Category Archive: Knowledge

An Evidence Based Word on Recommended Hemostatics

Click Image to Open NAMRU Hemostatics Study .PDF (Right Click to Save As) After posting the warning about foreign hemostatic agents of unknown quality (probably fraudulent) we received a comment (from someone associated… Read More

Urban Schlub: Redux

Yesterday’s April Fools post was, we hope you realize, firmly tongue in cheek. Satirical though we were being, we also hoped to make a point as well. Recent releases in the “tactical” clothing… Read More

Fake Hemostatic Products

Courtesy of our good friends in Chinese industry, one of the staples of modern emergency treatment of major hemorrhage is now being copied. Though these products are not direct copies of an major… Read More

Woods Competency

Recently, a client made the comment that he was a “student of wilderness survival, not a bushcraft type”. This struck me as sort of odd, so I asked him a bit about how… Read More

Thin, Sharp, Knives

If you look around the working world, at the knives that are regularly used to do work, you might notice some startling differences between those knives and what is prominent in the popular… Read More

Awareness Notes: “Satisfaction of Search” & Multiples

In a short 2010 paper in i-Perception, Dr. Daniel Simons noted the following; “[The finding] is consistent with the phenomenon of ‘satisfaction of search’—people are less likely to search for additional targets once… Read More

Cultivating Awareness

“[...]a man becomes his attentions. His observations and curiosity, they make and remake him.” William Least Heat Moon Our last post was on April Fools Day. We posted an appropriate post, saying our… Read More

Observation is Important, M’kay?

There is perhaps no skill, trait, attribute, or ability of more value to survival than simple observation. If you are not aware, and you are not able to grasp the meaning of what… Read More

Will & Skill

Will; noun; (1)The faculty of conscious and especially of deliberate action; the power of control the mind has over its own actions: the freedom of the will. (2)Purpose or determination, often hearty or… Read More

Non-Commercial Use of BFE Labs Material

At this point BFE Labs has only provided a single document, both on this site and external to it, intended for widespread dissemination: The “Proposed Guideline for Tactical Medical Self Care in the… Read More

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