March 7th, 2007

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What’s in Val Kilmer’s ‘Go Bag’?

I was just reading what Adam Savage (of “Mythbusters” fame) had asked on Ask MetaFilter, and encountered this question about one of my favourite movies that hardly anybody has seen:

In the great movie Spartan (insert difference of opinion here) Val Kilmer plays a kind of special forces agent, with small bag he refers to (in the excellent commentary) as a “Go Bag” and says that it contains everything tha a real special forces dude would have in such a bag. Can anyone enlighten me what would be in there?

I must rent it again and listen to the commentary. Apparently the  go bag or “bugout bag” is everything “you need to be able to survive for 24/48/72 hours”. Here’s one example from a gun collector’s forum.

Comments: 3 Responses so far

Celia
March 8th, 2007
6:50 pm

Mamet + espionage (sorta) = me seeing it twice.

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Ian
March 9th, 2007
6:50 am

As a Kilmer fan, I haven’t seen that one. I’ll check it out.

Have you seen Salton Sea with Kilmer?
Loved it. Not many people have seen that one. He also gave a killer performance in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

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David
October 29th, 2008
8:25 am

Go bag contents - typically
Stainless steel flask
1 x small wash bag / change of socks & underwear
24 Hr ration pack - small
Poncho liner or shooting mat.
Small thermal top.
Id / Credit cards / Gold Sovereigns
Phone / Radios
Knife / Leaherman
Small Rifle Cleaning Kit
Torch

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