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Military Books from Servicemembers
September, 2007 (San Dimas, CA). Military-Writers.com is a
website committed to listing
military personnel who have authored books.
The website added three former servicemembers who have authored books.
At the age of 14,
Jim Wagner began to study his life long pursuit
of self-defense by beginning his study of the marital arts. Four years later he
joined the
United States Army. In 1991 Jim Wagner,
sponsored by the
Costa Mesa Police Department, entered the
police academy (Orange County Sheriffs Department Training Academy Class 104).
Like his
military training before, Jim Wagner was deeply
influenced by the
law enforcement training realistic conflict
scenarios.
During his career with the
Costa Mesa Police Department,
Jim Wagner earned a place on the
SWAT team. It was through this conduit that Jim
learned about logistics, command post operations, hostage negotiations, entry
team tactics, and sniping. On the job training included courses with
LAPD SWAT, the
U.S. Army Special Forces, the Orange County
Sheriffs Department
Tactical Training Center, and from U.S. Marines
Division Schools Camp Pendleton (Advanced Sniper Course, Military Operations
Urban Terrain, Helicopter Rope Suspension Training, and Range Safety Officer).
While conducting a myriad of
courses at Camp Pendleton, both military units and other
law enforcement agencies using the base for
their own training discovered
Jim Wagners unique approach to training and
his seamless blending of defensive tactics with edged weapons and firearms
skills. Before long he was getting offers from the
United States Marine Corps, U.S. Marshals
Special Operations Group, Department of Defense Police,
California Highway Patrol, California
Department of Corrections, San Diego Sheriffs Department, Los Angeles Probation
Department, U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration & Naturalization Service,
U.S. Navy and U.S. Marines Provost Marshal
Office, Drug Enforcement Administration. By 1996 Jim found himself being invited
by foreign unit to train in their own countries: GermanGSG9, Brazilian G.A.T.E.,
Argentinean G.O.E., Royal Canadian Mounted Police, London Metropolitan Police,
Helsinki Police Department, and various units in Spain, Mexico, and Israel.
The demand on
Jim Wagners time was overwhelming and in 1999
he decided to resign from the
Costa Mesa Police Department and started
teaching full time. Not wanting to fully give up his
law enforcement career Jim applied as a Reserve
Deputy at the Orange County Sheriffs Department. Jim Wagner is the author of
Reality Based Personal Protection.
Designed as a companion book to
Jim Wagners best-selling instructional DVD
series, Reality-Based Personal Protection provides eight detailed
chapters. According to the book description, Reality-Based Personal Protection
system covers the complete tactical spectrum of pre-conflict, conflict and
post-conflict techniques and training methods for a wide variety of worst-case
scenarios. Mastering these tactics will educate you on the dangers of the modern
world and how to survive them. This must-have manual covers: knowledge domain
and conflict rehearsal; defensive tactics using strikes, threat zones and
stopping power; using the ground to your advantage; surviving a knife attack and
countering effectively; military techniques and training methods for handgun
proficiency; how to protect yourself and others in criminal-assault scenarios;
preparing for and surviving terrorist attacks; a special section for womens
self-defense tactics. In this highly-anticipated book,
Jim Wagner shares more than three decades of
martial arts, police, military and
law enforcement training through highly
detailed conceptual explanations, charts and captioned photo sequences. Coupled
with his personal experience in the field and at some of the worlds most
prestigious training facilities, the techniques and tactics of Reality-Based
Personal Protection form the basis for the ultimate modern self-defense system.
Ralph Askew was born in 1937 in Cleveland,
Ohio. He spent a total of 10 years in the Ohio National Guard, the California
National Guard and the
United States Marine Corps where he developed
an interest in military history. After graduating from UCLA, he joined the
LAPD where he spent most of his patrol time at
the Newton Street Patrol Division as a training officer. He retired from the
police department after 21 years. He is the author of Battleslave.
According to the book description
of Battleslave, Chrisinda Balderack, a battledroid, was
artificially produced in a laboratory solely for the purpose of fighting wars
for the Galaxy. The production of battledroids meant that planets associated
with the Galaxy did not have to provide the Galaxy with their own men to be
killed in a far off war. Very few battleroids ever returned home. Many of the
missions the battledroids were sent on were without support. They were trained
to kill their wounded to prevent them from falling into enemy hand, and
revealing the objective of the mission or slowing down its completion.
Battledroids were trained to have no feelings. After meeting a young girl her
own age, Chrisinda develops emotions and feeling for her own fellow battledroids
and finds that she cannot bring herself to kill her fellow wounded.
Jerry C. Scott is a 29-year-veteran
law enforcement officer. After four years in
the
U.S. Air Force as an air traffic controller
during the beginning years of the Vietnam conflict, stationed in Okinawa, he
began his work as a city police officer in the state of Washington, in 1966. He
spent a year as a motorcycle cop, walked the beat in the downtown tavern
district, worked radar, and performed patrol duties.
After five years he moved to
Provo, Utah, in 1977 and took up his profession with the
Utah County Sheriff's Office. He moved through
the ranks as a patrol deputy, patrol sergeant, lieutenant division commander,
and finally operations bureau chief, holding the rank of captain before his
retirement in 1995. His many police experiences include being a co-captain and
assisting in the organization of the first department
SWAT team in 1974. The team members joined the
19th Airborne Special Forces Group with the Utah State National Guard, and they
held the distinction of being the only jump-qualified
SWAT team in the United States.
Jerry Scotts assignment was sniper and bomb
technician. He was a graduate of the Redstone Bomb School in Alabama, and was a
member of the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigations.
He was also an explosive instructor for a number of years at the Utah State
Police Academy and Weber State College. As a jail commander during the 80's, he
rewrote the Utah State Jail Standards and served on the Utah State Jail
Inspection Team.
During all the years of his
law enforcement career, nothing was more
rewarding and enjoyable than his patrol duty assignments. The excitement of
conduction arrests of drug suspects and burglars, and the general assistance to
the public in general, are experiences he holds sacred.
Jerry C. Scott is the author of Glass
Mountain.
According to the book description
of Glass Mountain, true police experiences topple over each other
as this fictional narrative unfolds starting with the watts riots, engaging the
Mexican mafia, and creating an unforgettable love story. This story involves the
real guts of police work.
Military-Writers.com currently lists 47 current or former
military servicemembers and their 95 books.
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