The House Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing Thursday to attack the Arizona audit and label it a “hyper-partisan” election subversion effort that “failed to find any fraud.”.
Of course, this is a lie.
The Arizona audit found hundreds of thousands of ballots cast that were possibly fake, and numerous law violations occurred before, during, and after election day.
The audit was a non-partisan mission to find out what really happened. Democrats, Republicans, and Independents volunteered for this historic full forensic audit.
Chairwoman of this committee, hyper-partisan, and radical leftist New York Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney fought vigorously to impeach President Trump again after he left office.
Now, Maricopa County Supervisors Jack Sellers and Bill Gates will speak at this hearing tomorrow in Washington DC.
The announcement of tomorrow’s hearing was presented in a press release slandering the Arizona audit and those involved, citing George Soros’s Brennan Center For Justice and other Soros News Propaganda for evidence.
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai, an expert in pattern recognition and computer science, will also be heard at this presentation to defend his findings and the work of the Arizona audit.
Oversight Committee to Hold Hearing on Partisan Arizona Election “Audit” and Threats to Democracy
Washington D.C. (October 6, 2021)— On Thursday, October 7, 2021, at 10:00 a.m.ET, The Committee on Oversight and Reform will hold a hearing to assess the election “audit” in Maricopa County, Arizona, conducted by Cyber Ninjas, Inc., and how this and similar audits undermine public confidence in elections and threaten our democracy.
In April 2021, the Arizona State Senate hired Cyber Ninjas to conduct an audit of the 2020 election results in Maricopa County, Arizona, even though the company had no prior federal election audit experience. Since then, significant questions have been raised regarding the “dark money” organizations funding the audit, the impartiality of the company, and the mismanagement and insecure audit practices that have jeopardized the integrity of ballots and voting machines.
After six months and nearly seven million dollars spent, Cyber Ninjas’ final audit report failed to find any fraud, contrary to the conspiracy theories from the audit’s backers.
The hearing will examine how, despite failing to find any fraud, Cyber Ninjas’ audit has already inflicted grave damage to our democracy. The audit has threatened the integrity of Arizona’s elections, inspired similar hyper-partisan audits in other states, and been used to justify dangerous state election subversion laws.
At the hearing the Committee will hear from two elected Republican officials from Maricopa County, Arizona, who refused to accept the “Big Lie” and are speaking out about the dangers of this partisan audit.
The Committee also invited the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, Doug Logan, to testify. Mr. Logan informed the Committee less than two days before the hearing that he was unwilling to testify, declining the opportunity to defend his company’s highly questionable, partisan audit under oath.
WHAT:
Full Committee hearing entitled, “Assessing the Election ‘Audit’ in Arizona and Threats to American Democracy”
WHEN:
Thursday, October 7, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. ET
WHO:
Jack Sellers
Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Maricopa County, Arizona
Bill Gates
Vice Chairman, Board of Supervisors, Maricopa County, Arizona
David Becker
Executive Director and Founder, The Center for Election Innovation and Research
Gowri Ramachandran
Senior Counsel, The Brennan Center
Doug Logan(Invited)
Chief Executive Officer and Principal Consultant, Cyber Ninjas, Inc.
Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai(Minority Witness)
WATCH:
A livestream will be available on YouTube and the Committee on Oversight and Reform website.
The Senate has hundreds of witnesses and evidence of criminal wrongdoing to combat the lies and smears that will come out of tomorrow’s hearing.
This hearing will be live-streamed tomorrow at 10 a.m. ET.
All unredacted evidence from the Arizona audit has been turned over to Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich.
It is now his job to save America.
Contact Attorney General Mark Brnovich now and tell him to do the right thing.
Our “New Declaration of Independence”, drafted by Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers has now been signed by 92 legislators in 31 states.
Our new founding fathers seek to form a more perfect union through securing elections and taking back state sovereignty from our massive.
Less than two weeks ago, Senator Rogers announced that this letter had 41 signatures from 15 states, moments after the Arizona audit final presentation.
