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Archive for September, 2015
You Never Know Where They’ll Show Up
Monday, September 21st, 2015
These were sent to us by a 1st LT in the French Army, from Infantry School in Draguignan.
Keep ’em coming!
Stuff I Like – SplashMaps
Sunday, September 20th, 2015During my recent visit to England for DSEI, I picked up a Wearable SplashMap of central London. It featured every street I needed, including what essentially were alleyways between major streets. Plus, it was easy to stuff in my pocket yet pull right out and use. No crazy map folding skills needed here.
Inspired by silk escape maps, Wearable Maps can be worn as a scarf or stuffed in a pocket. They won’t wrinkle and there’s no stretch. You can even write on them with Crayola washable markers and was the map clean later. They are printed on weatherproof, colorfast satin and are 72cm x 72cm.
In addition to a wide variety of ready made cloth maps featuring popular international destinations, SplashMaps will custom make a map for you (Make-a-Map), using native digital sources such as Ordnance Survey, OpenStreetMap and US Geological Survey. Maps of the UK are generally 1:25 000 scale and international maps 1:40 000. You even get to pick the title. Naturally, they’ll do limited runs for events such as races or training as well.
Badger Ordnance – Coaxial Laser Range Finder Mount
Sunday, September 20th, 2015
Badger Ordnance’s Coaxial Laser Range Finder Mount (CRFM) is a designed to facilitate integration of rail mounted Laser Range Finding Systems to a weapon outfitted with a long range optic. Machined from 6061 alloy and MilSpec Type III hardcoat anodized, the CRFM is compatible with all Badger Ordnance Rings and Unimounts, and utilizes the existing scope ring cap mounted in the 6 o’clock position. The height of the CRFM is balanced to clear the objective lens on most optics, keeping the profile of the device low yet still providing an unobtrusive view of the data window. Additionally, the CRFM also allows for the use of other M1913 compatible accessories, such as a micro red dot optic or laser aiming device.
www.badgerordnance.com/night-vision-mounts/coaxial-range-finder-mount-34mm
Suck UK – Doorstop And Bookend Giant Green Army Men
Sunday, September 20th, 2015
Suck UK is selling these giant-sized Green Army Men for use as a doorstop or bookend, depending on the model.
These do ship to the US, for those who are interested.
www.suck.uk.com/mob/products/homeguard
Mexico Marines Have Selected US4CES Transitional Camo; Have Renamed The Pattern Marina Trans Jungle
Sunday, September 20th, 2015
Hyperstealth has announced that the Naval Infantry of Mexico has selected the US4CES Transitional camo pattern for their uniforms, and have renamed the pattern Marina Trans Jungle. Objective tests were performed in three environments, Lowland Forest in Michoacan, Lowland Scrub Desert in Sinaloa, and Riparian Forest in Coahuila, which pitted the US4CES Transitional pattern against the current Digital Woodland pattern used by the Mexican Marines.
In all three environments, it took observers an overall longer period of time to locate the US4CES pattern than the currently fielded Woodland pattern. A second comparison was conducted, comparing the US4CES pattern to MultiCam in the same environments, again with the US4CES pattern taking an overall longer period of time to locate within the environments.
You can read the full release at www.hyperstealth.com/Mexico.
Bawidamann – Ti Archangel Michael Pendants Available
Saturday, September 19th, 2015Last year, Andrew Bawidamann made a limited run of titanium pendants depicting his Archangel Michael symbol. Naturally, they were gone immediately but he’s just done a new run so if you’re interested, you’d best jump on it now.
Available in Medium and Large sizes.
www.bawidamann.com/shop/item/archangel-michael-titanium-pendant
Gunfighter Moment – Mike Pannone 
Saturday, September 19th, 2015
On New Year’s Eve 2011, alone except for her infant son and scared for her life and the life of her child, 18 year old Sarah McKinley still had the composure to give her infant a bottle to keep him quiet and ask a dispatcher if it was okay to shoot an intruder if he entered her home before she did in fact shoot and kill him. She never had a mindset brief; she got it done just the same.
Mind-set
Noun
1. The ideas and attitudes with which a person approaches a situation, especially when these are seen as being difficult to alter
I’m often asked why I don’t put greater emphasis on mindset in the form of “mindset briefings” or what I like to call “popcorn pep-talks”. I call them that because in the end, they’re really mostly hot-air. The concept of having a proper mindset is crucial in not only a combative environment but literally anywhere that an individual wants to compete, excel and succeed. The desire to persevere, endure, survive and win is a requirement for success in all but the rarest of events that just by sheer chance end positively. That said, here is something to keep in mind with all these flamboyant diatribes about how “you need to be the guy that’s going to get it done” and save the day.
I’ve been a couple of places and done a couple of things and have served amongst the best our nation, two different services, and three different special units could produce. I have seen what a good mindset can do in a bad situation and how it sometimes is all that saves lives even when the odds are not in your favor. In those dark times of consequence it has never been a briefing that got a guy through. It has never been someone yelling over their shoulder that has gotten them through. It is simple and pretty easy to explain how they got the mindset needed to persevere and win. It was the culmination of decisions and actions long before the event.
Understand that nobody can convince you to do something that you can’t convince yourself to do first. Mindset is not a brief you get; it’s not a condition of thought that just “happens” to you over time. Mindset comes from the life you lead. Be candidly honest with yourself. Be under no illusions as to who you are and what you are willing to do. Sarah McKinley never got the briefing, but she had the mindset to fight, win and survive.
Mindset – stop talking about it and start living it.
– Mike Pannone
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.
Gunfighter Moment is a weekly feature brought to you by Alias Training & Security Services. Each week Alias brings us a different Trainer and in turn they offer some words of wisdom.
