Mission Gear

Bob Sampson’s LRRP/Ranger Loadout

by Jack Murphy Apr 4, 2012

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Basic Loadout for a routine Recon mission:

Alice pack

M-16 with 16-18 mags, 18 rounds in each

Stevens 12 Gage 100 rounds of 00 buck in a claymore bag, and 5 rounds in the gun.

Note: I had my choice of weapon to carry, 95% of the time I went with the shotgun.

Colt 1911 with 4 extra mags

K-Bar

PRC-25 radio

Compass

Maps

10 x 50 Binoculars

Code book

Note book

2 grease pencils

2 Frags

2 Smoke

2-3 canteens of water

6 LRRP rations

Ground cloth (section of a parachute panel)

2-3 Morphine syrettes

Couple of field dressings

Extra socks

Iodine tabs

Bob Sampson

71st LRRP 67/68 RVN

M/Company 75th Ranger 69/70 RVN

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Jack served as a Sniper and Team Leader in 3rd Ranger Battalion and as a Senior Weapons Sergeant on a Military Free Fall team in 5th Special Forces Group. Having left the military in 2010, he graduated from Columbia with a BA in political science. Murphy is the author of Reflexive Fire, Target Deck, Direct Action, and Gray Matter Splatter. His memoir, "Murphy's Law" is due for a 2019 release and can be pre-ordered now.