Hey Carl here with Tactical Riflemen we had a couple more comments on the
website about how I set up my helmet. Setting up a helmet is easy don't set it
up alright? Don't put all the extra gee whiz gadgets on it, all you're doing is
you're looking like a gear queer and you really don't need this stuff you really
don't keep it simple, but for setting up your helmet for proper use: first for
comfort alright most of your good helmets even this old mich helmet they
come with removable pads on the inside foam pads you'll notice I have them
pulled out on the sides that's because I wear over the ear peltor headsets
those foam pads velcro right out you leave them out so when you're wearing your
headset that way it's not giving you that headache if you put on your helmet
you're wearing it for a couple hours, and you're getting a headache from it
now if you don't have it sized right get the correct size helmet set it up so that
it's comfortable. Chin strap needs to be set up so that it sits
doesn't pull at your head. all right, brother that's the
biggest part of wearing a helmet. 'What kind of helmet to get?' Again this is
an old mich helmet this is one of the newer helmets this particular ones by
Team Wendy, Cry precision has the airframe, there's a number of great
helmets out there right now. Are they really better? Yeah there's been some
improvements mad. The the old mich helmet was a big leaps and bound over
the old Kevlar helmet that we were issuing people back in the 90s.
It's supposed to be a little better protection, again I know we lost a
captain during 2004, AK bullet went right through the front of his helmet.
Unfortunately, that happened more than once. Some helmets such as the cry
airframe, it has a much thicker plate on the front of the helmet. That's because
unfortunately, some units were taking a much higher casualty rate coming from
the front and above so they went with a thicker plate there.
This Team Wendy one is about as light as you can go while still providing decent protection.
Whichever helmet you go for don't just go for weight reduction.
Don't just go for comfort.
Remember, primary job of the helmet is to protect that brain housing group.
keep you alive. Next thing that's important about a helmet is your night-vision
mount on the front. This is a Wilcox Mount, your actual hinge piece clips
right in there locks down you run all different kinds of nods with this mount
everything from a pvs-1, duals, even the quad ones piece of cake. You'll notice
there's small bungee cords here on this helmet also on this one. What those are for is once you've got those night vision
goggles on you hook these onto the side of your night vision goggles and they
pull it tight to your head keep them from rattling around while you're moving
your head. Now this particular setup you notice I'm running a battery box on the
back of it, this is for batteries for that night vision device the cool part
about this particular setup is I can run double a's on this side with the switch
to that side it's running off of these batteries. I then can if my batteries
start to go low in my night vision I can flip it over to the other side it'll
start running off of these batteries without shutting my night vision goggles
off. I then can pull out my insert swap fresh batteries put them back in and
I've never had to turn off my night vision goggles great feature, you'll
notice that I also run a cell placard on both these helmets and the reason for
that is well you've got night vision goggles on and you're in the room it's
hard for other assaulters other operators to determine who you are with
those night vision goggles on but if you've got a cell placard on the back of
your helmet you've got them on your arms both sides they can see okay that's
Charlie 0-3 he's part of Delta cell blah blah blah blah blah blah that's a guy
that I know who that is now right so other than that keep your helmet simple
the only other thing I've added on this particular one is I'm running the IR
strobe on it and that's simply so that drones overhead helicopters everybody
or even on a hey-ho jump other people can see that
strobe light and identify me now you notice I'm keeping the the battery case
pointed to the rear, because the actual IR illuminators are up front here also
what that does if I go into any near low wires or underneath anything honey
hanging down in that helicopter or you know inside of that osprey I don't get
it hooked up and ripped off, alright. Other than that that's the basics of a
helmet, keep it simple you don't need to add all the extra gee whiz gadgets just
just so you look cool. That just adds weight to your head who
would want to do that? I should keep it simple keep it plain make sure it's
comfortable because you're going to be wearing it a long time.
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