Hello all, and welcome to the 4th weekly blog post. Today I’ll be talking about an essential survival skill: purifying water. For the overwhelming majority of first-world countries, clean, safe drinking water is just a few steps away at any given moment. The threat of parasites, bacteria, and viruses is virtually nonexistent. But what happens […]
Hello and welcome to the 3rd weekly blog. In this week’s blog, I’ll be going over a newfound passion of mine: baking bread. I’ll share my go-to recipe, explain why I enjoy it, and why you should give it a try as well. I’ve been cooking meals for a long time—everything from casseroles to meatloaf
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Hello all, and welcome to the second weekly blog post! In this week’s blog, I go over running for political office—sharing tips, tricks, experiences, and why Minutemen need to get involved in their communities. I’ll also touch on my past campaigns for City Council and my current run for Lincoln County Sheriff. My journey into
Hello all, and welcome to the weekly blog post! This week, I’m going over my struggle to cut back on nicotine and caffeine—how it has affected my life, what spurred my decision to make a change, and my goal of quitting completely in the future. In 2007, at 18 years old, I took my first
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Hello all and welcome to the blog on reloading: I got into reloading back in 2010 as a hobby. I was a broke college student and was shooting on a weekly basis, so I needed a cheap way to fuel my shooting habit. In those days, you could reload 9mm for 10 cents a round
Hello all and welcome to the first blog I have ever written. My name is Ian Smith, and I have been involved in some form of emergency, or military service for the last 20 years. At 15 I joined a volunteer fire department, at 16 the United States Army (Delayed Entry Program) and at 17,
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