MOLLE

[laughs] Tactical.

It's like they take cry knee pads and have MOLLE on the, uh, on the front, and then have, yeah, like some cargo pockets and-

With like plate carrier is the bib with like the fucking webbing.

Okay, that's fucking awesome.

... that's all you need

... a couple buckles.

Maybe make those, uh, MOLLE straps or that MOLLE webbing Velcro.

Um, but yeah, like the, the, the knee pads and the pockets and stuff would be badass.

Um, it was camo.

It has some MOLLE looping on it, and um, and then it opens up, and then it has a sleeve for your laptop.

So this, this, there was no in...

You know, there's no frame, expandable frame.

And, and so, you know, I was...

I mean, if, you know, think about conceptually what I just described, Dan.

Like it was a basic backpack, but it was camo, M- MOLLE paneling, and let's just assume that it's made better than...

Well, well, it was made in the USA and, and, and it's veteran-owned, so I'm just gonna put that on there.

And let's back up a little bit.

For those that are new to this, MOLLE is the slots on a vest or a piece of tactical gear that you put the straps through to hold it to the gear.

It's also considered the webbing that gets woven through to hold that gear on there securely on the back of the pouches or ammo carriers or whatever you're putting on.

Plate carriers.

Don't overload it, and I'm going to get into that in a little bit.

Let's talk about your vest a little more first.

Let's talk about the law of real estate, the realities of MOLLE webbing gear.

For those that don't understand or know, MOLLE stands for Modular Light Weight Load Carrying Equipment.

Essentially, I took my vicarian and I got rid of the two expensive, the most expensive parts on it.

One, the padding of the rear plate bag and then the Mali, the Mali Velcro.

So I call that my light carrier.

The reason why I mentioned the AC1 or the LV119 or even the JPC is my light carrier, the lightweight one, actually is similar in that construction where it's just a single sheet of nylon folded over with mesh down the middle.

And then we have these coming.

This is a MOLLE bag system.

And three fit perfectly in the crate.

You know, you have a MOLLE bag system so you can strap it on.

And that's one thing that I know that, you know, and looking at some of the things you've done is it's, you essentially made milk crates into MOLLE.

Yep.

Like I don't want to keep calling them milk crates.

We made it into like a system.

And then he asks the real question.

What did those carry belts and pouches actually look like? What was the typical packout? Why were they so much bigger than modern modular pouches? What successes came before MOLLE? And what made that high-altitude environment such an extreme test? That's five questions.

Daniel doesn't send one question.

He

The toss, the bucket, the pace, the pack-out.

Now, pull back.

Daniel asked about successes that predate MOLLE.

What's the lineage?

and the

MOLLE ecosystem.

Why did it win? Because there were proprietary clip systems before MOLLE, and there still are.

Yet every medic I've seen in the field is running MOLLE.

MOLLE won for three reasons.

One, cross compatibility.

A pouch from one brand attaches to a belt from another brand, a plate carrier from a third, a bag from a fourth.

the e-bike medic is essentially running the minimum viable kit plus a radio, and the radio might not even be on the belt.