Mark Koernke and co-host Donald Fetcher discussed night vision binoculars available at group discount pricing, emphasizing their utility for security operations and border monitoring. The show featured an extensive historical analysis of rifle development, comparing the M14 and M16/AR-15 platforms, their manufacturing challenges across multiple contractors, and lessons from the American Revolution and Vietnam War regarding equipment standardization and quality control. Koernke addressed the disappearance of U.S. military equipment provided to Iraq, questioned where M109 self-propelled guns and M60 tanks went after the invasion, and discussed militia organization efforts including Colonial Marine Militia expansion in San Diego. The episode concluded with caller commentary on preparedness activities and school-related obligations.
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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? Most 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 burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist for once he came, his words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now his parents 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'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, to dill the land of the free? And good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Kornke. And I'm Donald Fetcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories Central, Southwest, East and Northeast. Well ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. PBN.4MG.com and we are on live 365 then go to Liberty Tree Radio. You will also find us on AM&FM microstations, CB base stations, and alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with southern and central Alaska. We are also on the Hallmark network on the east coast, eight colonial states and expanding. The Gold Spike project is in motion. We're going to see how that works out. And on today's date is? You guys, it is the third. the Don, you've got an arrangement right now or a special deal that people need to, if possible, take advantage of what we need organization on this. Many of you guys around the country listening might want to bend an ear this way, especially if you're looking for night vision. And I says, well, get back with a little while, or it was either before and I looked at it. See, you pay more for the, that infrared dot. I looked over and how much and I said, well, how many have you got? And he says, well, he's got seven. You guys can see this in the Cabela. And Jaguar is now here in India. But, uh, you know, Jaguars, and I'm not certain what they're going to, 79. And I'm not going to, I'll tell you what you guys, if I can, we can get a group, 20 of these piece in your entity. You know, you can look up 95 with 1995. You know what, Mark? I can offer if we can get me together. If you want to talk about once I have 20, I'm number one more time. is the fact that the collector on these binoculars is much larger than the average bear, at least by standard. What you've typically run into that's been out there in the military application surplus. This is new production, but it's the last of the production in this particular model. They're going to change the fixture that it's in, which means it's a production line end run. So nothing wrong with the equipment. All of this stuff is working two spec. What I was looking at is a lot of you guys have been asking for a reasonably priced system for night monitoring. Also remember your LPOPs, vertical control points, any place where you have physical security operations where you want to passively monitor activities. That's where this equipment comes in handy especially. You might want to consider too that these are binoculars. Binoculars means there are two complete collector lenses, two different sets of tubes, and two different eyepieces. I would probably imagine that if somebody were creative and comes up with a proper power source, since these are 3 volt, one could possibly deal with having two night vision devices for the price of one. Yeah, the working is gone, don't worry about that. But just something to think about in the long run, there's an option in that direction. Just for creative minds out there, we've got people who are actually into electronics. Not just electricians, they're into electronics. So you guys can think this through, you figure it out. But as an excellent field piece, one of the considerations for team leaders or unit commanders that are dealing with fire and maneuver operations This is one of the several solutions available giving you an excellent collection referencing system so that you are able to move your troops more efficiently during nighttime operations and scan the area effectively in the process. So this is another option. This is another consideration. Go ahead, Don, give your number out a couple more times for everybody. Now remember, you can't call this hour. You can't call for another 40 minutes. Thank you, Mark. You guys, that number is 2319. It's an example of the 100 yards, a little 31. If you gang up on me, I'll be happy to turn the number. Oh, we