I – Prepare

Range Ready Handgun Video Series

With the focus on being properly prepared, the company Real Avid has produced the 8-episode video Range Ready™ Handgun Series to help shooters prepare responsibly, understand their equipment, build confidence, and get more from every safe range session.

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Presented by world-renowned champion competitive shooter and trainer Doug Koenig, the series emphasizes practical firearm applications and establishes the concept that confidence with a handgun does not begin at the firing line…it begins before the first round is fired. In short, Range Ready™ means showing up prepared with a goal, practicing with purpose, and building confidence through responsible, repeatable habits.

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Here’s Episode 1: Shoot With a Goal, Not Just for Fun

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Interview With Active Shooter Incident Expert, Lt. Col. Ed Monk

SemperVerus interviewed Ed Monk, retired Army officer, former schoolteacher, law enforcement officer and firearms trainer, and author of First 30 Seconds: The Active Shooter Problem.

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What led you to conduct your extensive research and write the book, First 30 Seconds?
I started researching the Active Shooter problem because of my transition from the Army to public education. In August of 2007, I retired from the Army after 24 years of active duty and 15 months after returning from duty in Iraq. I was an Armor officer, so I served mostly in units with tanks. Planning for, analyzing, and wargaming violence was my job.

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Personal Defense World EDC Video Series: Vehicle Situational Awareness

The print and digital magazine Personal Defense World describes itself as “your go-to site for everything essential to serious self-defense.” One of its feature productions is the Everyday Carry Video Series offering brief instructional videos on a variety of EDC topics.

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Below is the EDC 7-minute video explaining the importance of being situationally aware as a self-defense tool while walking to your vehicle. Following that is the list of, and links to, other videos in the series.

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Kairos: The Wisdom of Knowing When to Act for Strategic Impact

Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word that refers to a decisive, appointed, or opportune “right time.” It appears over 80 times in the New Testament to describe a divine moment when God intervenes or when a crucial window of opportunity requires a specific, faithful response.

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Kairos vs Carpe Diem:  While both phrases encourage active engagement with the present, the Latin phrase Carpe Diem (“seize the day”) is about acting on any moment, whereas Kairos is about recognizing the right moment on which to act. One pushes you to create your own opportunity, while the other reminds you to wait for the opportune time.

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Carpe Diem is a proactive call to action rooted in the philosophy that time is fleeting. It encourages you to take control of your destiny, take risks, and maximize every single day—regardless of the external circumstances.

Kairos isn’t about rushing to force a moment; it’s about having the wisdom and intuition to spot the perfect, fleeting window of opportunity and acting decisively when the “time is ripe.” Kairos is the perfect, strategic moment.

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Strive for Readiness

The first principle of living a SemperVerus life is to intentionally prepare yourself for any and all conditions you face in your everyday living:

I. Prepare: Putting your life into proper condition and readiness to successfully handle material and spiritual foreseen and unforeseen circumstances.

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Notice that the word “readiness” is included in that concept. In his Homeland Security Today article, It is Time to Replace Preparedness With Readiness, retired Army officer and former External Affairs Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Region 3, Dan Stoneking, owner and principal at Stoneking Strategic Communications, encourages readers to go beyond merely being prepared, and focus their attention on being ready.

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Here are excerpts from his opinion column:

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