This letter, signed by 31 states calls for nationwide full forensic election audits, decertification where appropriate, and a possible U.S. House session to address the fraudulent election.
Rogers tweeted this update on Monday.
92 Legislators from Multiple States Write a Letter to the American People Calling for a 50-State Audit, Decertification Where Appropriate, and Possible Convening of the US House of Representatives
92 Legislators from Multiple States Write a Letter to the American People Calling for a 50-State Audit, Decertification Where Appropriate, and Possible Convening of the US House of Representatives pic.twitter.com/A6EztSR2L1
Letter From State Legislators To The American People Reference The 2020 Election
To the citizens of the United States of America,
We the undersigned state legislators of the United States are vested with the plenary power by our US Constitution (Article 2 Section 1 Clause 2) to oversee the election of the president of the United States.
It has come to our attention from an audit of 2.1 million ballots in Arizona complemented by an in-depth canvass of votes in Arizona, as well as through multiple different data reviews of voting by independent experts; that our representative republic suffered a corrupted 2020 election.
In addition to Arizona, sworn affidavits have accumulated from many states detailing rampant corruption and mismanagement in the election process. Fraud and inaccuracies have already been shown through multiple audits and canvasses in multiple states, as well as through lawsuits challenging the validity of election results in several counties in multiple states.
We have come to the conclusion that all 50 states need to be forensically audited. Voter rolls should be scrubbed with a canvass of the voters to ensure future integrity of our elections.
If results from these measures prove an inaccurate election was held, as has been shown in Arizona, and is being shown in many other states; then it is clear that certification of many electors was improperly rendered in January 2021 of the November 2020 United States presidential election.
We call on each state to decertify its electors where it has been shown the elections were certified prematurely and inaccurately.
If it is shown that either Joe Biden would receive fewer than 270 tallied electoral votes, or Donald Trump would receive more than 270 electoral votes, then we call for the US House of Representatives to convene and vote per the US Constitution by means of one vote per state to decide the rightful winner of the election in accordance with the constitutional process of choosing electors.
This is our historic obligation to restore the election integrity of the vote as the bedrock of our constitutional republic.
If we do not have accurate and fair elections, we do not have a country.
Some legislators told Rogers that watering the letter down would help with signatures but this letter is only for the real warriors.
That is why my letter says we want to decertify. Whoever doesn’t sign gets primaried by the people. (2/2)
Rogers: Thank you all for helping our movement get more people on board with this letter! Please read the letter, see who is on, and who is not on. Those who are not on, please ask them to sign. If they don’t sign, start working on primarying them,
Sign Senator Rogers’ nationwide citizen petition to decertify this fraudulent election HERE!
Contact your legislators and tell them to sign on to protect our voting rights.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Wednesday once again refused to answer questions about Hunter Biden’s new influence peddling scheme under the guise of selling his garbage artwork.
Last week nearly 200 people attended Hunter Biden’s art show in Hollywood.
Hunter Biden mingled with potential buyers for his art.
Here’s Hunter Biden meeting with potential buyers for his art at a showing last week.
One of Colorado’s largest hospital systems has implemented a new policy that denies organ transplants to patients who have not taken the experimental Covid-19 vaccine under “almost all situations.”
All organ donors will also have to be vaccinated under the new policy, and it has already stopped one woman from receiving the life-saving treatment she needs.
Last month, the University of Colorado Health sent a letter to Leilani Lutali informing her that her status on the waiting list for a kidney transplant was “inactivated” for “non-compliance” because she has chosen not to take the jab. She was given 30 days to take the shot, or else she would be removed from the transplant list completely.
UCHealth denies life saving treatment – kidney transplant – to El Paso County resident. See my FB live post @timgeitnercolorado pic.twitter.com/Z2r8D2VY4m
Lutali, who has stage 5 renal failure, was told by the hospital in August that she wouldn’t need to be vaccinated to get her new kidney and was only made aware of the hospital’s new segregation policy when she received her letter in the mail – and only AFTER she was able to find a donor she knew who was willing to give her a kidney.
