I purchased the adventure medical kits 'S.O.L.' about 2 months ago. It's a reasonable psk, but there definately was room for improvement.. So here it is..

For a review of the standard-SOL: http://www.equipped.org/etsbriefings407.htm#amksol


My improvements:




- Added a piece of paracord as a lanyard.
- Removed: fishing-hooks, line & sinkers (useless in short-term survival)
- Replaced roll of duct-tape with flat-pack
- Replaced 4 large safety-pins with 2 medium ones
- Replaced 'Slim Rescue Howler' whistle with Fox 40 micro
- Replaced matches with small fire-steel
- Added: SOLED-flashlight, SERE-saw, 6 water purification tablets, 3m. of yellow string.

Also, the supplies were very difficult to get out of the pouch because of the clear-material. Solution: thread some of the yellow string through holes in the signal-mirror, whistle, fire-steel, SOLED and SERE-saw. If you pull on the string, it all comes out easely now.


So, the current contents of the SOL:

- 3ft. of duct-tape (flat-pack)
- Heatsheet survival blanket (1prs.)
- 6 Aquaclear water-purification tablets
- Mini-flash signal mirror
- HD sewing-needle (can't be seen in pic, in pouch of signal mirror)
- 4 tinder-quick
- Fox 40 micro whistle
- Fire-steel (smaller than the LMF scout, don't know where I got it from.)
- SOLED in blaze orange
- button-compass
- SERE-saw
- 3m. of yellow sting


With this modifications I think this is a pretty good PSK, however it's not a stand-alone kit. It's ment for putting into my EDC-bag when I go outdoors, hiking, etc. for a short period of time. My EDC-bag has a lot of stuff, including a good knife, flashlight, FAK, snacks and water-bottle.


Please post your mod's to the AMK SOL here.
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