I've seen some people mount first aid pieces/IFAKs just above their mag pouches on their chest. I'm conflicted about it though.

Pros?

>much more accessible than 4-5/7-8 o clock

>looks cool

>doesn't get in the way of chest rig if your pouches aren't already mounted to your PC

>doesn't feel like shit if you have a ruck/day pack on

Cons

>if your vest takes rounds, your life saving equipment is dangerously close to becoming swiss cheese

>could get in the way of mags

Thoughts?

>>57920919 (OP)

Put it on belt or rib portion of vest/carrier

>>57920919 (OP)

If you have an admin pouch on your chest, that's not a bad spot to stash some band aids or a boo boo kit, but I wouldn't mount a full IFAK there. If you don't want it on your belt or lower back, try to put it as far back on your cummerbund as you can while still being able to reach it without doffing your carrier. Alternatively, you could mount it on a dangler below your placard or mag pouches, so it's still forward, but out of the way.

Most soldiers don't get shot. They get blown up. IED, drone, artillery. So it doesn't matter where you put your fak.

high chest seems bad since IEDs push all that shit up into your face

That's a good argument for having a full trauma kit on each limb.

Not a bad place to put an extra tourny if you have em, provided they don't fall out, plus it can counterbalance the smokes/dip you have in the other one!

belt makes more sense. pull-out ifaks also make more sense.

>>57920919 (OP)

You are major coping bro, nobody gonna wear a slick plate carrier with a bulky ifak on it but no placard or shingle lmfao, no they'd throw a chest rig over that awkwardly shaped shit and have more whit moving independently of itself. Thats some mental gymnastics. And you know no matter what its gonna fuck with your reloads. Keep something there as thin as a juggernaut case and youd be fine but not a full ass ifak.

>>57920919 (OP)

Putting it above the mags is pretty retarded.

>USMC Boots

>multicam cammies

What the fuck.

>>57920919 (OP)

Very stupid. The ifak you put on your PC is not for you to use on others, its for others to use on your magled body.

If you're planning on being a medic then carry a pack, ifak only enough supplies for 1.5 people.

And forgot. Mount ifak on dominant hand cumberbund as far back as you can. Out of the way of shit you're gonna mount and should clear packs you put on.

Getting a limb blown off or getting hit by fragmentation also requires medical attention

>>57920919 (OP)

SON! You will wear your IFAK as your commanding Officer tells you.

>If your larping just carry your favorite flavor lolly pops and bandaid and your mothers ecell phone numer.!

>USMC Boots

>multicam cammies

Very common in Army guard/reserve with prior Marines. One of those things that's kinda against regs but nobody really cares.

>>57920919 (OP)

Carry it on a 6 o-clock on your belt, cuz the day you get shot or injured, you possibly will be bleeding from the asshole too.
