5 Things I Started Doing at Night After I Got Out That Keep My Family Safe

📕 HOLD THE HOUSE ($17): the night routine and the lock fixes behind this video, in a 30-minute plan. Chapters 1 and 9. 👉 https://wadeguide.netlify.app A guy I served with never got hit on a street where four other houses did. Not luck. Five habits, none of them cost more than about ten dollars, and my own family has opinions about every one. 🧭 Five things I started doing after I got out, the ones that actually keep a house from looking like an easy one: the screws that matter more than your deadbolt, why one bright floodlight is worse than none, a free trick with your own mail, why I never let my house run on a schedule, and the one habit that has nothing to do with locks or lights at all, the one my wife made sure we actually drilled instead of just talking about. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro 2:35 5. The strike plate 4:46 4. One floodlight is worse than none 6:43 3. The trick with your own mail 8:35 2. Break your own pattern 11:16 1. The family plan 📖 THE MANUALS FM 3-19.30, Physical Security. Everything in this video traces back to the Army's own four words for it: deter, detect, delay, deny. Where a specific fix isn't in the manual (the mail notification, the pattern-breaking around social media), I say so in the video. ⚠️ I'm not a locksmith, an alarm technician, or a security professional, and nothing here is a substitute for guidance from one. If you have a specific security concern, talk to a professional in your area, not a YouTube video. Wade Merrill is a fictional character. No real person is depicted or impersonated. #VeteranHabits #HomeSafety #FieldManual