CBS4 Denver spoke with Lutali about the hospital’s policy and their reasoning behind foregoing the rushed vaccine, which she says has “too many unknowns.”
“I said I’ll sign a medical waiver. I have to sign a waiver anyway for the transplant itself, releasing them from anything that could possibly go wrong.
It’s surgery, it’s invasive. I sign a waiver for my life. I’m not sure why I can’t sign a waiver for the Covid shot.”
They also spoke with her donor – Jaimee Fougner – who was outraged that the hospital could decide not to operate when there is a kidney available that will save her friend’s life.
Like Lutali, Fougner is also not vaccinated.
“It’s your choice on what treatment you have. In Leilani’s case, the choice has been taken from her.Her life has now been held hostage because of this mandate.
Here I am, willing to be a direct donor to her. It does not affect any other patient on the transplant list. How can I sit here and allow them to murder my friend when I’ve got a perfectly good kidney and can save her life?”
The University of Colorado Health (UCHealth), which operates dozens of medical facilities and hospitals throughout the state, confirmed the segregation policy to the New York Post on Wednesday and claimed they were making the change because transplant patients are 20% more likely to die if they catch Covid-19.
But, how much more likely are they to die if they catch Covid before getting a life-saving transplant? Or even without catching covid?
Higher than 20%, that’s for sure. Many of the people on the waiting list are also most likely medically exempt from taking the vaccine.
Not to mention the vaccine is so bad at preventing breakthrough infections that the tyrannical US health order is about to force a third booster dose, which will be most likely followed by perpetual doses every six months – Being vaccinated doesn’t even provide immunity (just check the CDC’s updated definition). Vaccinated patients waiting for an organ are about just as likely to contract a breakthrough case after a transplant as the non vaccinated.
UCHealth doubled down on their refusal to operate on the unvaccinated, saying that several other surgery centers have covid vaccine mandates for their patients in place already, and many more are following suit.
“In almost all situations, transplant patients and living donors are now required to be vaccinated against Covid-19 in addition to meeting other health requirements and receiving additional vaccinations.
Physicians must consider the short and long-term health risks for patients as they consider whether to recommend an organ transplant.”
The hospital’s policy has forced Lutali to search elsewhere for her operation. Unfortunately, she has checked with every surgery center in Colorado who would be able to perform a kidney transplant and none of them will provide care to her because she is unvaccinated. She is now looking outside the state for a hospital that will be willing to take her.
Like Lutali’s donor said, her life is being held hostage over this vaccine mandate.
How many others will be denied care and left to perish because of these policies?
So much for that “if we save just one life” nonsense. That was never the case.
Jovan Pulitzer joined Joe Hoft and Kell Brazil this morning at Real Talk 93.3 for their morning show ‘Tomorrow’s News Today’. In his interview, Pulitzer described the one-page summary he provided online to describe the issues identified in the Maricopa County audit.
A few weeks ago we summarized the number of ballot issues in Arizona as a result of the audit and canvassing in the state. We came up with nearly 700,000 issues with ballots.
Jovan Pulitzer provided the following diagram online a couple of days ago that describes the status of the results from the audit and canvass work in Maricopa County Arizona. He also identified 700,000 ballots with issues identified in Maricopa County alone. Reminder, Biden was given Arizona with a 10,800 vote margin or a margin of 0.04%.
Pulitzer was on the radio this morning and he addressed and summarized all the circles above and noted that the total was more than 700,000 ballot issues. He also noted that these items were from the audit report to the Senate and the work of the canvassers in the county. Here are some of his comments:
I think people need to visually see all the errors, all the information that shows, hey, Maricopa at its worst literally should be decertified, at its best could easily be redone…
…I just charted out a very simple way to understand how bad is the bad. If they’re just pie charts, if you think here in this election was won on .049047%, right? It’s such a small margin that it could have swung any way…
…There are eight charts across the top, those are just the low hanging fruit that show this election has serious issues because any one of these would demand that it can’t be certified or it needs to be rerun.
Listen to more below on the details and the results of the audit and canvass work.
