I once fell off the back of a MRAP while wearing my Kevlar and the helmet hit a large pointed rock. It was the closest thing I got to a Combat action ribbon all deployment.

If you've ever worn your helmet with NVG to change baby diapers in the dark...go ahead and hit that subscribe button!

I wear my schwinn bike helmet when I daydream about operating. I used a sharpie to black out "schwinn" and I wrote "Haley" and drew a dragonfly. I put flames around the dragonfly so when people say, "Haley doesn't make helmets" I can say they asked me to beta test their new line. I duct taped my GoPro on it to imitate that NVG look without that nvg price tag. Most of the guys at the shooting range can't tell the difference. I think.

I'm a little disappointed you didn't tell your marines out there to wear a bump helmet at all times. For their safety.

I snagged my NOD mount on my way out of a Blackhawk one time. Spraining my neck at the start of the mission was not an operator move. I did not look cool.

I have absolutely no need for a helmet nor do I need to know how to set one up but I'm here to look cool and that's all that matters.

Coworker- "Should you really be watching that kind of video at work?" Me- "Should you really be breaking OPSEC and policy by looking at my screen?"

I just have a sign that says “please dont shot hed”. My nvg is just the happy meal spy kids night vision goggles.

Break away/fall away mounts are good. Here's my input from experience with them in a Blackhawk crash. I used to fasten the lanyard of NVG's high up on the rear of helmet,because I didn't like it dangling on my neck,so wore it that way.. It was always fine. Then one night was in a 30 plus G crash from 536 AGL. Hit so damn hard that they fell away as designed.. However, the shitty part was the NVG's slammed me in the jaw really really hard. Felt like a.really solid bare knuckle punch to the jaw. Busted skin open on the jaw line.. Back of helmet was busted up from smacking head on back of seat.. The worst injury was the broken back. The biggest wound hands down would be what the Army did to me after the injury. The sole reason I talked my sons out of serving.. Point blank. They don't give a fuck!! So, much so they will cut you loose without being fixed to only suffer at the utter incompetence of the V.A. . uncle Sam as it turns out is a grimy prick.

During my basic, when we first got our very first helmets, we thought that they were invincible (back then) and that they'd protect us from all sorts of bumps and even bullets. So me and a buddy decided to charge at each other like two pairs of rhinos and bump our helmets against each other. At least the nurse in the infirmary was pretty hot.

This man's helmet is more valuable than my car

MY MOM MAKES ME WEAR A HELMET WHEN WATCHING ANIME.

This community is full of some awesome people and great humor. Im truly thankful to live in a time such as this with all of you rowdy degenerates. Keep the brass hot garand thumb and friends.

If a stranger has ever read some thumb comments, while standing next to you in line. Then they slowly backed away. Hit that subscribe button.

Friend of mine cracked a vertebrae jumping out of the passenger seat of an uparmored Hilux. Went to stand up and out of the truck and his ACH got the door frame and it make a cool popping noise. We weren’t even taking contact he was just stoked to be back in time for dinner chow.

Ive been saving my allowance for 3 weeks now. Is 18$ enough to buy this helmet? I want to look cool for my next airsoft game.

Helmet setup is sick AF

Crazy how far production has come. Came back to this since I just got RNVGs a couple months ago and just about have my bucket all done.

Public service announcement: 19 shots in the "All that kind of stuff" drinking game in this video

If you've ever climbed out the drivers seat of a stryker and had the spaghetti strap from your cvc slingshot back into your face... go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

I wear my full kit when I watch seal team... "if you dont look cool your not doing it right" -Garand Thumb

Sees sick helmet setup: looks at wallet: Goes to the corner to cry quietly

Call it GONAD; Good Ol'fashioned Night vision Arresting System. I expect one in the mail when he uses this as the product name 🤠

