Captain Rom A Stevens, a retired senior US medical navy officer who has served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and East Africa, estimates that of the roughly 100,000 amputations performed on Ukrainian soldiers since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, as many as 75,000 were caused by improper use of tourniquets.

“I’ve seen tourniquets that have been left on for days, often for injuries that could have been stopped by other methods. Then [the patient] has to have their limb amputated because the tissue has died,” Captain Stevens told The Telegraph.

Tourniquets are strong bands used to stop catastrophic bleeding by cutting off blood flow, and are standard issue for most modern armies.

But if left on over two hours, they can cause tissue death, meaning the arm or leg which has the tourniquet on is no longer viable and requires amputation





''We believe that Ukrainian military, volunteer civilian, and NATO military trainers do not realize the high risk of limb loss and other negative consequences due to inappropriate use or prolonged tourniquet application. Nor do they see these consequences as the casualty is moved through and up the care chain, as there is no Ukrainian version of the U.S. joint trauma registry, and no regular review of complications. Casualty data are not published by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense or Ministry of Health due to security concerns.6 Ukrainian hands-on training and social media sites have over-emphasized the use of proximal placement of tourniquets without explaining possible limb loss and other complications resulting from tourniquets left in situ more than 2 hours. Yatsun reported than only 25% of limb tourniquets placed during combat operations in Ukraine were appropriate, the remainder were more appropriately managed with pressure dressings.''

FatBoy said:

Not all lotta love for the 2-10, or not a lot of action shooters???

@C_Does video was pretty good, it helped but I’d love to hear from a field shooter who actually uses this scope or something else like it. Particularly interested in sight picture from 10-400 yards with one parallax setting. Is it doable?

Click to expand...

I have one in SFP and have shipped quite a few rifles with the std FFP model in Mils.

It is one of the best scopes I have seen for what we do. What we don't do with them is run n gun type stuff so I can't offer first hand experience with that.



I can say that the FOV is excellent but we have never tried to use these from 10-400 without readjusting the parallax. In fact the adjustable parallax was one of the original draws for use because it is so important for us at the closer ranges. The eyebox, image brightness and resolution for a given X is one of the best we've seen. Capped wind, locking Elev, Nice Illum with timeout and the small footprint are the schnitz.

I can also say that the glass quality and design allows us to resolve things better at 10x than some of the other scopes can do at 14x or more. I may be wrong but I would guess that a scope with lower magnification would offer more of a "deep field" focus than the higher X scopes with all other things being equal.

Maybe get @koshkin or one of the other optics nerds ( I mean that in a very respectful way) to chime in?

What does “low round count” mean…estimate on how many rounds through it?

Mac

Defiantly_Not_Bender said:

Login to view embedded media

Click to expand...

But...but...Don's our hero. He's pure and untainted.

I've been sayign the same thing for years and getting shit on for it.

He may be better than the competition but that is far from making him a saint.

While I'm at it fuck the Zionist parasites

cas6969 said:

I guess I just hate dancing. Or dancers. Ugh.
I have no problem with people dancing together (not that I want to watch that either), but stuff like that? God it's horrific. Super cringe. Don't know when this happened.

Click to expand...

Yeah, that's because the Hurlburt commander is AFSOC and didn't want to deal with the paperwork of all the guys who carried on base already illegally if they got caught.

The pills go in your mouth @Barneybdb

The AT-X mags work perfectly. I'm at around 750 rounds and havent had 1 feeding issue

These nrl hunter md’s get pretty tricky with their target arrays so even with a lrf it’s not hard to hit a piece of brush and not the plate. Agree though that’s why I like the 6 creed so much. You can hit rod it when needed or nice and slow and consistent when not.