Soon as I'm home from work. Can't actually dump IFAK though. Vacuum packed.

I can dump that and show the clear bag of stuff.

I'll get it when I'm off shift.

@Misaki

3 Hyphins, Chitogauze, NPA, Needle Decompression Kit, gloves, NAR gauze, roll gauze, tape. CAT is on the plate carrier.

Yeah, 3 I said so. Chito is another coag bandage.

I guess I spelt it with a ph wrong at some point and it was stuck in my autocorrect

Yes. We've seen them clog with clot. SOP is needle for any chest wound that could penetrate the plural space.

TCCC says to burp the seal and reassess, but ain't nobody got time for that. If they have a sucking chest wound, it's going to turn into a tension pneumothorax by the time you're clear of enemy fire. Seal the entry and exit, needle at the 2nd ICS midclavicular line.

TCCC is a guideline, not a protocol. Units can and do augment it. It's the bare minimum skill set for a medic or CLS.

You can't do any more damage with a 14 gauge needle than the bullet or shrapnel did anyway.

Nah dawg, I get tested twice a year because of work. No pozing here.

Same goes for Hep C testing. When you spend your entire work week treating IV drug abusers trying to fake a bullshit injury in the Emergency Room for more smack, you start getting cautious.

IFAKs should be sealed anyway.

Buy them vacuum sealed, or if you make your own, vacuum seal them yourself.

God damn I love my vacuum sealer. So much clothing has been jammed in so many way too small bags thanks to it.

Nah. I'm in the US. Working overnights in an ER in an area with massive opioid consumption.

Inside joke I never changed. Someone inferred I was Yakuza and I just changed all my social media to Osaka.

Floridurp

Boog will be urban. Boog calls for grey cordura.

Someone has to keep the New Yorkers south of I4

There's a reason they call us the 6th Borough

After the hurricane, Orlando's more Puerto Rican than East Harlem.

In all seriousness, I just have so many old camo patterns it's the only thing that matches all of them.

Goes okay with my old woodlands, not too horrible with my DCUs, beautiful with my flightsuit if I ever felt like wearing that with full kit.

I even have a hideous ABU combat shirt in a box somewhere in the back of my storage shed.

And I'm colorblind, so I don't have to give a shit about trying to match shades of green and brown.

I'm only green deficient. I can read Fuck the color blind on that one. It's made for full red-green color blindness.

I'm missing half of my green cones, it means there's a cut off for certain shades where they'll be seen with red cones. Certain greens are gree, others are red. That means certain reds are seen the same way as those cross over greens.

I just have a range of reds and a range a greens that I can't differentiate. I only know they're not Blue or Yellow.

Though there's also a range where green can look grey if it's dark. Ranger green looks just like wolf grey to me.

Had a ranger green jacket I though was grey for ages until I left it at a friend's place and they called to say I'd left my green jacket.

Much better helmet right here

There is literally a proven treatment that has been 100% effective and had no incidence of adverse side effects in animal testing, but FDA won't approve human trials because stem cells and not that bad a disability.

@Surbotron if you don't get the sniffles in spring, SERE Instructor doesn't require full color vision.

Basic training was fun. I had all the AFSOC guys coming in to try and talk me into testing out because I went in open general.

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>Great PFTs, and great ASVAB, son. How would you like to test out for TACP?
>Colorblind, SSgt.
>Nevermind then, Trainee.
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General and Sergeant Major staring and wondering if they'll end up on the news for smoking her over that safety violation.

Found an old picture of me from basic.

Wish they had us pose with our rifles when they took it.

I need to build an A2. Miss that ugly bitch.

I have a XM-177 and a bunch of flat tops. I just want to fill the gap.

TWO GULF WARS

Nah man, you just need to Gorilla Tape some ceramic tiles together with a flattened Amazon box between each one.

You can make the whole thing more durable by sliding it inside a bubble mailer. +5 to durability if it's one of the black bubble mailers from Haley Strategic.

Gen 3

4s say Ps15 4

@CTL that's how ATN marks their 3+

@CTL I think it's been so long since the Army approved a new name for a generation that companies want to make it clear that the newer tech is being included, not the minimum for gen 3.

It's a made up generation because the Army won't name it.

Gotta spit on it before you start shoving shit in there. Helps if you call it a dirty girl too.

Meh, I'm never losing sleep over it either.

The best camo patterns are animal prints, made from actual animals.

Also depends on if you want access to controls or if you'll set it and forget it.

Extended battery?

I went with the Maxpedition universal one for mine. Tried a few others I've since returned that were too loose. Also, yeah 556 mag pouches. My brother has his in a cheap banded magpouch.

I'm done with the rest if my life.

Ye'sir, cant top the M9. Back to back Gulf War champion.

That's the one cool thing about Canadian gun laws. Stubbies for everyone.

@CTL your words do not hurt me. I have become the pain, and in turn have become stronger than it.

I should just go full "fuck my shit up" and go back to PASGT vest and K-pot.

I'm not that much of a boomer. I was only in PASGT for a year.

I already get that sweet VA check.

14 here. My two main servers were like a spider carrying an egg sack. They were killed, but hundreds of nightmares sprang forth from them.

AWW SHIT YEAH! Red Wing just called me. My boots are resoled and ready for me to pick up.

Yeah, it's kind of a boot thing to do if you're not a medic...

There's a guy near me who has a woodland hydrodipped prosthetic leg.

I have shown up to a range day in UDT shorts and bandaids over my nipples under the plate carrier, but I changed after all the guys got a good laugh, never in whatever the fuck casual friday fucker was wearing.

F

Boomer moment.

He was coding on terminals in the 80's in college.

Took programing as a filler elective one year and was good enough that the professor hired him and talked the dean into giving him course credit for OJT.

He only used the degree when he worked in electronics sales. He always went back to tech.

Go listen to some dubstep

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