In the 1990s, an Israeli combat medic named Bernard Bar-Natan designed a bandage that could do what gauze and cloth never could.
Apply hard, focused pressure directly on a wound. Stay locked in place. And be applied fast, with one hand, on yourself or someone else, under the worst conditions imaginable.
The world's toughest units took notice.
The U.S. Army's 75th Ranger Regiment made it standard issue.
The armies of Germany, Australia, New Zealand, and more adopted it. The FBI and other agencies followed. A SWAT medic at the scene of a mass shooting later said his team reached for this bandage over and over.
This isn't a drugstore bandage. It's a battlefield-proven, life-saving trauma tool.