Spotting Danger With Gary Quesenberry

Over the course of the past twenty years, trampas has worked in and around law enforcement on the local, state, and federal levels through various task forces before transitioning to the firearms and training industries. His travels have led him around the usa to meet some amazing people and learn many valuable lifesaving skills. Of these skills, one of the most important to learn and pass along to family, friends and students is that of situational awareness. So important in fact, pmci decided to invite a special subject matter expert to join us and discuss his new book on the topic! - ts.

While knowing how to proficiently handle a firearm, razor-sharp blade or throw hands like a cage fighter are great skills to have, we don’t use any of these abilities to nearly any fraction of the frequency of which we either consciously or subconsciously use our inborn senses and abilities. To the untrained, it may simply be accredited as a “gut feeling” or “women’s intuition” but for the trained, it is called Situational Awareness and we recognize at some level what an imperative part of our daily survival skills it makes up. Regardless of label, the truth is, everyone can stand to get better and mostly importantly, fully understand WHY this is important to do so.

Recently a book titled, “SPOTTING DANGER BEFORE IT SPOTS YOU” by Gary Quesenberry was published in which it fearlessly tackles the tough topic of Situational Awareness. Two things drove me to immediately purchase this book. First, this is a difficult topic that can easily lend itself to become victim to the slippery slope of a writer’s ego and opinion rather than hard fact. Secondly, I was familiar with the author, Gary Quesenberry, and his background. Some of you may remember Gary as the cool as ice, level-headed contestant on Season 3 of Top Shot which aired on the History Channel. Gary made such an impression with the fans and producers; he was invited back onto the show in Season 5 as an AllStar contestant. What you may not know is that Gary Quesenberry is a US Army Veteran, former Corrections Officer and current US Federal Air Marshal, trainer and CEO of Q-Series, LLC.