The Prepper Broadcasting Network - The Prepper Tip of the Day: Get Home Kits

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

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PPN Family, it's time for the prepper tip of the day. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, folks. Today's Prepar Tip of the Day is brought to you by Lima Tango Survival. We are talking about get-home kits, not get-home bags, maybe get-home bags, but of all the kits and bags out there, check out Lima Tango Survival.com. They are my recommendation to you. They are a great sponsor here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network. I personally own three of their kits. They're incredible kits, and I can tell you, there's nothing like them for the price on the market period.

Lima Tango Survival.com. Check them out. Size matters. Let's start with that. You show me the size of a bugout bag. You show me the size of a get-home bag. And I can learn a lot about the business. prepper wielding it.

It took me several years to come to the realization that get-home bags or maybe even get-home kits do not have to look like you're backpacking the Alps. Okay, my prepper tip of the day for you today is to do a get-home exercise. Or at least look at a Google map and calculate what your get-home. distance truly is, what the terrain in the distance really is, right? Are you five highway miles from home? Are you 100 highway miles from home? Your get-home bag or your get-home kit should mirror the distance. It should look a lot like the distance. It should be there to accommodate the distance in the terrain that you have to cover. You see a get-home bag or you have to

hear the word get-home bag, which is a popular term in the prepper world, and automatically you assume, like any rational person would, oh, I need a bag. I need a bag full of stuff because I'm making a get-home bag. But what I came to realize, I don't know, nine, eight, nine years ago, something like that now is a get-home bag is a hindrance. For where I was working, the terrain I'd have to cover to get home, the things I actually would need, right? Right? In other words, if you have a get-home bag with a folding saw in it and you're traversing, you know, suburb and urban spraw for 10 miles on foot, this is your get-home, you know, operation, leave the saw, right? The folding saw is not going to serve you. You're not going to be building a shelter. You're not going to be cutting a shelter. You're not going to be cutting. cutting firewood, pardon me, in order to execute on your get-home operation. The goal is very straightforward with a get-home kit or a get-home bag.

Unlike a bug-out bag that could be a little more, you know, a little more. With the get-home kit or the get-home bag, you really are whittling down. You know, the bug-out bag mentality always seems like pile as much stuff in a bag as possible. And a lot of that has to do with the God's honest truth that, you know, people that make a lot of money selling bugout bags. Whether or not they work or not. The get-home kit, the get-home bag, is about you. It's about your distance and your terrain. Okay?

So where are you going? How are you getting there? And so if you're under 20 miles, the least amount of... of gear you can carry the better you know if you're under 20 miles and you uh you know you're not traversing some kind of crazy to like you're not you don't have to avoid the highways and go through marsh or something crazy like that but if you're covering you know like a lot of people are urban suburban suburban terrain god sorry i'm laughing because i my my vehicle right has it has a a magnet in it that causes trains to come no matter where I go.

If I'm near a train track, then the train will be, like, sucked into my presence. So keep that in mind, folks. That is my prepper tip of the day. Your get-home bag or your get-home kit probably doesn't have to be as big as it is. If you're thinking it over right now, you know, it could be. What it probably should be is a get-home pouch with a change of. shoes, right? If you have an EDC that carries a lot of the fundamentals, then you probably have a get-home pouch or even a get-home water bottle with a change of shoes. Really? In most cases,

right, you're in a situation where for some reason you can't use the vehicle, but you have to get home, or there's some kind of, you know, impediments to the vehicle on the road, disaster, emergency, whatever, natural, you know, disaster. Your get-home kit shouldn't be a mountaineering framed backpack filled with, you know, sternos for cooking meals, mountain house meals. Because all you're going to do is overburden yourself and really probably the most important thing. Well, no, the most important thing. Not even a probably.

The most important thing with your get-home operation is speed, right? you have decided that what I have to do is get home and I have to use whatever I've stored to get home well now it's a matter of speed how do I get there as quickly as possible to take care of what I need to take care of how do I get back to survival headquarters in the ASAP and what do I really need for that operation talk to you guys soon

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