By going to bedfan.com, we're calling area code 210-632-8280. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said. We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame You've taken Satan's number You've traded in your name You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist from 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 watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free? And we are up all we've been talking off the air guys God, I'll tell you what It has been a busy day first of all. Real quick explanation. I want to say thank you to all of our friends for pitching in all the different ways. We had to do a little recovery work. I had a shackle problem and I want to say thank you to the engineers and everybody else who helped pitch in and fix everything. So we've got a couple of 15-tonners in motion and everybody is happy. Well, first of all, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Hornky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. Central, west, east and southeast. Well ladies and gentlemen you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are on live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. You will also find us on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and alternate technologies east and west of Mississippi, southern and central Alaska, and the Aleutians. We're on the Hallmark Network, eight colonial states and expanding into the center of the country, even as we speak. I'll tell you what, we're pretty darn busy. The Golden Spike Project is just on the edge of completion, but what I understand, we'll find out more. We've got to just wait for the guys and gals to get the work done, and they're doing it all. It's on their clock, not ours. But congratulations to all of the teams out there that have been getting the work done. We're almost to the end of the month, guys. We're a breath away. It went by. We've gotten through it. Of course, we've had some actions, as we reported earlier in the week, and from last week too. So the bad guys are trying to step stuff up. They're probing in different ways, bouncing around here and there, trying to cause problems, or at least trying to figure out what kind of problems they can cause down the road. And everybody is staying focused, staying focused, plugging in. I want to say thank you to Coordinate 2, lateral 5.1, ethylene 9, space 218. and also to coordinate four lateral 6.2 Sandia Draconis 7.7.7. All of you guys have been doing the yeoman's job there with regard to plugging in the system and because of this our three different systems will be able to replace the internet if they shut the internet off which is a critical issue. A lot of people are asking about communications. Another thing, this Saturday, from Saturday night until Sunday morning, from 10 o'clock in the evening until whatever time to dawn across the country, the Liberty Net is up on shortwave and that will be 39.50. 39.50 is the frequency, that's 39.50. However, if that frequency is active, then they may go up or down the dial. So the other option, first check 39.60. and then scan around for that variable rheostat and see if you can find the guys. This is the Liberty Net. Well, they say more than that. But anyway, point is it's not that hard to tune in. You guys can help out by hooking up your equipment and you can sign in, say hello, or just listen in. If you've got equipment but you don't want to talk on the radio, monitor on the radio. Okay, so that's from 10 o'clock in the evening on Saturday night. all the way through to the wee hours in the morning on Sunday and it depends on propagation which has been up and down and we know how the atmosphere is working so you're going to have to play with your gear, your rig, make sure it's working right and make sure your antennas are properly deployed. 8, that's your job not ours. You got to learn. You got the bicycle. You got to figure out how to ride it. Okay. Now we have Marcus from Georgia. Marcus, you're bringing up a subject and we are getting into the summer. Of course winter is no different but In the summer we got a lot more humidity so we should be inspecting our equipment, shouldn't we? Yes sir. My cast earlier about F and F AL mags and one thing I was telling him is guys go get, go call Tim Abel up there in Michigan and Mark if I got his number handy and get you some Gibbs because especially in steel mags and aluminum mags which most magazines are steel and aluminum aluminum oxide and steel rust. And oxide and aluminum is basically the same as rust and steel. And a lot of the FNFAO mags are used, so you've got to take them apart and inspect them and clean them and Gibbs them. That's what I call it, Gibbs them. It's a lubricate and it's Gibbs them. And they'll service you a whole lot longer and If you're going to spend the money on the mags, you might as well take care of them and make them last longer. One other thing I was talking to here in the little town I live in, a computer geek, and he had a bunch of hard drives. I was able to rescue a couple of them before they all went into the dumpster because I didn't feel like diving into the dumpster and dumpster diving because there's some other smelly stuff in the restaurant next door in there too. Anyway, I took these