April 30, 2008
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Mark Koernke discussed weapons, ammunition, and military equipment on Weapons Wednesday. He covered lanyards on pistols and their historical use in combat, bipods for rifle stabilization, ammunition availability and pricing, camouflage patterns for different environments including night operations, and practical firearm maintenance and accessories. Callers contributed discussion about lanyard applications in melee situations and an announcement about Bill Clinton's appearance in Michigan City.
- weapons wednesday
- lanyards
- ammunition
- bipods
- camouflage
- night vision
- ak-47
- ar-15
- m14
- preparedness
- michigan militia
- firearm maintenance
- desert combat
- tokarev
- magazine storage
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I had a dream the other night that, well I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free. and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. Invist the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. Hi Mark Korky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. West, West, Central, and Northeast. Gentlemen, you are listening to us on the radio network at wtprn.com. That's We The People Radio Network, wtprn.com. And we're on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. radio.4mg.com are also on AM&FM major stations, AM&FM micro stations, CB base stations, and alternate technologies, both even Mississippi along with the bottom of Alaska. That's Southern Archipelago headed towards, that's right, Alaska partially covered now, it's a great job. Little bit, so small. You know, Sonny Elliott used to say here in Detroit, there, but it works, we got it going. And all of our friends want to say thank you for that effort. It's Weapons Wednesday. This is the day when we're going to be covering arms and ammunition. There's a lot of work that needs to be done that we're accomplishing here. We've had people go to the gun shows. We've been mentioning this even though it wasn't weapons Wednesday this last weekend. The Midland show in the middle part of Michigan. Normally three buildings. Very nice show, very busy, but absolutely no ammunition available. Gradiously priced. Spended ammunition that's set there for reloading in bags. A lot of people had to sit on the stuff because they asked way, way too much. Well, people, we need to make sure that we increase the availability out there, so we're going to be working on that. That are still readily available in the .30-06. Anyways, battle roll cartridge, it's good. The .30-06 is fine because it's available, and there's plenty of rifles out there still that use the .06 cartridge. uh... five four five by thirty nine eight great recreate like carvings slash assault rifle cartridge in the like right like carvings we make in the u.s. or that are made for the u.s. or there are some i don't they're not assault right carvings in five four five by thirty nine there is a romanian will available through center fire systems dot com at magazines and g u n s ammunition for today until tomorrow by in five four five by thirty nine for two hundred and ten The other cheap caliber is in pistols, 760 by 25, lots of it around. Let's clean the shells off and get that in our hands. Where our people will need it when the time comes, our troops will have it. Okay? Now, little things to remember. One thing that you don't see as much here in the US, and you won't see as much of it in general, as far as in service, are lanyards. Don't think much about that here in the United States because none of our people would use them. But in a situation where you're in a battlefield conditions that are pretty hectic if not outright just you know plain devastating a Lanyard and a handgun comes in pretty handy Especially if the landers probably connected now most people think yeah, but that's something that can snag on or hook on or whatever Well chances are well the time you got to pistol it's become a bit of what's called a mealy Any number of things can happen now of course cavalrymen used lanyards on their firearms for a reason because of course could be involved in an action, they could lose it, they have to take a horse, they may have to drop the weapon, or typically they wouldn't drop it if they could help it, but they may lose control of the firearm. Well, the lanyard meant that you could wheel the wheel back in, put it back in the holster, or continue to bring it to service as need be. Especially Eastern Bloc pistols, even still, there's a lot of them that are out there that have, or have had, that have lanyard rings on them. The Walther P-38 is a good example, it has a lanyard ring. Bad idea, in fact, very, very concerned about losing the arm. is typically something, it can be canvas, in other words wound canvas, connected out in the end, attached to your pistol belt or to your holster. Other end of the lanyard is clipped to the pistol itself. Now this is usually at the base of the pistol where the pistol grip is because it's a logical place where it keeps it out of the way and there's no entanglements with the cord, the rope or the