By COREY DICKSTEIN | STARS AND STRIPES Published: March 12, 2021 Army units can now purchase a tourniquet previously banned by the service after a retired Green Beret’s medical supply company settled a lawsuit last month with the federal government over procurement law violations. North Carolina-based Combat Medical LLC and its parent company Safeguard Medical reached an agreement with the Justice Department on Feb. 25 to remove Army restrictions on the procurement of its Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet and medical kits containing that item. The settlement, the result of a lawsuit filed in Federal Claims Court in October, was made public Thursday. Corey Russ, a retired Army Special Forces medic who founded Combat Medical in 2008, said he believes adding the Tactical Mechanical Tourniquet, or TMT, to the Army’s inventory can save lives on the battlefield. Russ, an Afghanistan combat veteran, said the TMT’s design with a wider strap solves an issue with the Army’s long-sta
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Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. This spring, amid a panic over a shortage of ventilators to treat the anticipated surge in coronavirus cases, the Pentagon announced the purchase of $84 million worth of breathing machines from four companies. One of the ventilators, the SAVe II+, made by a small Plano, Texas-based company called AutoMedx, stood out from the rest. To start, the deal was for an upgraded version of the SAVe II that hadn t even been designed yet, according to the company s chairman. In addition, the existing $6,000 SAVe II machine, developed with military backing as a lightweight ventilator to keep wounded soldiers alive while being transported from the battlefield, had specifications far below