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Podcast: Modern Self Protection Podcast
Episode: Habits, Good, Bad, and Training Scars
Description: Habits are good and bad, but Training Scars will get you in trouble.
Baghdad, Iraq 2003: I’m back right
2003, Iraq, somewhere between Kuwait and Baghdad:
There I sat, doing what I was trained to do. Dressed in 75 pounds of combat gear including body armor, 14 mags, M16, 3 Frags, 2 Smokes, radio, and dozens of other pounds of assorted crap that a Marine in combat needs, but you wouldn’t think of like binoculars. I was in the back of an open-topped truck with 20 other Marines in crammed together, hiding behind sandbags for cover as a machine gun open...