As I made my ascent to the target, I flipped down my PVS-14 gen III, thankful in the knowledge that I received from this video. After coming around a bend and making my final ascent, I crawled hoping that the noise from the awkward sliding would not be heard by the midget guards who were sleeping. There! The target was is sight! Gleaming white and square, I knew this to be a most critical moment for when I would open the door the inside light would take away my night vision and leave me defenseless for a few precious seconds. I flipped up my NOD and it instantly turned off. I decided to go for broke and enter explosively, I ripped open the door, eyes squinting from the new light, but I had achieved my mission, the leftover pot roast was there exposed, ready for the taking...... Great vids Garandthumb keep em coming

For part of my dads service he was a M113 commander in a mechanized infantry unit during the Cold War. On an exercise, there was a low hanging branch that he didn’t see coming at him. His head was sticking out of the track, so the branch hit him while the M113 was moving. It tore his helmet off and almost broke his neck. He didn’t get any lasting injuries, so he continued to serve.

If you've ever been wearing NVGs for so long you forgot you you were wearing them and you went to check your phone and you blinded yourself... go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

How about sliding down the stairs of a navy cruiser while wearing a firefighting helmet and smashing it on the water tight door then falling the rest of the way down the metal stairs.

Garand Thumb's particular brand of autism pleases me.

If you've ever hit your head while wearing a CVC on the TC's hatch because you thought it was open and almost knocked yourself out...go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

Having to go to the stripper clip of ammo in back of ur helmet is the definition of a bad day.

13:02 when he talks about someone losing night vision in a swamp, I felt that. I felt that, hard.

I was blessed to have a friend find me a gently used blemless Elbit Gen 3 thin filmed green phos PVS-14 for $1950 shipped. Low Light Innovations makes a terrific "white" filter that essentially mimics white phos in appearance with limited light transmission loss for only $25. To save money on the mount, he suggested an "Evolution Gear L4G24 NVG Mount Perfect Replica" for only $85 shipped instead of the $465 for the real one, and the quality is phenomenal. I also picked up a used Wilcox AN/PVS-14 Arm for $150 shipped down from the original $229 price. Botach has a Longfri Level IIIA ballistic helmet for only $199 that is around 3 pounds, good quality for the price and there are lots of ballistic test videos on them. I also went with the FCS AMP Headset that is a fully functioning Replica of the Ops Core AMP for only $175 shipped down from $999 for the real one. I plan on running a Disco 32 PTT with them to get my Comms squared away. Although all of this stuff is still expensive, there are ways of making NVGs and Comms realistically affordable instead of an unobtainable pipe dream. I highly encourage yourself and others to do the same. I was able to have just as functional of a setup for a little more than $2,500 that would have been $7,500+ if I had gone "Gucci" on everything...

Does a bump helmet have thot-protection?

Was in the back of a Bradley and wasn’t wearing my helmet, which is the wrong answer, and we went down a wadi without warning. Everyone in the back started levitating and I hit my head on the ceiling, then we slammed into the bottom and I hit my head on a bar going across the roof... it hurt

I’ll stick with the steel pot. You can heat water in it, and has that elastic band to hold your smokes.

On a night op and we set up a OP on top of a mountain, on the way back down my NVG's went out (thanks Marine Corps) and I fell about 30 yards down a mountain and smacked my head on a rock, patrolled 10k out of the area to medical.

Would you recommend this for my nighttime raids into my mom's basement? Will it also allow for easy use of chicken tendies?

That's some elaborate cosplay

As a civvy, I just picked up an old PASGT in excellent condition, slapped in an aftermarket suspension kit, and called it a day. Didn't have $300+ to spend on a brand new helmet, and knew from tests these helmets didn't actually go bad. Gives me the same protection as any modern helmet; it just can't mount all that stuff I can't afford to buy anyway. Really, it just depends on what you need it for. If you're going full operator, and have the money to invest, by all means buy a modern tactical helmet. If you just need head protection, though, you can get an excellent helmet for under $100 and then upgrade it to make it very comfortable.

