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As I awoke, he vanished in the midst for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god given right we only watching tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside the dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedom he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report. I'm our corny and the butter knife One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories south, central, east, and northwest. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we're on live 365. We're also on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with southern and central Alaska. And you will find us on the Hallmark Network, 8 colonial states. and many expansions beyond that into other parts of the country. We're going to be covering a lot of supply and support. So a quick reminder, grab your pen and paper. And also, it is the end of the week for the Intel report, but that doesn't mean it's the end of the week for all the work going on with the Patriot and Militia Movement. We've got Tea Parties going on around the country, a few of them here and there. We have meetings in all directions, many of them Patriot meetings for honoring the Memorial Day weekend and Memorial Day itself. Plus their training exercises. What better day to train than on Memorial Day? And in the process I understand that those units that will be training for the weekend will have a special service on Sunday. The chaplains, and this is covered in the Colonial Marine Chaplains Corner and also for the Wolverines. The chaplains will be providing service for Sunday, but it will be very special service because of the Memorial Day. We have, oh, I'll tell you what, Butter Knife, before we get into Quartermaster, what I would ask if you could is give everybody, first of all, an overview and then all of the information and contact points for the story that you covered earlier during the afternoon report, please. Okay, the New York Times has run a small story. It's on their website. The headline on this is Obama is said to consider preventive detention plan. None of this is any real news to us. We know what these guys are up to and what they are planning. What is interesting about this story is that they are actually trotting it out in public now and getting people accustomed to the idea of so-called preventive detention. What that means is imprisoning people that haven't actually done anything and for which they cannot even be bothered to come up with some sort of bogus accusation. This also meshes together with information. We have gathered over the decades about facilities designed for mass detention, presumably of political prisoners and such. So, that means that Mr. Presidential Meat Puppet has been given the go-ahead to start getting people accustomed to the idea of folks vanishing into the maw of the beast without even the pretense of formality of charges or accusations or what have you. This is on the NewYorkTimes.com website. You can navigate to it under It probably comes up straight up. You can certainly search on the site for preventive and or detention. It's also linked from our primary archive site, theintelligencereport.co.cc. There are lots of ways to reach this. I generated a tiny URL that did not work for a lot of people. So, I will give you those references. You can find it directly on the nytimes.com site or you can simply go straight through the intelligencereport.co.cc where it has a link to it. Very good. And again, this will give everybody a chance to read first hand what we're talking about. We have a number of different directions you can go to access. And I would recommend that everybody take the time to do this. I do not want to hear about any limitations, gnashing of teeth or running of hair because this is just a communist doing what the communists do and it's a benchmark. It is a notch on the ratchet click. We have a better understanding for everybody else. We can show them what we're talking about, what we have been talking about and understand that these characters are so far around the corner they can't see the corner anymore. They're power freaks. That's all there is to it. We're going to have to deal with that accordingly and we will. Now, to do that, we need to have deep supply and support. One of the things that reason Quartermaster Friday is in place is because while we touch on the subjects constantly and many other subjects through the week, Quartermaster should have its own specific hour and its own specific block of time because it is a critical branch of any military force, any field force, any militia force. No matter who it is that's going into the field, It's the guy that can get the shovel to where it needs to be, the cartridge where it needs to be, the medical bandages where they need to be. You name it, go right down the list. Let me give you an example. What do you think was the single, and this is kind of rhetorical, but I'm going to answer it for you, but what do you think was the single most important acknowledged tool that America brought to Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War that benefited the Vietnamese military and the Viet Cong fighting us. What was the one thing, the one tool? Think of all the things our military spent billions of dollars on. Think of how many tons of things we shipped over there. General Goyap himself even committed to a chapter, a little part of a chapter, on this particular tool. I'm giving you a big hint here. The one single implement that did more to change the overall order of battle, provided by our quartermaster by the way. What tool would that be? What do you think? If I had to make a guess, I would say probably communications. Well, we did lose a lot of stuff by the way, so that is true. But what General Guyup acknowledged as the single most important tool that America brought to the Southeast Asian theater during the Vietnam War was the U.S. Army entrenching tool. Oh, okay. Hand-tilt. Got it. Yeah. In fact, the quality. See, China and Russia make tools, guys. They make garbage tools. They make slave produce tools. The quality of their steel varied, but a lot of what they sent out to the general population was basically would be described as teeny, okay, lip flimsy. Well, if you look at, and in fact I would say this as a representation of the industrial might of the respective