Live 365. Is this still the land of the free and home of the brave? This is the... Well, good evening ladies and gentlemen. This is the evening intelligence report. I'm Mark Wernke. And I'm Donald Betra. I'm sorry Mark. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters. Both on and behind the lines at occupied territories west, southwest, east. and Northeast. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com. We're also on pbm.4mg.com and we're on live 365 then go to Liberty Tree Radio and you can also become a preferred listener by It's the 4th of September, you guys. It's just past 8 o'clock on the Eastern Seaboard. That's daylight time. And you will also hear us on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and ultra-net technologies both east and west of the Mississippi and Alaska. And today being Thursday we have had a very busy, busy day and week. It's Thursday already guys. That didn't take long did it? A 4-day work week. It seemed like it would be longer, but it isn't. You know, like you'd be dragging. No, just reverse. Time has been flying. We've been getting a lot accomplished. But you know, it's in hyper acceleration mode right now. It is September. The first week is almost gone. So what have you gotten done this week? What's on your list of things to do? Remember that we have a number of different contacts. MainMilitary.com has got web gear, field gear, and equipment. Stuff that you need. Gas masks for the up and coming exercises, which are only for Well, this is an announcement to me that somehow we might be out in Albuquerque on the 26th of September. I didn't know this. Like many things that happen, guys, if you've seen anything on that, please let us know. We'd like to hear more. But somebody's going to have to give us a ring because really we don't have it in the schedule yet, or we'd have told you a lot sooner. But as soon as we know more, Mike Ness is going to check on some things for us too because he had it at his end. We'll let you know what's going on there, but there is a lot to accomplish, and that's a lot of running around, guys, because we're going to be all over the points of the compass here in the next, well, actually, for the next 10 weeks, if everything goes the way it's supposed to. So, a lot to do. We still have vehicles to put up and online. We've got filming to do. We have training exercises coming up. We'll be going back to the Carolinas. Virginia, of course, wants me to come back there. We'll see what happens. I think a lot of that we can deal with, I think, over the UltraNet, which is how we dealt with a lot of the other signal communications issues. And conference there, that's another consideration. And the most important thing is time and efficiency, guys. Force multiplication, economy and force is the issue. Mark doesn't have to be everywhere in order for things to get done. You guys need to pick up and run with the ball. Now, let's go right down the shopping list here, by the way. For FM slash PMs, now the PM is for the Patriot Militia units, PMs, we have PM 8-94, how to start and train a militia. Cost is $5 plus six stamps. We have PM 10, which is militia SOP, that is $7 plus six stamps. We also have the anti-armor manual, I rounded it up because yes, we can use them. A little extra support there, but the anti-armor manual in the newest printing is $5 plus 6 stamps. And we have the range manual which is $6 plus 6 stamps. Now I'm using the 6 stamp method here because I don't know where you are and you are as good at telling me how the mail service figures out what to charge as anybody else. And of course it's a matter of does it have to go from A to B to C to D to E to F to G to get to you. So anyway, we do have a new manual. It is the range instructor's rifle marksmanship manual for militia and for the colonial marines, both the colonial marine militia and any other regular militias. It is both an I and T manual, instructor and teacher manual. So this is very valuable for those of you who are wanting to train your squad, train your fireteam, or if you're the S3 or G3 for your respective units, this is a manual that you do need and it covers basic rifle marksmanship specifications, information, technical data. We are going to supplement this with some overlapping older material because you see the new range books assume that somehow you have a multi-billion dollar budget when there are pop-up electronic targets and electronic motor targets that run across the battlefield in tangents. That would be cool, but anybody out there got a couple billion on in your back pocket you are going to throw this way? I didn't see anybody's hand through the microphone. Okay, with that being the case, we're going to teach you the old, as they say in the colloquial Americanism nowadays, Americanese, forgive me, in the old school way. In other words, the way things used to be before we had all these cool electronics, there are a lot of neat ways to set up pop-up or slit ranges with manual systems. That's the next manual that will be produced so that we can get you guys up there with some really good looking equipment without spending a whole lot of money. But let me give you a little hint here. Here's a quickie. How many of you are driving along and see old Christmas tree stands, you know, red and green, along the road, people thrown in the junk? Every now and then. Every now and then. Now, let me ask you something. What's cool about those? Well, they're designed to hold a pole, you know, at the center of a Christmas tree, and they're designed to hold a heck of a lot of weight. And you might notice there are holes drilled in each of the little legs that are steel that come up to the center. Those holes are so you could actually nail that puppy to the floor if you want to, or screw it if you want to. So here's a consideration. Why reinvent the wheel? Just go get yourself some flat black or OD green paint and make sure that all the little nuts for all the little tightening screws okay work. The tightening screws