Winter Combat Skills: How to Fight and Thrive in the Cold

[@Echo_Mike]

Just want to say Thank You so much for all of the views and support! - Cheers

[@froginthewaves8450]

LETS GET THIS VIDEO IN THE ALGORITHM

[@G.W-01]

Definitely.

[@cobmeister.1930]

Popped up for me

[@Echo_Mike]

Ahah cheers mate !

[@uss_liberty_incident]

Found it in my feed

[@awsomedude9111]

SUBSCRIBE!

[@kevinshepard7796]

42 minute video on this topic.. for free. And hasnt hit the algorithm yet?! Its like the lottery 😅 cant wait to dive into this after work! Ill add another comment later

[@KitCreep]

Melting snow in a ziplock is a new one for me. Definitely trying this. Great video mate! Lots of great information.

[@ebc1f7]

As someone who plays, works, and lives north of 60° I can’t stress enough how getting out and trying things is the only way to get better at being comfortable out in the winter. Start out in warm is conditions and work out the basics then start trying to go out in colder and colder conditions. It won’t be nearly as u comfortable or disheartening. Love the videos sir. Look forward to seeing more.

[@midnightbluevt]

Good video. Reminds me a lot of Ranger Survival & Fieldcraft's work, which I also really like. Keep it up bro! Love from the USA.

[@montanatacticalhomesteader6623]

You can also get White vet wrap. Makes removing camouflage much easier.

[@Evasion.Survival.Alaska]

I use that here in Alaska. You can reuse it multiple times as well..

[@discipleaj]

Excellent video. Really well done. I've always been big on head and shoulders (upper body) to break up the silhouette whilst moving and in the prone, so long as its not overdone where things snag and interfere with operating kit and equipment etc. Very glad to see another Englishman online, doing this stuff. A real shame its not as big here in Blighty. God bless.

[@AmericanRebel.Crusader]

Very good video keep up the good work. God bless and remember never surrender

[@Echo_Mike]

Cheers mate and absolutely

[@fred-kendall]

Excellent video, mate. No better source of CWW wisdom than the green lids. Keep it up. 👍

[@poyhonen]

Great video. Keep them coming!

[@PowermadNavigator]

The method with the duct tape is modular too - I have an old German Army Schneetarn poncho and I love it, but I didn't pick a suit up because I felt that I'm sometimes a snowman when I need to be 50% and 50% miserable, wet environment. It would be a pain to keep putting on and taking off your suit in such cases and it's easier with a poncho, but I think this method might be better than that too. Unless you are blessed with consistent snowfall. I love snow, but it's like good women - here now, goes for the mud later. But I am not a member of the Alpini or anything - I'm a regular civilian guy who trains whenever he can and not on the North Pole.

[@shadow8797-ng5kr]

Great vid! Really enjoyed the shelter building. Really interesting point you made about turning snow tracking in your favor.

[@whereswaldo5740]

Great point about the extra time due to the season. Also consider terrain. Up and down and around takes longer than flat. And time energy and supplies for getting there and back. Don’t go ten miles or ten days out. When you only have 5 miles there 5 miles back of strength energy food water or 5 days there and 5 days back worth of stuff. Get there at 10 miles or days and not enough to get back. Works for shorter or longer distances and time.

[@gabrielschultz89]

This is great knowledge, you should be an instructor at Winter Forge with S&S Training Solutions

[@Khemtime]

Great video. I just moved to Alaska so I've been learning all this stuff the hard way. Wish you had made this video 6 months ago haha

[@starfox273]

Great knowledge

[@marksadventures3889]

Aldi do small mesh bags for loose fruit at 25p just big enough to cover your helmet or hat. They also double well for tinder collection - twigs, sticks, dry leaves and bark.

[@arranbtag]

Fell into this channel by accident glad I did glad to see a fellow Brit doing some content, was you in the Forces? Keep them coming you’re starting strong 🤜🏻🤛🏻

[@squeakergaming1780]

you only have 3 videos yet your my new favorite tactical channel, and I wish you luck on KZbin I cant wait to see what you post next.

