Modular Attaching System

I attached some pics from your gear in action, unfortunately one can not see so many details on them, but anyway we know where the best gear comes from! One thing to tell you about these combat slings is: We have tested already a few of them (Blackhawk, Lightfighter, Seals Action Gear, SDS, Eagle Industries, and some more) but all were missing one particular detail. The soldier needs a quick de- and attach ability to free him/herself from his/her weapons or to get it right back into position. This may be in an emergency, to simply jump onto a SOV Land Rover or also for abseiling or crawling in the prone pos. Therefore we all use fastex clips between M4 attachment point and M4 sling.

Our equipment like in most spec-ops units is divided into 1st, 2nd and 3rd line gear. 1st line gear consists of MAS belt, large Survival Kit pouch (left side), large left side drop leg MAS panel with 6 single mag M4 CQB pouches, butt pack (on back, for equipment when dropping 2nd line gear (M18, spare cloths, gun cleaning kit, booby-traps, explosives and demolitions, spare ammo, MREs, etc.), radio pouch, large First Aid pouch (right side), large right side drop leg MAS panel onto which go side arm and knife as well as side arm ammo pouches. This 1st line gear belt is held in place by a light MAS plate carrier, some gren and M203 pouches for the firework-toys, a strobe pouch, an empty mag pouch, and a large MAS H2O reservoir on its back. This is our basic kit. If we have to leave this behind, our smocks will accept Survival and First Aid Kit as well as some spare mags, grens and other kit. We will be able to survive with our Combat Smock and Pants only, for quite a time.

2nd line gear is our webbing, being it a vest or chest webbing; this is up to the individual soldier. Here we have pouches for a minimum of 12, 30 round M4 mags on the front. We have two large pouches on the sides, left side for 1 or 2 100 round Beta mags, right side for NVG and kit. On the back of the 2nd line gear are another 1 or 2 large H2O MAS reservoirs for extended missions or MREs and heaters.

3rd line would be our large backpack with detachable side pouches. In here goes every bit of our 4 man patrol kit. 1 medic pack, 1 weapon & explosives pack, 1 navigation & comms pack and 1 patrol leader/sleeping gear, climbing gear pack. The detachable side pouches containing more ammo, batteries, grens, M203 ammo, observation & thermal imaging devices and a few more useful things for the specific mission

Best regards, Dan
EUSOCOM Zentrale Gebirgskampfschule