Equipping: Get Needed Tools

Figure out what you need and learn how to buy the best stuff quickly and cheaply.

You'll need to get equipment required for prepositioning capabilities and immediate mission requirements.

Self-equipping

Most people must self-equip with whatever they need to be effective operators.

Organized Supplying

Corporations, organizations and recruiters may have the resources and systems in place for supplying their personnel with equipment.

Acquisition

Getting the kit you need can be done in stores or by ordering online.

Ordering Online

Cheap ground shipping can take up to two weeks, so pay for expedited delivery if you can't wait that long.

Price Protection

Use priceprotectr.com when you buy something from Amazon, Backcountry.com, Best Buy, Circuit City, Costco, Future Shop, Jenson USA, Office Max, Sears, or Target.

Supplying Recruits

When you recruit someone new to activism they will need equipment. Use the recruiting and supplying skills to assist with this process.

Getting Software

Buying Software

Downloading Software

Equip, v. t.: 1. To furnish for service, or against a need or exigency; to fit out; to supply with whatever is necessary to efficient action in any way; to provide with arms or an armament, stores, munitions, rigging, etc.; said esp. of ships and of troops.

—Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Equipping Examples

• In the 1800s it was common for volunteer soldiers to equip themselves with the tools and weapons they needed rather than being supplied by armies