leather when it comes to operation of the firearm. In other words gravity does its job for you of keeping it out of the way. Altered P-38, Browning high power, US 1911A1 pistols. They had those, yes, many models had lanyard rings and there was a reason for the very matter of fact. So many of the other firearms that we see that are in service with the Europeans, as I said before, we find it on some of the Eastern automatics, but, and of course, et cetera, et cetera. Now, some of them got so concerned about losing equipment in the snow like the Russians because of course, everything costs money and they do have bad environmental conditions as far as, you know, coal. cold weather, lots of snow, you drop something, you might not find it. They actually put individual lander drinks on the magazines. In fact, you might recall in the 90s, a bunch of Tokarev mags came in as surplus from Russia. Lo and behold, the majority of them, I'd say about 80%, trust me, I bought thousands of them, okay. I'm not exaggerating. I tried to tell everybody to buy these things when they were 75 cents a piece, and a lot of people didn't listen. Well, I just kept buying 100 here, 100 there, 100 here, 200 there. and we made a point of making sure that they were secure, okay? The majority, 80%, came actually on the base of the magazine. That's right, they had a tiny little lanyard, the one on the base of the mag and was attached to the weapon. Why? The magazines are awfully expensive and, you know, they actually are hard to find when you drop them in the snowbank. The Russians went so far as in the original AK-74 magazines. They actually had lanyard rings and they had lanyard cord that were attached to the magazine so that when you pulled the mag, if you dropped it, it was still attached to you. You were dragging along if you were running along and you could always reel it in as needed or if you fell off you went into the snow. At least you knew it was still attached to something that was hooked to you. So again, lanyards are an option if you are cavalry. A lot of people are going mechanized or cavalry right now. Now mechanized, there's a little question there about, well, things can get caught and stuff. No worse than running around a horse that weighs about 1000 pounds plus or 1200 to 1400 pounds or 1600 pounds and you're on the back of him and there's all kinds of working components that are man-made that are attached that well things could hook to. So the lanyard does have an application again for safety even in a mechanized element but there are considerations with regard to tensile strength of the lanyard so that it breaks before it causes damage to you. That's why a lot of them are made out of leather. They're pretty durable. They'll handle the weight. Team stress is put on them. Chances are they'd separate and there's no risk to the operator or to the operator who is using take him with it. Lanyards would still apply, but it depends on the conditions. And mostly it would be, as I mentioned before, be winter operations. That would be your biggest concern because snow, well, it becomes pretty hard sometimes. Between snow blindness, extreme cold, and about three to four feet of snow or snow drifts, this can be a real issue. other situations, sandy environment, kind of like what you're seeing over there in the Middle East right now, okay, where you have extreme dirt and extreme sand. You also have possibility of dropping into something and it being quickly and well, then finding it is going to really be fun. So there are advantages. On the battlefields in World War I, especially in trench warfare, lanyards were a must for many people for their personal handguns because, well, when you ran out of those eight shots, you fired pop-pop. Chances are the other guys that were still assaulting were getting really close and you broke out your 2x4 with the nails stuck through it. 2x2 with the nails stuck through it. Your bayonet, your knuckle duster, your club. A barbed wire wrapped around a stick. You name it, it was used. Later on, if you had a chance, you reeled that pistol back in. Wow, now we got that beat to one guy to death. I got the other guy sitting here wheezing. Now I got time to reel my pistol in, drop the mag, put the next mag in, click, and pop. That was the reason that lanyards were very popular in World War I. Take a look at the battlefield situation and that can happen again. So lanyards, if you do have a lanyard ring on the pistol, you might want to take the time to hunt down the extra components that you need. Lanyards themselves are made available. Right now there's a bunch of Russian and East German lanyards that are out there. They're cheap, they run a couple dollars apiece. If you look at all the different little goody sales areas, for instance, I don't know if they have them, but I think they do, check with mainmilitary.com. That's www.mainmilitary.com. And I'm pretty sure the guys here have some lanyards in the closeout section. You might want to check on that. There are other companies that do carry lanyards. I've been going through all the different inventories and I've seen just as a passing