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Useful Patrol Training Video

This is a useful training video. It has applicability to an SHTF or Resistance scenario if you are operating in a small team. It is made with the participation of some genuine SAS veterans, old school style (Mac was the first man into the Iranian Embassy in 1982 and died in 2011 since making this TV Series). There are various tips and lessons you can take out of this. Take some, leave some as they are applicable to your situation.

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Just bear in mind that the equipment and technology is somewhat dated and some current capabilities are either not used or mentioned i.e. night vision equipment, FLIR/TI etc. The basics are however very good and would be amended by factoring in the modern capabilities with the relevant impacts on your operating SOPs.

The basic principles never change, just the specifics and the technology. Basics, Basics, Basics.

Disclaimer; I skipped through the medical parts and did not fully watch them. Current TC3 (Tactical Combat Casualty Care) protocols are a good place to start for your combat lifesaver training.

Live Hard, Die Free.

MV

15 responses to “Useful Patrol Training Video”

  1. Cool show, but how did they construct the LUP’s and OP without being noticed (I know its TV, but still)? Four guys digging in a field is kind of obvious. Also, how well do these positions mask thermal signature?

    • It’s explained that they would do it at night but they show it during the day for the show: note my comments in the post about night vision etc- I will follow up with more detail on this aspect.

  2. Damn!
    You Brits get all the good documentary’s!
    Not only useful info, but presented in an attention holding way as well.

    Totally tracking down the next part[s] of this…

  3. My wife is an MD. I asked her opinion on the treatment and her reply was; Its great IF you have a MEDIVAC on stand by. But if you don’t get all of those men to a surgery within an hour they would all probably die. The big problem from her POV is that gurillas CAN’T get there people out to a hospital . Further carrying the IFAK with airways and suture kits is just useless if you can’t get them into surgery. They will just die slower and in a different spot.—I was really amazed that I carry almost exactly the same “belt kit” as the “SAS” guys.

    • To Anonymous July 28 @ 8:08 AM: Consider the fact that ObamaCare is going to cause a lot of medical professionals to retire, if this happens, a resistance force might be able to take advantage of that. They might say “support us and we will repeal all of this socialized medicine BS” or, if really desperate, they can just pay for black market medical services. Of course, there is always the Red Cross and other free humanitarian medical services to consider.

      -Saxon

  4. Saxon, The specific reference I made was to TRAUMA. There is simply no way to substitute surgery with anything else. As my wife said last night; “If the wound is bad enough that you need an airway IV fluids and suters, You ether get to an ER and trauma surgery or you die. All first aid dose is stabilize the patent”. Saxon a 70 year old GP or the red cross simply can’t help you with that, and the FREEFOR has no hospitals that I’m aware of. If the SHTF then God Help the fighters ’cause they will take casualty’s like it was WW-1–and get about the same level of care as the first civil war

  5. One thing we can do to help our wounded is to create a “chain of care” NOW, so that the wounded may be removed from the battle field and placed in the care of trained medical teams friendly to the resistance . This must be easier to establish NOW when the danger is slight, Than it will be later when the risk may mean death to the ones rendering care. Like logistics , care of the sick and wounded is the duty of everyone who reads this and believes in this cause.

  6. Anon, there are many traumatic casualties that will die without rapid surgery (these are the ones being saved by the “echelons of care” concept in use by the Army now) but there are many more injuries that can survive for 3-4 (or even more) days IF bleeding is controlled (with tourniquets or sutures), lost volume replaced (with IV fluids), and infection prevented (broad spectrum antibiotics). It may result in the loss of a limb that might have otherwise been salvageable, but it won’t necessarily result in death. With the use of plate armor, torso injuries have become quite a bit less common and blood loss from a limb injury has become the big killer.

    So in a situation where a patrol doesn’t have easy access to medevac, they could treat, stabilize, and exfil over an extended period of time without surgery or a hospital. Ideally, in a SHTF situation, a militia group would have contacts with a general surgeon, anesthesia, and surgical nurses who would be able to provide definitive treatment after the fact.

    (I’m not an MD, but I am a tactical medic with extensive education in trauma care).

  8. From the comments on Max’s other post:

    http://www.timebomb2000.com/vb/showthread.php?46707-Patriot-Aid-Station

    and:
    http://www.cafepress.com/austeremed … Print version….

    http://tacmed.dk/at.htm … one source for the .pdf

    http://www.aussurvivalist.com/downloads/AM%20Final%202.pdf … another source.

    Book title is:

    Survival and Austere Medicine: An introduction
    Second Edition

    Written and Edited by The Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine Discussion Board Moderators