[@tyrichardson4352]

Great video brother

[@paolodeep8459]

A cheap white bed sheet cut up works well along with the tape.

[@stealthandysteath1069]

Morning mate, lots of information but ya the more u get out the better u be come. Nice one 👍🔥🇬🇧

[@Echo_Mike]

Cheers mate 💯

[@ulperformance4087]

You could save yourself a lot of time and trouble by buying an enlarged size Tyvek coverall to cover your body - inexpensive. Additionally, cover and tape the helmet, plate carrier, etc with Tyvek. Then buy a few cans of colored spray paint to add "camo" coloring after deciding from a distance where on the coveralls and other gear you think it best to paint to eliminate the perception of a human and the gear you're carrying.

[@ProjectStrum]

Great video .On our winter warfare course we made our canteen into a necklace and kept in the inner layers ,instead of it out with the elements on the kit to freeze.

[@dennisjones9044]

great video, hope to see more, would like to add, you have a great fire starting aid in your bandoleer, the gunpowder in a cartridge, the bullet can be pulled using your leatherman/gerber pliers or pressing the bullet tip on a hard object and bend the case neck and working the bullet out.

[@edgarhume8184]

Outstanding video, thank you! One detail on sunset estimation at around 17:30 sec, finger thickness varies, and you're also wearing gloves, but In my experience a finger's width is closer to 15 minutes rather than 30 minutes of angle.

[@greysquirrel268]

Great vid - subbed and commented to get you out there, keep ‘em coming- cheers

[@Echo_Mike]

Appreciate it

[@kurtbaier6122]

Good tips thanks

[@andrewmullen5770]

Thanks, excellent!

[@mlovmo]

You want to always be just a little bit cold. You can always warm up with activity. Try not to wear all of your snivel gear. Always have your parka at the ready only for when it's absolutely necessary.

[@andeemassa7704]

Love my daddies posts

[@popfred.]

Cool video. I have a lot of experience in humid regions, not much in cold regions. It's great to see the differences between the two.

[@travisjacobson7126]

Great to know! Thank you! 🤘🏼

[@kiul24]

Great video!

[@Echo_Mike]

Cheers!

[@torsten4757]

Thanks for sharing!

[@ner0779]

You should probably do a collab with Garand Thumb on this

[@tordropzz2828]

Amazing information thank you very much

[@MichaelDouglas-yv2fz]

Love the video!! I really like the presentation and articulation. I live in a “discount Afghanistan” 😂 part of the world (with intense winters) and everything you addressed was spot on 👍 I learned a lot that I started implementing immediately and I keep finding myself looking back over parts of the video. With the quality of the content I thought you were a much bigger channel at first glance 😄. Can you do a video on muddy and/or wet conditions?

[@Echo_Mike]

Glad you enjoyed it, lots of topics for the future planned

[@ShaneBraaten]

Brilliant... Thank You Good Sir 👌

[@armani_5.565]

Thank you, please keep it up.

[@frank.preacher]

really like the video! glad i stumbled across your stuff!

[@Echo_Mike]

Welcome mate, much appreciated!

[@phillipsmith3366]

This is awesome!

[@tomlobos2871]

nice, much work went into this. but that camo makes one visible when moving. instead of imposing a WW1 battleship, i'd pick lower contrast patterns to blur movement and use the equipment itself to break the shape. the goal would be to appear "organic". much of that depends on the terrain, are we in open white, woods, hills? a 10$ surplus poncho might do the trick here. but that's just my opinion as a visual designer.

[@joaoklein1002]

Let me tell you the breaking the outline whit white tape is VERY effective beyond 100m.

[@Thug_Nuts1]

out of curiosity are you living in the US or UK? how do you have access to an ar15 if it's the latter?

[@Echo_Mike]

US mate

[@thisissparta8884]

Was wondering the same. Welcome to the U.S. brother.

[@Pouncingpuma7]

Remember people, if you want to avoid being tracked, just walk backwards everywhere.

[@davidoftheforest]

winter warfare would suck so bad

[@DylanDraper1]

1ST PHORM ELECTROLYTES!!

