A Navy SEAL reveals why you should always carry a high-powered flashlight

Former Navy SEAL Brandon Webb reveals why a high-powered flashlight is one of the most important things you can carry.

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[galexeqe]

Couldn't agree more. A few years ago when I was still doing security I was on patrol and came around a corner to see some a-holes tagging one of our vehicles, one took off but the other thought he was hard and started approaching in a threatening manner. I had a P7 Led lenzer with me and shone it in his face and kept it trained there. He still kept approaching like the hard man he thought he was but eventually gave up, no point fighting if your blind, he took off blindly climbed a barbed wire fence, fell HARD on the other side and limped away

[prakticlej]

if I seen this guy in the street I would never guess he was military those guys are lucky he just shined a light at them

[jcookev]

I really wanted to buy a new jacket with my 100$ but well I guess a flashlight it is...

[sanjose]

WHAT he says is accurate and good advice

[harrys.]

A Navy Seal reveals why this channel is a waste of time

[thetrademarkclan]

Dude needs to carry a high power electric

[mainintelligencedirectorat]

Great stuff, as always. In my life I have met quite a few famous people. And, famous or not so famous, I always ask them what their "essential carry" is. That is not the same as their EDC. Rather, it is something - save being in bed or in the bath/shower - that they would never be without.
I used to work for Baroness Thatcher and, of course, I asked her this same question. She answered it instantly: "I always carry a torch. Never go anywhere without one." Then she explained why. For she was once in a hotel bedroom, in Brighton as it happens, when a bomb, planted a year-or-so earlier behind some bath tiles in a nearby room, exploded on 12th October 1984.. The explosion resultant explosion was intended to kill her. Fortunately for her, she was coming in/out of the bathroom (I forget which) at the time and all was well. However, she was immediately plunged into darkness. From that moment onward she always carried a torch.
I, naturally, took her advice.

[MikeSmith-srtu]

Am I the only one that isn't sure if this guy was really a navy seal?

[billace]

Yes, high powered lumen flashlight but also important…… with a powerful strobe light to blind, disorient, and incapacitate any assailant.

My present EDC light is a small, tactical Manker Striker Luminus SFT 40 with 2, 300 lumens out, plus strobe.

That will leave any assailant stunned.

[rar]

I've always thought about this, but now that I know a Navy SEAL actually does do it, I'm doing it too

[edgarflores]

Dafuq is a navy seal doing in an alley with a chick

[gpo]

aaaand if you are a criminal carry a high lumens flashlight to blind your victim so they cannot identify you...LMAO!

[followjesus]

I 1000% agree. I always carry a very very powerful super high beam handheld flashlight that is actually medium size too small. You can buy them for as low as $20 now. Mine will shoot a straight beam 50 yards. So if you shoot it into someone's face 5 yards in front of you they totally become blinded for the next 60 Seconds, which gives you the main advantage to either run away or disable them. True story, one time I was walking to work at 3 a.m. in the morning when I was approached by 3 homeless guys who kind of started following me. I was not afraid because I'm a pretty good-sized guy myself but you never know what is in the mind of a crazy homeless guy looking for money at 3 a.m. x 3. They followed me for about 1 block and then pulled out a little tiny $2 flashlight and kind of started shining it in my direction. I stopped turned around, turn on my flashlight and blinded all three of their faces. You could actually hear them making groaning sounds and throwing their hands up in the air they were blinded for about 30 to 60 seconds and could not even see where they were walking. After that I just calmly kept walking to my job and went to work with no problems at all. So yeah for $20 it's one of the best nighttime self defense weapons. But mine is also made of heavy duty metal so the other end is almost like a hammer, if you get my point. If it ever came down to that.

[reallyhappenings]

Anyone who has owned this kind of flashlight knows what great advice this is for so many situations.

[ShimomuraTakezoWong]

I can't agree more because that's what I have been doing for the last 25 years, thanks for reaffirming.

[antikoerper]

Got the habit of carrying one (Nitecore p12gt) an year ago; serves great purpose

[notottomedic]

Hey, in a pinch, you can use a flashlight to see in the dark, it can be used as a hammer, a battering ram.

[TeddyJSmooth]

A flashlight is no match against a revolver!

[gabrielsum]

Instructions unclear: ending up buying a high power rifle

[Spartan_Ronin]

1000 lumens on strobe setting strike torch always on my side 😊