Stark from Earth @ LS @tonyfromls@qoto.org

Gym workout today.

Alright, So I have decided to rebrand my social media accounts and that all related to my "shadow" side remains at the shadows and this account should only reflect my STEM endeavors.

Political instability, terrorism, and insurgency topic is done.

Now at Organized Crime, Kidnap, Extortion, and Piracy topics.

Active surveillance last night while I was on my way home running the 21Km.

Was able to detect with counter-surveillance and avoid with anti-surveillance. Had to deploy Surveillance Detection Route to confirm presence of surveillance and emergency route was used.

Additional security protocols activated upon reaching home, had to sweep area with possible IED, active human threat, and surveillance device.

Intelligence Analysis of the surveillance incident suggest highly likelihood that it was from a VIP PSD team that I passed by flagging me as a potential threat hence surveillance teams were deployed against me.

At political, terrorism, and insurgency movements topic.

The good thing about ISRMP is that intelligence is in the picture and it helps shape strategic and tactical threat decision making.

Just woke up and continuing on threat levels topic in ISRMP course.

I'll be honest about this. The ISRMP certification is actually like a degree program without the minors.

The certification is broad and deep yet they still offered it as a certificate instead of a diploma.

Still best though.

Moving to second module of the ISRMP course.

2nd day successful Ramadan but I was only able to run 9km.

First day of successful Ramadan fasting and did a light gym workouts focusing more into Wudu and Salah and some Quran verses.

Going to study ISRMP or International Security and Risk Management Professional Course.

Later will also get back on MIT-OCW on Calculus for some review and on Theoretical Physics.

Still at the transition phase preparation from software engineer to tactical security operations and risk management.

Ramadan starts today for me and I need to focus and double time on International Security and Risk Management Professional Course.

All set for the 10km forced march with 32kg rucksack.

Evening forced march harooooo!

Had to change my mountain bike's wheel interior after it got flat and had the old interior vulcanized. Turns out a very pointed flower's thorn punctured my rear tire.

Went to have a haircut also. My hair was trimmed and was made with high fade at the back. This tones down my projection because last time my head was almost shaved with zero and the top middle long hair was left making it the mohawk haircut with undercut and they called this haircut Viking Bjorn Style.

The new haircut today is still the Viking haircut but the sides are not almost shaved with zero razor clipper. From lower part to up at the back is a high fade.

Also visited the mosque to get news about the local Ramadan start date and I need to visit the mosque later at evening to get the news if Ramadan will start on the 18th or 19th.

Continuing my studies for the certification on International Security and Risk Management.

On the other hand I need to give some time to my studies on STEM via the MIT-OCW for Electrical Engineering.

So with all my trainings what would this make me? Let see what we got so far:

1.) Level 3 Combined Weapons Proficiency and Private Military Contractor certifications
- Heavy focus on Close Quarter Battles, security and protection of a person and or facility, hostage rescue, long range patrol on foot, operational planning, and empty hand combative.

2.) Combat Course, Tactical Combat Casualty Care, Vehicle CQB
- These are in depth focus on tactical skills and tactics involving vehicle shootout, combat casualty care including medevac communication protocols.

3.) Explosive Ordnance Reconnaissance Agent
- Heavy focus on unexploded ordnance and IED identification, threat management, state force coordination, system view of IED including bomb circuit, components, detonation process, and how to disrupt IED systems.

4.) Basic Open Water, Advance Open Water specialization on [Perfect Buoyancy, Navigation, Deep, Low Visibility / Night, and Wreck], Enriched Air / Nitrox, Deep Speciality, EFR + Rescue
- For underwater operations not requiring stealth, useful for underwater security, safety, and protection, reconnaissance including disposal or removal or installation of explosives.

5.) Anti-Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance, Intelligence Analysis
- For monitoring threat, monitoring adversarial movement, gathering information, preventing kidnap for ransom, preventing, ambush and assassinations, preventing espionage, assessment of adversaries capabilities and it's future actions.

6.) International Security & Risk Management
- This gives me the leadership role in the field of security and risk, enables me to bridge different parties from government, to NGOs, to Corporate, communicate across the Board, C-Suite, Line managers, Staffs and Contractors, External Partners, facilitate integration of the risk management cycle, and provide professional and expert advise, skills, knowledge, and tools pertaining to security and risk at the international standards level.

7.) BS & MS Computer Science And STEM inclination
- This gives me the engineer skills and system view of things, ability to analyze weapons systems and radars

8.) Political Science, Philosophy, and International Relations
- Ability to navigate the real world structure of societies and governments and be able to foresee future dynamics of such systems.

