“Every day is ‘ordinary,’ until it isn’t!” – Bernard Cornwell From a friend in NY: “While driving last evening, I saw a massive pillar of smoke erupting from neighboring Lockport. A large fire had broken-out at a tire-recycling plant. It was massive and resulted in emergency evacuations of hundreds of surrounding homes for several blocks…
Category: Civilian Operator 101
Civilian Operator 101: A Dire Warning About Situational Awareness
New Waze Feature Reminds You That Your Child is in the Car You know how I am always going on and on about “Paying attention to your surroundings” and “Living in the Moment” and all that? Well folks, I take a different approach than the author of the above article and I say when…
Civilian Operator 101: Playing the “What if and Where is It?” Game
I am a firm believer in staying as situationally aware as possible wherever I am, but especially when out in public either alone or with my clan. Since I live in the Deep South, a large part of my time every month or so is spent in stores like the Redneck metropolis of Wal-Mart, Grocery…
Civilian Operator 101: Going Mobile
A learned a long time ago that when shit goes bad, it goes bad in a hurry. Very often you will have little to no time to think about what you really need to do, you just going to have to react. The seasoned prepper knows from experience that there are two basic options when…
Civilian Operator 101: Trauma Care in Active Shooter Scenarios
By Hammerhead I highly suggest you guys routinely visit sites like The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery for applicable medical/trauma care articles like this one. I first found out about this site Through Greg Ellifritz’ Active Response Training Weekend Knowledge Dump, which I highly suggest you guys peruse each Friday. The acronym T.H.R.E.A.T…
Civilian Operator 101: How to Shoot and Fight From Your Back
Something to chew on this weekend as you set up your Shoting drills. As CO’s We always need to be cognizant of positions we may find ourselves in a street fight that are not exactly convenient, but are all the same, reality. This is also a great time to drill on firing from OTHER non-conventional…
Bracken: Orlando Carry
I always read anything Matt Bracken Writes..Interesting Piece.
Trauma Medicine Reference: Clinical Cases in Emergency Medicine
Great Reference Site for All types of Clinical Emergency Medicine. Simply Scroll To the Type of Procedure you need to Learn About and Upload to your Brain Hard Drive. Life In The Fast Lane
Armed Citizen Corner: 40 “Unique” Places To Stash Firearms
Today’s article comes to you from the ITS Forums via Doc of RSKTKR Consulting. We thought this was such a great topic that we wanted to throw it up as a main article. Where have you stashed a handgun in your home or car that you feel is an especially clever stashing place? Here is…
Civilian Operator 101: “Breaking On Through” To The Other Side
This comes from one of my favorite newly discovered blogs: Straight Forward in a Crooked World. The name sais it all. Check them Out. -SF Dark Arts for Good Guys: Break On Through To the Other Side One of the best weapons for getting out of a crisis isn’t necessarily a gun. A decent…