Thank you for posting this presentation. I am a former Naval Aviator (1985 - 1997), and I never tire of learning the traditions and history of Naval Aviation. I'd never seen this equipment before. Thank you.
*Native People* Nearly all native people are friendly. Show them you are friendly too. Proof that these instructions were written well before the Vietnam era.
In New Zealand back in the day if you crossed the maori they ate you ! the people writing instructions obviously hadn't been to NZ, the English brought the gospel and they all became christian and changed their ways !
To be fair, the south Vietnamese were mostly friendly to the US who were there to support their government. The north/south divide in VN long since predates the vietnam war
I randomly came across one of your videos, and now I am on my 7th one. Not only are the pieces of history you are showcasing so amazing, especially this episode with the jungle survival manual, but your knowledge, enthusiasm and excitement is so great to watch! Steve!!
Marley and I so lost track of life because of certain activities. I'm so happy to be connected to your channel again bud! Thank you Again for your Service soldier 🙏❤️❤️❤️
16:38 ~ Nope, not the striker. That's where you find a very short ferrocerium rod glued into place. That basic design of plastic match case is easily found today. Usually in Hunter Orange or O.D. green. Though minus the compass on top, and narrower in design. But still incorporates the tiny ferro rod on the bottom that basically everyone mistakes for a striker.
One of my favorite videos, Steve! Thanks for sharing. Appreciate the care you take when exploring the parts of the kit and for the supplemental material, like the wrapped fishing kit. AND, thank you for slowly filming the instructions and other print materials. It gave an opportunity to read everything. Your appreciation for this historic material is evident. Keep it up!
- Hi, I'd like to donate this survival kit to your museum. - Wow, that's very nice of you - Yeah, though it's missing candies. - Wha? - Survival candy-tablets. I ate those. - Sir, they're like 80 years old... - Yup
I feel like we need to see more of the kit old soldiers would carry. Like shovels, coms, types of boots, knives, head gear, flashlights, survival packs, vests, patches, repair kits, tools, handcuffs, eye gear, non lethal weapons, smoke grenades, engineer kits, soldier diary’s and sooo much more... documentaries don’t show you the details of soldier life pre 1990... I mean you have to imagine how much gear the soldiers used even back to 1770.
HI Steve...Great Channel. Not sure if you answer questions or not, but im guessing you're asked all the time where on earth you get your stuff from. You MUST be a multi millionaire to afford this Hobby.
Hey everyone, this is a special video on another WW2 item that has never been filmed before. My highest budget video to-date and it was a labor of love. I'll be putting another comment up with a table of contents so you can skip around freely.
"Took me a long time to find this" I know he means find someone to buy it off of/trade whatever But I still just imagined Steve crawling through some forgotten jungle in the pacific somewhere hunting down a downed plane from WW2 with the kit that the pilot abandoned after a fast rescue
Another bit of forgotten kit that would otherwise be lost to the sands of time if it wasn't for the efforts of dedicated people like Steve1989mreinfo..!!
Thank you Mr. Truth - that is a huge mission of this channel is to share these old lost relics in a virtual museum type experience where no entry fee is required and you don't have to even leave the comforts of your home or wherever you're at.
