Pat’s Product Review: Warrior Trail Training Body Armor

…about any place where you’d be training wearing your real hard body armor, is where you can wear the Warrior Trail training plates in your vest.   Warrior Wear has a motto of their own, and it is “train as your fight – at a fraction of the cost” – and that’s something to keep in mind. Hard body armor doesn’t come cheap, and you don’t want to damage your real body armor, while out training – and not even realize you’ve damaged it. Warrior Trail training plates start at $59 per plate, and goes up from there, depending on the size. Still, this is a worthwhile investment – save your real hard body armor, for a call out or military operation – and use the Warrior Trail training plates for all of your training purposes. Don’t take a chance, you have a lot of money invested in hard body…




Retreat Owner Profiles

…cargo room than the Mercedes has. Each vehicle has a customized BoB for the primary driver. Each also has a small cardboard box filled with ammo: We were at a public range in the LA area the day the Rodney King riots started. Of course, we shot up all our ammo. Going home was sporting, to say the least. So, we now keep a small quantity of common calibers stored, just in case. We have steel security boxes (slave boxes) in each vehicle, when we cross into the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia we have to unload our handguns and lock them in. When we ride together we grab our BoB. Trailers: I follow the military philosophy and use trailers for a lot of things – we’ve even gone to Costco with one hitched up (Hint: Get there early and get a parking space you’ll be able to drive out of)….




Testing 20-Year-Old Mountain House Lasagna, by S.H. in Texas

…local commissary they have individual MRE’s for sale as well as purchasing whole cases. Many of my “Civilian” friends have gone to gun shows and paid a serious premium for what I call “shady MRE’s” . . .Why shady? Technically Civillians are not supposed to acquire MRE’s through military members, Why? probably something a legal eagle can spell out better than me. Anyway, I discourage my friends and family from doing this because they were probably acquired from some Army or Marine, Combat arms warrior, who may have ended up with a case or two after a long field Op, that warrior goes home with them on a “96” or leave. Then the warrior gives the case or the individual MRE’s to family or friends. These rations then sit in a garage or a shed, or RV, for who knows how long, then at the end of the shelf life….




Wargaming, by Pudge

…on this blog almost weekly for a long time. Could you be more succinct in your work, with perhaps not such a broad scope? Maybe being closer to 1000 feet, rather than 10,000 as Michael described? Food for thought. The Red Baron Capture the flag game with paintball could be a good starter lesson. It was very common a few years back in good ‘ol PA. Tunnel Rabbit A sorely needed push in the right direction. Sadly, even after years of attempting to get my local survivalist friends to accomplish the basics, they are only now beginning to develop a warrior‘s mindset. Only current events caused them to shed a little more of their normalcy bias. 95 percent of them have a long way to go. They are preppers, but they are not warriors. Huge difference. War gaming of sorts has been apart of my former job, yet they are…