question on 5.11 pants

omnibus1967 · August 27, 2012, 01:12 AM

anyone know the purpose of the "rope" on the back pocket?

thanks.....Bill

Gary L. Griffiths · August 27, 2012, 01:35 AM

A quick handle to drag your incapacitated butt out of the line of fire if you get hit.

Seriously!

10-96 · August 28, 2012, 08:49 PM

The one's I've been issued don't appear to be all that stout (esp for that purpose). I always thought it was just left for the user's imagination- gloves, game calls, radio with clip, another handy place to hang your thumb, decoys, rattlin' racks, pre-set flexi cuffs, etc.

rgrundy · August 29, 2012, 11:00 AM

It's a drag rope. We had handles inside jippered pouches on our flight jackets that had a handle in them too. Everyone was surprised to find out that it wasn't a hood inside to keep their head warm, but a handle to drag their lifeless body out of the helicopter. LOL

BarryLee · August 29, 2012, 05:09 PM

I’ve heard three theories on the reason for the strap and have no idea if any are true.

The aforementioned handle for dragging you away

As a location for affixing carabineers and similar gear

As an aide to secure long items like flashlights in your rear pocket

August 27, 2012, 01:12 AM	#1
omnibus1967 Senior Member Join Date: December 18, 2006 Location: Central PA Posts: 159	question on 5.11 pants anyone know the purpose of the "rope" on the back pocket? thanks.....Bill

August 27, 2012, 01:35 AM	#2
Gary L. Griffiths Senior Member Join Date: April 8, 2000 Location: On The Road, somewhere in the good ol' US of A. Posts: 1,113	A quick handle to drag your incapacitated butt out of the line of fire if you get hit. Seriously! __________________ Violence is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and valorous feeling which believes that nothing is worth violence is much worse. Those who have nothing for which they are willing to fight; nothing they care about more than their own personal safety; are miserable creatures who have no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of those better than themselves. Gary L. Griffiths, Chief Instructor, Advanced Force Tactics, Inc. (Paraphrasing John Stuart Mill)

August 28, 2012, 08:49 PM	#3
10-96 Senior Member Join Date: October 19, 2005 Location: Tx Panhandle Territory Posts: 2,864	The one's I've been issued don't appear to be all that stout (esp for that purpose). I always thought it was just left for the user's imagination- gloves, game calls, radio with clip, another handy place to hang your thumb, decoys, rattlin' racks, pre-set flexi cuffs, etc. __________________ Rednecks... Keeping the woods critter-free since March 2, 1836. (TX Independence Day) I'm going to use the words "clip" and "Long Colt" every chance I get. It grinds my gears to see new members attacked when we all know dang good and well what's being refered to.

August 29, 2012, 05:09 PM	#5
BarryLee Senior Member Join Date: July 29, 2010 Location: The ATL (OTP) Posts: 2,156	I’ve heard three theories on the reason for the strap and have no idea if any are true. The aforementioned handle for dragging you away As a location for affixing carabineers and similar gear As an aide to secure long items like flashlights in your rear pocket __________________ A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that it ... gives people what they want instead of what a particular group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself. - Milton Friedman

August 29, 2012, 11:00 AM	#4
rgrundy Senior Member Join Date: June 30, 2012 Location: Phoenix Posts: 188	It's a drag rope. We had handles inside jippered pouches on our flight jackets that had a handle in them too. Everyone was surprised to find out that it wasn't a hood inside to keep their head warm, but a handle to drag their lifeless body out of the helicopter. LOL