are loose and that they thread okay they're not rusted up. If they are break them free because this is a cheap solution guys. You all got yourself some target stands right there waiting to happen. Now, what do you use for a center pole for your target stand? Well, you go over to your carpet or hardware store and you ask them to save the linoleum or the other raw material dowels that they have that are about 1 inch to 2 inches in diameter. Now, look what you've got, a shootable center post for your stand up targets. Next step, well let's go over to the, oh my favorite, let's go over, although cardboard recycling is popular still, let's go over to the appliance mark and let's ask for a couple of refrigerator boxes or big old stove boxes with all the cardboard syrups we have. Now if you do not have a state government green silhouette, I suggest you go out and buy one of them. Notice I said one. That becomes your P. Put a big P on the back of that target because you're going to use it for your pattern. Now, what do we do with this? We take our cardboard cutout pattern, we lay it on top of our refrigerator boxes, we cut out the human silhouette targets that we want, and we stack them like cord would. We can make hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of them for free. Now, we take our dowels and we cut them approximately five feet tall. Wow, ain't that special? And we then walk on. There's a number of ways you can do this. Let's say you want to be safe. We don't want any metal objects if we can help it on our targets, do we? Because we don't want anything bouncing back or we don't leave anything in the grass. On the range, it's going to cause a problem for our lawnmowers. So we poke two holes at the top, two holes in the center, and two holes at the bottom of our silhouette target, the width of the cardboard dowel. Now we've got the holes and we have the pole at five feet. We're going to take our Mr. Pink can. It depends on how fancy you want to be. Me, I like uniformity. I like to look cool when I get started. I'm going to shoot the snot out of this, but I want it to look good. So you take the pic of what favorite uniform you want to shoot at. You can spray paint your silhouette's OD green with a little flesh tone face area and a little green helmet. You can paint them with a little blue beret or a little blue helmet and a pink flesh face and green uniform. You can paint them all black and make just a little flesh tone area where the ski mask would be. And the other areas can all be black. There you go. Or just put in some ice for a gas mask. There you go. Or just put some ice in there. That's right. Dollars store got glasses if you want to, Don. You can be a little fancy with that. Just watch for the stuff people are throwing off along the road. Come out and use them for targets. But now you've got your silhouette. Now you spray paint your pole so that it looks tactical too. Let's make it OD green, or let's make it just gray, or let's make it black. That's up to you. Now we take our zip tie. We zip tie our cardboard silhouette to our cardboard tube. Now, we have our tree stand. What can we do with the tree stand? Well, there are two directions we can go here. If you think it's going to work fine as is, by the way, if you do, remember if you're going to use it just as is without any other supports, It will work. Chances are the energy of the bullet hitting the target may actually just pop the silhouette over, which would be cool. There are some solutions that are fancier. You be creative. Think about it. If you want it to fall over, you might. There are ways you can set it up so it will do that. But let's just set it up as a standard silhouette. Now, we can either use the stand after we've camouflaged it. Let's make it look green or gray or brown. I don't care what color, but tactically color it. OK? Now, we can either A, make the platform more stable by taking a 1x3 or 1x4 slat board. Example, you can get some nice pieces off of old pallets. Take those screw holes and use them to create an X underneath your silhouette target stand, which is the Christmas Tree Holder. Now you have your silhouettes with the pipe held on. Of course your silhouettes are held on by zip ties. Black. Let's not use pink or purple or green. Get some black ones. You can get them at the dollar store. You can pick them in a tactical color. They'll match whatever it is that's on your uniform color you pick for your silhouette. Now we go out to the range. We put our boards down. There's only one other thing you might do, which I'd recommend if you want to use those Christmas stands over and over again, is once you take them out to your private range, you're going to leave them there. However, I would also watch along the road for these nice OD green sandbags. Where would I put the sandbags, Don? Probably at the base of what used to be the Christmas tree support or a whole bunch of them behind the target. Yeah, there we go. In other words, I have my backstop and I have my frontstop. Now my frontstop is only so I reduce damage to my fine target holder. What I now have is a series of silhouettes that can be laid up side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side by side. And when the cardboard wears out and the silhouettes wear out, guess what? I take them over to where I'm going to have my bonfire at night and we're all going to sit around and toast marshmallows or whatever. Or roast the latest, you know, whatever we find running around there in the woods, you know, with the old spit. Ow, ow, ow, quick, it burned. We didn't say it was going to be a dog or a cat. And we didn't say it was going to be a cow, did we? Just said we'd be putting something on this pit. Ow, ooh, ow, ooh, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow You walk the student up to the range, ideally you can blindfold them or put their gas mask on. And you bring them over to a point on the range where they still are blocked from seeing where the silhouettes are. Now, what you