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Possibly: You’re on a long hunt. Perhaps on a longer bush patrol (Vehicle or Foot).
You might be in an observation post which you cannot leave.
Or you might have security guards on post at a client.
You could be bugging out!
In all cases you will be away from catered food and water. In situations like this getting food and water to those in the field is complicated.
Checkers 60/60 or Mr Delivery are of no use save a 4×4 or armoured car to get the food and water to where it needs to be.
Additionally you want the food and drink arrive in a condition where it is safe to eat and drink.

Shock caused by blood loss from a traumatic wound is a cold and clammy feeling mixed in with a shivering cold and the sensation of falling asleep and nausea.
Unless immediate action is taken a funeral plan might be needed.
Whilst most commercial first aid kits are set up to deal with ‘Lite’ type wounds, the limited amount and small size bandages will have trouble with arterial or large capillary bleeds.
I highly recommend that you attend a course Stop-The-Bleed. It will teach you how to deal with massive bleeding wounds with limited resources.

Sadly in South Africa, the euphemism for bribery, Greasing Palms is becoming an uncomfortable feature to get things done or move the wheels of officialdom.
Usually a Coke or KFC are entry level “Grease”. It’s not pleasant nor right.
If difficult or lazy people require “Grease” to work, what about our machines, tools and equipment?
TheQuarterMaster stocks a wide range of lubricants and cleaning fluids for general & specific applications.
The Anti-Scuff Paste (Molybdenum Di-sulphide) it is a paste that you burnish into the moving parts of firearms.
At a microscopic level the Moly adheres to the surface smoothing out for a long time essentially being a dry lubricant. Additionally it has such a high melting point that it is used as a lubricant in Jet Engines.

Compared to the rest of the animals that roam, swim or fly about this planet we Humans really do not have much of a tool box.
Claws, talons, teeth, tusks and horns are not on the list of items that we are born with.
Yes, our brain is our Superpower that enables us to survive and thrive in all types of environments and out into space.
Yet we may have the software; we do not have the “Hardware” aside from our nails, fingers and teeth.
TheQuarterMaster has a fantastic range of tools that are portable and pocket size.
Our Multitool is a great price and comes with a 10 year warranty with 13 tools will be able to grip, cut, pry, and file. Compared to your finger nails and teeth this is a real winner.
A simple Okapi or Honey Badger knife can defend you if attacked by a Cake or Piece of Biltong.
Seriously though, I cannot get through my day without my Honey Badger, using it to cut tape, boxes or in the kitchen.

Say what you want: Our countries history started with a Bug Out.
Woke politicians and historians will disagree about the motives about the Great Trek. However viewed from a practical point of view, whatever the motive for the Trek, it can properly be called a bug out.
Individuals in groups for reasons peculiar to them left their hearth and home for an unknown destination.
It must have taken guts and I suppose measure of desperation to pack up all one’s possessions onto a vehicle (a wagon) and then join a group of neighbours, family and strangers then head off literally into the unmapped wild unknown. (Personally I cannot think of anything more exciting)
Yet that is what they did and if you are living in South Africa in 2024 you and I owe them a debt of gratitude for their grit and sacrifice.
Yet, I often meet modern day South Africans that talk about “Bugging Out”.
Simply put: To abandon your hearth and home, for whatever reason, means that whilst you have sufficient supplies you are a well-supplied refugee. 
When run out of supplies, you are simply a refugee.