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onPoint Tactical, LLC
scout, tracking & 
 survival school Newsletter
 OCT 2016 
Since 2004 
  





SURVIVAL TACTICS
 
  


onPoint Tactical's   
My Personal Survival Stategy  
     
by Kevin Reeve  
 


 
 


 
The golden rule of training is that whatever you do in training, is what you will do under stress.  If you have no training to fall back on when the stress level elevates, you will do nothing.  As Barret Tillman says, " We don't rise to the occasion, we sink to our level of training."
 Therefore, realistic training is essential to survival as that is what will enable you to act decisively when the time for action arrives.

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2016-17 Classes
Schedule Below 
 
  


onPoint Tactical's   
Urban Escape & Evasion
      


 
 
Graduates of the Urban E&E class acquire a sense of confidence knowing they have unique urban crisis skills that will serve them in a variety of chaotic urban scenarios, including:

*
a terrorist attack,
* loss of civility, ie. mobs, riots
* natural disasters,    
* pandemics,
* kidnapping,   
* criminal activity, and many other situations.  

Students will learn:
* how to react during a shooting, 
* how to evade a mob,
* how to find water & food in an urban wasteland,
* how to escape unlawful custody,
* how to read the concentric rings of the urban baseline, and much more.

Final day of class is a live urban escape & evasion scenario.  
 
 
This class is recommended for anyone who desires basic as well as more advanced urban crisis skills:

the domestic or international traveler, aide workers, students, contractors, military, and law enforcement, and urbanites.
 




"This class was better than my  
entire college education"
 
- Neil Strauss, author of
the New York Time's bestseller  
  
 
Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life
 
  
 



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2016
CLASS SCHEDULE

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NEW LOCATIONS 
 
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Email 
 
  
    

Jan 12-14        Urban Escape & Evasion      Las Vegas (after SHOT Show)

 


High Speed Survival
Ann Arbor, MI 
with Matt Smith


 
   

  Call for savings on 2 classes
Can be taken separately or together 
   



1. Urban Escape & Evasion          Los Angeles 
December 5-7

2. Advanced Urban Escape & Evasion          Los Angeles 
December 8-10 
 

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2016 Classes
 
  


onPoint Tactical's   
Advanced
Urban Escape & Evasion
      


Advanced urban Survival  
 
Advanced Urban Escape and Evasion

Advanced Urban E&E includes a strong emphasis on the manufacture of improvised tools and equipment from scavenged materials.

This course will add new skills to the Urban Escape & Evasion graduate but will primarily focus on field applications. You will learn how to make useful E & E tools, then spend time scavenging the urban area, finding the materials needed, and actually manufacturing them.

In addition, students will be required to obtain food, water, and shelter and remain overnight in the city.

They will need to avoid capture, and they will be required to complete several tests or scenarios that will require advanced students to truly apply their Scout and urban survival skills.
 
   
  
 


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TACTICS & PREPAREDNESS
MAGAZINE
 
   


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HUBRIS in SURVIVAL
Learning from my BIGGEST mistakes. 

By Kevin Reeve, onPoint Tactical

 
   

It was day three of five of a survival exercise and all I brought with me was a knife and a plastic tarp.  I had not eaten since we started. I was parched from not having found a source of water. My nights were cold and I was pretty miserable.

Were my skills that bad? Apparently so. I was only 17 and most of my
survival knowledge came from a couple of books. Clearly the authors knew some things that I did not. 
 
 
 
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TACTICS & PREPAREDNESS
MAGAZINE 





HOW I SURVIVED
A Mountain Lion Encounter
at NIGHT. 




by Kevin Reeve, onPoint Tactical


"I could a tale unfold whose lightest word 
Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, 
Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, 
Thy knotted and combined locks to part, 
And each particular hair to stand on end 
Like quills upon the fretful porpentine."

- Shakespeare, Hamlet 1602


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TACTICS & PREPAREDNESS
MAGAZINE 





How to Drown in the Desert
 Avoiding Decision Momentum  




by Kevin Reeve, onPoint Tactical


  No one expects to die on vacation.  The words "vacation" and "death" seem hauntingly ironic.

Yet, in 2015 seven experienced hikers died while on vacation in Zion's National Park traversing a slot canyon called, "The Keyhole." 
 


TACTICS & PREPAREDNESS
MAGAZINE
   




SURVIVING
PANDEMICS
And Why President Lincoln Nearly Missed the Gettysburg Address



by Kevin Reeve, onPoint Tactical

In 1918, as a deadly virus swept the globe, American Samoa, located to the east of Australia, had a strategic advantage in its governor, Commander John Poyer, a U.S. Naval Academy graduate...American Samoa was one of only three countries in the world to avoid experiencing any cases of the deadly flu during the 1918-1919 Spanish Flu pandemic.

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URBAN SURVIVAL TACTICS






BOSTON
Terrorist in your Backyard: 
What to do after locking the doors. 




by Kevin Reeve, onPoint Tactical

My wife, Susan, happened to be up late, when a friend alerted her to activity on the Boston Police Scanner. It was 11pm Boston time when she listened 'live' to the car chase with the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing.  She heard the gunfight, the bomb explosions, the fugitive escape through the police barricade, calls for EMT's for wounded police officers, and information flowing in about the carjacking,and kidnapping of the owner of the Mercedes.  Total mayhem.  And then finally the announcement:

The terrorist, who had killed 3 and wounded more than 260 people 2 days earlier, was on the loose, considered "armed and dangerous" with firearms, IED's and had just used his stolen vehicle as a weapon to mow down officers.  The Governor was ordering a "lockdown."

Here were my thoughts and recommendations at the time, and more of what we now know.

 



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SURVIVAL TACTICS


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Counterintuitive Strategies 
for Facing
an Active Shooter
by Kevin Reeve, onPoint Tactical

After Paris
and San Bernadino, people have asked me to explain effective ways to respond to active shooter situations.  

It is an incredibly challenging problem to which there are no easy answers due to the individuality of each situation and the different types of targets, ie. malls, schools, churches, parking lots, trains, restaurants and sports stadiums etc., but here are some thoughts... 
 
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