do with a coach instructor is you can have a fire maneuver course where you not only move, but you actually have to engage specific targets when you move. You can also use this for range familiarization, 100, 200, and 300 yards. Remember that if you've seen the standard military silhouette, they start from about the crotch area up. Once put in the grass with that five foot pipe, they simulate the average height of a running individual or a moving individual in grass or in cover. This gives you the closest to a realistic show to them shooting back at you. We now have for the price of a free Christmas tree holder some free cardboard material. free cardboard tubing from any number of sources. Now it needs to be the heavier gauge cardboard tubing. That's why I said go to carpet places, go to the linoleum places. You want the stuff that's thick gauge to hold up. It's not going to flop over. Christmas tree tubes don't work very well. Now you can use wood, but remember wood is usually the more expensive. Also it's heavier. Think about this. It might splinter with a bullet too. Yeah, that's right. So instead the cardboard is just going to absorb the round. Now of course if you're a dead eye and you're really good and you're shooting over and over again on a target, we hope that the target mass center is probably going to be affected. Well, you never know. Your little cardboard silhouette might just flop over dead. But that's probably only if you shoot them in the belly button too much. Otherwise, it's going to hold up pretty well because the rest of the cardboard silhouette is going to work as a geodetic structure as it's supposed to and keep your silhouette up and online. Now, if you want to improve on target acquisition for the phase one training of anybody that got on a range like this, you can put a bullseye on the bullseye target on some ass. on the silhouette. That's not a problem. That's purely for getting people oriented to the idea that that's the center. Aim low. In other words, my idea of an X and something like that, if you put the bullseye center of mass, is to hit center of mass into the crotch. Bottom of the target. Aww, did Mark ruin your day? Maybe you should move the bullseye down. And the reason? Well, center of mass is where all the body armor is, guys. Think about it. Center of mass up is where the shock trauma plate is. The 27 layers of Kevlar, maybe another shock trauma plate under that. Guy might have spent some money on his motor cover armor. So you want to go down center of mass. Now there's a second reason for this when targeting. Remember that you have a tendency when you're nervous to kind of sometimes ignore the basic rules of squeeze and please. Okay? So, if you jerk and you are aiming center of mass, chances are you might bring it right up into the center of the target anyway. Okay? Yeah. Flinching is another issue. In other words, same thing. If you flinch a little bit or if you are under fire and for whatever reason something happens, better that you hit a rock and that rock through the basic rule, remember equal and opposite reaction. Well, if you hit a rock and that rock gets hit at 2,700 feet per second, and either the bullet, which is now a flat scimitar, or that rock roll up into the target at, say, 2,000 feet per second. We don't care which one hits him. There you go. You see how that works? Either one's going to go, oh man, I could have had a V8. And you're not gonna be real happy. Okay, so again solutions now the cool thing is guys think about these Christmas tree stands are cheap You could even go to the scrapyard They're never gonna expect this you go to the scrapyard and you pick up the ones people are throwing away there Even if you got to pay for a few pounds of metal you have yourself a priceless consistent training aid See how that works now a couple tricks if for instance you've got windy areas and you're trying to stabilize your platform You take pallets that you get for free that they are throwing out. Busted up ones are fine because that way you will get the boards you want. Grab the pallets, take your old skill saw and cut right along the board. Take them right off one way, then cut along that cross bar the other way. Now they come right off. Okay, real easy. Now you have got this 2.5 foot duck foot. Now, you don't have to cross from one screw hole to the other. Instead, you take that duck foot, that piece of wood, and you put one end of it underneath where the screw hole is and throw that in place and let the wood extend beyond the leg as a natural extension of it. Now you have a support that goes out, what, 2.5 feet plus the normal width of the legs themselves which helps to stabilize the platform. These are little tricks at work. We've been out there when it's been bad weather. We've been out there when it's been good weather. Now yes, there's nothing. Well, gee Mark, we just caught a pound of stake in the ground. Hey guys, we do that too. I'm trying to give you solutions so that here's the thing. When you're done at the end of the day, you can go out and clean up the range in a matter of a few minutes. You can pick up your range bases, go put them into a little range shed made out of a couple of pallets with plywood sides. and everything is there for you the next time you show up at the range. You see the advantage of that? And consistency. You've got cars and stuff back and forth and back and forth. Oh my goodness, somebody stole my Christmas tree stands. Who cares? I don't want to load up the car and go shoot right now. It's just shoot right now. Do you see the difference? Think of how many times you've heard that too. Oh man, this is a lot of work. We're trying to help you to reduce that. Once you have a rain site set, keep improving it. Let me give you another example. If you drive along and you see, hey, wait a minute, the construction site's all gone, but they left the sandbags in the ditch. Hey, look, you got free sandbags. And you know what? 99% of them are tactical. They're OD green already, aren't