I weighed it at 3.5 pounds (for comparison, my Topo Designs daypack weighs 1.4 pounds, and my 33L Gregory hiking backpack weighs 2.11 pounds). There's no mincing words-this bag weighs a ton. And a fully unzipped bag makes it a lot more likely that a dirty sports bra will accidentally fall out on a co-worker's shoe. Lives don’t depend on whether or not I can find my lunch in thirty seconds. But I don’t need to fully pack and unpack an everyday commuter bag that sits beside my desk. For a civilian, this is a useful feature on, say, a suitcase or travel backpack. That renders most of the expensive MOLLE webbing on the GR1 kinda useless.Īlso, a real med-pack fully unzips on either side so you can throw it down and repack it quickly. We especially don’t need MOLLE mounting points on the exterior of the bag or on the shoulder straps. There’s just one problem when adopting this system for civilians-we don't use MOLLE pouches. The bags are designed so that a medic can unzip it, and instantly find and grab the piece of equipment that will save an injured comrade's life. The MOLLE system is efficient and excellent, as it should be. Medics store and organize their gear in MOLLE pouches with tabs that you thread through the webbing (they also have a Velcro-lined interior to store even more gear). Med-packs are covered in MOLLE webbing, inside and out. Med-packs use a mounting system called the MOLLE (Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment) system. The GR1 is copied from a Special Forces medic’s bag (you can Google “DA med-pack” or “tactical medic pack” to find used ones on eBay).
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