Video Transcript
The MED-T is our next iteration of a belt-mounted medical pouch solution that we've been working on for well over a year now, and it's taken such a long time to come to market. We are very very excited for it to finally be here. So what we're gonna do in this video is we're gonna go over what's in the pouch or what can go into the pouch, some features of the pouch, show you guys how to mount it up on a belt and kind of go from there.
So inside the plastic bag we actually have two pieces of nylon. We have the tray and we have a platform. The platform has been a hard word for me in this video, but we're going to keep rolling with it. So the first piece of kit here that we have is what we're going to call the platform. This is actually what your tray is going to attach to, obviously. So this platform is designed to be mounted either via molle or with a belt pass-through. It's not really designed to be mounted any other way. If you get creative, you can probably come up with another way to wear this, attach this, whatever the case may be. Now, the tray itself, if you're familiar with our Med-H, is going to look very, very similar to the Med-H, and that is intentional. So first key feature about this pouch is it has a quick tear-open design just like the Med-H. And if you look at the layout for the contents, it's going to look very, very familiar. And that is because it's almost exactly the same. The only difference is it's a little bit narrower, so we're going to be using one Ace Bandage from the fill contents of this pouch specifically.
It comes to attaching the tray to the platform, it's very simple. It's just Velcro attaches on there, and you're good to go. Zip up your pouch, and then you buckle it down just to make sure it stays retained. Now, when you want to deploy this pouch, you just unbuckle it, and there's going to be a handle right here on the back. It tears off the Velcro very easily.
That way, if you have it on the small of your back, you have it mounted on the side of your plate carrier, you can tear it off, and then you have your tray with all of your contents nicely organized, maintained, and not yards out all over the place. So now what we're going to do is we're going to go through the contents for the fill kit for this pouch.
These contents are going to be very, very similar to the Med-H because, like I said, the layout of the pouch is actually the exact same, which is minus one of the ACE bandages because of the pouch being a little bit narrower. So going through these contents, it is important to note, however, one key difference between this and the Med-H, and that is how narrow this pouch is. So I mention that because having a little extra volume in this pouch makes the Med-H very easy to tear open. That is why the Med-H is a little bit wider, is to make that tear open a little bit easier. With this pouch, we tried to suck in the pouch a little bit to be more comparable to the Med-1. With that being said, it doesn't tear open as easy as the Med-H, and that is because you're intended to open it like this. Unlike the Med-H, it's intended to be open with one hand. This one, because of the tray design with the handle, it's intended to be open with both your hands because typically you're going to rip the pouch off. You're going to have it in both your hands. You'll be able to tear it open. So just keep that in mind as we go through this.
Now in the bag for your Med-T Fill Kit, you're going to have this card that's going to lay out all of the components for your fill kit. So if you ever get confused or forget what goes in this guy, you can always just keep this card or just check out our website on the product page for either the pouch or the fill kit if you ever need replacements or anything like that. But the card has everything you need to know here.
As we go through the contents, I'm just going to load them into the pouch just to streamline this process a little bit. So we're going to have two hyphened chest heels. These go in the front side of the pouch here. They just slide into this open portion of the pouch. This portion of the pouch is fit almost specifically for these. You're also going to have a couple of TCCC cards here. These are for identifying injuries on a patient. If you treat someone, you can fill out this card. You take this out and then you tie it to their toe or their ear, their tooth, whatever the case may be. Put it around their neck if you decide to be nice, although that would be a little bit small. But you guys get the idea. This is for going on a patient that you have treated.
In the pouch right where you're going to insert the cards are going to be two little tie downs here. So you can actually tie your rubber bands off to these if you so desire. So when you pull the card out, you just rip it out if you want to do that sort of thing. I just like to shove the rubber band down into the sleeve. These go right behind or right in front of your hyphened chest heels. It doesn't really matter if they go front or rear, just whatever you want.
Continuing on with this portion of the pouch where it looks like a bunch of pins go. That's exactly what goes there. This kit is going to come with two Needle Decompression. You can slide your needle D's in there. It doesn't really matter which way they go. You have a Sharpie that comes with your kit. You can slide that in there as well.
You actually want your Sharpie to go on to the most bottom portion one because this top one is the fattest. That's going to be for your NPA. You're going to need more room. So here's your NPA. When I put this guy into the pouch, I just roll this up, keep it nice and tight. Just like so. This takes a little bit of finesse to get in, but once it's in, it stays secure and it comes out pretty easy. Your front of your pouch should look something like this. You're going to have your two Needle Ds, your Sharpie, your NPA, and behind those and a little sleeve behind it, you're going to have your HyFin Chest Seals and your two casualty documentation cards.
