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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Don Kuykendall_RIP" data-source="post: 524789" data-attributes="member: 6277">I guess that would be good advice for all of us. My son was trained in the Army on some pretty advance first aid. They are all issued very nice kits to keep with them. When he left the army they were told to turn in the kits and as soon as they did another person handed them back and told them to carry them all the time in civilian life. Two months after he got out there was one of the worse tornadoes that came through where he lived. He was standing in the parking lot of where he lived and could see it heading his way but it turned and missed him.  He grabbed his kit and threw it in his old pickup and headed toward the nearest place if had gone through about 2 miles away. He stated going trough the rubble of home digging people out and stopping the bleeding and splinting the obvious wounds as best he could. There were medics coming up behind him and they looked at the work he was doing and handed him fresh supplies and told him to continue on. He found several dead bodies and the last person he found had a sucking chest wound. One of the things they were taught in the Army was how to handle that which involves releasing the pressure.  He was able to do that and hold the tube in place till the medics got there. They then asked him where he was trained to do that. He went to the VA hospital a few days later and they refilled his kit for him. It does pay to have knowledge of basic life saving skills.</blockquote>

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