nothing.
The best fights are the ones you don’t have.
Be on your feet and ready.
Assess and evaluate.
Show them what they’re messing with.
Identify the ringleader.
The ringleader is the one who always moves first.
Act, don’t react.
Never back off.
Don’t break the furniture.
Don’t eat before you go into an Army postmortem.
You need protein and fats and sugars, it doesn’t matter where they come from.
Eat when you can, because you never know when you will next get the chance.
Be friendly with the cookhouse detail.
“I’m a big guy … I need nutrition.”
Eat and plan.
Always eat a perfect breakfast: pancakes. Egg on the top, bacon on the side, plenty of syrup. And plenty of coffee.
Before a night of action and stress, go for empty calories, fats, and complex carbohydrates: pizza and soda.
After giving a wounded man a shot of morphine, remember to mark his forehead with an
When you’ve knocked someone unconscious, put him into the recovery position.
“No need to put a guy in a coma over four grease marks on a shirt.”
To set your own broken nose, smack yourself firmly in the face with the heel of your hand.
Use duct tape to keep a broken nose in place, or to patch up a knife wound.
“Duct tape: the finest field dressing in the world. The Marines once flew me from Lebanon to Germany with nothing but duct tape keeping my lower intestine in.”
A well-aimed headbutt can leave your opponent unconscious but may leave you with a bruised forehead.
After a fistfight, the best cure for a sore hand is to wrap it around a cold beer.
>>WHAT TO DO WHEN A WOMAN FAINTS
Catch the victim.
Lay her down with her feet high and her head low, so gravity helps the blood go to the brain.
Check her pulse.
Stimulate her with loud yells or light slaps.
Persuade her to lie still for fifteen or twenty minutes.
Loosen any clothing, tight or otherwise, if you think she would like you to.
>>FITNESS REGIME
Throw back the covers.
Stand up and stretch.
Arch your back.
Point your toes.
