Would This Survival Kit Keep You Alive? I review the Vintage SRU-16/P

this military parachute survival kit is really interesting and we're going to be opening this up and giving each item a very unique score now this scoring system is far from what you call Standard but hopefully it'll be fun here's a spoiler alert the kit is missing some really critical items that I cannot believe the US military forgot to put in here and there's one item in this kit that's going to make you wonder what they were thinking altogether and if you make it to the deep end of the video there's a bonus let's get into it these parachute survival kits were issued to people from the Vietnam era all the way up into the80s the bag that this comes in is actually sewn closed so we have to rip it open to see what's inside little foil myar pouch all right so we want to keep this pouch intact if we can all right inside we have oh yeah check that out inside we have a list of contents and um a couple of real meager instructions packaging is pretty good for this it kept everything dry rust free the fire starters all work so for that I'm going to give it five GI Jo guys because it did a great job I can't see a way they could improve this and keep it light waterproof Etc good job good job yay this is 20 ft of snare wire we' use this to create snares with or make tools around Camp 20 ft is not a whole lot but at least it's something this is actually the perfect type of wire for a snare kit this would be great for INS snaring small animals catching rabbits squirrels other rodentia make a small Loop in The Wire like this and if you're making a spring type snare you'd maybe take a 2 ft off of this and loop the wire over on itself and then just start to bend it back and forth basically moving it back and forth like this really really fast will eventually cause it to break you don't need wire cutters to cut wire now this kit doesn't come with any snare locks so the snare is just going to open itself back up again but you still have a good chance of snaring something with a spring snare because when the spring snare trips it's going to put tension on the snare and pull the animal up into the air tangle mangle strangle and dangle those are the types of ways you can procure game in the wilderness this would be tangle strangle and angle three in one please note it is very illegal to snare game almost everywhere so uh only in an emergency situation should you be doing this and if it is legal to snare game where you live then do it in the right season with the right permits and do it humanely don't be stupid so the wire gets five GI Joe guys because it is absolutely perfect in my opinion next we have a button Compass now this button Compass uh looks like it's pretty accurate button compasses are what they are they give you a very general direction your belt buckle could throw them off so be careful how you use them hold them very flat in your hand away from your body the button Compass gets a three out of five it does a great job being what it is but what it is isn't that great in my opinion so it gets a three out of five it's just it's just okay it's Compact and it works next we have four fire starters these are little fire starter cubes these are probably not waterproof fire starters so we'll see they look like bullon Cubes but they're I know that they are fire starters because I'm looking at the uh contents package here so we have four of those so that's pretty generous okay let's talk about the fire starters all right uh don't do this at home I have three fire extinguishing methods Within Reach of myself right now do not do this at home this is for sence these have what looks like a little bit of red phosphorus on them as a means to light them so I'm assuming all I have to do is just strike these on the provided Striker and it will start on fire but first I really want to see if these are waterproof so I'm going to dunk this sucker and I don't think that that red phosphorus is waterproof uh but we'll see ah there it goes beautiful and it goes out okay p pulling out the Clipper lighter let's see if we can get it to light so it doesn't seem like it's super waterproof I'm going to cut this open and expose some of the inside of it and see if I can get it to light then these would give you a lot of trouble if they got wet so they're not waterproof I'm just going to give this to GI Joe guys because it does work but it's not completely waterproof and it would need to be in my opinion they should have dunked the entire thing in paraffin and then you could scrape away the paraffin to get to the igniter ignite it and then the entire thing would be much more robust still smells like matches down here except a really really big match like the smell of red phosphorus in the afternoon you know what I mean and this is hilarious but pretty practical we have a non-lubricated condom now this would be used for water transportation you could go and fill this up with water and uh take it back to Camp or whatever you can carry water in these so always he's good to practice safe survival this says it expires 9 of 2004 so yeah it's been a while since this has been appropriate to use woo this looks like it is pretty old and dried out for sure wow this is kind of melted together on itself I'm not sure it's still viable to use I think the answer is this will not work he ripped apart instantly these things do have a shelf life toast okay let's talk about the elephant in the room the condom all the technology that the US military has to put to bear on this project of making a survival kit why in the world did they choose a condom as a water carrier one it doesn't carry very much two it's difficult to drink out of it doesn't have any form to it so it's difficult to actually use it maybe because