[@jobrosiejobro4839]

That was a solid video man 👍

[@polhokustaa4989]

Fantastic video, greetings from Finland!

[@Echo_Mike]

Cheers! You guys live this daily!

[@polhokustaa4989]

@@Echo_Mike hahah I think you are correct! We do have a short summer too, but it'll be over in a week ;)

[@Wesley-kt5li]

Me watching this in north Carolina

[@Evasion.Survival.Alaska]

Judging by the terrain and vegetation Im guessing you're on the east coast, in Appalachia.? Just guessing, not really asking. Anyhow I have birch bark for fire building up here. Super awesome material. However, in the rainforest up here there are times when you simply cannot get a fire going. Mother nature has a habit of a really really wet summers and autumns. W/o warning winter swoops in w/o a pause in precipitation and freezes everything solid that is totally waterlogged to its core from months of rain. It's a real dose of reality if someone gets caught in a situation where they need fire....Good video- thnx for sharing. I have loads more questions but Ill save them for another time.

[@Matias-dr3ys]

we always had gun inside tent. propably would have gotten in trouble if we just left them laying around outside. everything else wa left outside though, not fun putting cold and wet body armour and helmet on in the morning.

[@Imjustherebro]

11/10 video!

[@markymarko7]

Solid vid.

[@Echo_Mike]

💯

[@markymarko7]

Hope your channel grows, bro. @@Echo_Mike

[@00EvilG]

Nice Job!

[@sbura_]

are you in the us? you got a brit accent but if youre in the uk how do you have rifles goijg around the woods?

[@angusmecoatup1540]

👌👌

[@bladeking2013]

U should go to winter forge

[@WillieMakeit]

nice

[@cariltos2003]

ottimo video complimenti meriti molti piu iscritti!! avanti cosi! saluti dall'italia!

[@davidmorales55]

great vid, i subbed🤙✌️

[@Sazy3232]

When using the tape for Camo, are there any major concerns with painted equipment?

[@Echo_Mike]

The cheaper tape is better, take it off slowly and no paint will be removed. 100MPH or high strength duct tape will remove paint. Electrical tape I find is fine as long as it doesn’t cure in hot weather

[@Sazy3232]

​@Echo_Mike have you ever used/ would you recommend white painters tape?

[@Echo_Mike]

@@Sazy3232 never used it but doesn’t sound like a bad idea, not sure how it does when wet ?

[@shadow8797-ng5kr]

Sounds like Sazy needs to get out there and inform the rest of the group. Homework time BAYYYYBEEEE!

[@3MTA3-]

C.O.L.D.- C=keep Clean O= Avoid Overheating L- Dress in Layers D- Stay Dry

[@robothecoolguy]

white battle belt?

[@zmntms]

wont the electrical tape melt on the muzzel? ?? from where did ya get this?

[@Echo_Mike]

Its a basic cover, It will shoot off when the first round is fired, British, Swedish and Finish and other NATO troops are taught this

[@DylanDraper1]

DOOOPE

[@infantryski11b64]

Whats your thoughts on only carrying 4 mags? In Afghanistan as an infantryman i always carried 13 minimum. But 4 is far lighter.

[@thisissparta8884]

Carry a mag bag. I carry 3 on me and 15 or so in the bag. If I need to I can drop that bag off next to me or somewhere else. Keeps you light when you dont need it and stocked when you do.

[@dannymattin1184]

At least you served and deployedate

[@johnelliott7375]

Very hard to fight out in the deep cold, like the Russian winter 🥶❄️. Ask a Germans veterans son or daughter and they will tell you a good story.

[@PAIsIllegal]

Yellow and blue tape is not a good idea.

[@hekk_u]

winter because who wants to be sweating there balls off 247

[@richardharris4162]

well, lets look to ops in Ukraine in the Russo-Ukraine war, mostly in trenches, on both sides. What are they doing to camo out in snow, hiding in trenches, can we learn something from the real world.

[@SoyLoco-kt1tk]

Wolverine mthrfkrs

[@user-er4os9km9n]

Готовитесь воевать зимой это вам не жаркий Ирак Авгантстан

[@MsOdingod]

Great video!