When I was in the Signal Regiment, we had a Sergeant retire. He had been issued a watch, as he did not own one. When he retired, he had to even give the watch back! We used to say that the Army was the only place you drove with your lights on in the daytime, off at night, and they took your watch away when you retire!

I know this list is long, but I want to be able to use this bag in virtually any situation. Anything else I should include? Or any feedback? Thanks.

More money, in small denominations. Firearm and extra ammo.

So my bag is still the 3 day assault pack.

Cutting tool:KaBar USMC utility knife,Victorinox multi tool which has 2 knives,saw,can/bottle opener,scissors,tweezers,tooth pick,file,cork screw.Pocket wire saw that I might take out.
Cordage:about 200 ft of para cord including my boot laces and para cord bracelet I wear.10 ft of 25 pound fishing line.And a small amount of thread.Also 2 strips of duct tape.
Container:Canteen/cook cup,stainless steel bottle,garbage bag.
Cover:the same garbage bag,poncho top and cover.
Combustion device:Matches in water proof tube with cotton inside for tinder.Magnesium fire starter.
Food:4 MRE crackers,2 oatmeal packets,energy bar,2 sugar packets,2 salt packets.
Clothes in zip lock bags:watch cap,shemagh,bandanna,wool socks,and a long sleeve cotton shirt I will be replacing with a polyester shirt soon.I also wear a fleece jacket and composite steel toe boots which are lighter than regular steel.
Misc:tooth brush with the handle cut down to save room,small rag,1 nail,SURVIVAL Army FM21.Head lamp.
First aid:5 Q tips,9 alcohol pads,small bandages,Neosporine,aspirin,the same thread and a needle.
Fishing kit:2 hooks and the same fishing line plus the inner core of para cord.

Just so you understand what I use this bag for,I hunt and camp in the deep woods around my grandfather’s home.There is no marked trails,no guides that go with us.I have found snake skin and seen wolves plenty of times and I know there is more dangerous animals than that out there.I always take a rifle with me when I go and if someone goes with me they usually do too and maybe a 357 magnum revolver.Yes we have hunting/fishing liscences and even gun carry permits so were not just hillbillies in the woods.Please let me know what you would take out or add and how I can improve my pack even more.Also I try to fit all the little things in my stainless steel bottle to save room.Also a signal mirror.I will probably get a whistle too.I attach my sleeping bag to the bottom of my pack before I leave too.
@ casey
I said composite steel toe boots.It is much lighter than metal but just as strong.It is made out of some kind of extremely tough plastic.They have saved me from having a broken foot more than once.
@ Cody

My multi tool does have all these things.I thought I put that in the list.Its a Victorinox swiss army multi tool and it has 2 very sharp blades,a wood saw,a pair of scissors,a file,tweezers,tooth pick,a cork screw,a bottle opener and can opener,and a flat head screw driver.It is an older model.Also I do carry a compass.
@ Garrick
I use different rifles depending on what I’m hunting.When I hunt deer,I use a Remington 710 7mm magnum that holds 3 rounds in the clip and has a decent Nikon scope on it.When I hunt small game I will take a 17 HMR or 10/22 Ruger.I see a rifle as something that I would need in the woods because if I get in a stand off with a big animal,I’m not throwing a rock at it or using bear mace.I will brag and say I never miss and am a dead eye with all my rifles and rarely miss with revolvers.I know if I’m face to face with a bear or buck I take the shot in the sniper’s shot which is where the spinal cord connects to the head and it drops right there instead of getting pissed off and charging at me.Everybody has their own opinion and almost everyone says they would lose the KaBar but it is my hatchet,my saw,my flint/magnesium sparker,it is only a 60 dollar knife and it is my favorite knife and everything but I would rather use it up first and buy another one later because it is so cheap
EDIT: sniper’s *SPOT not shot.

you might wanna get a torch lighter, some alternative tinder, maybe a little improvised accelerant like hand sanitizer, a cheap knife for the magnesium bar. look into bivy bags and shelters. anything an ultralight backpacker might use could be useful.