I guess this makes me a formidable tactical security and risk professional already.

Alright. Been a while without updates so here is the big drop!

January was focused on Vehicle CQB course but I got into an accident.

A 9mm bullet went inside the car and exited on the driver seat door at the base of the window where you can put arm to rest. An exit hole was made with the center of the radius at the base of the driver seat door window with depth approximately the radius of the 9mm bullet.

After I secured the VIP at the rear seat, I quickly sprinted around the car on the other side to get into the driver seat. The moment I pulled the door to close it holding the door at the base of the window, my middle finger on the left hand was already punctured by the 2 metal splints from the 9mm bullet exit hole and once I have closed the door and pulled my hand, the flesh was lacerated, close to trauma.

Fortunately, almost all of us in the course have attended the Tactical Combat Casualty Care course so that means a lot of us has TCCC tools and first aid kits.

The head instructor applied first aid with wound powder to dry it up and applied gauze and bondage. It happened 1100H and after lunch break it was opened again and a anti-bacterial ointment is applied.

I still finished the Vehicle CQB course but slowed down on my movements because the time that I moved so fast like a lightning, that is the time I was injured.

By the time the course ended at night I was able to visit the emergency in a nearby hospital for an anti-tetanus shot but the doctor after seeing the wound insisted that it needs to be stitched so I ended up grunting at the operating room as injections of anesthesia was struck around my wound. The nurse told me I was like about to transform into Incredible Hulk 😅. But damn, it was too painful.

After the anesthesia effected, I didn't felt my finger anymore so I watched the doctor and the nurse clean my whole finger, cut a part of the skin that was dangling in the middle of the wound, and stitched my wound. 5 stitches. I was given anti-biotics and pain killer and was discharged.

I still had to travel by land for about 8 hours to reach my home at the beach area.

It took me 1 month before I went back to have my stitched removed but since it was overdue, flesh healed around the stitch and the doctor can't risk nerve damage so they had to put me in operating room again to remove the stitch with anesthesia and as usual, I grunted again and the female nurse told me while they holding me down that I was like transforming into a super saiyan in dragonball Z LMAO 😂

Anyways, I cancelled the supposed CCR training so my deposit is already forfeited. I had to do some reprioritization after realizing that CCR is not really a demand in the PMC industry but a specialization from a niche skillset and instead spend a lot into the CCR which is expensive by the way, I reallocated my budget to the course Anti-Surveillance and Counter-Surveillance. which I took in January and was followed by a training on Intelligence Analysis and also the Vehicle CQB.

I was able to cancel my booking on the hostel at the island but was not able to refund my plane ticket and the bus and boat tickets. Decided to rebook my plane ticket and align it with the CyberSec Asia in Bangkok but then as days came closer to flight I didn't push through because I contracted a flu and was recovering near the flight date and also the risk of the Nipah virus. Thought that I might be incurring unnecessary risk so the tickets are a loss at that point.

All tactical trainings has to end and was only done from October to January. February is now focused on an ISO certificate on International Security and Risk Management Professional Course which is difficult because it is comprehensive and I also need to dig deep into it with tons of case studies.

Also went back to my martial arts training under my master, a former police and SWAT operative.

On the other hand while I am super busy on building myself as a tactical security and risk professional, my ideas in STEM regarding weapons design is still hanging at the back of my head.

Had to adjust the return flight and the return ticket for the boat to accommodate margin dates for the dives because clearly we need rest days from the deep dives for the CCR and it's going to be exhausting for the instructor and me to go straight 12 days on the CCR training for level 2 and level 3.

Training deal has been closed for the Close Circuit Rebreather back on the host country's beautiful island where I trained for PMC.

It is going to be ANDI CCR level 2 and level 3 back to back for 12 days and also gave day off's from the dive for the complete itinerary.

So 40m deep good for most tactical missions on both no-decompression and with decompression.

Back at Luzon now in my home near the beach. I did a Combat Course in Mindanao and my ear hurts cause of 2 days live fire on 5.56 NATO for carbines on both rifles and carbines and 9mm and .45 for pistols.

It was a large group of trainees. The bulk of the class came from Philippine Airforce on Air Police units, Combat Search and Rescue, and Reserve Group.

The rest were from SWAT and Customs units, medical professionals, business men and me.

I was sick on the second day cuz my ear hurts for not bringing my ear protection, my sinus was in pain due to allergy, low fever, super hot climate with few drinking water supply hence I was dehydrated, and cuz of the induced or forced physical stress while doing the drills but fortunately I was able to finish it and go home.