Tourniquets stored in left ankle pocket.

As someone who has worked in the trauma bay, this always drove me crazy downrange. I always carried my tourniquet in one of the jacket pockets because, my thought, if a blast takes that area off (thus taking my tourniquet with it), there is nothing a tourniquet is going to do for me anyway. But lower leg is where tourniquets are the most effective. By keeping your tourniquet in the ankle pocket, you're facing a situation where your tourniquet is now gone but you have an injury that the tourniquet is designed to treat. I was always shocked that so many were allowed to carry them there. I understand they're carried in the medic packs normally, but on the airfields we still had rocket attacks and were not in full battle rattle, so tourniquets were stored on our person.