Donations are appreciated in increments of $20 or more. We also need ship to APO addresses
Each kit costs $20 plus shipping. Your check saves us $1 fee to Paypal.
Components for these kits are purchased below wholesale, there is no profit factor,
labor is volunteered, and
Carl personally underwrites costs that are not covered by donations.
Any family member wishing their GI / soldier to have a kit, but can not afford it,
will have one sent FREE [We pay], just send their Name Rank and APO address.
Most KIA (Killed In Action ) deaths in the war have occurred from blast injury from the Improvised Explosive Devises. Another Fort Carson soldier was buried June 14, 2005, a native Coloradan, who along with three other soldiers died from massive injuries due to the blast of an IED. I wonder if he or any of the others who died had had a package of Quick Clot in their first aid kits, and the soldiers who rendered immediate action first aid to these men had had it in theirs, if they could have saved any or all of these four soldiers' lives by stopping their massive bleeding. When the femoral artery is ruptured, such as happens with the loss of a leg, a person can bleed out in seconds. Quick Clot will immediately stop this kind of bleeding upon contact. Compression bandages and direct pressure will slow this kind of bleeding but cannot stop it. Except for Quick Clot, only a surgeon can do it. Quick Clot will stop this bleeding in the field, so that a trauma team can then go to work properly treating and closing the wound.
The stuff is amazing, and works. The chemical virtually cauterizes and closes all areas where bleeding is occurring. There are cases where individuals have lost arms, legs and been hit with 20mm rounds and have survived because of Quick Clot. The use of Quick Clot is enhanced by a great USA made compression bandage Cinch Tight. The cinch tight company owners are giving us a price just over manufacture cost for these gifts. We sell Cinch tight and Quick Clot in our on line and brick and mortar store.
You and can do something today. The American Snipers Association's Adopt-a-Sniper program have been sending care boxes to Army and Marine Corps Scout Sniper units for the past year and a half, and can include Quick Clot in these shipments. I am confident that if we can get enough of it in the hands of our front line troops they can pass it along to their friends in the battalions. Its at least a start, and certainly matters to the man or woman whose life it saves. Funds sent to my office will all go to purchase wound kits and send them.
Sincerely,
Carl Weil - Director
Wilderness Medicine Outfitters