The ruling class wants the masses to take the shots necessary to complete their totalitarian takeover of the world even though Merck has created a pill that helps “cut deaths.” Dr. Anthony Fauci emphasized the need for the 70 million Americans who are eligible for a vaccine to get immunized during interviews on Sunday morning talk shows.
But there’s a pill now that helps, right? Sure. I guess. If you believe what the mainstream media and big pharma companies are telling you. But they still need you to take the shot, because whatever is in there is going to advance the cause of their New World Order, and that’s become utterly apparent.
“Many of those deaths were unavoidable but many, many are avoidable, were avoidable and will in the future be avoidable,” Dr. Fauci, who is also director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Dr. Fauci was enthusiastic about the development of the new Merck anti-viral pill, describing it as “extremely important.” In announcing the results of its clinical trial last Friday, Merck said the pill was able to cut the risk of hospitalization and death from the virus by half.
But he also warned that Americans should not wait to be vaccinated because they believe they can take the pill. While the new medicine may decrease a person’s risk, the best way to be protected is avoiding infection, he said. –New York Times
If we continue to fall for this hoax, our bodies are going to be destroyed by all the chemical and gene concoctions they want to put in us.
Merck said it would seek emergency authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for its drug, known as molnupiravir, as soon as possible. The pills could be available by late this year.
The real question is what the hell is in those pills? More gene therapy? Worse? Who even knows at this point. All we know is that we are being lied to so they can convince us to medicate ourselves into their New World Order,
Things continue to ramp up and shockingly, have not reached a breaking point. Once it does, we will begin to see why they are trying so hard to vaccinate the world against a disease that’s not even a common cold based on their own numbers.
Stay prepared and alert. The propaganda and lies continue. The illusion of freedom is crumbling. Many won’t take it well when the SHTF. Make sure you are ready.
Joe Biden crashed to a new low of 38 percent approval in a Quinnipiac Poll released Wednesday. The brutal poll shows Biden losing support across the board on issues with his numbers on immigration and the border in the 20s and a solid majority (55 percent) saying the Biden administration is not competent in running the government.
…Joe Biden receives a negative 38 – 53 percent job approval rating, the lowest score he’s received from the American people on his job performance since taking office, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pea- ack) University national poll of adults released today. In Quinnipiac’s last national poll released 3 weeks ago, he received a negative 42 – 50 percent job approval rating.
Today, Republicans (94 – 4 percent) and independents (60 – 32 percent) disapprove of the job Biden is doing, while Democrats approve 80 – 10 percent.
HANDLING OF ISSUES
Biden received negative scores in the double digits on all but one key issue when Americans were asked about his handling of … the response to the coronavirus: 48 percent approve, while 50 percent disapprove; the economy: 39 percent approve, while 55 percent disapprove; his job as Commander in Chief of the U.S. military: 37 percent approve, while 58 percent disapprove; taxes: 37 percent approve, while 54 percent disapprove; foreign policy: 34 percent approve, while 58 percent disapprove; immigration issues: 25 percent approve, while 67 percent disapprove; the situation at the Mexican border: 23 percent approve, while 67 percent disapprove.
When it comes to Biden’s personal traits, Americans were asked whether or not Biden …
cares about average Americans: 49 percent say yes, while 48 percent say no, compared to 58 – 37 percent yes in April; is honest: 44 percent say yes, while 50 percent say no, compared to 51 – 42 percent yes in April; has good leadership skills: 41 percent say yes, while 56 percent say no, compared to 52 – 44 percent yes in April. More than half of Americans say 55 – 42 percent that the Biden administration is not competent in running the government.…
1,326 U.S. adults nationwide were surveyed from October 1st – 4th with a margin of error of +/- 2.7 percentage points.
The Quinnipiac University Poll, directed by Doug Schwartz, Ph.D. since 1994, conducts independent, non-partisan national and state polls on politics and issues. Surveys adhere to industry best practices and are based on random samples of adults using random digit dialing with live interviewers calling landlines and cell phones.
