Category: Expert Analysis

If you love your family and friends then you need to share this with them, it could save their lives. My kids are visiting me in New York for the summer, they spend most their time with their mom on the west coast. On our first day in the city I briefed them on what to […]

Unfortunately we had another active shooter situation rear its head today at Ohio State University. Last report stated that nine were injured and one was in critical condition. Although we cannot stop violence, there are things we can do to prepare for it in order to give us the best chance for making it out […]

In my recent article discussing zombies in popular culture, I brought up three common movie tropes that would actually get you killed in a real-world disaster.  These errors pertained primarily to the things people might do in the hours immediately following the onset of global zombie Armageddon.  Today, I’m going to address three more things […]

SOFREP TEAM PT: Warm-up: Row 1000m or Run 1 mile, easy pace. Training: 1) 5 rounds @40% Recorded Max Reps Push-ups Lunges Sit ups   2) 5 rounds @40% Recorded Max Reps Dips Pull ups 3) 4 rounds 800m – @ 1st-mile pace from 5k on 11/23/16  

Your gun is a tool, and tools can fail. You may find yourself in a position where you cannot draw your weapon, or drawing your weapon should not be your first response. You may need to go hands on to stop the threat or create space to access your weapon (or to escape). Being able […]

Washington, D.C. – House and Senate negotiators will need to determine whether to include money to repair a damaged MH-60M Black Hawk within this year’s National Defense Authorization Act. Seven members of the U.S. Army’s 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (SOAR) were injured in 2015 when a MH-60M crash-landed on the U.S. Naval Ship Red […]

Washington, D.C. – The Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee asked the Department of Defense on Nov. 21 not to issue any midnight regulations before the transfer of power from the Obama to Trump Administration. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) urged Defense Secretary Ash Carter to suspend the development and implementation of any new rules […]

On April 12th, 1961, a Russian man named Yuri Gagarin made history aboard a Soviet Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft.  For years, the United States and Soviet Union had been using the barrier between our world and beyond as a benchmark to test each nation’s greatest technological and engineering advances, and on that day, Gagarin achieved an […]

Today we’re going to grind and work hard. Warm up: Coffee and whatever you need to feel loose and break a sweat. Training: 1) 10 rounds record time: 10 x Ball Slam @25lbs or Box Jumps 15 Kettlebell Swings @16kg women/20kg men 25 x Stepups 2) 15 minutes: Farmers Carry @ 35/45 lbs 8 x […]

During the cold war, America’s ICBM program was the key to America’s safety.  The certainty that if our nation’s enemies decided to unleash nuclear hell within our shores, we possessed the arsenal and willpower to decimate those enemies was a tenuous, but powerful, way to assure a public that grew up with the threat of […]

At this point, most of us know the story of Thanksgiving that we’re taught in grade school isn’t exactly accurate.  Pilgrims and Native Americans probably didn’t share a turkey across a picnic table and because European supplies were all but exhausted by the time the festival began (a festival in which few Pilgrims would likely […]

If you’re in Fayetteville, go to a used boots store and ask for the ‘SOPC’ Special. SOPC means Special Operations Preparation Course. It’s the course “X-rays” go to before they take a shot at selection. That course is a kick in the nuts. It is rucking and running intensive and these boots were designed for […]