hard drives apart and the reason why is My mirror I had from active duty had gotten broken in the storage process and I knew these hard drives make excellent mirrors. You take your time, you take the hard drives apart, you find some nice pieces of stainless steel on some of it that you can set aside for small uses. But take the hard drives out guys, take the disc out and they make a wonderful mirror with a hole in the middle. You can use that to signal for signaling. And the holes will go big, it's no big deal. But if you take two of them and slide one up so the holes covered, now you've got a mirror that'll fit your head on and you can get a good look at yourself. So don't throw the hard drives away because they can make good mirrors. And also, the little sweep arm that reads the hard drives has some excellent magnets. Stuff to come out of a hard drive other than just something chunking the trash. that you can strip, if they're no good, to strip and salvage and cannibalize and use for future stuff. Back to you Mark. Everything is a tool. So again, a good idea. Survival mirrors, guys. Just like the ones you buy that are square, where you look through the hole to target, you can actually reflect off the existing sunlight using the signal mirrors from point to point or from say ground aircraft or whatever, or from ship to shore and vice versa. So it's a simple solution. And you're using some pretty high quality equipment there in the process you normally wouldn't just go out and buy. Well you didn't, you got it for free out of something else you were tossing out, somebody else was tossing out. Another thing there, Marcus, what's the weather look like down there in Georgia where you are right now? Well we've had ten days of rain and today finally thank God. A little few clouds, some clouds, trying back again but we've got some sun and hopefully we'll have sun for the weekend to go along with the gun show at the centerplex at Macon. Exit 2 off of Interstate 16, exit 2 off of Interstate 16 at the Macon Centerplex is going to be an Eastman Gun Show. Excellent. And so we have an opportunity there for everybody to get the hand information out and also take advantage of whatever might be coming into the show. We've had a lot of reports from pretty much everybody that's grabbing all the reloading components that they can. Stuff is going as quickly as it gets to the shows. I understand that. There isn't going to be any slowing down on this. Nobody sees this getting easier or becoming simpler. I did get a confirmation, guys. Marcus, for all of our friends out there listening, congratulations. You beat everybody to the punch on the gas masks. Let me point this out. There are no finished gas masks left in the jobber inventory in the United States. Well, that's a good thing. Remember we've been saying we didn't want to see them sitting in the warehouse. Literally, just in a matter of a couple weeks, over 20,000 of them left the warehouses. Plus, in fact, there's not a single crate of them left available that you can buy from the importer that actually brought them in. Remember, they all come to one place. There are very few other inventories. They all come in from one channel, say one tunnel, and then spread out through the arteries to everything else. So guys, we have outfitted probably close to, I think, what they say, well, at least 125,000 of those masks have gone out just in this year alone. And that's what we're talking over the last several months. And just in that one category, that's not all the masks. Because you're talking M65s, you're talking Russian masks, you're talking M10s. Guys, that's pretty good. In fact, the other thing that they were, they don't, there was a big question mark about that. I'll have more information on that from the companies, one of the other guys shortly. But that is a, that's a plus. That means that that's that many more combat troops and that many more people that are effectively in defense mode with regard to NBC. And we don't know what the actual count is on the other masks yet, but I will have numbers shortly. So, watch and see what happens there. That's a plus-plus thing. It tells us we've done our job. Now, retailers or semi-retailers like MainMilitary.com still has some of the masks on the shelf so you can get them there. But, for instance, I was going to try and make a little deal and see if we could start to do quantity on these. I will have to find out what is left. One of the things, Marcus, that I am going to focus on again is we picked up all the children's masks before. Of course, we sold every one of them. But I'm trying to find a good clutch of infant or children's masks to fill in that niche because it's a question everybody has. Most of the small and extra small adult masks will fit children down to as old as two years or two and a half, sometimes three years old. The reason I say that is because the Russian masks and the East German and Eastern European masks go down to size zero. They start from zero, then go to one, then two, then three. Well, zero and one are very small. So the size zeros will fit a good portion of the children out there and give you a pretty decent mask with a guaranteed fit first time every time as far as being able to seal them. So that's a direction, a probable