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I prefer the hooch if it will be an extended stay.
I keep 6x black bungee cords, and 6x aluminum tent pegs, and set up is quite fast, as is the take down.
I no longer mess around with para cord and all that ****. If I can‘t bungee it up, I won‘t bother.
Properly set up, a hooch keeps the water off you, and your vital kit. The rest stays outside.
If I had a bivvy bag, I would consider using one, but they are only issued on a TI basis at my unit.
On SQ, we had a very silly "surprise" attack one morning in our platoon hide, and of course, with painstaking predictability, the orders-shouters (NCOs) wanted us to take down our hooches as part of the bug out drill. I honestly can‘t see detaching rifles in the middle of receiving a hasty attack to goand tear down a hooch in real life. In fact, even stopping for rucks is a bit of a stretch. You should have the minimum to survive and fight on your webbing, which should be with you always, along with your rifle, and if you gotta run with it, then so be it. If it were up to me, at least the hooch and sleeping bag, and possibly the ruck, would‘ve been left behind. Otherwise, our entire platoon would‘ve been destroyed, had it been a real attack.
That said, bivvy bags make sense when you‘re not staying in one place very long, like a weekend ex.
I don‘t much like tents, either the mods or the 5-man, except when it too cold for sleeping under the stars. It‘s a pain to move or get anything done properly inside a 5-man, and the mods just suck to set up and take down, and in those situations, a hooch will do just as well.
I keep 6x black bungee cords, and 6x aluminum tent pegs, and set up is quite fast, as is the take down.
I no longer mess around with para cord and all that ****. If I can‘t bungee it up, I won‘t bother.
Properly set up, a hooch keeps the water off you, and your vital kit. The rest stays outside.
If I had a bivvy bag, I would consider using one, but they are only issued on a TI basis at my unit.
On SQ, we had a very silly "surprise" attack one morning in our platoon hide, and of course, with painstaking predictability, the orders-shouters (NCOs) wanted us to take down our hooches as part of the bug out drill. I honestly can‘t see detaching rifles in the middle of receiving a hasty attack to goand tear down a hooch in real life. In fact, even stopping for rucks is a bit of a stretch. You should have the minimum to survive and fight on your webbing, which should be with you always, along with your rifle, and if you gotta run with it, then so be it. If it were up to me, at least the hooch and sleeping bag, and possibly the ruck, would‘ve been left behind. Otherwise, our entire platoon would‘ve been destroyed, had it been a real attack.
That said, bivvy bags make sense when you‘re not staying in one place very long, like a weekend ex.
I don‘t much like tents, either the mods or the 5-man, except when it too cold for sleeping under the stars. It‘s a pain to move or get anything done properly inside a 5-man, and the mods just suck to set up and take down, and in those situations, a hooch will do just as well.