they? Yup. When they leave those behind, I don't care how tired they are, you're going to shoot the snout out of them anyway. Why do you care? You take the sandbags over to where they are useful on the range and you keep accumulating them in different ways. Now there's two things to do with them. Number one, downrange, use them to protect the equipment you want to reuse. On the firing line, you use them for any number of different purposes. For instance, digging shooting stations. and having one or two layers of sandbags in place in front of the shooter stations to simulate defensive positions. See how that works? If you want to continue to get fancy, you can also make it a safety issue and extend arms between each shooting station so that when the person is in the prone, they actually have cover from each shooting station which increases the safety issue. This is a good thing. Think of all the things you can do with them. Also, I would recommend that you establish a range officers point. How to do that? Well, those pallets again, couple pieces of junk chipboard or plywood, and a couple of scrap pieces of 4x4 from these construction sites down the road or made out of 2x6s or made out of 4x6s, whatever. You can take some chunks of nothing and actually create an elevated range platform. that allows one person to monitor and control the range. Now we're not talking about all of the iron fist but to a degree we are in that you will call for a fire or ceasefire. You will monitor the range for safety violations or issues that may arise. This is very simple to do but it is really good and it looks darn good guys when you guys have this at every event where you actually have your act together. Now we go one step farther. We actually have designated range officers. They will be wearing a specific helmet. That helmet is painted just as we used to do years ago when we really had control on the range and that way everybody knows who the range officers are with regard to the team. The range team's job is to make sure that the safety standards are met If there are any issues with regard to maintenance or malfunctions, they are dealt with and are withdrawn from the range before they continue to become a problem. See how that works? So simple it's ridiculous guys and it costs very little of anything. By the way, if you don't want helmets, I prefer helmets. Personally, I like the idea of some steel hanging around when you've got bullets flying. That's just Mark. We also do that with bony hats and patrol hats or whatever. Here's the thing. Go down to your local Wally World and dollar store and they've got a bunch of baseball caps. Pick a goofy color that doesn't match anything that anybody else is wearing. And buy 20 of them and put them in a box. Why? That's your range officer's baseball cap. Those who are participating wear the baseball cap. When they're done, if they're going to switch jobs, They go back to the shooting station where they have cleaning gear, extra tools, and all the range parts. They drop their hat and they put their regular headgear back on. Another person that is designated picks up their hat and they become a range officer. This way you know who is who in the zoo and you don't have to guess. It is a level of professionalism that the other side doesn't think we are capable of and guess what? We are. We are not talking professionalism paid. We are talking in well educated as in competent. We are competent enough to do that. So again, little ideas but it all started with that Christmas tree concept. Now you want to get fancier? Here is a little thing that they did up at Camp Stasa, but they did it on a larger scale. How many of you have seen the old machines that run dry cleaners where they hang hundreds and hundreds of tons of clothes on dry cleaning lines? Those are chain driven, aren't they Don? Oh yeah. And pretty heavy duty. So, let's say we have one of those things laying around, or here is another one. How many of you have seen garage door openers that people get fed up with, electric ones? Hey, are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yeah, as long as you don't shoot the hardware. Ow, ow! Well, there's some tricks to that too as far as how you deal with that because basically here's the rule. As a rifleman or a pistol operator, you're supposed to know how to place those rounds into a people sized silhouette. So we should not have to tell the student that by the way, we're not aiming for the rafters in the roof of the house. Now, if you've seen Camp Stasa, the way that they did this is they actually put mobile walls up and then of course did a shooting gallery type arrangement whereby the silhouettes actually move past windows, can move left, right, depending upon the operator, whoever is running the switch. You can do the same with garage door openers. And here's the thing, you get the garage door opener for free. The wiring, come on, guys, same thing, you get the wiring for free. Just go out and do these construction sites. Even for all the value of copper and whatever, you will find miles of wire. Miles of wire. So you don't have to spend any of your own money. You just have to be patient. Save up the electrical boxes, save up the switches, and you get all stuff that's being tossed out. That way when the time comes, oh my goodness, we've got to roll this all up. No, you leave it on the range, guys. Harbor long, it runs, it runs. When it tires out, it keeps scrounging for other ones. You put those in the range box, the range shed. When you need another one, unscrew it, throw that off into the scrap metal bin to go to the scrap yard to get more money to buy more junk stuff. You hook up your next garage door closer and now you have your silhouette mover again. It's that simple guys. It really is that simple. But of course it does take a little bit of effort. Remember if you make it out of wood, which is typically what everybody builds things out of, eventually you're going to have to be replacing it. Or at the very least, goop