I have been on the lookout for a new strobe setup for awhile and when I saw the HEL-Star 6 I knew it would be what I was looking for. It combined two things I had on my helmet, an IR strobe and a visible light v-lite, in one simple setup and the ability to switch between overt and covert modes with tactile switches was a huge plus over buttons.

You can check out my article from a previous edition of Tactical News Magazine by clicking on the image below.

To say I am a pretty big fan of Strider knives would be a bit of an understatement. However, I don’t just fanatically follow them, there are several reasons I buy them including the warranty Strider puts on their blades and the amount of abuse their knives are capable of absorbing.

I detailed my own experiences with my Strider SMF in a previous issue of Tactical News Magazine, the entirety of which can be read by clicking the image below.

A good tent that doesn’t weigh a ton and is roomy enough to not feel claustrophobic can be a hard thing to find, especially if you want something designed for military members, by military members. The FIDO-1 fits that bill however, it’s a single person tent that can also be strapped to a cot and is one piece of kit with a ton of utility.

I reviewed the FIDO-1 in a previous edition of Tactical News Magazine which can be read online by clicking the image below. Stay tuned for my review of Litefighter’s other tent, the LiteFighter-1, coming up sometime in the next few months.

If you have been following our Facebook page you will know that I am now a regular columnist for Tactical News Magazine, if you haven’t you really should be since we run contests there and it notifies you of updates on our site here. As I have been running the Cadex NVG Mount for the past couple of years I have chosen to write a review on it for this month’s issue of the magazine. So in order to allow my faithful readers access to a bit of extra content, we will now be providing links to my Tactical News Magazine articles on this site.

You can click the image below to open my article in the magazine viewer. You can also read through the rest of this month’s issue by following the link. One of the best parts of this magazine is that you can read it for free online or get a subscription for a paper copy, so I recommend that all of you check it out.

Up until getting my Vertx Men’s Pants I wore jeans when it is cold and shorts when it was warm and that is all. Since these pants entered my house they multiplied several times and I ended up with two sets of the shorts too. My jeans get wore on occasion but for the most part I primarily wear my Vertx pant’s.