Paratus Forty-Six

06/05/2026

"Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path" - Emerson

06/05/2026

Something I saw recently and which I like, a lot:

"It's better to have a great team than a team of greats." - Simon Sinek

06/05/2026

This is worth a read and digestion.

https://www.cohortops.com/blog/thenumberonemaniswrong

The number one man can be wrong. Not sometimes wrong in a philosophical, "we're all human" kind of way. Wrong in a specific, definable, mechanistic way — and more importantly, wrong in a way that has a clean, non-negotiable solution when applied evenly across multiple variables we want

06/04/2026

The priorities of life are non-negotiable. No matter who you are, and no matter who they are. Whether 'they' are civilians or teammates: This rule is inviolable. A podcast recently caused stirs over the comments of one panelist, and the overwhelming silence of the others. If you want to do this work, you must buy in to this premise; all in all the time. Otherwise go do something else.

1. Hostages/victims
2. Bystanders
3. LE
4. Suspects

06/04/2026

One of the opening topic discussions during CQB Lab is the presumption of possessing a well developed base of hard skills before you ever step over the threshold. Chief among these being the 2-sided coin of marksmanship/target discrimination. If you can't PID and deliver deliberate, well-aimed fire under a wide variety of conditions on targets of varying sizes, there's always perimeter.

05/31/2026

We finished my oldest boy's (12) AR pistol this afternoon. Test fire and zero to come. He'll have a good time cutting his teeth on it learning the platform. He already wants to rattle can it tiger stripe.

Rosco Manufacturing Blood Sauce barrel, gas system, and BCG
Bravo Company USA PNT trigger and hand stop
SB Tactical brace
VLTOR A5 extension, spring, and buffer
Radian Weapons Raptor ambi charging handle
Troy Industries BUIS
Midwest Industries, Inc. Slim Line handguard
Vortex Optics Strikefire II
Streamlight, Inc. ProTac HL-X

05/19/2026

I volunteered to emcee a roast hole for a team golf tourney later this year for some DARC friends. Gimme your best one liner insults that play well for this setting. Here's just a tiny sample of what I've got in the can already:

"Where'd you get that mustache, a fire station?"
"Look at THIS guy. His hat bill is straighter than he is."
"He's one Punisher tattoo away from his next failed Sergeant's exam."

05/19/2026

There should be a tax and waiting period for people who use an 'x' instead of a hyphen when describing scope magnification ranges.

05/17/2026

“All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.”

– Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince