When you look at Kitanica clothing it is a little out of the mainstream but that is their strength. Kitanica’s new XI.A shorts have a wide variety of features not found in other shorts. The chart below gives you an excellent idea of what we are talking about.
Tomorrow we are going to have a great article about blending in. In the meantime, we thought you’d enjoy these stills from the Warner brothers classic cartoon “Unnatural History”. Our friend Cal the Chameleon can blend into virtually any environment, except plaid.
DET One: U.S. Marine Corps U.S. Special Operations Command Detachment, 2003-2006 is a hardcover history of DET One produced by the Marine Corps and written by John P. Piedmont with a foreword by Charles P. Neimeyer. What makes this book so special is that rarely do we get a glimpse into special operations units, especially so soon after they are formed. While DET One is an extraordinary case as it was a limited experiment, it did lead to the formation of Marine Special Operations Command, a component of USSOCOM.
At SSD, we are lucky to be able to tell our readers about a little bit of the story that isn’t fully explained in the book. Starting on page 36, the book discusses CQB training conducted by a former Army SOF operator but what the book doesn’t say is who is it was. We can tell you that it was Larry Vickers MSG, USA (Ret) and that his initial training for the DET led to further contact with the Force Recon community that DET One recruited from, and ultimately completely revamped their CQB tactics and marksmanship training. Larry forged quite a few friendships during his time working with the DET, many of which continue to this day.
It’s really too bad the book doesn’t include anything about the DET One “Gunner”. That is always worth a couple of laughs.
The book is currently back ordered on Amazon but can be ordered from the Government Printing Office.
Yes, we know it’s only June, but supply chains and manufacturing schedules mean you need to start preparing for winter now. UK-based Unleashed Tactical Equipment is offering a free Triton Softshell (hooded or mandarin) to a lucky Soldier Systems Daily reader. We covered the Triton earlier this year. It is available in a variety of tactical colors in two variants; a hooded version as well as a mandarin collar version.
Applicants need to submit their name and email address through UTE’s eStore and a winner would be drawn using random.org at the end of the month. The contest closes at Midnight GMT on 1 July, 2010.
Higher Ground (a program of Sun Valley Adaptive Sports), officially announced it is attempting a purchase a 29-room, 5-star luxury hotel in Sun Valley, Idaho. The hotel would be transformed into the nation’s largest rehabilitation/retreat facility for wounded veterans with traumatic brain injuries and PTSD (outside a medical setting).
The catch: Higher Ground has 90 days to raise $10 million by September 1 to buy the hotel. Higher Ground programming is already the nation’s gold standard for its innovative and multidisciplinary approach to the long-term healing, restoration, and rehabilitation of the wounded veterans with TBI/PTSD.
We regularly field questions from industry seeking help with a design. Whether the issue is ergonomics, packaging a set of electronics to fit on a rifle, or the integration of several disparate systems we send everyone to one place; Juggernaut Defense. Celebrating their 10th Anniversary this year, they bring experience in defense, public safety, firefighting, and law enforcement and you’d be amazed at some of the programs they have worked on. Their capabilities include not only industrial design and mechanical engineering but they can also conduct embedded research to learn more about how the customer operates in order to deliver the proper solution. Once it’s designed they can also prepare a full test and evaluation of the item. No one else offers this level of support to a client. If you are in the need of any of these services it is definitely worth checking Juggernaut Defense out.
New from Vortex Optics is the Speed Point Aiming for Rapid Combat (SPARC). The single piece body is crafted from aircraft-grade 6061-T6 aluminum and the optics are sealed with O-rings and feature nitrogen filled barrels. While you will generally see this sight on rifles and shotguns we have already seen a couple of pistols sporting the SPARC. One of the most interesting things about the SPARC is the mounting solution. The Picatinny modular three-piece base offers four separate mounting heights including absolute or lower 1/3 co-witness for the M16 family. The parallax free sight also features an optional screw-in 2x magnifier. The dot is of variable intensity and also offers a night-vision mode. The SPARC’s 6-hour auto-shutdown feature maximizes battery life. Typical battery life in normal mode of operation: 120 hours (maximum brightness), 3400 hours (minimum brightness). Typical battery life in night vision mode: 4200 hours (maximum brightness), 4600 hours (minimum brightness).
The Vortex SPARC is available from AFMO as well as Blackheart International.
