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Medal of Honor – Partners

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Video game designers have been going out of their way to introduce more and more realism into their titles. There’s also been a lot of talk within our industry on coming up with new ways to reach additional markets. Consequently, it seems like a perfect match when manufacturers of military equipment partner with video game designers. In a way, the folks that play first person shooters they are natural tactical customers.

Electronic Arts, producers of the popular Medal of Honor series is reveling in its partnership with the tactical industry. Not only is it featuring partners’ products in the latest version of the game, but EA is also openly promoting the manufacturers to their players.

Each week they discuss additional partners and show examples of how they have participated in game development including a video. So far they’ve revealed LBT, Mechanix Wear, McMillan, SureFire, Trijicon, and LaRue Tactical.

Read about all of the partners at www.medalofhonor.com/partners.

Tags: Electronic Arts Inc, LaRue Tactical, LBT, McMillan, Mechanix Wear, Medal of Honor, Surefire, Trijicon
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‘Inside the Team Room’ – Life Before the Teams

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

SOFREP.com premiered their new web series, ‘Inside the Team Room’ earlier this week with the episode Life Before the Teams. It’s a great bite sized look at the background of success. All three participants in this first round have proven themselves in the SEAL teams as well as in life and briefly discuss their upbringing and some of the ‘stuff’ that makes them different.

It’s definitely worth checking out.

sofrep.com/sofreptv/life-before-the-teams

Tags: Brandon Webb, Chris Kyle, Chris Osman, SOFREP
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Sneak Peek – Recoil Issue Number 2

Thursday, April 19th, 2012

Coming later this month to a newsstand near you.

www.recoilweb.com

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Field Test With Weston Scott Coming Soon from G4TV

Wednesday, April 11th, 2012

SSD readers might be interested in a new half hour special from from G4TV. ‘Field Test‘ with Weston Scott will take a look at a variety of equipment and weapons. Scott is ‘Attack of the Show’s’ military corespondent and has covered SHOT Show for G4tv over the past few years.

He spent some time with our friends at Blackheart International and his previous visits to West Virginia have been pretty good.

This half hour special is airing Wednesday, April 11th, at 8PM ET on G4tv.

Tags: Blackheart International, G4TV
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TAC-TV Launches

Saturday, April 7th, 2012

The long anticipated launch of TAC-TV has finally arrived. Hosted by US Army Special Operations Veteran Larry Vickers, TAC-TV not only provides access to the series of the same name in an extended format, but also includes the Daniel Defense Vickers Tactical training videos. All-in-all, there’s 10 hours of HD content. Additionally, they’re adding Hackathorn content and they’ve planned hours and hours of behind the scenes and other surprises as well as user submitted videos. My cable system hasn’t carried any of LAV’s previous series so it’s great to finally get access to full shows. One other thing I really like about the site is that registration is simple and you can even log in with your Facebook account.

And while access to the video content is pretty cool all on its own, there’s also the TAC-TV giveaway. In honor of the 1911 (One of Larry’s favorites) and its 101 years of service, TAC-TV is doing an unprecedented membership event. In the 101 days from launch they will be giving away a great deal of prizes as members progressively reaches certain levels. Everything from a DDM4 V7 to the ‘moon rock’; the 10,000th member will win a Custom Vickers 1911. TAC-TV they will film the making of the pistol and the winner will be presented the gun on television.

www.tac-tv.com

The very first prize is a DDM4 V7 for being the 100th person to sign up for a full year. Any bets as to how long it will take for that prize to be claimed?

After the jump, checkout the full giveaway list. It’s both impressive and extensive.

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Tags: Ken Hackathorn, Larry Vickers, Tac TV
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NRA American Warrior Issue 7 Is Live

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

American Warrior 7

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22% Of Your EDC Should be SureFire

Friday, March 30th, 2012

GQ 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!

Tags: GQ, Surefire
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Soldier Dogs, by Maria Goodavage

Thursday, March 29th, 2012

War 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

Tags: K9, Maria Goodavage, MWD, Soldier Dogs
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