to
consider too is i have dirty and clean
bags you can see right here this thing
that says dirty on it and what i'm going
to do is filter that unfiltered water
out into a clean container such as this
hydroflask right here and this thing is
awesome therefore you have your clean
water bags that you have clearly marked
and you have your dirty bags and you
never mix them because you don't want to
make that mistake and die of dysentery
one last note is that i typically carry
an extra filter on me they're so small
and so lightweight that i think it makes
perfect sense to have more than one
so that is what how i pack
for water we learned that from spending
a lot of time on the
pacific crest trail and watching how
those hikers
did their water long term and this is a
very simple solution that they came up
with mission essential gear they can
cover a whole lot of things so we're
going to try to keep it as concise as we
can but it really depends on what you're
trying to do and how much of a silly
goose you're trying to be when you get
into the city first thing you should
always have ammunition on you i
typically keep mine in stripper clips
with a couple extra magazines i keep
this towards the very top of my pack or
in the very top flap
which is the claymore pouch right there
that works really well make sure you
have a quick way of getting that
ammunition off the stripper clips into
your magazines ammunition
batteries
whether it be for your radio systems
whether it be for your observation
design devices make sure that you have
enough batteries to sustain you for the
duration of whatever you're going to be
doing on the side of the pack right here
in our little spiritus pouch we have
this thermal device right here whether
this be used for observation whether
you're doing some type of recon assault
whether you're just fighting you should
have some type of thermal observation
device again i know this seems unfair
because these are so expensive
but if you look at any of the conflicts
going on right now
everybody's using thermal
if you don't have thermal you're going
to die to somebody who does use thermal
please have it on you
other mission essential items that we
have is a padding for the
thermal also padding for my night vision
if i'm switching it off of my helmet we
have our weapon cleaning kit and then of
course i probably think one of the most
overlooked items is some type of small
bag so i have a simple laundry bag right
here this can be used to
store whatever whether it be my buddy's
gear because he got shot i can add to
the amount that i have on some guys keep
a backpack in there have some type of
extra bag that you can carry your
buddy's gear if he goes down
the point of the matter is is i'm not
going to be able to explain to you
everything that you should carry
according to your mission because i
don't know what your mission is going to
be just understand that that
stuff should be easily accessible and
should probably include
ammunition and batteries to sustain you
throughout the duration of that
operation next up and way lower on the
list is going to be food
so
a lot of people put a really hard
emphasis on food but you really don't
need a whole lot of food you need a
pick-me-up you need enough to sustain
you
but you don't need a three-course meal
the biggest thing here is going to be
something you can eat cold
and stuff that is very calorically dense
a little bit of variety is going to help
you out a lot
but you can really make do with
not a lot typically what i do is i'll
carry a bunch of gummy bears a bunch of
sour patch kids in my cargo pocket i
have a little bit more in my pack in
addition i will have tortillas peanut
butter with some green powder mixed in
that's like a vegetable powder
as well as a little bit of emery stuff
with me to ensure that i have a little
bit of variety
but
you don't need a whole lot and again for
the for those of you who've been
operating perpetually in your basement
for the last couple of years you
probably have a little bit of um extra
survival weight on you anyhow so you're
going to be fine next up is going to be
entry and exit tools
and i think this is one of the most
interesting parts of the urban
environment
is that it's fairly easy to get
bottlenecked
in a lot of locations so due to the
vertical nature and the fact that
everything's man-made there's going to
be doors there's going to be windows and
you're going to need tools to get
through them entry and exit tools
a lot of people think of this as a
breaching charge you blow a door you go
in you kill it's awesome
and you're just hero of the day but
there's a lot more to it
because in a urban situation there's a
lot of man-made obstacles that you're
going to need to get through
and this might not always be just to get
into somewhere this might also be to get
out of somewhere
having multiple exit avenues is going to
be extremely important in an urban
situation
so having these tools could literally
mean the difference between getting away
or getting captured or killed in many
situations
now there's a lot of different tools out
there
at minimum you should have a lock
picking kit
there's a lot to say about this i want
to talk about this for literally an hour
go on youtube research it practice it
you should have this in the bag before
anything ever pops off just practice it
now
lock picking takes some time it is also
very quiet now there are louder methods
that are a little bit more expedient
things like a sledgehammer those work
very well things like a bolt cutter
those are absolutely essential and
somebody on your team should have a bolt
cutter
we have
an axe for example if you want to go
full firemen on this it's going to
depend on your environment and the types
of obstacles you think you're going to
run into but at minimum bolt cutters now
pass there if you really want to have
the key to the city we of course have a
breaching shotgun
so when it comes to a breaching shotgun
there are a couple considerations to
think about
this is an 870 mcs
i would generally recommend for most
people to have some type of standoff
device right here because it can get a
little bit dicey if you don't have it
but even if not
what you should realize is that
a lot of different rounds will
work when it comes to breaching a door
buckshot and slugs can work however
there's a pretty high chance of a
ricochet
you should have
some type of breaching round we're lucky
that we can get them from great
companies like royal arms you can get
them from federal the smbs i don't have
as much
experience with but you have to
understand that right now you can buy
breaching rounds and they work extremely
well practice with them
understand the techniques we will have a
video eventually about breaching doors
and how to do it and the angles that you
should be using but for now it just
stands to say you should have one of
these on you if you notice i also have a
lanyard on it this is to attach it to my
plate carrier when i need it along with
a magnet to keep it out of the way so
the pack is simply for traveling with it
but it can get right onto my kit and if
you're super spicy and you get your
hands on breaching charges at some point
in the future awesome understand that