countries, take a look at the folding shovels generated during the Cold War by the different armies. Everybody goes, oh, that's really low tech. That's the whole point. But that little folding shovel made by the US military with the pick option on it, either one they were happy with, provided them with the single tool that they needed. It was perfectly proportioned as a hand tool for the average Vietnamese soldier. It's kind of small in an American's hands because we like to scale things down so it would be easier to pack. But for the Vietnamese, the standard US hickory or oak handled entrenching tool was the single most important tool we shipped there. Why? Because all those tunnels, the tunnels of Cuche and all these other stories you hear about, that's what made it happen. Now, that doesn't mean they didn't improvise. Guys, anybody who knows about the Great Escape, they showed you how they made shovels, what they made out of them, made out of tin cans. They improvised with tools they had available, but that doesn't mean that the tools were reliable. When you improvise, it means you have to be satisfied with the end result, poor or negative, because it's all you've got. It's better than fingers. That's right. But here's the thing. Imagine somebody dropping a grade A piece of steel in your lap, well fabricated, easy to transport, and perfectly ergonomically engineered to the troop that you lead. Oh my goodness. And so it was the entrenching tool that changed the order of battle. A simple tool that's been around for thousands of years in one form or another. But in the American form it was perfect. The Quartermaster is the guy who got it there and it's the Quartermaster that made sure it was issued out. It's funny because there are so many times where you have them like they show you in different movies, even in Platoon, where the kids carrying is E-tool and they say, well, you can leave that home. They pull stuff out of this pack and leave this and leave this. They're thinning the lightning stuff up. Travel light frees at night is a basic rule, but travel light means you can carry more ammo is really what they were looking at. The idea was fighting load is the consideration and not tearing up the calorie reserves that you have to build up. On the other hand, there's much to be said for being able to crawl into a hole of your own fabrication. Exactly. So here guys, this is a lesson to be learned and again it's from history, but things repeat themselves over and over again. So the basics don't change. It's just whether or not you tune everybody up so that they know them and understand how to use them, that's critical. Now this includes deep supply and support. The 510 program we've been talking about, the ability to outfit five individuals in a fire team or 10 individuals, two fire teams, in a squad. is something that should be a goal for every one of our militia units. At the very least, they should be able to shadow, replace equipment-wise every piece of equipment that their unit would be using. It doesn't have to be the best that they have. In other words, it can be your hand-me-downs, but you have to have resupply. Or, you have to be able to create force multiplication. Some of the guys, like one of the things, and I do this all the time, when they are yard sales, I go in when they do the dollar a bag or two dollars a bag and I tightly roll every OD green and every sage brown and every earth brown shirt and pant that I can get my hands on and every jacket that's that shade too guys. Why? Because when the time comes, that will at least put you in the proper color range. We can modify everything else accordingly when the time comes. If it's not a fancy camo, at least it's not a brilliant orange Hawaiian shirt. That's right. It's subdued and will blend in. And that's one of the things. So we're looking at replacement equipment. Pressure that we can take off one area means that we can take that supply that would have had to have been used for those people and direct it towards the troops. See how that works? And again, alleviating pressure by using up equipment that is lesser. It means that your better equipment can be preserved and used longer in the field. Hence the term fatigue. It used to be called chestnut browns also. Walnut brown was another one. The reason is that fatigue is familiar with the blues and the reds and the whites. But what about a fatigue uniform? Have you ever seen an image of a fatigue uniform of the Revolutionary War? Do you know the artists of the US Army, actually back during the Bicentennial before it, they were commissioned to do some very realistic and historically correct images of the different battles or the preparations for different battles of the American Revolution. The fatigues were a brown because, well, butter knife, we had certain types of stain type hulls, for instance, walnut husks. which were used to color clothing. That's for the term butternut. They use different husks to create different colors or different shades and different permanent stains. This was before the era of enzymes in your laundry detergent when grass stains and such like actually came out of fabric. Those were as permanent as you could get. Oh yes, they stayed right where they were. So the fatigue uniform was designed to be subdued and it was shaded so it wasn't just bare cotton or naked cotton. And in the process allowed for the individual to be able to work, to be able to flex. This is part of, and this is something I have mentioned before, the whole idea that in the colonies, Americans had perfected military science to the nth degree, contrary to what they tried to claim with all the BS that you see about us being uncouth and savages and whatever. We prided ourselves on being, in fact we took great pride, in perfecting our working knowledge of new and innovative ideas, be they from overseas, or from our own people here in the colonies which eventually became the states. Fatigues were something that were actually issued to put less wear and tear on critical uniforms and equipment that were irreplaceable. Again, Elbet expensive items to have to purchase in the first place. Certainly didn't want to have to be scrubbing dirt stains and red Georgia clay or brown earth or like you said grass stains from the Virginia fields while you were busy digging earthworks, fortifications, siege points. check, etc. The