>>49708560>they didn't widely issue/use tourniquets in those days,Shit bro, tech from the ancient Greeks wasn't used in 1993? My pipkin's triggered.
>piece of cloth or strap>1 mag>something to secure mag in placeYou now have an improvised tourniquet.
>and the vein was retreating into the pelvis,The bleeding is squirting and powerful enough to go fly over the medic's head, so it's arterial, not venous. Even then you'd be just dealing with the blood in the leg, which again, a tourniquet would stop from increasing and so limit total blood loss.