>>289002This.
Urban survival is very different form rural/wilderness survival in many ways.
Chief among those being that the environment you are operating in is completely different. This means survival strategies and choice in gear is going to be very different.
For urban and highly populated rural areas, follow the advice of people above and do not look like an attractive target by wearing all your good looking, military gear. Military/tactical gear is the best in functinality, but it gives itself away in urban and open environments. Camouflaged tactical gear still shows up well in these areas, the military gets away with it because they operate in highly trained, coordinated GROUPS. You, as a lone and highly kitted out individual, will be prey for lone opportunists and groups.
They will rob your shit, quite possibly injuring or killing you in the process, then wear it, and the same will most likely happen to them in a cycle until the gear ends up destroyed or in the hands of someone who takes the contents and stores/camouflages the carrier.
You can however, get away with tactical gear by disguising it as junk gear. Make a cover for that tactical backpack/vest to make it look like a busted up civvy pack/coat, with dirty rags and plastic bags patching it up. You don't have to be a destitute refugee to look like a destitute refugee. Don't move around unless you have to. Move at night when possible with no flashlight.
For the countryside and wilderness, military camouflage now starts to benifit you. DPM, Multicam etc is designed to conceal you in these environments. Again, move in twighlight hours, preferably at night with no light source. It is slow. It is difficult. It is dangerous. Practice doing it now. Learn to navigate woodland by starlight, learn to be careful so that you do not sprain an ankle, fall in a hole etc. In the end however, it is better to sprain an ankle and be layed up for a week than to be shot.