Steve1989MREInfo you're awesome dude keep up the good work I've wanted to start doing what you're doing for a while now I subscribe to you almost year ago but RU-vid unsubscribe me and I had to subscribe back I had like 40 MREs but I didn't know at the time I could have sent them to you sorry I would have
Thank you for the in depth archival museum quality video. It is very informative and well made. These kits are amazing slices of military history and your videos bring them into the modern day. Your detailed and realistic descriptions of all these items are great. I have seen many of your videos and the ones with the old rations & kits are probably my favorite ones; they have such varied mixtures of the most efficient and practical things, they really are amazing pieces of, for their time, technologically advanced packages. I'm happy that you're donating these things to a museum, seeing all these items in near pristine condition and knowing that they'll be available for display & education for the public is awesome, again thank you. I very much appreciate the factual and historical tone of your videos. I hope all the stuff you find is in as nice of condition as the items in this video
But you're admitting I wrote an at least somewhat sophisticated comment, right? ;) Thank you Steve1989 for highlighting my original comment, and in response to Christopher McDonald, I just put a bit of effort into writing my comment. It's hard to believe a comment on a youtube video could be halfway relevant, civil and intelligible, I know right, it must be some type of black magic. Read lots of books and stories and all sorts of literature if you want to increase your vocabulary and learn about how one can use language. There is a lot you can learn and enjoy with works in genres ranging over the entire spectrum of humanity in fiction and non-fiction writings. Lol just go to a library or find stuff online you like to read
I loved how you noted the smells I always refer to that odor as "sailor stank". It can be associated with basically every piece of equipment. It's a compelling cocktail of flame retardants, polymers, petrochemicals, leather, rubber, dyes, decaying textiles, and oxidized metals. Still one of my favorite smells along with Diesel and coffee 👍
I’ve been to museums where they’ll have like a B25 or a Huey or something that you can go inside of, and they all have the same exact “army navy store smell”. I’ve always wondered what exactly I’m smelling. Whatever it is it’s probably carcinogenic 😂
''Keep cool and use your head. Steadiness and good temper have got many a man out of the same fix you are in. Never give up.'' I think this is some of the best things you can read in a intruction manual if you are lost in the middle of nowhere... Calming, with hope and with courage
17:18 that smells awesome! smells like metal, nursing home... 18:02 smells like... cat urine. Cool! Lovely smells indeed Edit: One more at 46:40 *freshly fired flare* that smells nice...
Probably smells like black powder/fireworks and I personally love that smell. Maybe because I spent probably too much time making things pop and boom as a kid, but burnt charcoaly sulfur aroma is great to me
I agree. Great to read through the manuals. Very nicely written instructions. One can imagine the scenarios that were considered making this survival pack.
The morse code card that he showed is actually a training device to teach yourself morse (or brush up on what you've forgotten). The pilot would then use the morse skills with the signal mirror. I was actually issued an identical looking one in the 1970's at the Naval Academy as part of my initial training kit.
I've have one of these complete except for the flare gun. Mine has the other fishing kit and more rations. I'm a vintage survival kit collector as well. On RU-vid there is a survival film of a navy pilot surviving at sea and land with this kit. It's a two part film about 28-28 minutes long. I also have a complete B2 back pad survival kit attached to the seat chute. With my complete C1 that rascals like 11 pounds. Most pilots put them in a mussete bag which the rigger attached a spare clip that attached to the chute harness. The pacific area saw the most use of these but there are pictures of P38 photo groups that the pilots wore a slimmed down version of the C1. When WWII started for us in 1941 we had really no kits for the flight crews but it's interesting how within the year we started to get some good gear to the guys. Thanks again to Steve for filming this kit, well done. Oh a little trick about old snaps, if it's not corroded use the edge of a knife blade between the male and female part and twist and Bobs your uncle.
I think the film might be this: CASTAWAY U.S. NAVY WORLD WAR II SURVIVAL FILM PART 1 22144 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FAeUIU-KG-Q.html
How are you not famous yet from the history channel picking you up or something. You got literally the number one best show according to me and your subscribers. And u have so much respect for the rations opening them traditionally and with the p-38 and knowing soo much about history
I can’t believe it either, this man is beyond a national treasure. His knowledge and ability to describe and explain things is remarkable. He brings to life history in a way so unique to him only. I could never grow board of his channel, it’s just too fascinating.
*LOVE THE AMBIENCE OF THE STORM STEVE* !!! super cozy, campy, makes ya want to dark the house out, take the phone off the hook, put on your pajamas, get your favorite food and snacks ready to go, or just order out, some chips or popcorn, set the mood and check in with everyone's favorite MRE kingpin, and maybe even put on some good classic horror movies of your choice or just anything that gives you that, warm, cozy feel...heck, maybe even light up a vintage "left hand cigarette" and indulge....NICE!
Steve if you want to stretch that poncho out, just set it on the toilet and then your shower up on the hottest setting. It will basically rehydrate. The ponchos I wore on a mission once were dry and left in the sun for weeks, this is how we bought them back. Not WWII old but I'm told they are designed to do this.