challenge was to come up with a solution. Well, they did. It was all done naturally. It was all with natural colors, subdued colors. Yes, there were variations in shades and it also was a matter of how long those fatigues had been in service. But they were not a new item. They were very much a real standard item across the whole of the militia forces inside the colonies. It's something that we'd like to point out. That said, a little bit of history thrown at you guys. Quartermaster is crucial. And Butterknife, you're going to show us where it is we need to tweak our supply system. So go ahead. OK. Well, before we get into all of that stuff, I'd like to throw in a mention that we haven't touched on in a few times. The LPR offices do need our support. on an ongoing basis. It's not just a once in a while thing. A steady dribble is very important. You will find on the Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com website there is a donate page. On the donate page there is an excellent collection of PayPal buttons. which enable you to send $1 a month or in my case, even though I'm rather poor, $5 a month on a regular automatic basis to the station. I would encourage anybody that feels they can peel out $5 a month to go ahead and hit that. This business of remembering these things on a regular basis is rather a nuisance. But that takes care of it. I believe that it operates on the month anniversary of whenever you hit it. So if you wanted to do a couple of dollars a month, you could hit the $1 button a couple of different times, maybe two weeks apart, or hit the $5 button or what have you. If you have PayPal capability, it will send that $1 or $5 each month without ongoing attention. and send you a receipt for the transaction. So if enough of us hit that, that would help greatly. It would help meet the regular monthly bills, the electricity and the internet and all that kind of good stuff. All of the grubby stuff that keeps the machinery going. I really need the assistance and that will help stave off surprises and emergencies. One of the things that Mark mentioned as earlier this afternoon was that COPES Distributing is running a special on AR magazines right now at $8.99 a piece. The thing I wanted to mention on this, these are C products. That's the letter C smushed together with the word products. So if you wanted to search on that, you would go to COPES. distributing.net and you would search on C Products or you could search on AR-15 and do whatever you like. What I wanted to mention on this was that one of our friends in chat explained this when we first brought this up and I wasn't quick enough to put it on the air. What happened with this is that they have a regular order in, a regular weekly order for quite a few of these things from C Products. and they received a whole month's supply in one big lump. And we believe that that's the motivation for dropping the cost a couple of dollars on these guys to move a bunch of them as fast as possible. Given that that's presumably a one-time event or an unusual event, I would recommend that people move on this. Do not assume that this offer will be there indefinitely. As soon as they get out from under that pulse of inventory, I suspect that they will go back to their regular price. So that's $8.99. These are 30 round aluminum magazines, great Teflon, green follower. These are great magazines. These are front line magazines. Sea Products has military contracts. This is the same stuff that the military is getting. So that's an excellent opportunity, even at this late date. after a great number of these have been sucked down. And I would tell anybody that wants to support the AR-15 that that is an opportunity to stock up. I would go get 10, 20 of those if the funds are available and the need is there. There are a few other items on the COPES site that kind of tickled my fancy, not that, you know, our personal interest in these. But I have noticed two things. They are offering 50 round Thompson Drums for $280 and 100 round Thompson Drums for $550. Now that's an obscure item and far from cheap. But what's interesting about it is that that's cheaper than they have been in the past. This means that somebody has gone into new production on these guys. Hopefully, people that actually have great grandpa's Tommy gun squirrel the way back in the rafters of the barn or something and do not necessarily have as many drums as they ought to may be able to actually pick something up there. You can get a rifle for the price of one of those underground drum magazines. There's only a tiny fraction of the population that would be particularly interested in that. But I found it interesting that they are appearing in that fashion. And the cost is coming down just a little bit. Those 100 round drums have been at $650 for at least two or three years now. And dropping down to $550 is a small increment in the direction we would like to see. So far away from the surplus prices of the 70s or 80s. But if a great grandpa says, oh by the way, and you suddenly discover that somebody in your extended family actually has one of these tommy's or something along that line, it's a good thing to have this in the back of your head. These are, apparently, back in new commercial production. And so again, what we're looking at is if you have also, depending on what variation in Thompson you have in the carbines, you may have The ability to take the drums, not all of them can. Some of them won't accept the drums, but if you have confirmed that they will, a drum is awfully handy. Even if you can't afford a bunch of them, what you do is you go with the drum first, and after you drop the drum, remember, then you go to stick mags. That's simply how it works. For patrolling or for, say, vehicle mount use. Go with the drum, that gives you that much more firepower. And then you drop the drum, don't throw it away. But if you have to, if it's an ambush situation, as we say, just drop it. Go to stick mags, if you make it and you win, go back and recover the drum. If you don't make it, well you really don't care. But it does give you a lot of firepower and even if you see AK or the other weapons guys that have drums available, That first drum means that you're focusing on putting rounds into the target area, not considering a second or third mechanical action. And then again, for that much longer, you're putting rounds