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LoD on D-Day

Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

NRA’s Life of Duty wanted to share something with our readers. In honor of today’s 68th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, they sent us a link to a video that was originally created by the U.S. Army in 1969 to relay the battle action of the landing at Normandy and the fierce combat that took place to overcome “Fortress Europe”.


D-Day: June 6, 1944
Description:
June 6, 1944 marks the 68th anniversary of “Operation Overload” – the D-Day invasion where more than 160,000 allied troops landed on a 50-mile stretch of French Coastline to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. The invasion led to the deaths of more than 9,000 allied forces, but the victory resulted in a significant turning point for Europe’s history. Today, we would like to honor the allied forces that participated in the invasion by sharing a film created by the U.S. Army in 1969. In this film, the drama and battle action of the landing at Normandy is portrayed along with the fierce combat that took place to overcome “Fortress Europe” (compliments of the National Archives).

NRA American Warrior Issue 8 Is Now Available

Thursday, May 31st, 2012

American Warrior 8 – If that cover doesn’t inspire you, nothing will.

NRA Life of Duty Memorial Day Message

Monday, May 28th, 2012

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For The Ladies – NRA Life of Duty Salutes Warrior Wives

Tuesday, February 14th, 2012

Think of it as a Valentine’s Day salute from the NRA to the ladies behind our troops.

Warrior Wives

Forces Focus – NRA LOD Covers USAF Emergency Management

Sunday, February 5th, 2012

Air Force Specialty Code 3E9 (Emergency Management) has been known By other names over the years. For example, when I was a kid, I remember they were called Disaster Preparedness. Interestingly, they are kind of like EOD in that they are part of Civil Engineering even though it isn’t a good fit and this is recognized with a special careerfield badge that reveals their true focus, bugs and gas. They are the CBRNE specialists of the USAF.

Specifically the careerfield, “Prepares, plans, trains, educates, and equips Air Force personnel to respond to, maintain mission capability, and recover from the full spectrum of physical threat events including major accidents, natural disasters, weapons of mass destruction, and wartime chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) attacks. Provides technical expertise to commanders during full spectrum threat response operations. Performs detection, monitoring, warning, and reporting of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) events.

If you were in the Air Force prior to the current conflict you were probably pretty familiar with them. We regularly trained in MOPP 4 conditions (even in SOF) and Ability to Survive and Operate (ATSO) was an important part of Operational Readiness Inspections. Maybe it was all institutional momentum from the Cold War, but it was drilled into Airmen enough that they could do it.

Now, NRA’s Life of Duty has prepared a report focusing on this small community of specialists and why they are more relevant now than ever. Here is a teaser.

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NRA American Warrior #6

Monday, January 30th, 2012

NRA’s American Warrior is an online multimedia magazine that is part of the Life of Duty program. They’ve just released issue #6 and it features an article entitled, “Candystore” which details their favorite gear from SHOT Show 2012. You read that right, “2012”. That’s one advantage to an online publication.

Check out issue number 6 online.

SSD highly encourages readers in uniform to join the Life of Duty program. It’s free to you. Your membership will be paid for by any one of thousands of patriotic benefactors who support our citizens in uniform.

NRA LOD Does Gunsite

Friday, January 27th, 2012

NRA Life of Duty recently visited Gunsite Academy, the granddaddy of firearms training facilities.

If you’re in uniform and you’re not a member of NRA’s Life of Duty, you should be. After all, it’s free!

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A Peak at Smokejumper Kit

Saturday, January 7th, 2012

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