"Somebody had themselves a party." was my first thought, but the missing sulfanilamide packs makes me think that maybe they were used for their intended purpose after all. Who knows.
@Jay Bird ummm no. crackheads like crack, crack cocaine. no use for morphine, an opiate. stimulant=/=depressant. some people just like getting high though and like everything, more or less. crackhead isn't really a good descriptive term for those. perhaps junkie is what you were looking for. in the past junk was used as slang for all opioids but that has fallen out of the lexicon and today more or less is synonymous for one in active, less than functional(in a sense) addiction. and now you know. and knowing is half the battle. go Joe! which brings us back to the military which has relation to rations, bringing us full circle :)
Late to the game but here's something y'all might find interesting! The small fishing knife seen at 37:35 made by imperial knife co caught my attention immediately because the imperial knife factory on King Street in Providence had been left abandoned for a long time until a few years ago (unfortunately they turned it into fancy loft apartments). I was lucky enough to explore the building before it was renovated and there were so many blades and handles left inside, and I'm almost certain I remember seeing handles very similar to the one seen on this fishing knife! If I had known I would have grabbed one while I had the chance 😂 just thought that was kinda wild and wanted to share a cool experience
I have to say thank you again Steve for sharing such a amazing pieces of History so those of us who have not seen stuff this old or sometimes new can actually see what it looks like thank you for taking us on a trip through history keep up the good work Steve and just keep doing what you do I'm proud to see you happy doing it it makes me happy seeing thanks again Steve love your work
Safety matches and strike anywhere matches are generally one colour, the multicoloured are wind resistant, you see them today in hunting and outdoor shops.
I remember when my brother rotated back from Vietnam (In country 67-68 (Tet)) Mike had a big crate with all of his stuff that got back to the country before he did. I remember it had boxes and boxes of MCI rations, jungle boots, fatigues, electronics of the day - unfortunately it was all so nasty and moldy it all got pitched. It smelled pretty awful too as well as oozing green funk.
Were they scavenged for recreational purposes, or by aid personnel? I mean I suppose it's not surprising it's missing, but I would've assumed it had been confiscated as a controlled substance from this kit before sale, but your comment has me wondering if it was nabbed long, long ago.
Wow, these might be the most fascinating videos I've seen on YT in years, and thats saying a lot...and you are brave to taste test these, my hats off to ya! Almost sad to see this kit broken up, but you are doing an amazing examination here!!
My Father still had one when he came home from the war. My brother has it now, but I can remember being a little kid and getting into it as did my brothers. We were so curious to see what our Dad used during the WWII...much of it we lost over the years taking them out and not putting it back. But there was enough for my eldest brother to salvage as a memorial to our Father who fought in the war from beginning until the end. He bore the scars of a true hero on his body. So what little is left of him lives on through us and the memories of that time that he shared with us. I appreciate that you're showing this and taking me back some years to some wonderful childhood memories. Thank you. I just want to add that this kit differs than the one my Father used. Because this one you're showing was for Airmen who used them in case they were shot down. My Dad's was a land survival pack he used during the invasion of Normandy.
I love the smell descriptions 1:27 (long sniff) leather and industrial glue 2:28 plastic and leather 2:54 army navy store 17:19 metal and nursing home 17:52 cat urine, cool 21:21 Fruity mint 46:43 nice
He says in the description that he got it all (including the fishing kit in a can) for about $950, which is a very good price, the survival kit by itself was normally around $1750.
I normally watch his videos a little sped up (don't always have the time to invest but want to see everything) but as soon as I heard the thunder I slowed it back down. It's the perfect ambient noise.
I love when the thunder started..and me just so into it, almost made it feel like he was in the jungle in a tent. Its like going back in time, i love it!
Also "After a turtle's head is cut off, the head may bite and the claws may scratch. Watch out." Turtles are very metal animals. "Nearly all native people are friendly, except along the coast and in the northern mountains of New Guinea. Those guys are real jerks."
"Nearly all native people are friendly, except along the coast and in the northern mountains of New Guinea. Those guys are real jerks." ...Yes maybe so, but they are also cannibals"!!!
