They want us to hate each other. Left. Right. Red. Blue. I’ve buried kids at Uvalde. Pulled people out of trap houses in South Memphis. Evacuated families from Afghanistan. Worked shootings, riots, disasters, and war zones. And not once — not ever — has someone asked me who I voted for before asking for help. That division you see online? It’s not real on the streets. It’s manufactured. And it’s tearing this country apart. I made a video about it. Not as a pundit. Not as a politician. But as someone who’s been in the worst places on earth and still believes we can do better. Watch it. Sit with it. Then jump in the comments — respectfully. If you agree, share it. If you disagree, watch it anyway. And if you’re tired of being forced into boxes that don’t fit… This one’s for you. 👉 Watch the full video. 👉 Like, comment, share. 👉 Subscribe if you’re done with the noise and ready for solutions.

I mentor young adults in various states and countries, including The Gambia Africa. Most people who contact me from other countries want to come to the US. Right or wrong, I do not mentor those individuals but wait for those who want to make a difference where they live. A young man approached me almost 2 years ago about a mentorship. When we spoke, he said "I love my family, I love my people and I love my country. I just want to make it better". Thats what I wait for. Over the past two years, we have made great progress and he is very close now to getting local non-profit off the ground where he lives. He works as a taxi driver and his brother works construction, so working is not an issue but they barely scrape by each month. This young man is 25 and he & his brother live with and support their mother. There are very few decent paying jobs in Africa, so I told them I would start asking around if anyone else has experience with companies that need remote workers (i.e. call center?). They are now on Remote4Africa.com but know we have a very diverse group here at Owen Army and wanted to put it out there. Welcome any ideas or suggestions. Thanks, Robert

I want to dive deeper into something that sits at the core of policing, training, and the human experience—but rarely gets the airtime it deserves: Emotional regulation is one of the most powerful forms of crime prevention we have. Not technology. Not policies. Not equipment. Human regulation. Human capacity. Human control. Because when you strip away all the noise, most of what law enforcement deals with is emotion without direction: People who never learned to pause. People who never learned to sit with discomfort. People who never learned to name a feeling before acting on it. People who were raised in environments where chaos was the norm and regulation didn’t exist. Every cop knows this pattern: Somebody can’t handle anger → becomes an assault Somebody can’t handle shame → becomes a lie, a cover-up, or avoidance Somebody can’t handle fear → becomes violence or self-destruction Somebody can’t handle stress → becomes addiction Somebody can’t handle grief → becomes isolation or suicide And this isn’t just individuals. This is generational. This is cultural. This is systemic. If we taught people how to regulate emotions early on: We would see fewer: • Domestic incidents • Fights • Road rage • Juvenile crimes • Relapses • Overdoses • Suicides • Mental health crises • Officer-involved uses of force • Broken relationships and broken families This isn’t hypothetical — it’s observable reality on every shift. Emotional regulation isn’t soft. It’s tactical. It’s the ability to: – Stay stable under pressure – Recognize the difference between a feeling and a fact – Think while the nervous system is screaming – Decelerate when everything inside wants to accelerate – Not weaponize emotion in conflict – Recognize when you’re escalating someone else without realizing it – Use calm as a strategy, not a luxury This is the same skill that makes elite operators effective in combat. It’s the same skill that makes high-level negotiators successful. It’s the same skill that keeps officers alive during critical incidents.