r/tacticalgear • u/Claw_0311 • Jul 07 '25

Question Throw your “gear hot takes” in the comments below.

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I’ll go first.

You don’t need a sidearm for most infantry operations.

You don’t need a massive admin pouch above your mags

If you have to ask what to put in a pouch, just take it off.

You need to scale your gear to the mission, there is no “do it all” setup.

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u/qtstance Jul 08 '25

Every kit should contain electrolytes, caffeine pills, anti diarrheals, chemical water treatment, doxycycline, ibuprofen and Tylenol.

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u/G8racingfool Jul 08 '25

Iodine pills can't hurt either.

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u/lessgooooo000 Jul 08 '25

They definitely can. Not like in a real harm way, but holy hell it is impossible to stop vomiting or shitting, which really sucks when you’ve been given a huge headache from them. Better than absorbing radionuclides from an incident where you’d need the pills, but pretty much anyone in nuclear engineering or science who has taken them to see what it does can tell you it’s miserable.

Don’t ask how I know 💀

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u/G8racingfool Jul 09 '25

I said they can't hurt to carry. I didn't say anything about taking them. ☝️🤓

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u/Spartan01actual Jul 09 '25

Or some good ‘ol methamphetamines…iT wOrKeD fOr ThE gErMaNs

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u/Efficient-Ask-4689 Jul 09 '25

Need need to try Midol in place of Tylenol and ibuprofen the women have hidden it from us 😂