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VN era first aid kit

Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 8:04 pm
by GunnyGene
Digging around in some of my old stuff and found this kit. Y'all old dogs might remember these. I threw out some of the stuff that was in it - old bandaids, some pills, etc. Kept the iodine tabs and ammonia capsules. Other stuff I kept is mostly labeled there's also a tourniquet, mosquito net, caffeine tabs, a wrist compass, etc. Cleaned it up some and oiled the zipper. I'll likely refill the bandaids and a few other things with new stuff.

Don't recall exactly where or when I liberated this, but probably sometime between 1965 and 1972.


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Re: VN era first aid kit

Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2023 10:34 pm
by markiver54
Good resurrection. Always!,good to have on hand.

Re: VN era first aid kit

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:59 am
by Sir Henry
It should have the maker and date stamped on it. Most likely under the flap or on the bottom. I carried the smaller individual kit.

Re: VN era first aid kit

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 7:56 am
by GunnyGene
Sir Henry wrote:
Sun Apr 09, 2023 6:59 am
It should have the maker and date stamped on it. Most likely under the flap or on the bottom. I carried the smaller individual kit.
Only dates I could find were on the ammonia and iodine, '71 and '72, so I apparently liberated this sometime in the early to mid '70s.

Re: VN era first aid kit

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 8:22 am
by GeoBoy
I just picked up a couple at CVS, they were $16.00+ and CVS was blowing them out for $4.27 because of the expiration date.

Re: VN era first aid kit

Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:43 am
by Bake
WARNING, WARNING, WARNING. The word, [in the '60s] in Vietnam, was "caffeine pills" :shock: was code for amphetamines. They were pretty lightweight, not the heavy duties ones that our fathers used in World War Two, but still enough to get you busted :( if you were an interstate truck driver . . .