Category: Security

This material is the first key component of futuristic smart uniforms that also will respond to and protect from environmental chemical hazards.

Now, the trending douche bags are calling it “Ultralight Backpacking” and “Camping” is what the out of the car and RV crowd does.

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 […]

The Transportation Security Administration would like to remind travelers to leave their loaded guns out of their carry-on bags. In the seven-day span from July 22 to July 28, TSA officers discovered 74 firearms – including 65 that were loaded – three inert grenades, a cleaver and several pocketknives, according to the administration’s blog. Of […]

There are a few certainties that should be followed in life. One of these: don’t throw stuff at the police. Definitely don’t throw a suspicious package with flashing lights and a ticking mechanism inside a police car. I’m not exactly sure how the NYPD officer kept his bearing when said package landed in his lap. What would […]

The area around the Republican National Convention site in Cleveland increased security measures Friday to thwart a similar attack to what occurred in Nice, France Thursday, adding concrete traffic dividers and tall metal fences. According to Reuters, security experts said police, U.S. Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officials have viewed vehicles – similar […]

U.S. Secret Service officials say security planning for the Republican and Democratic national conventions took into account large-scale terrorism threats like the vehicle attack that occurred in France. In Philadelphia, site of the Democratic National Convention, the Secret Service’s top agent said Friday “there is nothing we leave to chance.” Agents will sweep permitted vehicles […]

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson says national security officials are “very definitely” concerned about violent demonstrations breaking out at both parties’ national conventions this month. “I am concerned about the possibility of violence,” Johnson said Thursday at a hearing on Capitol Hill. “I think we have to be concerned about things getting out of hand, […]

Protestors across the U.S. continued Friday night, as people decried police brutality over the killing of two African-American men, Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, earlier this week. Friday’s protests came a day after a 25-year-old Army veteran went on a shooting rampage killing five police officers in downtown Dallas late Thursday. After four days of […]

Pneumothorax is often seen in the civilian trauma context following blunt trauma such as a car crash, where injuries such as broken ribs can internally puncture the lung and cause it to collapse.

Four of 14 messages, or 28 percent, texted to the center in a test by GAO did not receive a response. Of the remaining 10 test text messages, eight received responses within two minutes and two within five minutes, according to the report

It’s been a long day at work, you’re tired, but your spouse has plans for you. After dinner and a movie, you make your way through the dimly lit parking garage, and a figure emerges from the shadows. Clearly this person has bad intentions and appears to be holding a knife. You start to reach for […]