Posts by Brian Duff
Everyday Carry On Kits for Air Travel
Since your normal EDC won’t work for air travel, you’ll need to make some adaptations to create an everyday carry-on kit that won’t get you tackled by the TSA. When traveling by air within the US, you should consider following a tiered everyday carry for air travel strategy. The tiered approach uses a stepped strategy…
Read More8: Disaster Medicine Basics
When people hear the phrase disaster medicine, they generally envision a field hospital full of traumatic injuries. But disaster medicine is about a lot more than that. This could be all the medical care available for a long time after a major crisis, with no doctor in sight. Disaster medicine isn’t just about first aid.…
Read More7: Counter Surveillance Measures Everyone Should Use
What Are Counter Surveillance Measures? Counter surveillance measures (also called surveillance detection) are attempts to determine whether someone is watching you, and hopefully identify them. It is essential to be aware of whether other people are surveilling you. They may do it for various reasons. Regardless of the reason, all are likely to be nefarious.…
Read MoreA Safe Family: Tips for Protecting Your Loved Ones
How to Help Keep Your Family Safe Having a safe family in this constantly changing world can be a challenge and a worry. The 24-hour news cycle and the internet bombard you almost non-stop with troubling stories. Your children see and hear things you would never have imagined at their age. Do the things your…
Read MoreInvisibility: How to Be a Gray Man
How to be a gray man describes a way of dressing and acting to not draw attention to oneself. The goal of the gray man is to go unnoticed by blending into the environment by being as average and inconspicuous as possible. Why Be the Gray Man? People will want to be the gray man…
Read MoreM4S 004: Preparedness Planning in 9 Easy Steps
There are 9 components to successful preparedness planning to ensure that your strategies work when it really counts. To create a plan that will work for you and your family, you need to take some time to figure out the information below so that you have all the data you need to increase your likelihood…
Read MorePreparing for Civil Unrest in America: Caught Up in a Riot
Did you ever think that people outside of major metropolitan areas would have to worry about preparing for civil unrest in America? There’s been a clear uptick in protests, riots, unrest, and outright battles in the streets across the United States over the past couple of years, and I think it’s becoming evident this is…
Read More2: How to Create a Risk Profile
To identify the greatest threats you may face, you need to know how to create a risk profile. So, how do you develop your own risk profile? You simply ask yourself the following questions and create an honest assessment of your vulnerabilities. How to Create a Risk Profile #1) What Do I Have to Protect?…
Read MoreHow to Start Prepping Step by Step
One of the most common questions I get asked is how to start prepping. It is an important question because disaster can strike anywhere and at any time. And the answer is even more important. The way you explain how to start prepping can either sound achievable or overwhelming. One answer sets people on the…
Read MoreThe World’s 7 Deadliest Examples of Disasters
Either by accident or by the whim of Mother Nature, human history is filled with examples of disasters. These are the 7 deadliest examples of disasters in the world. Within the history of the worst disasters, seven stand out as the world’s deadliest catastrophes. While these events were tragic and horrible for all involved, there…
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