a dirt cheap, widely available, highly versatile and customizable rig is exactly what the militia calls for. there are enough surplus to equip every able bodied adult male with one of these
I was able to score a couple of the FLC for $4 each (Bought 4 for under $20 total and it had free shipping). A few dye packs later, and now I have one for each major seasonal change of colors. The dye packs costs more then the FLC! Remember gents, get creative, you don't have to spend a house payment on your gear.
This is the do-it-all gear hauler for non-grunts. There's no POG hate meant by that. Just a fact of life. This shit got tossed in storage until I EAS'd.
@@TheGruntPerspectiveI cannibalized a second FLC for its belt to make a cheap MOLLE lbe. An H harness attaches quite nicely to the rear suspender clips, and a little 550 cord through the front MOLLE gives you a place to put the front suspender straps.
When I hit the Fleet early GWOT we would still do the LBV over our Interceptor Vests. For greenside patrolling, we'd wear full kit out to the patrol base, and then ditch helmets and armor for boonies and LBV's to run patrols. That lasted for a short time, and then everyone went to direct MOLLE pouches.
Something we used to do when converting our FLC's to chest rigs is to use heavy duty bungee cords for the rear waist belt. That would allow us to go over body armor or thicker cold weather gear without readjusting buckles. Great video as always man.
@@TheGruntPerspective drip or drown. I have mag pouches, but I haven't replaced the panels because I don't really know what else I would use the panels for.
Have almost this exact same setup. My Drill instructors back in 2015 taught us this was the infantry way of running the flc. I also run a condor roll up dump pouch under my mag pouches.
A waist pack and two canteens fit on the rear belt in original configuration (a USGI assault pack can still be worn). It was essentially designed to replace ALICE LBE - belt and Y-harness. Loading up the front of the body is not conducive to endurance on long patrols. Access to the zipper and/or buckles in the front is useful for relieving heat and quickly donning over a jacket (buckles). Sitting in armored transport patrol vehicles made wearing anything on the back side of the belt uncomfortable but the FLC is fully capable of an LBE type loadout. I'll be glad when the 'chest rig' trend finally dies - not everyone needs body armor.
Thank you for bringing in a regular grunt perspective on all your videos. It’s not too common unfortunately. I have worn the FLC and it isn’t too hateful, but much better out there for sure if you can afford it.
Banger pouches for TQs and canteen pouches + padded insert for nvgs are a match made in Heaven. Lots of great ideas here using what was cheap/available to you
I don’t know about any other National Guard guys watching but the FLC was my initial issue not too many moons ago. I’ve upgraded personally since but this would’ve been a great video back then and still will be for the new guys coming in trying to save a buck.
Interesting thing about the early gen FLC is the belt has d rings set up for a six point yoke like Brit PLCE. Fits perfectly. Otherwise yeah. I give the whole thing a solid Not Awful/10. What makes it ass is having it sized (and then taped up to be unadjustable) for wearing over an IOTV and then wearing it slick without the opportunity for modification.
9:21 Those canteen pouches are great, its all about those little pockets! Ran my FLC like this, but used the issued triple mag shingle to add some extra mags.
I used a taps, modified a condor H harness to it also added extra strap and clip to waist. One mid and one low for better retention. It can hold 10 mags 8-30’s and 2-40’s. I can throw it over a slickster if I want plates. Good vid, makes me feel my revamp of old gear is viable
I like it the way it's issued... open the vest to ventilate, or do work. Wear it lower to have a "full belt" of pouches and accommodate a pack. Weight distributed around the waist is easier to carry, than carried on the chest.
I really like 2000s molle gear, I have a woodland FLC, it's a great, cheap and sturdy piece of gear. Also, I have a RACK and IBA, all awesome pieces of gear and history, that after +10 years they're competing with current gear.
That is very cool. Would have been nice to see how you put it on. I took a FLC and made a hiking set up with some TT utility pouches and others, for food, water, etc. No gun stuff.. Never thought to reverse it, I may leave mine as is because I have a lot less on it than you do.
