TactiSMART 024: MEDICAL Combat Life Saver Assault Pack Modular Patch UPGRADE

HISTORY

SSG Brian Heitman, U.S. ARMY (Retired) and I designed the M3A Corporal Desmond Doss Combat LifeSaver (CLS) Assault Pack for Bud Calkin's SKEDCO around 2002 to solve frustrations with the current M3 bag which is a disorganized mess slung at your back. 

SSG Heitman Super-Models His Own Rucksack!

combatreform.org/combatlifesavers.htm

https://www.amazon.com/Hacksaw-Ridge-Andrew-Garfield/dp/B01LTHZVSI/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=doss+ridge&qid=1592130537&s=movies-tv&sr=1-7

Hacksaw Ridge

Andrew Garfield (Actor), Sam Worthington (Actor), Mel Gibson (Director) 

The true story of Army medic and conscientious objector Desmond Doss who, during WWII, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun.

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The daypack-sized, SKEDCO M3A without the HSPR is less expensive.

https://skedco.com/product/m3a-ii-assault-combat-lifesaver-assault-pack-with-single-point-release/

M3A II™ (Assault) Combat Lifesaver Assault Pack with Single Point Release
$275.33

Color: ACU or Coyote Brown

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Product Description

Flexible 1-Quart Canteen in a M3A

This bag will carry a Collapsible Sked (SK-2310) and has pockets on the back that will hold everything from the M-3 bag with room to spare. The 4 side pockets can carry IV’s or other equipment. It can be strapped onto a standard ruck in the horizontal position or worn as a medic’s assault pack. It has detachable padded shoulder straps. There are straps on both sides that can be used as carrying handles. There is a pocket under the med pockets that extends the full length of the bag for long flat items (Sam Splints etc). This bag allows a combat lifesaver or basic medic to carry all necessary supplies and a collapsible Sked litter into combat.

The Sked-Pak™ I Jumpable Medical Ruck includes a sewn-on single point release and removable leg straps to meet the technical requirements for use by a parachutist. This design eliminates the need for the traditional “H” harness. When released the pack drops on a lowering line for personnel safety on landing. Military personnel and other jumpers are encouraged to contact Skedco for complete information regarding parachute jumping provisions of the bag.

Available in ACU and Coyote Brown. Made in USA.

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FUNCTIONS

The First Aid reality is nearly always YOU HAVE TO BRING THE MEDICAL SUPPLIES TO THE PATIENT. 

In the U.S. Military, each Soldier wears an Individual First Aid Kit (IFAK) with a pressure dressing/tourniquet and wise units have them carry a small IV bag with needle/catheter/tubing in one of their trouser side pockets so the CLS can use it--and not one of his IVs from his M3/M3A--to keep the casualty's blood vessels open and not collapsing (go into shock). I think each Soldier should carry a packet of Quik-Clot powder in his IFAK since you can't put a tourniquet around a torso or neck wound. I also detest the glee some LINNIES have at bragging about leg/arm amputations as some sort of sick badge of honor--when its a TRAGEDY we should have prevented by light tracked tank mechanization aka LIGHTning Infantry or Air-Mech-Strike (AMS) shielding our men from myriad enemy fire effects on the 720 degree Non-Linear Battlefield (NLB). 

https://1sttac.blogspot.com/2020/06/futurewarthink-013-lightning-infantry.html

There is a small, finite limit to what each Soldier can carry in his IFAK so all the many other needs have to be met by a dedicated rucksack--like the M3A which has clear pockets to see what your looking for. 

New developments like wound glue can be carried in the M3A.

Wound Glue

https://idstch.com/technology/biosciences/militaries-developing-new-technologies-extend-golden-hour-combat-injuries/
https://youtu.be/n1j0VVNB6bA

The M3A can carry the half-SKEDCO rescue plastic so casualties can be towed by the CLS hands-free to the mother unit track and/or aid station for 91W Medics to further treatment. The goal should be a fully-equipped M113A4 MEDIGAVIN with oxygen, whole blood, defib paddles--like an EMT Paramedic truck--manned by a Physician's Assistant (PA) Warrant Officer who can do surgical repair immediately--and not pass-the-casualty like a bureauctatic buck by insisting on a helicopter landing in the middle of a firefight to MEDEVAC him Jonathan Letterman-style back to the FOB. The Army needs to embrace DIRECT COPING with problems again. 

Up to this point, we've focused on the M3A's WAR applications--for civlant, Every Day Carry (EDC) and Home Defense (HD) it can also be your MEDICAL go-to bag. 

EDC

You are in the most danger in public in 50% immoral, hedonist America who are not adequately mature or trained to drive cars/trucks resulting in preventable crashes and tragedies. Your M3A should be in your trunk surrounded by a High-Viz YELLOW safety vest which will force you to put it on whenever you pull off to the side of the road to change a flat air rubber tire or render Good Samaritan, James Bond Citizen (JBC) MEDICAL help to a wounded person. I have already had to do this once--so don't live in BS denial that it can't happen to YOU--it can--and it will. 

