Sometimes Quitting Will Save Your Life
Know when to call it quits My last police department was by far my favorite job. It was full of fun, excitement and dangers, and full of risks with a…
What Happened America, Why are We Raising a Nation of Man-Babies?
Green Berets We confuse philosophy with preaching, with agitation, with novel-writing, with lecture room jargon. A doctrine that does not attack and affect the life of the period is in…
What Kind of Men and Women are We Raising?
Deborah Morse wrote an article called Parents or Prisons. Her assertion that children raised in single parent households, rather than a dual parent household, are more susceptible to the effects…
Survival Fitness: Choose to Do Difficult Things
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe I remember sitting around bored…
Should a U.S. Marine Scout/Sniper Think Outside the Box and Do “Whatever It Takes”?
My experience with “thinking outside the box” was formulated during my time as a Marine Scout/Sniper with 1st Battalion 4th Marines “Whatever It Takes”, honed during my second deployment to…
A Brief History of Christopher Gadsen and the Don’t Tread on Me Flag
Spotting the yellow Gadsen flag is an easy thing to do if you live in Virginia and 6 other States. It’s easy to spot the rattlesnake symbol and the words…
Warrior or Survivalist
Warrior or Survivalist Let’s look for a moment at the warrior mindset and basic survival instinct. Is it enough for a modern day warrior to be concerned solely with individual…
I Pledge NO Allegiance to the Flag
If I have all of my facts correct, Michael Newdow, is the name of a non-custodial parent of a minor child that attended a public elementary school and filed suit…
No Training, No Men, No Equipment So We Might As Well Quit
“To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill” Sun Tzu Ask yourself…
Personal Story of a Spec Ops Candidate: Failing Pararescue Indoc and What to Do After
I included this story because I know there are a lot of people who made the attempt and tried out for a Special Operations career and failed. Those who try…