can go ahead and give the number out as well. It's a screen. Because I know there have been a lot of things we've covered today, and we've already had some feedback and questions. But most important here, too, is with the combined arms team. And it's fascinating some of the attitudes I'm seeing out here as far as some people thinking, we're going to all be, we all have to be in the same caliber. That's true. It would be nice if we were a large corporate military with a vast factory complex backing us up or to commit to a certain type of system. Again, nice to have those big factories there. We're taking advantage of existing systems and then we're building as we can on our own, but we're taking advantage of what's already been put online and the most for the least while still getting very serviceable equipment in the process. We won wars with that, guys. The American Revolution was pretty much done with hand-me-down and rent-a-revolution weapons out of every bargain basement armory in Europe. You name it, we bought from them. Oh, if you don't believe the history of solution. Oh, yes. Jilt buries under that. By certain militias or built by some built in the U.S. Many were made in the United States. as the U.S. became independent, but a lot were purchased because they were arms and inventories from the last thirty to up to fifty years of weapons production. That sounds strange, but we should point out that the Brown Vest was not a spring chicken when it went into service for the American Revolution and was still around into the War of 1812 with no significant modifications or changes. The same is true of many of the other European arms. I've been looking at this yesterday and the day before. Oh, that's an M4 kit. No, it's a CAR-15. We just gave it a gussied up different name to make you feel good about it. And we've been undergunning the troops for a long time. But the bottom line is the M16 frame, or the air 15 frame, has been around since its prototype inception of about 1958. Now, in its 1958 configuration it was experimental and Stoner was the man that was key to this. And what he did, Stoner was a very strange guy in this respect in that he didn't reinvent the wheel with everything. The Armalite AR-10 is the grandpa or it's just a mom, not the grandpa, it's not two generations back. It's the direct mother of the AR-15 platform, the AR-15 weapons system. Guys, 1958 and 1959, by 1959 the first little XM production run was already done. And they were blowing the barrels out and burning them out in different ways to see what they could do to damage or fracture or break or spindle or mutilate. By 1960, that weapon was already in limited service in its XM configuration. Think about that. What year is this today? That's what? 50 years ago would have been 2000, well actually it would have been 40 years. 50 years this year. Plus, I'll give it a year of, shall we say birthing. Because it took about a year and a half, two years. Even in the XM model, remember, there were other changes that took place. They had originally thought about going with the phenolic type plastics or the variations that we saw on the M14. We also saw this, and by the way if you haven't handled the M14 enough you'll remember we started out with walnut stocks, we went to a tropical stock. With that came a replacement plastic upper hand guard. The upper hand guard was a shell plastic that was very unique. The outside was brown, the underscore was silvered. Part of that was also for the purpose of reflecting heat. away from the hand guard so it wouldn't warp it. There are all kinds of different things to experiment with. Well, that plastics technology folded over into the AR-15 family of rifles, but it was not found to be satisfactory in whatever configuration. Black became the norm over brown. Brown would have been a better choice for the stocks guys. It's more of a natural color in general and still blends in well at night. Unfortunately, they were looking at an Air Force contract and black looked really spiffy and really cool in the rifle rack. For garden presentation units or for MPs at the gate like at an air base, it was a very sharp rifle and very modern. But in the field, black is not that good a color, not a very good choice, and not a natural blending color with most of the terrain and the environment, especially since the rifles typically carry horizontally. But in all of these changes, the reason I bring this up is that's 50 years. The rifle that these kids are out there carrying right now is 50 years old. Now, you can change a few widgets on it. By the way, all we've done in changing most of the widgets is either gone back to something that was originally developed, say, in 1959, or was experimented with in 1968, or was experimented with again in 1975, and they went away from it, and they're going to go back to it, and then they went away from it, and then they go back to it. An example is the M4, which by the way, most of the troops still have M16A2s. That still was the dominant rifle and they're still even being made in factories, but there's a propaganda thing You've got to show the guys with the