can't talk about it too much but learn
it moving on from there
shelters
there's a lot to be said for shelters
generally we're not going to talk too
much about shelters in an urban
environment
if you're going to be sleeping kind of
sleep wherever you're observing getting
ready for an ambush or raid whatever
have you
but if you need to hole up somewhere
here's a good acronym for you bliss
blend make sure that you blend into the
environment
make sure that you are low that you're
below the level of the eye also another
thing to think about is don't get too
high or get too low to where you have no
avenues of escape make sure that
wherever you are that you have multiple
avenues of escape make sure that it
looks irregular it doesn't look like a
shelter make sure that it's secluded
make sure that
you make little sound and what i mean by
that is beyond just talking think about
the way you sleep are you the type of
sleeper where you toss and turn add
cement add gravel on top of that cement
and think about the amount of noise that
you'll make these are all things to
consider when you're coming up with your
shelter now beyond that
we talked about thermal you don't want
to die from thermal so an extra little
layer of protection can be this guy
right here this is a thermal
poncho this is from ralph camo it is
two-sided and it is just a little bit of
extra in case you're ever in a situation
where you need to not get detected by
thermal again the thing about thermals
it has to see you
so this is kind of the last resort don't
let this touch you because it's still
going to heat up
this is the way it goes so you want it
to be off your body that is why i have
the lines on it so i can tie it up as
necessary layers you don't want to just
have one super hot jacket that you put
on what you want to have is multiple
layers
so we have both a thermal top thermal
bottoms as well as some type of rain
protection because where we are it rains
a ton
in addition to that i also keep some
type of rain cover with me this can both
add camouflage to your pack as well as
keep the water from getting in and
making everything super wet
don't forget socks always have extra
socks i typically will carry at least
two pairs with me the socks that are
dirty or wet put them
right here on your pants let them dry
out as you walk that way you take care
of your feet because again if you don't
take care of your feet
you will die whether that be from trench
foot or whether that be because you
can't run as fast because your feet are
so messed up it really doesn't take that
long for your feet to get in very bad
condition i've seen as few as four days
before somebody's feet were just
completely
done so emergency blanket
if things are really really bad
this will keep you alive will reflect
your heat back towards you
i keep this just in case i have one it
takes up little to no space
on the side of the pack right here i've
got tubular nylon i also keep this on my
plate carrier if you don't know what
this is for go to spirit of systems they
have a great video on the many uses of
this have it on you have a lot have
everybody on your team have it it is an
incredibly useful thing but if you don't
train with it
it doesn't matter
all right couple miscellaneous items to
talk about first off right in the rain
if you don't have a right in the rain
[ __ ] you
one thing that people always forget
about is everybody has a trauma kit on
their plate carrier on their you know
weapon belt but
not a whole lot of people have a booboo
kit so like i can't tell you how many
times i've gone out with military guys
on an exercise or whatever and somebody
cuts their finger and they're like ah i
cut my finger somebody have a band-aid
literally no one so carry some type of
booboo kit on you um it's going to be
incredibly important
with your boob kit what i recommend is
going into a doctor
tell them you're going to travel to
nepal you're going to go on some type of
long back packing trip and ask me if you
can get antibiotics anti-diarrheals
anti-emetics these medicines are going
to be worth their weight in gold in a
situation where you're not able to get
medicine have them on hand beforehand
besides medicines you should also have
simple things like triple antibiotic
ointment band-aids butterfly band-aids
those simple things that you take for
granted until you absolutely need them
because a small cut can easily become an
infection
that can kill you so have a band-aid
important things like foot powder like a
toothbrush just brush your teeth a
little bit keep that those gums healthy
i know it sounds crazy but if you're
doing back-to-back operations just out
there every single day coming back
refitting going back out you still have
to take care of your gums you still have
to take care of your feet
make sure you have that stuff with you
make sure that with your foot powder you
have stuff that is unscented you don't
want to give yourself away at the very
top of my pack i always carry little
sugary things as well as liquid ivs
these are absolutely necessary make sure
they have liquid ids you will need them
they can be the difference between life
and death have a can opener have a spoon
always have an extra spoon with you
simple items right there wet wipes
don't let yourself get swamp ass
and uh
get infected down there it's a bad way
to go if you are running atac or some
type of
electronic device that needs power we do
have some type of charger you can charge
these back at your base with solar
chargers
have some type of battery pack for
really bad situations where you need to
signal friendlies or something along
those lines i do have some vs17 panel i
recommend having it they pack down to
nothing and you never know when you're
going to need it for friendly force
identification more spoons just
really sucks the knobs but mikey you
ever lost a spoon when you're
backpacking i've also just forgotten
yeah it sucks doesn't it yeah you're
like digging into food with like your
hands i literally drink like pour the
mountain house into my mouth it's
disgusting yeah you don't want to do
that have a spoon be civilized if you
can
why
survive
when you can thrive so that brings us to
the end of our talk about basics of
urban survival and your assault pack
you don't need to copy what i'm doing
there are a million different ways to do
this what i do ask you to do is have
good discussions in the comments
and let this be a jumping board for you
to set up your own pack to figure out
ways that are going to work for you and
again the biggest thing about this is
actually do it actually pack your pack
move with all their gear on how does it
work for you
these are things i can't tell you these
are things are going to be
specific to you get out there
do it now there are lots of great places
to get training when it comes to this
bear solutions actually has a bear
survival it's actually a guy that i know
very well who teaches a lot of the stuff
get out there train to it be better make
yourself the weapon all the stuff is
really cool but the fact matter is that
if you don't have any knowledge you're
just gonna be expensive loot drop for
someone final thing for you guys
i'm gonna say it again
if you're not fit you're gonna die i'm
gonna keep harping on it be fit