We’ve raved about THULS in the past and for good reason. It isn’t that we are luddites, but if you’ve ever had to develop checklists for your unit you will know what a painful process it is. Then, you have to cover them in acetate ruining the first few while you get the process down and finally, once you finish them, you realize that none of the units to your left and right are using the same TTPs. The team at THULS takes all of the pain out of the process for you. They have experience working with everything from service level organizations to deployed task forces to communities of interest to develop standardized mission planning and execution products. Now, the beauty part. They are rewritable, even underwater.
Our friends at THULS have made a very generous offer. In fact, they have two offers. It is however, important to note that both giveaways are restricted to US/Coalition military due to the information contained in the checklists. While nothing is restricted, it is for official use only and releasable to Coalition.
Giveaway One
THULS is giving away a ISAF Reports and Language Module (THULS IRLM) to 10 individuals who leave a comment with their favorite weapon on this post. You can use any name you like for your comment but leave us a valid email address so we can contact you in case you win. If you win and do not provide a duty address we will need to verify your status.
Giveaway Two
THULS is also going to give one company-sized unit:
THULS Basic Infantry Operations Support (BIOS) Items
540 SPIE Cards (Accountability Cards)
64 LEPL (Leaders Equipment/Personnel List)
54 Individual Range Cards
12 Crew Served Range Cards
20 Team Sector Sketches
54 Map Overlays
16 Warning Orders
24 Fire Plan Sketches
28 MOPTs (Mounted Ops Planning Tool)
200 IT4Cs (Improved Casualty Cards)
You must enter by sending an email with Name, Rank and Unit to SSDfree@THULS.BIZ You cannot enter this giveaway on SSD so DO NOT leave that information here.
*Company 1st Sergeant or CO/XO will be contacted for shipping / receipt of BIOS items for winning unit.
Both giveaways will close on Monday 18 April 2011 at 1600Z (GMT).
Make sure you visit www.THULS.biz for more information.
Void where prohibited
Basically, if you’ve been building homegrown battle books or leader books, then THULS is for you. They’ve taken information directly from military doctrinal publications and printed it on their Multiple Environment Rewrite System material. MERS feels like plastic. You can write on it with a Staedtler marker and the writing can be erased with an alcohol pen but it won’t wash off in the rain or smear. Additionally, it is completely water proof and can be paired with a standard graphite pencil for use as an underwater slate. This also means that it won’t get mushy and fall apart when it gets wet like standard leader books. 
