That may be the case, but when the entire bag is black, this one tan zipper pull looks like a mistake. Desert tan is also a military color, and GoRuck informed me that this one zipper pull is a different color in order to help you differentiate the pockets. The bag is entirely black except for one zipper pull, which is desert tan. If there's a silver lining it's that the straps did become comfortable, but it took a week before they felt sufficiently broken-in, even if it was never simple to shrug them on. The super durable backpack that I use to climb through mountain passes has straps that are a quarter of the thickness. Tactical backpacks don’t have straps like this. Thick and stiff with foam, they seem like a concession to commuter comfort, evidence of design by committee. The straps on this bag are, well, overkill. The 1000-dernier Cordura fabric contributes to this weight, as does all that MOLLE webbing. I weighed it at 3.5 pounds (for comparison, my Topo Designs daypack weighs 1.4 pounds, and my 33L Gregory hiking backpack weighs 2.11 pounds). There's no mincing words-this bag weighs a ton. And a fully unzipped bag makes it a lot more likely that a dirty sports bra will accidentally fall out on a co-worker's shoe. Lives don’t depend on whether or not I can find my lunch in thirty seconds. But I don’t need to fully pack and unpack an everyday commuter bag that sits beside my desk. For a civilian, this is a useful feature on, say, a suitcase or travel backpack. That renders most of the expensive MOLLE webbing on the GR1 kinda useless.Īlso, a real med-pack fully unzips on either side so you can throw it down and repack it quickly. We especially don’t need MOLLE mounting points on the exterior of the bag or on the shoulder straps. There’s just one problem when adopting this system for civilians-we don't use MOLLE pouches. The bags are designed so that a medic can unzip it, and instantly find and grab the piece of equipment that will save an injured comrade's life.
The MOLLE system is efficient and excellent, as it should be. Medics store and organize their gear in MOLLE pouches with tabs that you thread through the webbing (they also have a Velcro-lined interior to store even more gear). Med-packs are covered in MOLLE webbing, inside and out. Med-packs use a mounting system called the MOLLE (Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment) system. The GR1 is copied from a Special Forces medic’s bag (you can Google “DA med-pack” or “tactical medic pack” to find used ones on eBay).
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