TactiSMART 013: Every Day Carry TacPants & WAR ACU Trousers & Home Defense Jumpsuits

There are 3 basic LIFE situations;

Home Defense (HD)
Every Day Carry (EDC)
War (WAR)

You'll be in HD mode 90% of the time with the other 10% going out in public via EDC. 

EDC is designed to look non-threatening to civilian normies, being khaki TacPants, S2P3 polo shirt and SERE fanny pack holding your key chain with OC pepper spray, SERE belt kit and ballistic-protective EyeProtection aka EyePro. You should a plastic handcuff key hidden in the hem of your TacPants. Your belt buckle should have a hand cuff key as its waist adjustment finger. 

ZAK Tool's Belt Buckle with Handcuff Key Available from copquest.com

Your pen should be a Tactical one with a hidden handcuff key inside. Main armament/rescue/safety tool in your TacPants is a seatbelt cutter, window breaking, folding knife if you can't open or conceal carry a pistol. TacPants belt should carry a water bottle holder, hand sanitizer spray bottle and Tactical Flash Light (FL) each in a pouch.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzs-PNJGhY8

If its cold outside--say under 50 degrees, add a hooded sweat jacket and/or coat which can have a 2" x 2" square of soft Velcro on your left/right shoulder to wear your favorite patches there. If its raining, a breathable Gore-Tex jacket. 

Hats are good to protect again UV ray aging but optional since its out-of-vogue these days since James Bond in Goldfinger in 1964. 

EDC Ensemble

Polo shirt
TacPants with belt
Fanny Pack

Jacket if needed
Hat optional

You'll go to WAR if you are in USMIL service or if polite civilian society SHTF collapses and this becomes the 100% normative attire--though off-duty the HD shorts/t-shirt/sweat pants default returns if at a relatively safe Forward Operating Base (FOB). Our suggested SUPERFIGHT generic list:

WAR Ensemble

Helmet
EyePro with EarPro on temples
Hard Body Armor LBE with PRELMs 
ACU/jumpsuit with stiff Rigger's Belt with SERE kit pouch, pistol
Zip boots
AR/ASG or other hand weaponry torso-held

Butt pack or day pack with COMBAT LIGHT system

combatreform.org/combatlight.htm

Since your likely HD indoor dress is shorts & t-shirt; if its winter cold, sweat pants, if a threat presents itself, you'll not be wearing the ideal abrasion-resistant and tactically-configured leg covering or socks--nor have the time to put them on. You go with what you got on. 

HD Ensemble

Shorts
T-shirt
Sweat pants

Load Bearing Equipment (LBE) Modes

Discrete plate carrier can be worn under or over your clothes. 

This is why to save precious seconds your LBE for HD should be grab & go draping over your minimalist t-shirt/shorts/sweat pants and bare feet with everything you need in/on the LBE; 9mm pistol in holster, ammo, CPR24 Side Handle Baton/FlashLight (FL), handcuffs, 2x first aid pressure dressings because YOU MAY GET SHOT--which implies an entrance & exit wound requiring STOPPING THE BLEEDING. A Quik Clot powder packet should be there to seal wound bleeding that direct pressure can't stop. A hard plate carrier that can stop rifle bullets goes on top of the LBE at the time cost of another 60 seconds--but well worth the protection. 

HD Grab & Go TTPE3

10 seconds: Don zip boots plop-plop (no socks, no zipping)
10 seconds: Don LBE
60 sconds: Don plate carrier
10 seconds: Don kevlar helmet *
60 seconds: Don Eyepro * 
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80 seconds without head protection

* You may or may want to don a kevlar helmet which unfortunately doesn't usually have facial protection so adding ballistic Eyepro adds more time delay since you have to locate the glasses which even if on your EDC SERE fanny pouch LBE, is going to be a few feet away. For rapid HD, you may have to forgo head protection. 
  
