{"id":56580,"date":"2024-07-18T20:53:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T18:53:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=56580"},"modified":"2025-07-18T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T22:03:52","slug":"the-united-states-army-rangers-and-their-ingenious-method-of-folding-their-uniforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/07\/18\/the-united-states-army-rangers-and-their-ingenious-method-of-folding-their-uniforms\/","title":{"rendered":"The United States Army Rangers and their ingenious method of folding their uniforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier must carry a lot of material in little space, and to obtain an optimal solution there are procedures in almost all armies.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/05\/22\/the-items-a-united-states-marine-carries-in-his-backpack-on-a-72-hour-operation\/\">The items a United States Marine carries in his backpack on a 72-hour operation<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/11\/16\/the-video-of-a-us-army-sergeant-showing-how-to-configure-an-ach-helmet\/\">The video of a US Army sergeant showing how to configure an ACH helmet<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><strong>The US Armed Forces are known for having procedures for almost everything<\/strong>. That country already has a long military experience from which it always tries to draw lessons to implement improvements, and this includes <strong>the contents of its soldiers' backpacks and the way to fold their uniforms<\/strong> to make better use of space.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53865691833_787bd9bbcb_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of the special operations forces of the United States Army is the 75th Ranger Regiment<\/strong>, created in 1984 but whose origins date back to Rogers' Rangers of the mid-18th century, before that country's independence. country. <strong>The Rangers function as a highly prepared, airborne light infantry force<\/strong> and oriented towards direct action raids against heavily armed targets. <strong>The Rangers are one of the most active forces in the US Army<\/strong>, and that means carrying out numerous deployments.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53865797274_439ab5c84f_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This availability forces the Rangers to <strong>always have their luggage ready for rapid mobilization<\/strong>, with everything necessary for the success of the mission. This includes <strong>a very ingenious way to carry spare campaign uniforms<\/strong> inside the backpack, optimizing space and being able to take out an entire OCP uniform by just moving one piece. This video from <a href=\"https:\/\/tacticalgear.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TacticalGear.com<\/a> <strong>explains how they do it:<\/strong ><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Ranger Roll Your OCP Uniform\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bvbJ2Vct1VU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Who knows? Maybe someone can get some good ideas from this to improve the contents of their suitcase for these summer vacations...<\/p>\n<p>---<\/p>\n<p><small>Photos: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/75thRangerRegiment1942\/photos_by\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The 75th Ranger Regiment<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/image\/8359713\/2024-best-ranger-competition\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">U.S. Army<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A soldier must carry a lot of material in little space, and to obtain an optimal solution there are procedures in almost all armies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,17023],"tags":[22066,318],"class_list":["post-56580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-equipment","tag-75th-ranger-regiment","tag-us-army"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-12 00:51:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}