Any way, my husband barely helps me with anything at all…he helps sometimes when I ask for it, but only if I ask for it and hardly ever asks if there is anything he can help with. I work full time, go to school full time, our daughter is 13 months amongst all the many other things I handle on a day to day basis…I just can’t take it anymore. My husband and I were both just off for a week at Christmas, we were home the entire time, he did nothing until he finally got the wild idea to clean the garage…otherwise he did nothing but lay on the sofa watching tv. I kept asking him to hook his xbox up to the internet so we could get movies from netflix, big mistake, now he does nothing but play Call of Duty online all the time. He finally got off his duff the other day and hang the baby gate on our stairs after like the 4th time Haley crawled up them.

I’m always running errands, for groceries, toiletries or whatever else we need and yesterday I reminded him to pick up a card for his step moms birthday. Well he went to the army navy surplus store instead for a camoflauge rain poncho. I asked him about it today and he said, why didn’t you get one yesterday when you were at wal-mart. I said because I wasn’t thinking about it and I thought you were getting it. So then he asked me if I was getting it or if he needed to, so I asked him to and then he accused me of being a B$*&@ and told me I owed him $25 for getting my car washed.

I ask him to do one simple thing to help me out and he acts like I’ve screwed up his entire universe. I seriously can’t take this anymore. I don’t want our daughter growing up in a house like this…but I seriously don’t know what to do because I have no place to go…I don’t talk about this to any of my friends because I’m embarrassed about it…

What should I do?
Yep, funny thing is at the end of the card conversation he told me I’m a bad friend and I said you are a bad husband and he said, you’re are going to see me not be a husband anymore starting tonight and I said, and how is that any different from any other night…he never responded back.
Yeah, you’ve obviously never had a conversation with him. Everytime I try to sit down and talk to him when everything is calm, it gets turned around into how much I suck and he ends up telling me that if I don’t like it I can leave, so tell me how I’m being over dramatic!
Actually he slapped me a couple of weeks ago during an argument.
I have asked him to go to counseling before, but he tells me I am the one with the problem and I need the counseling, so now I’m thinking about telling him that unless he comes to counseling with me, I am leaving.
My mom stayed married to my dad for 26 years who was just as lazy as my husband and did nothing to help her and verbally abused her and it ended up killing her in the end. She died of heart disease from all the unnecessary worrying and anxiety…I don’t want to end up like her.
K – I "nagged" him about the card, because he is not grown up enough to remember to do things on his own. He’s always asking me to remind him of this or that…which is what I did. I used to have to wake him up every morning to make sure he wasn’t late for work…see the trend?
K – I am already going to counseling by myself, I went today actually and he said by all means we need to go together and I agree, I just can’t get him to see that…and PS, for once I actually liked your answer. When I first saw your name, I was like oh lord here we go. Thank you for being helpful!
That’s funny Alexia – because I actually had a chair massage this morning. However, my husbands aunt is a massage therapist and she gives me 1 hour massages for free…I might call her up this weekend. Thank you.
K- the respect is so long gone that I don’t remember a time when it was ever even there…everytime I go to him about anything he turns it around and makes it out to be my fault, he’s a great manipulator in that respect…so whenever I mention counseling he says the problem lies within me and that I am the one who needs counseling. I would like to say that I would be heartbroken if something happened to him, but the way I feel today, I just don’t know that that would be the case…I’m just over the petty crap i guess…I’m looking for something more than this.

Oh girlie, I am SO sorry that your husband is such a jerk!

He laid his hand(s) on you. Get out now. I told Andrew if he ever even laid so much as one hand on me out of anger, Id be gone!

Your Husband is a real jerk, seriously. There is no reasoning with him. He blames you for anything and everything that goes wrong. It is never going to change. Why not get out now while Haley is still young enough to not know what’s going on.

Consult an attorney, as the other user has suggested.. Surely you will get alimony & child support and that should be enough to get a nice little apartment for you & Haley.