direction to go for most of your children. You think the pandemic? You think the pandemic? Yes, I'm sure that helped in a way because for a lot of people we've talked about this, we've talked about the or the NBC defense issues and yes what I warned everybody about this is something guys all got yours beforehand. Nobody else is getting them the way you did because there aren't any more to get. And that's in certain categories right now. So we've cleared the shelf off of the majority of those before the rush came. And I've told everybody there's a finite amount of gas masks. When they go, the system isn't going to allow any more to come in. They're planning on waging war against us. These are defense technology items that everybody should be carrying and everybody should have. So, you know, I've got mine, although there's things I'd like to tweak and top off, and I was hoping to pick up a quantity of the M9s to put in another location as another backup system, because I always add more to the inventory whenever we can. Well, I won't be doing it from my primary source now, so again, I'll do a follow-up and see what else we can find in the way of interesting things. There are some other good buys right now in other categories of items. We are going to cover that in a little bit here as we get through the program. If you don't have your gas mask people, Maine military is the other direction and actually is the primary direction to go. Best price really as far as I can see for jobbers. Just as good as say, cheaper than dirt or sportsman's guide, but cheaper than dirt, he is a mercenary. He is not really excited about what is happening with the military. He is If that is all you can get, what he has left in inventory, you grab his too. Right now, MaineMilitary.com, Frank has been very patient, very diligent. He has asked for instructions. He actually asked me, what should we be doing? What should we be picking up? You people told us what you wanted. I have recommended to him where he should go and Frank has done a great job. He has provided everybody with what they needed. That is one of the reasons I recommend supporting Maine Military. When you have an ally, you don't go to an enemy. Or you don't go to someone who is neutral. If I've got an ally, I'm going to try and get it from that person first, then I'll go to the neutral person second, and when those are all gone, but the other guy that's still kind of laughing or whatever, I'll take it from him too. By the time he's done, as a lot of them have found out, you notice a lot of these people that were kind of snickering or whatever six months ago about the ammo, they aren't laughing anymore about it, are they guys? I'm laughing because they were laughing. Yeah, yeah, because they were, you know, especially ones that were in companies and businesses. I said, you know, guys, there's several, just like I'm talking to her, I said, guys, you should think about picking up extra inventory right now. And it was like, oh, there's lots of stuff around. Ha, ha, ha. And now it's like, we got like four boxes of this and five box. Oh, we got 20 boxes in a, you know, blah, blah, blah. And it's like, you know. They all could have fixed that. Oh, I hear somebody has got their computer on. Who else do we have calling in here? You've got Alfie. Oh, Alfie, turn the volume down on the computer. I just was in the bar and I'm going to turn it down. Oh, that's okay. Oh, it might have been the radio we were listening to then. That was the radio. Oh, that's even better still. I don't mind that sound. Well, anyway, I'll tell you what. Mark, stay right here if you want to for a minute, but Alfie, what's going on? Well, it seems that the FBI is making some probes around the country. I talked to another guy in the chat room today who's also been contacted by the FBI and found out from Nancy today that Evidently Nasser has also been contacted by the FBI. So everybody just kind of needs to keep their guard up. I'm not sure what this is all about. Very interesting little chess game. Yeah, come on our side, kiss my aunt. Oh, you know what? And not you, but you know what I mean with them. First of all, I'm glad Alfa, you don't trust them. well i didn't trust data you know i didn't i didn't play that way i just let them know that uh... i gave him some pretty generic information they didn't seem to probed uh... one of the federal concern with was that uh... mention how hard it would be for anybody to get up to drive without me knowing in that kind of work That kind of put up a flag right there. It'll be even harder, by the way. I saw that little comment, so it'll be even harder when we're done because I've already prioritized sending some new equipment your way. It'll kind of help to see farther away than you can right now. That's a priority. So just, I mean, just that's an attitude. I've been working on this anyway. We've been finding other camera equipment. We've been providing or shooting it out. So just keep an eye on your mailbox area. Something's on the way. Okay, I'll do that. That'll give you some extra eyes and ears. Just gotta look out for some old televisions, little televisions. Small Broadway televisions will be fine. I wanna give you a slight... Well, it's just kinda... It's real interesting that