Bret’s initial rig.

This is Bret Gordon’s starting setup—light, practical, and built for movement over comfort.

This is the first of many gear, weapons, and items posts coming weekly or bi-weekly. These will definitely be for the gear nerds.

Onto the post!

In Book one Bret Gordon decides on taking the minimal coupling of his Tactical Tailor Chest Rig with a two inch wide, MOLLE combat belt.

This setup reflects Bret’s expectation of operating primarily in wooded and rural terrain, not urban CQB.

All mostly in Ranger Green.

Chest rig – simple and effective. Each pouch can hold two 30-round M4 magazines (up to eight total if needed). Bret opts to carrying his comms radio in the far left pouch so it’ll be out of the way when shouldering his weapon. The rig has a velcro sealed inner pouch accesses from the top that he can place small items, maps, etc inside.

He modified his rig to except a dangler/abdominal bucket to carry extras – below we have a pic of the contents.

As you can see he has packed inside – water treatment tablets, tourniquet, lighter with medical tape, scissors, sharpening stone, Gerber folding knife, field bandage, pain pills inside water proof container, chem light, 5.11 folding knife, Gerber multi-tool. He can carry small food items such as jerky or a protein bar.

Next the battle belt.

Thin and light but durable from left to right – two single pistol mag pouches, a double M4 30 rounder pouch, fold up – spring opening dump pouch, Rip away IFAK (with extras), underneath the IFAK in a horizontal position is a Gerber LMF II Infantry survival knife, Mid-rise kydex holster that’s compatible with Glock 19 9mm with an O-light PL-Mini Valkyrie 2 weapon light or a Sig Sauer P320 .45 ACP with the same weapon light, and lastly a HK hook for hanging gloves, misc. items.

Pic of inside IFAK.

Bret chose the velcro covered pouches for more security since he surmised he’d be in wooded environments more than the city. Either way he likes that his mags will be secure if he has to run, jump crawl through whatever environment.

He’s able to carry 3 mags for his pistol (one inside the pistol) and 8-10 30 round magazines for his AR platform.

He has utilized the adage “One is none. Two is one but three is king” with some of his items on person.

Next up: his ruck, clothing layers, and what changes as the situation deteriorates.

That’s it for today. I appreciate you showing up for the brief.

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