Outside the Box Episode 1 Part 1
Outside The Box is a web series dedicated to sharing veterans perspectives on important social issues. In episode one, a retired Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant, an intel expert, and…
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No Duty To Protect
In Warren V. District of Columbia (1981) The Supreme Court stated, “that a government and its agents are under no general duty to provide public services, such as police protection,…
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SLEEP. “No Man Knows But a Soldier, How Sweet Sleep Is.”
SLEEP. “No man knows but a soldier, how sweet sleep is.” So the Iraqis are raining down RPGs like mortars on us and one of my Corpsman tells me, “First…
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…
The Will and the Skill to KILL
Post Traumatic Growth 160304 The Will to KILL. You are the weapon; everything else is just a tool. As a peacekeeper, your job is not to kill, it is to…
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…
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…
Don’t Be That Guy
That one officer that you trusted I was raised in the police life by a few old schoolers, who taught me that police life isn’t for everybody. That this is…
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…