#85 Left of Bang With Patrick Van Horne
The Art of Manliness
The Art of Manliness
4.7 • 14.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2014
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
The Marine Combat Hunter Program was developed during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars to give soldiers tools on how to detect threats before they happen. The goal is to make Marines as situationally aware as possible so they can not just survive, but also win lethal encounters. In Left of Bang, Patrick Van Horne presents the skills and mindsets that are taught in the Marine Combat Hunter program for a civilian audience. We talk about situational awareness and how these skills can be used beyond the battlefield.
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| 0:00.0 | Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast. |
| 0:21.2 | Have you ever had one of those moments where you walk into a situation and something just |
| 0:24.0 | doesn't feel right and it makes you stop? |
| 0:26.8 | Like you walk into a restaurant and something about the situation just doesn't feel right |
| 0:32.1 | so you turn around and leave. |
| 0:34.2 | Or it doesn't have to be like you know something bad or violence can happen to you. |
| 0:37.3 | It could be your interviewing and potential employee. |
| 0:40.3 | He's got a spectacular resume but something just tells you don't make the job offer. |
| 0:44.4 | Well these scenarios all represent what our guests today called left of bang moments. |
| 0:49.0 | They're the moments before something bad happens. |
| 0:51.8 | His name is Patrick Van Horn. |
| 0:53.3 | He's the author of the book Left of Bang, How the Marine Corps Combat Hunter Program |
| 0:57.2 | can save your life. |
| 0:59.1 | And Left of Bang is about the Marine Combat Hunter Program which was developed during |
| 1:02.6 | the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s to train Marines how to identify potential |
| 1:10.5 | threats before they happen and stay left of bang. |
| 1:14.3 | Right that explosive moment or that violent moment. |
| 1:17.6 | And they do this by becoming situationally aware to their surroundings and to the people |
| 1:22.1 | they're interacting with. |
| 1:24.0 | And so in this book Patrick basically takes the combat hunter program and presents it to |
| 1:29.0 | a civilian audience and how they can apply it to their own lives to not only just protect |
| 1:34.0 | themselves but also just to be more effective in the world and being aware of who they're |
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