Wore my helmet during combative level one for react to combat. But blind sided and fell right onto my rhino mount. Gave me a bad ass scar. The scar was work it, the concussion, not so much. 9/10 would recommend

Seems Bear Grylls lost his English accent

Perfect! This will ensure that I don't get brain damage every time I walk through the doorway in Mom's basement!

It's August, 2020. I just found and watched this video. Boy how the times have changed! And quickly too.

I remember watching this video years ago, enjoying it but never thinking that I’d use the information. Here I am watching it after just getting on my local SWAT team! Flannel Daddy truly provides 🙌🏻

If you’ve ever worn a real ops core just for Airsoft to protect yourself from balls of 6mm plastic, go ahead and hit that subscribe button!

All that new stuff.. There is nothing like good steel helmet. How You gonna make pea soup in this Ops-core?

If you're a civilian and will never get to use any of these helmets but you're still a groupie go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

Fell out of a second story window at Hammelburg Training Area in Germany while clearing rooms in the middle of the night. When I came to, my XO had just called for medevac. Love helmets!

If you've ever gotten out of the shower while covered in soap just to watch one of these videos.....go ahead and hit that subscribe button.

Interesting stuff, dude. I'd always wondered about helmet setups. Thanks for keeping the channel informative, and for keeping all us weebs and dorks in line with the PSAs. You do good work, bud.

Hey dad, will duct taping binoculars to my bike helmet give me the same tactical efficiency and badass look as all the top notch operators out there?

I totally feel you on that neck injury dude, although I suspect yours was way more epic and cooler than mine. Hang in there, be always mindful of your posture, and pound those NSAIDs if you get any severe extremity radiculopathy or paresthesias.

$2500 for a helmet? Im not sure your head is worth that much....

My Marine Corps K-Pot didn't cost me a dime! Just don't tell the Supply guys....

When I was a kid I used to be fluent in Japanese. My older sister threw me off the bunk bed and I hit my head really hard, after that I couldn’t speak it anymore. I still get flashes of Japanese here and there, but now all I can speak is English. I wear a helmet now

Just ordered my helmet... I’ll be watching this video every day for the next 8-12 weeks to hold me over...

I woke up at attention. I wondered why. Why me. Why now. Then... I saw the notification of a new video of my long last dad... It all made sense. The moistness. The urge to hit the throne. Its like womens intuition. I just knew. Moist out.

I'm scared people will judge me if I bring my freshly-rescued anime pillow to the symphony.

Can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos/input/advice. Also, it's worth mentioning that I appreciate your tidbits at the end as well. I'll go ahead and drop for saying "tidbits" in your comment section and just assume you would recover me on the next video. hope all is well, brother.

I'm a little late to the party but I wanted to stop by and tell you I enjoy your stuff garand. Been watching your vids intermittently for a while now. Stay cool, stay tactical🤙

Thanks GarandThumb... you end of the video advice killed my lazy morning. I was going to watch your video and go back to bed, but my gf heard you say to take your significant other some where nice.... so now I have to get out of bed and take her to breakfast.... urgh... lol...

Who comes here and stays for the life advise from Papa Garand?

Yes, I drove my head directly into a concrete ledge, running up some bleachers in basic training (1994). I think I literally saw tweety birds and still occasionally see them today. Also, my neck still hurts. Hoowah.

Thank you Papa GarandThumb, your advice and knowledge is always appreciated and considered before making a purchase. Thank you! Thankfully, as for the going out and doing something nice, my girl likes that stuff too, but she’s more into airsoft, motocross, and stuff like that, she sees that as fun time.

If your a LEO or military, and team Wendy is good for you, I respect your decision. Buy the equipment that will save YOUR life. But for the other consumers out there, we don’t need team Wendy, especially since their political allegiances are shady at best. Buy OPSCORE

I run a $60 pasgt, fully pimped. (Just a woodland cover)

In Basic Training, my Drill Sergeant, just before we received our off-post passes, always told me to put a helmet on my little soldier before going into the bush.