The internals show Biden losing support among African-Americans with 66 percent approval and 19 percent disapproval, with 15 percent offering no opinion indicating a transition from approve to disapprove. In contrast, only seven percent of Whites and Hispanics offered no opinion of Biden. Whites’ approve/disapprove of Biden is 32/61 while Hispanics’ is 42/51.
Biden’s strongly disapprove numbers are high across the board, except for Democrats and Blacks, showing a hardening of opposition.
White and Hispanic views on Biden’s handling of the border and immigration are remarkably similar: Approve/disapprove on Biden’s handling of the border: Whites: 18/73, Hispanics: 24/68; on Biden’s handling of immigration: Whites: 20/73, Hispanics: 23/69.
There is also close concurrence among Whites and Hispanics on Biden’s deporting illegal aliens:
Question: “In your opinion, has the Biden administration been too aggressive in deporting undocumented immigrants, not aggressive enough, or has the Biden administration been acting appropriately when it comes to deporting undocumented immigrants?”
Too aggressive: Whites: 16, Hispanics: 20; Not aggressive enough: Whites: 54, Hispanics: 41; Acting appropriately: White: 24, Hispanics: 29.
On Covid, a majority oppose vaccine mandates for K-12 school children: 52 percent oppose, 44 percent approve.
What a surprise!
The mainstream fake news media hailed the news last week that Merck Corporation had discovered a drug treatment for the COVID virus.
This comes over a year after the discovery that hydroxychloroquine was successful in treating the coronavirus in its early stages and months after it was discovered the Ivermectin had amazing success in treating the coronavirus, especially in India.
Merck is not just giving their new drug away. The company is charging the US government 40 times what it costs to produce their new wonder drug.
A FIVE-DAY COURSE of molnupiravir, the new medicine being hailed as a “huge advance” in the treatment of Covid-19, costs $17.74 to produce, according to a report issued last week by drug pricing experts at the Harvard School of Public Health and King’s College Hospital in London. Merck is charging the U.S. government $712 for the same amount of medicine, or 40 times the price.
Last Friday’s announcement that the new medicine cut the risk of hospitalization among clinical trial participants with moderate or mild illness in half could have huge implications for the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Because it’s a pill — as opposed to monoclonal antibodies, a comparable antiviral treatment that is administered intravenously — molnupiravir is expected to be more widely used and, hopefully, will cut the death rate. In the first 29 days of the trial, no deaths were reported among the 385 patients who received the drug, while eight of the people who received a placebo died, according to the statement put out by Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, the two companies that are jointly launching it.
In addition to having huge implications for health, the pill could bring staggering profits to both Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics. A small Miami-based company, Ridgeback licensed the medicine from Emory University in 2020 and two months later sold the worldwide rights to the drug to Merck for an undisclosed sum. Although Ridgeback remains involved in the development of the drug, some have described the deal as “flipping.”
Battlefield medicine has made leaps and bounds through improved infrastructure and a near-universal deployment of the IFAK or Individual First Aid Kit. As a result some lessons can be taken when considering both the rising civil unrest in cities like Minneapolis, as well as remaining prepared during more peaceful times. By taking an approach similar to our article on Layering Your EDC Survival Gear, we can divide our Medical Gear into four layers: Personal EDC, Kit-Mounted, Vehicle-borne, and Home base.
Foundational Considerations
Considering that most of us don’t have the same medical infrastructure as the military or a hospital’s resources at our disposal, we must take elements of what they have taught us, and apply it in the context of our daily lives. Similar to our article on the Tactical and Survival Application of Body Armor, we began by recognizing that Plate Carriers are for a world with Hospitals. Access to a medical facility will have an influence on how we set up each layer of medical preparedness.
Above: These older IFAKs come from a time before a smaller, slimmer kit was in vogue.
In our modern environment, what separates an emergency kit from long-term sustainment is access to professional medical treatment. We may be able to prevent a gunshot wound from becoming fatal, but our objective will still be to get the wounded to a hospital. If there is no access to medical facilities, the situation is much more dire. However, we can begin from the known and expand further.
