Video: CO-TCCC Approves Additional Tourniquets

"CO-TCCC Recommends NEW Tourniquets"--Skinny Medic (5 min.)

If you are bored with your SOFT-T and CAT, you now have some other options. The host/narrator just briefly shows off the newly approved models of personal tourniquets, including a ratcheting model.

Skinny Medic lists the approved tourniquets (both old and new) in his notes. Omitting the pneumatic models, which are really intended for hospital or clinic use anyway, they are:

Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) Gen 7
NSN: 6515-01-521-7976
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic Combat Application One-Handed 37.5" LG 1

Combat Application Tourniquet (CAT) Gen 6
NSN: Use of CAT Generation 6 is acceptable until life-cycle replacements to gen 7.
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic Combat Application One-Handed 37.5" LG 1

Ratcheting Medical Tourniquet -Tactical (RMT-T) 
NSN: 6515-01-527-3841
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet, One Handed Burke Device Tactical 
NOTE: The RMT Civilian models are not CoTCCC-recommended for military use.

SAM Extremity Tourniquet (SAM-XT)
NSN: 6515-01-670-2240
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic 25S

SOF Tactical Tourniquet – Wide (SOFTT-W)
NSN: 6515-01-587-9943
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic Nylon Strap 1.5” Wide Nylon Strap for BR
NOTE: The original 1” SOFTT is removed from the CoTCCC Recommendations.

Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet (TMT)
NSN: 6515-01-656-6191
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet

TX2” Tourniquet (TX2)
NSN: 6515-01-667-6027
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic TX2 Ratcheting One-Hand Coyote

TX3” Tourniquet (TX3)
NSN: 6515-01-667-6208
DLA Nomenclature: Tourniquet Nonpneumatic TX2 Ratcheting OD Green