The basics of blood tacking to recover game.
Dead Check
Making certain the game you harvest has expired.
Psalm 119:105
Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. That's a feel good verse right? Have you thought on it much though? I think it sums up the life for a saved … Continue reading Psalm 119:105
Terrorist in a Helicopter
CH-46 at sun rise. Once upon a second Iraq deployment I was flying CASEVAC, casualty evacuation. It was a quite the experience. One day we picked up an insurgent from the Shock Trauma Platoon in Ramadi to haul him to a higher level trauma center. He was pretty messed up and had quite a few … Continue reading Terrorist in a Helicopter
Using Linear Features to Help you from Getting Lost
A basic navigation trick to make it a simple process to find your way back. A new hunter told me he couldn't go out in the woods alone because he would get lost. He had never really spent anytime in forest with the limited exception of a hiking on established trails, having grown up in … Continue reading Using Linear Features to Help you from Getting Lost
Types of Land Navigation
A summary of the basic navigation techniques: terrain association, dead reckoning, and GPS.
Incapacitating a Threat
The three ways to stop a threat: Electrical, Hydraulic, and Mechanical. You often hear, read, or watch debates and opinions about "stopping power", this cartridge vs that, and whatnot. They quickly devolve into an emotional debate, heck I definitely have some opinions after more than three decades surrounded by death which include time in combat … Continue reading Incapacitating a Threat
I’m Here to Help
Would you believe some things you see in a movie wouldn't be rooted in reality? As a "kid", fighting in a war for the first time maybe I should have known better. I'll admit though there were a few things that surprised me because it was different than the movies portrayed them and I didn't … Continue reading I’m Here to Help
Saturation Training
Saturation training is simply training a task at its most basic level over and over and over and over, then building on the next step or skill and so on. Like the old Bruce Lee quote, "I don't fear the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks, I fear the man who has practiced one kick … Continue reading Saturation Training
Doing Things Well
Why train when you can sleep? During our deployment to Iraq in 2004 out company, about 150 guys, was located on a FOB (Forward Operating Base). Which just a tiny base with a small number of people. The small size is significant due to fact that we were so few that the locals were able … Continue reading Doing Things Well
Outpost 95 