As the great Mike Tyson once said, “Everyone has a plan until nuclear bombs start dropping.” Well, OK … maybe he didn’t say those exact words, but you get what we mean. “Being prepared” for a major catastrophe has gone from being a joke among friends and neighbors to a
You’re all familiar with Colion Noir. We state that as a fact because he graced the summer 2020 cover of Skillset Magazine. And, of course, you all have that issue on your table table right now and you’ve read it cover to cover a bunch of times. We knew we
Carlos Pedro Briceño relates best to this quote by Leonardo da Vinci: “For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” Q: At what age did you get the itch to
When I was a Force Recon Marine, the guys in our unit would often get harassed by outsiders with comments like, “You operators think you are so friggin’ special, don’t you?” Our response would be, “Absolutely not, sir! There are no such thing as special Marines, only Marines with special
So what does it take to execute the most challenging Military Freefall (MFF) jumps in the most extreme environment imaginable? Only one place in the world could support such high-elevation parachute landings — the Everest region of the Himalayas. The first step was to assemble a tribe of adventurers with
Meet Tony Stannard, United States Marine and co-owner of Trinity Art Collective in Tucson, Ariz. Q: Tell us about your job in the Marine Corps before you became a business owner with Trinity Art Collective. A: I went in open contract to Parris Island and the MOS I got was
The following Q&A with Julie McQueen is from the summer 2017 issue of Skillset Magazine. Grab a subscription at OutdoorGroupStore.com! Have you ever met someone and wanted so badly for there to be something wrong with this person? To the point where you hope for this person to be such
Clint Bruce sat down with us for our winter 2018 issue. He talked about his transition from the love of playing football to love of country, duty, and serving in one of the most elite branches of the United States military. Focus, hard work, and determination have made Clint Bruce
Editor’s Note: This article first ran in Skillset back in 2018. To quote the eloquent Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it.” Well, we missed it because Ryder DiFrancesco is already 15 years old and now part
