The Centurion Difference

When it comes to your tactical gear, we've got your back.

• We guarantee everything we sell. If it ever breaks or quits working, we'll replace it whether it's been 1 year or 20 years since you bought it.
• Satisfaction is Expected. We expect you will be more than happy with the products you order from us. If you don't like it, we'll pay to ship it back for a refund or exchange.

Centurion is the "best value" for your tactical gear needs.

New Look for CenturionTactical.com

We're pleased with the "new look" of CenturionTactical.com. We're constantly trying to improve the experience of finding and purchasing tactical gear online.

Overall, we think the new site offers a cleaner look. We've reduced the number of clicks required to get you to the item you're looking for with the menu of the left side of the screen. When you hover over a category, any sub-categories open up in another menu allowing you to instantly navigate to what you are looking for rather than go through a number of pages to get there. We've added a few new items as well as changing the layout and navigation of the site. Hundreds of new items will be added after the first of the year.

We welcome any comments on the new site layout.

The Kingdom - Movie Review

Just saw The Kingdom the other day and decided to put down a few comments. Overall, I liked it a lot. In some places the details were a little weak, but not a bad action movie. It's somewhat hard to describe. Many of the individual scenes are plausible, but not linked together very well.

I think it brings out a lot of the complexity of Saudi Arabia. You have the moderate people who just want to raise a family and get by living amongst radical Islamists. I believe Saudi Arabia is the most "overlooked" threat to the United States. Don't forget that 15 of the 19 Sept. 11 hijackers were Saudi.

Good depiction of urban combat at the end. Lots of action. Gives the viewer a look at fighting from room to room.

See Movie Trailer

Warrior Wear ECWCS Jacket

It's that time of year again for most of us. The weather is turning wet and cold. If you need to upgrade your gear before winter, take a serious look at Blackhawk Warrior Wear Gen III ECWCS.

Unlike previous ECWCS, the Warrior Wear is soft to the touch and quiet while moving through the brush. That was my biggest complaint about the Gore-tex ECWCS stuff. It kept you dry, had a plastic feel that made a lot of noise from movement or from vegetation rubbing against it. The Warrior Wear is a huge improvement and also much lighter than the ECWCS issued to most of us.

This is the outer layer. You'll need the Warrior Wear fleece liner, or something similar, to add insulation to this waterproof shell. This is the best cold/wet weather gear out there. Check it out on our site!

SPOT Satellite Messenger

Introducing SPOT – The World’s First Satellite Messenger. SPOT allows you to check in with friends or family, call for help, or allow others to track your progress on hikes, hunts, patrols, etc. SPOT utilizes 100% satellite technology and works around the world – even where cell phones don’t.




Over the years, a number of people have wanted a device that would call for help if stranded in the backcountry. Many of us like to get off the beaten path, but without an expensive satellite phone, there's no way to get help where cell phones don't work.

SPOT will also track your location during an emergency call. If you send a 911 emergency call while on the move, SPOT will keep the authorities updated with your exact location while you're moving.

SPOT can overlay your location on Google Maps so for others to track your progress on hikes, hunts, convoys, security details, etc.

I think I'll get one to send with my teenage daughter once she starts dating!!!!!!!!!!!!

SPOT is now available on our website at CenturionTactical.com for $149.95.

One Finger Salute

Leading the fight is Gunnery Sgt Michael Burghardt, known as "Iron Mike" or just "Gunny". He was on his third tour in Iraq and had become a legend in the bomb disposal world after winning the Bronze Star for disabling 64 IEDs and destroying 1,548 pieces of ordnance during his second tour. Then, on September 19, he got blown up. He had arrived at a chaotic scene after a bomb had killed four US soldiers. He chose not to wear the bulky bomb protection suit. "You can't react to any sniper fire and you get tunnel-vision," he explains. So, protected by just a helmet and standard-issue flak jacket, he began what bomb disposal officers term "the longest walk", stepping gingerly into a 5ft deep and 8ft wide crater.

The earth shifted slightly and he saw a Senao base station with a wire leading from it. He cut the wire and used his knife to probe the ground. "I found a piece of red detonating cord between my legs," he says. "That's when I knew I was screwed."

Realizing he had been sucked into a trap, Sgt Burghardt, 35, yelled at everyone to stay back. At that moment, an insurgent, probably watching through binoculars, pressed a button on his mobile phone to detonate the secondary device below the sergeant's feet. "A chill went up the back of my neck and then the bomb exploded," he recalls. "As I was in the air I remember thinking, 'I don't believe they got me.' I was just ticked off they were able to do it. Then I was lying on the road, not able to feel anything from the waist down."

His men cut off his trousers to see how badly he was hurt. None could believe his legs were still there. "My dad's a Vietnam vet who's paralyzed from the waist down," says Sgt Burghardt. "I was lying there thinking I didn't want to be in a wheelchair next to my dad and for him to see me like that. They started to cut away my pants and I felt a real sharp pain and blood trickling down. Then I wiggled my toes and I thought, 'Good, I'm in business.' "As a stretcher was brought over, adrenaline and anger kicked in. "I decided to walk to the helicopter. I wasn't going to let my team-mates see me being carried away on a stretcher."

He stood and gave the insurgents who had blown him up a one-fingered salute. "I flipped them one. It was like, 'OK, I lost that round but I'll be back next week'."

Copies of a photograph depicting his defiance, taken by Jeff Bundy for the Omaha World-Herald, adorn the walls of homes across America and that of Col John Gronski, the brigade commander in Ramadi, who has hailed the image as an exemplar of the warrior spirit. Sgt Burghardt's injuries - burns and wounds to his legs and buttocks - kept him off duty for nearly a month and could have earned him a ticket home. But, like his father - who was awarded a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts for being wounded in action in Vietnam - he stayed in Ramadi to engage in the battle against insurgents who are forever coming up with more ingenious ways of killing Americans.