Readers;

Good Morning from Moyock, NC. The sun is finally out after a week of what seemed liked non-stop rain. Rain or shine, we are always training here at the U.S. Training Center. Check out our Featured Courses in the USTC News Section. To view a complete list of scheduled courses I have included links to the training schedules for all of our locations.

Mt., IL: http://www.ustraining.com/new/Midwest/schedule.asp

San Diego, CA: http://www.ustraining.com/new/Southwest/schedule.asp

I hope to see you or your unit here soon.

Stay safe.

Zach Taylor

Managing Editor, Blackwater Tactical Weekly
Please continue to submit your suggestions to btw@ustraining.com

- Jack Buck

HONG KONG - North Korea said Monday that it would open its highly militarized border with South Korea to allow periodic family reunions and group visits by tourists from the South.

The conciliatory move, coming just after the high-profile releases of two American journalists and a South Korean worker detained by the North, seemed likely to ease the growing anxiety on the Korean peninsula.

Seven months into the Obama administration, key senior U.S. Defense Department jobs remain vacant even as the Pentagon reshapes its strategic focus and molds the 2011 spending plan.

Of 47 Pentagon posts that require Senate confirmation, eight are filled by holdovers appointed by former President George W. Bush. The Obama administration has filled an additional 20. That leaves 19 vacant positions scattered across the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the three military departments.

FORWARD OPERATING BASE WARHORSE, Iraq - There is no mistaking that this dusty, gravel-strewn camp northeast of Baghdad is anything other than a combat outpost in a still-hostile land. And there is no mistaking that women in uniform have had a transformative effect on it.

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"The U.S. Training Center Armorer Course is the premier AR-15/M-16 armorer course in the United States and is the benchmark certification for the industry. In addition to the courses available at the North Carolina facility, the course is also available at the following:

Salt Lake City, UT	September 14-15
Suffolk County, NY	October 8-9
Mount Carroll, IL	November 2-3

The US Training Center Mossberg Shotgun Armorer course is the only factory authorized Mossberg Law Enforcement Certified Armorer Course and covers the Mossberg 500,590,590DA shotgun systems. In addition to the courses available at the North Carolina facility, the course is also available at the following:

Additional information can be viewed at http://www.ustraining.com/new/Custom/mobile.asp.
Register using the application at http://www.ustraining.com/new/index.asp or call 252-435-0075 to speak to a sales representative."

To view the latest contract opportunities at U.S. Training Center, visit our Contract Web Page

TO FILL OUT AN APPLICATION AND SUBMIT YOUR RESUME CLICK HERE
Questions regarding Security Consulting or Training at USTC (252) 435-2488 or email webmaster@ustraining.com

Tactical Equipment Evaluation

Bear in mind as you read this that I'm not a fan of energy drinks. When a friend handed me a Red Bull at a conference I took one sip and gagged. They just simply aren't my taste. So when I got the box with some efusjon drinks in it I was skeptical at best. My oldest son tried two before I would try one. I still can't say I'd rather have any energy drink over a coca-cola, but at least now I've found one I like and can recommend.

Full Story Can Be Viewed At:

Recreational Equipment Review

Courtesy of POSA & Ralph Mroz

A couple years ago, Mike Conti published a book titled Police Pistolcraft. That book was a both a description of the "New Paradigm" police training that Mike and his staff had developed for the Massachusetts State Police, and a description of why it was developed and structured as it was. That book was geared not so much at the actual techniques of the system that Mike had developed (although they were covered significantly), but more at the instructor-level background on how our minds and bodies work under the kind of stress that police encounter when they need to use their firearms, and how a police-relevant system of instruction should and could be structured.

Full Story Can Be Viewed At:

http://www.borelliconsulting.com/recevals/recreading/policepistolcraft.htm

SEEING

Some look and see only what they want to see... Some very few look and see in minute detail all that is there to see. Most people fall into a group on the low side of seeing... Seeing little or maybe more than little, but not seeing a lot of what is there.

Full Story Can Be Viewed At:

http://www.ustraining.com/new/btw/Chaplain/081709chaplain.htm

 An upstanding new sport
Water-based activity builds upper body
August 11, 2009
News-Press.com
Dayna Harpster

No, it's not a new Wii game. It's a real water sport.

And if you ask local aficionados, it's a really pleasant way to work your upper body, including your arms and your body's core, which gives it stability.

Although Michael Vernon of Fort Myers has been paddleboarding only about four months, he finds time about every other day to throw a board in the water.

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Here are some links for charitable organizations.

The Blackwater Tactical Weekly does not endorse any organization over another nor encourage charitable contributions, we provide these links as a public service, and take no responsibility for the actual sites. Although we strive to validate the sites before linking we caution you to do your own research, as the internet is ripe with scams.

Building Better Lives for America's Disabled Veterans

The 1.2 million-member Disabled American Veterans (DAV) is a non-profit 501(c)(4) charity dedicated to building better lives for America’s disabled veterans and their families.

The DAV was founded in 1920 by disabled veterans returning from World War I to represent their unique interests. In 1932, the DAV was congressionally chartered as the official voice of the nation’s wartime disabled veterans.

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