cool rifles Don pick the pictures with the cool rifles Otherwise how you gonna get more of these kids to sign up and they don't look like they got the special gun Yeah, see how that works and in reality people, you know of all the wars for all the yap about how we have more freedom of information in this day Oh, no, they don't We killed more Russian equipment over there in Iraq than you can shake a stick at, but here's the problem. We killed just as much American equipment that we gave to Saddam Hussein. How much of that did you see videotaped or photographed during the war? Not unless it was an unrecognizable bird haul. Yeah, and then even there if you're an intel analyst or a combat experienced individual, all you have to do is look at those tracks and go, hey Don, that's an M60. That's not a T62, that's not a T72, that's an M60. What the hell is that doing there? Oh, wait a minute, that's right. We gave them a whole bunch of those. In fact, we also sold them a whole bunch of M109s, and I'm still asking where the hell those all went. You know, Saddam's mobile artillery did not all get shot to snot. We didn't find a lot of it. So my next question would be, where did it go? Where did it get piled up? Does the Iraqi Army have a fire support platform in place? Do they have an artillery arm? If they have an artillery arm, I would then ask, what are they armed with? You'll be given some other third rate stuff from another country, not necessarily third rate, but an example is in Georgia, the military just got its guts stomped out. They were using a combination of U.S. equipment, but they were using a new Czech mobile artillery piece that's wheeled, not tracked. The Russians captured a bunch of them. They said, thank you. Cool. We get a chance to check it out first hand. And they got piles of them. They got all kinds of vehicles virtually untouched. Literally, the troops jumped out of them and unbutted the AO and headed to the rear. It's like, wow, look, we've got a brand new tank here. Wow, we've got another brand new tank here. Wow, we've got a third brand new tank here. Look, there's a whole column of them. My question is, with Iraq, is all this equipment was already paid for. Nobody needed to get into debt. The stuff was already there. All you needed were spare parts, which we do produce, and we had lots of them. So, where did all that cool stuff go? Where did all those M109 self-propelled guns go? And remember, there were about 600 plus M60A3 battle tanks. Where did those all go? And there were more than that in Iraq, but you've got to remember, they also picked up a whole bunch from Kuwait. So, where did those all take off to? What about the 1600 plus M113 armored personnel carriers? The Gavins? Where did they all go? And then, I don't even want to think about the Russian inventory, Don. The Iraqis shouldn't have to drive around in anything hand-me-down from us at all. We should be able to walk over there and basically pick out whatever you wanted. They should still be running the BTR 60s or 70s. And if they need parts, you know what? We're buying stuff from Serbia. We're buying stuff from Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. And they got hand-me-downs laying around in Russian parts. And they made the BTR 60 and 70. So, where did they all go? Well, maybe they got sold. But if they did, where did the money go? And who was the market? Who were the guys that marketed these things out to wherever they went? Mark, maybe they were loaded up with weapons of mass destruction and driven to Syria. I'm a Chinese jet pilot. Here's the other thing, it's just as likely as not. We don't know what direction they were sold in, but they could have gone. I mean, there was any point of the compass once we got hold of them, but I guess we wouldn't be the ones getting hold of them, would we? Who were the contractors that moved them? Where did they go to? If they were destroyed, that would be obscene simply because why would we bother doing that and then run up a bill that put our national debt in the trillions yet again? Oh, that's right, the bankers planned it that way and they screwed us in the process, didn't they? Anyway, there's an offshoot of coming all the way back to what we're talking about with regard to our personal weapons here, is again, the age of the arms. Again, a lot of guys go, well that doesn't sound right. The Brown Bess would be in service in 1776, 1775. And then, well, you do the math. I'll do it easy for you. 1775, that makes it real simple. We won't even go before that to the fact that it was already in service. And that's to the year 1800 is 25 years. And the war of 1812 starts in, did I give you a hint? 12 more years. So that's 37 years. Hey Mark, who's there to? Yeah, that's right. Jefferson, his cousin. The point here, guys, is A lot of the weapons are long in the tooth. I love how on the one hand they go, oh, that old M14. The M14 did not come into service until what year, guys? It was in its prototype form for the shoot off in 55. Didn't come into service in any great quantity until 57. And it already started showing up in the Marine Corps' hands, which