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Measuring Risk: Why We Suck at It. Podcast 324
Modern Self Protection Podcast
English - July 12, 2021 01:19 - 24 minutes - 11.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 145 ratingsEducation modern defense protection self training Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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As a contractor, I was in charge of base security at a large FOB (Forward Operating Base) in Iraq. The base commander wanted me to make sure no one ever got hurt on his base. I tried explaining to him that I could simply mitigate the risks from outside the wire but I couldn't stop everything. Someone will fall out of their rack or worse, and what did happen, a soldier committed suicide on the base right after I left. It was horrific, but it was something I couldn’t stop or even begin to work on as a security specialist focused on the threats from the outside.
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