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#91739 - 02/29/08 09:29 PM Mad Moe says HI
Mike M Offline
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Registered: 08/17/03
Posts: 23
Loc: Alexandria, VA
OK, Earthling requested I give a run down of the kits I sell. I figured since I never said “HI” I’d do that too.

I’m a small business owner registered with the CCR and my primary customer is the military. It keeps the lights on in the shop. I’ve never hawked my wares on this website as they are not relevant to the lightweight forum and at 22 posts; I lack the “mileage” to hawk them here. My product is a compact, one time use survival kit geared toward military operations.

The water pouch I use in my kits is the bomb.They are a 5 mil laminated standup pouch with a zipseal and weigh mere grams. I belive they may have an application to freezer bag cooking. I’ve put them in the microwave and boiled water in them, I’ve sealed them (with a 2mm food saver and a 5mm commercial sealer) and stood on them without bursting. I froze/boiled them and they still keep ticking. I think they're the same bags, or similar to, the ones used by Inertia Trail Foods. I buy them buy the thousands and use them for freezer bag cooking when I hike. If anyone wants any PM me with an address and I’ll send a couple from my left over stock. Sarah, I bought 2 copies of your book, one for a friend…Your recipes are the bomb!!!! I’ll send you a dozen bags.

I use Aquatabs in my kits. They are not the best but if you exercise good water source selection and increase the exposure time to 90 min they will inactivate most everything but cryptosporidium. I would like to use Micopur or an equivalent (which kills everything) but the cost/time factor does not work for my target consumer group.

About me: I’ve been lurking the TBL forums since 1999. I live in San Antonio TX and no…I’ve never hung out with Gardenville. My first exposure to hiking was through my dad who hiked some fledgling PA AT sections in the 50’s. My first section hike was from Lehighton to PA309 when I was 14. I’ve hiked all the PA sections since then, a number of times for 1 to 2 week adventures. I’ve hike the John Muir Trail N to S twice. done the outer loop in Big bend twice, and paddled the Wilderness Waterway in the Everglades 3 times. When I was in CA I did some day hikes of the PCT in the Sierra Nevada Mountains south of Whitney in support of our military survival training. This forum has helped me knock out the useless stuff and get my base load under 15 lbs. On my last AT section hike of 6 days I stepped off with 23 lbs, base and food, all thanks to what I learned here. I compare that with my first JMT hike with a 45 lb load to JM Trail Ranch for re-supply. NEVER AGAIN. I sew (senior parachute rigger) and have my own “lab” where I constantly saw off beer cans, punch metal, or whatever it takes to get rid of the grams.

I served as a military Survival, Evasion, Resistance Escape and Personnel Recovery instructor (SERE/PR) in the USAF from 1978 to 2002. During that time I managed to make it to 5 continents to apply or teach survival, evasion, escape and personnel recovery skills. I taught at, visited or was some way involved in most of the military environmental survival schools. I also performed duty as a Military Freefall Instructor (MFFI341) at Fort Bragg, NC and YPG, AZ, a USAF Test Parachute Jumper, Civilian AFF Skydiving Instructor and parachute rigger making over 2500 military/civilian parachute jumps without too much head trauma. I retired from the military in 2002 and started to work for a great company called TATE-Inc providing survival training, recovery planning and rescue coordination services to the US military and government agencies. Some of the projects I've been involved with in the last 6 years; DOD SERE/PR doctrine and policy consultant ; Deputy Director for the US Army South Personnel Recovery Coordination Center for operations in Central America, South America and the Caribbean; Joint Rescue Coordination Center Controller Joint Task Force Haiti (2004), Extensive travel in South America developing operational recovery plans; Deployed to develop and support SERE/PR training for countless personnel heading into the Middle East.

This is my most favorite place to visit on the WWW short of “Steep and Cheap” and “Woot”..

Bottom Line…

Just darn glad to be here!!!

Mike M

BTW. I goggled madmoe and did not like the results at all. Can I change my TBL name??


Edited by MadMoe (03/03/08 02:25 PM)

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#91740 - 03/03/08 08:55 AM Re: Mad Moe says HI [Re: Mike M]
billstephenson Offline
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Registered: 02/07/07
Posts: 3917
Loc: Ozark Mountains in SW Missouri
Hey Mike, glad to see you come out of the shadows a bit.

I'll check out your site later today. If Eugene recommends it then you must have some good stuff there, and I like "Stuff", so thanks for letting us know about it.

Bill

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