Flooding is the most frequent natural disaster and the chances are high that you will likely experience at least one major flood in your lifetime.
Because floods can cause contaminated water to get into wells, it is not safe to drink well water after a flood: the well must be disinfected before you...
Along with boarding up a window, tarping a roof is an important skill to know for disaster preparedness.
If a hurricane blows off part of your roof, it can let rainwater through. The next thing you know, you don’t just have a damaged roof but also severe water damage.
Luckily, it’s fairly easy to tarp...
Sneak Peek – Soteira Systems Prototype SERE Garment
A few months ago I started following an IG account promising to introduce a “SERE Garment” or clothing you could wear to help conceal aids to escape and recovery.
Soteira Systems recently gave us a sneak peek at what they are up to. What you see is...
Written by: Greg Ellifritz
I was recently reading a very interesting article titled “The Confidence Gap.” The article described how in general, women had far less self-confidence than men. A couple of examples cited are:
– In a British managerial study “Half the female respondents reported self-doubt about their job performance and careers, compared with...
The Nightstalkers of the famed 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne) have adopted a new lightweight flight helmet called the Rotary Wing Advanced Tactical Helmet or RATH (pronounced Wraith).
Recently on display at the AAAA Summit in Nashville, the new helmet will replace HGU-56/P Rotary Wing Aircrew Ballistic Helmet (ABH) Systems which have been...