by thing I brought this up, they're available. match up the accoutrements that go along with your weapon. There are two reasons. Number one, it's a serviceable tool. Number two, look at it for its collectible value in the long run. Now remember, we're going to be in peacetime eventually again, and all this stuff's going to have even more value when you say, yeah, that's a Tokra that saved me at the Battle of Five Corners. I was there, and I was with the rear guard M60, and you know what? If it weren't for that Tokra, being able to drop old 20, 30 rounds, I had lots of loaded mags. Man, a lot of guys who run out of ammo, but I didn't. At the Battle of Five Corners, that old Tokarev saved my life back in, oh, 2011. Okay, 2009, I started in service in 2011, about third, fourth year of the war there. Yep, that Tokarev saved my life. And there's the magazines that went with it, and I saved all the other goodies too. Yep, that's how it's gonna work, people. You're gonna be carrying history with you. So let's make sure we got everything we need to make that history work right for us. Put everything in place. take advantage and do not reinvent the wheel. If there's stuff that's already there, you gotta remember something. Do you think the Russians spent top dollar on anybody? Do you think they wanted it durable but they wanted to do it with minimal cost? Same with the American military, same with the French. Nobody is gonna go too exotic, okay, and they're gonna try to make it work because they test it, but they're not gonna spend any more than they actually have to and they're gonna keep the combat weight down. See, these are all things you have to take into consideration when you design and engineer equipment. Well, they've already got it set and ready to go, right there off the shelf. Look at your little macaroon pistols. Take a look at your little FEG, uh, uh, Walther PPK knockoffs right now that everybody's carrying in 32 ACP. Nice little pistol, not real heavy. All framed, perfect for the ladies or for your children. If you're looking for a defense weapon for them, although for the children, a revolver might be a better choice for your younger, you know, younger teens and such. This will give them a weapon that they can handle that's easy and they can all familiarize with very quickly. And there are solutions. By the way, a lot of revolvers have lanyard rings on them too. Smith and Wesson M&P revolvers or Colt, military and police revolvers from World War II, typically all have lanyards. I don't think a lot of guys may have sawed off the lanyard ring that he was pivoting on the base of the frame. Anyway, if it's there, again, keep in mind, not a bad idea. Sometimes you put the lantern around your neck too just so it's right there where everything else is. 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Okay, take a look at how it was applied in the period and how the lander was typically used. And there's a reason because, again, you get into a mealy situation, the pistol is used first to keep them basically at arm's length, hopefully a little farther away, but after that, chances are you use the pistol as a club, rarely, and you probably switched over to either your fighting knife or whatever else you had if it's the handgun that you were using in the first place from the rifle which uh... for whatever reason you could be out of ammo or couldn't bring the service fast enough the pistols ready to go and pop pop close range we shot here headshot there up under the chin from wherever you can it's like an extension of your more radical punch than just your fist want to look at it a lot of things can be done with uh... other technologies and tools that are out there that most people aren't thinking about. The other thing that again comes to mind, a simple tool but a very useful tool, and that's the scissor type clip-on bipods. Now, the older ones were metal, typically aluminum, though they could also be made out of steel. They're designed to be carried and they do make a military pouch for military copy, or a copy of the military pouches, that were made to carry these clip-on scissor type bipods. Now, they are a good idea. There are two things about a bipod. You may not even use it actually for operating the firearm. You might want to, as far as shooting goes, some people prefer not to. It depends on the situation. We know that it affects the barrel. The metal ones had a tendency to grip where there are two little stampings, you know, the two little bars of metal, and so they wore a spot in the barrel. And a little bit as they go. The new ones are Zytel Nylon, typically in many cases steel reinforced, but nothing that makes contact with the weapon. And you have a solid bridge of material that makes contact with the barrel. Less wear and tear, and the plastic wears before the finish does, hopefully. Of course, in the long run you're going to get wear on anything. See, I'd expect that with these combat weapons. These are tools. Use a tool it's going to wear. Well, the nice thing about that bipod is, for instance, as it was originally applied in the US military, how many of you were