Odds ‘n Sods:

Petromax Lanterns: This gent on The FALFiles is selling the genuine article–originally from German Bundeswehr surplus.

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SurvivalBlog reader J.E. mentioned: “I ran across this link via a productivity site: Free e-textbooks for a myriad of subjects, at http://www.textbookrevolution.org/ Very useful, with of course the standard disclaimer about not depending on electronic documents being accessible in a ‘situation’.” #1 Son adds: Our readers that have home-schooled kids may find this useful as well.

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Jim K. forwarded this link to a site with some interesting photos of improvised up-armored civilian “contractor” vehicles in Iraq. As the old Doobie Brothers song goes: “Oh Blackwater, keep on rollin’…” I suspect that some of the contractor vehicles in The Big Sandbox also now carry anti-IED jammers. (Commercial off-the-shelf CREW-2 equivalents.) Or if they don’t, they should!