is really kind of rare because the Marines got some of them right off the bat, just like they did with the M16. And the M14 went into service as our MBR. Now, the M14 was our official arm of the United States Army. In Vietnam, we had a secondary theater. But remember, what were we gearing up for in the 50s, 60s, and 70s? Ooh, it's cold in here, Don. Cold. I'm chilly. Over Europe again. Yeah. And we were dealing with that cold war. Cold. But that means that we were preparing to fight an action against the superior force and the policy was to give our troops a battlefield superiority firearm, which is why the M14 was the official standard arm. It was technically the official standard arm even in Vietnam. And yet, as we know, the dominant arm that you see in pretty much all of the videos and imagery is the M16. Now, there is a period, and it's the transition period, where we went from the M14 being used extensively to the M16 in its original configuration. There are a couple of horror stories to be met with here. The only ones who write the Shister history are the ones, and that's why they do this intentionally because the regular army was trying to puff its arse up so they could create this Federal Four. That's one of the reasons the history is, and they slanted it progressively. If you go back during that period of time, there is no limitation about the militia because the bottom line is, the guys that showed up for battle, you better be happy they got there. You know what I mean? That's exactly how they looked at it. Now some units were better than others. There are federal forces that dropped their weapons and ran during the Civil War. There are militia units right next to them that held their ground and vice versa. It's purely a matter of leadership and it's a matter of individual membership management. Now they ran their troops. You've got just as many federal forces that ran, hail, there are just many examples of every war we've seen. And militia right there did just as well, performed just as competently, and in fact gained ground and took real estate just like everybody else. Well the other thing is this. They talk about the M14 is this and the M14 is that. And by the way, the M14 had two thing problems too. We aren't going to say that it was a perfect berth. It had to be tuned and tweaked. One of the reasons that the M14 is a precision rifle. You can take every M14 that was on the rack, gentlemen, ladies, and whoever else is listening, and you could actually plop that weapon down, and I don't care which one it was, it had the quality of marksmanship, or I should say the quality of performance, marksmanship is determined by the individual, of any of the standard sniper rifles that would be available to only an elite force in Europe or in Asia. Every man would be equivalent to one of the most competent arms available that could reach out and accurately pop a pie plate at 600 yards. It's purely a matter of the man behind the rifle. But the machine itself was tuned so that that same man that was competent could walk down a line of a thousand rifles down, grab rifle number two, pick it up, take five rounds, determine point of impact, and he would start to tell you how that rifle can sing. He could then take that rifle, put it on the rack, march down to rifle 468, pick that rifle off the rack, walk over to the range and do it again. And that rifle would perform. Now some rifles perform better than others. Now again, we know how that works, metallurgy, machinery, and whether or not it was a Friday. However, there was a transition period, and this is important to understand about the history of firearms, that they don't talk about anymore because after all, the M16 is the perfect rifle. There's no other rifle like this. It's the rifle that was given to us by the aliens. We couldn't have figured that weapon out. It's like Velcro. Humans couldn't have figured out Velcro. Only the space aliens. The mystery of engineering and plastic. Give me a break. Wait a minute. Marco came to be? And he thought, hey, look at this stuff. Nature works really well. Why can't we copy it? During this transition period, the M14's bugs had pretty well been worked out long before this. But still, this weapon, the M14, was pretty much about the same age as the M16 or AR-15 family of rifles. Now the M14, the biggest issue was that it didn't have a large magazine capacity because it was designed as an MBR for longer range performance in the temperate environment of Europe. Although it would also hold its own quite nicely in the desert or any place where you have long distances where that .308 cartridge could reach out and engage more effectively sooner than the other guy carrying the AK, the SKS, the Peppier submachine gun, the Carl Gustaf, or any number of other lighter weapons that were typically in the hands of other forces on the planet at the time. But in 1965 and 1966, there are a series of very sad events that took place that cost hundreds and hundreds of American lives. Now a movie was generated by Mel Gibson, and we all know which one that was once we were soldiers, which depicts one part of