into the aggressor, into the target area, and that's a plus plus to how you look at it. Right. It's my impression that the commercially produced auto ordnance Thompson variants will take these guys. I don't know that absolutely perfect, but I believe that's the case. So that will work out just fine. It just matters who it is checking to see what the people have at the other end, if you can. I know some cases, like I said, butter knives. You might get a surprise down the road, so just having one of these if you suspect would be a good idea, rather than getting caught flat footed. And then going, oh my god, I've got to go get one of these. Butter knife, where are those? Oh well, little late now guy. Oh well, yeah. Go ahead and check the archives to figure out where to go shopping. Oh wait, the internet isn't working. Darn it. We'll see what we can do to fix that. OK. Still in the vein of things we have discussed in previous programs, mainmilitary.com, mainmilitary.com. We mentioned them on a routine basis. One of the items that they're offering right now is the M10 gas mask. Now that's not my favorite mask, because the filter is internal and you really have to change the whole mask in order to swap the filters. But they are a popular mask. The lenses are large so you get reasonably good visibility by gas mask standards. But what's interesting is that they are offering a crate full of 25 of these, mask and filter and bag 25 full sets for a flat $300. And this is a 130 pound wooden military crate. They say they come in either green or yellow. Don't ask them for a particular color. You'll get whichever one comes up. And that is no shipping cost. That brings the cost of a fully equipped mask and filter and bag down to $12 apiece in a handy little crate that's useful in its own right, either for those masks or some other purpose. at a total delivered cost of $300.25 of these guys. If you need to equip a depot or a group or a facility of some sort, that in one lump will get 20 people with some spares, I would say. up and running and have something on hand. You would want to get extra filters, I would say, but that's a good basic kit and they're waiving the shipping cost on this. The shipping is included, so that helps considerably. That brings the cost down to $12 apiece. I consider that a highly desirable offer. In fact, one of the things to remember too is if available in reasonable numbers, what's the cost on it again? Excuse me, cost is $300 for that creative 25. Yeah, you're talking again for a single block and a lot of people looking at being able to hand material and equipment out, guys. Well, it's important that you make the effort to have the inventory on hand, put it away, and make sure that it's properly secured, as we know. I mean, we've discussed this. Right next to me right now, butter knife, I've got, in fact, I just switched out another case. I've got a whole gaggle of M9 sitting next to me now too on top of everything else. I really like the M9s personally. Good cheek rest, perfect eye alignment with the sighting system, especially with the raised M16. The M14, the M9 was a very comfortable mass to work with that rifle and with the Grand. But what is interesting is with the AR-15 with the Resurace sight system, it's even that much more comfortable when rested into place. So the M9 for rifle accuracy under an NBC condition is an excellent option. It doesn't mean you have to... If you are a right-hand shooter, whether you're right-handed or not, if you use your right hand on the trigger and the left on the stock. and that filter on the left hand side is ideal if you get a cheek weld with a right hand cheek. Now another thing too is, here's one thing to remember, and I haven't seen these with the fins yet, so I don't know if they made lefties, but with the M9s they did make both right and left hand masks. Now the reason they made them is not for the riflemen, because in the old military there were no left handed shooters, everybody was a right handed shooter, period, even if you were a lefty. But you have to remember that there are crew served weapons where you have to get your little cheek up there right next to the left or the right hand side of the weapon system. If you have a certain mission, well then guess what? You are going to need to apply a certain mask for a certain task and still have the filter of course in place ready to rock and roll. plus slash keep you breathing when the time comes. So I have not seen those in the fin. I wouldn't be surprised if it's going to be a real joke here if down the road all of a sudden a whole big lump of lefties show up. It's like, well this is all we have left. Wait a minute, there's something different about these. Wow, look at that. They really did make left-handed. It's not an if, it's a when. The supply system with surplus, that's usually how it works. Way down at the bottom of the warehouse, way off in the left-hand corner, way back in the back. There's a bunch of these canisters marked with red lines. Those are the left-hand ones, but nobody would rather really look close because they should have been spreading those out a little bit. Either way, they're a good mask and they work just fine. If you're looking for either that or the M10s, even though the M10s, the M9s, any of those are perfectly serviceable masks for the majority of what we're going to be doing. They can be upgraded easily. and you're not going to have a problem with them. The most important thing is to understand how to do basic gas mask maintenance. You guys do the inspection when you get the masks, test everything out. Of course, now if they're sealed in the plastic, I wouldn't compromise the seal of the plastic on them. I'd leave them as is, but verify the number. And I would go so far, a butter knife is to take a big old black magic marker, a permanent marker, and write the size on the side of the bag with one single letter, S representing small or extra excess or extra small, all the way here to extra large. Because there are size ranges for the gas masks, especially for the European models. They were even more definitive. They have a greater number of size ranges than, say, the US equivalent. Although we do have extra small, all the way to extra large, which is really big heads. Either way, the majority will be in the mediums that we see in the US equipment. Very seldom do you see larges