trained during the Vietnam era? You might recall for night fire, especially for stabilization of the weapon. Once you were in position, or dug into position, or you're in a fixed fighting position of any kind, even if it's just a wall, a rigid object, a roll in the terrain, whatever. The bipod was affixed so that it gave you greater stability and the idea was that you were to drop three rounds into the target or suspected target area. If it was full auto, the idea was trigger control. Now of course with the new M16A2s, they have semi Europeans on the other hand, like the HK91s, nor HK, HK is a model have. It was going the other extreme where we took the fully automatic capability out of the hands of the soldiers. And type of armor, type of equipment, what the bullets hit, whether or not they hit anything vital. If they're fast and they're dark type projectiles, they may stun the objective, but the objective may recover quickly if it isn't doped up and with its aggressive aggression against you. So the three round burst was an idea that works under some conditions, but doesn't work under others. Well on night fire, the idea was the probability of a hit. During night fire, the idea is that you aim low and center of mass and pull the trigger, pop up with the full-auto option. One of those rounds is going to hit the target probably. Well, the bipod helps to maintain stability. You sight over the basic sights on the AR-15 or the M14 and approximate within the area of operation that you can see. Your range will be much, much closer obviously with natural night vision. However, with enhanced night vision as we see today such as Gen 1, Gen 2, Gen 3, now Gen 4, night starlight, optics, you can increase the ranges dramatically. And there are weapons site specific night vision systems. The average person still, probably applying the bipod and maybe using just conventional night vision and your natural vision, so it's a good consideration. This is a good option. Where this is handy is if you do have fighting positions set up and you want to keep a weapon ready and online. automatic weapons have always had bipods like the M60, the SAW, the Bren gun, the BAR. So they were already up and online so to speak. All you did was bring the weapon up to your shoulder and chug away. Well the same can be done with any weapon for about six to seven dollars per unit. That's basically what the cost is for these clip-on bipods. They carry on your backpack on the side of your butt pack or on your LBE, your load bearing equipment on your web gear in the standard and when you need a vehicle permanent night now the weapons up out of the dirt it's already a prep station ready to go you may have to change the direction of the old weapon by lifting the weapon up you know the bipod and the weapon up and replacing it if it's beyond what is considered to be reverse of the you know say the normal station for the weapon i want to know what that means is when you lay the bipod you put the bipod on you and lay the weapon on the ground you have about a seven degree variant left and right of how far you can shift the weapon in that bipod without having to lift the weapon up and without distorting anything with regard to sight picture and you know configuration and control. So what you do is if you can see very quickly, you do this through mental math. There's no scientist sitting there, there's no calculator. You may have to lift the weapon up, shift the weapon over and as you set it back down you're already lining the sights up and boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom Otherwise, it is a good idea. It's an add-on feature. It does not require any screws, nuts, bolts. It will fit most firearms comfortably or effectively. The other option is, of course, to go with rigid bipods. There are all kinds of fold-up models. Mark doesn't need to go on that on the air because it's impossible for me to give you a description without spending hours on each thing and making it work. Well, the bottom line is there are many types of fold-up collapsible bipods that will affix to the stock of the weapon or will affix to a point on the weapon where they're not obtrusive and they're going to be effectively carried. A lot of people who are light to counter sniper personnel are using a sniper rifle may use the fold up type bipods for that very reason because they want stability around, they may be using a ghillie suit. A number of different tools are you know techniques that are applied with the bipods that know for their application. The BIPOD with the SKS works well, AK works well, AR-15 works exceptionally well, AR-180 of course, all these weapons, the basic BIPODs were set for. Now, one of the things that we've done for the longest time is we take certain rifles and we can make them into what we call poor man's BARs. Now, we don't do anything full auto, we don't need to. But consider this, the average soldier out there right now is carrying a saw in .223, not in .308. MAG-58, slash the variation of the MAG-58, as we know it, the Marine Corps and the Army is out there in force. And it's in, you know, weapons sections of different types or it's on the vehicles, on the APCs, on the roofs of the tanks. In either case, the average soldier is carrying, typically not the .308, he's carrying the .223 or the .30 Russian round. Well, with the .308 in a semi-auto rifle with a bipod and with a good trigger finger, you can't tell the difference between that and say an M60 in a MAG 58 or a BAR and your FN FAL G3 rifle HK91 or your M1A slash M14, or for that matter even a Hakim rifle if need be. Anyway, point is, you can be creative with a quick trigger finger, make it work. This is the Intel Report, Weapons Wednesday, back in a minute. Since 1988, Herbal Healer Academy has been the global supplier of the finest natural medicines. 