STAFF SERGEANT NICK Lavery wasn’t only the most physically imposing Green Beret on our team, he was the most physically imposing soldier any of us had ever seen. He was 6’5″, approaching 280 pounds, and cut like a linebacker—the position at which he excelled, not coincidentally, as a college football player at the University of…
Category: Tactical Medicine
VetiGel: The Future of Stopping Traumatic Bleeding
If this get’s approved, it will save countless lives on the battlefield and on the mean streets….
Beware of Fake Tourniquets!
A Fake Tourniquet Could Cost Your Life! Counterfeit tourniquets, of all things. On July 14, 2015, an Ocean City, New Jersey patrolman applied a tourniquet to an 18-year old traffic victim’s leg. This action is credited with saving her life. On August 8, 2015, a Florida deputy sheriff investigator used a tourniquet to save the…
Essential Gear: The PTK 1.0
With the recent rash of active shooter/terrorist incidents (You know things have went to shit when you have to ask “Which rash of shootings are you talking about… last week or this week?”) I thought it prudent to re-iterate a piece of kit I think every SERIOUS CO should have on them at all times,…