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Remember the Men We Lost During Operation Eagle Claw

April 24th, 2014

Today marks a different anniversary. In the early morning hours of 25 April, 1980 President Carter announced to a stunned world that the United States had undertaken an ambitious raid into Iran to liberate 52 American hostages held illegally at our Embassy in Tehran. Unfortunately, that raid, named Operation Eagle Claw was unsuccessful and we lost 8 American servicemen. Join me in remembering their sacrifice.

But, this failure was the watershed event that created, over the next several decades the world’s preeminent Special Operations capability; USSOCOM and it’s components. We wouldn’t be where are today with the determination of that fledgling task force. Join me in remembering those that paved the way.

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Warrior West – Excel Wetsuits Launches Thermal Dry Celliant

April 24th, 2014

I got a chance to check out a prototype of the new Thermal Dry Celliant wetsuit from Excel during last Fall’s Uber University. I was impressed.

Excel has adopted an entirely new next-to-skin material provided by Celliant which offers heat reflective properties; very important for wetsuits. It also helps to mitigate diver fatigue.

In addition to the new material story, Excel also is the exclusive offerer of Crocodile color from Arc’teryx.

These new suits also incorporate design features normally found in surf suits meaning more flexibility for these dive suits. Once again, very helpful for combat divers. They are offering these in 4 thicknesses – 3.5mil, 5.4 mil, 7.6 mil and 8.76 mil. Offered in full suits, shorties, farmer johns and hoods.

Made in USA in Hale Iwa, Hawaii. Available now.

Contact BigMike@excelwetsuits.com

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Warrior West – Inert Products – Platoon-Level IED Training Kit

April 24th, 2014

Designed to offer quality IED training for those who don’t have access to established IED training lanes, the Platoon-Level IED Training Kit from Inert Products offers tripwire, photo cell, two-way radio, key fob, low metal content pressure plate, mercury switch and trembler switch. Additionally, the kit includes 100′ of wire and several IED mock ups.

The primary training tool is the penalty box that offers strobe or siren alarm and it runs on power from 6-12v.

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Warrior West – Harris Communications Falcon III Multi-Channel Manpack

April 24th, 2014

Harris Communications is displaying their new Falcon III Multi-Channel Manpack radio.

At 14 lbs, it offers two identical channels (30-2500MHz, 25 KHz to 10 MHz Bandwidth, 20W SATCOM, 20W L-Band, 10W VHF/UHF LOS) with an optional third channel upgrade for future enhancements. Additionally, it supports the following waveforms: SINCGARS, SRW, DAMA, VULOS, IW, HAVEQUICK, MUOS, ANW2 and WNW.

The Falcon III utilizes current PRC-117G accessories and utilizes a single battery.

Available for order now with shipments coming in October.

rf.harris.com

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Warrior West – LBT Inc Introduces Medical Line

April 24th, 2014

LBT Inc has been designing and manufacturing specialized medical bags, pouches and packs since the very beginning. Shoot, one of the first pouches I purchased from LBT back in 91 was a medical pouch.

They recently realized that they currently produce over 100 products specifically for medical applications. At that point, they decided to update some of the items, introduce a few new ones and launch an LBT Medical line.

I had a chance to check out several of these items including military and civilian emergency medicine applications. Look for in-depth coverage soon on SSD.

www.LBTinc.com

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S&S Precision Welcomes Angela Thompson To The Team

April 24th, 2014

Walking the show floor at Warrior West, I came upon the S&S Precision booth.

l – Angela Thompson, r- Pitti Heerwagen

I saw an old friend in a new job. Angela Thompson is well known in our industry and I’m happy to say that she is now with S&S Precision. Expect to see lots of her during the upcoming trade show season.

Congrats!

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Warrior West – Cejay Engineering – CIRLS Kit

April 24th, 2014

The CIRLS Kit is available in 5 and 10 piece versions and offers visible and IR (steady or strobe) lighting to mark LZ, HLZ and DZs.

Powered by your choice of CR123 or AA batteries! In steady on mode you’re looking at 40 hours and the strobe mode, expect a light to run for about 200 hours.

The kit also come with tent stakes to hold the lights down.

One other cool feature is that there is a photo electric eye in the light that detects the ambient light level and automatically adjusts the light’s output.

www.cejayeng.com

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Warrior West -TEA Headsets – INVISIO V60-HYBRID System

April 24th, 2014

One of the other things that caught my eye in the TEA booth is the new INVISIO V60-HYBRID System.

Designed for extreme high noise environments, the heart of this mic is a new INVISIO V60 Control with a built-in wireless module that allows users to remotely transmit on up to 2 different channels from the rail of their weapon. The V60 provides the capability of simultaneously connecting 3 different com sources (or up to 4 independant channels) and is compatibile with practically any type of 2-way radio (including the new Rifleman and MBITR2 radios), vehicle/aircraft/watercraft ICS, mobile phones or smart devices, tablets, etc.

It’s considered a hybrid design because it utilizes the INVISIO X5 dual in-ear headset with hear pro and enhanced situation awareness combined with the TEA Hybrid Rail/Lapel Mounted High Performance Boom Microphone. When connected the Hybrid Rail Boom (HRB) becomes the primary microphone for all transmissions and the advanced split audio is received in the X5 in-ear headset. The HRB utilizes a rugged high performance/noise canceling boom microphone which provides ultimate voice clarity in the most extreme high noise environments users are exposed to while operating, such as rotary wing aircraft, watercrafts or ATV’s. The rigid but flexible boom stays in place even during free fall or when exposed to high airspeeds.

teaheadsets.com/index.php/invisio-v60-hyb

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