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DVM GEAR STORE: DPx Danger Tag, In Stock and Shipping Now 19 Jun 2013 | 09:33 am
Created by Robert Young Pelton of The Worlds Most Dangerous Places fame, the DPx Danger Tab is a thin metal card with perforated edges on the back that quickly breaks away to form a blade. Just snap o...
URBAN SURVIVAL: 5 Things People Say They Can or Would do in a Survival Situation – and Why They Won’t Based on Resent 3rd World Urban Survival Events 10 May 2013 | 11:45 pm
“If you jump really high the waves will just go under you bro” After decades of studying, observing, experiencing and writing about everything Urban Survival, I have heard some serious fantasy about w...
3rd WORLD TRAVEL GEAR: Katadyn Combi Water Filter review 3 May 2013 | 12:51 am
One Hour Later this Mans Anus Exploded Almost twenty years ago I spent several months in the Sudan and drank from local water sources. Some were “bore holes” or wells while in one case water was procu...
Old School Man: Going on a Bender 30 Apr 2013 | 08:30 pm
Picture taken at 9:45 AM on a Wednesday There was once a time when a man would go on a bender for a few days, week, even a month and dive into a booze fueled haze in a hotel suite filled with women of...
TACTICAL GEAR: Flight and Fight Tactical Blackjack Battery Brick 29 Apr 2013 | 05:10 am
Packing for another romp in the 3rd world When you pull over at a Hajji Shop in Iraq and you walk through the isles past the cans of fly-covered baklava, dusty cans of corned beef and Gauloise Smokes ...
10 Skills Every Operator Should Have: Part 1 (of 10) – The Stick Shift 26 Apr 2013 | 08:40 pm
To Everyone under 25 – This is NOT an Xbox 360 Controller *Note: I use the term “operator” loosely here When the subject of “what are must-have operator skills” comes up most people spit out the obvio...
MEDICAL: The SOL-IFAK 9 Apr 2013 | 06:40 pm
James G’s SOL – IFAK Over the past decade of working as a contractor in shit-holes around the world and living and traveling in the 3rd world one thing I have always learned to have close by is an IFA...
BOOKS – Ditch Medicine: Advanced Field Procedures For Emergencies, by Hugh Coffee 24 Jan 2013 | 03:18 pm
This Book Blew Rmabo’s Mind! Whether it’s a war zone or a civil disaster area, traumatic injuries often occur in remote, unsanitary locations. Coffee’s book explains advanced field procedures for smal...
WILDERNESS SURVIVAL: How to Use an Analog Wrist Watch as a Compass 23 Jan 2013 | 07:11 am
Whether you’re lost in the woods or wandering around a city in some 3rd world shit hole, you might need to find your bearings. An ordinary wristwatch can provide the answer. Follow the steps I have li...
CIVILIAN CONTRACTORS: Life of a Ship Anti-Piracy Operator – Eight Weeks on the High Seas 20 Dec 2012 | 04:16 pm
Fully kitted Private Anti-Piracy Operator: Romanian PSL and PPE London, Abu Dhabi, Karachi, Bin Qasim, Dahej, Suez, Malta, Port Said, Suez, Goa, Redi, Galle, Colombo, Dubai, London, all visited in on...
