Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
NRA American Warrior Issue 7 Is Live
Monday, April 2nd, 201222% Of Your EDC Should be SureFire
Friday, March 30th, 2012GQ magazine published a story entitled ‘Nine Things Every Man Should Have in His Pockets‘. As it turns out, two of the nine items are from SureFire. Since the other items aren’t SureFire, we won’t bother mentioning them, but it’s a worthy read nonetheless.
Stay classy, SureFire!
Soldier Dogs, by Maria Goodavage
Thursday, March 29th, 2012War dogs have been a part of military operations pretty much since canines were first domesticated. Back in February we reported on the book Soldier Dogs by Maria Goodavage (original story). It’s out now, and the author has recently completed a series of radio and television interviews about the book (like this one on Fox and Friends).
“…The garrison were asleep after an orgy, the dogs alone kept watch and the fifty pickets fell on the enemy like lions; all but one were casualties. Sorter, sole survivor, retiring from the conflict, fled to town to give warning and roused the drunken soldiers, who came forth to battle. To him alone were the honors of victory, and the grateful town…erected a monument engraved with his name and those of the forty-nine heroes who fell.” From an account of the Pelopponesian War cited in War Dogs, Michael Lemish
Soldier Dogs is a very good book, covering a number of different aspects of the Military Working Dog program, though if you’re looking for chapters and chapters about Cairo and canines assigned to USSOCOM you’re going to be disappointed. For obvious reasons there isn’t a lot of information about that side of things. Don’t let that stop you though, even if that was the catalyst for your interest in Soldier Dogs. You certainly don’t have to be a puppy pusher to enjoy it. This is a great read, covering dogs and handlers from the acquisition process to Lackland AFB to the Yuma Proving Grounds to paws on the ground downrange. There’s a full review over on Under the Radar, or you can go straight to the book’s official website and just buy one for yourself.
-DR
Survive the Hunt Premieres 26 March on Pursuit Network
Friday, March 23rd, 2012
What happens when you take military grade technology and TTPs and apply them against big game? The new Pursuit Network series, “Survive the Hunt” that’s what. Hosted by Navy SEAL and HMFIC at Reaper Outdoors, Master Chief Ron “Reaper01” Bellan, “Survive the Hunt” takes on big game hunting, outdoor living and survival in a new way; from the perspective of the seasoned combat veteran.
Episode 1 features Operation Winterhorn, a trophy Elk hunt in South Dakota. Reaper01 and the team use sniper weapons and tactics to bag their prey. In particular, watch for the 1000 trophy shot from a PWS MK2 in 7.62 NATO.
“Survive the Hunt” premieres Monday, 26 March, 2012 at 1830. Visit www.reaperoutdoors.com to learn more.
Panteao’s LE/Military Restricted DVDs Available Exclusively from US Cav
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Panteao Productions announced today that US Cavalry is now the exclusive Panteao Dealer for the LE/Military restricted Make Ready DVDs. The first in the series of restricted DVDs is ‘Make Ready with Paul Howe: Intro to Exterior Movement.’
Paul Howe is a high-risk training instructor that served 20 years in the US Army, ten of those in Special Operations. He served as a Tactical Team Leader and Senior Instructor while assigned to Army Special Operations. During his tour in special operations he was involved in several combat actions. One of the most notable was the battle of Mogadishu that was later portrayed in the motion picture Black Hawk Down.
For this video Panteao takes you to the CSAT (Combat Shooting and Tactics) training facility in Nacogdoches, TX where Paul introduces you to Exterior Movement. After a thorough review of equipment, Paul demonstrates single person, two person, and team movement. He reviews clearing corners, the tactical flare, room penetration, CQB medical, the surgical rifle drill and the SUL movement drill.
“Doomsday Preppers” the Real Dirttime Story
Saturday, March 17th, 2012
Dirt Time‘s Christopher Nyerges, speaks with colleagues Dude McLean and Alan Halcon about his role in the National Geographic show “Doomsday Preppers.” I like the show but it’s good to hear about the drama that is injected into the vignettes. The show’s producers sure do a good job of making people look silly.
Black Powder Red Earth 2 available on Amazon
Thursday, March 8th, 2012Volume 2 of Black Powder Red Earth is out and available on Amazon.com. As we’ve reported before, BPRE has been described as “Syriana meets Blackhawk Down”, though you won’t really get the full effect of that until the series is complete. (It was written and plotted in a cinematic fashion, so each successive issue will be faster paced and more dynamic than the one before.)
Jon Chang of Echelon Software is one of the creators of BPRE, and helped design the Facebook game of the same name. “The Facebook game was the first project, then the graphic novel,” he advises. “What’s interesting is that a lot of what you see in those first installments, events we wrote as likely, has occurred. It was originally projected theoretically, now it’s really happened. This is hard military fiction…there’s no overtly heroic actions or larger than life stuff, it’s as close as we can get to the complexities of what day to day operations are like in southern Iraq. So there’s a really realistic angle, it’s a compelling piece of work because it’s so believable and so accurate..”
The writing and artwork are excellent. You should consider checking it out.
You can check up on BPRE developments on their Facebook page or watch their homepage if you’d like.
-DR
‘Recoil’ Magazine Available For Digital Purchase
Monday, February 27th, 2012
‘Recoil’ magazine has already attained rockstar popularity after only one sold out issue. No one can seem to find it anywhere in hardcopy so we were pleased to hear that it is being offered by Zinio for digital subscription in a wide variety of formats.
