AAR Linked at Refreshing the Tree blog Text: October 12/13 Max Velocity Tactical CRCD – AAR What a weekend! 24 hours round trip from Florida to West Virginia. Was it worth it? Absolutely. Day 1: The day started with a safety brief. After the brief, Max outlined the day. the cornerstone to the weekend was […]

There have been a  few inquiries about how to set up a battle belt. I took a couple of photos of my battle belt after this weekend’s training. It’s an evolving thing but this is the current configuration. This is a variation of a full battle belt that is ideally used for dismounted light infantry […]

I’m just back behind the keyboard after a very enjoyable CRCD training class this weekend. I spent Monday rebuilding my target pits after they were shot up a little on the weekend. Also digging some new ones in preparation for the Patrol class – this will be an entirely live firing class, so I managed […]

I have been working on a second edition of ‘Contact: A Tactical Manual for Post Collapse Survival‘. It will include a smart looking new cover by Tony Mauro, who did the cover for Patriot Dawn as  well as a couple of Rawles’ books. Here is the current book: Before I finalize the updated manuscript, I […]

A couple of points to follow up on this topic: This post isn’t about camouflage pattern clothing. So long as you are wearing appropriate camouflage or earth toned clothing, you are mostly good. I mean, for example, don’t wear desert camo in the woods, etc. Other than that, if you start getting into detailed discussions […]

Following all the recent bogging about fitness and rucking, here is a video of the ‘Paras 10 Challenge’. This is an event that is open to civilians where they tab (ruck) or run  the route of the 10-miler around Catterick Garrison.  The actual 10-miler is the first event of test week on Pre-Parachute Selection (Pegasus […]

I just updated my standard Class Schedule Post. I have one spot left on the Oct 26/27 CRCD class, so please email me before hitting the Paypal button to check current availability.  I have no classes scheduled between the November 9/10 CRCD and the first Patrol Class on January 18-20. If I get sufficient demand, […]

Love this: H/T WRSA Live Hard, Die Free. MV

I feel it would be useful to post a comment about the purpose of the training videos that I have put up recently. I want to make it clear that I use them to illustrate specific points or training objectives, and not as the all encompassing answer to tactics. I’ve posted videos from the 1960’s, […]

SP sent the following videos, with this comment: Thought you might find these OBUA (MOUT) videos interesting. From 2005 so somewhat old by today’s standards. Each video is quite long but gives a fairly good insight into how urban ops are conducted and serves to illustrate just how slow and disorientating it can be. Certainly […]