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The Marines have Landed – Operation Unified Assistance - Part 3

USS Duluth offshore of Sri Lanka – author photo Once the water site was up and running, there wasn’t much else for us to do. The water dogs had their system dialed in, the line moved steadily, and the...

Always Ready · mental toughness · military

The Marines have Landed – Operation Unified Assistance - Part 2

Perera and I – author photo The first of the Sri Lankan police and army officers reached us not long after we stepped off the beach. They came in from inland, picking their way around debris and stalled vehicles,...

Always Ready · mental toughness · military

The Marines have Landed – Operation Unified Assistance - Part 1

The USS Duluth (LPD-6) At MTNTOUGH, we often use the story of “The Boxing Day Tsunamis” to illustrate and teach our Always Ready Ethos, where people on the beach had 240 seconds to save their lives. Physicality, mental toughness, and...

Always Ready · law enforcement

Tragedy at Newhall – Part 2

The gunfight that unfolded in the dark along Interstate 5 on April 5, 1970 did not begin with a traffic stop. It began an hour earlier and thirty miles north, inside a small gas station in Gorman. Jack Twinning and...

Always Ready · law enforcement

Tragedy at Newhall - Part 1

The sun had long since dropped behind the low hills north of Valencia, leaving the sky washed in a deep purple that bled slowly into black. The evening traffic on Interstate 5 hummed steady and distant, a soft backdrop that...

Always Ready · law enforcement

Lights, Camera, Gun Fight: The North Hollywood Shootout – Part 2

Officer John Caprarelli had been sitting just south of Victory Boulevard, radar gun balanced on his knee, watching commuters drift ten or fifteen miles over the limit. Nothing dramatic. Just the usual morning mix of office workers in a hurry,...

Always Ready · law enforcement

Lights, Camera, Gun Fight: The North Hollywood Shootout Part 1

Mark Ellison liked to get his banking done early. He always said the day ran smoother when he cleared small chores before nine. He parked his Honda Accord along Laurel Canyon Boulevard and stepped out with a cup of gas...

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The Marines have Landed – Operation Unified Assistance - Part 3

The Marines have Landed – Operation Unified Assistance - Part 2

The Marines have Landed – Operation Unified Assistance - Part 1

Tragedy at Newhall – Part 2

Tragedy at Newhall - Part 1

Lights, Camera, Gun Fight: The North Hollywood Shootout – Part 2

Lights, Camera, Gun Fight: The North Hollywood Shootout Part 1