Glock and AR-15 Cleaning

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN GLOCK AND AR-15 CLEANING One of the “benefits” of working on a SWAT team is a whole bunch time spent cleaning guns. Some days, we have plenty of time to clean, and others, we do a quick “combat-clean” before we load up...

Get your affairs in order

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN GET YOUR AFFAIRS IN ORDER I don’t know whether you will get in a gunfight. I do know, for a fact, that you will die someday. If you have a risky career or even risky hobbies—you owe it to yourself and your family to have...
The Final Mission of Extortion 17

The Final Mission of Extortion 17

EPISODE 26 The FINAL MISSION OF “eXTORTION 17” Author and war reporter joins Jim and Mike and discuss Extortion 17 and its final mission Ed Darack is an author and war reporter who has embedded with US forces in Afghanistan and written a couple books about...

Dry Fire

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN WANNA SHOOT BETTER? There is no magic to becoming a great shooter—like most skills, it is mostly just a matter of deliberate and continuous practice, with good coaching. The problem is that there are barriers to...

Not Much Has Changed…

FAST TRANSIENTS THE TACTICAL TANGENTS BULLETIN WHAT’S CHANGED SINCE SEPTEMBER 11 2001? Prior to September 11th, 2001, the face of America’s enemies had a different look. It’s not that Islamic extremism was new, or that terrorism wasn’t on the radar—of course it...