Tactical First Aid with Andy Snyder
People spend more time than they think around dangerous things. Although this might be more apparent to those involved in the shooting sports the reality is that even the most of mundane of activities...
Tagged: training
Parsing Reliable Info on Self Defense
Continuing the series on the basics for TKB, something that is often up for debate is how to spot a “fake expert” or conversely, how to find reliable information. As I’ve gone over, it’s...
Military Fitness: Getting Your First Pull-Up
The pull-up is one of the oldest exercises in the book. Since man has had a tree to climb, man has had the ability to vertically pull his own bodyweight, and that ability has...
MilSim West – The Caspian Breakout
MilSim West is a veteran owned and operated company, and is the United State’s premier war-gaming company. MilSim West presents THE CASPIAN BREAKOUT, October 20-22 at THE GOVERNMENT TRAINING INSTITUTE in Barnwell, SC. Address: 1321 Technology...
D-FENS: A Guide to Field Static Security
As a “companion piece” for my previous articles, I decided to take a different approach at what tactics I write about in a semi simplistic way. Whereas there is a plethora of information on...
Military Fitness: How to Be Weak
As we all know, military Physical Fitness Tests (PFTs) standards are something that is supposed to gauge the general physical fitness and combat readiness of the individual. For those of you who don’t know,...
Military Fitness: The Training Mentality
Almost every single person who is halfway strong can tell you the difference between exercise and training; however, this article isn’t aimed at them, it’s aimed at your sorry ass. Yes, you. The new...
Basic Tactics for Basic Kommando Part 3
For the third and final (?) iteration of my “Tactics For Dummies” diatribe, we will look at combining all of the individual and Buddy Team tactics into Fireteam tactics, in order to maximize your...
Basic Tactics for Basic Kommando Part 2
Now that we have looked into individual movement, we can look into using friends (implying you even have any) to augment your tactics. For now, we will assume you only have one friend to depend...
Military Fitness: Why are Pushups used as the Standard for U.S. Army Upper Body Strength?
The question proposed in the title of this article may seem like it has a very simple answer: “because the pushup is a movement in which you must push your body up from the...
