Although I invariably work during my school’s summer program, I still get a few weeks off every June and August. I would love to say that my wife provides me with a honey-do list, but the fact is that she could not give two hoots what sort of home improvement projects I engage in when […]
I’m starting a new title format for blog posts with this particular post. From here on out, whenever both Robert and I attend a class and both of us have viewpoints we want to share, the second AAR to be published will include AAR2 (After Action Review Two/Too) in the title. – John This past […]
By now, readers will have been inundated with news stories about the Manchester, England suicide bombing at an Ariana Grande concert. While ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack, it was no great mental leap to see the bombing as yet another terrorist attack. I’m not going to give quarter to the motivation of the […]
Most of our readers have probably heard of the Rule of Four S’s. I think John and I have both referenced it before in articles in the past. I believe this rule is generally accredited to the great John Farnam (though I think his version had three S’s rather than four, but whatever). The rule […]
This past weekend, both Robert and I were able to attend two excellent one day classes held in Virginia in the DC area. Robert covered the first day’s medical class in his AAR posted yesterday. This is my review of the second day’s groundfighting class. This was the third one day class that I’ve taken with […]
In poking around the web today, I note that many bloggers have reviewed some of their most read articles. In line with that observation, the third most read post on this blog for 2016 was my article on necessities of every day carry. Top honors go to Robert’s Glock 19 article, but in this first […]
With all the training I have done over the last few years, I thought it might be useful to make a list of useful training items to have. As such, this article can serve as a handy complement to my article on preparing for your first firearms class. The items discussed in this list, however, are specific […]
