Thanks to Doug for passing this one on.  This is appalling, yet not too surprising.  Maybe Codepink or Al Qaeda should change their strategy, and start Operation Twinky?  Operatives could put delicious cream filled Twinkies and Ho Ho’s in everyone’s mail box, and really fatten up America.
     To fat to fight?….(shaking my head)
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   In this post I wanted to highlight a reality of our industry, and that is the use of steroids.  The availability of the substance in places like Iraq, makes it very easy to get into and you see the results of steroids walking around all the time on contracts and at FOB gyms and […]

Hyponatremia (British: hyponatraemia) is an electrolyte disturbance (disturbance of the salts in the blood) in which the sodium (Natrium in Latin) concentration in the plasma is lower than normal (hypo in Greek; in this case, below 135 mmol/L).
Severe or rapidly progressing hyponatremia can result in swelling of the brain (cerebral edema), and the symptoms of […]

     So I wanted to do a little something about Physical Fitness Tests for security contracts.  It’s important stuff, because if you don’t pass these tests, you won’t get the job.  In the Smokejumpers, we called it “running for your job” every year.  And for those of you who were in organizations that required yearly […]