Here’s a sneak peek at upcoming Tac Med Signature series. It consists of user configurable bags and inserts.
Coming this summer from www.tacmedsolutions.com.
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Darley Defense Days 19 – Blue Force Gear Hammock
Tuesday, May 7th, 2019
The Hammock is the quick and easy way to carry a Tourniquet or other similar sized objects, on an existing belt or MOLLE mounted pouch. You can see it here, mounted below a triple Ten-Speed pouch on a PlateMINUS Carrier.
Here you can see that the slots allow the Hammock to be attached below another pouch so you’ll have a tourniquet with you. It reminds of the old M1910 dressing pouch.
Available in Black, Coyote or MultiCam.
Blue Force Gear products are available for unit and agency orders through Darley Defense.
SOTECH’s Newest SOF IFAK Innovation
Monday, May 6th, 2019
At the SOMA conference this week SOTECH will be debuting their newest development in their SOF IFAK line – the Rapid First Aid Pack, along with other new developments of SOTECH’s Tactical Medical Modular Care System Generation II. In its latest iteration, SOTECH took its SOF IFAK (circa 2003), narrowed it to a coffin shape and developed a double flapped rip cord no-look opening system. Thus, the zippered pouch could mount to the lower back for one-handed side access much the same as SOTECH’s Viper Flat IFAK system innovation that is now in use around the world. The double flap provides full enclosure retention, quick access, and the ability to easily access contents or to rip the insert out completely. The pouch can be worn lower back on a riggers belt or padded belt, thigh drop, vest or pack. The internal panel is also set up for speed access while other designs are a morass of elastic loops.
SOTECH will also display improvements to its Medical Assault Combat Belt System allowing for multiple under belt attachments, as well as a new pouch marking system and a new modular medical pouch attachment system. Check out our booth in Charlotte at SOMSA Wednesday and Thursday.
The National Tactical Medicine Competition Returns to Charlotte
Friday, May 3rd, 2019National Tactical Medicine Competition
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Special Operations Aid & Rescue, Ltd. (SOARescue)
2 May 2019
The 2019 National Tactical Medicine Competition will be held at the Gaston College Regional Public Safety Training Center just outside of Charlotte in Dallas, North Carolina on Sunday May 5th, hosted by SOARescue. The event will be held just prior to the Special Operations Medical Association Scientific Assembly. In total, 12 two-man teams will compete for the title of 2019 Champions. This year’s competitors come from across North America from California to Pennsylvania and included three international teams.
Each team will be tasked with a grueling 4 stage course that is both mentally and physically challenging. The stages transition the competitors through each of the TCCC/TECC phases of care. Teams are challenged with a variety of skills, from providing care under fire in a hostile environment, to treating casualties with critical care medicine using limited resources. These are the same skills that tactical medics must utilize when they are faced with a wide range of calls/missions, such as a school shooting or evacuation from a far-forward austere setting.
Tactical medics are also challenged with rescue skills, negotiating obstacles or difficult terrain with a casualty. Casualties may have to be hoisted or lowered depending on the situation to move them to a place where they can meet an evacuation asset. The public is welcome to come, and watch teams compete. Spectators can watch teams working through treating various casualties and overcoming the obstacles of challenging scenarios. Teams will be competing from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Sunday May 5th.
This competition has been an incredible opportunity for civilian and tactical medical professionals to work together in friendly competition. The training competitors engaged in before the competition has made each competitor a better medical provider and competing allows them to find any weaknesses they may have. We hope to continue and grow this unique competition, to better prepare our responders, and to help the community better understand the services provided. The unfortunate reality of this world hit far too close to home this week. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte was struck by evil, when 6 students were shot, two of which fatally. This is only one example of the many similar situations that strike our nation annually. It is our deepest desire to foster an environment for our nation’s responders to hone their skills, so that if the unfortunate moment comes, they are better prepared.
The 2019 National Tactical Medicine Competition will be an incredible success, thanks to all of our contributing sponsors, role players, patient actors, judging staff, and adjunct facilitators.
