Category: Skillset
How to Prevent Water Damage to Your Smartphone
One thing that Maritime Operators have learned is that water is a very harsh environment and quite unforgiving on our gear and equipment. This goes for our personal items too. In today’s world, something that most people have on them at all times is a good ol’ smartphone. It’s just a staple of human nature. [...]
Learning via Podcasts, iTunes U, & Safety Solutions Academy
As a connoisseur of internet surfage, I am always looking for ideas and knowledge. While Phil may be a book guy, I prefer more modern ways of learning and building a functional knowledge base. By that I mean videos and audio presentations/discussions. Recently I began to discover a wealth of unused information that most of us have [...]
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Field Care is defined as “The care rendered to the casualty once the casualty and rescuer are no longer under effective hostile fire. This term also applies to situations in which an injury has occurred on a mission but there has been no hostile fire.” In the Tactical Field Care Phase the immediate tactical problem [...]
Pistol Skill Drills
I started an article about the need for actual live-fire firearms training versus just shooting the agency qual course over and over, but it started to turn into a rant and I am in a good mood. Instead, I am going to post some challenging pistol skill drills that you can use [...]
How To Make Your Own Ammo: Part I
Given the state of today’s economy and the costs of everything you love on the rise, I’m sure that many of you have begun to notice the gradual increase in the cost of a box of ammo. It’s not a regional thing, it’s everywhere. While many of us will just keep paying the increases in [...]
The Kalashnikov Rifle
Everyone seems to have an opinion on Comrade Kalashnikov’s rifle Josef Stalin could have been referring to the Kalashnikov when he famously said “Quantity has a quality all its own”. Over 100 million have been produced and put into circulation since the first weapon rolled off of the Soviet assembly line in 1947, and during [...]
Use Your Cellphone Before, During, and After an Emergency
Cell phones are becoming more and more valuable to our lives – providing Internet access, the latest weather forecast, and access to our favorite social networking sites. While cell phones can be a great convenience, they can also be a lifeline in dealing with an emergency. Now days most of us have smart phones in [...]
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