The after-action reports keep coming in and lots of lessons are being learned.
Mrgunsngear had Skinny Medic on to talk about first aid kits…
The big thing I need to do is get my first aid stuff out and make sure we know how to use everything in the bag as when a crisis is happening is the wrong time to be figuring out how something works.
Big Country also did an after-action, The After Action Report and Maaan I Need a Vacation, and some important stuff included having an old school battery or hand-crank radio for when your “smart” phone becomes a “dumb” phone. I have one of each, haven’t broken them out in a while so I need to do that as well. He also reiterated something I posted about recently, the need for cash money in a crisis because credit card processing probably won’t work.
I am trying to read lots of these and watch the videos, they give me lots of food for thought and important reminders. Most critically is making sure everything I have stashed away is functional. Hopefully I’ll never need to use any of it but it is better to have and not need than to need and not have.
WNC here.
One is none, Two is true, Three is better than two.
Always remember that your preps will only help you if they are not currently floating down the Swannanoa river, as a good bit of mine did.
Did you lose your place Brother?
We are weak in the area of 1st aid.
Do they sell a tacticool kit?
Practice drills work wonders for identifying weak areas.
Rotate supplies as well as test functionality.
IFAK Individual First Aid Kit
Medical supplies will be useless to you if you don’t know how to use them. Locally, there may be free First Aid classes you can attend.
Therefore, if you know what you’ll need in a FAK you can purchase the individual items as you see fit and not waste a lot of money on mostly worthless junk.
I worked as an EMT many years ago and have multiple levels of FAK’s, from the large red Plano multi-tiered tool box in the house, to the much smaller pack in my vehicle, to the very small IFAK in my go-bag. All have equipment and supplies I am very familiar with.
Dietrich Medical Gear Outfitters.
I’ve purchased from them- good prices, great variety and fast delivery. A lot of good information on their site as well.
Wish I still had my old Baygen.
I tried to trade for a CCCP hand crank radio and actual KGB hat but the professor wouldn’t budge, he has shuffled off and now the neighborhood is fundamentally transformed as I found out a couple of hours ago.
Don’t forget to say your prayers always. (H/T-Buck Turgidson)
Defend your supply is important with the will to squeeze no matter what the power.
Don’t worry about consequences on the next level as all commies are subhuman vermin and angels dance when you make a good one.
Once you go black it never comes back, once you go brown it all goes down.
Survival Blog (James Wesley Rawles) has many medical/first aid articles embedded in its site, free for the taking. All one need do is to peruse the site, use the search box and invest in some basic (and more advanced) supplies:
https://survivalblog.com/2011/02/03/two-letters-re-first-aid-kits-2/
It is stated that those general purpose “250-piece” kits are probably just 200 or so “boo boo” items, good for skinned knees, etc. Clearly, we must do better than that!
If we want to get serious we must spend some actual cash! (Though a tampon could help with a wound, but “Quik-Clot” is far superior).
I regularly read selected chapters of “Field Guide to Wilderness Medicine” by Auerbach. This is a 1000 page paperback that is worth its weight in gold. Nothing says “First Aid” when it has to be delivered 100 miles from one’s local walk-in clinic or E.D. First Principles are…………….First Principles.
TAKE,
We operate a small organic teaching farm near the outskirts of Eugene Oregon.
We share the acreage with a couple-three dozen other workkampers.
We are a high percentage of retired military and LawEnforcementOfficials.
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After hearing the tampon theory, we experimented with swine.
Based on our results, we think a tampon is engineered to absorb a tiny amount of intermittent fluid.
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For a gushing penetration injury with arterial damage — knife, branch/antler, GSW — we stock versions of veterinary clot powder.
For a slow leaker, we apply a loose wrap and generally let it flush to stop.
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Prior to applying clot powder, restrain the vic.
Stuff burns worse than that red mercurochrome goop your parents doused on your scaped knee as a kid.
Expect significant reactive thrashing and foul language.
I think you meant Merthiolate.
Like the other stuff, but emitted directly out of the devil’s anus itself.
https://www.amazon.com/DLC-Merthiolate-Tintura-Tincture-Bottles/dp/B08KGH44C8