GXT Unboxed Prepping - Head For Survival Bandana - GenXTalkin

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It’s the Head for Survival Triangular Bandana and along with it comes a couple of really nice, larger safety pins. All of it folded up nicely in a little zip locked packet. It set me back about 12 bucks.

For those of us with any sort of medical, or even just your simple first aid training, if you think triangle bandage you already get a sense of what this looks like. It’s an Isosceles shaped triangle with the long side being about 52 inches and the short, equal sides being 39 inches. Of course it works perfectly for its more common first aid purposes. Namely:

Sling to stabilize an arm or support a shoulder injury

• Head cover for injury or keeping the head out of the elements
• Stabilizing sprained ankle, Using in conjunction with harder item to splint leg or arm breaks
• Possible tourniquet or means to slow bleeding down
• Covering an injured eye
• Or holding a broken jaw in place
• Pre-filtering water
• A Simple face mask
• it can be used as cordage
• or tinder for fire starting

Printed on these little beauties is a whole host of survival concepts. It’s broken down into sections for:

Navigation, Knots, Signaling, Fire starting, Water collection and purification, And shelter

Each section contains very clear instructions on how to perform steps to success in these areas. For instance, within the Signaling section, it breaks down ideas on how to best use a cell phone in urgent situations. It also explains how many signal fires (three) you should build and in what shape... a triangle of course.

There’s a section on ground signaling, offering recommendations on how big to make an SOS sign on the ground - think about 18 foot tall letters!!! And when trying to hail a searching aircraft, make sure you wave frantically, not friendly. If you can, wave with a bright colored cloth... did I mention this triangle bandage is bright orange!!

Also within signaling, it breaks down ideas for SIGHT signals (SOS in Morse code) versus SOUND signals - think whistling or banging metal objects together. These sounds travel farther or course. And this is just the section for signaling.

Personally I love this item and will probably look for more to add into each pack I have; edc, bug out, get home pack. Doesn’t matter I can always use one of these, or two.

So yep definitely give it a thumbs up and recommend it for anyone.

I’m Matt Marshall. So long and thanks for all the FISH!!

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Until next time... this is monk signing off... better be prepared