it up and paint it a lot. Now that's another thing, for the price of $19 worth of paint you can save yourself a whole lot of rebuilding. And by the way, are we really concerned about it looking real pretty? It's going to have holes in it. Yeah, it's going to have holes in it. So I don't care what, I mean the color of paint would be good. I mean nice color, tactical brown, green, whatever. But more important is I'm just sealing the thing up from all the bullet holes I've already put in it so that next year we can come back when winter is done, although we shoot during the winter. And you go back up there and start popping things again. Wow, guess what? It's right there waiting for you. So that is a plus plus thing you all need to consider. We are going to be demonstrating some of the things we've been talking about, by the way, in the up and coming exercises that are going to be taking place. And we're going to have a lot of fun with that. We've got a lot of work to do. But it's all coming together. Wait till you see the fire maneuver range buildings that we've got up next. We are looking good. That is another project and that is another day. Hopefully we gave you some ideas. I know we are getting close to the bottom of the hour. It is going to be a minute here. We will probably hear the music. In fact, I know it is going to take a second because we have somebody moving around. In the meantime, Don, real quick, you have night vision available. You are working on new solutions for the night vision by the way. If they want to get hold of you, how can they do that? Well you guys, you got the paper and pencil ready. If you're looking for a piece of night vision, you can call me at 231-796-8458. Again, 231-796-58. From viewers to gun sites, many of them camera adaptable. That would be a good thing, camera adaptable sometimes, just so you can document what's going on. And if you need to do no more than document it, well, I did mention gun sites, didn't I? Hey, we're right at the bottom of the hour, you guys. Intelligence report will be back on the other side. One of our favorites. It's the Sabbath, the glory, old Caroline. There's our crying, this soul's you, the gamut time, and the great ghost of heaven, our plural, too. Robert Lloyd, that's one of his things. By the way, remember, some of them drivers are up there already, so as far as they went. Well, I should say eventually they get there, so he gets to meet all the drivers. Well, like I said, we just don't play Yankee music on this hour. Actually, that particular song, all the Robert Lloyd music that you hear has been given to us by Robert, and I greatly appreciate that. I want to say thank you to him again. There are three songs that we want to do videos for, and that's one of them right there. The Great Ghosts of Heaven. He does all of the engineering for this himself. It is his work and his music. I want to say thank you. If you want to get a hold of it, go to PayPal. We have that on the site. Edward has done a great job of following up on that to make sure that we have copies of everything for people as they need it. If you need a copy, get a CD of that song and many others by Robert Lloyd. There are three different albums. Check the listings and go from there. And you know what, I didn't finish that. You know we started getting off into our range ideas here with the Christmas tree stands. And I mentioned all of these PMs. And so I think we're going to go through this one more time. Cool. These are militia training manuals. They will help you to organize if you are looking at trying to build up. And you are going to have one of us there to take care of everything you've got to do. So this helps to build up standard operating procedure. First is PM 8-94, How to Start and Train a Militia. Cost is $5 plus 6 Tams. We also have PM 10, which is Militia SOP. That's a pocket book. You should be carrying that one with you all the time. If you want to copy these, by the way, guys, please do. The only thing I ask is that as you see that book, that's what I want you to copy and produce. You have to end. In other words, eliminate nothing. That's right. There's a reason because everything that's in there is in there for a reason. Even the information, we had to choose. You know, we didn't have all the latest vehicles in the SOP manual. And there's a reason they didn't do that because pretty well you're going to figure out, for instance, with loading and binding operations with the Mule, that when you run into it, like our Colonial Marines are now building the mechanical Mule II, which is the same basic vehicle but adapted with other motors because the original motor pack is not as easily accessible as it used to be. It's still out there, but it's surplus. Anyway, the point is that we're making a new Mule unit so that that completely applies. We've got a whole pile of Jeeps. So if you see the 1514 muck designation there, just adapt accordingly to the M38A1A2A3A4, A5A6A7A8 because there are variations. Also the Willys Jeep, but any other variants, the Mighty Mite. How many people remember the Mighty Mite? Probably don't, but some of you Marines will. The lightest of all the quarter ton carriers we ever made, the Mighty Mite. Anyway, those vehicles are all out there, so just apply accordingly. Plus, if you've built, as you've seen a couple of these vehicles, they look kind of flat. They are called Gitneys and a couple of our people have been building them and we are building a new model right now. They are designed basically like a Ranger slash Special Forces Assault Vehicle. They are a utility carry transport quarter ton. All the information on the 151 would apply to that with regard to stowage and transport. Okay. Roof folds down, windshield folds down, the whole thing is neater canoes can be and it is designed to run off Volkswagen. but it will run off other types of inline four cylinder engines too. The point is that PM10, the militia SOP, is $7 plus 6 stamps. We also have the Colonial Marine militia anti-armor