I'm going to start this one off by stating if your weigh body armor options through a fitness prism, and many folks do, you're wrong, and you need to stop reading, walk outside, and do something strenuous. If you're an excuse maker, guess what- your odds of personal survival are slim anyway, much less working …
Category: Scout Skills
An excellent view of real Guerrilla Life
Vice: Foreigners Fighting ISIS in Syria As a sort of follow up to the last post linking JC Dodge and Jesse James, I thought it relevant to show yet another glimpse of what genuine guerrilla units look like. A guerrilla's life is one of poverty, motivated by the sole recognition that if He fails, his …
Survival Knives!
One thing that I've found is pretty much universal to all cultures is the love of the knife; aside from Dogs, they're Man's best friend. Particularly to Americans, we have a certain myth behind what a knife should be. We all know it too- the Bowie. The reality is, like normal, a little different. For …
Lower Profile HT Operations
Take a moment and see if you can figure out what all these pictures have in common: If you guessed that none have radios out in the open...you'd be right. Each are on a security detail, some lower profile than others. That's not necessarily important; what is important is that they each have a need …
Recon Basics
FM 7-8 tells us that there's two types of Patrols- Recon and Combat. Of the Combat Patrols, there's Ambush and Raid. Of Recon, there's three: Area, Zone, and Route. Make Sense? Area is for, well, an area. A town, village, grid square, whatever. A Zone is a specific point on a map, an object of …
OSINT-resources on equipment
Within your Data Book should be a list of common equipment- a recognition guide, if you will. There's many, many resources out there to develop such information. Believe it or not, 90% of the equipment you'll encounter in the bush has been around for some time, is easy to obtain information upon, and develop strategies …
From a Reader
A comment from a reader named 'Jackal'. Extremely timely, relevant, and very important. Read and heed folks, it's spot on. And if you don't know much about Rhodesia, pick up a few books on it; many parallels can be drawn between what happened then and what's happening in America today. Jackal… 1RLI Support Commando and …
True Light Infantry
European readers of The Fourth Generation Warfare Handbook may wonder why much of the latter part of the book is devoted to true light (or Jaeger) infantry. The reason is that the U.S. armed forces mis-define light infantry as line infantry with less equipment. This false definition leads the Americans to think they have light infantry …
Team Contact Drill Basics
Watch this clip from Bravo Two Zero: It's a really bad movie, showcasing some really bad techniques, about a really bad Patrol that was doomed from the start. Still, I include it because it's a simple, easy to see demonstration of an essential Team Drill. What Just Happened Here? B2-0 got compromised by a child …
Commo Windows
Putting the Pieces Together We've discussed the Patrol Radio, who you're relaying to, the modes that work best for Beyond Line of Sight, and included a great example of a Signals Operating Index(SOI). These are each pieces of a puzzle that have to be sorted out long before a Patrol steps off. This is why …