StuckPig Medical: TC3 Class November 7-8 and some other updates.

This originally appeared on StuckPig Medical by my friend and TC3 trainer MechMedic. Come train with us! -NCS

It’s been about a week since the last TC3 class. What an amazing class it was. I am constantly updating and improving my curriculum. The students we had ranged from little to no medical training, to some old military medical training, and even a Wilderness First Responder. Quite an age range of the students as well. It’s always heartening to see such impressive young people showing up to classes. From the young man that took charge during the first lane, to the young women who is the head of her church’s medical response team AND is quite the seamstress. I do expect to see some TTM nylon gear here soon. Maybe even hopefully a Stuck Pig Medical IFAK pouch. This was the first class with the TC3 handout. I have already come up with modifications for it and need to rework it. Hopefully I can find a better program than microsoft publisher to put it together on. If anyone has a suggestion then let me know. I also added a new section to the website. A resources section. I tried to put a few useful files and such on there, if you have any suggestions, I put a comments section on the bottom of the resources library, so go ahead and leave them in the comments on that page.

The fellowship Friday and Saturday night were my personal highlights of the class, and always are. Things are getting… weird. Training of ALL kinds is going to be A LOT more important in the next few years. I know I have some holes I need to plug (heh, wound packing puns) with classes. And most of them will be with NC Scout because I trust him and I know he puts out quality information. Expect to see me at a few of his classes and as a student, not an instructor. I am also in the process of putting together a one day trauma medical basics class. This class is more oriented towards church security teams, or anyone interested in learning the absolute basics of trauma care. Also in the pipeline is a 3 or 4 day class. It will more closely resemble a CLS class for anyone who know what that is. But I am trying to do more than just the 2 day TC3 class. Speaking of, we already have the next TC3 class on the training schedule. February 27-28. Sign up at https://brushbeater.wordpress.com/.

Onto a different not, I am working on branding. I am in need of someone that does graphic design for a logo. If you or someone you know does graphic design email me at [email protected]. The logo would go on the web page here, on patches, shirts, class handouts, and anything else I decide to slap swag onto.

Hopefully I can get more posts on here in the future, I am trying to put more energy into all of this, but bear with me. Thank you again to those of you that came out to the class, it was a blast to teach all of you.

Don’t get left bleeding out like a stuck pig.

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About the Author: NC Scout

NC Scout is the nom de guerre of a former Infantry Scout and Sergeant in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units. He has combat tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He teaches a series of courses focusing on small unit skills rarely if ever taught anywhere else in the prepping and survival field, including his RTO Course which focuses on small unit communications. In his free time he is an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian activist. He can be contacted at [email protected] or via his blog at brushbeater.wordpress.com .

One Comment

  1. SVS November 25, 2020 at 21:20

    This class was awesome! I’ve done a stop the bleed class, wilderness first aid, CPR, etc. and by far this is the best medical class for partisans. I quickly realized how little I knew about combat oriented care. It’s a different game, and MechMedic knows it cold.

    For example, I learned if someone is getting a tourniquet in a combat situation then they’re also getting an NPA in the right nostril. Why? Because you’re in a combat situation and don’t have time to babysit patients. If someone needs a tourniquet then they’re a candidate for passing out. If you pass out and your tongue closes your airway, then you’ll be happy someone jambed an NPA up your nose. And the right nostril is generally a bit larger than left nostril. So unless you’re a sicko, use the right nostril.

    Another example is care under fire. They don’t teach this at Red Cross, but first step is to shoot back. The most you will do is put on a hasty tourniquet high and tight, then get off the X. Run through MARCH to keep the patient alive long enough for someone else to save their life. Make a clean handoff, or shift to prolonged field care if needed.

    You’ll also get a lot of hands on experience, which is huge for being able to use it when you need it. Having a tourniquet applied is not a fun experience, but its worth the trouble to know how to do it right. The wound packing lab did not involve live subjects, probably the right move there. And like all good trainings, we pulled everything together at the end with some OpFor live action.

    If you carry a firearm, are you carrying a tourniquet? If you know how to use your firearm to eliminate a threat, then do you know how to keep people alive in case that threat got a few shots off before being eliminated? Will you panic… or fall back on your training?

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