handbook. That is $5 plus 6 stamps. And then we have the Range Book. Now this is pretty decent. It's actually a log book originally based on the Colonial Marine design as they're using it. It's being used by everybody. And that is $6 plus 6 stamps. It costs a little more because there's a lot more printing involved with that one. $6 plus 6 stamps. If you would like any of these you can go to our PayPal site. We have them on the PayPal site there. We also have them, if you wish to order, you send a check or money order made out to Orcash, made out to Nancy, last name K-O-E-R-N-K-E, and send it to PBN, P-O-Box 194. Dexter, Michigan 48130, that's PBN, that's Patriot Broadcasting Network by the way, PBN PO Box 194, Dexter, Michigan 48130, and we will shoot those to you right away. Now we do have a new manual that is out and it is the instructors manual and trainers manual, teachers manual, for rifle marksmanship. Now, between this and the other text that will be done very soon, you could do virtually everything you need to do on the range and explain it and work in a classroom environment. And you do need to sit down and discuss this. And I don't care how many of you... Well, let me put it this way. Mark and Don have seen pretty much a good portion of whatever you could run into in the Patriot Movement. But if we're sitting in an audience, do you see us disrupting or causing problems for another speaker who may be speaking, talking about a subject? No. Have you ever seen that, guys? I might clap. That's right. We'll clap when the time comes. My point is this. You all have to have respect for the instructor and in so doing also respect yourself. Show some dignity. Show some discipline. When you're in a classroom environment, stay focused. That is critical. especially when another person is giving instruction or a course. I know that there are a lot of things that from the management end we have to take care of. So we are always bouncing around and people are always asking for a minute of our time. That happens with us. But even then, if we are in the audience, we focus on what the speaker is doing. And that again is because that person is giving us the same courtesy and the same respect. And we expect that from everyone. And I ask that all of you, when you are students in a classroom environment, that you do the same. We are running out of time. We cannot waste time. There are people who, first of all, can use a refresher in every aspect of what we are going to be working on here. The business of war is a very cruel business indeed. It has a very sharp report when it comes to failure ratings. You need to have additional or supplemental or a reminder course for everyone. In the process, remember that you probably aren't peeling off the way you should, although you can do it both ways, but you aren't peeling off your new students. It is very bad for you to show lack of discipline in front of new members and individuals. You need to stay focused. You need to show respect to everybody. You need to make sure that you're online. The teacher has taken the time, via teaching medical support, rifle qualification, could be calling an artillery or mortar, it could be anything. But whatever that individual is offering in the way of a course, he, first of all, is going to have to maintain his discipline. You, as a student, no matter what you think your experience is, must maintain your discipline. We are going to show respect for each other and we are going to make sure we continue to ingrain that into the young soldiers that we are bringing forward, the young militia men. And there are some militia ladies out there too that are doing the same thing. Now ladies we don't want you to fight but we also know that you may have to fight. So with that being the case we are going to be putting you through the classes in the same way for the same purposes so that you are competent and so that you too can pass on the information but also use it if needed. Remember, you never know who is going to have to pick up a phone and call in a mortar round. Kind of nice if everybody knows how to do that. Especially since we don't want to lob it on the house, we plan on dropping it on the bad guys. See what I mean? That would be preferred. Oh great, we called it in on ourselves. Well, hunker down. Hope for the best, expect the worst. Sometimes that happens because you have to do it. As you know, there are some excellent examples of that in We Were Soldiers. Again, it is hard to express combat. They have done a good job as far as that goes. But with some of the worst case scenarios, getting hit with your own air strike. Motors, no-no friends, just like land mines guys. Once it's in flight. That's right. Once it's in flight, it knows no friend. There is no such thing, even though we call it that, there is no such thing as friendly fire. If it's coming your way, it's all unfriendly. So that's how you've got to think about it. Now that's where safety comes in too. So I'm going to remind everybody. Back over to that range spot, Mark. Yes, right. If you have the discipline, anybody on the range should be able to call a ceasefire. But you better have a pretty good reason for it. But anybody on the range should be able to call ceasefire. Yes. I want you to get that out. That is true as a matter of fact because you may see something that nobody else does. Yes. One of the most common, a good point there because we're coming up on some major training exercises with hundreds of people on the range. Hundreds and hundreds of people. One of the Nagi-Hitcham courses is going to have two different regimental combat teams in place coming up here in two weeks. They are going to be qualifying with a pistol and rifle and probably they will be on the 50 range too. I am almost guaranteed. With that being the case, remember that if any individual sees what is an unsafe practice or a situation that may compromise the range, then automatically you call for a ceasefire, ceasefire, ceasefire. Yup. Okay. Immediately. There