Not looking to split hairs--just relating my own experience, and what I've seen other folks (not of the steely-eyed, barrel-chested freedom fighter variety) run into through a few civ classes.
If you have a good technique for self-applying a RATS to a truly immobile upper arm (or even an upper thigh, if its actually paralyzed and you can't 'cheat it up' a bit to pull the RATS under and up around it under tension), I'd be grateful for any suggestions.
Not trying to say the RATS is completely worthless, but from my perspective of civvie carrying concealed focused on self-defense/self-aid, I figure I'd be the guy shooting back, and hence the one probably taking the incoming bad guy fire; so, my first concern is being able to quickly and easily self-apply a TQ to a limb. I've had far more luck in training doing that with a CAT and SOFTT than a RATS or SWAT-T. That said, I still carry a SWAT-T in addition to a CAT as a secondary/multi-use item since its small and light, figuring I can use the SWAT-T on someone else if need be. A RAT TQ could probably fill that role as well. I just wouldn't carry it as a primary TQ for self-use unless it was a RAT or nothing.
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