[brityank]

Wonder why he didn’t use his web belt as a tourniquet.

Probably because the injured guy was caught in the mangled vehicle, and couldn't be extracted in time to apply it.

Rose could not get his comrade a tourniquet, which could have helped control the bleeding on his wounded leg, and sat along the mangled wreckage and talked with him as he took his last breath.

[flowerplough]

I also wonder why someone didn’t use someone’s web belt as a tourniquet. I’d also guess that if the injured guy was caught in the mangled vehicle, and couldn’t be extracted in time to apply a belt, the injured guy couldn’t have tightened a tourni that was biult into his own clothes, either. I’m guessing over-simplification and dramatization from the usual clueless Associated Press reporter.

[A.A. Cunningham]

The story doesn't say he couldn't apply a tourniquet it says:

"Rose could not get his comrade a tourniquet"

The story is poorly written since it leaves out the details and thus is too vague.

In a pinch the web belt around his or the patients' waist can be removed and used as a tourniquet. If he didn't have the ability to place the belt around the leg due to the mangled wreckage that's one thing. If he didn't think to use the belt that's another.