Issue 7 of the NRA Life of Duty webzine is coming soon. Here is a teaser covering CrewBoss protective clothing which will be more prominently featured in the new issue.
Also, the NRA Life of Duty Membership is no longer exclusively for those who are active duty. While active duty military, law enforcement, and first responders can still receive sponsored memberships, they now welcome veterans of all ages to sign up!
The National Rifle Association is adding new features for its members to help broaden their reach and make the experience of supporting Second Amendment rights more relevant to more people. You’ve already seen Life of Duty which is intended for uniformed public service professionals. Now, they’ve added a new webzine. America’s First Freedom is the official journal of the NRA that is specifically focused on our Constitutional Right to keep and bear arms.
Check it out here. Additionally, they’ve also created a NRA America’s First Freedom facebook page, so ‘Like’ them.
Air Force Specialty Code 3E9 (Emergency Management) has been known By other names over the years. For example, when I was a kid, I remember they were called Disaster Preparedness. Interestingly, they are kind of like EOD in that they are part of Civil Engineering even though it isn’t a good fit and this is recognized with a special careerfield badge that reveals their true focus, bugs and gas. They are the CBRNE specialists of the USAF.
Specifically the careerfield, “Prepares, plans, trains, educates, and equips Air Force personnel to respond to, maintain mission capability, and recover from the full spectrum of physical threat events including major accidents, natural disasters, weapons of mass destruction, and wartime chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high-yield explosive (CBRNE) attacks. Provides technical expertise to commanders during full spectrum threat response operations. Performs detection, monitoring, warning, and reporting of chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) events.”
If you were in the Air Force prior to the current conflict you were probably pretty familiar with them. We regularly trained in MOPP 4 conditions (even in SOF) and Ability to Survive and Operate (ATSO) was an important part of Operational Readiness Inspections. Maybe it was all institutional momentum from the Cold War, but it was drilled into Airmen enough that they could do it.
Now, NRA’s Life of Duty has prepared a report focusing on this small community of specialists and why they are more relevant now than ever. Here is a teaser.
NRA’s American Warrior is an online multimedia magazine that is part of the Life of Duty program. They’ve just released issue #6 and it features an article entitled, “Candystore” which details their favorite gear from SHOT Show 2012. You read that right, “2012”. That’s one advantage to an online publication.
Check out issue number 6 online.
SSD highly encourages readers in uniform to join the Life of Duty program. It’s free to you. Your membership will be paid for by any one of thousands of patriotic benefactors who support our citizens in uniform.
NRA Life of Duty recently visited Gunsite Academy, the granddaddy of firearms training facilities.
If you’re in uniform and you’re not a member of NRA’s Life of Duty, you should be. After all, it’s free!
