Brothers In Battle, LLC

10/11/2026

Come On….Time to get back to the mission, next stop Seattle and the PNW Fire Conference 🔥🔥🔥

Get to listen to a full day of some incredible lectures tomorrow, then I will present “VES: Beyond The Door” on Tuesday and then our Brothers In Battle LLC Cadre will be providing two days of our “VES: Beyond The Door” HOT class on Wednesday & Thursday 👊🇺🇸🔥

Going to be a great week of Firemanship!

PNW Fire Conference
Brothers In Battle, LLC

10/07/2026

Limited spots are left in our only Force Entry Academy that's left. This will be in Illinois in December.

This is one of these most comprehensive force entry classes you'll get. While it's only three days, it's roughly 40 hours.

Don't miss out and share this around!

Get tickets online for 26 - Forcible Entry Academy here.

09/23/2026

Come On….Save the dates, I promise you will not be disappointed 👊🇺🇸🔥

Who’s coming?

Let's do it again! See you next year 👊🔥

09/11/2026

Never Forgotten 🙏🇺🇸🔥

John 15:13 ~ Greater love has no one than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends

09/02/2026

🚩UPDATE: Raffle supporting the Franklin Family🚩

Shawn Franklin, the husband of Salisbury Battalion Chief and one of our Firemanship Cadre members Lauran Franklin, was killed last Saturday in a car accident in Kentucky while away on work. Shawn and Lauran have 5 kids together in their home, two of which they had recently started fostering.

We’ve had a tremendous outpouring of support from our friends at The Council Tool Co. Vanguard Safety Wear Soda City Training FireNuggets, Inc. Anderson Rescue Solutions LLC MES Fire Orion Rich the Energy Drink™ (Formerly Buff'd Energy) and The Yard Foundation | The BEST Charity For Firefighters So, we are splitting everything up and will now have 5 winners!

🚨What we need from you: share this far and wide! With every firefighter you know! Let’s make a big push for the Franklin Family! Follow the steps below to be entered into the raffle.🚨

The only way to make a donation is through this link to the yard foundation.

You do not have to participate in the raffle portion of this in order to make a donation if you do not want to.

Donations can be made to
https://www.theyardfoundation.org/mayday/franklin

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Take a screenshot of the donation made.

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Email that screenshot to [email protected] with the subject “Franklin Raffle”

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Every $20 donated will get you a ticket.

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Raffle will run until September 6th with a drawing date to be announced.

Thank y’all so much for the support and to everyone who has already stepped up to help carry some of the weight!

08/26/2026

🚩UPDATE: Raffle supporting the Franklin Family🚩

Shawn Franklin, the husband of Salisbury Battalion Chief Lauran Franklin, was killed last Saturday in a car accident in Kentucky while away on work. Shawn and Lauran had 5 kids, two of which they had recently started fostering.

We’ve had a tremendous outpouring of support from our friends at Council Tools, Vanguard Safetywear, Soda City Training, FireNuggets South Carolina, Anderson Rescue Solutions, MES, The Working Truck Company, and The Energy Drink! So, we are splitting everything up and will now have 5 winners.

🚨What we need from you: share this far and wide! With every firefighter you know! Let’s make a big push for the Franklin Family! Follow the steps below to be entered into the raffle.🚨

Donations can be made to
https://www.theyardfoundation.org/mayday/franklin

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Take a screenshot of the donation made.

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Email that screenshot to [email protected] with the subject “Franklin Raffle”

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Every $20 donated will get you a ticket.

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Raffle will run until September 6th with a drawing date to be announced.

Thank y’all so much for the support and to everyone who has already stepped up to help carry some of the weight!

08/26/2026

Fellow Brothers In Battle Cadre member Gary Lane was on the Scrap.

Check it out here - https://open.spotify.com/episode/3hKiflDHOuB0pkbk7IDR5S?si=DOPWMGPUR62X6TqSznnoEA&utm_source=copy-link

The Weekly Scrap, Firefighter Podcast · Episode

08/23/2026

Sunday Gospel ~ Long Suffering

Also known as patience or patiently enduring hard times.

It is described as a core character trait of God and a gift that the Holy Spirit gives to believers!

Let me say that again, a core character trait of God and a gift to you and I!

Patience is a fruit of the Holy Spirit along with love, joy, peace, goodness, self control, kindness and faithfulness which leads to forgiveness as well.

And the promise is after you have suffered a little God will himself:

Restore you
Make you strong
Make you firm
Make you steadfast

Most of us, especially us Firefighters are always looking for the answer to the problem in the fastest most efficient and effective way possible.

When we apply this to our lives and try and do it our way or with a quick fix we really get no fix at all and we get the following results.

Anger
Bitterness
Hardness
Impatience
Jealousy
Divisiveness
Drunkenness
Sexual immorality
Lying
Cheating
Stealing
Unforgiveness

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see these two outcomes for what they are, it takes a believer led by Holy Spirit!

Choose Christ and choose to be patient in your long suffering, one feeble step, day and prayer at a time and find out!

1 peter 5:10 ~ And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast



Firemanship

08/22/2026

Our hearts are broken!

Lauran has given so much of her heart to the mission of Firemanship over the years 🙏❤️🔥

Please share this and if it’s in your heart please help support Lauran and her family in what we know will be extremely difficult times ahead.

The Venmo link is in the comments!

She has 5 children to care for without her husband now and every dollar will go to her and help provide for them.

She is a resilient women of strong faith who has overcome much adversity especially In recent years before this tragic accident even took place.

So please also lift her and her family up in your prayers as well to our Heavenly Father to comfort her and draw even closer to her than ever before, may she feel his warm embrace as she mourns 🙏❤️🔥

She has such an amazing heart and has been an absolute blessing to our Firemanship family and all who have come to learn.

She has inspired and lifted up so many!

I pray we can return this to her 🙏❤️🔥

The Firemanship Family requests your support for one of our own, Battalion Chief Lauran Franklin of the Salisbury Fire Department. Last weekend, Lauran lost her husband, Shawn, to a tragic car accident in Kentucky.

Lauran has been an instructor for our spouse HOT track for the past three years - guiding spouses, empowering women, and strengthening fire families. Now, her family could use some love and support during this unimaginable time. Shawn and Lauran are the parents of five children, two who were recently welcomed through foster care.

Ways to Donate ❤️

Mail donations to:
Salisbury Fire Department
514 East Innes St., Salisbury, NC 28144

Checks payable to: Salisbury Police Foundation
Add a memo - "Lauran Franklin"

Online donations:
Close friend and Battalion Chief Adrian Gantt is collecting funds with 100% going to Lauran. Please memo: Lauran Franklin in the notes. Venmo: -gantt-1

Our buddies at 13-35 LLC have set-up a raffle. Head to their page for details.

Let's show the Franklin family how the fire service shows up. We send our love, prayers, and condolences to the Franklin family during this time. 🙏🏻

08/20/2026

Awesome new Firemanship highlight video from our friends at First-In Studios 👊🇺🇸🔥