basic question about E&E bags

[Desert Fox]

Hi,
I never really understood what exactly is a E&E bag??? I suppose its a bag you keep when you need to travel fast, and you drop the rest?? Am I wrong?

Thank you

[QRQ 30]

Good basic definition.

[Jack Moroney (RIP)]

Originally Posted by Desert Fox

Hi,
I never really understood what exactly is a E&E bag??? I suppose its a bag you keep when you need to travel fast, and you drop the rest?? Am I wrong?

Thank you

Depends on the unit and the situation. Folks will have a different take on this depending where they were and what they were doing. In my A-Camp, for instance, we had pre-packed indigenous rucksacks filled with ammo, medical gear, maps, compasses, commo equipment, some food, and basic survival equipment hanging up in one of our underground passage ways that we all could grap on the way out if we needed to get "out of Dodge" real quick.

In the field we carried everything we needed to fight and survive attached to us so that if we needed to we could jettison the rucksacks with the extraneous nice to have stuff.

In another situations it might be as simple as having pre-packed clothing and equipment that would allow you just to pick up and leave and ,at the appropriate time and place ,dispose of what you were wearing and don what you needed to blend with the local populace and follow pre-determined actions to accomplish whatever was intended in your E&E plan/concept.

Jack Moroney

[Desert Fox]

Thank you gents, very interesting as usual.

[SgtUSMC8541]

Through SERE and Scout Sniper School and my platoon, we were and are taught... you live with what’s in your ruck, you fight with what’s on your gear and you survive with what’s on your body.

Ruck: Snivel gear, and extras
Gear: H-harness, chest rig or whatever.
On body: Thigh rig pistol with emergency mag, small survival kit, pocketknife, button compass (sewn into blouse) and signal mirror.

Now I also kept a shooting platform on my ruck to shoot off of and in it I kept a larger survival kit. It was attached to my gear by quick release buckles and had a shoulder strap attached so I could drop ruck and grab it in a few seconds.

[QRQ 30]

Jack gave as definitive definition as there is. Specifics are personal.

Hmm: definitive definition. (redundant!).

[Desert Fox]

Originally Posted by SgtUSMC8541

Now I also kept a shooting platform on my ruck to shoot off of and in it I kept a larger survival kit. It was attached to my gear by quick release buckles and had a shoulder strap attached so I could drop ruck and grab it in a few seconds.

Hi sgt,

Are you talking about the Kifaru's Escape & Evade Pouch??

Do you have some pictures?

Thank you.

[SgtUSMC8541]

This is what I use for my shooting platform/large survival kit. As stated before, much of this is personal prefrence.

[NousDefionsDoc]

That looks like some of Gene's work.

You stalk with a thigh rig on?