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“You could say I had cheated death once again, but I didn’t see it that way. Orpheus may have tricked Hades; Ingmar Bergman may have had Max von Sydow play chess with death; but those are only stories. In real life death isn’t something you cheat or outmaneuver. Death is like the wind: it blows […]
CAMP SCHWAB, OKINAWA, JAPAN A Marine with 3rd Reconnaissance Battalion, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force, looks for possible disturbances in the natural environment such as freshly broken sticks, flattened plants, footprints or skid marks to identify if someone has recently been through the area Jan. 28. During the combat hunter training, the Marines […]
*Article courtesy of ericdavis215.com Have you noticed the trajectory of your income, your free time and energy slowly flattening out or maybe even declining? Does it feel like you’ve got less time for friends, family, fitness and fun? If it feels like getting things like, earning a living, saving for retirement and paying the […]
We repeat these old adages constantly until they reach the point of almost being cliches at times but two of the most cardinal rules to follow if you’re looking at a career in Special Operations are being a self-starter and being a team player. If you fail at either one of those either in Selection […]
Through water, mud, smoke, CS gas, countless operations and off-duty adventures, the Casio Pro Trek PRG270-7 has handled them all. When choosing the watch I would take to what is known as the most grueling SWAT school in the south, I needed to look no further than my Casio Pro Trek. After SWAT’s version of “Hell […]
Mollie Tibbetts, a University of Iowa student, disappeared on July 18, 2018, while jogging near her home in Brooklyn, Iowa. After a month-long search, police identified 24-year-old Cristhian Bahena Rivera as a suspect using surveillance camera footage that showed his car following her on her jog. He led police to her body in a Poweshiek […]
Like many of us, I had issues with occasional lower back pain while in the military. Eventually, suffering a major injury that required surgery, that was in no way related to the normal workout routine that the Army conducts with soldiers doing PT. However, it wasn’t until many years later, I was doing some physical […]
As a member of a Special Operations unit, you can be tasked with damned near anything and probably will. The best indicator of having a skill is the fact that you can teach it to others. As we wrote here some time ago, “Teaching is An Art in Special Forces”, and some of the best […]
And others you can’t I recently was talking to a few old friends who had either been members of the Ranger Battalions of the 75th Ranger Regiment, or attended Ranger School as a member of the Special Operations community and we got into a discussion about the ways Ranger students can be prepared for the […]
One of my key tenets to choosing gear, any kind of gear, is just how versatile is it. This is especially true when it comes to survival gear. I like my gear to perform multiple functions. Another big tenet is how big is it and how much does it weigh? I want it to be […]
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