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- Carpenter's Flight
50 years ago today, Scott Carpenter flew the second American manned orbital flight on May 24, 1962. He piloted his Aurora 7 spacecraft through three revolutions of the earth. In this photo, taken on May 24, 1962, Astronaut M. Scott Carpenter looks into his Mercury-Atlas 7 spacecraft, the Aurora 7, before being inserted to begin the launch. Image Credit: NASA
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Category Archives: Self Defense
Victim or Victor, Your Call
This is an outstanding post about self defense. It covers a lot of ground and has some great pointers. Certainly somethings that I knew, and some others that I had overlooked. Go read it, it s good. Here is a … Continue reading
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Self Defense In The Home
Brigid has pulled together a nice piece discussing self defense options in the home. Set some time aside and go read the whole thing. She has woven in some great advice with a level of humor that makes for an … Continue reading
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Complimentary Skills
An interesting post up at Paul Merkel that discusses a complimentary skill set. In this case the set is pretty run of the mill to me but, evidently it is not for other folks. For every single review written that … Continue reading
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Awareness
Whenever you are talking about your own safety the first thing discussed is situational awareness. The bottom line here, is that the majority of bad situations can be avoided in the first place. Whether that is merely avoiding an area, … Continue reading
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Self Defense Visualization
Visualization is an important tool in training, and in competition. Whether you are focusing on executing the perfect hip check, taking a back hand shot top shelf over the goalies blocker hand, or executing a shooting stage. It also is … Continue reading
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Straight Forward in a Crooked World: Dark Arts for Good Guys: The Right to Knife pt II
Another article about blades from the “Dark Arts”. It’s a good read. Make sure to go back and read some of his previous work as well. … Continue reading
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Be Aware
How many times have you walked down the street and then suddenly had to stop and look around to figure out where you were, as your mind worked on the problems of the day and your feet just kept going? … Continue reading
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Firearm Ownership
The folks over at Cheaper Than Dirt have a blog that they use to drive business. Hey, it is a commercial world out there, and we are still an economy that is based on capitalism, good for them. Every once … Continue reading
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Common Sense
Maybe I am more sensitive than most people to issues of security. I’m not real sure why that is, maybe it was all the counter terrorism stuff that we did in the 80′s. Maybe it is because I travel so … Continue reading
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Why….?
There seems to be an interesting little trend popping up on the sites that I tend to read regularly. They all seem to focus around the question of “Why I Carry a Firearm”. There are some good reads, and some … Continue reading
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