By Brandon Sanders, MTI Contributor Over the past few years, I was privileged to have a hand in shaping my unit’s culture by using various social media platforms to effectively connect with the Soldiers. Since we are a part-time force, our time and resources are highly constrained. Free digital platforms allowed us to create an […]
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RATS: Planned Communication To Mitigate Avalanche Terrain Travel Danger and Heuristic Errors
By Joe Poulton, MTI Contributor In November of 2015, I had been on the Reach and Treat Team for a couple years. At this point, I was contributing by instructing our annual avalanche trainings. I was also fully enjoying photography. On this day my ski partner and I were gunning for Illumination Rock, clearly an […]
Q&A 11.10.22
QUESTION I was wondering if it was possible to obtain the SFOD-D V1 training plan that includes training specific to improve the Army PFT? I am in the process of attending the enabler selection and it was recommended that I obtain the V1 training program to specifically improve my PFT score as I will be […]
Over-Reliance on Cell Phones in Garrison Nearly Led to a Disaster at Combat Training Center
By Matt Lensing, MTI Contributor Army leaders follow the doctrine, “train as you fight,” when planning unit training. According to Field Manual 7-0 Soldiers must train in, “environments as close to combat-like conditions as possible,” so they are prepared for the, “stress, chaos, uncertainty, and complexity of war.” This includes preparing subordinates to operate in […]
Getting to Checkmate – My Journey into online Chess
By McLaughlin Thomas, MTI Contributor I have friends who played chess seriously back in middle or high school, or who started training recently because they finally “got around to it,” or who have a chess set but don’t really use it. All these little blips were subconsciously building until the day the prompt arose […]
A Critical Evaluation of Work Capacity Assessments and Their Applications to Structural Firefighting
By Jim Spengler, MTI Contributor Structural firefighting is unarguably a physically demanding task. Stretching a hose line into a building, search, victim rescue, laddering, to name a few, all require high levels of work capacity. Work capacity from MTI’s own definition is “ high intensity, variable, relatively short physical efforts…where it all comes together-relative […]
Arete 11.10.22
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Breaking the 12 and 24hr Chest to Ground Pushup Burpee Guinness World Records: The Training Plan, The Attempt, The Aftermath
By Tammy Kovaluk, MTI Contributor The Why: In 2019, a friend sent me an article on a female breaking the “12-hour chest to ground pushup burpee” Guinness World Record (GWR), of 5332 burpees. This intrigued me. I did not know a record like this existed and immediately thought trying to break the record. I somewhat […]
Binge Eating, Headaches, Constipation, Extreme Fatigue: My Disastrous Experience with Keto
By René Eastin, MTI Contributor Standing over the kitchen garbage can sobbing uncontrollably; consumed with shame. I had binged before but it had never been this bad. Three banana peels. Two Kraft macaroni and cheese boxes. A jar of Jiffy peanut butter. A box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and the carton of heavy whipping […]