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Go to the site, check out the music, and say hello to the guys in the process. Also, real quick here, party on the beach this Saturday. Parking on the beach this Saturday. If you can make it, I'd ask that you attend. We're going to have an example of one of our alternate transportation systems on site. You'll be able to drive it. This is one of the little cross country bike conversion systems. Add-on motor package. You'll be able to drive it. Check it out. We're going to have some fun with it here. But the idea is that everybody's going to get a chance to inspect it. Now these things sip fuel. We're talking about being able to go a whole week. One of our guys actually is using one, went a whole week on one gallon of gas, driving to work and back and pedaling around with it on all kinds of other occasions. You're an excellent solution. We'll put out the information on that as soon as we can. But party on the beach this weekend, so if you can make it, it's Saturday, five o'clock. Maybe be there a little early, about four-ish, if you're wise. uh... we're gonna be buzzing around uh... the area here we go about place we can actually drive the vehicle teach everybody the basics of it and let him take off and uh... this is again eight an alternate fuel solution to reduce consumption save money so you can afford ammunition afford weapons afford food all the other things you need even though we save the fuel guys the bad guys are still going to be charging just as much to all those people are having to move the tonnage And remember, the control freaks are already talking about food shortages. Well, these food shortages, as we pointed out, this is like Y2K. Y2K was real only in that. If the bad guys thought that the people were caught flat-footed, then they would have hit the switch. But the problem is we did a great job. And people don't know how to actually acknowledge success. We did it. We actually did a pretty darn good job of educating people. The other side was not able to flip the switch because they screwed up. One of the things is, remember, we were faster at it, we're getting better at it, we have been much better at it than we've been in the past, at being able to communicate and get our information and our knowledge out to many, many more people. Alternate ammunition solutions. Look what just happened here in the last year. Those of you who were listening were way ahead of the wave, or shall we say the undertow. Okay, a lot of you guys bought your ammunition or several years ago when we told everybody just keep putting on the shelf and buying it It's just like gold. It's hard currency Right now you could sell a lot of the ammunition. My best example is $60 for 1600 rounds of 8 millimeter Mauser or 2000 rounds of 8 millimeter Mauser in the cans in strippers in bandoliers Now you could sell that stuff for what they're charging about $27 a bandolier right now. My problem is this, could you replace it? No, not for the price you got into it and you couldn't find a good little juicy spot like you did before where there were tons and tons of it stacked up there. So here's the thing, its intrinsic value has changed in more than one part of the formula. Okay? especially in the light of what we're seeing with the globalist thinking about dropping the border and trying to gut the country. We're going to have to hunt them down. We're going to have to deal with them as a problem. We're going to have to get them out of our nation, out of our hair, and out of our lives. To do that, we're going to need the effective arms in hand to accomplish the task. Now, by saving money in one area, you're then changing the formula of a book called Secret Weapons for Silent Wars. It's been expanded upon. There's other texts that go along with it, but it's how to manipulate the economies to neutralize population's ability to resist. This was a mandatory college text through the 50s, 60s, and it used to be on the shelf everywhere, and not everywhere, but in good college bookstores you could find it, or at least you could find it in libraries, okay? Most public libraries, amazingly enough. And it's the mathematical. This is very dry reading. Don't think this is going to be, oh, we're going to give you a spell out. They do spell out what it's for. But most important, it actually gives you the mathematical formulas that are used for creating specific pressure. Fuel