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Gear in the Wild: Even Special Forces operators need to check their gear one more time

A U.S. Army Special Operation Soldier with 3rd Battalion, 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) checks over his gear before a night time operation during Integrated Training Exercise 3-19 at Marine Corps Air-Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms (MCAGCC), Calif., May 2, 2019. The Green Berets utilized the training areas at MCAGCC while supporting ITX as a […]

Gear in the Wild: The face you make when the kid has no trigger discipline…

DEVESELU, Romania (May 31, 2019) – Romanian military personnel, along with U.S. Sailors and Soldiers hosted more than 150 kids for the International Children’s Day events at the 99th Military Base in Deveselu, Romania, May 31, 2019. U.S. military and civilian personnel from the NSFD displayed gear and equipment for a hands-on experience for local […]

Gear in the Wild: F-35 pilot’s arctic survival kit

Components of an F-35A Lightning II arctic survival kit lie on a table at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, April 24, 2019. A standard survival kit includes a compass, a flare and a five-inch knife. The cold-weather kit also includes components intended to increase survival chances in environments where temperatures reach negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit […]

Gear in the Wild: Training with the Army’s new Sig Sauer M17

1st Lt. Evan Kreamer loads the M17 pistol. Twenty-two Soldiers from Task Force Carentan conducted pistol marksmanship training with the M17 pistol at Gallery 9, Yavoriv, Ukraine June 22. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Navin   Watch U.S. Army soldiers train with the new M17 below:  

Gear in the Wild: Coast Guard dive operations under the Artic ice

Coast Guard Petty Officer 2nd Class Adam Harris, a member of a joint Coast Guard-Navy dive team deployed on the Coast Guard Cutter Healy, holds a Coast Guard ensign during a cold water ice dive off a Healy small boat in the Arctic, July 29, 2017. The joint dive team successfully completed the first shipboard […]

Get a crash course in clearing rooms from CQB Expert Eli Feildboy

Editor’s Note: Immediate Threat CQB – ITCQB is a hybrid system, developed through time by Eli Feildboy, the founder of Project Gecko. Before we start with team tactics we are going to present one-man room clearing tactics, which fit the concept of team tactics in the ITCQB system. In this video we focus on geometry […]

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U.S. Navy Diver 1st Class James Mostek, assigned to Mobile Diving and Salvage Company ONE-SIX, embarked aboard USNS Salvor (T-ARS 52), waits on a diving stage during a two-hour decompression stop after diving to 240 feet off the coast of Madang, Papua New Guinea, Dec. 7, 2018. The sailor is completing a Defense POW/MIA Accounting […]

Anger doesn’t win fights: Learn to lose with your head on straight

All too often, we tend to associate anger and aggression with masculinity. It’s an excusable mistake, the same hormone cocktail that made me a big, hairy lug also serves as chemical encouragement any time I feel the need to punch my way out of a situation… but if you ask me, a far more appropriate […]

Gear in the Wild: There aren’t many problems I can’t solve with an angle grinder

Boatswain’s Mate 3rd Class Joshua Sanders, from Pinebluff., Ark., performs routine maintenance aboard the Harpers Ferry-class amphibious dock landing ship USS Harpers Ferry (LSD 49) in the Pacific Ocean, May 13, 2019. Sailors and Marines of the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) and the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) are embarked on Harpers Ferry for […]

How to throw a punch like a Marine

The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program has been the basic hand-to-hand combat system employed by the United States Marine Corps since 2002, and as I’ve written about in the past, it tends to get dragged through the mud by young guys with limited experience and a lot of bravado. In order to complete recruit training, […]

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