Paracord Bracelets for the Military

Meghana Reddy, a first-year at Rutgers University and a Life Scout in Troop 102, has made 265 paracord bracelets for Operation Gratitude with the help of her fellow scouts, friends, family, and leaders. She is working on her Eagle Project. As a way to show gratitude for those serving our nation and protecting us, she decided to make these paracord bracelets as her Eagle Project.

As written on Operation Gratitude’s website, these bracelets, made with paracord 550, have many different functions and some life-saving ones too. These paracord bracelets are meaningful and functional for a Military or First Responder. They help represent and express the sense of gratitude that we feel for those out there protecting our country. It also has many practical uses for the Military or First Responders, like being used in emergencies, and can hold up to 550lbs. Some other ways to use this paracord include helping to build a makeshift shelter, making a sling or splint in a first aid emergency, creating a harness to help bring an injured person from a wrong place or location, and many other uses. But not only can they use the paracord as it is, they can also cut the paracord and remove each nylon strand inside the paracord, and this is a finer and stronger string that can be used. These nylon strands can be used as an emergency surgical thread to close a wound, a sewing thread to repair any gear, or even as a fishing line.

She used some Home Depot Paracord to make 80 more bracelets and donated it to the Monmouth Junction First Aid Squad. Some pictures are attached that she took of the bracelets she made with the help of her troop, family, and friends.

There are many other ways to show your gratitude to the Military and First Responders. Please look at the Operation Gratitude website to see more information: https://www.operationgratitude.com/.