consumption, fuel availability, reserves, and reserves being cut off, increasing the amount of food while decreasing other abilities, such as the ways to utilize it properly. or to actually take advantage of the calories that are available. There's all kinds of stuff. All of this is in there. All of it's part of the overall program for manipulating you and me. So our idea is, let's not let them manipulate us at all. We're going to change the formula to our spec. We're ahead of the edge of the ammunition and the weapons. Got that taken care of, at least to a degree. Gardening is a critical issue for everyone out there listening this year. If you have land of any kind or if you have five gallon pails by God, you've got to be growing a garden. Okay, you must. We need to be ready for this. We'll fuel. We're still gonna be able to move around and communicate. We're just gonna have to make sure that we develop the systems ourselves. It's like everything else. You're gonna be responsible for your life. You're gonna have to come up with solutions to make it work. The bad guys are gonna do everything they could to lay down restrictions, and the restrictions aren't gonna do them any good, but it's gonna cut off their own nose despite their face, because it's gonna peel a lot of other people other than us. Anyway, we have callers. We got... Ernie and Illinois, oh, am I up there right? Yep, I think I'm pretty sure about that Ernie jump in there, please. Oh, hey, how you doing Ernie from Indiana. I was I knew what I were there. Go right in. Neighbors just don't talk. I didn't say you came from Chicago. I got it hung up. Hey, the lanyard, that was one of the first things he grabbed was that piece of rawhide and he tied it to the bottom of the gun and hung around his neck and slipped it. That's right. That's the whole idea. The point is that Again, in the melee or the confused at the very least think about this everybody always talks Well, they have artillery and this and that and the other purely by a force that you cannot control your body maybe maybe maybe made to do things that you don't anticipate and Being a blast especially the shockwave which people and that's unless you've experienced it a few times It's hard to understand that the shockwave in and of itself is a is a totally separate entity You may want to do one thing. The very nature of a blast or an explosion is going to force you upon you. And your hands, of course, can be... you can make contact with it, it can open up the hand even though you try to grip something. Well, guess what? If it's still hooked to that land, your chances are, as long as you know where it is right there, where you put your hand to your chest, there's the rope, I follow it down or I reel it in. Oh, look, there's my pistol. Be a little dirty. I've been reading up on the 104th Infantry Division and known for night fighting. that you'll discuss it. Does the land here sound like a good idea because if you drop something and then dark and you don't want to, well there you go, but don't snatch it to you. And you should always have a secure load anyway. Now another variation on that, you know interestingly enough, you know that troops actually have used, and we actually use this at different times with amphibious operations and such, you don't talk about it as much, but you know you get into the water or you, let's even a river crossing, let's talk about a river crossing situation. You actually could tie a lanyard and guys have done this they would tie a lanyard to their web gear to their full LBE Which of course has all your ammunition has your personal weapons has all your pyrotechnics Well you in order to save your life in deep water you may have to jettison your your combat rate The problem with that is if you did well now you're pretty useless on the battlefield so what a lot of the what the guys were taught to do is you actually tie a lanyard to the To the gear and what you do is you have a hand slip And you drop it, but you actually run it to your wrist and you hold and clutch onto that. Now it's going to sink to whatever depth. Hopefully it's not a bottomless river you're in or a bottomless lake. But the idea behind it is if it's not too deep or typically in a landing situation you're toward shore, you could at least drag in the rest of your equipment along with whatever you had for that lanyard. So there's other tips. That's okay, go right ahead, please. Anybody that's interested is going to be in Michigan City. Go ahead and give it all out again, please. Bill Clinton is going to be in Michigan City at Elston School, 17-years-old. Excellent, we can ask him a couple of things while you're there. Ask him, while he was at Oxford, how many flag-burning did he participate in? When he went to Russia in the middle of the Cold War, what was he doing there? Well, that's the one I was going to ask, but if any part of the country wants to show up, it'd probably be a good idea. 6 PM. Excellent, Ernie. Thank you. God bless. And again, this is the Intel Report. 