Tag: bodyguard careers
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Gun Ownership Or Firearm Adoption
By John R. Lehman For every one opinion offered, there are a hundred that will disagree with it, so before we begin, let’s understand that this opinion is offered from a bit of a different approach for the purpose of presenting a method for determining whether or not to own a firearm. While I am…
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Attempted Abduction of Shipowner in Athens, Greece
One of the cases when training and awareness can save your life. This person has been attending many security and driving courses. He managed to keep his calmness, react fast and escape from the ambush: ”On Thursday afternoon a group of men tried to abduct the Greek shipowner Ioannis Martinos. At least five men armed with…
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Have you ever considered what the clients are looking for when they hire?
John Lehman, Athena Academy’s Vice President, did a research recently, he contacted several past clients for whom he no longer provides service and reviewed about 40 questionnaire files. Here are comments from the majority of the clients questioned along with the most desired qualifications: -Minimum of a high school diploma. -Have 10 client references and…
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Athena Academy – Former Student´s Perspective
I am a graduate student of both CPO level 1in 2011 and CPO level 2 in 2012. Before enrolling at Athena I had done my research on several personal protection schools. I either found them to be too expensive or only 3 or 4 day course which just isn’t enough time to give someone the…
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Is the warrior mindset right for our profession?
We know what the Term “Warrior Mindset” is supposed to mean. It is having the emotional drive and mental preparedness to think through the problem, fight through the problem and then not stopping until you are satisfied with the solution. While this works well on the battlefield, can we assume that this “mindset” will…
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Is a security detail enough?
Personal Protection has always been viewed as a physical or tangible thing that could be measured by effort and labor put into creating and maintaining a program. Since the Internet first allowed for the publishing and dispersal of personal information, the public has obliged the technology by accessing and downloading billions of terabytes of information…
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The necessity of training civilians dealing with a crisis situation
The Boston attack proved once again how vulnerable any city or country can be under a terrorist attack. In the aftermath, we were subjected to the news media clamoring for access to the opinions of the experts. In almost every case the “experts” start popping off and saying what went wrong and what should have…
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Can you foresee and prevent threats?
No matter what our profession, age, sex, culture or country we live in, we all have to deal at some point in our lives with aggressive individuals, either as criminals, colleagues or family members. As a woman I can see multiple uses of Mr. Byrnes’ Critical Aggression Prevention System (CAPS).
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Fallen Bodyguards: the unknown heroes
Probably their death news never gets more than a dozen of views in online news sites or blogs. Most of the times their names are not revealed from the MEDIA and they are just mentioned as that celebrity or that dignitary bodyguard who was killed…. But they are people like us, with families, people with…
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