Left of Bang, Jason A. Riley
Left of Bang, Jason A. Riley
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Left of Bang
How the Marine Corps’ Combat Hunter Program Can Save Your Life

Author: Jason A. Riley, Patrick Van Horne

Narrator: Danny Campbell

Unabridged: 5 hr 57 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/01/2015

Synopsis

You walk into a restaurant and get an immediate sense that you should leave.

You are about to step onto an elevator with a stranger and something stops you.

You interview a potential new employee who has the résumé to do the job, but something tells you not to offer the position.

These scenarios all represent "left of bang," the moments before something bad happens. But how many times have you talked yourself out of leaving the restaurant, getting off the elevator, or getting over your silly "gut" feeling about someone? Is there a way to not just listen to your inner protector more but to actually increase your sensitivity to threats before they happen? Legendary Marine general James Mattis asked the same question and issued a directive to operationalize the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter program. A comprehensive and no-nonsense approach to heightening each and every one of our gifts of fear, Left of Bang is the result.

About Jason A. Riley

Jason A. Riley has served as a Marine Corps infantry officer since 2003 and is currently a major in the Marine Corps Reserve. While on active duty, he served with 1st Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment and deployed twice to Iraq. He also served as a combat adviser to the Afghan National Army in an eastern province of Afghanistan. From 2009 until 2011, he was a mobile training team leader with the Combat Hunter program at the School of Infantry (West). There, he developed training courses and taught behavioral profiling, among other duties. He currently serves with a reserve unit at Camp Pendleton, California.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Peter

My Amazon review - [URL not allowed] There is a lot of value in this book. Foremost, the authors remind everyone to stay alert. Look for anomalies. If something doesn't seem to fit in, pay attention to it. The other thing of value is that it provides a language and a heuristic f......more

Goodreads review by Dale

This is the best book on situational awareness I have ever read. Left of Bang details the Marine Corps' Combat Hunter programs methods, which were developed to get Marines being deployed in the Middle East "left of bang," able to recognize and respond to events based on non-verbal and environmental......more

Goodreads review by Mia

Needs a bit of editing, as it tends to get wordy and repeats itself at times, but the information inside is great and very useful. Really helped me put in perspective my day to day habits that made me vulnerable; specially poignant is a paragraph about people and their phones, and how if you raise y......more

Goodreads review by Matthew

For fans of the Gift of Fear, this is a must read. It's a detailed expansion of the premises outlined in that book. A substantial, thoughtful expansion and based on the program delineated for Marines. I believe this is a book that should be read by everyone in the military or law enforcement (I can s......more

Goodreads review by Jacob

This book put merely; is about situational awareness with an emphasis on staying out of/away from troubling situations before they happen "Left of Bang." I usually do not do reviews but was saddened to see so many reviews stating "This is a great book if you're in the Military or Law enforcement, but......more

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