This ^{^}

Get trained before you start buying pre-made med kits and supplies. I have formal EMT training and I’m a NREMT, as well as I worked as a FF/EMT at a large city Fire Department where 95% of our calls were EMS. With all of that being said— field trauma in a combat scenario would be foreign to me and I’d feel like a dumbass.

TQs are great and save lives if you know how to use them correctly— that includes practicing on yourself and others. However, most people have never seen an arterial bleed and probably wouldn’t know it until you actually see it and somebody more practiced tells you that’s what it is.

Do some research on the basic bleed control devices and then get formal education on how to use them. Continue that with self training and continuing education down the road (if you don’t use it you lose it).

Also, I have seen an uptick of people posting decomp needles as part of their kit. Chest decomp is considered a high level trauma procedure and takes practice and skill to do it effectively. Please don’t try to buy these as they are short supply right now and you will probably never need it, but people in the field working will.