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  • Retired US Navy Seal And Best Selling Author Mark Divine Releases Uncommon
    2024/09/07
    From former Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, father, and New York Times bestselling author Mark Divine comes Uncommon- an inspirational book following Mark Divine's trademark warrior monk philosophy that will lead you to the summit of personal development.
    To be common is to be an everyday person. It's to do the things that you are expected to do, whether that's what your parents want for you, or your employer, or your spouse, et cetera. But if you want to be more than you are, more than you think you can be, then you need to recognize and learn from your mistakes to lead a life of excellence.
    As an elite Navy SEAL, entrepreneur, author, speaker, professor of leadership, and philanthropist, as well as the creator of SEALFIT, Kokoro Yoga, and Unbeatable Mind, Mark Divine uses years of wisdom, business development, martial arts, eastern philosophy and military experience to take you through life's most important principles for finding your pursuit of excellence--so that you or anyone with the proper motivation can become uncommon.
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    11 分
  • Living And Teaching By His Word Dr Josh McConkey Be The Weight Behind The Spear
    2024/09/01
    America is divided and at a crossroads. Are its best years behind it or ahead? How can we raise a new generation of leaders to make our nation strong, healthy, and successful?
    One inspiring man, who has seen people at their most courageous in the military and their most vulnerable as an emergency physician, is raising a young family of three children and wants to see them and our country’s youth have a bright future. He encapsulates his motivational prescription for the United States in an award-winning, best-selling book, Be The Weight Behind The Spear.
    It outlines the leadership ethos of author Dr. (Colonel) Josh “Blackjack” McConkey. With over 20 years of working in the trenches of America's emergency rooms and with two decades of decorated military service, Dr. McConkey combines lessons of leadership and poignant examples of how we can move American forward.
    From the battlefields of Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom to the death and destruction right here at home caused by the opioid crisis, Be the Weight Behind the Spear encourages a national dialogue on the importance of motivating all Americans to be the weight behind the spears of America's heroes, and focuses on developing our youth into the future heroes and leaders America really needs.
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    15 分
  • Former White House Security Advisor HR McMaster Releases At War With Ourselves
    2024/09/01
    A revealing account of National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster's turbulent and consequential thirteen months in the Trump White House. At War with Ourselves is the story of helping a disruptive President drive necessary shifts in U.S. foreign policy at a critical moment in history. McMaster entered an administration beset by conflict and the hyper partisanship of American politics. With the candor of a soldier and the perspective of a historian, McMaster rises above the fray to lay bare the good, the bad, and the ugly of Trump's presidency and give readers insight into what a second Trump term would look like. While all administrations are subject to backstabbing and infighting, some of Trump's more unscrupulous political advisors were determined to undermine McMaster and others to advance their narrow agendas. McMaster writes candidly about Cabinet officials who, deeply disturbed by Trump's language and behavior, prioritized controlling the President over collaborating to provide the President with options. McMaster offers a frank and fresh assessment of the achievements and failures of his tenure as National Security Advisor and the challenging task of maintaining one's bearings and focus on the mission in a hectic and malicious environment. Determined to transcend the war within the administration and focus on national security priorities, McMaster forged coalitions in Washington and internationally to help Trump advance U.S. interests. Trump's character and personality helped him make tough decisions, but sometimes prevented him from sticking to them. McMaster adroitly assesses the record of Trump's presidency in comparison to the Obama and Biden administrations. With the 2024 election on the horizon, At War with Ourselves highlights the crucial importance of competence in foreign policy, and makes plain the need for leaders who possess the character and intellect to guide the United States in a tumultuous world.
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    10 分
  • Americorp's Ken Goodman Recruiting Young Adults To Replenish Our Lost Forests
    2024/08/17
    Climate concerns are top of mind, especially with young adults. AmeriCorps, the federal agency for service and volunteering, administers a program for adults ages 18 to 26 to help them take action. AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps (NCCC) is a team-based national service program that engages young adults in 10 to 11-month hands-on service experiences to develop leadership skills and strengthen communities. Forest Corps is a partnership between AmeriCorps NCCC and the United States Forest Service. The program is for young adults passionate about combating the climate crisis and protecting public lands. The first cohort of NCCC Forest Corps members will be sworn in to begin their service in mid-July. The Forest Corps program is the first major interagency partnership under President Biden’s American Climate Corps (ACC), a new initiative to train young people in high-demand skills for jobs in the clean energy economy.
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    9 分
  • Play It Forward Episode 635 Brigadier General Paul Greg Smith Confessions Of A Weekend Warrior
    2024/08/15
    Thank you for being part of the conversation. This is Play It Forward. Real people. Real stories. The struggle to Play It Forward. Episode 635 is with Brigadier General Paul Greg Smith the author of the book Confessions Of A Weekend Warrior. America's National Guard was once considered a ragtag gaggle of pretend soldiers. Beginning in the 1980s the National Guard gradually transformed into today's highly flexible operational force that answers our nation's call for overseas combat deployments as well as domestic emergencies that run the gamut from lifesaving disaster responses to staffing Covid clinics. Brigadier General Paul "Greg" Smith describes his personal journey during these years, from a callow cadet to a committed commander leading military forces in response to the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. Smith gives a humorous, gritty, and sometimes touching glimpse into the inner workings of this unique military organization while offering portraits of the men and women who serve as the minutemen of our age. His reflections on service, duty, and the complexities of command will enlighten anyone who seeks to better understand the challenges of leadership. Their stories reveal more than mere imitations; they demonstrate the fascinating ways ideas evolve as they cross borders.
