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MISSION BRIEFING – What Sam Knew Before Everything Changed

by Rugged DadBooks September 1, 2026September 1, 20260 comments

Today’s lesson comes from Sam Jenkins. If you’ve read my books, you already know him. If you haven’t, here’s what you need to know. Sam was military. He had training. He had experience. He understood weapons, danger, discipline, and what it meant to function when circumstances became uncomfortable. That gave him an advantage when his …

Why I Wrote The Midwife and the Medic…

by Rugged DadBooks, Dr. David Powers July 17, 20260 comments

People often assume I wrote The Midwife and the Medic because I wanted to tell a disaster story.I didn’t. I wrote it because I wanted to tell a story about ordinary people who choose to do extraordinary things when the world around them is falling apart. For more than thirty years, I’ve worked in professions where preparation wasn’t …