text: My personal opinion; Gear does not make a warrior. Mindset and skill do. At one of our last ftx's, I had everyone stop a ruck March and gave them 5mins to start a fire without lighters. Results were surprising. Small things such as this open people's eyes more than anything. Lots of members purchase their latest whizz-bang 2000, but never try to use it. Practice until you cannot get it wrong! "You will not rise to the occasion, you will default to the highest level of training you have mastered." This was said by an instructor that was my mentor, James Yeager.