Hellfires (Not the AIM-120 depicted here) are notoriously bad at killing people. I can’t tell you how many times we’d hear of squirters getting away after seemingly taking a direct hit.

I had taken a biometrics class before my 2nd pump and carried a retina/fingerprint system.

https://twitter.com/mac_arms/status/1925596364110491771

One day I’m chilling minding my own business and someone from the COC tells me I need to kit up.

They’ve spied two dirtbags laying an IED. They’re gonna strike them. They want me to get out there and find a thumb to scan…

Some stream of consciousness stuff on street photography… 🧵

Shooting street isn’t hard. It’s a numbers game. You need hours walking the beat to learn a few valuable things. The first is how to work your camera. You don’t need to know every setting, but you do need to learn.. How to properly set exposure. If you’re shooting night scenes like I do, exposure is your bread and butter. My general advice for a night time neon or cinematic scene is -1. You can walk around a city at night on -1 and win more than you lose.

A long time ago, the Marine Corps left me (and a few frens) stranded at a police outpost in Afghanistan for ~75 days. We went native.🧵 When I say stranded, I do mean stranded. We were cutoff from any American led resupply. If we wanted anything from the PB’s, we had to talk the Afghans into driving over there and getting it for us. We ate what they ate. We drank boiled water. We bathed in the wadis.