Originally published at Notes from the bunker…. You can comment here or there.

Need to re-evaluate the quantity of firt-aid gear that I carry around. One obvious glaring oversight was that it was centered around the need for one incident. But if two people are hurt, then I may wind up being short on some things. Drawback is, where do I limit it? If I carry enough for, say, four people, the kit goes from being easily portable to bulky and annoying. Hmmmmm. I mention this because last weeks incident while hiking brought it home to me..I used two antispetic wipes on one kid and had to use iodine wipes on the other.

The TRC3A wireless intrusion set showed up and now I just need to pick up a portable scanner that picks up the frequencies it operates on (133.5mHz~). Ive been needing a new scanner anyway, so that isnt a big deal.

I do need to stock up on some more ammo though, and I need to cache a bit of it off-site. The LMI’s and myself keep enough on hand to completely equip several other people but I still dont like having all my eggs in one basket. I especially need to have some more .223 in reserve. At least a few thousand rounds.

Summer is here and Im very pleased with how the Camelbak and HydraStorm ‘hydration systems’ have been working. These things are great. The other LMI’s dont use them yet but Im going to move that we all get a couple more. If not, I’ll get them each one for Christmas.

Fourth of July is next week and thats usually our summer field exercise…unfortunately it looks like Im going to have to miss it. I need to work and make money after taking a weeks vacation…so I’ll make it up somewhere down the road…maybe hunting season.