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It’s time to help again.

Kaitlyn is the daughter of one of our GORUCK Tough brothers Jason Alexander and was diagnosed with Beta Thalassemia Major (Cooley’s Anemia) when she was 3 months old. We are raising money to support Kaitlyn through her Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT) and whatever is remaining will be donated to a cause of Kaitlyn’s choice. We have learned that going through a BMT comes with a financial hardship.

We are organizing a mini GORUCK Challenge. It will be approximately 4-5 hours, but our motto is “Under Promise, Over Deliver” so plan accordingly. There’s no registration fee, but we ask that you make a donation to Kaitlyn’s fund: http://www.supportkaitlynsbmt.com/3/donate.htm

Where is the mini GRC?
Park St T stop at the Commons, in Boston, MA. on Saturday, June 30, 2012 at 10 AM

Look for the group of people wearing backpacks.

What do you have to bring?
Just a backpack with some bricks in it, water/snacks if you need them and a smile.

Bricks?
Yes bricks. GRTs, you know the drill. For everybody else, 2 bricks if you’re under 150lbs and 3 if you’re over. Wrap them well: bubblewrap, tshirt and tape.

Anything else?
Be ready for some fun, some suck, and everything in between. Bring a good attitude and your ID, we’ll be heading to a bar afterwards for a ruckoff with some beer and food.

What’s a ruckoff?
It’s hanging out with your new friends with your rucks off. Don’t over-think it, just have a beer.

Here are some more details on the Challenge: http://goruckchallenge.com/faq/

There is a facebook event for the mini GRC here: https://www.facebook.com/events/383377055042614/

If you aren’t on facebook but want to attend anyway, email Jon at jgleonard [at] gmail [dot] com.

My loadout changes according to the needs of a project or operation, however I have base loadout that is quite fix. The gear listed below is my current base, it might change in the future but for the most part this is what I carry to work most of the time.

I carry everything inside my GORUCK Echo. The Echo is a tough little ruck that can handle most everything you throw at it and I’ve put it throw some hard stuff in the past few months. It is still as good as new. Great quality, like all GORUCK products.

Inside the main compartment I carry a GORUCK Radio Ruck Field Pocket with all my basic gear (described below) and a Tactical Tailor pouch with my mini trauma / medical kit. Tactical Tailor gear is also top of the line and built to last.

On the top inside pocket of the Echo I carry a Field Notes notebook, a SureFire Pen II, a Saddleback Leather Classic Business Wallet with my calling cards, a bluetooth piece, a Photon Freedom Micro LED keychain flashlight and a bunch of USB thumbdrives with the tools I need for the red team operations. The Field Notes book is a simple and resilient notebook and it’s always useful to have around. The same going to the SureFire pen. It can be used as a glass breaker too.

On the slant pocket of the Echo I carry my earphones (the standard Apple iPhone ones) and a Hideaway Knife. That little knife is a tough mother. It can cut through anything and it’s an excellent last resource defensive tool.

Here’s all the gear out the Echo.

On the Radio Ruck Field Pocket I carry a SureFire 6PX Pro, a Leatherman Fuse, a custom Zero Tolerance 0350 knife with the Green Beret Foundation and GORUCK logos (part of the proceedings went to a donation to the Green Beret Foundation) and a couple of Go Tubes with gear (check this post to know what’s inside). I usually use the little LED photon as my light, but sometimes you need a powerful, full fledged light to do the job, that’s when the SureFire light come in handy. The knife and the Leatherman multitool get used A LOT, those are the first items out of the ruck. And the SERE picks inside the Go Tubes are very useful tools too.

The mini trauma / medical kit has the bare minimum needed to stop bleeding and other traumatic injuries. It’s by no means a full blowout kit (check the fantastic ITS Tactical ETA Kit for that), but it has me covered for the essentials. As a side note, I used this kit once a couple of years ago to save the life of a biker that crashed into a car. I managed to stop the bleeding until the ambulance came.
The contents are here.

And finally what I carry with me all the time. My Trusty GORUCK GR Tac, a Metolius mini biner with keys (as a plus side this is a full loading biner so I can use to also to rappel, climb, etc), a gen 1 RESCO Patriot watch, a Saddleback Leather Simple Wallet, a Benchmade Mini Barrage and a pair of Oakley Bottle Rocket Sunglasses.

That’s it. That’s what I carry.