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    16 分
  • He Did It For The Adventure Admiral Bob Harward Lives Out The Gouge In Life And Now A Book
    2024/08/10
    You are measured by what you do for others, not by what you have accomplished for yourself.
    The Gouge, in military parlance, is what you really need to know. So here's the Gouge on Bob. As a Navy SEAL Admiral with four decades of war-fighting experience, including Bosnia, Panama, Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq and Yemen, he never lost a single man under his command. But his experience runs much wider and deeper than that.
    While growing up in Iran in the 1970s, he hitchhiked throughout Asia and the Middle East; his grueling daily workout has been performed in at least five continents; and his latest adventure involved setting a world record for parachuting onto Mount Everest. In this book, he boils all of this down into the Gouge philosophy: how to move yourself and the people around you forward using the best information picked up from a lifetime of experience.
    The result? PFM: In military parlance, that's Pure F**king Magic.
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    16 分
  • Former Secret Service Agent Anthony Cangelos Counter Snipers Needed 360 Degree Coverage
    2024/08/04
    A former Secret Service agent said counter-snipers at the Pennsylvania rally where a would-be assassin wounded former President Donald Trump should have had "360-degree coverage" of the event and surrounding buildings.
    "I don't know how many they had, but they usually always look for 360-degree coverage," former Secret Service agent Anthony Cangelosi told Business Insider. "So that's one thing that's going to be considered."
    The Federal Bureau of Investigation identified the shooter as a 20-year-old man from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania.
    Cangelosi, who is now an adjunct professor at the John Jay School of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, said the primary question law enforcement would likely be asking is how the suspect could have made it to the top of a nearby building undetected.
    Butler Township Sheriff Michael Slupe told The Washington Post that a local officer encountered the suspect before the shooting but dropped to the ground because he did not have his weapon.
    For a large event where the president or former president is speaking, the Secret Service on the scene would typically work with law enforcement to design a "site plan" with a mock-up of the event space and all surrounding buildings, Cangelosi said.
    This plan will be paramount for investigators in determining what possible failures occurred during the rally, according to Cangelosi.
    "All the posts - meaning personnel, Secret Service or uniformed police officers, where they were positioned, what their duties were to secure that post, what considerations were given to the outer perimeter, in this case, the other building," will be included in the site plan, Cangelosi said.
    Cangelosi said the Secret Service would sometimes use "counter-sniper response units," which are posted on the ground and can quickly move into position if they notice a threat.
    "However, time could also be of the essence, right?" Cangelosi said. "You might not have the ability to send a counter-sniper response team up to the location"Snipers often quickly have to make a decision when they notice a potential threat like an open window or a person sitting on a roof Cangelosi said.
    "What if you find out, 'Oh, I just killed a kid, 20-year-old kid who loves the protected, and he couldn't get in the venue, and he just wanted to get up on that roof,'" Cangelosi added. "No one wants to be in that position."
    Cangelosi said he expects the Secret Service to amp up security at future events moving forward. Trump has already confirmed he plans to speak at the Republican National Convention in Wisconsin next week.
    "The Secret Service is well aware of the fact that they have to be perfect all of the time," Cangelosi said. "And the one time you're not, it's going to bring an increased scrutiny."
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    6 分
  • NY Times Best Selling Author Mark Greaney Releases The Thriller Sentinel
    2024/08/03
    2024 is another banner year for fans of Mark Greaney-his most recent Gray Man thriller, CHAOS AGENT, just came out in February and was an instant New York Times bestseller. And now, readers can start their excitement for a SECOND Mark Greaney novel this year: SENTINEL (on sale June 25), the second in his new Armored series.Greaney is known for keeping an eye on the current world political stage, and his stories are rooted in real world events. He's also traveled to over 35 countries to extensively to research each novel's location, as well as gotten firsthand experience in firearms training, scuba diving, stunt driving, SWAT training, Navy fighter plane flying, field medical training, and more.
    If you're a fan of Greaney's Gray Man series or action-packed of spy thrillers, Greaney's Armored series features a very different kind of action thriller hero: Joshua Duffy, a Close Protection Agent-a professional bodyguard-one of the world's elite operatives. That is, he was, until his last mission in Lebanon. Against all odds, Josh got his principal out alive, but the cost was high. Josh lost his lower left leg. This makes Josh Duffy a different kind of protagonist than Jack Ryan, Court Gentry, Mitch Rapp, or Pike Logan. With a substantial injury, a wife, kids, and a mortgage, Josh is one of the most realistic characters in this genre.
    ARMORED (the first in the series) began as a script for an audio play that Audible produced and gave away to its listeners; it was so popular Mark decided to turn it into a full-length novel.
    In SENTINEL, an African coup may force Josh Duffy to choose between his mission and his family. Josh Duffy and his wife Nikki are both working for the State Department's Diplomatic Security Service providing protection for diplomats in the field. They've been sent to Ghana with a team of US embassy personnel who are there to highlight American commitment to the construction of a new dam.
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    19 分