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Dress Run though a list of any of the top 500 pictures of executive protection people on the web under images and you will see nearly the same thing – knuckleheads in black suits that do not fit, [...]

Nairobi Post Attack Just 15 days after the attack on the school Nairobi was on an even higher alert. We encountered a random check by the police, as well as many road diversions. The diversions [...]

Censored! Censorship, as Mark Twain said, “…is telling a man he can’t have a steak because a baby can’t chew it.” I got my first taste of censorship when I was younger, when my [...]

Scare at T2C Paris After a short stay in Paris, all my stays are too Shortt. I began the day with packing and getting ready for an afternoon flight to Belgrade on Etihad, the airline that is [...]

Storm Survival I was reminded this month when a Category 3 Hurricane struck Cabo San Lucas in Mexico that weather and geology can offer up some devastating and surprising circumstances. Weather, [...]

Mind Your Monkeys We escorted a group of Russian business men on a meeting / vacation trip to Bali. We had our local people scout the hotel and the resorts areas. Runs were made to and from the [...]

Traveling In the United States When setting up to travel within the United States I look at all of the cities and states we will be visiting and call up and speak to the different departments. [...]

My Oligarch Has Been Sanctioned It happened despite as silly as it may seem it really did happen. One of our cherished and best of our Graymen was working for a client that was sanctioned. When [...]

The Big Event It has been many months since this event and enough time and distance has passed so that by writing about this now no confidence or security will be breached. Several months ago a [...]

Language Fluency When traveling, it is insufficient to have a team member  just ‘get by’ in speaking the foreign language of the country in which you are travelling; you need to have at least one [...]