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Playing Pranks on Your Teammates Can Build Your Team Up or Tear Them Down

July 14, 2017

Games & Gadgets, Inspirational, Intel & Opinion, LIFE, Life and Family, Movies & Television, The Team Room, Wisdom

One of the best pranks I've ever read about was the prank played on American anthropologist Napoleon Chagnon by a tribe of Yanomamo indians of the Amazon rainforest. I don't recall if I read this story in h... Read More...

Dallas Police Department 1 Year On

Steve Rabinovich

July 11, 2017

Inspirational, Intel & Opinion, LIFE, Life and Family, Memorial, Planning, The Team Room, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences, Wisdom

It is a logical anomaly that in this day and age our law enforcement as a profession learns mostly from tragedy. While not necessarily unique in that regard, we consistently prove that not broke-don’t fix it m... Read More...

Rituals Are are Important to Warriors and Doing Them Should be Important to You

Michael Kurcina

July 9, 2017

Inspirational, LIFE, Life and Family, PSYCHE, The Team Room, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences

For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, 50 I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; I know the voices dy... Read More...

When it Comes to Skills Leave the Acting to the Actors

Michael Kurcina

June 20, 2017

Intel & Opinion, Life and Family, Planning, Prepping & Survival, The Team Room, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences, Wisdom

Today one of my favorite actors announced his retirement from film. Daniel Day-Lewis is done. Sad for the film world and for fans like me. The actor was nominated for two additional Oscars for his ro... Read More...

Never Confuse a Single Defeat with a Final Defeat.

Michael Kurcina

June 19, 2017

Inspirational, LIFE, Life and Family, The Team Room, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait... Read More...

Weekend adventure: Seitseminen National Park – Part 3.

Blue

June 4, 2017

Camping, EDC, Inspirational, LIFE, Life and Family, The Team Room, Travel

What did we learn? So, this is FINALLY the last part of long-ass writings about our adventure in the Seitseminen National Park in late August. This time we go through some of the things we learned about ... Read More...

Continuing to Serve, Mentoring Makes Men

Dale Swanson

May 30, 2017

Inspirational, Leadership, LIFE, Life and Family, NETWORKS, The Team Room, Wisdom

Every one of us will eventually, through age, injury, or life choices, cease being the focused, hard-charging warrior of our 20s and 30s. We will take off the uniform and never render a military salute; never ... Read More...

PTSD the New Badge of Honor?

David Devaney

May 30, 2017

Life and Family, The Team Room

PTSD the New Badge of Honor? Diatribes of a Knucklehead 160107 “This weekend we lost another Marine to PTSD.” This was the headline of a FaceBook Page post from this last weekend. This is a FB page I foll... Read More...

We Must Honor the Dead by Celebrating Life

Michael Kurcina

May 28, 2017

Inspirational, LIFE, Life and Family, Memorial, The Team Room, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences, Wisdom

MENTOR. I don't know why I wrote this. I was just driving down the road 15 minutes ago and thought about him. I’ve never understood death very well. I didn’t understand when I was young and I don’t understan... Read More...

Old Toolboxes and the Smashing Machine, Veterans Need New Tools

Michael Kurcina

May 27, 2017

Inspirational, Intel & Opinion, LIFE, Life and Family, The Team Room, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences, Wisdom

“It’s amazing how much emotion a little mental concept like ‘my’ can generate.” – Eckhart Tolle I still recall the evening I walked into a bar with my best friend in order to have a celebratory drink. We had... Read More...