LIFE Archives • Spotter Up

Spotter Up Review: ALPS OutdoorZ Commander and ALPS Mountaineering Mystique

June 19, 2018

Accessories, LIFE, Mission Critical, MISSION GEAR, Opinion, Product Reviews, Style, Tactics, The Team Room

A Spotter Up Review and Adventure! Months previous, we started planning. We gathered our gear, planned our route and as the weeks crawled by, we drew closer. My favorite time of the year, early summer, is ... Read More...

Chasing the Dream from Arminius Tribe

Mark van Riele

June 13, 2018

Gunfighter Writer Wildman Monk, Inspirational, LIFE, Life and Family

I was watching the eight o’clock news with my parents, it was 1986 and I was 11 years old. The reporter had an announcement to make, ‘Secret Special Forces Unit in the Netherlands’ and with that announcement a ... Read More...

The Battle of Pointe du Hoc; on June 6 1944, the Army Rangers scaled 100-foot cliffs to disable the German positions

Mark van Riele

June 6, 2018

Inspirational, LIFE, Memorial

A nauseous medley of diesel engine smoke, of the smell of burnt gunpowder from our naval fire and the salty sea air was turning my stomach. I was deafened by naval artillery fire, the thundering sound of explos... Read More...

How To Increase Your Situational Awareness: 6 Tips To Be Safer from Arminius Tribe

Mark van Riele

May 26, 2018

Escape and Evasion, Home Security, Mission Security, Opinion, Prepping & Survival, PSYCHE, Tactics, Weaponizing the Behavorial Sciences, Wisdom

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So you know how to fight? That’s just great! But as Sun Tzu said: ‘The Supreme Art of War is to subdue the Enemy without Fighting’. Only fight if you have to. Being Situational Aware will make sure you will ha... Read More...

No Beast So Fierce

Michael Kurcina

May 8, 2018

Inspirational, LIFE, Vox

If you watched the movie Reservoir Dogs and recall Mr Blue then you might know he was played by writer, actor and ex con Edward Bunker. Bunker retooled the Akira Kurosawa script for the movie Runaway Train ... Read More...

And I Hid Until Hiding was Tired of Me

Michael Kurcina

May 7, 2018

LIFE, Memorial, Vox

And when love left me I ran away just like cowards do. When I couldn't run I walked, and when I couldn't walk I crawled, and when I couldn't crawl much longer I hid myself away and cried. And when the cryin... Read More...

Sunday Inspiration: This is my Soul and I won’t Go Easy!

Michael Kurcina

April 29, 2018

Inspirational, LIFE, Sunday Inspiration, Vox

A man proclaims,"I am a man!" To whom does he speak this? The woods, the rocks, the sky, the universe? He should know it in his bones and let the essence of it flow inside his veins. To state it aloud seems... Read More...

What is Your Quest for Fire?

Michael Kurcina

April 28, 2018

Inspirational, LIFE, Vox

Just some random thoughts for the evening. There are moments when I look at my past with an equal amount of fondness and pain. I think for most of us youth seemed largely like some rich resource that would ... Read More...

There is a Light that Will Never Go Out

Michael Kurcina

April 26, 2018

LIFE, Memorial, Vox

The world is a strange and beautiful place. From any high tower a man can look out into a sea of lights that pepper the dying darkness and the hills full of eyes stare back out at him. People wonder, "is th... Read More...

When We Die

Michael Kurcina

April 24, 2018

Inspirational, LIFE, Vox

"When we die, and follow the hounds into the hollows, and the great spirit into the glen, where mead flows and delivers a river of happiness to all who drink of it know that I wish you well. I call you brot... Read More...