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Dean Potter’s Death: Loss of a Legend
Climbing and extreme sports legend Dean Potter dies at the age of 43 after an attempted wingsuit flight from Taft point in Yosemite Valley.
Legislation Pushing to Outlaw Body Armor
Rep. Honda (D-CA) has proposed H.R. 378 (HR BILL 378), a bill banning the ownership of personal body armor. It reads, “To prohibit the purchase, ownership, or possession of enhanced body armor by civilians, with exceptions.” The nomenclature ‘Responsible Body Armor Possession Act’ seems more than a little dubious, using the same sort of misleading, seemingly innocuous jargon we’ve seen […]
What Do You Want From The Loadout Room?
As we quickly approach our 1,000th article on The Loadout Room, we want to thank all of our reader for coming here for real, authentic reviews and tips by active and former soldiers from the U.S. and Canada. We are pleased to bring you some very exciting reviews of  new products from the outdoor and […]
Who is the Best Firearms Instructor?
More often than not, I receive emails asking the familiar question, “Who is the best firearms or weapons instructor?”  That’s a tough question to answer. Most of us have seen the videos presented by men like Instructor Zero, Travis Haley, Chris Costa, myself, etc., but who is the best? In my years of instructing not only in […]
The REAPER Give Away!
Sample from the new book:  The Reaper: Autobiography of One of the Deadliest Special Ops Snipers ” I reached up on my elevation turret and came up two minutes of angle. That way I had given myself a bit of leeway. Either I was going to hit the very top of his head and crease […]
Canadian OMLT and US Kiowas Working Together
While we were only 2 Canadian OMLT soldiers in our combat outpost (COP), we came under fire from Taliban PKM and GP-25. The US Army Kiowas were nice enough to come in and support us – they actually changed their flightplan to come in and help us. While they went refueling at FOB Ramrod in […]
Gallery: The M1 Abrams
I have always been fascinated with tanks. While I was in Kandahar, we had some Canadians Leopards 2Â acting as Quick Reaction Force (QRF). They would also form a perimeter around the EOD teams when we found IEDs. I decided to create the first gallery with the M1 Abrams tank because I love it. It has […]
Instructor Zero on SOFREP Radio Podcast
Instructor Zero joins Jonathan Wade, Canadian Light Infantry Combat Veteran and our host this week. Since the last time Jonathan appeared on the show, he officially retired from military service and took over the role of Host and Editor at LoadoutRoom.com. Check out his gear reviews and other great stuff. You can listen to it on Youtube and Itunes. We answer […]
Iron Man Suit for future Special Operations?
This may be the future of our special operations troops.  The head of U.S. Special Operations command, Adm. William McRaven once said that he wants to build an Iron Man suit for special operators that will repel bullets and offer super human strengths.  As crazy or un-realistic as this sounds, it looks like it is already […]
