This article was originally posted by Beaterar. It has been copied to the articles section due to its outstanding information content. Please post your comments in this thread on how to layer your gear.

I’m writing this to introduce everyone to the layered gear approach that has become very popular. This is not an original idea by me and have no idea who the original idea came from.

There is no doubt that at some point one will have to dump one or more parts of there gear for various reasons. If you fall in a river believe me you will dump everything to survive, or when entering combat you will ditch your pack to remain mobile and fast as not to get dead. The idea though is still to be prepared, we practice using the bare minimum but still have large back packs, we know comfort goes along way in aid our survival.

In this post I will cover my gear as I have set it up as a result of other post explaining the idea to me, you can alter this idea to fit your needs as I have done in some cases to fit mine.

Generally we have 3 layers of gear:
First line- Survival gear, the bare minimum.
Second line- Combat gear and mission essential gear.
Third line- Comfort and long term survival gear.

I will go over my gear to help you get the idea.

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