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Immediately following the September 11th attacks in 2001, a block of instruction was added to the Calibre Press: Street Survival Seminar by the venerable Lead Instructor Dave “J.D. Buck Savage” Smith. Terrorism: Battling the War in America’s Heartland was designed by Dave to bring the reality of the War on Terrorism to those who he believed would eventually be on the front lines of that war: America’s law enforcement community.
As one of the instructors, let me speak out of school here for just a moment and reveal a conflict within our Cadre. The five Seminar instructors regularly argue (in a healthy way of course) about the Terrorism block:
• What should be included?
• What should be emphasized?
• What should be eliminated?
• How often should we update the material?
The most important question that remains...(read more)