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[February 5, 2015] How to Develop the Situational Awareness of Jason Bourne
The Art of Manliness ^ | February 5, 2015 | Brett & Kate McKay

Posted on 07/15/2016 6:24:18 AM PDT by combat_boots

There’s a scene at the beginning of The Bourne Identity where the film’s protagonist is sitting in a diner, trying to figure out who he is and why he has a bunch of passports and a gun stashed in a safety deposit box. Bourne also notices that he, well, notices things that other people don’t.

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That superhuman ability to observe his surroundings and make detailed assessments about his environment? It’s not just a trait of top secret operatives; it’s a skill known as situational awareness, and you can possess it too.

As the names implies, situational awareness is simply knowing what’s going on around you. It sounds easy in principle, but in reality requires much practice. And while it is taught to soldiers, law enforcement officers, and yes, government-trained assassins, it’s an important skill for civilians to learn as well. In a dangerous situation, being aware of a threat even seconds before everyone else can keep you and your loved ones safe.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: awareness; selfdefense; shtf; situational; situationalawareness; survival; wot
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To: combat_boots

Last night on CNN they interviewed a young American woman in Nice who kept saying, “I couldn’t believe there could be anything wrong...”


41 posted on 07/15/2016 8:55:58 AM PDT by GnuThere
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To: combat_boots
Look up from your smartphone, don’t zone out

In the videos from last night in Nice, everyone had their noses in their phones. No one was paying any attention. It was amazing no one was accidentally hit crossing the street. How could any of them possibly think that crisis was over or the second wave wasn't immanent?

42 posted on 07/15/2016 9:14:34 AM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: combat_boots

For Later


43 posted on 07/15/2016 9:17:15 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: Made In The USA

“Situational awareness is something we should be teaching our sons and daughters.”—


I agree.

It is also something I should be learning myself.

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44 posted on 07/15/2016 9:17:46 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: combat_boots

Good articles. Bikers use SIPDE == Scan Identify Predict Decide Execute.


45 posted on 07/15/2016 9:38:35 AM PDT by fretzer
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To: combat_boots
For a very good read check out “Left of Bang”
https://www.amazon.com/Left-Bang-Marine-Combat-Program/dp/1936891301/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468601076&sr=8-1&keywords=left+of+bang
46 posted on 07/15/2016 9:42:24 AM PDT by Polynikes ( Hakkaa palle)
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To: fretzer

A link:

Motorcycle SIPDE Strategy

http://www.motorcycleassistant.com/motorcycle-sipde-strategy.html


47 posted on 07/15/2016 9:45:50 AM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: showme_the_Glory

Ping to read later.


48 posted on 07/15/2016 9:54:23 AM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Don’t tell anyone, but I read the thread before posting.

5.56mm


49 posted on 07/15/2016 10:01:05 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Taxman

Ping for later read.


50 posted on 07/15/2016 10:22:26 AM PDT by Taxman ((H. L. Mencken correctly observed: Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man.))
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To: M Kehoe
M Kehoe :" Don’t tell anyone, but I read the thread before posting."

I won't tell anyone ..
but , truth known, I started following the additional links posted by others too ,as well, and found myself in OODA.
Prioritize your information is a practiced skill, sometimes too late learned !

51 posted on 07/15/2016 10:37:00 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Sans-Culotte

The article mentions people who try too hard to “act natural” ie Taliban pretending to be farmers in Afghanistan.
My own situational awareness has been honed by living for years in an inner city cesspool. Those guys “playing basketball” on the corner, as well as the fellows “working on their car” in a driveway were actually dealing crack and heroin.
The drugs were stashed under the hood of the car. The b-ball players would stop playing and chat with passersby, and the money would quickly change hands.
The buyer would then drive or stroll down the block and have another brief chat with the “mechanic” who would pass the drug packet with a quick “handshake” and a “hey, man, how you been?”
The white woman sitting on her porch who was always on the phone (she really wasn’t on the phone) was a signaler, telling the dealers that buyers were coming round the corner. She was a crack ho who got paid in product.

The kids on bikes were signalers too, who watched the outer periphery of the neighborhood. They’d ride by real fast and flash a hand sign at the woman on the phone, to indicate cops were incoming.
She’d jump up and run inside. The “mechanic” would slam the hood of the car. Both he and the b-ballers would stroll off down the street.
Just mindin’ their bidness. Calm as can be.


52 posted on 07/15/2016 10:46:06 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: bgill

“How could any of them think that crisis was over or the second wave wasn’t immanent?”

Excellent point. Perhaps many people subconsciously equate terrorism with natural disasters. IOW, it’s unlikely another hurricane Katrina will happen again for decades, so they apply that same reasoning to terrorism, and think it’s ok to relax. Classic normalcy bias.


53 posted on 07/15/2016 10:56:52 AM PDT by mumblypeg (Make America Sane Again.)
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To: combat_boots

Situational Awareness bookmark


54 posted on 07/15/2016 12:17:41 PM PDT by Squeako (None of them can be trusted. Be ready and act accordingly.)
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To: mumblypeg

Wow, that was some nice tradecraft on the part of the hood rats.


55 posted on 07/15/2016 1:07:02 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ('''Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small''~ Theodore Dallrymple)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks for the ping. Some interesting links on the thread.


56 posted on 07/15/2016 4:35:30 PM PDT by greeneyes
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

What’s an ooda?


57 posted on 07/15/2016 6:33:06 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: TEXOKIE
TEXOKIE :" What’s an ooda? "

The OODA Loop — Observe, Orient, Decide, Act.

"The OODA Loop is an oft-cited, but typically misunderstood idea.
If you’ve heard of it, it was most likely presented in a fairly superficial way – as a 4-step decision-making process where the individual or group
who makes it through all the stages the quickest, wins.
That’s one element of the OODA Loop, but there’s much more to it than that."

OODA Loop as found with more discriptive information at:
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/09/15/ooda-loop/

58 posted on 07/15/2016 7:23:02 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( British historian Arnold Toynbee - Civilisations die from suicide, not by murder.)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Thanks, TIK.... I knew I could count on you! :-D


59 posted on 07/15/2016 8:06:47 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: TEXOKIE; Tilted Irish Kilt

Boyd is one of the most prominent military theorists of the 20th Century, up there with the likes of Fuller and Guderian. His biography is well worth reading.

Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
https://www.amazon.com/Boyd-Fighter-Pilot-Who-Changed/dp/0316796883


60 posted on 07/18/2016 4:35:14 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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