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Get Ready for Brandon Webb’s The Red Circle

Brandon with two “friendlies.”

So regular readers around here know Brandon Webb as the former editor of Military.com’s Kit Up! blog, but he’s had an equally impressive career in the Navy and you can read all about that in Brandon’s new book THE RED CIRCLE: My Life in the Navy SEAL Corps and How I Trained America’s Deadliest Marksmen, due April 10th from St. Martin’s Press.

Brandon served with SEAL Team Three in the Persian Gulf in Afghanistan and went on to design a new sniper curriculum that “took sniper training out of Cold War methodology and shaped it into what it is today, training a generation of SEAL graduates who have become some of America’s finest warriors of the 21st century.”

If you don’t want to wait until next month, we’ve got an epic excerpt from THE RED CIRCLE where Brandon talks about his service in Afghanistan.  +Continue Reading

Restrepo on Netflix

Over at our Kit Up! blog, Christian points out that Restrepo, Sebastian Junger and Tim Heatherington’s documentary about the Afghan war, is now available for streaming on Netflix.

You should really check out the movie and a Netflix account isn’t a lousy way to spend $8 a month, either.

The AK-47 Story

As Christian noted over at Kit Up!, author C.J. Chivers gave a great interview to NPR’s Fresh Air about The Gun, his new book that explores the history of the Kalashnikov rifle. It’s definitely worth a listen.