So moving on to the other side of the pouch, we're going to start with our ACE Bandage. So on one side of the pouch, you're going to notice there are two elastic tabs or elastic retaining bands. The ACE Bandage is going on the other side where there's only one. This will just slide into that one individual elastic band. And as you're going to notice, it's only going to retain the top of the ACE Bandage. That's totally fine. It's going to stay retained quite nicely. And then in the middle here is actually for two sets of gauze. In the kit, you're going to get a QuikClot Combat Gauze and then a normal compressed gauze. If you so desire, you can upgrade to get two of these if you want. Or if you use this and you're trying to save a little bit of coin on this equipment, which this is probably not the equipment you should save money on, you can go ahead and just get another normal gauze. So you can run two of your normal compressed gauzes, two of your QuikClot's, or one of each. It doesn't matter. This pouch will fit either. So what I like to do is put my QuikClot at the bottom, so closest to the pouch.
Just like so. You just kind of wrap up the plastic a little bit so it fits in there quite nicely. And I'm going to put my normal gauze on top. There are actually two elastic bands here to separate the two gauzes. It's not shoving two into one elastic retaining band there. And then the last two spots here are for your Duct Tape and your Bear Claw Nitrile Gloves. You can take your Duct Tape out of this little plastic bag like I'm going to do. Or you can leave it in there. It doesn't really matter. And it doesn't really matter top or bottom which one you put where.
So there you have it. That is the Med-T built out on the inside of the pouch. Now we do have two more pieces of equipment that this kit comes with. We have our CAT Tourniquet and then our Trauma Shears. So on the front of the pouch, much like the Med-H, we have a little doo-hickey going on here to retain scissors. So your scissors can go from either side. If you want it to go on the other side, you just untie the retaining system here. Put your scissors in and then re-tie it off on the other side if you choose to change the direction that your scissors go in.
And this can be retained in a number of different ways. You can retain it just like this going through the handle of the scissors. Or you can go about it the other way and just kind of tie it off on the tip of the scissors. It doesn't really matter. It's just however you want to do it. I find this to be the best way to do that. Now you also don't have to put the scissors on your kit if you don't want. You can put it on your plate carrier somewhere else. And then you can just take these, if you do that, you can just untie this, take this retention band off, and then you just have more of a slick front.
So zipping this pouch up, as you guys can see, it is nice and compact. It's very, very comparable to the T.REX Med1 in size. So we did want to try and keep the Med1 form factor as best as possible. Although this one is a little bit more bulky comparatively to that pouch. However, the contents of this pouch are much more accessible, much more organized, and also the contents of this pouch are just much better overall. So a pouch like the T.REX Med1 that's on the small of your back, you have to somehow unzip it.
Then you have to pull your tray out from there, and that can be a little bit difficult, especially if you're down to one limb. So with this pouch, you can do everything with one hand. It tears away super easy, which we'll demonstrate once we get everything set up on the belt. But here you have it. This is the Med-T tray itself built out. Now one more thing with the tearaway, like I said, this was going to be a little bit more difficult compared to the Med-H, but it still opens quite easily. And if you don't want the tearaway feature, as in it's just a feature you don't care about, you can always just tuck that little pull tab inside the pouch and zip it up, and you're good to go. You don't have the quick access tear open feature. That's totally fine too. Some people prefer that because it is a snag hazard at the end of the day.
If you're wearing it on the small of your back, you're walking through some trees or something like that, there's always a chance it gets snagged and ripped open. But with the way we have the things designed in here, even if it does tear open, everything will stay retained. And especially with this pouch because it's in… What is this thing called? Because it's in the platform, bulked up and secure, it's going to be really, really hard for that to get snagged. It's almost impossible. The whole thing is covered up.
Now the last piece of medical equipment that comes in your fill kit is the CAT Tourniquet. This actually doesn't attach to your pouch at all. It attaches to the platform itself. There's just a little bit of a little tourniquet retaining elastic band there for it. Obviously, take the tourniquet out of the plastic first before sliding in there, but that is where it goes. I'll say one more thing. On the bottom of the MED-T, there's two little rubber grommets here. That is for draining fluids, like water or something like that, or even some dirt. But you can put, for example, two Sling Keepers there and then attach this tourniquet here if you want it all retained onto one pouch. Or what you can do is you can do that, have a tourniquet here, and then you can have two tourniquets. That actually works pretty well. There's a lot of room for adjustment with the platform itself.