is a reason for that. Everybody pay attention. Freeze also. You don't know what it is that somebody may have seen. Don't turn your weapon. Operators pay attention to securing your firearm first and then move to see what the problem is. You may step away from your weapon, but if you do that, step back and away from your weapon. If it is on the range, for instance, crucured weapons like the Browning semi-autos, you have BAR semi-autos out there, RPKs, some of you might be using the 50s, Geyserls are bipod mounted. You can leave the weapon in the station and step away from it, taking it off battery. Now, I will say this. I am a firm believer in that yes, we have to trust all of our operators, and you will find this when you are on a militia exercise. Everybody is carrying their personal sidearm for a reason. You may step away from that weapon, but you are not unarmed. So that's another thing to take into consideration. Always know where your weapons are and everybody pay attention to what's going on. Another thing that is policy, there will be a first aid team on the range. Not that we plan on anything happening. The idea is we're going to make sure that nothing bad continues to happen. If somebody is hurt, we take care of it right away. It doesn't shut down the exercise. Now by the way, it doesn't mean you have to be shot. Anybody out there ever use an M1 Garand? Have you ever been on the range down and had a person get what we call M1 thumb? Should have moved a little quicker. I have seen grown men screaming to have somebody get a 9 pound rifle off the end of their thumb. Yes. I am not exaggerating and a lot of you are laughing right now for the same reason because you have been on the range and you know that guy has put that D clip in there and he was just a little slow. If you are lucky, the bullet isn't in front of the thumb when that bolt pushes everything forward because sometimes you might slide forward and make a mistake. That's very bad. We also call M1 dimple then. Typically what happens is your thumb slides a little forward with the bolt, or I should say as the bolt is moving, and you end up with the thumbnail towards chamber and bolt face towards thumb tip. Usually the person is highly motivated. It is very energetic. Getting up off the ground is not uncommon. Again, you will hear the screaming, get it off, get it off, get it off. Let's all be ready for that. Remember, you will probably be a little bit of bleeding. The person is not going to be too happy. They may throw that 9 pound rifle. We are going to prevent that from happening. But when that happens, let's have the medicals, you know, such if, if, not when. Ideally, everything goes perfectly well. But when that happens, we want to make sure that we don't have that person dancing around trying to figure out what to do fishing for medical gear. This is a good opportunity for our corpsman to practice their trade. So let them do it. Or for the ladies, if they're working as the medics in your unit, they're going to be able to deal with it just fine. That person will be banished. Check to make sure everything is okay. It doesn't require any stitches or anything. Get him back on the range if he feels like it. Of course you may not want to use a grain. You might switch over to the carbine. We understand that. Just for a day or two. Unless he wants to be a left-handed grand shooter, Don. Yeah, risk that other thumb there. We can send you home in two bands. It's kind of awkward. You're not the driver, are you? That's right. Hey, thumbs up, guys. Oh, not a good pun there. Thumbs up. Well, anyway, point is that other things can happen. Hey guys, people running into tent stakes, people running into cross bars on deuce and a halfs. Let's go right down the list of things that can happen. Dropping a 22 pound or a 27 pound ammo can on one's toe. Sometimes that's a little nerve ending. We want to make sure that we're ready for that. Again, that's what your medical unit is on the range for to deal with any problems like that. Again, they should be fully kitted out and ready to go. Not halfway, not part of the way, oh I don't want anybody to get upset. Wrong! You're in a military formation people. You're in the militia. You will anticipate the probability of somebody being hurt. That way you will not be unprepared when the time comes. They will be upset if you're not ready to fix them. That's right. That's the way you can see that. Now that's another thing too, again, stretchers, combat kit, also a medevac system should be in place, no guessing. Another thing when you park, park your vehicles tactically. In other words, you don't do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, oh look, there's parking space and drive straight in. you will have traffic control on site and all vehicles will be parked so that they can quickly move out of their parking space and off of the area of operation. This means there's no backing up and no confusion. You don't have to have a road guide. What it means is you have a road guide when the vehicles are parked. This way all vehicles are ready to leave and the road guide need only point at a vehicle and give him the motion and the vehicle is down the road. And the next vehicle when he's ready that he sees it's loaded up, point and he's down the road. And you wait for the guy who's going to be in charge, the NCO or it could be just simply your designated road guides. And their job is if you have to leave an area or if you are leaving an area, there will be coordination. There will be a coordinated effort. You don't pull in with your car and your behind any of your vehicle hanging out. You back into a space, you make sure that you are pointed. In other words, you usually have your vehicles tapered towards the exit. And you make sure that this way there's going to be a quick and rapid response if you need to leave the site. Or at the end of the day if you want to leave the site. It makes it that much easier, guys. Trust me on this. Case in point, this is a variation