I needed to remove it due to a mission requirement and ended up cutting it off with a seat belt cutter. It was so tight I’d need a solid hour of wrestling with it which was the case for attaching it. While it’s an interesting product, I most likely will not be purchasing a new…
$1,450.00 The aforementioned price is a cumulative amount of money missed out on by companies due to my emails being either completely ignored by whomever was checking the MIL/LE or sales rep address, or phone ringing off the hook The list of companies and approximate order values cancelled or missed is not a comprehensive one…
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost[…] Whilst I was rushing downwards, there appeared before my eyes one who seemed hoarse from long silence. When I saw him in the great desert, I cried: “Have pity on me, whate’er…
The Magnitsky List was not something that was known to most people. The list was thrust back into the limelight when the US drew up the first of the sanctions against Russia for their involvement/backing the Donbass rebels. What was then a thinly veiled attempt to weaponize a piece of legislation in the new cold…
The title of this post is rather trite in my opinion. The list of actual betrayals that veterans have sustained is as long and as storied as this country’s history. Whether it’s the violent crushing of the Bonus Army, lack of body armour for forward deployed troops, or the “wait till they die” attitude that…
Michael Lumpkin compares DOS propaganda efforts/targeting to Amazon’s ads based on buyer history. Wishes to do the same with all USCs. Lumpkin stops short of saying laws like Smith-Mundt act are bad.
Eric Fanning confident socially progressive changes (transgender/females in combat) will not be rolled back. Claims Army is catching up to rapid social change in US
By now everyone is aware of the SOCOM development of exoskeleton combat suits which are slated for an alleged initial 2018 deployment. So far, I haven’t met anyone who has the slightest concern for this development in warfare. I tend to be of the opinion that introducing such a radical piece of equipment will upset…
Maybe by writing this post I am confirming that I don’t have a lot of experiences tending many large conferences, but I felt like this should be discussed. There was a completely mind boggling lack of security at AUSA 2016 considering the clientele present. I realize I certainly wasn’t the only veteran or security professional…
I brought back something from AUSA that I was excited to share. The scientists in the Inferno successfully reverse engineered the Smith & Wesson MIL/LE only catalogue for digital distribution. Smith & Wesson Govt only catalogue Below is a dramatization of events at AUSA leading up to acquiring the catalogue.
tactical inferno 