 Welcome back, my beloved Bookworms. Good Bookworms, make good fighters. Hello everyone, Dylan Schumacher, Citadel Defense, and we are back with another edition of Tactical Book Review. Today's book is The Professional Citizen Project. This is Citizen Manual One, Individual Tactics Skills by Mr. Jack Morris. Full disclosure, Jack is a subscriber to this channel and reached out and offered to send me this book to read, which was very generous of him. Deeply honored, Jack, that you did that. So thank you for sending me this book and thank you for writing it because I enjoyed reading it. So a couple things to note about this book off the bat. First of all, it is written for everyday people like you and me, which is great because of all the books that are viewed in this channel, you know, 95, 100% of them, somewhere in there are all written for people who do this professionally, right? And this book is just written for everyday Shmoes like you and me who want to embrace their martial military American heritage. And in that case, I really, really appreciate it. The second thing that I really like is he uses the word citizen. He uses the word citizen compared to the word civilian. Now I have a personal war against the word civilian, which I probably talked about on here before, but the fact that a civilian's just a person who's defined by what they are not, right? A civilian is just a person who's not military. And these days since 9-11, it also kind of means not law enforcement, maybe not firefighter, right? It's just like, oh, civilian. So I like the fact that he uses the term citizen, someone who has a stake in their nation, who's a stakeholder in how things go, right? Someone who is committed and involved and a part of the political sphere, shall we say? So I really, really appreciate the way he uses the word citizen and it's the professional citizen project versus civilian, which would have kind of been an immediate turnoff to me. So good job on that, Jack. So this is the part one, right? There will be other manuals coming out as far as I can tell, they're not out yet. And I would recommend a part one to you. It's a really good intro to all the stuff. And by that, I mean, you know, the ability to shoot, move and communicate. I appreciate that he does some gear breakdowns in here. He talks about working within your team, right? This isn't just, it's called individual tactics and skills, right? But he has this in the context of a team. So as a team with your group of other professional citizens, you know, how are you gonna choose a common caliber rifle? For example, right? You should think about that. What kind of, you know, general gear should you decide to go with? Be it a chest rig or plates or, you know, a load bearing vest or, I'm sorry, a belt kit or whatever, you know, what are you gonna do? How are you gonna roll with that in your crew? And what is the best way to kind of standardize what needs to be standardized like guns, right? And calibers and stuff like that. And what doesn't need to be quite so standardized and how are you gonna do that together as a team? He goes through, you know, the patrolling basics, right? Some basic land nav and full disclosure here. I've never read a chapter on land nav that I've got done reading and been like, you know what, that nails it. So not because they're poorly written, but because I think land nav is something that is extremely difficult to teach over a book. I just think it's not a topic that you can read about super well, you gotta go do it. And after you do it for like 10 minutes, you're like, oh, this isn't so bad. But reading about it and learning it, it's one of those things that's tough. At least for me and my small brain. He does a fantastic job in here talking about weight and how much weight you should or should not carry. And I thought that part of the book in the beginning was particularly enlightening. And he just talks about the more weight you add, the more it decreases your function, your ability to fight. And being really miserly in how much weight you're carrying. Again, super helpful would recommend. All in, this is a pretty short read. I mean, we're coming in just around 200 pages, just over 200 pages. And again, pretty simple to cover all the basics, right? How are you as an individual gonna know how to shoot, move and communicate with your team? You know, hand signals, basic patrolling, basic attack and flanking tactics, stuff like that. You know, make sure your weapons squared away, zeroing, that kind of thing. So if you have a group of guys and you wanted to get together and read this or you're gonna read it and then teach through it with your guys to make sure everybody's got all the basic skills checked, this would be a good place to start, right? Or if you don't have a team and you don't have a group of guys but you wanna be ready for when you do have one, again, this book would be a good place to start. So I would recommend that you get a copy of the Professional Citizen Project. It is one of the best books that I've read so far that gives the absolute intro basics. Like, you don't know anything about anything and let's give you the intro basics. And so for some of you or for some of us, you know, it might feel a little rudimentary, for example. However, I think this book really shines with someone who doesn't know anything. Or if you're getting together with someone and they're starting to get in this and they wanna learn more or whatever, I would give them this book and just say, hey, just go read that and then come back to me and let's pick up from there. Cause it's gonna do a good job of giving them a foundation level of understanding of what it is we're trying to accomplish. And when you say, hey, we're gonna take a seals halt here, they're gonna know what you mean. They're like, oh yeah, stop, look, listen, smell, like that's what we're doing, right? There's some of the other tactical books that I've reviewed, they're kind of a step above this as far as like a depth. And they already assume you know this stuff. And I have yet to find a book that does a really good job like this of assuming you know nothing and then trying to start you out there. So I think this book does a really good job in that regard and would recommend it for again, people who are coming in just ground zero don't know anything. I hope you found that helpful. I don't have an affiliate link for this but I will put a link to it down below because you definitely should pick it up. Thank you again, Mr. Jack Morris for sending this one over. This has been the professional citizen project, citizen manual one, individual tactical skills. Do brave deeds and endure.