on the theme. It has nothing to do with car parking. But remember at Breed's Hill, which is the actual name for Bunker Hill, at Breed's Hill, Bunker Hill was the other hill, when they fought that action, where the casualties came in, guys, is when they tried to leave the site because they had run out of ammo and the British were pressing the fortifications. There was only one entrance in, but there had been no practice at withdrawing from the battlefield in order. You see how that works? Kind of like yelling fire in a theater. That's right. Everybody tried to jam through a space that wasn't designed for the number of people who wanted to leave the area because of the fixed bayonet, well, the fixtures, the bayonet fixtures around the British weapons. Something which we remedied very quickly too, by having your own bayonets. But the point is that both entrance and evacuation are critical. So we want to make sure that you think ahead. Now, there are a lot of other things that can be done, but this means that all the people who are participating, if you are going to work as an instructor, you have one job. If you are going to work with traffic control and operations so that everything could go smoothly, that's yet another task. And this means that we have to have more people participating in support so that the formations will work more efficiently. everything in its place. That's how it works. A time for everything and make sure that everything is in its place. When the time comes, a little bit of coordination, you move that much faster. You also look that much better, guys. Now part of this falls in line with something I mentioned in a book here. It's of course PM10, militia SOP. Standard Operating Procedure. And what that means is that if you pay attention to that little book that we've generated, you know what? It shows you hand signals. The hand signals should be consistent. That way there's no guesswork. Now you don't have to figure this out if you have the little SOP manual because you study the SOP manual and both you and all of your fellow militiamen use the same system. Okay? Doesn't mean you can't use walkie-talkies and all that other fun stuff, but think about this. Hand signals will ensure that there's no radio interception. Think about the ideas here guys. Using hand signals means that there's no possibility of electronic countermeasures or electronic interception. This is a plus. That can be done with 20 and spotting scopes. That can be done from 1,000 to 2,000 yards away. That's right. Think about the scopes on your rifles, the long range spotting scopes or observation scopes or rangefinders all serve yet another purpose. Yup. Now go ahead. Your eyes are full. Go one step farther and with illumination devices such as flashlights and guys your angle head flashlights have a whole bunch of little colored lenses in the bases Guess what they're for? Not only do you give a flash signal, but remember if you use a certain color even the color means something You see how that works. Yeah, we use red. We use the red code. We use green We use a green code. We use white. We use a white code And remember there is a white opaque plate in there. You don't just use your white light flashlight. You use the white opaque plastic, the white plastic that is clouded so that all you see is the white illumination. You don't have this broad wash of the area around you that goes for however many yards. That's a plus plus. It helps to maintain some security. Now a lot of your angle head flashlights also have a cave channel, I should say a restrictor channel around the lens. So that it limits the broadcast of the light to a narrower area. This means that you have to think about aiming your flashlight when you're using it for signaling. Well, I flashed him three times and he doesn't seem to catch on. Yeah, but look, he's over there. Oh shoot, that's right. I better get back over this way a little bit. So keep in mind, always understand your equipment, take in mind the technology, use it accordingly. Other ways to do it, but we only have to get into all of that, we are at the top of the hour. One more time, PM894, how to start and train a militia, $5 plus the stamps. PM10, militia SOP, $7. Colonial Marine, militia, anti-armor manual, $5. Plus, we have the range book, that's $6. Last but not least, and the newest, is the range instructor's manual. Cost on that will be, I believe, to be safe, $9. Now that covers everything that's designed to help keep the lights on. There's a few pennies that go towards support. Most of it is a fact that you've seen. We've done a good job I think with the printing. A lot of you guys have received them. There's thousands of them that have gone out already. Iowa has received a massive chunk of these by the way because they are really PO'd with what they've been seeing in their state. Ooh-rah! We're going to double the strength of the militia in Iowa in a matter of months. It will take a month and less than that because they have already got the people. They just have to get them trained. Keep up the good work there. Remember if you want anything, go to our PayPal site. Check that out. Don, of course, one more time for your number for night vision. Thank you, Mark. 5'8". It will go in a binder. That's the purpose. You've got a good instructional piece here that you can put into your kit. It's part of the G3 or S3 packets. You will find it with the new Colonial Marine Regimental Combat Teams that we are going to be including this in the new training packets for those formations. We'll cover that again tomorrow too by the way. We're almost at the top. Only a moment away. I know we're going to hear the music in a second. I'm going to be talking about the new world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We are on the march both day and night. Hoo-rah. Fix that, let's kick him in the hind end. Let's get on with business and let's get on with life. We're going to leave him in the dust. Thank you, Don. God bless you. God bless you.