SAS bloke touts USB drive to store medical data

AN EX-SAS SOLDIER has come up with the idea of using USB Flash drivers to store vital medical data such as allergies and essential medications.

Phil Campion, formerly in the SAS thought up the ‘UTag’ while he was serving in Afghanistan after sewing a Flash drive containing his ID into his clothing, just in case the worst happened.

Phil's UTag was disguised  as a dog tag and stamped with the SAS symbol of a snake on a staff and marked ICE (“in case of emergency”).

This, Campion thinks, is a good way of letting the emergency services know exactly what medication a soldier needs, meaning that treatment will be more efficient and hopefully aid saving more lives.

Paramedics may already  look for the ICE next-of-kin in your mobile phone, but if the phone is locked this can be more of a dead end.

That’s one of the reasons that the USB Flash drive is being touted as the next step.