Skills - SWAT Survival | Weapons

Against All Odds: Remote First Aid

byJeff Randall
September 15, 2008
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Small bleeders are typically easy to control by direct pressure and by using dressings such as sterile gauze pads, Band-Aids, steri-strips, or by taping the wound closed with simple duct tape. Rarely should you attempt to sew a wound closed. Serious bleeding should be controlled by direct pressure and pressure dressings.

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Kimber LifeAct Guardian Angel: Revolutionary New OC Self-Defense Tool

byEugene Nielsen
March 23, 2007
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Kimber has recently come out with two new “non-lethal” self-defense tools—the LifeAct™ Guardian Angel® and JPX™ Jet Protector.…

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Against All Odds: Improvised Wilderness Sharpening

byJeff Randall
March 22, 2007
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Many moons ago, during a visit to a group of Indians on the Chambira River in Peru, I was amazed at how sharp their machetes were, even though no grinders, files or commercial sharpening stones were anywhere in the village.

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Against All Odds: Easy Disaster Preparations

byRon Hood
January 23, 2007
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Back in the early 1980s, a buddy of mine who was “connected” started telling stories out of school. Stories about nukes being hijacked by terrorists, tales of bombs already sighted in American cities, hints about the existence of a “fifth column” of terrorists who infiltrated through our porous Southern border. I did what checking I could and began to become nervous—very nervous.

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Against All Odds: The Firebed

byRon Hood
August 23, 2006
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The temperature was starting to drop as I spotted my makeshift rock shelter on the side of the Sultanagac Dagi Mountain of north central Turkey. This nasty mountain area was going to be the site of our weeklong survival training exercise with Turkish troops. It wasn’t my idea to be there.