By Mark James

Rule #1 in gun fighting: It is more important not to get shot than it is to shoot; shooting is extra credit.  A gun fight is nothing more than a fight that involves a gun.  In a hand-to-hand encounter (fist fight), whether you have combative skills are not, moving to not get hit is typically instinctive.  Then you look until you hit your adversary as hard as you can as often as you can until you neutralize the threat.  The strategy in a gun fight is the same, whether moving to 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, or 11 o’clock to avoid getting hit.  These encounters are dynamic and rarely predictable. Effective fighters learn to go with the flow and let the situation dictate their response.  Very rarely, if at all, do you stand in place, you move to get off the line of attack as you simultaneously or nearly simultaneously launch your counterattack.  Remember many of these encounters happen inside of 10 feet and most at bad breath distance.

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The video focuses on the importance of understanding the distribution of the shot pattern for defenses purposes. It features Mark “Six” James, President and CEO of Panther Protection Services.

Prevention of Embarrassment

I was worried that I wouldn’t have enough information to complete this series, because our leaders and entertainers never do anything embarrassing. Now that I have your attention, please stop giggling or cursing and continue reading.

When we speak about acts of embarrassment, we tend to think of any action that can publicly demean our protectee.  We have to consider not only acts undertaken by the protectee themselves, but also their family and friends. There is no shortage of examples, but I have plucked a couple out of the tabloids for your reflection.

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Hello Everyone,

It’s me, Jeff, the lesser known behind the scenes guy for Bodyguard Careers.  While Hucky continues to be the face (both literally and figuratively) for the site, I continue to try and find ways to make the website better for our readers.

We have been working hard to bring the Bodyguard Careers community to you, and we have some exciting things to share with you in the near future.

For now, I am posting to let you know that there are several ways that you can connect with Bodyguard Careers.  Find us on your favorite channel:

Our Website – www.bodyguardcareers.com

You can always keep up to date by visiting our website.  Here is where you will find the most up to date content posted, comment on posts, and contact us with questions/concerns and ideas for articles.

While we love having everyone visit our website, and we hope you visit several times a week, there are also other ways to keep up to date with Bodyguard Careers.

Perhaps you didn’t know, but we also offer these options for connecting:

Our Email Newsletter – (You can Sign Up to the Left)

Every Thursday morning, we send out an email highlighting articles, jobs and more that were published during the previous week… and maybe even some content that is exclusive to the email newsletter.  At the time I write this, we have a list of 3,500+ people who have expressed their interest in receiving our newsletter.  That number is far higher than we ever thought we would see when we created the site in 2005.

RSS Feed Reader

For those of you who are tech savvy and follow websites through your RSS Reader, you can add Bodyguard Careers to your feed reader and be notified of our new posts within a few hours of when it’s posted.  If you follow a lot of websites and don’t always have the time to visit them all, this can be a great way to stay informed when a site is updated.

Here is our feed address: http://feeds.feedburner.com/BodyguardCareers

Facebook Fan Page

While we haven’t formally announced it yet, we have had a Facebook Fan page for a few months… and we already have 200 fans!  If you have a Facbeook account, we definitely recommend becoming a fan of Bodyguard Careers, because you can start to interact with the community right within Facebook.  Here is a link to the page… hope to see you as a fan!

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Twitter @bodyguardcareer

Twitter’s character limit prevented us from using our full name, but the effect is the same!  You can now connect with Bodyguard Careers on Twitter by following @bodyguardcareer.  While we have had an account for most of 2009, we don’t have nearly enough followers! Join the community on Twitter and let’s get connected.

(interesting fact – the guy in sunglasses in the photo above is me!)

http://twitter.com/bodyguardcareer

Prevention of Abduction

When we are hired by or assigned to a Protectee, it is often as a result of a direct or implied threat to the Protectee themselves, or the fear of harm to a family member.  We understand that violence occurs for many reasons including revenge, financial, ideological and political motivators.

We also know that if we strengthen security for our Principal, an adversary might, through a process of “transference”, abandon his or her plans and attack a secondary target that is perceived to be softer, but still yield the same headlines or outcome. Thus, we include as another critical element of protective operations, the prevention of abduction.
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