those actions. However, in the very sad affair with the other column, Let's put it this way, Custer's theme would have been very appropriate. Many of the troops that went into the field did not come back, and the casualty level was in the hundreds. In some cases, not everyone, because it was just a matter of there was a greater force on the ground than the men could handle. They literally walked right into several North Vietnamese and Viet Cong regiments. This action became a kind of a massacre under itself. But the point is that many of the men died for lack of operating weapons because of a combination of things and most of it, two things problems with the M16 in what was a unique environment. Just as the unique environment of Vietnam requires very specific and very system engineered designs that will deal with the problem. Tropical environment, extreme moisture, you got lots of other issues that are tied in with that. Physiology, body salts, all of these things are incorporated into how the weapon works because men handle the firearm. Well, the other part was, again as we know, and it's become more public than ever and they try to keep blaming it just on the powder because there was a powder change. Well guys, depending upon other issues with regard to the firearm, that would not have been a problem, but there were many things that were changed in Stoner's design. And Stoner did not recommend this rifle for the infantry. It was meant for the air force. It was pushed on the infantry by the bean counters, mostly by McNamara and his crew, and that's politics in another direction. Because somebody wanted that rifle to be in production and they wanted to make some money off it, somebody had the patent to one item and didn't have the patent to another. The other was a coincidence of time, Mark, because it was a lot easier for the little Vietnamese guy. We were trying to help him even. Oh yes, absolutely. However, on that note, I would point this out. A lot of rock troops, carry the M14, a lot of the Republic of China troops, the Taiwanese carry the M14, and we all know that those guys will chew on your leg and take it off. Give them a weapon and they are worse. That's how it works. But the point is that they had no problem carrying the M14 and using it extensively, although they again eventually adopted the M16 to standardize and even made several of their own weapons in 223 just as the Koreans have done with the Daewoo. But in this transition period there were some very sad events where men died because of misinformation, failure to perform on the part of the process of manufacturing the firearm. To include something that nobody wants to talk about, and we've got 20 minutes, I want to get you back on the night vision subject, but I want to bring this up. One of the things that people don't understand is look at the intricacy of the M16 rifle. Now it is very simple in many ways. We cannot complain about how easy that weapon is to disassemble. Don't make any mistake about that, but I want you to think about this. Look at the number of milling and machining processes that have to take place to give you that design. understand that there was more than one contractor building that rifle. And one of the most common problems that we've had, and this goes back to standardization and manufacturing, going back to the 1800s, is ensuring that the manufacturer produced a consistent product no matter which manufacturer built it. Or what temperature it's on. Yeah. And again, part of this has to do with, and this is a real problem because you see in World War II for instance, the M1 carbine, you know you guys pick up a carbine and you think, wow it works every time I pull the trigger. Put a magazine in and pull the trigger. Well actually, pull the magazine in, pull back the bolt, let it fly forward and it goes, bow bow bow bow bow. It was not the case when they were first being made. In fact, a lot of people like their SAG and AUSTERING gear rifles, M1 carbines don't they? They have a beautiful firearm. Excellent. In fact, a lot of people prefer these Saginaw Steering Gear rifles built for World War II by the US government. Let me tell you something. Saginaw Steering and Gear lost their contract initially for that rifle. In fact, they almost lost it permanently. What happened is each company that was assigned to build the carbine was supposed to build it to spec. They were supposed to build it so that off the line with finished parts you could interlock any part. This is common sense. You would think this would be the case. But without any dressing or modification using a gunsmith, Every part had to interchange and interlock off the factory line, not from a showroom, not from a dressing room with a gunsmith tweaking with a file here and tweaking with a file there to make it work. Well, when Saginaw produced the first production run, which was a test run, What they did is they tried to cheat Don and they actually had all kinds of tooling marks. Now here's the problem, master machinists and tool and die men were the inspectors. They should have known better. They probably tried to bribe them. But