Go on, it was that long ago Marines were transported in Roman galleys and you had a chariot licence.
Other than that we used to use the wrapper from first field dressings for chest wounds. I saw an improv on a course one time when a guy had an instructor screaming down his neck, he cut a piece of butyl laminate off his gasmask case and used that.
Slightly off topic apologies:
Not just in medicine. Last week I was talking with a friend at the European Defence Agency who is involved in infantry clothing design. He told me he was looking for a friendly cotton like fabric for multi environment use. It had to be warm in the cold, waterproof in the rain and cool in the summer. I told him about ventile that was used around 20 + years ago and still is in a couple of quiet military uits. He is from the new goretex age and had never heard of it. However, next week he is presenting it as a possibility.
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