“A hero is someone who demonstrates tremendous courage, putting their own life at risk for the benefit of another. Sergeant Ed Eaton was only nineteen years old the night he truly became a hero – the night he fought off two separate groups of Viet Cong with nothing but a broken sniper rifle and the cover of the night.”

For over 15 years Miletich has trained local, state, and federal law-enforcement officers and military groups from all service branches, including special-forces groups attached to those branches. He has also written and designed defensive tactics and combatives courses for other combatives companies.

Ed’s story is one of true selflessness. After their helicopter crashed, as was being surrounded by VC, Ed bravely defended himself and his injuries buddies by staving off the enemy until help could arrive. Once it did, he helped the teams board the bird, and just before take off noticed that a man was left behind.

Ed yelled to the pilot to take off, “I’m not gonna let him die alone” while he jumped from the rescue helicopter. Mike Perkins was the man left behind. Ed stayed with him and continued to fight off the enemy until another helicopter arrived.

The most amazing part of the story to me, is that Ed had to of known that by jumping from the safety of that helicopter to be next to his fallen Captain, meant almost certain death.

Above is the teaser. Look for the full documentary coming up soon.

The author, Eric Blehm, did an amazing job of crafting the story of Adam’s life – “a man of extremes, whose determination was powered by faith, family, and the love of his wife Kelley. Adam, a devoted father, was a man who waged a war against his own worst impulses and persevered to reach the top tier of the U.S. military. Always the first to volunteer for the most dangerous assignments, Adam’s final act of bravery led to the ultimate sacrifice.”

Pick up a copy of the anywhere books are sold. We\’re currently working on the second book teaser.

Life of Duty crew with the Sheriff Department and Department of Fish and Game

We’ll be posting the trailer and documentary in the next few weeks, but for now, above is the news report that was filmed on one of the hikes we were on and here’s the article write-up from the Mercury News in San Jose. It gives a little insight as to the extent of the problem.

The landing zone happened to be a cow pasture with multiple gopher holes, so we decided to try shoving our Canon 7D and 60D cameras into a hole facing up to capture helicopter landing and taking off from a perspective we knew we couldn’t get from a manned camera.

By the end of the day, the helicopter pilot figured out what we were doing and aimed to land the ‘bird’ as close as he could to our cameras.

This is a fun, behind-the-scenes video of some of this.

That passion, and the reasons behind it, come across bright in this 5-minute video that highlights his “Four Minute Workout” Tabata class.