Tasmanian Tiger Medic Mascal Pack — The Ultimate Mass Casualty Medical Kit

Today we're looking at the Tasmanian Tiger Mascal pack — Mascal as in mass casualty. In transparency, Tasmanian Tiger sent the bag out for us to look at, but nothing inside it was sent to us; every bit of the load-out was procured and put together by me. The ATM tag on the front stands for active threat medic, and it's just hook-and-loop, so you can swap it for MEDIC, EMERGENCY SUPPLY, or whatever patches you want.

Where does a bag like this fit? We've covered the little pocket IFAKs like the Live The Creed EDC kit — great on your person for one injury, maybe yourself. We've covered the bigger IFAKs for your duty kit or range bag. This is the next level up: a bag set up so you can tend to a lot of people at the same time. Mine stays under the rear seat of my truck at all times. It's not what I pull out for a little boo-boo — I keep a standard first aid kit and a headrest IFAK for that. The other night I rolled up on a motorcyclist who'd been hit here in Miami; I grabbed this bag and ran out. Paramedics were pulling up, so I didn't have to work — but if that wreck had involved three, four, five injured people, this bag is what could have handled it.

The bag itself is 500D Cordura in multicam (the black, gray, and coyote versions are 700D — why it's different beats the heck out of me), with a double-stitched carry handle, backpack straps, and a drag handle on the back. My favorite feature is on the front: tear-off pouches I call mini IFAKs, each with a tourniquet and an Israeli-type bandage. Somebody's helping you at a scene? Rip one off the pull tab, hand it over, and they're working while you dig into the main bag.

Inside is where it gets spicy. There's a triage bag with markers, notebooks, and the yellow/red/green/black tape — I hate talking about it, but real triage is exactly what a scene like this demands. There's an evac kit with a CPR mask, another tourniquet, a blood pressure monitor, a heart rate monitor, and part of our Duration Health med kit — including ibuprofen and other meds, an EpiPen, and Narcan — so if you evac in an ambulance or a truck bed, you grab that one piece and go. There's a SAM-style splint that molds to the body for leg and ankle injuries, a burn kit that could handle six or seven burn victims, compressed Z-fold gauze for wound packing, more Israeli bandages, butterfly closures, 3M Nexcare tape, trauma shears, surgical scissors, gloves up top, an airway tube, and chem lights everywhere to mark off your area.

All in, I counted about 13 tourniquets, around 10 Israeli bandages, and enough gauze to wrap three or four entire bodies. Laser-cut MOLLE runs down both sides so you can add pouches, and there are strap slots for a litter on the side or bottom — ours goes on as soon as my multicam straps show up. The build is always evolving: we just bought chest seals, which means a couple rolls of gauze are coming out to make room. That's the game — give and take.

Bottom line: this is not the bag for range boo-boos. It's what it says it is — a mass casualty bag. And mass casualty doesn't have to mean some horrendous end-of-the-world event; it can be as simple as a multi-car accident or five or six people hurt at your job. A pocket kit helps one person. The biggest IFAKs might help two or three. This pack, stocked like ours, takes care of the scene. Tasmanian Tiger is one of the best in the industry at this stuff — we've got their range bags, gun bags, and rifle bags too — and they make smaller medic bags if this one's more than you need.