#1 GOOD LUCK IS FOR NOVICES, BAD LUCK IS FOR EVERYONE. BANK ON SKILL, AT LEAST YOU CONTROL THAT.
#2 EVERYTHING IS A REHEARSAL FOR SOMETHING. THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO DO THINGS: THE BEST WAY…AND ALL THE OTHER WAYS. FIGURE OUT WHICH IS WHICH.
#3 A GUN IS LIKE A PARACHUTE. WHEN YOU NEED ONE IT’S EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAVE YOUR LIFE, IT HAS TO WORK AND YOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO USE IT.
-Mike Pannone
“TO BE A WARRIOR IS NOT A SIMPLE MATTER OF WISHING TO BE ONE. IT IS RATHER AN ENDLESS STRUGGLE THAT WILL GO ON TO THE VERY LAST MOMENT OF OUR LIVES. NOBODY IS BORN A WARRIOR, IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY THAT NOBODY IS BORN AN AVERAGE MAN. WE MAKE OURSELVES INTO ONE OR THE OTHER.”
Carlos Casteneda “Tales of Power”
Mike Pannone retired from the Army’s premier assault force (1st SFOD-D) after an explosive breaching injury. A year after his retirement America was attacked on 9/11 and he returned to help serve his country as the head marksmanship instructor at the Federal Air Marshals training course and then moved to help stand up the FAMS Seattle field office. In 2003 he left the FAMS to serve as a PSD detail member and then a detail leader for the State Department during 2003 and 2004 in Baghdad and Tikrit.
In 2005 he served as a ground combat advisor of the Joint Counter IED Task Force and participated on combat operations with various units in Al Anbar province. Upon returning he gave IED awareness briefings to departing units and helped stand up a pre-Iraq surge rifle course with the Asymmetric Warfare Group as a lead instructor. With that experience as well as a career of special operations service in Marine Reconnaissance, Army Special Forces and JSOC to draw from he moved to the private sector teaching planning, leadership, marksmanship and tactics as well as authoring and co-authoring several books such as The M4 Handbook, AK Handbook and Tactical Pistol shooting. Mike also consults for several major rifle and accessory manufacturers to help them field the best possible equipment to the warfighter, law enforcement officer and upstanding civilian end user. He is considered a subject matter expert on the AR based Stoner platform in all its derivatives.
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Well said Mike
Thanx for posting this
Be safe brother
LAV
For some odd reason, I was expecting “A GUN IS LIKE A PARACHUTE” to be followed by, “there’s never been a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial to prove its effectiveness. But I still carry one.”