So I didn't see the explosion, but I felt the concussion on my back and everything was just gone.

I felt like I was all alone all of a sudden because everybody had disappeared in this cloud of dust and smoke.

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All right, gang, welcome back to the Active Self Protection podcast.

I am your host, Mike Williver, your favorite former Fed. With us today,

a good friend of mine, Brian McLaughlin. Brian is the director of medical training at Mountain Man

Medical, a sponsor of the show in full disclosure. He is formerly an EMT, an emergency room tech,

and served as a field medic in the United States Marine Corps slash Navy and did tours in Afghanistan, all that which we'll talk about later on. Brian, man, thanks so much for being on. I appreciate your time. Thanks for having me on. I'm excited to be here. We talked about this. Brian was at the National Conference, the Ash National Conference in Kansas, and we met and discussed him coming on the show, and so we're finally getting that in.

And I'm stoked to have this conversation.

I think it'll be very, very interesting.

One of the things that a lot of people in the 2A community and the self-distance community

forget to talk about is what happens if there is a shooting or a stabbing or a car accident?

Someone's injured and you have to deal with that.

In my opinion, getting at least some basic medical training is as important, if not way more important, than honestly getting firearms training or jiu-jitsu or anything else.

Because the odds of you coming

across somebody injured who needs help are probably greater than getting in a shooting or getting

into a knock-down drag-out with someone as long as you're not doing stupid things at stupid times

with stupid people and stupid places that is. With that said, Brian, let's talk about your background

a little bit. I think it's very, very interesting. I think our audience will find it fascinating as well. Where were you from originally?

I was born and raised in Denver, Colorado, and spent some time out on the plains hunting,

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