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Other ideas, actually, good point, Ernie, about night vision. We are going to be talking about night fighting operations and techniques that are used. There are a number of different systems with regard to managing troops in different sizes. The present situation with Iraq, which is Iraq and its environment, is a unique battlefield situated in the desert. It's the desert with, yeah, it's got vegetation here and there on occasion, rough, craggy terrain. Well, we've eaten up the new there with regard to Tunisia, any of the other states that we've ever had to deal with where we have actually been in desert combat operations. shade of the sand. And most people don't realize that, by the way, years ago. I try to explain to people about, you know, when you're in different parts of the world, you think tan is tan. But that's not true. In fact, the British and many other countries and armies for years have had to build camouflage for the desert environment. And some of the stuff looks salmon pink. People goes, where would that work? Well, wherever it was made, it was designed to work with the sand and the natural environment that they were in. It is true across all of the Middle East. Africa, there are many variations on rock formature of the soil operation. So different colorations are required. It's why we started out looking at the five color chocolate chip pattern, for instance, that was our desert pattern from the 80s. Now there's a reason we built that. Where that was being used, it was in the Sinai Peninsula. We had the airborne units stationed there under United Nations contours between the Egyptians and the Israelis. You might recall that we went so far as we actually had orange berets and orange UN markings for the troops there. Yep, yep. How many of you soldiers remember that? Have I got to pick some memories here because it's been that long? Well, that's true. That's what happened. Well, that's where the five-color chocolate chip camouflage came in. It was developed for that particular part of the planet where they had more pebble, more surface rock. There's greater grit. And the design worked. Actually, in fact, to be quite honest, the five-color chocolate chip pattern works exceptionally well in Michigan during what we call the brownout season. One of the reasons is because it has a lighter and darker shade that's extreme and blends in well in the soft canards in the state. The Middle East, when we went to the oil there, we went to the oil there for the Israelis, well, we needed a three-color pattern. The whole idea, you notice we shifted. More sand. more subtle shades but still the shading and shadowing were there and nature would help us to cover the colors too because you know in the shade you might actually be covered by disruptive light levels. Anyway, the point is camouflage is part of the element especially at night. Now let me give you a little hint here real quick. Well, three of the best colors that work are lavender, purple, and blue for night camouflage. Lavender, purple, blue. Now other shades of dark and light are mixed in with that to include using black, but black is not necessarily your first best choice because it may not blend in as well as you would think. Black is effective for shadows. The tiger stripe pattern quite well to create a disruptive night pattern, which is one of the reasons that tiger stripe is so popular in Vietnam. It wasn't just for daylight operations, but for night. Other changes include the chip patterns that you see or digital in its original form. How many people remember Night Desert from Desert Dust 1? Night Desert was a solution to deal with a couple of the concept of patient night vision being of course on the other side, typically Russian, and the digital pattern was designed to help to defeat during night operations or help to subdue people pattern of American equipment during night activities. during the day to a degree, but I'm not impressed with the digital pattern. In fact, one I would not be surprised at is, let's see, in the age where everybody has technology, when you have such an unnatural pattern that you're wearing, it's only a matter of time before someone's going to come up with an electronic scanning system that would actually register square pixel formations like that, zero in on them, and target them. Oh, nobody thought about that, did they? By the way, just real quick on that, I know it bounced on a little bit, but this has to do with, again, targeting things. Digital isn't that new either. When I really talk about this, oh, these are these new ideas. No, they're not. I've got original material from 1975 when they first came up with digital and tried to shove it down everybody's throat. Okay? In fact, if you pay attention in some of the video footage from the equipping videos that we've been doing that are on YouTube, you'll notice in some of the backgrounds on the table that there's different. This was kind of a test. I wanted to see if anybody would notice this. Everybody says, oh, they're watching the details. Are they? You might notice in the background, there's some original digital there that's very, very unique. I have some of the original prototype cloth that was