Month: February 2022 (Page 2 of 3)

Combing Remote Area First Aid, Military Prolonged Field Care and Wilderness Vertical Rescue all mixed into 3 Days of challenging education!
This course can be described as educational, adventurous, challenging and fun! If you picture a course that combines Remote Area First Aid, Military Prolonged Field Care and Wilderness Vertical Rescue all mixed into 2.5 Days (including night training) worth of learning, then that’s what our Remote Casualty Care Course is.
We’ll introduce you to the concepts of remote casualty care and wilderness rescue through a combination of theory, skill stations and immersive scenarios.
With the experience of our highly qualified cadre, which includes a mix of former Australian & International Special Operations Medics and experienced Remote Area Paramedics, we’ll challenge you (yes, our aim is to put you out of your comfort zone) both clinically and mentally.
TacMed Australia Remote Casualty Care course is delivered in partnership under a third party agreement with TacMed Training (RTO 41552). Vertical Rescue & Roping is under the guidance of Safety Access & Rescue.
This is a blended delivery training course of:
Pre Course eLearning Material and Assessments
2.5 Day Face to Face element (includes some night training)
Remote Casualty Care Course includes the nationally accredited requirements:
HLTAID009 Provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation
HLTAID011 Provide First Aid
HLTAID013 Provide First Aid in a remote or isolated site
Topics Include:
First Responder Extended Care techniques
Improvised trauma care techniques
Advanced fracture management techniques and devices
Anatomy and Physiology for remote area injury profiles including head, neck and spinal injuries
Rapid Patient Assessment skills
Arterial Tourniquets
Junctional haemorrhage management techniques
Trauma practical skills session
Reality-Based Training Scenarios
Prevention and treatment of hypothermia in the remote environment
Asthma
Anaphylaxis
Airway and Choking
Management
Bleeding control & Shock
CPR (Adult, Infant and AED)
Fracture Management
Envenomation Management
Remote patient assessment concepts and techniques
Casualty treatment techniques for the remote wilderness environment
Medical planning for remote/wilderness environments
Casualty evacuation from the remote environment
Introduction to Wilderness Vertical Rescue
Timings:
Friday 11th March Day 1 Session 1: 5pm-9pm
Saturday 12th March Day 2 Session 1: 10am-5pm
Saturday 12th March Day 2 Session 2: 7pm-10pm
Sunday 13th March Day 3 Session 1: 8am-3pm

For further information or a complete student handbook, please call 1300 862 633 or email training@tacmedaustralia.com.au

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Only Three weeks Left and trying to rid weight. Replacing the butane lighter with a bic and removing the secondary compass and flint and steel. I always try and have 3 ways to start a fire and a second back up compass.

The tobacco tin is for char making and will only carry emergency fire starting tinders and char cloth. A long with a sail needle and Fresnel Lense,.

The Snugpak Special Forces system turned up today. Just quick pics showing the difference in size between the Snugpak and Recon bags. Ill be finishing off my Ranger Roll tomorrow.

Out scouting the local water ways today looking for good trout fishing areas to try out fly fishing and seeing the sights.

Ive been trying to update several pieces of equipment and after painstaking research into developing a better layering system and fed up freezing my backside off when the weather changes, layering has become the only way to go.

I usually try wearing thermals and if necessary clothing inside a bag but now Ive chosen to bite the bullet and invest in a decent system around Snugpak products. With a special Forces complete system of bags that includes the special forces bags 1 and 2.

Versatility was the aim of this systems design so that it suits any trip in any environment. You can use the sleeping bags individually or layer them together to cover all conditions. The Complete System gives you the Special Forces 1 Bag for use in above freezing temperatures and the Special Forces 2 Bag for use in temperatures right down to -10°C. Then, when you’re in extreme conditions, you place the Special Forces 2 Bag inside the Special Forces 1 Bag and join them together with the extra zip baffle, so you’re protected in conditions right down to -20°C.

Ive also purchased the TS1 liner to complete the system with which I can also wear ice Breaker thermals. Then I can interchange any of the bags and liner/thermals combinations to suit any temperature range.

This system will be incorporated into my ranger roll with the Platatac Burrow Bivvi bag and Sea to summit 3/4 insulated pad.

Darche Cold Mountain Canvas 1400 (Swag use)

https://www.snowys.com.au/cold-mountain-canvas-1400

Snugpak Special Forces Complete System Olive

https://www.survivalsuppliesaustralia.com.au/Snugpak-Special-Forces-Complete-System-OD?b7=z1

Snugpak Jungle bag (Summer use) Olive

https://platatac.com/brands/snugpak/snugpak-jungle-bag.html

Snugpak TS1 Liner Coyote

https://platatac.com/brands/snugpak/snugpak-ts1-liner.html

Recon 3 (Old bag)

For the next four months Ill be living out of my Darche Dusk till Dawn 1400 swag, until I can sell my caravan and build my off-road trailer. So its going to be a good test of the brand.

The 1400 is a little large to move around but its a great size to live out of. I also added a egg foam mattress to help with long term use. Very comfortable, no leaks. My only complaint is theres not much room with a 30 kilo Staffy hogging the bed.

https://www.snowys.com.au/dusk-to-dawn-swag-1400

Wild Mushrooming A guide for Foragers by Alison Pouliot and Tom May
Mushrooming is something Ive always wanted to learn and now Im interstate where its much more common Ive booked into several courses. I wanted to grab a book that covered foraging, poisonous species, lookalikes and cooking and not have to buy ten different books. Ill still have to grab a few more books to cover overseas species but I think this one will be a good reference point for a beginner to start learning about Australian species.

Chapter 4 covers major groups of fungi, chapter 5 features to look for, chapter 6 names and identification, chapter 8 poisonous fungi, chapter 9 edible species and look a likes with very nice pictures.

Here is the time table for Jake’s training courses for 2022. I hoping to get back to NSW after June to do more training with Jake. I still have to sell my caravan, build a 14 foot offroad trailer, mushroom ID course, pig butchery course and my level 2 bushcraft before heading back to the East Coast. I can highly recommend training with Jake.

https://www.jakecassarbushcraft.com/book-a-course.html

The first time I met Jake was in was in 2018. I had recovered from my second double lung transplant, renovated an old bedford 1976 bus and started driving around the country doing as many bushcraft courses as I could possibly find.

I had spent 12 years of my life hauling around an oxygen bottle and it was on my bucket list to train in bushcraft.A mate had helped me drive up to QLD “thx adrian” and I had started traveling back down the east coast. Looking back I think i may have pushed my self too much that first few years. I had started back in 4 martial arts and retrained for my heavy vehicle license.

I was just recovering from a major chest infection and had contacted Jake who was good enough to make time to do a private day for me with a lowered immune system training in groups I always have to be careful.

We spent the day walking around a national park looking at the native food plants and telling me the stories associated with the plants such as what plants came into fruit when yabbies for in season, or when the whales were due into the coast.

We made our way through the park doing a little of everything from tracking to history. the walk almost killed me with reduced lung capacity at the time. Its 65% on a good day, but I learnt what sort of person Jake was the way he took axtra care of my health situation. At the time

We ended up at the Mother tree and looked at the Viking ruins carved into the rock side. A day a will never forget. before heading back to the vehicle and an intro to tracking. The most important thing I learnt that day was how to use a firebow standing up. Theres no way I can use one kneeling down, half my diaphragm doesnt work. Jake made it possible for me to do a basic skill which I found very difficult with my other injuries. its not the big things that exite me anymore its the little things I have to relearn how to do that give me more appreciation.

Every time Im passing through NSW I always try and catch up with Jake for a day of training.