The Few, The Weird, the Uniquely Wired
It took me a long time to decide to write this. Partly because I had to put some personal things into words. Things which I, like many of us, almost…
In Depth Tactical Solutions
It took me a long time to decide to write this. Partly because I had to put some personal things into words. Things which I, like many of us, almost…
Imagine making $30,000 a month or more, and tax-free, I remember those hay days and remember some guys making upwards of $1,250 a day. If there’s anything we’ve learned both…
After 24 years as a combat soldier in the Australian Defence Force, and years in the private security and the self-defence industries I have been “blessed” with just about every…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…