In a past life, Ranger First Responder training taught the acronym M.A.R.C.H. Each letter stood for a different type of injury, and established a hierarchy of greatest immediate threat, descending to long-term care. Broken down, M.A.R.C.H. stood for:
This acronym is one of many used for emergency medical responses, and the importance of training cannot be overstated. Without spending time with these tools in your hands, their value is greatly diminished, and in the brief moments when an emergency medical response is needed, the additional confidence and skill impact more than the possibilities of life and death, but the emotional aftermath.
The EssTac DST Medical Pouch features a tear-away main storage container, so the wearer doesn’t have to remove their belt to get at their IFAK.
The important element to take away from M.A.R.C.H. today is that they represent different types of life-threatening injuries where time is of the essence. While we can leave the order of treatment to another time, we can address what different levels of an IFAK should, and could contain.
Personal, Kit, Vehicle, Home
The four categories we’ve chosen: Personal EDC, Kit-Mounted, Vehicle-borne, and Home can integrate into one another, are best thought of as a physical representation of a Venn Diagram: their contents overlap often, with each tailored toward a situationally specific direction.
Personal EDC
Two elements dictate what and someone’s Personal EDC will contain: what they need, and what they’re comfortable carrying. Needs are a given and typically prescribed by a doctor. Comfort, however, is where one must seriously pick and choose, as the primary limitation of EDC gear is space.
With all the attention paid to defensive tools such as knives and handguns, it’s natural that we turn to medical gear as a close second. A tourniquet handy can quickly save a life, from witnessing a motorcycle wreck to an active shooter, to improvising a splint in the wilderness, it has more uses than simply stopping major bleeding.
A TQ can be easily kept in a bag, carried in a pocket, or stored in a holder. However as not all wardrobes will facilitate these options, a serious consideration of fitting into one’s environment comes into play. Dressing for galas is rarely a daily occurrence, and the homeless look works in some urban environments, but little stands out more than a person trying too hard to conceal something that they should have kept off-body.
Various EDC medical kits have tried to remedy this: from self-contained wallet-sized packages, to ankle kits, and a few more. Ultimately it is up to the individual to make the choice about what they carry and pay the consequences for it.
Kit-Mounted
Inspired by the Military, adding an Individual First Aid Kit to one’s plate carrier or shooting belt separates itself from their personal EDC in both tone and focus. Since it is connected to firearm-related gear, whether for practice or for protection, the focus of this IFAK is for conflict-induced injuries. This is the place to focus on gunshot wounds and lacerations.
Massive Hemoraging: Tourniquets, Pressure Dressings, Gauze Bandages, and Clotting Agent. Airway: Nasopharyngeal Airway Respiratory: Chest Seals of some type. Only carry a Decompression Needle if trained in its use. Circulation: While Combat Medics will likely be concerned with maintaining enough blood pressure to keep the blood flowing during an emergency, this is the opportunity to cover smaller wounds. Consider the value of carrying an IV starter kit without maintaining access to IV solution. Head Trauma and Heat Injury: For those in cold climates, a micro space blanket will go a long way in the event of injury.
Additional Considerations: Non-Latex Gloves, a CPR Mask, combat shears, additional tourniquets, disinfectant, over-the-counter pain killers, sharpie and laminated card to write details on.
Above: The Ferro Concepts x Forward Observations Roll 1 trauma pouch can replace a belt-mounted IFAK, or be used as supplemental storage. Utilizing the space between the plate carrier and the belt line, it also provides additional lumbar support, especially when riding in a vehicle.
A little goes a long way when it comes to kit-mounted medical gear. The primary focus of an IFAK is to meet the needs of the wearer. Whether for self-care or to treat another person, the objective is in the title: Individual First Aid Kit.
At least annual maintenance should be performed on a belt-mounted IFAK. Whether it rarely sees use, or if the range is a frequent occasion, the contents will degrade over time. Set a date, and stick to it.
