Last year, we made it out to San Antonio, Texas, for a weekend of training strictly devoted to the LPVO with the veteran-operated training organization, Green Ops. Two days were split between courses of fire including CQB, sub-100 yard applications, and 100+ yard identification and engagement drills…all while under a Texas sun providing us with cooling, triple-digit temperatures.
Read MoreOn the morning of the 11th, Jose finished his PT and was getting dressed for work when his wife Patty called from the barn at West Point where she had her horses to tell him to turn on his TV because “. . . something big was happening.” Like so many Americans and particularly those within his profession, Jose remembers feeling two things most of all, an otherworldly anger that seemed to ache from deep within his bones paired with the intangible drive to help in whatever capacity he might offer.
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