Kit Line Organizing

a skill ( something you can learn how to do using Skillpedia ) by lxpk Mon, 2006-10-09 07:09

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Kit lines organize the things you need according to when you need them.

1.Worn
Bare essential gear worn at all times

2.Carried
What you carry to complete tasks

3.Packed
Everything you could need to pack

4.Driven
Larger less needed items in your car

5.Stored
Huge items & supplies stored somewhere

6.Shared
Items shared amongst a group

Lines allow you to “ditch” some or all of your gear but still act effectively. It is a useful way to organize your gear for field use. Think of each line like a layer of skin on an onion. You add, swap and remove lines depending on the task at hand.

A Place For Everything

"With few exceptions, SEAL operations will call for you to break your equipment into first, second, and third line gear. First line gear is what you have on you and what you have in your pockets."

—Dick Couch, "The Finishing School: Earning the Navy SEAL Trident"

Keep things in consistent locations or you will find yourself misplacing them. Memorize the location of your opeprating gear with one item per pocket to facilitate rapid grabbing. Always put things back where they belong when you transition from place to place. You may leave things behind at times if you can do without, but you never know when you will need things and the world has a nasty habit of throwing you for a loop with sudden unanticipated needs for whatever you have left behind.

Line Zero: Mind & Body

In addition to the external kit lines, there is also the conceptual Line Zero. Following the decreasing amount of equipment with the line numbers, zero means no equipment. Strictly speaking it is not a kit line. It is all you have in and of yourself. Your knowledge and skills. The first and only equipment you cannot drop or have taken from you.

Kit Mindfulness

"Kit adrift must be a gift."

—Sean Kennedy

The more and better equipment you obtain, the more likely and expensive losing some of it becomes. Mindfulness is essential to keeping tabs on your gear.

Label everything you have of value with your phone number so that it can be returned if someone honest finds it.
Never take prohibited items like food/water/knives to restricted areas like dance clubs where you must turn over to a bouncer as they will likely steal it or you'll forget. Always walk back to the car and put it away instead. If you do, don't forget to reclaim it.
Always remember where you park in specific street address terms. Write it down if possible. Always keep keys in pocket. Never lock yourself out of anything by checking for keys before closing a lockable door.
Whenever you take off a jacket or pair of pants, empty it of kit unless you plan to reuse it soon so that you don't forget something essential or put sensitive items through the laundry.

Mission-Specific Kits

You may have different versions of each kit depending on your mission. For example, you might have one third-line backpack for wilderness survival and another third-line roll bag for airline travel and urban survival. You may sometimes carry both. You may carry the multiple gear lines in a vehicle. Lines are overlapping and frequently adapted sets of kit which you will customize and diversify to handle the many different missions you need to equip for.

Interactive diagram of fully kitted activists of each level with all kit items labelled. Click any item to link.

References

http://www.airsoftplayers.com/gear/