When you are away from your car doing EDC things, your EDC "rig" aka SERE Pouch on Fanny Pack should have a mini-MEDICAL capability comparable to a WAR IFAK--2x pressure bandages to stop both an entrance & exit bullet wound and Quik-Clot powder. This is the WORST thing that can happen to you so be prepared for it. 

I have seen Preppers go everywhere with a Bug-Out-Bag (BOB) slung non-chalantly over one shoulder--young people hipster-style--such that they have MEDICAL needs covered plus a ballistic protective plate, a pistol with extra mags though IMHO like a Seat-Belt Cutter, Glass Breaker (GB() knife--needs to be more accessible on your body--water, food and a shelter/protective gear combo. 

We have already figured-out a LIFE REALISTIC Order of Work for the EDCO situation in the video below:

SAVE USA 5: Stealth 007 Survival Belt Kit--No Fires!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzs-PNJGhY8

The main components are:

Key Chain
SERE Pouch on: Fanny Pack

+ IF NEEDED plus a rain and/or warmth coat which can be carried in a BOB or worn or carried loosely in your hands to be hung up when inside.

I don't like lugging around a rucksack constantly on my back everywhere I go and have fought for years to keep them off my Soldier's backs for maximum 4-7 mph foot mobility. Leave your jacket and/or BOB in your car unless you need the former to stay dry/warm going from location to car and back.

Soldier with a First Aid Kit

The M3A has enough carry volume to be both a BOB and a MEDICAL rucksack say in a 50%/50% mix. This was a design feature Brian and I settled on so it could be carried efficiently as a 2-strap rucksack carrying Soldier WAR fighting items with the MEDICAL stuff. I prefer for EDC/SHTF to have a dedicated MEDICAL ruck (M3A) in my efficient, high MPG Yaris-Martin and a dedicated SHTF rucksack aka BOB. Bugging Out (BO) is the WORST and last-ditch desperate Course-Of-Action (COA) in event of SHTF because you cannot carry all the supplies you need to survive beyond 30 days on your back. Add a bike/cart you can extend survival to perhaps 3 months. Add the carry capabilities of a car/truck--perhaps a year. This is why IMHO every American should have a Sprinter Van configured as a complete, off-grid mobile home in event you have to BO--food/water supplies pre-loaded in and towed by trailer. Ideally, your SHTF, BO Sprinter Van should be parked underground making it a defacto Below Ground Shelter (BGS) to avoid destructive forces. Americans that complete 2 years of National Service (NS) should get a loan to buy their off-grid Sprinter Van and build its BGS.   

HOME DEFENSE

BO versus Home Defense aka (HD); HD wins because you can have statically-positioned far more supplies & equipment than manpack carry--several YEARS worth to live-out a societal collapse until the grid returns--or never returns. BO is a capability when YOU MUST RELOCATE TO GEOGRAPHICALLY RELOCATE TO AVOID OVERWHELMING TBATE/TBAM DESTRUCTIVE FORCES. The new movie, "Greenland" postulates comet fragments making life untenable everywhere on Earth except in Deep Underground Military Bases (DUMBs) reserved for DEEP STATE Illuminati elites in Denmark-owned, Greenland such that Gerard Butler must somehow get his family there to survive SHTF. 

I violently disagree and wish instead the movie depicted Butler & family building DIY an underground shelter (BGS) near their home--and getting neighbors to do the same--to show RESPONSIBLE CIVIL DEFENSE instead of a kinetic me, me, me grab-fest. It would then encourage us all to get prepared with BGSes IRL. 

If you think about it, even inside your home, if you get hurt you still have to BRING-THE-MEDICAL-TO-THE-PATIENT. So if you have your MEDICAL stuff in a drawer etc. you still have to go fetch for it and bring it to the victim--which could be you. So it's moot point whether having all your MEDICAL stuff in a BOB rucksack or in drawers. The Rule: Like-Things-Together should rule here.

HEALTH things are in your BATHROOM; if you get un-healthy hurt/sick--go to your bathroom for your HD cache' of MEDICAL stuff. In essence, we propose a 2-piece MEDICAL System:

EDC: M3A or other MEDICAL BOB in your car or slung across your back
HD: MEDICAL things in a grab-it kit or loose in drawers in your bathroom

BO: EDC + HD (-) aka the maximum items taken from HD your transportation can carry. 

UPDATES

MEDICAL Velcro Patches Available on amazon.com

If you already have a M3A, we suggest you upgrade it by adding 3x pieces of soft Velcro to modularly attach patches indicating who owns it, that its a MEDICAL gear rucksack etc. You can do this DIY using fabric glue.

We urge SKEDCO to upgrade all its M3As by adding these 3x Velcro pieces during manufacture so they are securely SEWN on.   

3x Soft Velcro Pieces: on top for a name or organizational tape with Hard Velcro backing, 2x Soft Velcro Squares on the Outer Compartments for Any Hard Velcro-backed, Patches You Desire...

Semper Airborne!

James Bond is REAL.