3rd Line Packed Kit

Third-Line kit is the most you can comfortably pack with you without a vehicle.

Third-line gear is what you carry in your backpack or airline luggage.

Third-line gear is essential to airborne-capable activists who are prepared to travel to help where needed.

Backpack

The backpack is the crucial load-bearing system with which to carry all your third-line gear. The more self-contained your travel system is, the faster and more mobile you are. It is much easier to haul a single large pack than to carry an array of dangling shoulder bags and luggage. With a high-capacity pack, smaller bags can be packed inside.

Bases Of Operations

Your packed bag usually stays with your base of operations campsite. There are a few places you might stay: hotels, friends' houses, vehicles, campsites. Each has its own rules.

Security is a concern when you travel. Your gear is most vulnerable to theft when you leave it somewhere, and you are never more dependent on your gear than while traveling.

Carrying Capacity

Carry-All Systems

A carry-all system is a singular bag that can keep all your packed gear together. When you travel without a vehicle, your carry-all is all you have to take with you. There are two main approaches to carry-alls: backpacks and rolling luggage.

AWOL Bag

Your AWOL bugout bag is a not coming back pack. It is a disaster survival kit that might be the last bag of kit you ever own. You might need it to last a week or you might be truly FUBAR.

Some people refer to the backpack as the AWOL (Away Without Leave) or Bugout Bag.

Rolling Luggage

Thoroughly urban frequent flyers prefer conventional luggage for rolling all their gear around flat pavement. Luggage limits your range of mobility to paved streets, but if you have no intention of leaving the urban jungle luggage works fine. Rolling luggage takes a lot of the load off of your back and arms. You can outfit a wearable backpack with rollers quite easily by strapping the bag onto a light roller harness.

Compression Sacks

Compression sacks are your friends. They can cut the size of your load in half by squishing soft things like sleeping bags and clothes. Most sleeping bags are issued with matching compression sacks.

Clothing Compressor

A vacuum-sealable type of compression sack bag that squeezes the air out of your clothing to pack more in less space.

Clothing Compressor Review

Third Line Packed Kit

Typical packed kit contents cover essentials.

EXPANDABILITY: MILSPEC webbing allows use of MALICE clips to attach additional modular bags including smaller backpacks.

Large Modular Pouches

You can add up to five modular pouches to expand the number of kits you can keep outside accessible.

Malice Clips For Webbing Attachments

Malice Clips are reusable, high strength, injection molded, connecting clips designed to attach modular pockets to webbing-equipped vests, belts and packs. Temperature and corrosion resistant. REMOVAL: insert flat tipped object (a screwdriver, car key, knife point, bullet point, ball point pen) into slot on back of clip to unlock. PRICE: $3 SIZES: 3” and 5”
MILSPEC webbing is best as it allows you to attach additional modular bags to the exterior of your pack.

25L Light Day Backpack 1000# Cordura

50L Medium 3 Day Backpack $100-$150

Rucksack Cover Waterproof

Even if your bag is supposed to be waterproof, a ruck cover will better ensure its dryness and can add camouflage. PRICE: $15 (Webtex)

MILSPEC Modular Expedition Backpack

Full-size expedition backpack is a must to avoid multiple bag frenzy. Bag components subdivide into sealed plastic bags and stuff sacks so as to be removeable and reorganizable in a modular fashion.
Modular bag is ideal because it pares up and down for different missions. For video of a modular bag, see www.rantradio.com/patrolling/episode89or10?
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Backpack-Swallowing Luggage

An excellent luggage-backpack combination strategy is to choose a large, flexible piece of luggage that can encapsulate your entire backpack when necessary. That way, you can breeze through airports with your mundane roller bag and then use your serious backpack when you get where you are going, provided you will have a place to put the luggage when you aren’t using it on the other side.

For example: XXX Roller, CPGEAR LRRP Backpack

Flotation

Flotation foam helps keep you from sinking during water crossings. If you are planning to cross water in your journey, you can add foam to your pack to offset its weight.