I spent 15 years training Marines in hand-to-hand combat, and my rule was simple

and end threats. At forty-eight, his beard showed more gray than brown, and his frame carried an extra thirty pounds that a soft civilian life had added. But his hands never forgot. They remembered every pressure point, every joint lock, every devastating strike he had drilled into thousands of warriors.

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