Without an effective means to relay what you've found, your mission is absolutely pointless. Effective, quick methods to send traffic are absolutely essential. Remember as a rule: Keep your transmissions as short as possible; and Keep your transmitting power as low as possible. In order to accomplish #1, standard formats are the only way to …
Category: Scout Skills
Data Books
I wonder what these three items have in common? They're a triangle-each provides something additional for the other two. Reading a blog is nice; having Wikipedia and such is awesome(sometimes). The internet has given those who embrace it a magnificent tool for collective information- but that's a huge double edged sword. There's going to come …
Kim’s Game
Kim was a kid being trained by the British to be a spy against the Russians in Rudyard Kipling's 1901 novel of the same name. Kipling, while living in Punjab(now Pakistan) wrote for a Military Gazette and thus wrote about things he observed in the genesis of his career. Kim's Game is the definitive skill-builder …
Scout Skill Building
Watch the vid, don't get creeped out by the Paul Giamatti look alike's weird laugh: Pay very close attention to the drills they are performing: Practicing silent movement techniques Building balance through stick fighting on logs; this does wonders for quiet movement Moving as a Buddy Team in the Bush; being tied together eventually gets …
Building the Scout Team
No man is an Island. There's a popular meme that's repeated over and over- the Lone Cowboy, the Lone Mountain Man, the Lone Sniper, etc, etc. That's all hollywood fluff. If you want to survive in a non permissive(READ: very hostile) environment, it takes a team. Sure, Jack Hinson may have done some damage...but in …