The next thing we're going to do is mount this guy up onto a speed belt. So like I mentioned earlier in the video, this platform is designed to be mounted either by molle or through our belt pass-through system. So if you're going to be mounting it via molle, you can mount it molle onto a speed belt. It's going to move around a little bit. I'm not going to demonstrate how to do that, but the molle is really designed to be mounted on the side of a plate carrier or towards a smaller of your back or something like that. Some place that you can still reach with at least one hand to get to it. It's not designed to be mounted on the back of your plate carrier directly in the back because you're not going to be able to get to it. This is designed, like I said, for you to be able to access it by yourself.
Now if you're going to use this primarily on a belt, you don't plan on using the molle, that's totally fine and what we expect a lot of people to do. You can just cut these guys off. The molle can get in the way and get a little bit annoying, we wanted to add the feature to the platform for people that want to molle it. So if you know you're not going to use it, just cut them off. It's not that big a deal. Once you cut them off, just use a lighter to burn the edges there so it doesn't fray or anything like that. But if you don't want to cut it off, understandable, we're just going to feed the molle through as if I mollied it onto something just to keep these tabs out of the way. So I'm going to use the belt system as they mount it onto the belt.
Before I slide this guy on, what I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna take this buckle off. Now this buckle will fit through there, it's just gonna be a little bit difficult, so it's actually just easier just to take this buckle off and then feed it through without the buckle. So obviously just want to make sure this is right side up. And then as I pass this through, if you have a med one and you're moving to this pouch, you're gonna notice this is gonna be much tighter to the belt, and that was intentional. Again, with the MED1, this was sized to be a little bit more forgiving with other manufacturers belts out there. So this would wobble around a little bit. You're not gonna experience that with this belt. So when I slide it through, I'm just going to slide it through this first one, feed it back through the middle two, so I have some of that Velcro exposed, and then I'm going to feed it back through on the last pass through, just to keep it nice and secure to the belt.
On the inside of the belt, it's gonna look something like this. Like I said, if you do have a MED1, you're gonna notice that this is much, much more snug to the belt comparatively. Alright. So once I got it where I want it, I'm then going to attach my tray and everything else to this guy. So with the tray, it's super easy. This Velcro's on down, and then this buckle will come around, and I can tighten that up as much as I want. Looks like a very nice, sleek, compact package. If you guys can compare it to this empty GP pouch, it looks pretty similar, and that is because this pouch is very, very slim. Really, the only increase in bulkiness comes from the buckle, comparatively, to a MED1, but overall, it's still a very, very slim belt-mounted medical pouch.
We got our MED-T mounted on the belt, got our mag pouches mounted back on. I'm gonna put my buckle back on the belt, and then I'm going to demonstrate kind of deploying this kit while wearing the belt. Typically when you are mounting your medical pouch onto your belt, you're going to want it in the smaller of your back, basically directly in the center. And that is to keep it out of the way of all the stuff you're using on a regular basis. But with that being said, it's in the most inconvenient spot, most hard to get to versus everything else. So just make sure you're familiar with its location, especially where that buckle is. But it's still easy to get to. So like I said, this is designed to be deployed with just one hand. So I'm just familiar with where this pouch is on my belt. I know exactly where the buckle is. So if I need to get to it with one hand, I just find the buckle, disengage the buckle, the handle's right above it, pull it off, and you're good to go. It is pretty simple, but like I said, just make sure you get a rep or two with it so you just know where it is before you actually need it.
Wrapping things up, one more feature I want to note about this pouch is again with the tear away design here, so if you're going to keep the tear away design enabled, I guess you want to say, you can secure your zippers with the tear away little pull tab there, so it just helps with the snag hazard thing, it's not going to tear open as easy by accident, so really the only way this is going to tear open is if you un-belt curve this, then the zippers will be free to un-set basically. So, I keep those tucked in, pull this down nice and tight, velcro to the front, and you're good to go. So it's just a nice, easy tear open design there. So, if you guys have any questions regarding this pouch, the fill contents, or if there's any other contents that can fit in this pouch, really any questions at all about really anything, just go ahead and shoot us an email at [email protected].