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    Sentinel: Become the Agent in Charge of Your Own Protection Detail
    Sentinel: Become the Agent in Charge of Your Own Protection Detail
    Sentinel: Become the Agent in Charge of Your Own Protection Detail
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    Sentinel: Become the Agent in Charge of Your Own Protection Detail

    By Patrick McNamara

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    Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Wouldnt you rather know that you had done everything in your power to have prepared yourself for that moment when something goes wrong? None of us plan to fail, but we may fail to plan.

    In Sentinel, author Patrick McNamara provides an instructional guide filled with survival techniques for the family. Drawing from his background as a special-operations agent for twenty-two years, McNamara discusses the importance of being the protector of the family and provides a host of techniques, strategies, and procedures to ensure safety. He offers simple steps for being better prepared for power blackouts, home invasions, and attacks on the street and more. From your home to your vehicle and beyond, McNamara discusses how to plan for contingencies.

    Sentinel provides the information necessary to help you take charge of your own domain and be able to count on yourself to protect your own life and the lives of those close to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateNov 29, 2012
    ISBN9781475960501
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      Sentinel - Patrick McNamara

      Copyright © 2012 by Patrick McNamara.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      You should not undertake any diet/exercise regimen recommended in this book before consulting your personal physician. Neither the author nor the publisher shall be responsible or liable for any loss or damage allegedly arising as a consequence of your use or application of any information or suggestions contained in this book.

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      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4759-6049-5 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4759-6050-1 (ebk)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2012921694

      iUniverse rev. date: 11/27/2012

      Contents

      Introduction

      Take Back Your Sentinel Authority

      Your Protection Detail

      You Are the Agent in Charge (AIC)

      Limo Driver

      Fix It Yourself

      The Advance Team

      Discover Performance

      Train Like You Fight!

      Shooting 101

      Hunt It, Kill It, Eat It!

      Urban Survival Skills

      Combat Strength Training

      Hand Combat

      First Aid

      Your House, Your Fortress

      Safe Haven

      Protecting the HQ

      Disaster Preparation

      Communication

      Be Prepared to Bug Out

      Go Bags

      The 7 Ps

      Use the World Wide Web

      Security Is in Numbers

      Better to Have . . . 

      About the Author

      As defined by Dictionary.com:

      Sentinel • sen·ti·nel

      1. a person or thing that watches or stands as if watching.

      2. a soldier stationed as a guard to challenge all comers and prevent a surprise attack: to stand sentinel.

      3. Also called tag. Computers. a symbol, mark, or other labeling device indicating the beginning or end of a unit of information.

      —verb (used with object)

      4. to watch over or guard as a sentinel.

      Origin: 1570-80; < MF sentinelle < It sentinella, deriv. of OIt sentina vigilance (L sent(īre) to observe) +-īna-ine2)

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      Introduction

      We may not be able to plan for everything that is uncertain in life, but we are capable of increasing our levels of awareness and preparedness. Economic collapse, storms of biblical proportions, and zombie attacks are not as likely as unfortunate events that happen in our day-to-day existence. There are simple steps we may take to assist us in being better prepared for power blackouts, home invasion, and attacks on the street from random dirtbags.

      We should enjoy relative peace of mind knowing that we have planned for uncertainty, and we should rest easier at the top of the food chain. It is said that information is power. It may also be powerful and able to arm us with increased levels of lethality and survivability.

      At the very least, increasing the scope of our capabilities database is a battlefield multiplier on the front lines of life.

      Take Back

      Your Sentinel Authority

      Anything can happen to anyone, anywhere, at any time. It’s called Murphy’s Law. That being said, wouldn’t you rather know that you had done everything in your power to have prepared yourself for that Murphy’s Moment? None of us plan to fail. We may, however, fail to plan.

      I served in the military for twenty-two years, and in that time never left the special operations community. I’ve been battered, broken, and bruised but have also enjoyed the sweet taste of success as I toiled through some of the military’s toughest training. I descended from skyscrapers and ran through breach points consumed by fire. I jumped from aircraft at heights where the curvature of the earth was visible. I have flown into hostile territory on the outside of rotary-winged aircraft. I have tangled with some of the planet’s biggest and most notorious villains. I set up spy networks in Eastern Europe during the Cold War and spied on the Soviet Army when spying was face-to-face, not in cyberspace. I had to discern, discriminate, formulate, and act in nanoseconds.

      There was a time when I was human with immortal qualities. I was a creature of the night and a harvester of souls. I was one of our country’s agents of correction. I oozed attitude and fortitude. I have protected generals, dignitaries, heads of state, and royalty.

      Fast-forward to today where I have a less-than-arduous task list: I must assist in a school field trip. I am packing lunches with PB & Js, juice boxes, and fruit roll-ups. Mmmm . . . fruit roll-ups. At times I feel as though someone stepped on my Man-Card.

      I have a new mission now, that’s all, and it includes PB & Js and PTAs. It is a mission of self-preservation and force-preservation. The force, in this case, is my family. I must embrace this new mission, as it is my duty as a human being and duty as a rational human. I must count on myself to protect myself and my family. This mission was not assigned to me, but rather it is a God-given duty. I have the tools necessary to accomplish this mission within me. I must access my data bank’s primal side. I am a human being and was born with natural defense mechanisms. I must give my mind permission to allow these mechanisms to work automatically.

      We humans and our descendants have been on this planet for a couple million years. We are not hunting mammoths or dodging saber-toothed tigers anymore, but dangers still lurk in the shadows. We must safeguard ourselves and our families. Self-preservation must be front and center. If we are the head of a family, priorities shift, but we must preserve the self in order to preserve the force.

      I am the agent in charge of my own protective detail. The AIC. I am the protector and the protectee. I have a wife and children. It is my responsibility to protect them. I am not a bodyguard. I am my family’s Batman. I am the shepherd of my flock.

      I am a Sentinel.

      Your Protection Detail

      The group of professionals assigned to a protectee, or principal, is called a protection detail. The term executive protection was coined in the 1970s by the United States Secret Service when they created the Executive Protection Service to guard visiting foreign dignitaries.

      The protection of an individual is comprehensive and goes well beyond surrounding the individual with well-armed agents. As part of an executive protection detail’s mission of preventing an incident before it occurs, the detail relies on meticulous advance work and threat assessments developed by its Intelligence Division to identify potential risks to principals.

      So let us discuss, in a nutshell, how a protection detail is put together and how it operates.

      First off, the difference between a bodyguard and a protection professional is that a bodyguard is a goon in a suit and specializes in knuckle dragging. A protection professional typically works on an executive protection detail and is better prepared to process information in the environment, identify threats before they materialize, and then formulate a variety of courses of action.

      An executive protection detail is a complex machine requiring several necessary moving components. There are motorcade operations, including a lead car in front and a follow car in back of the dignitary’s limo; advance operations; inner and outer circles; a chain of command that includes an agent in charge (AIC) and a shift leader (SL), pre-posted and counter-surveillance agents; and the list goes on.

      Executive protection (EP), also known as close personal protection, refers to security measures taken to ensure the safety of VIPs or other individuals who may be exposed to elevated personal risk because of their employment, celebrity status, wealth, associations, or geographical location. It is a highly specialized field within the private security industry. Elite executive protection professionals (aka agents) will have specialized training in executive protection, driving, first aid, and marksmanship.

      The primary purpose of an EP detail is to safeguard the principal from harm and from situations likely to endanger his or her person or

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