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Now I am way over my head here and am not a medic ("although I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night"). This looks like a neat pack and I am sure for its designed purpose fits the bill for what you would like to have. But, yeah I know here it comes, once you start rummaging thru this and have to move to multiple casualties doesn't this just become another M5 bag with compartments where all this good stuff starts to get scattered from where it was originally designed to be to where ever it might wind up as you move from casualty to casualty?
I know, a stupid question, but my medics used to go nuts trying to find the right configuration of a kit. You all just went thru this with TR and the survival kit and all came up with great kits, all tailored to what you thought you would need. We did sort of the same thing knowing that what we were likely to face were GSW and shrapnel from breaching explosives and burns. What they came up with were several kits. Unlike the bags, these kits opened completely and laid flat so you did not have to rummage thru anything to find whatever you were looking for. The smaller kits opened as a rectangle and carried the initial life saving stuff to stop the bleeding and stabilize the casualty and was left with the casualty for follow on treatment by the follow on medical support. The follow on folks carried a larger kit which opened flat and carried additional medical stuff and paraphenailia to complete the task so the casualty could be evacuated. Both kits could lie open or be hung vertically and all the items were visible thru mesh or lodged in elastic loops without having to open anything. We also selected nomex because of the fire hazards involved with this particular line of work. Of course this was for a very limited type operation but worked well. I guess my point here is that we are always looking for the right bag (ruck, aid bag, ammo pouch, etc) but with such a variety of environments and missions I don't ever see the ideal "one size fits all" ever being developed. We tailor our teams and equipment for missions, why not have the latitude to do the same for all the stuff we need to carry and get away from the cookie cutter approach. Still remember the endless search for a bigger rucksack that eventually will allow everyone to carry an additional amount of "light weight s***".
Jack Moroney
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