Fire Season In Florida
After a very dry winter, and with a bit of recent warm weather here in North-East Florida, wild fire season has arrived. I actually took this picture a couple of weeks ago, in early March, but the fire threat has definitely not subsided since then. At the time there were actually a couple of very [...]
Blowing Up Live Hand Grenades
Today at Camp Blanding’s BWMQT class we went out to the range for the student’s favorite day … Hand Grenades. In addition to getting some really good training earlier in the day throwing little “popper” simulation grenades on a course that measured various skills; each student also got to throw 3 or 4 live hand [...]
Back to Camp Blanding Florida
Last summer I spent 5 fun-filled weeks at Camp Blanding Florida doing some predeployment training. Tomorrow morning, I’m going back again … but this time just for 10 days; and as a facilitator instead of as a trainee. I’m thinking I’ll enjoy this next week a bit better than last time. Anyhow, I also remembered [...]