Hey man would you consider doing a video on your insight into different ammo selections for the AR15? General consensus nowadays seems to be M193/MK262 or bust
You bet your butt I’m getting a good majority of my stuff from surplus stores. I’m not about to have CIF (IIF) keeping me from completing my check out sheet because my roommate took one of my frag pouches.
I started off with a flc and I really want to go back, back in the day I had Three mag shingles in the front and would buckle it in back because the shingles had molly I could add more pouches if I wanted to
I have been considering the medical fanny pack to carry a more substantial, team sized kit. In a future video would you talk a little more about them? Mainly what it is like hiking with it; does it constantly sag requiring you to adjust it, does it hurt your hips, how does it interact with the hip belt on a pack, that sort of thing.
Yeah so I’ve kinda touched on that in lots of videos. But I don’t think I’ll make a dedicated video about it. I will tell you that it can get in the way if you keep it in the front. Walking up big hills and such my legs hit it and it get in the way of my movement. So what I do usually is keep it spun to the rear, a little bit looser then most people run it. That way I can put my main pack hip belt on with it spun to the back and it’s out of the way. Doing that it’s never bothered me, just have to make sure you don’t accidentally get the buckle under your hip belt.
I’ve got a modded split flc setup I’m bout to drop a video on! I think for a budget setup that can handle a lot of different scenarios the flc is pretty slept on.
@@TheGruntPerspective cool. Thanks. I will. I picked one up at a yard sale for three bucks. To say it has limited load capacity is a masterpiece of understatement.
Do you have a video on comparing the FLC, "modern" chest rigs, jungle setups, and body armor to one another and how they function by mission? I think a lot of people will do what you're doing with the FLC, I have one, but I think one major problem is overloading with unnecessary items or incorrect pouches making it bulky.
I don’t have videos on that. I will say that almost any military setup is going to be big and bulky compared to what most people need, it’s just the nature of the job
@@TheGruntPerspective I appreciate the reply. I know that having a conversation about this isn't possible on this platform, but I did want to get an idea of what "the people" should have as a minimum and to not set unrealistic expectations.
@@zzwk24 if you’d like you could message me on instagram! And yeah for the vast majority of people this is excessively above the minimum like you were talking about
yeah. theres a brand called L.A.R.P Tactical that makes a good reproduction, also a brand thats called shekkin gear that does stuff thats a bit cheaper, but the same stuff@@TheGruntPerspective
I used to have to use a FLC, I wish our NCOs gave a fuck and taught us how to use them properly, we were suffering in those things with no guidance at all on what right looked like. They just had gucci plate carriers that we weren't allowed to use.
Double you water carriage ability with this one easy trick: USGI canteen pouches take up 3x columns of molle. Sewing on molle to SADF pat.83 battlejacket waterbottle pouches also takes 3x columns.
I personally would not use a battle jacket. I really don’t jive with the concept of it. You have your battle jacket which works great for patrols, allows you to carry a lot of stuff. But you can’t wear a rucksack with it on, so now you have to bring another chest rig and be continually swapping magazines from your battle jacket to your chest rig. Not to mention I really don’t want stuff that massive battle jacket into my rucksack.
@@TheGruntPerspective no, what I mean is - take the waterbottle pouches off the Battlejacket and have molle sewn onto the back and use that i.s.o. the canteen pouches.
@@TheGruntPerspective yeah. Sorry. I mean "in the cosmic sense." Basically. To the guy who posed the question "isn't 9 mags too heavy?" My answer is basically "depends what work you have to do." Are you doing a snatch and grab? Holding a hill for 10 months? Kicking down 300+ doors in a hostile city? The job determines what gear you carry. Or, from a different perspective: if you limit your gear, you limit what missions you can take on.
@@TheGruntPerspective perhaps I explained myself badly; the problem is not carrying nine full 5.56 magazines with you, but whether to keep all nine on the front of the chest rig. All for a question of weight balance.
Because they can track you, I would think. But AFAIK, GPSs like garmin do not send signals to satellites, although there are some models that offer wireless options like BT and wifi, those can easily be tracked if tou dont turn them off.
@@TheGruntPerspective good evening im a fresh boot that just got in my unit, and i was wondering if you had experience with other gunner and seen there kit, i can take some of your our idea and in include it in my kit.