they thought it was durable the condom is going to get a three out of five why because it is adequate it's it would do what they intended it to do but I don't think it's going over and above I think they could have maybe put a little more into that solution and made it better I think I think that's pretty funny so now the fun part they give us a really cool knife and it's wrapped in Scotch tape uh they don't want those blades to come open when you hit the ground apparently wow this tape is really on there there's two gigantic needles big sail needles that are taped to the knife here okay so this is our small knife and it is pretty sharp it's got nail Nicks so you can get it out that's our main blade so made in China this is a Jaguar Jaguar knife the lock up is terrible on it and there's a third blade not too bad the lockup is a little sloppy but uh it's very sharp youd be a decent knife I know you've been wanting to talk about this knife and congratulations for making it to the deep end of the video seriously I really appreciate you watching and supporting the channel and if you want to support the channel and the work that I do on it for you a few bucks a month and you are supporting the channel and you get some 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blade they all have nail Nicks so what these blades would be used for is the Sheep's foot would be great for carving where you don't need a really sharp point you don't always have to go for the the largest knife blade on your knife um use those smaller blades they're more controllable for what it is for when this kit came out so context I think it really just barely checks the box of being an adequate survival blade it gets three GI Joe guys so part of the load out these guys would have would be one of these which is a light marker it's a distress light marker infrared and you would just basically turn this on and point it up towards the sky and somebody flying over would be able to see this flashing um I tried to get this working but the bulb is completely shot in it unfortunately so I might rebuild this put some LEDs in there just for fun that'd be a really cool and very nerdy project you know nowadays we just have the little Garmin SOS button that we can push and search and rescue will come find us but back then they didn't have that so that was their Personal Locator Beacon back in the day awesome that gets five G Jo guys in here we've got some matches they gave us 10 wooden matches wrapped in two different layers and they have given us two extra Strikers so they really want to make sure you don't lose the strikers which is nice let's see if these super super old matches will actually work there you go first try how about it huh way cool it's really cool to see that the matches still work after all these years yeah let's talk about these matches safety second it's not safety first because Safety First would not be doing the dangerous thing at all so now I'm going to dunk it in water real quick quick dunk they're not waterproof matches why not it is so easy to dip these in wax and get so much better waterproofing out of them than they have so don't understand that choice the matches get a two out of five because they could have been dipped in paraffin or wax bumped up the number to a maybe a a three or four that'd be nice big Lifeboat matches would be really nice in a kid like this so just two jao guys they've given us four fish HS with leaders on them and you use the parachute lines you take apart the parachute lines the Paracord and get the threads out of there to use as fishing line the fish hooks are fish hooks that's all I have to say about that they get a four so here is what we are obviously missing we are missing water purification tablets there's none in here for the size and weight that it would take up I'm really shocked that those aren't in here like a couple of iodine tablets so I read somewhere that in kits manufactured from 1962 through 1971 they actually contained six IOD tablets in a small glass vial I have no idea why they stopped putting them in the kits so the kit gets a big fat zero when it comes to water purification zero boo hiss these two needles are pretty gigantic you would not sew yourself up with these if you had a a cut or something like that these are absolutely massive this would be used for repairing gear I imagine so almost certainly you would have parachute cord with you if you were in a survival situation with this kit so you would take your par parachute cord and gut it and you would get all these strands inside of it that you could use for fishing line or if you really had to to suture yourself up but that would be unbelievably painful with the size of these needles these parachute strands actually have three threads inside of them so you can separate them out one more time the needles are awesome they are also huge you might use them for lancing a wound or something I don't know they're they're they're enormous the thing is they have to sort of be orous because the Paracord needs to fit through them so I get it but also what what would you what would you use it for practically speaking so the whole kit gets a score of three it is just barely adequate I if I could give it a two and a half I would give it a two and a half the parachute would be your shelter the par of cord would be your cordage so it's okay I'll give it a two or three is there anyone watching this video that went through sear training I would love to hear what you think about this so there you go that's what was in a survival kit for Airmen back in the Vietnam era all the way through the80s what other kits should I find and look at what would you put in this survival kit hope you found that useful or at least entertaining we'll see you [Music] [Music] later