Vehicle-borne
A vehicle-borne portable medical kit is built primarily for a mass casualty situation, where multiple people might need treatment, with the possibility that some might need transportation to a hospital. According to military terms, mass-casualty typically refers to when at least 10% of the force is killed or wounded, but for survival and private citizen considerations, it informs a vehicle kit to focus on treating more than one person.
Above: The Tactical Tailor First Responder Bag fits into a wheelwell, and can be quickly strapped on as a Fanny Pack or a sling-bag.
With special considerations for things like car accidents, a vehicle-portable medical kit will contain many of the same things as an IFAK. However, it should be understood as more than just a larger version of a personal medical kit. Seasonal appropriate inclusions, like winter clothes, or regional necessities, such as additional water define the focus of this kind of kit.
Larger fanny-pack or sling bag style bags such as the Tactical Tailor First Responder Bag easily store in a vehicle, taking up little enough space to have a dedicated location.
Home Base
If this type of portable medical kit could have another name, it would call itself family emergency first aid. Heavily dependent on the number of people in your household, the political and natural environment, and the emergency plans one has in place, the largest of options doesn’t need to be as portable, so long as it’s purpose is pre-determined. Is your family planning on bugging out in the event of an emergency? Do you live in a condo or a single-family home?
Above: While it’s capable of being used as an EDC pack, the 5.11 Tactical Rush12 backpack can carry a comprehensive medical kit, without getting too specialized, and is easily marked with patches. However, don’t get trapped into thinking that emergency gear is equivalent with tactical equipment.
For those who live alone, the home kit should be the place where backup supplies are stored. That way, what doesn’t make it into the IFAK can be kept in a centralized location, and serve as a resupply opportunity if something gets damaged or used. As its purpose is to treat emergencies, not everyday cuts and bruises, it should be kept separate than a household first-aid kit. There’s nothing against keeping bandages in both the bathroom and the bug-out kit, but it would be a tragedy if the emergency supplies were raided and not replenished before an unexpected tragedy.
A spare backpack can easily accomplish the needs of family kit. The items in this kit prioritize long-term storage, and should have a dedicated storage location in the house: a coat closet by the front door, or hanging from a door to the basement.
The size of the bag comes down to personal preference and what training family members have received.
Putting It All Together
We began this article on portable medical kits with the understanding that we will not have the infrastructure and supply line capabilities of a hospital or military unit. That spirit continues in not only how one layers their IFAK with other medical gear, but also how they go about acquiring it. With companies like North American Rescue, Guerilla Tactical, and Live the Creed providing full medical kits for what might go on your battle belt, plate carrier, or chest rig, the best approach to the next layers: vehicle-borne, and home base supply, is to remain methodical.
For example, a single pack can serve as both the vehicle portable medical kit and home base supply, doubling duties by having a designated storage location in a vehicle that is typically parked, unlocked, in an attached garage. Folded Gauze, pressure dressings, and tourniquets are often sold in packs, ready to be distributed across a growing system.
The primary objective of layering emergency medical quipment is to be able to scale one’s response to a changing scenario. Since it is impossible to create a single kit that works for every situation, each step up: from IFAK to Vehicle Kit, recognizes the known and likely hazards that one could face. By tailoring each layer to the known and likely scenarios one could face, they improve their position at each level.
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Above: These older IFAKs come from a time before a smaller, slimmer kit was in vogue.
The EssTac DST Medical Pouch features a tear-away main storage container, so the wearer doesn’t have to remove their belt to get at their IFAK. 
Above: The Ferro Concepts x Forward Observations Roll 1 trauma pouch can replace a belt-mounted IFAK, or be used as supplemental storage. Utilizing the space between the plate carrier and the belt line, it also provides additional lumbar support, especially when riding in a vehicle. 
Above: The Tactical Tailor First Responder Bag fits into a wheelwell, and can be quickly strapped on as a Fanny Pack or a sling-bag. 
Above: While it’s capable of being used as an EDC pack, the 5.11 Tactical Rush12 backpack can carry a comprehensive medical kit, without getting too specialized, and is easily marked with patches. However, don’t get trapped into thinking that emergency gear is equivalent with tactical equipment.
