Category: Gear

I knew that they were being recalled during the deployment, but I didn’t know that prisoners were making them with homemade tools that resembled prison shanks and hatchets.

It’s important to remember that – you’re still a cog in the wheel. It’s easy to become lost in your sense of entitlement because someone has deemed you worthy of selection, before others. But, to get through you have to go all the way, which is further than most.

For home defense in particular, it doesn’t make a lot of sense to spend $2,000+ on an optic that will generally be sitting in an undisclosed location inside your house for extended periods…

If you invented a product you would probably go out of your way to show that it works, but would you do this?

First off, I want to say that it’s awesome to see that grunts are now getting some solid kit. Back in my days, they really had some crap. Here are a few examples of what Recon guys were using back in the 90’s that has made it into the mainstream kit issue. I realize that […]

A tourniquet is not a device, it is a philosophy! A philosophy that when used in the pre-hospital setting has saved thousands of lives in the past decade. Commercial tourniquets have proven to be superior to improvised, but whatever your planned intervention we know that we all have to “See Something, Do Something” and “Stop The Bleed”. Many […]

In the world of civilian prehospital medicine the word tourniquet is nearly an obscenity. An interesting notion when Juxtaposed with the training and application of hemorrhage control techniques implemented by the combat medic. In an environment where whole blood can not so readily be administered to a patient, keeping as much of circulating as possible […]

You hear a text jingle from your pocket.  You pull your phone out but there’s no longer cell service despite being in the middle of a city. Something is seriously wrong and you figure that out faster than most.  It’s time to get by based on what you carry with you every day.  Doesn’t matter […]

In the military, we’re obsessed with creating new tools to use in war, in a tactical sense. But, the future of wars to come will be fought in the streets, and via proxies. We’ll need communication tools that are reliable, competent, and secure…

Force 12 is calling all manufacturers who want want their products considered for review on SOFREP, SpecialOperations.com, The Loadout Room, and others.

Public speaking, emotional intelligence, and the ability to connect with others will be more important for the wars to come than our ability to fight.

Because of the nature of the deployment, nearly all of us dropped as low in weight as our bodies could handle. When I returned, THOR3 was an incredibly useful tool to rebuild and capitalize on the physical strengths I brought back with me.