Raconteur Report

On a patrol, a team should be moving as skirmishers, i.e. everyone looking at everything within sight, and ready to respond immediately...

Once again, Sam Culper's Forward Observer mag website is always a conex box full of goodies, most of them for nothing more than th...

Kurt Schlichter (a national treasure at this point) asks a simple question. Can we hope to keep our republic when one of the parties ...

Road marches, and the relevant field manual, are primarily concerned with administrative, i.e. non-tactical, movement from point to poin...

Whatever gear, and how much, you think you're going to need, in order for it to do any good, you have to get you, it, and any number...

Just one random example. As I hope I've made plain, because I don't know what you're worried about, or training for, and ...

h/t Kenny What? You doubt the innocence of that face??

2005 version. Plus ca change... Picking up where we left off yesterday, we'll move to your third-line gear, your ...

 1965 iteration. Ask me how I know. And still pretty damn functional 50+ years later. Read on.                                    ...