and not very often do you see smalls. Although they have to fit them. If the mass doesn't fit, it doesn't do any good. So they did have to fit the mass to the person, which means they would special order and issue as needed the upgrades north or south of the medium. Another thing about these masks, we'll start watching for more filters, look at adapters, also hoods which are available, but we're going to have to give out the information on that another day. These are readily available and they're on the shelf, so there's not a problem. Give out the contact number again so everybody knows where to go. I have already switched to a handout page. Oh, that's okay. Not a problem. I'll do it. Jump right into the next subject. That one was Maine Military. So, mainmilitary.com. Very good. Go ahead and search on that. Okay. I have too many windows open. I have things queued up and ready to go. Okay. Here's an item on store.colemans.com. That's C-O-L-E-M-A-N-S dot com. We've mentioned this vendor before. They are offering war meters. That is Geiger counters, radiation detectors. There are two main offers that they're making. You can get a single tested Civil Defense surplus, probably never used, worm meter for $50, that's $50. If you want to look for that, they are under new products or you can search on Geiger or Gamma or any of those things. radiation will do it. They have two offers. One of them is either a Model 720 or Model 17 for $50 for a single unit. They also offer a three piece set for $100. That's one each of three different models. I'm not entirely up to speed on the exact differences among the different models they have to do with the range selector switches and so on. All of these have been adapted with DC to DC converters internally, so they no longer use the bizarro completely unobtainable batteries that these guys were originally designed for. They have been converted over to use double As or D cell batteries, which makes them practical to use. But $50 for a tested meter is an excellent price. It makes me a little bit queasy thinking about what I paid back in the 80s for a similar tested meter. But I've had that for 20 years, and it served its purpose being on the shelf and available. If you do not have one, if your group does not have one, to determine whether there's a radiological hazard in your area right now. It will rely on the commercial radio stations for that information. A single meter for $50 or three meters for $100 is an excellent offer. That is store.colemans.com. That's under new products. Was there any other attachments? Anything else in new product line by the way there? I haven't had a chance to check them in a bit. Those are the ones that jumped out at me. There are 1255 new products on the page. I would suggest that you search on radiation. As we know, again, NBC Defense and then again for putting material on the shelf and having it on standby, prioritize from that because we know that we're not going to get any support from the system. There is nothing waiting for you in the way of NBC defense from the government. Whatever is going to happen is going to be you and OYMENT. Let's see who is going to be taking care of that. Go in the bathroom and look in the mirror. There you go. There is your supply sergeant. Better go check on him and see what he is up to. No wait a minute. You stay right where you are and listen to the program. Because Butterdads got more. Go ahead please. Okay, and before we move away from our conventional suppliers and talk about something a little bit different, there's one other item on store.holman.com, which caught my eye. This is not in any way revolutionary, but for $36 you can get a six pack of body veils that runs down to $6 apiece. You can select primarily brown desert or primarily green woodland. I would suggest that anybody operating in terrain, whatever camo you're wearing, whatever booty hat you've got, all of the attention you may place to positioning yourself to take advantage of natural cover, you gain a tremendous advantage if you have the time to deploy one of these body veils. You can drape it over certain areas of your rifle, certain areas of yourself, the portion that's exposed. and that will greatly improve your visual profile as it were. That's six pack of these guys for $36 so that's not unreasonable to equip each person with one of these guys. That's at store.colemans.com and I would say search on Vail. One more time on that and give up the site again. That is store.colemans.com. They are a well-known vendor. They have been around for a long time and have lots of things. As we usually say, go wandering around the site and see what else may appear. because you never know what may tweak your interest that I just slid past and didn't think about. I'm just pointing out some of the things that have grabbed my eye and seem to me to be particularly useful. Now again, with the inventory, if anybody does look through any of these listings, If you make note of something, write it down and then bring it up on the air. I keep calling it a program because again we're giving you direction, but many hands make for light work and also allow for better reading. That's why we have proofreaders. So, we're giving you a general direction, but remember go through there, see if there's anything else by line that you might be able to spot that would be helpful or it would be useful and might be of a good price because in many cases remember too that there are some things that they have a great price on but also they're limited on. In other words, there's only so many left, they're just trying to get it off the shelf. For a company a lot of times they're just worried about inventory control, having 25 or 6. We'll find wild variations on the prices of these things. Last week we mentioned CDNN investments and broken shell extractors at $4 a piece. You can find those all over the place at $10 a piece. That makes a difference. If you're buying five of these for your 5.10 program, $4 versus 10 makes a difference. That's right. You get a lot more goodies that way. That's really the most important issue here, more material on the shelf, back up to back up to back up. Something breaks, you got more. Something else breaks, you still have more. Again, it's going to happen. No matter how you look at it, man-made equipment, guys, at some point you're going to see failure. Be prepared for