{"id":12913,"date":"2016-03-09T12:54:24","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=12913"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:54:24","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T18:54:24","slug":"without-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/03\/09\/without-warning\/","title":{"rendered":"Without Warning!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"JW\"<\/h2>\n

Without Warning!<\/a><\/h2>\n

by John Farnam<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Personal Preparedness in our Exciting age:<\/p>\n

\u201cNow remember, when things look bad, and it looks as if you\u2019re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Because, when you lose your head, and you give up, then you ain\u2019t gonna win, and your ain\u2019t gonna live.\u00a0<\/em>That\u2019s just the way it is.\u201d –<\/em>Josey Wales (played by Cline Eastwood) in the 1976 feature film, \u201cThe Outlaw Josey Wales\u201d.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

These comments from a recent student at one of our Courses:<\/p>\n

\u201cThings I took away:<\/p>\n

(1) I can shoot reasonably well
\n(2) Shooting is the easy part
\n(3) When you fumble at the beginning, it makes everything else harder and sloppier<\/p>\n

Conclusion: We need to perfect basic manipulations. There is no doubt that
\nfumbling\/indecision\/hesitation\/dithering invariably represent the \u2018kiss of death!\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Reinforced by a friend, an old Warrior like me, in the UK:<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember the way we regularly practiced in total darkness, against time, all aspects of weapons handling. Wasted parts and wasted motions were thus assiduously eliminated.<\/p>\n

We regularly spent endless hours on the range precisely adjusting and confirming sight settings, so our personal rifles were always absolutely ready, \u2018\u2026 left of bang\u2019 A rifle that is not precisely, continuously sighted-in (zeroed), to your satisfaction, will be about as useful to you as a bar of soap, as you pointed-out in your last Quip.<\/p>\n

Someone asked me today, with a cynical tone of \u2018moral superiority,\u2019 why I drive a powerful SUV, equipped with four-wheel drive. I preferred not to answer this idiot, as foul weather erupts over us with freakish regularity. I told him I prefer not to get stuck, while always being able to leave paved roads, when civilization\u2019s trappings disintegrate without warning!\u201d<\/p>\n

Comment:<\/p>\n

The operative phrase is, \u201c\u2026 without warning!\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cNo matter what anybody else on board says or does, never get into an aircraft flying over enemy territory without your pistol, AR, magazines, blade, compass, trauma kit, rations, water, hat, jacket, and boots!\u201d<\/p>\n

Brigadier General Chris Thirion, SADF (a genuine hero of a long-past era)<\/p>\n

\/John<\/p>\n

Read This and a Host of other Original John Farnam Quips at Defense Training International<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/article>\n

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Without Warning! by John Farnam Personal Preparedness in our Exciting age: \u201cNow remember, when things look bad, and it looks as if you\u2019re not gonna make it, then you gotta get mean. I mean plumb, mad-dog mean. Because, when you lose your head, and you give up, then you ain\u2019t gonna win, and your ain\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[389,13,84,4802,397,398,2161,402,2863,118,404],"tags":[373,1289,713,5326,144],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}