Emerging Threats

Preparedness

Being prepared to meet emerging threats to our health, safety, and freedom allows us to remain focused and effective, as individuals, families, or communities, in the struggle for the soul of our nation.

Basic M4 Carbine Course - Range 1


Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course - Range 1 Type: Live Fire Range Time: 4 hours Venue: 25M Range Students: 12 Student Equipment: 1 X M4 Carbines per student 3 X 30 round M4 magazines per student 50 rounds ammunition per student 1 X Magazine Carrier Eye and hearing protection Instructor Equipment: Range Equipment, Sight Charts/Diagrams, Sight Tools Ass...

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Surveillance Part 6: Improving Situational Awareness (C)

From our list of the Components of Situational Awareness (Observation, Perception, Description, Memory, Human Behavior and Deduction) we just have Deduction left to cover, before getting in to some useful practical exercises in the next article. Deduction a. You have been honing your Situation Awareness skills for some time, paying great attention ...

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Tactical Decision Game ST-3: Home Invasion – the Aftermath (Solution and Discussion)


TDG ST-3 began in the immediate aftermath of the home invasion described in TDG ST-2. The intruders have been repelled – so far as you know – while you, your daughter, and your wife are secure on the second floor. You were wounded in the exchange of gunfire, with two 12-gauge 00 shotgun pellets lodging in your left shoulder and upper arm, emphasizi...

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Tactical Decision Game ST-3: Home Invasion – The Aftermath


This TDG is a sequel to TDG ST-2, Home Invasion. It posits a (mostly) favorable conclusion and explores the post-shooting environment and important choices and actions you must take. The prior scenario ended with two intruders shot on the stairs leading up to the second floor where you, your wife and your daughter were sheltering. Another retreated...

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Basic M4 Carbine Course - Lesson 5

Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Lesson 5 Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 2 hours Venue: Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment: 12 X M4 Carbines 12 X USGI 30 round M4 magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds per student (72) Instructor Equipment: 1 X M4 Carbine 2 X USGI M4 30 round magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds Assistan...

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Force Multipliers - Part 3

The previous two articles should have provided plenty of context for what follows. There are many things that should come before any conversations about owning the night. But if you follow our advice and work hard on ticking all of the preceding boxes there might eventually come a time where you want to seriously consider it. Bad things happen at n...

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Basic M4 Carbine Course - Lesson 4

Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Lesson 4 Type: Dry Practice (No live ammunition) Time: 2 hours Venue: Weapon Training Classroom Students: 12 Student Equipment:12 X M4 Carbines 12 X USGI 30 round M4 magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds per student (72) Instructor Equipment:1 X M4 Carbine 2 X USGI M4 30 round magazines 6 X dummy 5.56mm rounds Assistant ...

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Force Multipliers – Part 2

Picking up where we left off on rounding out your armory, you might also usefully add in some body armor (whether soft, concealable or standalone hard plates in an overt carrier). Armor can get expensive and having any is better than having none but, like many things, it is a "cry once, buy once" kind of thing. The trade off between heavy, thick, c...

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Tactical Decision Game ST-2: Home Invasion (Solution and Discussion)


Our second TDG scenario presented the following problem: Your home in a rural subdivision is the second target of a home invasion in as many weeks. In the middle of the night, you awaken to a crash and an alarm from your phone when the downstairs back door is forced open. You and your wife are in the master bedroom; your adolescent daughter is in h...

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Tactical Decision Game ST-2: Home Invasion


You, your wife, and your pre-teen daughter live in a two-story home on a five-acre lot in a rural subdivision eight miles outside of town, accessed by a frontage road that parallels the interstate highway. Other than highway noise and occasional singing coyotes, it had always been a quiet neighborhood. But conditions in town have been worsening ove...

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