Light Fighter Homefront Initiative

Create an Underground Resistance

Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The following article by Rob Ski was originally published in Light Fighter Manifesto Volume III, pages 50 through 57. It is included here as a structural reference for how to think about organizing your chapter’s nine pillars, not as a call to form an underground resistance. LFHI chapters are lawful, public-facing community groups that train practical skills and serve their neighbors in the open. The Foundation is the primary source document for LFHI and defines the initiative’s mission and boundaries.

Area Study Guide

Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

This is not a one-time assignment. It is a living product that the chapter builds, maintains, and acts on. The area study is the Intelligence pillar’s primary output. It informs every other pillar: operations planning, security threat assessment, public records research, and community outreach all draw from what the chapter learns by knowing its environment.

The area study follows three phases:

Desk Research. Gather everything you can from public sources without leaving your desk. Government databases, Census data, FEMA records, FCC filings, OpenStreetMap, and your county’s own GIS portal. This phase builds the foundation.
Field Verification. Get boots on the ground. Drive every road, visit every asset, confirm every address. Desk research tells you what should be there; field verification tells you what actually is.
Ongoing Maintenance. An area study is never finished. Businesses close, officials change, infrastructure breaks. Quarterly reviews and post-event updates keep the data current.

Principle

Measure twice, cut once. Thorough desk research means your field verification is targeted and efficient, not a blind survey of the entire county.

OSINT Methodology and Data Sources

OSINT (open-source intelligence) is the practice of collecting information from publicly available sources. For chapters, this means using government databases, public APIs, and open mapping platforms to build the factual foundation of your area study before anyone drives a mile.

Marksmanship Guide

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

This guide is a rifle and pistol training reference for chapter leads running range sessions and for individual members building marksmanship skills on their own time. It covers equipment setup, shooting fundamentals, structured drills, coaching methods, and qualification standards. Everything here applies to the AR-15 rifle chambered in 5.56 NATO and the full-size 9mm pistol, though the principles transfer to any platform a member chooses to run.

The Foundation establishes the external programs to attend: Project Appleseed for rifle fundamentals, NRA courses for foundational safety and instruction, USPSA and IDPA for competition development. This guide fills the space between those programs. It gives chapters a common language, a structured progression, and a way to measure where members stand. A chapter that shows up to Appleseed having already worked through the fundamentals in this guide will get far more out of that weekend than one that walks in cold.

Deploy a Matrix Server

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Overview

The LFHI homeserver provides a shared space for inter-chapter coordination across the network. Anyone with a Matrix account can join the LFHI Space directly, which gives access to all coordination rooms. That shared space is the starting point, not the end state. The goal is for every chapter to run its own Matrix server. Self-hosting is a core principle of the initiative. Your messages, member data, and encryption keys should live on hardware you control, not on someone else’s server.

Survival and Austere Medicine

Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:00:00 +0000

About This Book

Survival and Austere Medicine: An Introduction (3rd Edition, 2018) is a 620-page reference written by the moderators of the Remote, Austere, Wilderness and Third World Medicine (RAWTWM) discussion group. The author team spans three continents and includes two physicians, a remote-practice registered nurse, a physician assistant, a biomedical technician, a veterinarian, and a paramedic/RN. The book is distributed freely as a PDF, and print copies are sold at production cost with no author compensation.

LF Medic: Procedures