{"id":62928,"date":"2023-02-10T09:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.wordpress.com\/?p=62928"},"modified":"2023-02-10T09:13:02","modified_gmt":"2023-02-10T15:13:02","slug":"blood-type-and-nka-patches-worthwhile-or-tacticool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/10\/blood-type-and-nka-patches-worthwhile-or-tacticool\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood-Type and NKA Patches: Worthwhile or \u201cTacticool\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-62930\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2023\/02\/blood-type-patch-1.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breachbangclear.com\/blood-type-and-nka-patches-worthwhile-or-tacticool\/\">Blood-Type and NKA Patches: Worthwhile or \u201cTacticool\u201d?<\/a><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Greg Ellifritz over at A.R.T. made a comment on this that I agree with 100%: Regardless of what type you have written\/ patched\/ or stickered, the ER is still going to type your blood before administering. Simply to help avoid that liability. They have no way of knowing if you borrowed the boots\/ jacket\/ body armor bearing the blood-type patch. Hospital, blood typing is apparently a pretty routine and swift process.<\/h2>\n<h2>This is a classic example of a piece of practical military warfighter kit that migrated over to the civilian\/LE world where it does not have as much validity.<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-57330\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2022\/09\/train100.jpg?w=620\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"349\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blood-Type and NKA Patches: Worthwhile or \u201cTacticool\u201d? &nbsp; Greg Ellifritz over at A.R.T. made a comment on this that I agree with 100%: Regardless of what type you have written\/ patched\/ or stickered, the ER is still going to type your blood before administering. Simply to help avoid that liability. They have no way of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[5477,4134,1928,1841,17,10,404,405,5623],"tags":[15621,15622,15623,134,293],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}