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Archive for July, 2014
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Monday, July 21st, 2014Brooks-Range – Cloak 15
Monday, July 21st, 2014
The Brooks-Range Cloak 15 is designed as a lightweight sleeping system, offering a 15-degree temperature rating when paired with virtually any sleeping pad. It weights only 20oz total, with 850 Fill with DownTec treatment, and fits into a 5″ x 15″ stuff sack. Additional features include a full draft collar, pad/foot pocket, and full baffle construction.
Available in ‘Positive Red’.
brooks-range.com/Cloak-15-Blanket
Team MultiCam at the Red Bull Romaniacs
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
Made up of a crew of British Soldiers, Team MultiCam has been participating all week in the annual Red Bull Romaniacs motorcycle enduro rally in Sibiu, Romania. Prior to the four day rally in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania the team must pass a series of Enduro Trials obstacles along the streets of Sibiu.
This Prolog determines the starting order for the next four days in the mountains where each stage of the rally can range from 60 to 120 miles per day through the roughest natural terrain imaginable pushing man and machine to the absolute limit.
As you can see, the team is outfitted in custom MultiCam riding gear, including helmets with art by HydroGraphics Inc and Image Craft.
Here are the video recaps of the first three days of racing.
Day 1 Prolog
Day 2
Day 3
Be sure to follow www.facebook.com/multicampattern for the latest updates.
And oh yeah, one of the bikes will be auctioned off during SHOT Show 2015 to raise funds for charity. We’ll pass along details as soon as they are available.
Hail Columbia!
Sunday, July 20th, 2014Before there was Uncle Sam, America was personified by a lady named Columbia. Wearing a Phrygian cap and adorned with the red, white and blue, she fell out of favor after World War I.
Columbia has always had a special place in my heart and this war bond poster remains my favorite. The recent rantgasm over the use of flag-like garments caused me to look at some illustrations of our American lady. I had forgotten how closely associated she was with the Stars and Stripes.
Hey Tank – We Got You A Snack
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
High Threat Concealment – Low Pro Belt
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
Designed to work with HTC’s Low Profile System and other HTC components, the Low Pro Belt is a 2-piece hybrid belt that consists of a nondescript top grain leather belt front end and a tactical nylon webbing belt. A removable buckle allows the Low Pro Belt to be threaded through the forward most belt loops, obscuring the tactical nature of the belt. The belt is 1.75″ wide and lined with Velcro hook with a matching web underbelt surfaced with Velcro loop. With the underbelt threaded through pant loops, the overbelt can hold equipment and components securely in place without the need for belt keepers and can be easily removed and reattached.
highthreatconcealment.com/products/belts/htc-low-pro-belt
Kitanica – Backcountry Pants Now Available In Kryptek Typhon
Sunday, July 20th, 2014
Kitanica’s Backcountry pants are now available in Kryptek Typhon, but for a limited time only. Made from 50/50 NyCo ripstop fabric and Mil-Spec A-A-55301 nylon webbing, the Backcountry pant comes with 2 hip pockets, 2 rear pockets, and 2 knife/cell phone pockets on each leg for plenty of carry space. The riveted button waist features a YKK metal fly zipper, and a 7 belt loop, contoured waistband. A Velcro side cinching system allows the wearer to adjust the pant to their liking, and reinforced knees, a reinforced seat, and bar-tacked stress points make for an overall durable pant.
Made in the USA.
Corps Strength – Age Is Not A Number
Saturday, July 19th, 2014It was a typical summer night recently as myself and a group of friends and family sat around enjoying some great local beer. As it often seems to do with any group of people over 40 nowadays, the conversation turned to a rundown of everyone’s current health issues. These ranged from chronic back, foot, knee and neck pain to high cholesterol, high blood pressure, arthritis, high blood sugar, kidney problem’s, surgeries and all the various medications everyone’s on. After quite awhile of this medical “seminar”, a long time friend and career firemen turned to me and asked, “PJ, what about you?” During this I hadn’t said much of anything (rare for me). I answered honestly; “I’m fine I don’t have anything going on.” That drew blank (and kind of pissed) looks from everyone. “Well,” my cousin said, “He wouldn’t admit it if he had a problem.” That seemed to set everyone at ease that I couldn’t really be that healthy, It was that I just wasn’t admitting it? Yeah Ok.
The fact is at age 54 I don’t have any real health issues (knock on my wooden head), never have. Other than some bent up feet from years of Marine Corps life, nothing. Why? Luck? Good genes? Some of both I’m sure, but I have to believe that working hard at staying in shape all my life had something to do with it. Make no mistake, I’m no saint: I drank my share of beer, and experienced all the stress, lack of sleep and hard work that anyone will experience during a long military career. The difference was that I never really let myself go, never threw the age or rank card, I just kept going. At times I was ridiculed for PTing on the ship, or when we were traveling, on liberty or deployed forward. The fact is I still get this from people my age; “Slow down, what are you trying to prove?” “Your not on active duty any more.”
That’s right I’m not active duty anymore, I don’t have to pass a PFT or a weigh in (though I could easily) but the fact is I still have to live, and to live the way I want to, I need great health and real fitness. The point of all this? To make a simple, but important observation; to achieve and maintain health and fitness takes a long term commitment, and it doesn’t stop at a certain age, when you graduate college, retire from the military, or even when you sign up for social security. It’s an everyday, life long habit.
Yes, I know, we all are going to get old, and sick at some point, that’s life, and none of us will escape it. However with some consistent effort and a little discipline in your life, you can enjoy the benefits of a healthy, fit body for a long, long time, and this doesn’t take a lot of time when you get down to it either. In my book “Corps Strength” I lay out a simple and proven effective fitness plan that takes no more than about five hours a week, and can been used by anyone of any age to get and stay in great shape. It’s never too late to start. Its my plan to stay in the best possible shape until the day they plant my ass, and it doesn’t include any time for sitting round and talking about my health issues. What about your plan? Take care and be safe.
Semper Fi
MGunz