that. Things are just going to fall apart at different times. We can deal with that accordingly by having the infrastructure, the supply system in place. Now, one other thing about this company, do they have anything in the way of medical supplies at all that were jumping off the shelf that were in quantity, any case bulk items? Once again, I didn't see them. It doesn't mean they don't have them. I bookmarked these things and I have windows open all over the place on Friday evening, but I'm likely to be caught flat-footed if you ask me about something different from the things I've queued up. We'll keep on going. Jump in there please. Okay, now here's one that's a little bit different. This is more along the sorts of things that people expect from good old butter knife. People who are regular listeners of this hour will know that I am a bit of a container pervert. I like containers and I like packaging and I pay a lot of attention to that. My favorite container happens to be the two liter pop bottle, partly because of their accessibility. My second favorite container is the poly tube, the poly bag. These are the sorts of plastic that you will find on many, many products that are bagged in the store, sometimes with a card describing the product. They are routinely heat sealed. The way that's done in the factories when things are packaged up is that the plastic is not formed into a bag generally. More often than not, it comes on a very large tube, a roll of plastic tubing that is probably extruded, to tell the truth. It is routinely fed through machines that do a heat seal and a cut operation every so many inches. They are set up to do whatever it is they do. Some of them are sold as bags, but the tube is a very common approach as well. I like the tubes because they are very, very flexible. That is versatile. You can cut off as much or as little as you want. You use a device called an impulse sealer. These have become available on the consumer product as they call them, seal and meal brands with a lightweight vacuum and a lightweight impulse sealer. But you can purchase these things separately in more industrial format with replaceable heat strips and all that kind of good stuff. There is a vendor called Freund Container, that's Freund Container, this outfit sells bottles and jars and plastic cups and caps and metal cans and all sorts of container products. They are not generally super duper cheap, especially on anything that does not stack, does not nest, that is. They can get a wide variety of items. What I'm interested in at the moment is that they have a clearance page. And on the clearance page, they list certain thicknesses and certain widths of poly tubing. Now, these really, really are clearance prices on these guys. Believe me, when they list the regular price with the line drawn through it, that is a truthful regular price and a fair price. Not something to jump with Joy over, but a fair price. If you go onto the FreundContainer.com site and hit the clearance button and then go look at poly tubing. They have two thicknesses. There are three thicknesses that are in routine use, two, four and six mil. Now the six is very, very thick stuff. People who have handled military surplus will recognize the six mil by feel as, oh, this is the stuff that rifle bags were made out of. and they are suitable for that. 4mm is a very good solid general purpose thickness and 2mm is quite light. That's the stuff that lightweight retail packaging is made of. If they had 6mm on clearance I would be a happy puppy. But 4mm is very, very useful stuff. I would point people at the 10 inch 4mm roll. They have a 1500 foot long roll of 10 inch wide 4 mil tubing. Regular price is $215 and that is a fair price for that. They're offering this on clearance for $57.70, $58 for this. Now that is one honking big chunk of plastic. That will be a couple of feet in diameter. It comes on a spool in a box. and you will be hard pressed to use up 1500 feet of this stuff, but you can use it for all kinds of things. Some people might choose to use that with one of the consumer seal and meal devices if they already have one, but I would say for the same price as the lightweight consumer gadget, you can get an institutional tabletop type impulse sealer. These guys sell those sealers as well. $480 or $90 if you do not get the one with the cut off blade built right into the crossbar. Cut off blade is a nice gadget, but they overcharge for it. It's something like plus $40 just for having a little razor blade in the handle. For that price, I'll use scissors. But for an extra $10 or $15, I would go for the cut off blade. I have one of the older ones before they offered cut off blades built in. So you will need an impulse sealer of some sort, whether it's one of the seal and meal devices or one of the industrial institutional table top designs that these guys do offer. But with a roll of tubing and an impulse sealer, you are in a position to package all kinds of stuff. Remember that you can cut off two inches or you can cut off six feet. You can do any length of this plastic that you want. Formals is very thick. It's a very good air and moisture barrier. It's not 100%, but it's very good. You do want to put a desiccant pack or an oxygen pack or both into anything that you want to store for a long time if it's vulnerable to moisture or oxygen. But these are very, very flexible container solutions here. You can store anything from slobber up a firearm and slide that in and go ahead and pinch that off at four or five feet long or whatever the case is, all the way down to one foot long pieces and you're storing rolled oats or wheat or some other food brought on any small parts if you have spares for any rifle or pistol that you're supporting. You can package those in little bags and envelopes and put them in a bigger package and heat seal that. You end up with a single unit that you can handle that's pretty resistant to the elements. And with this one material, by cutting it off at whatever length you want, you can create varying depths of heat sealed plastic bags. Bear in mind that if you want to, you can turn it sideways. You can take a 10 inch slice of this. Suppose you cut off a foot or so. You can turn it sideways in the heat sealer. Do a couple of welds and slice in between with your scissors so you can make a couple of 4 inch wides if you needed to, or 4 1 by 