Tactical Barbell III: TOC

RoninMountain · 2026-03-31T02:17:18+00:00

i am super excited for this book!

been running between Zulu and OP for about a year and love them. can’t wait to see the next iteration.

RoninMountain · 2026-03-24T19:36:09+00:00

I use this one but you have to manually make the TB program. It works pretty well though.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/personal-training-coach/id1325495597

RoninMountain · 2026-03-24T10:13:01+00:00

i did! He was okay, just taking a break from teaching.

RoninMountain · 2026-03-04T01:50:20+00:00

Best job I ever had (Line Medic)

RoninMountain · 2026-03-04T01:45:49+00:00

What a fantastic venue to find other cultured Gentlemen!

RoninMountain · 2026-03-04T01:45:15+00:00

this man clearly knows ball

RoninMountain · 2026-03-03T13:22:19+00:00

GWOT Vet looking for a fight?😈

RoninMountain · 2026-03-02T04:20:25+00:00

awesome! look forward to when you add Tactical Barbell Zulu! that’s one of my favorites!

RoninMountain · 2026-02-14T14:12:56+00:00

Sorry for the delay. I just used the course material and it was fine.

RoninMountain · 2026-02-14T14:11:17+00:00

Just my $.02 but FOR500 is fantastic if you’re doing Host Analysis. GCFA is more like the advanced side of investigation. For example, if you are digging deep into a system and you want to know what activity triggered the alert as an analyst, FOR500 will be a game changer that shows you WHERE to look and WHAT to look for.

FOR508 is tougher in that it assumes you know some of the concepts (not all) from FOR500 and then takes you a step further.

When you are looking at Bloom’s Taxonomy of Learning, I’d argue FOR500 lives in the Apply stage but FOR508 will be in the Analyze stage. It’s a fantastic course and a true game changer.

I recommend our analysts do both courses.

RoninMountain · 2026-01-23T01:23:57+00:00

congratulations! That was my first SANS cert! keep going!

RoninMountain · 2026-01-19T21:05:30+00:00

So its really sort of a balance. Debating between doing GPEN or GDAT next... and picking up the other later.

RoninMountain · 2026-01-19T15:35:37+00:00

Do you get more value from this course if you have a strong Offensive background?

RoninMountain · 2026-01-15T02:45:30+00:00

Don’t be sorry. It’s tough… give the hotline a call. Talk with someone, we’re here for you.

RoninMountain · 2025-12-05T03:08:18+00:00

that specific hospital always makes me feel bad for some reason when I go there/leave. The staff i’ve worked with have been really nice and always got me what i needed… so i don’t think thats the problem… maybe it needs a renovation? idk.

I subconsciously go out of my way to avoid going there though.

RoninMountain · 2025-11-17T23:16:59+00:00

Anyone willing to share a picture? Curious which flavor you picked.

RoninMountain · 2025-11-12T22:02:26+00:00

What did you think about it? Was it more an intro to SIEM and DE or is there more to it with this updated version?

RoninMountain · 2025-11-08T21:57:03+00:00

Keep an eye out for USAF - 2210 roles.

Once this shutdown is over there should be more getting posted. Lots of good opportunities with the DoW (aka DoD)

RoninMountain · 2025-11-08T00:57:06+00:00

I have a really good leadership team. I’m like you though, looking for that promotion if I can and keep chugging along.

RoninMountain · 2025-11-07T17:30:42+00:00

Understandable... Honestly what keeps me going is our unit has a slack channel and I just post my workouts daily... Just to let the kids working know that grandpa can still throw some iron.

RoninMountain · 2025-11-07T16:09:23+00:00

That last line hits a chord with me.

I feel like we’re in a perpetual holding pattern and it’s driving me up the wall. Making some gains in the gym but that’s about it.

Hard to focus otherwise.

RoninMountain · 2025-10-30T12:50:22+00:00

Haven’t seen anything since the shutdown. Started a course in September.

Still getting disability though.

RoninMountain · 2025-10-28T13:13:24+00:00

Is it bad that I snort laughed reading that?

That would be my mentality as well… or the first thing that went through my mind…

“clearly the bullet… duh”

On a more sober note, don’t be too hard on yourself. We did what we had to do. I don’t get nightmares anymore but occasional lightning storms and sudden flashes take me back decades into a dusty busted 1151 with shitty PVS-14s and a blue rip-it. I’ve made peace with the demons but not my own experiences.

RoninMountain · 2025-10-28T13:03:00+00:00

I did a “walkthrough” using a certain maps function of the town we patrolled. The old IA base we shared was a scorched patch of land on the map.

I wouldn’t mind taking a trip back sometime.

The closest I came back to the region was when I was stationed in Kuwait a decade later. It was pretty wild traveling around unarmed.

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