Medics adapt, overcome and improvise. Share your short cuts for field care for your troops?

Kind of crude, but incredibly effective. To prevent heat casualties, I told my Joe's that if someone goes down as a heat casualty, I'm taking core temps. When I would get the blank stare after that I would say, "I'm going to monitor your temp by sticking a thermometer up your @ss every 5 minutes...and it's medically justified." The looks on their faces were priceless...but I rarely had a heat casualty after I started using that line...

I heard this one when I was in OBC and CPT Rascon (combat medic MoH recipient from Vietnam) spoke to us at graduation: Doc can't carry all the medical supplies. He had each bubba in the patrol carry his own resuscitation fluids (1 bag of NS and 1 can of albumin). Spreads the weight around. Also he had every bubba carry a hammock in his ruck to be used as a expedient litter.

Are you serious, so versed in this skill. I made a long bone splint out of ducktape an Popsicle sticks. I pulled traction on a dislocated shoulder with a Hair traction splint. made an IV heater out of extra tubing and a couple of pairs of "hot hands." made a "Rehab pool" out of a fuel blivet. countless things if i needed it i usually found a way to acquire it or make it