Mike Ritland
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855 appearances
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Feb 2025
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And we were told that the political climate wouldn't allow for it, so we're not going to do anything. And so let's just say I was disgruntled when I came back.
I had a lieutenant colonel that I was co-located with that was a reserve officer from AFRICOM who was a fucking piece of shit, who was drinking every night, getting drunk, who didn't give a fuck about the mission, who was making excuses every single day about not wanting to work, not wanting to do the op. And so when I get back, I said, go fuck yourself. God, are you serious?
I got back. I did get recruited by the CIA at the time. They recruited me for a job. And I had finished my college degree, my bachelor's degree. the year prior to that. So that was a prerequisite to become a staffer for them. I came back with the anticipation of doing that job, but the sequester happened, which was a stop loss on all, or a hiring freeze on all jobs.
So I wasn't able to do that job, which kind of fucked me up. You know, I was prepared to do that. So I transitioned off active duty and then went into the National Guard component where I took a team in Texas, a 19th Special Forces group, and was just waiting on the word.
The number one priority for me is personal defense because the first principle of patrolling is security. And if you can't secure yourself, you can't secure your family, you can't defend your life, you can't defend your family's life. So I would say it starts with a personal decision to buy a firearm, learn how to utilize a firearm and carry that firearm daily.
What firearm would you suggest starting with, pistol or rifle? I think universally, I carry different guns for different reasons, but universally a Glock 19 is probably the staple conceal carry pistol In contracting we carry Glock 17s typically but Glock 19s Is the right frame size for most it's the right size frame for concealment.
It has the most accessories per gun in the industry It's a good platform. It's reasonably reasonably priced and And I've used a Glock 19 when the military got them in special operations, and I've seen them throughout my military career, and I've never seen one fail. So a single action, only Glock 19 is the start point.
No, the next priority for me is med. Med? Med, absolutely. 30,000 people a year die in vehicle accidents. I wonder how many of those could have been prevented. 400 idiots a year follow their tree stands and hunting and break their legs and do dumb shit. So we're prone to accidents. We're prone to trauma. And I've treated trauma in real life. I've saved people's lives with tourniquets.
Tourniquet, which is a $29, $99 piece of equipment from North American Rescue, which we sell on our website at fieldcraftsurvival.com, is the number one piece of equipment in med that you need to carry. stopping an extremity wound, a traumatic bleed from a femoral or brachial artery is life-saving. If you don't do that, you simply just go to sleep and die.
We absolutely do, yeah. We teach TCCC, Tactical Combat Casualty Care, which we were required by our contract to train. We teach a course, certified TCCC course. through NAMT, the certification on tactical med training, trauma training. I just taught a CPR lifesaver course at my tribe expo recently. So we frequently teach med and I expect
that if in contracting in austere environments we are required to carry a tourniquet based on our own understanding of what we could run into that a civilian should do the same whether that's in your inside your waistband because we do sell inside the waistband tourniquet holder or that's inside of a bag or inside your vehicle somewhere within arm's reach where if you're experiencing trauma you could save your life interesting what
If we're talking about equipment-specific things that you need to carry, the next piece of equipment would be the way in which you carry it, which would be the bag in which you carry. A lot of people don't think about it, but the extension of your capability of what you can carry on your person is limited. You can only fit so much shit in your pockets and your pants.
And if you have a bag, meaning an everyday carry bag, that might be your purse, your murse, your European man satchel. It sets you up for an extended capacity. That's how we look at vehicles. I mean, if I have a med kit in my back pocket that's a minimalist, low-vis med kit, well, I want my fucking car to be an ambulance. I want there to be enough med equipment to treat my family, myself.
And then you upgrade that to your house as well. I want a damn hospital at my house. So having the ability to carry all their stuff is super important. And in that bag, I would definitely include a survival kit, a modern survival kit that
that has the staples of survival, including the ability to contain water, purify water, start a fire, signal, communicate potentially, sat iridium, VHF, UHF, the list goes on. Gummy bears. Gummy bears that are fat-free, that have lots of carbs, lots of sugars, lots of calories, they're survival bears. That's what we call them. They're survival bears.
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