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Sergeant Major (Ret.) Mike Vining: What is the Story Behind EOD Supporting Secret Service VIP Support?

From a 1958 request for one Army bomb tech on standby to today’s global JEOD VIPPSA mission, EOD’s quiet partnership with the Secret Service has stood watch over presidents and candidates for decades.

The Bolduc Brief: Applying Sun Tzu’s Art of War to Law Enforcement 

Strategy beats force, trust beats fear, and when we apply Sun Tzu’s wisdom to modern policing with discipline and respect, we protect our communities by outthinking conflict before it ever turns into a fight.

Go Liberate Yourself: On Blind Spots and What Your Strongest Convictions Might Be Hiding

I went in hunting monsters and came out with convictions in hand and the unsettling realization that some of the men I put away laughed, argued, and felt more like me than the clean map in my head ever allowed.

Your Home Is a Battlespace: Build Defense in Layers

Home defense is not a single tool but a layered system of intelligence denial, visible deterrence, hardened barriers, and decisive response that keeps criminals on the street or leaves them trapped inside.

Morning Brief: ICE Agents Under Federal Probe, Havana Syndrome Experiment Surfaces, UK Points to Russian Poison in Navalny Case

Federal investigators are probing two ICE agents after video evidence led to the dismissal of assault charges in a Minneapolis shooting, while separate reports highlight a Norwegian microwave experiment linked to Havana-like symptoms and new European accusations that Russia used a rare neurotoxin to kill Alexei Navalny.

Buffalo Settlement Reopens Wounds for a Veteran From Conklin

Nearly four years after the Buffalo supermarket massacre, a $1.75 million settlement brings legal accountability, but for a veteran from the shooter’s hometown, the deeper question of how that hate took root still lingers.

Remington 870 Express: Steel, Memory, and Twigs Snapping at 0200

My 1988 Remington 870 Express started as my dad’s budget shotgun, and now it rides upgraded in the backcountry with me, a steel-framed reminder that when something snaps in the dark at 0200, reliability beats everything.

Morning Brief: Starlink in Iran, Olympic Ban on Heraskevych, Navy RIMES Drone Push, and Houston Gun Jugging Shootout

From Starlink terminals keeping Iranian protesters online, to a Ukrainian Olympian disqualified over a war memorial helmet, to the Navy’s push for ship-launched long-range strike drones, and a Houston gun-jugging robbery that ended in a shootout.

Accountability Without Collapse: What Professional Enforcement Actually Requires

Public trust survives only when the law is enforced with discipline and restraint, because without professional standards and civic responsibility on both sides of the badge, accountability collapses into noise and the next failure becomes inevitable.

G-23: We Need Another Glock Article Like a Hole in the Head

I went with the Glock 23 over the G-19, and I’m not looking back. Want to know why I think the G-23 is the smarter pick? Read on and I’ll break it down for you.

Do Good Guys Cheat to Win? When Working from Behind the 8-Ball Changes How You Think

When the other side operates without limits, adapting and getting creative isn’t abandoning your principles, it’s the only way to get within striking distance of a fair fight.

Evening Brief: Pretti’s Killing, Iran’s Talks, and Africa’s Front Lines – How State Power and Armed Citizens Are Reshaping the World

Alex Pretti’s killing is driving a rush of left‑leaning Americans to get guns, Iran is talking, Balochistan saw a major coordinated assault on security forces, and Nigeria’s Army hit a major terrorist stronghold in the northeast.

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