Your  non-lethal HD weapon is the Compacting PR24 (CPR24) Tonfa side-handle baton that can be presented to extend from its LBE pouch and held by your non-firing hand/forearm to defensively block someone attacking you with a knife or stick. Our adapter enables the CPR24 to have a FL there to scan for threats in the dark. Its a twist on/off which is not the ideal push-button on the side handle we need but the one company thinking of offering this--hasn't. Don't hold-your-breath. 

https://jamesbondisreal.blogspot.com/2020/05/spythink-009-no-more-police-with-beat.html

If you are attacked, the CPR24 blocks it and you can go on offense with it using a whirling motion to get the thug out of your 21-foot (9 meter) Personal Defense Zone (PDZ).

combatreform.org/tacknives.htm

Firepower 150

If the threat doesn't surrender or flee, your firing hand is free to present the pistol and finally convince him to stop/leave--or shoot the thug down. 

Your lethal HD weapon should be a 9mm (or 5.7mm **) semi-automatic pistol range reach out to 50 meters with a green laser/FL combo because green lasers are highly visible and you have the non-escalataory option to shine its green "death dot" onto a thug and tell him to stop what he's doing and leave. You can flash white light onto him alone and use iron sights to aim/fire/hit or both white light/green laser spot to aim/fire/hit or just the green dot to aim/fire/hit him if he doesn't relent.  DAY time switch to just green laser. NIGHT time, just white light or both white light and green laser if that's your preference. If there's enough ambient light at night to see or you have Night Vision Goggles (NVGs) on, you may want to just use the visible green laser dot. With NVGs you also have the option to use neither white light or green laser and use instinctive aiming/iron sights to aim/fire/hit.  

You can have 17 rounds plus 1 in the pistol, with 2x 15 to 17-round magazines on your LBE. For Maximum Rounds Start (MRS) a 32-round magazine with pull/carry loop on the end is reasonable but you don't have the grab & go time to load it, so it would be a continuous HD in-the-gun option. 48 to 52 Close Quarters Battle (CQB), short-range shots, grab & go ready.   

 During continuous HD ops, you can retain an empty long stick 32-round magazine with a snap hook on your LBE.

During extended HD operations aka WAR, certainly wear head protection and sling a folding stock SKS-X with red dot collimator reflex/night sights across your back to engage targets out and beyond to 300 meters aka Short Range Battle (SRB). 

https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2020/05/tactismart-011-unhinged-sks-x-speed.html

Your LBE can easily have a small pouch to hold multiple 7.62mm 10x round stripper clips--say 50 plus the 35 + 1 in the gun and 20x in the buttstock holder for a total of 101 longer-range shots. If you decide to add PRELMs to the mix, a decent MOLLE/PALS/belt double mag pouch is still problematical as we will discuss later in a future TactiSMART article. Combined with your pistol's shots, you have 150ish rounds of firepower. 

This Means WAR

WHO is properly-dressed for WAR? The ex-"Special" People or the Venezuelan Security Troops...Jeopardy Music as we await your answer! 

If the HD situation becomes a long-term WAR aka Sub-National Conflict (SNC), there is time to don your sox, and personally-customized ACUs or jumpsuit on during a lull in the SHTF crisis. These clothing ensembles can give you a clean set of clothes to wear to preserve your health and have customizations like a retention soft Velcro to slap-STICK empty 20mm/12 gauge shot cards onto them. Instead of a SKS, you'd have a semi-automatic, AR15/M16/M4 defacto Assault Rifle (AR) with Assault ShotGun (ASG) combination slung-hung at your torso as your primary weapons. Your plate carrier should change to one with AR and ASG ammo pouches.  

James Bond is REAL. 

NOTES

** As previously TactiSMART discussed, 9mm x 19mm Luger rounds will not penetrate soft body armor. 5.7mm AP rounds will and the best pistol is the Ruger Five-Seven. If SIG SAUER would offer a 5.7mm version of its M320/M17 for the U.S. ARMY, there is a folding stock for it that holds the reflex/night collimator dot sight above the slide for no blur firing accuracy/speed. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUJ0UPERfsk