2 inches. Figure there's a little bit of waste. This is a very useful general purpose material and I would really recommend that anybody that is interested in very versatile packaging take a look at the poly tubing market and the impulse sealers that are out there and consider this. This is a terrific opportunity on the raw material involved, the poly tubing. This is not quite as elaborate as the sealant meal bags you'll purchase. I believe they have a layer of nylon in them. But look at the volume, the amount of material in a commercial off-the-shelf sealant meal bag, a box of those things, for $10. And then figure for $58, you can get a 1,500-foot spool of 4-mil poly. And there's no comparison in the cost there. Mark? And again, one of the things too is if you can do volume in this particular category, I would look at also special storage and packaging. What do you recommend for these as far as any supplemental shielding or protection? I would say that if you're really concerned about something, just go ahead and double bag it, weld it, and do it again. opportunity to have 8 mils of vapor barrier. If you want something to be electronically shielded, you can put it in a bag for normal purposes, wrap that in a little aluminum foil, and bag it again. You can use your imagination with this. You can certainly pack a desk and pack in with anything you want, or an oxygen absorber with anything you want. This is very, very lightweight. It adds very little weight to whatever you're storing. and is very versatile. If you wanted to bag up bushels of some food product, you can cut this every foot and a half, weld one and fill the roll-dots or whatever it is, weld the other end and start stacking those in a box and you've got a bunch of pillows of foodies. Each one of them you can slice open as you need. The rest are all sealed and they're modular. If one of them suffer some insult or contamination or something like that. The rest of them are not automatically compromised at the same time. They're distributable. Exactly. And again, breaking them down into components that are easily managed is the key here, guys. But also the double or triple shielding, multi-tier defense. We look at that when we're looking at quartermaster support because you don't know where you're going to drop this equipment or the food or whatever you're storing. So, we have to look at not only transportability, but field storeability. And that is critical when you're looking at being able to distribute and put caches up in a number of different locations. Department of Defense, in a wartime situation, one of the things, but I think my dad mentioned, when they were in Palalu, This is before he was hit and later on he was in Kamikaze in the destroyer and came back to Peleliu. One of the things he remembers is when you are looking at dealing with tonnage, you are dealing with trying to get the stuff to where the troops are. They had cases of peaches. That was not the only thing they had. Everything and anything in the tropics. It was 100 and some degrees. One thing that he always remembered is the lower three cases of food were rotted through. It was a horrible smell. It was just unbelievable. What they did is they just kept stacking more on top and it took so long for the stuff down below to rot. They would slide off what they could as quick as they could, but the lower tiers were just automatically consumed and destroyed by the environment. Right, they ended up using the lower tiers as a pallet because they hadn't planned for something different for that purpose. They didn't have the resources or the wherewithal to even cover the material. And of course, if you put a canvas over it, basically what it did is it put the stuff under yet another tier of something that retained heat and worked as an insulating layer. So the whole idea here was that there was a certain amount of waste and in the process that protected the rest of the material that could be used. But it was the amount of waste, in other words, the tonnage. We're talking stacks of food the size of a couple of two-story houses laid side by side in blocks of food like this. But the environment itself is so punishing that it easily destroyed the material. Now, we don't have tropical rainforest or a South Pacific tropical environment all over the US. In fact, a temperate environment, the type that we have in most of the country, is very forgiving. You dig down far enough guys and ground temperature pretty well neutralizes most of the threat. The next thing you have to deal with is moisture. Of course, you need to pay attention to where your water table is and also try to know what your seasonal water table is because it might be dry for one part of the season, but there's a period there where, oh my goodness, it's under four feet of water. Well, you better make sure that you accommodate for the be that particular type of environment by sheltering, bubbling. There are underwater cash techniques that are used. In fact, rivers have been used extensively by military special forces and seals in the past to actually anchor cash underwater in particular depths. And the advantage is that not many people, as long as they're not trolling or just don't have any fishing right there, which can happen. I mean, fluke, roll the dice, somebody hits it right. Underwater storage is possible, but the same kind of technology they use for underwater storage as far as your overall protections could also be used in a high moisture environment where the water table is high. There's a gentleman that produced, and I don't know, I have not had a chance to check on one of them. He's still producing it. He had the molds made for a modular underground storage bunker or storage chamber. One of the criteria that he laid down for this butter knife is that the thing had to be watertight so that it could literally be anchored in a swamp and semi-floating. This was one of the many different elements of the design that he incorporated, and it could actually be buried in a swamp. underwater and would retain its integrity and would allow for a unique option especially if you had a high water table of course in Louisiana is like this, Mississippi is like this in many places, many areas up even in Wisconsin and Minnesota have high water tables and a lot of water, Michigan does too. Well you may want to use those areas and so he came up with this