The Diligent Mindset: The Fight Against Complacency & Justification
A diligent mindset is the discipline against complacency. See how a quick trip for a soda turned into a knife fight, and why diligence has to be unbroken.
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Dale Dye: Why Marines Are Called “Devil Dogs”
It’s one of the most memorable monikers for a fighting force around, and its legend stems from a brutal battle fought more than a century ago. The term was reportedly adapted from the German Teufel Hunden, and applied to American Marines following the Battle of Belleau Wood during World Wa...
NEBO Launches Three New LEO FLEX Flashlights Up to 7,500 Lumens
NEBO is expanding their LEO FLEX flashlight lineup with three new models: the LEO 3200 FLEX, LEO 5000 FLEX, and LEO 7500 FLEX. The numbers in the names are the lumen outputs, and the shared feature across all three is Flex-Power, which means each one runs on either the included rechargeable batte...
NEBO Launches COLUMBO 400+ Rechargeable Penlight and Area Light
NEBO is adding the COLUMBO 400+ to their lineup, a dual-function penlight that also expands into an area light. At $34.99 it is a compact, pocket-carry package built from anodized aircraft-grade aluminum with IPX7 waterproofing and a magnetic base for hands-free use. The Flex-Power system runs on...
TFB Review: Ops Core Amps + Helmet Mount
Hearing is one of those things in life that you simply can't get back; once it's gone, it's gone. Growing up in the military, this was preached to us at every possible moment on the firing ranges, when operating around loud machinery and so on and so forth. Personally, I have alway...
AO Review – Anker SOLIX C1000 Gen 2 “World Record Performance?”
Anker was founded in 2011 by Steven Yang, a former Google engineer, and is a Chinese electronics company headquartered in Changsha, Hunan, known for its high-quality consumer electronics, particularly in charging technology products. Starting with a focus on laptop batteries, Anker has quickly ex...
USS Saratoga: WWII Carrier Sunk by an Atom Bomb
The USS Saratoga (CV-3) was one of just three United States Navy aircraft carriers—along with USS Ranger (CV-4) and USS Enterprise (CV-6)—to survive the entirety of the Second World War. Although outdated by 1943, as the newer and more capable Essex-cla...
TFB Weekly Web Deals 187: Deals for Memorial Day
Welcome to TFB Weekly Web Deals 187 and Happy Memorial Day! We’re back with more deals on guns, gear, ammunition, and accessories from some of our most frequented online retailers like 5.11 Tactical, Primary Arms, Natchez Shooters Supply, Palmetto State Armory, Brownells, and more. Whether ...
SAINT Gear Pac: What Do You Get?
My very first handgun was a Springfield Armory XD in 9mm. It was around 2007, I was shopping for a home-defense solution and I’d read positive reviews about the XD line in American Rifleman and Guns & Ammo magazines. At decision time, it wasn’t much of a competiti...
Bring a Guillotine to a Gunfight?
Handgun-mounted red dot sights have been around for a long time. I was first exposed to them in the late ’90s mounted on USPSA Open guns. These flat-shooting, compensated, red dot-adorned pistols ran fast when they were running, and Open shooters were most often at the top of the list at the en...