Beginner to Advanced Helmet Setups. Becoming deadly with your gear PT 1

Beginner setup: bike helmet with duct tape

I knew a guy in the army who literally got shot in the head, and his ACH turned that from a kill shot into a really bad headache/concussion. Helmets are kind of important.

I use a bump helmet for hunting--when you've got a wounded animal whose blood trail you are following and trying to catch up with, the helmet is more than enough to help me move fast through the bush and not worry about bumping my noggin on low hanging brances (and it's a slick)

So proud of where this channel has gone. It’s not just some gun meme channel, it’s not a mere gun review channel. This channel is about making Americans as lethal as they can be, which makes America safer and Americans safer. Someone who is lethal is trained and a trained person is safe.

As a civilian I cannot overstate how important this practical information is to the common minuteman. These are things we should all be practicing together instead of arguing over 💯

I always tell people, adjusting your helmet takes serious time. It's a very intimate process and takes alot of time to get it tuned just right.

Mike I hope you demonstrate the 4tubes next time

You are doing the Lord’s work by presenting these survival/gear videos. The information is exceptional and goes a long way toward providing people with the knowledge necessary to be effective when needed. Obviously, training with your gear is where skill development comes into play, but I am sure that there are many who don’t even know WHAT skills they should be training on. So many guys I’ve known have seemed to be of the belief that they bough a rifle, so they should be good to go. They have no training, no knowledge of survival tactics, no armor, no comms, no night vision capability, and no medical gear. Hopefully, a large number of good people will take this information, use it to guide them toward the gear they need, and follow up by training with their gear. The more people we have who are capable and prepared, the better.

Another thing with helmet covers, they actually protect the helmet from wear like UV rays which in turn maintains the protection capability of the helmet.

For those active duty NCO's, I highly advise showing these videos to your juniors. This serves as an amazing introduction. Better than drawn out, boring power point classes.

“Your neck can only take so much” Custom 12lb titanium helmet in my closet: Edit: I should clarify that this was an engineering project. I had planned to make a low-profile neck brace that could effectively bear the weight of the helmet without reducing the neck’s natural range of motion. The issue was that the weight of the helmet could cause neck breakage if it is hit hard enough, which the brace cannot mitigate. Perhaps one day I’ll send the helmet to Garand and have him test it. I have no doubt it’ll stop a .50

Your videos are immensely appreciated and help us dad’s on a budget get the best value with our hard earned play money due to your range of experience and the way you go into detail to explain your rationale. I want to thank you for being the hero we need in the gun/operator/doomsday-prep/etc community.

Amazing that people don't talk about helmets more. Thanks Garand.

I love all the knowledge that Garand Thumb is sharing with us, after all, knowledge is one of the greatest weapons. Anyways thanks for the vid Dr. Thumb

There are so many simple things that could make or break you that you’ve addressed in this video - absolutely love your tips! PLEASE please do a video on a COMMS setup next, would be a great segway after this helmet video

This is helping me consider how to reset up my firefighting helmet. Weight, balance, snag points, fit, it all translates over. Thanks!

My unit was one of the units in 2DMARDIV that was lucky enough to be a part of the IHS program in Lejeune. Some professional killers who were the advisors of sorts on how to use the helmets came out, it was between the gentex helmet with peltor gen 6’s, and the opscore helmet with the powered rails and the AMPS. I had the opscore one and boy lemme tell you they’re money. We love the passive hearing amplification, those 4 modes above standard hearing, you can hear pfc’s stumble through the woods from 100M out. Really good shit

After 14 years in combat arms, one thing I cannot express the most is the importance of a helmet and and how little the Army and leadership stresses fit and weight. Hell, we still use the shit from Desert Storm, especially Nat. Guard. Running PVS 13s with no counterweight and just throwing pads in and go.

"Can't stop a 7.62864r IF it's made of depleted uranium etc etc etc" These designations are done for direct impact hits if I'm not mistaken. A LOT of armor that "can't stop round X" CAN DEFLECT round X and turn a killshot into a wound or a wound into a cool story!

Absolutely perfect advice, which also applies to pretty much anything: Train like it's the real thing. I remember an interview with Mark Dacascos, where he said that he and his dad, who was his sensei, would spontaneously start sparring in the street, in their regular clothes, as his dad had explained that if he was to get into a fight, it wouldn't be in a dojo, wearing a gi, but in jeans, on the street, where a fall is not going to be onto a mat, but onto concrete, and by training like that, he'd know how to fall, how it would feel, and how to move in street-clothes 👍👍👍👍 And so it is with helmets: If someone trains without their helmet, if the first time they put it on is as they're about to deploy onto a battlefield, they're going to be bogged down by the weight, and distracted by it, so not concentrating on the situation, or, worst of all, like in the intro, they're going to take it off due to a headache or neck-ache, and, that's the moment that they get domed and decorate their buddies with their brains... 🙈🙈🙈🙈 But if they train in it, then putting it on for deployment is nothing new, and completely familiar 🙏🙏🙏🙏 Keep up the good work 👍👍👍👍