as a modular unit it was designed to fit in the back of a truck you could drive it anywhere drop the individual modules one at a time with a pickup truck use a backhoe or dig the position into place and anchor it. It even had anchor stations so that you could float and anchor the fixture in the high water table environment. All that being taken into consideration. And even then, the idea behind this was that all the other precautions would be taken for your food storage to give you the second, third layer of protection even beyond what the building was doing. Or again, this is this case, a mobile structure. So that's why storage and the deployability and storeability is critical to the overall action. We say deployability is being able to grab it, pick it up, and carry it, and get it moving with or without tools. The advantage is we all know it's no big deal if you've got a pallet and you've got a forklift, you're way all set. But let's say there's no forklift and all of a sudden you have 58 bags of something sitting there. Well, if they're 15, 100 pounds apiece, And not everybody might be able to pitch in on that one. But on the other hand, if they're 25 pound or 20 pound or 15 pound increments, everybody can help to move those. Then you have a more deployable component which also is broken down for issue in the process too. That's where the quarter master comes in to determine what is the best size and configuration for deployment and for issue. It can save time in both areas. When you're dealing with a lot of people, hundreds, thousands or tens of thousands, you have to feed them or equip them and outfit them or whatever. If you only took a minute with each person and you have a thousand people, how many minutes is that again? Wow, Butter Knife, that's a lot of minutes. It adds up. It adds up real quick. It's a miracle when you think about how efficient many cafeterias are at feeding how many students in one meal. And that's just an example right there. A whole bunch of munchkins in one place and they're not exactly ruelly all the time are they? Adults are supposed to be a little more disciplined in theory. Application may be another thing. But being able to issue this stuff out and being able to do it in a timely manner and doing it with the resources you have, that's what's critical. And then somebody a bag if something is a whole lot quicker than weighing out a bunch or saying, okay now what kind of bucket or can do you have? I can give you this stuff but you can't carry it in your hands. We've only got a few minutes but if you've got anything else, jump in there please. Okay, we are at three weeks on the experiment with the spritz bottles and the soak-in CLPs. So far, so good. The plastic seems to be holding up. I'm not so sure about the little transparent cosmetic caps that go over the top to prevent the plunger from being pressed accidentally. I'll have to fish those out of the bottom and inspect that. So far so good on that experiment. We'll report on that next time around. Here's one more reminder. Everybody ought to be out there. Whenever you see one, stop at your local repair shop, your automotive shop, your brake shop, tire stores. See who you can beg used wheel weights from. You can get them free if you hit the right guys. Usually the independents are better than the chains. The chains have rules about send all of this back to Central for recycling and yapity yap. We are getting towards the end of the era of the lead wheel weight. And we really do need to collect these and vacuum these up as much as possible for later tactical and strategic use. They don't require any special storage. You can store them in a bucket or a bin or a box or anything you can. Just get those in your hands and get them into the garage or the basement or whatnot. We can handle them later if we have to. Visit every independent garage, break shop, tire store you come across and go in there and just be very polite and ask them and say, you know, can I beg some used wheel weights from you? And some of them will look at you like you've got three heads and some old truck and say, sure, no problem. get those while we can. It would only take a stroke of the pen for the enemy to declare these hazmat and severely restricted and cut off our access to these. I went hunting in my usual areas for these recently and came up with only half a bucket of them when I had normally come up with a bucket or a buck and a half. Somebody else had beaten me to a lot of these favorite watering holes. The bad part is that Butter Knife didn't get very many. The good part is other people are out there gathering them up also. So everybody vacuum that up, get that into storage someplace, we can melt and cast those later. Just get your hands on them now and make that an ongoing project everyone. Exactly. And again, remember there are also places where you can mine such things. Where people have been shooting for a long time in one area, guys. Remember, that lead doesn't go anywhere. It doesn't also cause any threat to the environment. They've learned that that lie was something that's been squashed real hard through true research. Because of that, there's a whole bunch of places where you can recover pounds, in fact even tons of lead. We've done it. Remember that a 5 gallon bucket of wheel weights is about 150 pounds so don't plan on just picking that up and carrying it. Smaller heavy containers, ideally something in the weight of a 5 gallon pail but not a 5 gallon pail. 5 gallon pail is good in the trunk of your car or the back of your truck but get a metal pail or a coffee can or something like that for moving it around. We are at the top of the yard. We should hear the music at any time now I'm thinking. So, I'm just giving a big hint there because chances are we've been busy. I know there's been a lot of stuff going on. We could certainly launch into another hour worth of this stuff, but we can't allocate the current rate for an intellectual. Well, I'll tell you what, we are at the top of the hour. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for listening. Quartermaster Friday is over, but that doesn't mean your job has ended together. A lot of work to do. God bless the Republic of the New World Order. We shall prevail. Ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We are in the march of 12th day. I'm gonna confirm another 20 pounds back at...