this was a case of how do we keep the marines alive. It's bad enough they're going to get killed by a German fire or Italian. But we don't want them to die because of lack of operation of their own weapons. Right. And so the inspectors came in very serious as if their lives depended upon it. And in a way they did because the nation's life depended upon it. When they went into psychonosterean gear, they inspected the first batch of rifles and rejected them because it was very apparent. And I have all the reports on this. It was absolutely obvious that the factory had cheated and what they had done is they made the run and they had assembled the rifles but they had had to hand tune every one of them. Well, the inspectors gave them a big black mark and an X and said, you just failed. In fact, you tried to cheat us. You know, you've got another chance. Why don't you try it again? So they came back after 30 days. They let them do another production run. And guess what? They did it again! I don't know what they thought. They figured, wow, they'll let us cut it the second time. They'd get away with it. So they said, OK, you've got one more shot. Now, you're getting closer, but here's how it works. We come back again. All this tooling we gave you for this project? It's going down the road to one of your competitors. Yep, it was. Exactly. And they were ready to defect. They came with the trucks the third time. They were that. They figured, okay, toy haul, here, we're going to let you explain to us how it works. I got the journeyman here. Here, let's go check the inventory out and show us what you produced. This time around, I took kicking him in the butt twice, the third time paid for all, the third time they got it right. That's the only reason your SAG and AUSTERING and GEAR rifle works the way it does. Your M1 carbine works the way it does today. Because a whole bunch of men who were honest inspectors didn't take any payola and they pushed them into doing it right. Well, they had to do that with almost every factory that was producing the carbine. Or producing the grand even. They had the same thing. Although most of the grand's, everybody like International Harvester. International Harvester didn't require a whole lot of tweaking. They did it right the first time and they started cranking out rifles. M1 rifles were their priority. But the point is this, the M16, you've got to remember guys, there were 12 different plants producing significant components and most of them were producing complete rifles during the war. There were seven primary arsenals that were producing it. We have one right here, actually General Motors, Don, you know where that is. Purple Hydramatic. That's right, M16 is cranked out of there every day guys. Oh by the way, they're carried out of the factory in parts two. Did I say that? Going over the fence. Oh yeah, well actually, yeah, or just thrown out because they thought security was coming after them and there were so many parts. Every day they used to do a part sweep on the exit ramps out of the factory to the little highway right in front of it. And there were enough parts to build over a hundred and some M16A1s in the sheriff's armory back when it was in the 80s. Somebody finally came in there and knew how to put the M16s together and said, what are all these parts? Oh, they're property from such and such. And he started cranking them out and actually armed up the whole unit with ARs that were from that period, the semis in full. But the point is guys, several factories. So in 1965-66, well factory A might have done it right, but factory B had some operators that were doing a little too much. They would just stab the machine, dude it runs man, I'm telling you, hit the button. You know, that kind of thing. Could be anything, just bad day, just bad hair day, or just not caring. After all, they weren't going to Vietnam, somebody else was. That was another part of the problem that they don't want to talk about. Your rifle is very sophisticated, requires a lot of special machining and a lot of special maintenance. On top of that, then we know the issue. They didn't have the forward assist initially on the rifle. If you've ever had a malfunction with an M16, that little aluminum charging handle doesn't give you a whole lot of leverage because it's free floating separate from the bolt. This is why that one feature is why Armalite, actually not Armalite so much as Stoner, wanted the troops to have the M18 which we now know is the AR180. That rifle has a charging handle that is directly in contact with the bolt which ensures that if you have a malfunction you apply more energy to pull the bolt carrier to the rear and extract the failure from the rifle. If you can't do that, then you're taking a precision instrument and jamming the failure deeper into it when you use the forward assist. I don't know what's in front of it. I always bother me with that because in no other machine would you ever do that. Name me a machine where if you have a malfunction you try to beat it into submission to make it work. When you know that if you do that there might be something