Found your channel by accident. I've been playing with survival kits since the late 1960's and so this presentation was enjoyable. Informative, too. I used to carry a sealed pocket survival kit while flying commercial air but now those little tins have become prohibited Weapons of Mass Destruction. Those kits were copies of the USAF kits only the commercial kits were assembled with a profit margin in mind. Better than nothing--a few matches and a razor blade and possibly the button compass worked. Larger kits such as the one you displayed might get left behind when leaving a plane in a hurry -- but I enjoyed reviewing the contents with you. Even learned a few things. Kits come in a variety of sizes ranging from a footlocker size to something that can be tucked into a cigarette pocket; in the past, the USAF flight jacket had a small sleeve pocket to hold a pack of cigarettes along with pens and pencils. Proper protective clothing was part of the issued survival equipment. I gave a 90-minute lecture on World War Two aircrew survival kits and training at the Hill Aerospace Museum about a decade ago. I shocked some of the World War Two veterans when I admitted to holes in my knowledge--like how Allied airmen managed to magically transport themselves across Fascist Spain into neutral Portugal while Spain was allied to Germany and France was occupied by Germany. State Department secrets are forever. I noted that the Global Survival Kit C2 lacked a barter kit--no gold or silver to pay bribes. The provision of two boxes of .22 Long Rifle ammunition fits in with USAF survival kits containing 100 to 150 rounds of .22 Hornet for their survival rifles -- I haven't been able to determine the ammunition supply for the .410 bore shotguns used since 1944. Since that kit was based on the Canadian Air Force kits, I wonder what .22 gun was issued to them. Were Canadian Air Force personnel expected to have their own .22 rifles when they crewed a cargo plane or patrol bomber? Modern survival kits have changed considerably. USAF GAU-5A "survival rifles" now are geared towards aircrew personal defense and the ammo supply is four loaded 30-round magazines of 5.56mm NATO. In 1944, Stevens 22/410 over and under combination guns were modified (barrels reduced to 14 inches) and issued to C54 and B29 crews to hunt food after a crash. Then there was the M6 22 Hornet/410 shotgun Aircrew Survival Weapon, and the M4 bolt action Survival Rifle in .22 Hornet. It would be interesting to see what Canada issued its aircrew during the same periods. That "dry bag" looks a lot like a collapsible water bladder. In the third edition of John Wiseman's 2014 "SAS Survival Handbook" the text recommends using a condom as a water bag in home-made survival kits. The official kits all had water bags from about 1944 onward. Water bags and water purification tablets are usually omitted from the "sardine can survival kits" sold commercially. In World War Two aircrewmen wore a water canteen and carried sidearms.

Excellent videos! I was a SERE instructor in the USAF and really like you videos on survival equipment. I also have an extensive collection. The bag as others have mentioned is a water storage bag. Cool fact, if you bury them in at least 12 inches of snow the water in them won’t freeze. I have seen the woodmans tool in the Army hot weather survival kits. They come with the sharping stone and magnifying glass like in the kit you were showing.

Great channel and great shows. Thank you. The 22 caliber ammo was used in conjunction with an AR-7 Survival Rifle. This is the same rifle which could be seen in the James Bond film From Russia With Love. The ArmaLite AR-7 Explorer is a semi-automatic firearm in .22 Long Rifle caliber, developed in 1959 from the AR-5 that was adopted by the U.S. Air Force as a pilot and aircrew survival weapon. The AR-7 was adopted and modified by the Israeli Air Force as an aircrew survival weapon in the 1980s. Wikipedia

the clear bag is for water storage

3:37 believe me you are not alone. It’s an illness. Albeit an oddly pleasant if not terrifically expensive one.

While you say a pruning hook, I call it a billhook, same use really but imo “billhook” is a cooler name

Awesome video. Thank you.

Own a woodsnans pal myself, it's still every bit as high quality

The snow goggles would be of good use in an ocean survival situation since it can help protect against sea spray and I’d imagine it may be of use on windy days to protect against “windburn’ (akin to sunburn but cause by high winds instead of the sun… I suffered from this after one air show due to forgetting my sunglasses and it was a bright windy day so after a while of squinting I was half blind due to said windburn”

I love this kind of stuff

That's cool - Thanks ! 😎👍

One would put those rations on a tray……

Old Silva compasses are very radioactive.

Thank you for a great presentation. I admire your work. I am surprised that there doesn’t seem to be room in the kit for one of the .22 survival rifles. I can’t find the episode you refer to (when discussing the whistle) on the RAF survival vest. Is there a link to it that I missed?

The item you identified as a dry bag, I think is actually for water collection and storage ?

No inclusion of drinking water?

The “Pot Handle” looks more like a pair of tongs. Why would there be a pot handle if there is no pot? The small object packed with the “General Purpose Twine” appears to be a small flexible saw that you might wrap around something, then pull back-and-forth with the finger-rings. I own one which is much longer.

Needs a pocket knife and a sheath knife.

Complementary to M4 / M6 cal 22 survival guns?

Oh come on...eat the food!

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