Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Job Tips: Cleared Jobs on Youtube–Lots of Good Info!
Monday, June 1, 2009
Training: Tactical Impact TV, With Larry Vickers and Aaron Roberts
Wow, talk about a cool show! Larry Vickers is an incredible force of influence in today’s combat arms and training, and it is just a treat to be able to listen to what these guys have to say. The link I provided below has a bunch of episodes to watch, and they will easily keep you captivated with all the industry best practices for shooting and tactics. Check it out. –Matt
Edit: Be sure to check out more episodes on Youtube here.
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Tactical Impact TV
From clearing a house to mounting a night assault on a fortified enemy, each episode of Tactical Impact will examine a real life tactical problem and the arms, accessories and tactics to prevail. Unlike traditional shooting shows that focus on gun reviews, features and interviews, Tactical Impact looks through the eyes of the guys who have really been there to tell the intriguing stories about the guns that have changed our world.
Watch the Episodes Here.
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Larry Vickers is a retired career special operations soldier, having served more than 20 years in the Army’s most elite forces. He is a longtime firearms industry consultant, firearms trainer and a founding member of IDPA.
Aaron Roberts is a former U.S. Army soldier. After the military he went on to become a Texas State Police Officer and was a Primary Firearms and Tactics Instructor at Blackwater Training Center. He is a highly regarded firearms and tactics instructor.
Iraq: A Quiet But Undeniable Cultural Legacy
There is a part of this article that is missing. That part is the cultural legacy of Iraq on all of us that have been deployed there. I find myself using the Iraqi arabic lexicon all of the time. Hell, I gave my blog a name that came from that experience (Jundi is Arabic for soldier), complete with a photo of an Iraqi Jundi. I personally know of two contractors that have married Iraqi women. Even drinking tea is viewed differently after working in Iraq, because tea is such an important drink for business and interactions there. There is much that has worn off on me and the thousands of us that have interacted with the Iraqi population during this war, and I think that would make for a great follow up article to this story. –Matt
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Mark Apram is the most popular tattoo artist in Baghdad, and his room is a potpourri of American influences. “Anything American, I love it,” he said. (Nada Bakri – The Washington Post)
A Quiet but Undeniable Cultural Legacy
U.S. Occupation of Iraq Will End, but a Host of American Influences May Linger
By Anthony ShadidWashington Post Foreign ServiceSunday, May 31, 2009
BAGHDAD
Across the street from the tidy rows of tombstones in the British cemetery, mute testimony to the soldiers of an earlier occupation, Mustafa Muwaffaq bears witness to the quieter side of the United States’ six-year-old presence in Iraq.
In wraparound sunglasses, shorts and shoes without socks, the burly 20-year-old student waxes eloquent about his love for heavy metal of all kinds: death, thrash, black. But none of it compares, he says, to the honky-tonk of Alan Jackson, whose tunes he strums on his acoustic guitar at night, pining for a life as far away as a passport will take him.