that will kill you that's beyond what you can see. Just a little sub note there. Anyway, history of rifles, overview. For everybody who yaps about the M16 and how sophisticated it is, it's had a lot of bugs worked out of it. It's had a lot of other changes made. The M4 is a Kar-15. Don't try to sell me on anything else. It's a sub gun. It was meant to be a sub gun. We don't want to under gun there. If you've got an M4, don't change. Because Mark said that. Because if you do want to change it, what's the cool thing about the AR-15? Just buy another upper. Don't buy another rifle just buy another upper come on change it out as you want to experiment a little bit find out what I'm talking about But anyway, we're gonna do something. We're gonna switch track right now Don you've got an arrangement. We're gonna have to we're talking to everybody out there if you've got units you got troops You got people you're working with Family formations Don's got a night vision deal. We're gonna try and organize this and get it done, right? Take it away down, please mark you guys I was talking to my people. Hey, yeah, I got and they haven't built it yet back in 95 like 90, 95, price 7, not 20 people to do. Any piece of night vision, the bigger the front one, will be about the Mac form and you're going to get out of a first. It'll have a bill be adjusted for intermediate or 150. Well, there's a number of good things, a two tube system. If you want to jump on, you know, tire 31, own diopter, 7 more minutes and I can beat what he'll do. And again, we're going to remind everybody this is an opportunity to organize a little better. and take advantage of what it is that we do have available in the way of resources. A lot of people have been looking for equipment, especially for border deployment, because we do have a lot of people watching the border. Our friends in the San Diego district, of course, are up and online. We have, by the way, little heads up there. We've got a bunch of people that are in the San Diego area that are wanting to expand on the Colonial Marine units there. So this is a warning order. We just sent out a bunch of mail. I know the CM. CMM is going to be contacting about probably two or three hundred people in one area in particular. We've had a good response there. We'll be gauging that as we go. But again, if you want to find out more about Colonial Marine Militia, go to colonialmarinemilitia.4mg.com. Again, that's colonialmarinemilitia.com. Again, that will give you a little history there, plus announcements are up and online with that page. There will be some updates either tonight or tomorrow. I think probably tonight. We'll see what happens. We'll find out more about that. and we do have a lot of other connects or links that are there to get you to where you need to go for supply and support. Don't forget mainmilitary.com, mainmilitary.com for gas masks especially, gas masks, chem suits, etc. Well Don, we're at the top. I know we're going to hear music in a minute. Also, go to YouTube. Help us out by checking out our videos there and both rating them and commenting on them. It makes a big difference, guys. And if everybody pitches in, I know we've got a lot of guys listening tonight that are new, especially from the Iowa and Nebraska area. Thank you. But if you do, get a chance to check it out. Use them for training. As always, God bless the Republic. Best of the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the mark. Two rocks. Kick them in the slats. Drive them over there to the wire. Roll over the fence with your bayonet. And let the mad, vicious, drug-dealing chihuahuas eat the little soft parts. You're going to be available as soon as we hang up here, right? Thank you Mark, yes I am. That's only 2317968458 again. Thank you Mark. Guys, give them a call at least to find out more and you can talk to Don personally. Do me a favor, guys in the chat room, punch the number there too, let them know what's going on. And we're going to do what we can to organize this down, okay? Thank you Mark. We'll mention it again tomorrow morning. God bless you Mark. God bless you America. is the thirteenth of may two thousand nine it's a wednesday night on air we have now mike maxfield really o'riley and politicus with that take it away guys mister politicus haven't happened heard from you know i'll you've been sir and then busy you know what with gardening season and i'm slogging like 2000 sandbags from the girlfriend's father's place and dumping them in my garden and expanding my driveway and you know all that kind of crap and it had the choir at the concert thing at the kids school last night and the other kid tomorrow night and uh not enough hours in a year. Yep and we're getting close to the end of the school season that's for sure. So we got like little slaves. Do my bidding, or I will waterboard you. We don't torture, remember? We could quote Shepard Smith on the on waterboarding or on torture in the United States. Oh, okay. I could do that. No, I don't want to. Americans in the United States, we don't have to torture you.
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