Got a note from our friends at SOLKOA:
We are excited to announce that SOLKOA Inc was awarded a $47M, 5-year contract to provide instruction and support services to the U.S. Army’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE-Level C) Program at Fort Rucker, AL. New job opportunities for full-spectrum, Level-C (High Risk) SERE instructors and support personnel will be posted in the coming days with preferences for experienced military veterans.
I’ve been using The SOLKOA Ultralight Multipurpose Aluminum container for my survival kit for several years. It was a big surprise to stop by their booth (#32513) and see they had built me a new one, laser engraved with my logo.
This 6061 Aluminum two-piece container can be used for a variety of purposes including a cooking container.
Available in Small (inside 3 7/8” x 2 3/8” x 1 3/16”, outside – 4” x 2 3/4” x 1 5/8”) and Large (4 3/4” x 2 7/8” x 1 3/8”, outside – 5 1/8” x 3 1/4” x 1 7/8”) sizes and in the following colors: Black, Red, Orange (all with black Velcro) or Tan (with tan/beige Velcro).
Hill People Gear teamed up with their friends at SOLKOA to come up with the Slot Pocket Survival Kit. The goal was to hit as many bases as possible in a kit that would go in one of the internal slot pockets on a Kit Bag.
They also made it TSA friendly so you could carry it anywhere, but with the understanding that their customers always carry a good knife when they can anyway. “Slot pocket size” also is great for a variety of other places such as a pants or jacket pocket.
Here are it’s characteristics:
TSA friendly
5 oz
4.5 x 5.5 x 1″
x2 mini fastfire fire starter
x4 rubber patches fire starter
x10 waterproof storm matches
ferrocerium rod
saw blade / striker
1 liter water bag
x6 Aquamira water purification tabs
ACR Rescue whistle
signal mirror
Photon LED micro light
Orange signal panel
15 ft 400lb test cordage
x4 write in the rain paper squares
pencil
2 ft duct tape
magnification lens
Type A (highest quality available – made in Japan) button compass
If you would like notification when this is available, email info@hillpeoplegear.com.
This coming Saturday from 9am – 4pm, Solkoa Survival Systems and Hill People Gear are hosting an event at Solkoa’s location in Colorado Springs. The event consists of classes, pack fitting, gear demonstrations, and a raffle. Also, tours of the Solkoa facility including their SERE museum containing artifacts from the American Civil War all the way up through the (unclassified) present. Additional exhibitors include Thunder Beast suppressors, M2TSG Gunsmithing, and AttackPak. For more information, check out the Facebook event page.
For the first time ever, SOLKOA is offering open enrollment for one of their courses. The Prolonged Field Care Course is designed to teach important skills including:
– Advanced Casualty Care
– Development of a Tele-MED Plan
– Critical Medical Intervensions
– And more
The course is being held in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on July 13-17, 2015.
Interested Military & Government medical personnel with credentials may contact:
Dirk Seaton
Director, Medical Programs, SOLKOA Inc.
772.696.0666
michael.seaton@solkoa.com
Slots are limited to 15 students, so act fast if you’re interested and you qualify.
We are entering new territory. Since 2001, deployed troops have, for the most part, enjoyed a great deal of forward deployed support infrastructure, including a vast medical apparatus with different levels of care available almost at your fingertips. As we draw down forces in forward areas, that medical support takes longer and longer to access as it moves farther and farther away from the operational space. For example, small units deployed to AFRICOM can literally be days away from definitive care due to the tyranny of distance across that vast continent with MEDEVAC requiring vehicle transit and airlift.
Solkoa recognizes these changes and is expanding over 10 years of specialized instruction experience into prolonged field care in austere environments. For some, this will be “back to the future”, reclaiming capabilities that existed in the SOF community before the current conflict. But it’s much more than that. Huge strides have been made in medical care over the past decade. Solkoa will show you how to go beyond TCCC and integrate these capabilities into the new reality of advanced remote field care.
If you’re at SHOT Show and want to know more about training opportunities or their full line of survival products, stop by booth #32513.
Machined from a solid billet of 6061 aluminum, SOLKOA Survival Systems’ SUMA – SOLKOA Ultralight Multipurpose Aluminum container is a highly durable, lightweight container purpose built for carrying a survival kit. The container cover includes a rubber gasket to keep out dirt and moisture, and secures to the container body by Velcro One-Wrap straps. In addition to serving as a container, the SUMA is also excellent for digging, melting ice, boiling and purifying water, and even small cooking needs.
Available in Small (inside 3 7/8” x 2 3/8” x 1 3/16”, outside – 4” x 2 3/4” x 1 5/8”)
and
Large (4 3/4” x 2 7/8” x 1 3/8”, outside – 5 1/8” x 3 1/4” x 1 7/8”)
sizes and in the following colors: Black, Red, Orange (all with black Velcro) or Tan (with tan/beige Velcro).
SOLKOA, Inc. recognized their civilian brand, Fastfire, did not effectively represent their many non-fire related survival products so they have initiated SOLKOA Survival Systems for their consumer survival products line. This includes the SUMA Survival Kit I use.
With more than 200 years of combined instructor experience among its professional staff, SOLKOA, Inc has been quietly producing a wide variety of highly-specialized emergency survival capabilities along with its expert instruction for the US military and other high-risk organizations since 2005.
SOLKOA’s specialized military survival gear usually contains sensitive items that will never be available to the civilian market, but SOLKOA’s Fastfire brand created some market confusion making it difficult for SOLKOA to clearly promote their expanding civilian product line.
The SHOT show directory lists their overall corporate name SOLKOA, Inc. and they will be in booth #32513 in the law enforcement and military section; you should drop by and visit with them, they are the real deal and I rely on their products.
So from now on the civilian products line will be SOLKOA Survival Systems.
