February is brought to you by the letter T: Tacmed, transport, and toasty toes.
By the Numbers
February saw you contribute over $10,000 to Ukraine’s fight for its survival.
Dollars into Difference-Makers
You provided:
- 15 Gen 7 combat application tourniquets (CATs) to Renegade Relief Runners
- 80 SICH tourniquets and 20 SICH pressure bandages for the 30th, 92nd, 93rd, 79th, and 110th
- Transport for 400 trench candles, made in Germany by someone who received a donation of 700 kg of wax, which will be distributed among various units at the front
- The Subaru your donations bought for a GUR unit several months ago has been handed off to an SBU unit; your donations paid gas money for the drive from Kharkiv to Kyiv, and will pay for a headlight repair so it’s in perfect working order for the SBU guys
- Thermal underwear and warm socks for the 35th and some tankers we can’t name
- A PVS-7 for the fearsome 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade
And one that bears more than a bullet point’s worth of explanation: there’s a new hospital being set up in the Dnipro area because the ones nearer the front are completely overloaded. Just as it’s trying to get itself stocked, it took in 59 soldiers from the 110th fresh out of encircled Adviivka. Through Palyanytsya Synelnykivshchyny, your donations helped fund a mad dash around local pharmacies and clinics to get medicine for them.
Current Needs
”
Anti-Drone Electronic Warfare Backpacks
Drones are the biggest threat on the battlefield. We have four units requesting EW backpacks to render them mostly harmless. A soldier I know in a different unit has this to say about their importance and effectiveness:
The long and short of it is that the more EW backpacks Ukrainian soldiers have, the more Ukrainian soldiers drones can’t take out.
We purchase them from a vendor in Ukraine. They run about $3400 apiece after VAT. We’ve got one on order for the 35th now, and are preparing to order a second for the 80th. If you’d like to help cast a protective bubble around Ukrainian soldiers on the battlefield, please include the comment “EW” on your next donation.
Stuff a Suitcase With Tacmed!
Tacmed: tactical medical supplies; essentially, the components of a combat first aid kit. Tacmed is critically important, absolutely foundational: it’s how soldiers’ lives get saved.
We have a friend traveling to Ukraine on April 9. He’s agreed to carry a suitcase full of tacmed for us. “A suitcase” may not sound like much, but a full-sized suitcase can hold about 150 Gen 7 CATs, which are the gold standard combat application tourniquets, or a similar number of Israeli bandages, or a couple hundred burn dressings, burn masks, or chest seals (which the aforementioned Dirty P knows something about). A suitcase full of tacmed can make a significant difference out there.
If you’d like to help us stuff a suitcase with tacmed, please include the comment “suitcase” with your next donation, or purchase something off our wishlist.
Looking Ahead
Online Auctions
We will have some very special pieces coming up for auction. Here’s a little preview.
Live Art Auction in Dallas on April 7!
And we’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a live event at Community Beer in Dallas, TX on April 7! The event’s centerpiece will be a silent art auction featuring sculptures made from russian Grad rocket scrap, a piece from that guy who spray-painted the russian tank, and more! Details to be announced soon!
Thank you!
We are, as ever, perpetually grateful for your steadfast support of Ukraine.
Postscript
Between Western support dwindling thanks to dissent sown by russian disinformation and influence campaigns and donations falling as people’s attention begins to drift, Ukraine is facing its most treacherous period since the start of the full-scale war.
Whether your support is financial, material, or other, we are extra thankful for it in this dark and disheartening time.
If you’re in the US, there’s one more thing you can do: call your elected representatives and voice your support for H.R.815, which provides for billions of dollars of support for Ukraine. If you’re so inclined, please also encourage them to use a discharge petition to get around Speaker Johnson’s refusal to bring it to the House floor for a vote.