Situational awareness email from brother

Tarowah said:
After reading some of these posts, I now realize how fortunate I am!
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RS and I move and act as One outside the Gates. She's Always on my left, she's Always armed, and she's Always paying attention. This after being together for almost 30 years.


JT said:
n my guidebook, situational awareness is the number one skill in importance (and it would be in "practice time" if I didn't practice it 24/7 instinctively by now).
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Amen!!!
 
At NJ Liberty Airport Newark 2009, this young lady on her prayer mat at the appointed time.
Most people ignored her. When she boarded my plane I made eye contact with her as she looked
for a seat, it was Southwest so you pick your own seat. She did not sit near me.

At my Home Depot we would a woman in full black burka, she was over 6' 2" and about 200lbs,
few customers did a rubber neck when they saw her. I sold her some paint. She was very polite.
 
My wife knows where I want to sit. We have a code word for the guns we carry.

If I stop somewhere and she stays in the car she knows if something goes down for her to leave and I will catch up with her after I exit the area.

Have a plan.

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credit card at the pump pay is the curse/blessing of this generation. Yeah you may get your card number skimmed, but you never need enter the stop-n-rob for fuel purchases. BTW If you get a Shell Saver card, it will ACH draft from a bank account of your choice, requires a PIN, is nearly useless to a card thief, and saves 2 cents a gallon. Pair that with FRN and GetUpside and you can save a few hundred on fuel costs in no time.

FWIW the only stop and rob stores I frequent are the ones in my small town for gas, beer and caffeine. The CHP to citizen ratio is higher than average, and the usual suspects stick out like a sore thumb.
 
dmarbell said:
Without direction on my part she said, "They seem to be trying to provoke reactions, and the man will sometimes get very close to other shoppers like he's trying to get noticed."
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JT said:
And while not originally intended as such, I think it is safe to assume that "Allahu akhbar" (uttered fervently anywhere other than in ritual prayer) is a trigger. Just my $0.02 worth, adjusted for inflation.
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Yeppers, there are "provokers" out there, and I daresay a lot of us learned this as kids growing up. Bullies love to use provoking gestures/speech/tactics, for example.

You can see some people demonstrate this with what I call "peacock strutting"...one classic maneuver being to get in the face of one another, hands down, chests out, full-on "I dare you, motherf*cker" language flying.

Other's stick to the crowd, throwing taunts...which can be even more dangerous, because often they're providing a distraction so others can circle their hapless victim.

Situational awareness...recognize these things early and immediately move to better your posture. If that means leaving, great. Being alive the next day, without knife wounds or the like, is a powerful rebuttal to "chicken" cat-calls.

Or, for that matter, surviving a violent encounter only to have to deal with all the legal and social repercussions for having defended yourself with lethal force.

People living this kind of life are either going to wake up dead themselves one day, or having lived their entire lives on the cusp of violence. 'Cause one day they'll provoke the wrong person and find out there really IS some motherf*cker out there more dangerous than they.

Yeah...they can have that.
 
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I preach SA to my wife all the time but it falls on deaf ears. She wont carry either. She prefers the head in the sand approach to life."

Actually, my wife's SA is pretty good. If we are in a sketchy part of town or there are possible predators around, she will ask me, "Do you have your little friend with you?"
 
Sounds like the moral of the story is your brother got scared by a man that doesn't look like him shouting something in another language.

If he really had any SA he would have already known what the guy standing by the ATM looked like.
 
Seeing is good, seeing while not being seen is better. Windows, reflections, mirrors, shadows...I like my back to the corner, but sometimes keeping on the move is a good thing and a bad vibe at times can cause me not to stop at all. More than once I have bailed out of a convenience store parking lot if stuff was looking odd. Too many strays, too many non customers lurking.

If it walks like a duck...and you are a Long Way From Home, don't be surprised when it quacks.
 
UGAdawg said:
Sounds like the moral of the story is your brother got scared by a man that doesn't look like him shouting something in another language.

If he really had any SA he would have already known what the guy standing by the ATM looked like.
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Possibly.

However, despite what people may think, it is not humanly possible to be 100% aware of everything going on around them 100% of the time for a variety of reasons.

But his actions following the shouting were entirely appropriate...maintained calm, improved situational awareness appropriate to the event, shifted defensive posture, and engineered a resolution to remove himself to avoid any possibility of a violent confrontation.
 
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