Liberty call.
Twenty-four years in the Marine Corps taught him to check the gear, read the ground, and tell you straight what he found.
Now he does it on cruise ships, golf courses, and anywhere a retirement check stretches further than you'd think. He's the Marine. She runs the camera. Between them they figure out what your service actually gets you out there, and what those discount codes nobody explains are really worth.
Personnel on station
- Principal
- MSgt Patton, USMC (Ret.)
- Service
- 1989 to 2013, 24 years
- Camera and editor
- Nikki Patton
- Home station
- San Antonio, Texas
- Area of operations
- Domestic and international
- Goes by
- Gunny, to the grandkids
What we cover
- The float. Cruise hacks, military rates, and whether the discount really beats the public fare.
- Liberty on a budget. Retirement vacation planning for folks with time on their hands and a fixed number to work with.
- Terrain walk. Must-play golf courses, read by a man who maintains one for a living.
- Seabag inspection. What earns a spot in the bag, and what gets left on the pier.
- Chow and coffee. He's a certified coffee snob, and nobody has talked him out of it yet.
- Dad jokes. Issued without warning. No refunds.
Down the rabbit hole
Before he buys anything, he goes down the rabbit hole. He reads every customer review he can find, hunts down the best price anywhere on the internet, and then modifies the thing until it's a better version than the one they sold him.
Gadgets, tools, and above all, gear that lets him travel light.
If you knew him on active duty, you know about the bucket: a five-gallon bucket carrying a coffee pot and a grinder, because nobody needs to go into theater with stale coffee.
How a brief works
Every product we test gets an After Action Report. It's graded on marks out of 5.0, the same pro and con marks he spent years handing out to Lance Corporals, and it gets one of three verdicts you can act on.
4 to 5. Book it, buy it, go.
2 to 3. It works, with a catch you'll want to know first.
1. Leave it on the shelf.
Off the scale. Reserved for something that goes way beyond a 5, and it always comes with a written commendation. Nothing has earned it yet.
Half marks round down, so a 3.5 is Serviceable. Outstanding takes a full 4. Nobody pays for a better mark. Not now, not ever.
For brands
We make original video for companies serving veterans, military families, and travelers past fifty-five. Production, usage rights, and exclusivity are quoted as separate lines. Rate card on request.
If your product goes in his bag, he'll tell you what he thinks of it. That's the whole offer, and it's why it works.
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Email: msgtpatton@gmail.com
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