done to test the digital patterns. It's in the videos. You look, you'll see it. OK. And I think I'm going to do, we already are set to do this. I've got to do a little bit of a class on this eventually. It's one of several videos that I already have part of it canned. did examples of all the different camouflages just to explain to you how they work and why they work under certain conditions. I'll probably pick your interest because you're thinking Mark brought up this whole idea that some of the best night colors for camouflage, lavender, purple and blue, sky blue necessarily, but darker blues like blue jeans, the blue jeans shape. However, not just blue jeans by themselves, although a lot of guys will tell you that some of the best stuff they've used in the field has been blue jeans just for people not identifying it because they were looking for this, not that they were signature identifying. Anyway, weapon systems, real quick. There are a lot of firearms out there that have inexpensive magazines that are available that are military mags. Now, I cannot stress enough, you take advantage of those while they're out there. If you have an HK91, there's a bunch of HK91 mags out there right now in different sources. There are still some very reasonably priced FNFAO mags. For those of you who have M1As, there are M1A-M14 Taiwanese mags that are in-country. They're decent magazines. The Taiwanese didn't do anything cheap for themselves. Their lives depended upon it, okay? So they didn't cut any corners because they realized that they were planning on defending the country and it was going to be a life and death struggle. This is critical when understanding certain pieces of equipment and why they might be desirable. Another thing is spare parts kits. Now, there's not a whole lot of them out there, but they are showing up still. If you have an AK type weapon and you see these parts kits for about $100 or less, it's a pretty good solution to spare parts inventories. If you're trying to dress up, you know, in other words, you got to the point where I recommend, and I know a lot of people are listening, where you got your weapon, you got your mags, and you got your ammunition. Now we're talking about the little accoutrements to make sure that you've got the proper sling for the firearm. Now don't do anything fancy. Kiss. Keep it simple stupid. We don't need any of these exotic slings or self-hanging slings or whatever you saw in the latest video game. Instead, a sling is purely designed to be a convenient tool that has to be rugged and durable and simple or it really doesn't work very well. It gets in the way more than it helps. It hinders more than it helps. There are some units that have been trained going back to Vietnam that are militia units that refuse to carry slings They won't carry a sling There's a reason if the weapon is not in your hand or readily available and so minimally come encumbered It can be a problem situation and the idea behind it is you're not supposed to be setting your firearm down in the first place It's under your control constantly because you're useless without your weapon. Okay, so I understand the concept there. It's different schools from different periods of time. We like what we call the dirt plowers, the people that are using the muzzle down system with everything that they do with their weapons. Sounds like a great idea until you get into a regular temperate environment and you come up with that muzzle full of snow during the middle of the winter. It looks good except that in conditioning it's going to be repeated until people start to become casualties with frozen up ice chunks and they're in the muzzle mud because they become dirt plows. a rod that gets picked up because down low vegetation is thicker. There's a lot of considerations there and so there are different schools and philosophies with regard to how weapons are specifically handled and why. Now that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have total control and be thinking constantly but remember you put it down in the place where all the dirt and the bad stuff is and you stumble or fall and you're in a hurry and you aren't paying attention. Well you pull the trigger you'll find out real quick if you have a stoppage. And having seen, oh I'd say probably more than a dozen stoppages like that over the years, that's motivated me to keep my muzzle a tad higher up out of the earth even though of course the argument is, well you know it's a risk to fill in the blank. Well, different technologies, different schools, we'll find out through application who works better. I will point this out. Snap shooting, whenever you're out there going after quail, whenever you're out there and you're trying to get a lead on something that's pretty fast, do you keep the muzzle down and into the earth, or do you have it in a snapshot position 45 degrees to the body and high? Hey, I think you all know the answer. It doesn't mean there aren't applications for certain techniques, and that would be a whole program unto itself with arguments back and forth. 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