Could you do a video re cleaning your guns? What products you use, how often etc, if you have a guy locked in the basement doing it for you etc...?

I’m going get dressed up and take my girl out to a nice day out at a airsoft game. I like the idea of using my comtacs to call my mom so she can pick me up. I’ll be camouflage so she probably won’t see me. I’ll use my visible strobe on my MS-2000 so she can locate me.

When I was in the army I was using the standard issue MCH I was doing inverted egress training. The damn thing was so high that when I released my harness, it hit the roof and my body weight came down on my neck and it hurt like a bastard.

Gee, this is a great video! You really helped me to understand helmet set-ups. I'm not in the military, but I am a bit of a military buff, so I found this video to be extremely interesting. Thanks for making it!

Watching in 2020, and his comment at the end of "don't just sit at home" is hilarious right now.

I was at work one day and my buddy accidentally dropped an ammo can of 5.56 on my forehead. Got a pretty good looking scar and a pretty bad concussion out of it. Should have had my PT belt and a helmet on 😂

Can I use my ACH as a skiing helmet, I'm heading out to the slopes this weekend and need a lid, I figure if it'll keep out bullets and debris it'll save me from the trees right?

Wow, thats way cooler than the bicycle helmet my mom makes me wear all day.

14:43 You already know a man gets himself into A LOT of "Sticky Situations" when he leaves tape on his head.

What’s the best helmet setup for a Fortnite all-nighter with the squad?

Who else is watching with no pants on?

Thanks for taking time to help others

I wasnt wearing a helmet but I hit my head on the landing gear door of an F-15 while trying to pull chocks. I split my scalp way open and bled everywhere lmao.

Where can I find the retention bungee he uses on the Ops-Core helmet. I was also wondering if anyone knew if flannel daddy will be selling bathwater.

$1600 for a few layers of Kevlar mounted to frame is ridiculous. It's not fucking graphene on a titanium frame for fucks sake.

On securing your NVGs.. what about safety wire spun with safety wire pliers? That stuff has held my racebike together for much longer than it should've through more wrecks than it should've.

You're such a cool and sympathic guy. Really loving your videos.

Does Ops-Core produce a purple helmet, for purple helmet Warriors?

So if I need protection from incoming 6mm airsoft projectiles which helmet would I chose?😂

The NAD from Lucas is simple and brilliant. I will be ordering for sure.

“Stick with what you need” I NEED to have you make some audio books of bedtime stories so you can read me to sleep at night.

I love how nonchalant he is about this setup. HIS NIGHTVISION IS $10000. THE HELMET IS $1500 he’s got more money on this helmet than most peoples cars.

I was playing airsoft and someone threw a airsoft Grenade at me and hit me in the head on the left then hit the wall next to me then went into my dump punch and didn’t go off after the game I reached my hand down into the dump punch and find and threw it thinking it was going to go off but it never did.

The very 1st time I ever used NVGs I tried to turn around in a doorway and smashed them into the frame bad. Lucky they were old ass 7s and we were just seeing what ones were still working. By the end of the day there were 2 more broken.

For your information Garand Thumb, I catch the bus to the Airsoft field THANK YOU!!!

Puked in my mouth when you mentioned hard headed veterans and their chinacom helmets.

I came here to come

Still have the ACH I was issued in 2007 to replace the one that took a round in Ramadi. They didn’t want it at CIF so it’s been mine ever since

dude - the paracord mod is genius yet so simple. I have kind of a weird head too and no matter how I fit my helmet or my pelters - that shit always pops out and I nearly went deaf one time. Literally just grabbed my helmet watching this vid and stuck paracord under the mount and BAM! problem solved!

Nightvision Elastic Retention Device - N.E.R.D.

Do head whacks while wearing construction hardhats on the job site count? Cuz that's as close to operating with a helmet as I'll pry ever get ; )

Always love those intros!

I can say you have help me on how to setup my helmet. thank you for making your videos.