If he touches you again, by all means.. call the police and press charges on the asshole!

most of my gear I could go without,but with the extra room in my backpack,I see no harm in putting in a few light weight creature comforts.I believe 2 knives is 1 knife because you can lose one in the woods easily.My first aid kit is very light weight,almost weighs nothing.The 2 nails can be used for shelter,fishing,etc.I don’t take any canned food with me so if anything the can openers would be for fishing lure.I think I will take the p-51 out because it is bigger and takes up more room.If you have ever done any kind of work out doors like cutting a tree down,or something similar,you would know how much easier gloves make it.And keep your hands warm (as for the comment about the hand warmers,I am taking four out).My home made MRE is virtually weight less and takes up no extra room because it fits in my mess kit.It consists of 4 crackers,instant oatmeal,and a couple of salt packets to help dry out meat if I kill something.I guess I kind of got carried away with it but ev
also I forgot to mention,if I am in an open area or by a lake or somewhere similar the signal mirror could come in handy.The razor,that is something no man should go without in my mind,my favorite creature comfort.

As I just stated in another QnA we are not under any kind of threat of an invasion or zombie apocalypse so a Bug out list like what your all carrying is a lot of wasted space filling junk. You only need 1 knife and 1 multi-tool. 1 compass or GPS, 1 fire-starter, 1 mess kit or cook cup, 1 rope or para-cord. You talk of a "homemade mre" well if it’s like most mre’s it’s too heavy of a food item switch to dehydrated foods. All the army stuff ie camo face paint arm bands and junk leave it behind you won’t need that. The army survival manual could be handy to give you ideas for shelter setup and food sources but there are better wildlife and edible plant books out there. All those hand warmers are wasted space if you have fire and gloves why bother.

To many folks are suckered into these wild survival man shows and think they can do the same, and you can. But most of the junk you see on tv is just that junk. When folks really go out to the wild-lands to enjoy God’s green earth they want a lot more of the creature comforts of home and for real outdoor adventurists who have been doing this for years with out all the hollywood makeup they don’t buy into all that phony baloney. Here is a back-packing check list from a reputable supplier prepared by folks who really spend more time in the outdoors then any survival man character ever has,

http://www.rei.com/expertadvice/articles/backpacking+checklist.html

Water Bottle, 1.5 liter
Water purification tablets
Duct tape
Alcohol cooking stove with pot and lid
20-lifeboat matches
Plastic matchsafe with strike anywhere matches
Flint and steel
Tinder
Minimal cleaning kit

Okay I’m confused. You bash Republicans then make a claim about the UN, but UN conspiracy theories are usually wingnut theories put forth by loons living in caves in Idaho. Liberal moonbats at the far end of the spectrum bash republicans. I guess you’ve come up with the "unified theory" of politics. /rolls eyes Scott White must have a new avatar and screen name.

Well what was the reason? A guy at my school was into child pornography, and therefore because I was gay, I was involved? That is not a reason to search my car.
Winobot

I have taken a look at my contract. I have a very strong Union (United Teachers Los Angeles). It has no mention of me waiving my 4th Amendment rights.
Rooster Pickens

Yes, in Los Angeles, your probation is three years, and after that you are "permanent" and tenured. Apparently the school police can buy universal lock picks for cars. The Car Companies sell them to cops.
To use the graphics which our new math program has and project it on the wall with an Elmo you need a laptop. Which the district DOES NOT provide. Sort of an unfunded mandate
It is my personal computer. I don’t feel a bit bad about having MY stuff on it. You need it to fully implement the math program, and the district is too cheap to buy us one.
Corey H

Wrong:

In the Gun Free School Zones Act of 1994, Congress made it a federal offense "for any individual knowingly to possess a firearm at a place that the individual knows, or has reasonable cause to believe, is a school zone." 18 U.S.C. § 922(q)(1)(A) (1988 ed., Supp. V). The Act neither regulates a commercial activity nor contains a requirement that the possession be connected in any way to interstate commerce. We hold that the Act exceeds the authority of Congress "[t]o regulate Commerce . . . among the several States . .

The search is improper, if not illegal. There is no probable cause to search your car. The search seems to be based more on your sexual orientation than any real reason to suspect you of possessing child porn. You may actually have grounds for a discrimination law suit.