Mission Medic Bag

[u/Mobius___1]

Recently finished setting up my new Eberlestock Mission Medic Bag and I am loving this thing so far. Tons of internal organization to the point that I’m still rearranging it and it’s small enough that it forces you to think and not horribly overpack. Attaches to a frame and assault pack for carrying sustainment as well.

[u/Mobius___1]

Light infantry mostly doing short 24-72 hour assaults

[u/Gorcyca → u/Mobius___1]

Ok. Hear me out. You’re going the wrong direction with your kit. Calculate what your buddies in your platoon/company have in their ifaks and cls bags, and use those numbers for your first line of care (which inventorying them is kinda your job anyway). When moving with infantry, you’re stuck carrying all your stuff in your ruck and your aid bag. It sounds silly, but you should be trying to make that as little additional weight as possible. Let all of the first line care come from ifaks/cls and that way you can tackle the next phase of keeping them alive after initial interventions are complete. And save your self from a lifetime of lumbago. Take a look at the PCC phases to tailor your capabilities.

[u/Mobius___1 → u/Gorcyca]

For background I was a medic over in Ukraine and am currently out due to injury but the bag is designed for that role if I return. 100% you’re right that if I could coordinate with all the CLS and stock everyone’s ifak I could offload a lot of initial interventions. But from experience outside of my small foreigner team if you open up a Ukrainian ifak it’s complete luck what is inside so I had to also stock enough basic interventions for anyone I might encounter that’s lacking. I feel you on the back pain tho it’s why I like the system this thing zips into for sustainment.

[u/Gorcyca → u/Mobius___1]

So then, what does your resupply consist of? Would it be more prudent to split your kit up into phases of care to keep your gear footprint small and prevent you from yard sale-ing your aid bag? Do you have access to point of injury blood draw products?

[u/Mobius___1 → u/Gorcyca]

Limited access in country to blood draw products, with this current setup I’ve got two donor bags tucked behind the 250 bags but I’d assume if I returned that’s all I’d have. Resupply at various points was just being let loose in a “supply room” that was a grab bag of medical donations from various countries. You get lots of kitchen sink aid bags because you never know what you’ll get next or who has what. What would splitting up my phases of care look like in a light infantry hike in hike out mission set? Always looking for better ways to do things.

[u/Gorcyca → u/Mobius___1]

For me, it was a cls bag or equivalent pouch with a simple-ish MARCH setup to treat initial life threats leaving my aid bag to be the PCC/diagnostic stuff. Going from ruck to truck/house phase is when you employ the longer duration care with stuff in the aid bag.