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LAV Answers Critics – “Why I’m Fat”

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

I’ve known LAV for a long time, and I know a lot about his background. I think it’s good that he has answered criticism about his weight issues, and I think his situation will resonate with many Military Veterans. Physically, the Military takes a toll. It robs men and women of their youth, but forges them into something greater; LAV exhibits this dichotomy. While he has adapted to physical challenges, his mind and skill set are as sharp as ever. I always wish Larry the best, and hope that his physical fitness routine pays off for a lifetime of healthy living.

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Emergency & Disaster Management Now Available from Panteao

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Columbia, SC, March 25, 2015 – Panteao Productions is happy to announce the release of the next video title in the new Make Ready to Survive instructional video series.

Emergency & Disaster Management is now available streaming to Panteao subscribers. The DVD versions will begin shipping next week.

The instructors in the series include former US Army Delta Operator Paul Howe, Dave Canterbury from the Pathfinder Self Reliance School, US Army Special Forces Green Beret Kyle Harth, disaster preparedness consultant and author Jim Cobb, and NE MacDougald, who started his career in Vietnam with the 519th Military Intelligence Bn (MACV), and today is an author and consultant.

Make Ready to Survive: Emergency & Disaster Management
Emergency & Disaster management addresses the types of events that you hope to never face but very well may. Long term events like major damage by a natural or man-made disaster, terrorism, and economic collapse are the things you see portrayed on television reality shows. But the reality is things do happen and whether you like it or not, you have to be prepared for them in a realistic manner. Instructors Paul Howe, Dave Canterbury, Jim Cobb, Kyle Harth, and N.E. MacDougald walk you through the planning & traveling by alternative routes, rehearsing your plan, living off the grid, alternative location caches, bugging out or not, the one year survival plan and budget, long term water sourcing, post-collapse barter and trade, home defense and firearm selection, specific disaster scenario planning, and more. Be prepared for the worst case scenario and all other events can be managed easier.

A total of 13 videos have been filmed in the Make Ready to Survive series. More info on the series can be found on the Panteao website at: panteao.com/survive

Product Page for Make Ready to Survive: Emergency & Disaster Management panteao.com/product/make-ready-to-survive-emergency-disaster

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RE Factor Tactical – Deployable SSE Duffle Bag

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

RE Factor Tactical’s Deployable SSE Duffle Bag is manufactured from 70D water-resistant ripstop nylon, and features an integrated stuff sack which also functions as an internal pocket when the bag is deployed. The SSE Duffle also features an external zipping pocket, and 2″ wide nylon straps. The bag comes in two sizes:

Small

Dimensions (collapsed) – 7″ x 7.5″ x2″
Dimensions (expanded) – 16″ x 9″ x 9″

Medium

Dimensions (collapsed) – 7″ x 8″ x 2″
Dimensions (expanded) – 19″ x 10″ x10″

Available in Tan and MultiCam. Made in the USA.

www.refactortactical.com/deployable-sse-duffle-bag

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MATBOCK – R-Lift Backcountry

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

MATBOCK has just released a rescue-oriented variant of the R-Lift, the R-Lift Backcountry. The Backcountry variant of the R-Lift features a rescue orange color litter, as opposed to the operational colorway of the Military R-Lift. In addition, the R-Lift Backcountry weighs in at just over 7lbs with carrying case backpack.

Additional Features:

– Inflatable neck pillow to align the spinal cord and help stabilize the head
– Forehead & chin straps
– Mylar emergency blanket
– 1 buckle patient retention straps for securing the patient
– hoist capable

www.matbock.com/products/r-lift

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Combat Flip Flops Supports Team 5’s Spring 2015 Mission Fixing Cleft Palates In Central America Expedition Overland To Capture The Scene

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

Later this month, three members representing Team 5 Medical Foundation will embark on the foundation’s next mission—fixing cleft palates, providing basic medical education and medicine to villagers in remote regions of Central America. Eric Linder, Founder of Team 5, Remote Medical Practitioner (RMP) and Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (FAWM), along with Keith R., M.D., surgeon and remote medical physician, and Matthew ‘Griff’ Griffin, co-founder of Combat Flip Flops and logistics lead, will begin their journey south, accompanied for part of the mission by the Expedition Overland team.

The highly anticipated Expedition Overland (XO) YouTube series will return in season 2 for a truly epic journey through Central America—one of the most breathtaking and complex areas of the world. The team of seven and their three overland-equipped Toyotas will film throughout eight Central American countries. Once in Guatemala, the crew will meet up with Team 5 as they perform medical procedures in remote villages. The 12-episode series will begin airing in July 2015 on the Expedition Overland YouTube channel; viewers are invited to follow the adventure as it unfolds at xoverland.com beginning April 15.

Team-5 is a small group of former special forces members and hand-selected medical and survival experts who venture into the most extreme and austere locations around the world to educate local healthcare workers, provide remote medicine and donate supplies to developing areas so they can be self sufficient.

Expedition Overland (XO) is a docu-reality series that follows a team of adventurers and their outfitted vehicles through some of the world’s most remote regions. With a crew of “ordinary people doing extraordinary things,” the show features the adventures, struggles, and unique people and places they meet along the way. XO journeys require teamwork, problem solving, ingenuity, and endurance. Learn more and catch up on past episodes at xoverland.com and YouTube.com/expeditionoverland.

To keep up with the journey, follow Combat Flip Flops on Instagram. For more information on Team 5, please visit www.team-5.org. For more information on Combat Flip Flops, please visit www.combatflipflops.com.

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Be Sure to See TYR Tactical at the USASOC Sniper Comp

Thursday, March 26th, 2015

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Survival Armor Adds 2 To Their Survivors Club

Wednesday, March 25th, 2015

Survival Armor has announced they’ve added two new partners to their Survivors Club. The full release can be read below:

Survival Armor Special Project Director Gary Hughes is pleased to announce two new additions to our Survivors Club. The Survivors Club is made up of our public safety partners who have been protected from serious or life threatening injury and death by wearing or using Survival Armor products. We ask that all officers remember that their Survival Armor body armor is capable of saving them from more than just gunfire, as illustrated below.

-Fort Collins CO

A Fort Collins Colorado Police Department officer was responding to a suspicious person call when he encountered an intoxicated suspect at the top of a stairwell. The suspect presented a .38 special revolver and fired, striking the officer in the upper right shoulder tab of his Survival Armor ballistic vest, less than 1”from the edge of the panel. The officer was able to return fire, killing the suspect. The bullet was stopped on the very front of the officer’s Survival Armor ballistic vest, preventing serious life threatening injury to the officer.

-Cedar Hill TX

A Cedar Hill Police Department officer, Ann McSwain, was attempting to arrest a violent offender who managed to light her and two other detectives on fire. While the two detectives suffered minor burns, Officer McSwain suffered 3rd degree burns over roughly 20% of her body. Her uniform shirt and trousers were burned away, but her Survival Armor ballistic vest, in her words, “protected me perfectly and I suffered no burns whatsoever on my torso”. Officer McSwain is on the road to recovery and looking forward to returning to work.

survivalarmor.com

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