“Paths of Hate” by Damian Nenow
Archive for March, 2012
Paths of Hate
Monday, March 26th, 2012Bill J is Doing Well
Sunday, March 25th, 2012About a month ago we sent well wishes to SSD friend Bill J. We are happy to report that we spoke with him late last week and that he is doing well. Looking forward to seeing him back at it!
Beats Cutting Off Your Sleeves
Sunday, March 25th, 2012One of the problems with cold weather movements is that it can get really warm while your moving out, but you can freeze up really quick when you stop. Arc’teryx LEAF answered a customer’s call for a solution and developed a stowable venting and sleeve system for the Gryphon Jacket. We’ve shown you this before but with so many new readers, it doesn’t hurt to reinforce a good thing.
SPECOPS.PL BS-2 Combat Shirt in PenCott
Sunday, March 25th, 2012Here are some shots of Polish manufacturer SPECOPS’ BS-2 Combat Shirt, made from PENCOTT NYCO IRR material in both Green Zone and Sandstorm camo patterns.
The shirt’s body is made from POLARTEC PowerDry thermo-active and Fire Resistant material and produced in their latest MBS-2 combat uniform standard. Entire garment is sewn with AMANN threads, featuring YKK zippers, and Velcro. According to SPECOPS, PenCott camo has been sold in Poland to both civilian and military clients and is currently undergoing field trials with Polish components of ISAF, Afghanistan.
SPECOPS’ 3 years Combat Warranty applies. Look for all SPECOPS items and uniforms in PENCOTT in 2012.
Make Ready with Jim Fuller – The AK Armorer’s Bench
Sunday, March 25th, 2012Panteao Productions: Make Ready with Jim Fuller, the AK Armorer’s Bench is now available for purchase. Unlike other tactical training video producers, Panteao also offers a unique feature. You can stream all of their videos with a membership.
Jim Fuller, founder of Rifle Dynamics and widely recognized as one of the industry’s leading experts on the AK design, talks Kalash history then walks you step by step through disassembly, cycle of operation, cleaning the AK, the trigger group and trigger group choices, changing furniture, sights, muzzle devices, trigger guard removal, barrel pin removal, front sight gas block alignment, fitting the safety, scope mounts, rails, and more. After-market parts and modifications are also reviewed in detail.
This is a trigger assembly mock-up he built to demonstrate how the weapon functions:
There’s also a good video on ATACTV where Mr Fuller talks weapons, you should check it out.
-DR
Escort Carbon Fiber Dagger Bundle
Sunday, March 25th, 2012The Escort Carbon Fiber Dagger bundle from Carbon Fiber Gear includes all three knives in the series. These are carbon fiber so they don’t hold a razor edge but can be sharpened with sand paper. The outer surface of the blades are comprised of a 3k 2×2 twill weave fabric, while the inner surfaces are made up of 12 layers of uni-directional fiber. The handles are made up of a total of 36 layers of carbon fiber.
All are 100% carbon fiber and 100% Made in USA!
store.carbonfibergear.com/escort-carbon-fiber-dagger-bundle
Smith Optics Elite – Inside Every Warrior is an Athlete
Sunday, March 25th, 2012Smith Optics Elite Division is on to something. They’ve realized that ‘Inside Every Warrior is an Athlete.’ Not only have they realized it, they’ve embraced it. Smith has invested a lot of hard work and it’s all starting to coalesce in support of this concept.
Follow them on Facebook www.facebook.com/smithelite
Visit elite.smithoptics.com.
Corps Strength – Efforts vs Results
Sunday, March 25th, 2012Many years ago as a young hard charging Corporal of Marines I attended the Non-Comissioned Officers Leadership school located in Quantico, VA. Now back in the cold winter of 1983 this wasn’t the polished, balanced and well thought out curriculum that young Marine leaders attend in their leadership schools today. We lived in an ice cold 100 year old wooden barracks that were about 10 feet off the Amtrak train tracks way back in the woods behind the Marine Officer Candidate School (OCS). All of our instructors were OCS drill instructors that were on a winter break from “pushing” candidates through OCS. Needless to say they had little interest in our “development”, but seemed to take sadistic pleasure in trying run us into the ground on the dozens of muddy running trails that are everywhere on that part of the base. Any actual leadership training was transmitted in the form of extra duty, pushups and endless hours of drill practice on the always windy parade deck. However there was one exception. 
Assigned to OCS in military exchange duty was a British Royal Marine Colour Sgt. A big, red headed easy going guy (who could run like a race horse) he was the official “PT” instructor for the NCO school, and a talented experienced leader in all respects. He gave us a class one day on the fundamentals of physical training. All old school stuff, eat 3 balanced meals away, PT everyday, don’t smoke, drink in moderation and try to get enough rest. Pretty tame compared to all the flashy high tech training advice you see 24/7 in the media today. While It was a good class, it was pretty forgettable except for one thing he said that I never forgot right up to this minute. That was he statement “don’t confuse efforts with results.” When your trying to get in shape and maybe lose some weight you have stick with what works. Don’t waste anytime beating your head on the wall trying to make something work that sounds good, but doesn’t really work. In my book “Corps Strength” I outline a simple and effective fitness plan that when applied correctly will get you, and keep you in outstanding physical condition and help keep your weight under control. High tech and high price aside, what the old Colour Sgt knew almost 30 years ago is just as true today. Is that in the end what counts is results and little else.
Good luck and be safe,
MGunz
