The Well-Armed Medic

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The United States Army Medical Center of Excellence provides Service Members medical correspondence courses to help build and maintain their medical knowledge and skills.

Those correspondence courses are available as PDF files (compressed into a269 MB Zip file) downloadable from the Google Drive site at  -  https://tinyurl.com/bdd3kaxm

While participation in the US Army correspondence course program is limited to military personnel, the correspondence course material itself is available to the general public; and we believe it is a useful resource for any person interested in survival and self-reliance.


Deployed Medicine (https://www.deployedmedicine.com/) is a platform used by the Defense Health Agency to trial new innovative learning models aimed at improving readiness and performance of deployed military medical personnel. Download the Tactical Combat Casualty Care Combat Medic/Corpsman Course (TCCC CMC) curriculum here: https://www.deployedmedicine.com/market/299
 

What do Soldiers carry in their first aid kits?

TC 4-02.1 First Aid (January 2016)
Appendix A - Improved First Aid Kit

A-1. Improved first aid kit contents includes—

Modular Lightweight Load-carrying Equipment (MOLLE) II, utility pouch.
Tourniquet, combat application.
Bandage kit, elastic.
Bandage gauze, 4½˝ 100’s package.
Adhesive tape surgical, 2˝ x 6' roll.
Airway, nasopharyngeal.
Glove, patient exam, 100’s package.
Dressing, combat gauze.
Insert, (folding panels with cord).

The IFAK II adds—
1 new custom pouch.
Second Tourniquet, combat application.
1 marker.
1 eye shield.
1 commercial chest seal.
1 strap cutter.
1 TCCC Card (DD Form1380).
Combat gauze is issued by the unit.

Special Operations Forces (SOF) Operators need a variety of individual medical items that can generally be broken down into three types of medical kits: a major trauma kit, to treat major traumatic wounds; an inuse medical kit, to prevent or treat anticipated common medical conditions during operations; and a survival medical kit, to treat minor injuries and ailments when in a survival/evasion situation.

These two articles discuss Special Operations Individual Medical Equipment and can also serve as a reference for those of us who spend a lot of time in remote and wilderness areas:

Special Operations Individual Medical Equipment, Part I - The Major Trauma Kit

Special Operations Individual Medical Equipment, Part II - The In-Use and Survival Medical Kits

Download these articles for information on designing / improving your personal first aid kits: https://cascadiasurvivalist.blogspot.com/2022/02/special-forces-first-aid-kits.html


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