Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Range 3 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 Marker pen/target patches Notebook and pen Instructor Equipment: Range Eq...

"Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival." – Aung San Suu Kyi Bites and stings Bugs are an integral part of our ecosystem and are a constant feature of our daily lives. It is inevitable that during a survival situation somebody will get bitten or stung. Mosquitoes While mosquito bites are generally nothing more than an annoyance, there are...

Title: Basic M4 Carbine Course- Range 2 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 Marker pen/target patches Notebook and pen Instructor Equipment: Range Equipmen...

Cryptocurrency is not hack proof as your money is stored in digital wallets that are a much easier target than blockchain technology. The Bitcoin goldrush has meant that many new to the cryptocurrency scene are investing without fully understanding how the currencies work-and many in the industry do not care. This has left the door open for cybercr...

"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it" - Lou Holtz Bleeding Whether during the initial incident or the journey to safety, there are numerous abrasive or pointed ways to end up losing blood. The average adult has five – six liters of blood in their body. If we lose one – t...

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...

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 ...

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...

Despite its reputation, Bitcoin is not completely anonymous. But the Good News is Cryptocurrency can be purchased and spent anonymously with a few smart steps Because every transaction uses bitcoins from a prior transaction, and the blockchain is public data, every Bitcoin payment has a traceable history that can be viewed by anyone. While addresse...

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...

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...

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...

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems" - John W. Gardner Dehydration Dehydration is a potential issue in survival situations. Dehydration occurs when water intake does not replace water lost due to normal physiologic processes, or other causes, including diarrhea, and vomiting. Dehydrat...

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 ...

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...

Most people know the popularized story of how the American Revolution – its kinetic phase, anyway – began on April, 19, 1775, when the Massachusetts militia turned out to oppose a British column marching from Boston to Concord to seize arms and military stores accumulated there by the colonists. Myths have grown up around the events of that day, re...

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...

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...

"Amateurs obsess about guns and gear. They practice until they get it right. Professionals obsess about tactics and training. They practice until they cannot get it wrong. But logistics trump strategy in the long war." On the spectrum of prepping, what follows (particularly in Part Two) tends towards the more extreme end - scenarios in which crimin...

A fake Wi-Fi hotspot, or "Evil Twin" hotspot, is a Wi-Fi access point set up by a hacker or state spies which mimics a legitimate hotspot including the service set identifier (SSID) provided by a business or organization which is nearby, such as a coffee shop or hotel that provides free Wi-Fi access to its customers. They are often named 'honeypots...