Front Line Friday #5: Radios, Earpro, and Coordination Gaps
Radio discipline, earpro compliance, and the gap between "we have a plan" and "that plan survived contact with an actual call."
Posts about "after-action"
Front Line Friday #3: Stop Buying Gimmicks—Buy Time
Hemorrhage control isn’t about looking tactical. It’s about buying minutes until definitive care arrives—and sustaining the skills to make those minutes count.
Front Line Friday #1: The Reality Between Policy and Pavement
A weekly look at duty-grade gear, training, and decisions that have to work on your worst day—not just photograph well on someone else’s best day.
Garrett Shoulder-Fired Mortar: Nice (But Painful) Idea
“Missed Peleliu because of that damn thing.” The old 1st Marine Division veteran massaged a spot on his upper chest and grimaced. “Told us we could fire that mortar from the prone and get direct fire into Jap bunkers. I was one of the first to give it a whirl. Broke my collar...