Keeping in mind that I had no medical supplies, not even clean napkins, we used the rag I check my oil with to stop the bleeding. Of course, I couldn’t really help because I had no medical gloves. I had no medical gear, and that’s really the point.
Today, Riley Bowman talks with ConcealedCarry.com’s new Director of Training – Medical, Brian McLaughlin, a former Navy Corpsman, EMT, and ER Tech. Brian is well acquainted with stopping up holes and patching people up having done it on the battlefield in Afghanistan. We talk about medical training, trauma kits, and mindset as it relates to being ready for the physical trauma aftermath of being in a deadly force encounter.
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Walking through the woods one spring afternoon, you turn a bend in the trail
Being prepared for an event where you’d need some sort of medical training, whether
Medical kits are like wet wipes in the woods. They aren’t glamorous, but if
Today, Riley and Matthew take time to answer listener questions that have come in recently including topics like: “Budget handgun options”, “Why wasn’t there a CCWer to respond to the El Paso shooter and stop him?”, “Options for carrying medical gear”, and “How do I choose the best self-defense ammo?
The well-documented use of tourniquets on the battlefields of Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
Today Riley interviews Michael Sodini founder of Walk the Talk America, a non-profit organization dedicated to making positive change in relation to mental health, and firearm awareness. We will talk about what we as a firearms industry and community can do to tackle these issues and be part of the solution and not the problem. Michael is also the President of Eagle Imports responsible for distributing brands like Bersa, Grand Power, Metro Arms, and Avidity Arms.
Today Riley is flying solo and wanted to play an interview that we had the privilege of doing together with Russell Riendeau, Ph.D., behavioral scientist and headhunter while at the USCCA Concealed Carry Expo in Louisville, KY in April 2018. We get into mental health, stress, work-life balance, violence and what this all has to do with guns. Tune in and be prepared to think deeply about these complicated and intermingled issues.
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For almost a year I’ve been using the Ankle IFAK from Wilderness Tactical. This IFAK
If you order this IFAK you can choose from 4 different colors and you can choose which of 4 different Tourniquets you would like included. Remember that having the right gear is important but is only valuable if you have the skills to deploy and use that gear so seek out some good medical training as well.
Today’s episode marks a HUGE milestone for the Concealed Carry Podcast. We have now hit 200 EPISODES in a little more than 2 years!!
Join me, Riley, together with Jacob for a special episode today as we share the special interview I conducted with Alisha Ketter and Derek Cecil of Reno Guns & Range. They shared with us their personal story of being at the Mandalay Bay/Route 91 Harvest music festival shooting. As survivors of that incident and as respected firearms and defensive instructors, they share with us what they saw but more importantly what they learned from it all.
There most well known is a windless style of tourniquet that uses a handle to lever that when twisted causes the device to constrict around the limb. There are also ratcheting tourniquets that work just as you would expect, a ratcheting device allows the tourniquet to be tightened and stay secure around the limb.
