Agreed, if the OP is in Iraq or any other place booger-eaters are looking to pop you. But I would be curious as to how many people who carry chest seals in their personal kits in the US has ever had to use a chest seal. To go out a bit further on a limb, I would be curious as to how many paramedics in the back of a bus have used a chest seal. My guess is not very many, and think very likely statistically insignificant. I would say the folks here are a tad of an outlier because we are cut from different cloth from the vast, vast majority of people who carry/use personal kits.
I have used kling, 4"x4", ABD pads, QC Combat Gauze, on the side of the road assisting injured morotists, but in 20 years have never seen a poor schmuck requiring a chest seal. My soapbox, but one I am fine to speak from.
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