Some of our Sponsors are:
-CTOMS
-Qore Performance
-ADS
-Blaze Defense Systems
-Haley Strategic
-Zenith Firearms
-Breachpen
-Condition Grey
-5.11 Tactical
-Lion Apparel
-First Line Technologies
For further inquiries, please contact:
Event PIO:
Andrew R. info@soarescue.com
PAs Help Medical Personnel Hone Battlefield Skills
Thursday, May 2nd, 2019FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — The Tactical Combat Medical Care Course (TCMC) began in April 2004 when several Physician Assistants (PAs) noticed that many medical Soldiers were being deployed to combat areas without being properly equipped or trained in medical combat readiness. The TCMC covers a wide variety of areas within a 5-day time frame to include trauma and wound care.
“Currently, the program is geared toward doctors, physician assistants, nurses and senior medics to prepare them for combat medical readiness at the point of injury,” said Shon Compton, an original founder of the program as well as an instructor at TCMC.
Compton added, “The course is presently taught at Fort Sam Houston and Camp Bullis in San Antonio, Texas, and includes didactic and hands-on field training. Although other Armed Services have been through the program, the course is geared towards active duty Army that can be centrally funded from their units. The priority is to those preparing for deployment.”
Presently, there is a waiting list to get in the course as they are targeting 1,500 to 2,000 students annually. The training is considered a sustainment course.
TCMC prepares the students with skills for medical events they may encounter while deployed, as well as sharpening the skills they already possess.
Bret Smith, an instructor and program manager with TCMC, said, “The course also covers trauma resuscitations that are geared toward the deploying provider.” He added, “We like to target those on orders about 180 days out. Over the years, we have realized that Soldiers should come through the course every 2-3 years to keep their skills up-to-par.”
While the students are already medically inclined, they are surprised at how much they learn from the program, as they are taken out of their comfort zone of the hospitals and put in situations such as working in a battalion aid station where the team works together in groups of four on traumatically injured casualties. The course is designed to force the students to improvise, think on their feet and take the lead in a trauma operation.
“Providers have to realize that during the course, there isn’t always assistance in the field and they must be able to learn to do a lot of the skills themselves, such as pushing medications, starting IVs or performing a cricothryotomy,” added Smith.
Over the past several years, the TCMC program has won several awards and is helping Soldiers achieve readiness in the field. “TCMC continues to be one of the best training programs in Army Medicine. It teaches our Soldiers about low or high intensity conflict in austere environments in the field of combat medicine,” said Smith.
CTOMS Exhibiting at SOMSA
Monday, April 29th, 2019CTOMS has been in the Tactical Medicine business for 14 years now, and it has been incredible to be a part of the evolution since those earlier days.
Both 2019/2020 will be no exception with major projects on the horizon. We continue to bring solutions to the ever-changing problems faced by tactical medical and rescue practitioners.
These include evolving solutions in:
• Field medical procedure kits;
• Field medical equipment storage, transport, and carriage systems;
• Rope rescue, egress, and complex terrain negotiation equipment, systems, and training;
• Comprehensive CASEVAC suites;
• Expanded procurement channels;
• Increased training reach, bandwidth, and upgraded delivery and content;
• Improved international access to training and equipment;
• Improved customers purchasing experience;
• International rescue and critical care evacuation operations;
• And much more.
To learn more, visit us at the Special Operations Medical Association Scientific Assembly Exhibition, Booth 410P at the Charlotte, NC Convention Center on 08 and 09 May 2019, or on the web at ctoms.ca.
NRAAM 19 – North American Rescue Sportsman Line
Friday, April 26th, 2019North American Rescue is exhibiting their Sportsman Line of medical gear.
It’s the same quality, but you’ll notice new colors for use by outdoorsmen and the contents of IFAKs will be more focused on the booboos encountered during a weekend in the woods. But don’t fret, you’ll still have the gear you need to deal with trauma in the unfortunate incident it’s encountered.
IWA 19 – East Gear FASTres
Saturday, March 16th, 2019At Enforce Tac, this Medical Pouch from East Gear caught my eye.
The FASTres (Fast Response) Pouch includes an outer pouch and removable inner panel which pulls out with a pull from one hand.
The rear and sides are PALS compatible.
Available in a variety of colors from www.eastgear-int.com.