they've picked right next to the head and, you know, make these plays. I'm just not sure what they've got behind that. And I don't see... They didn't really wanna give any information on why they were here other than they were interested in the training. ...on that course. They kept saying they didn't have any problem with it, but again if they are here and they are going to ask about it, then it didn't make a lot of sense. Mark, can I say something? Alfi, a few things. One is photo intelligence. They wanted to get your picture. The other thing would be they wanted to talk to you, hear your voice, so they can recognize. The third thing is to intimidate. When you speak to these people you must say, As-salamu alaykum, illa-salam. See if you are Muslim they won't worry about you. Don't be intimidated Alfie, don't let them intimidate you. I'm not going to stop doing anything I'm doing, I'm not doing anything else. I'm going to continue on. I invited them to the training to come and see what we can do for cameras and recording devices. I'm curious to see how many other people have got contacted. If anybody else has been, I'd like to hear from them so we can get an idea of just how many people there look. uh... this is anything to do with that d h s report they're just some probes to find out who's a threat who isn't a threat or what they've got up their sleeve here at this point very good well again thank you for games otherwise as we pointed out training one exceptionally well uh... very well we had good turnout uh... kind of kicked everybody a little bit so we did have back off a little bit here and there and do some sit-down classes but we expected that eighty five hundred feet The idea of trying to do training at that altitude and people that have been down at sea level and trying to come up to that level, it does real quick. It can put you down on the ground in a matter of minutes. So some issues with some new guys understanding sanitation with their food. The food site, I think we got that straightened out. Other than that, I can't see anything that didn't go as well. It was an effort. I met some great people. There's a lot of people out there that went on and are continuing to be very active. Well, hopefully everybody, again, was satisfied that left and took the information back for further training where they came from. You're continuing with the binder program that you guys initially started, correct? We've kind of stopped on the binder. We're just getting it big. The idea of trying to keep it up to date with all the new information and trying to continue on with that. If people want to do that, I just don't. I can't do it all by myself. It's impossible to do it. I've got plenty to do on my own without trying to make thousands and thousands of copies of paper every time we try to pull this off. We're just going to have to see how that plays out, Mark. Anything else we should know as far as updates go? We're looking at another event in Oklahoma. We've got another one coming up the 2nd through the 5th of July over the 4th of July weekend. I know the article from SWOT has hit the newsstands and we're already starting to get some hits on that from some more people from mainstream and that's what we wanted to try to do. Handle this at this point to try to get these guys on our side. That's where we've got to focus. If we can get them to understand what's going on and provide them with information to see our point of view, I think we'll win that way. Well again, you guys are going to have to make this decision. Well, what are we looking at for a window for the next exercise, for the next training? July 2-5. Are we going to bring everybody into play there? Are there any problems we need to assist with or anything that may need to be dealt with in terms of support or does everything look pretty clean? I think everything is in good shape right now. We're going to concentrate on the medical and the commo. I still think that a lot of people are way behind on the medical. uh... understanding their sanitation needs meal ideas uh... we tried to stress at this meeting what do you guys know they got no food in the backpacks in the end they're going to move around uh... they've got understand they've got to have some food uh... the other thing was uh... and i thought that the story last night about this and evidently he's trying to get this pushed to You're on a finite water source, no matter how many canteens you got. You've got to have some way of purifying water in the field. So understanding how to do that in the field, having a smaller purifier so that you can replenish your water supplies is a very important issue. And again, the idea of being able to stay clean. You can only go so many days without washing and cleaning, and you're going to have disease processes start to take over. So there's a lot of issues here yet that these people are, I think, and they're focusing. more on the guns and ammo issue. Granted that's an issue but that's the age of what this is all going to take. Without the proper calories, your eyes get blurry, your overall bodily functions begin to become a problem. You start to wear and tear. It doesn't happen the first 24 hours although you're already beaten on it. The tires are already getting holes in it. But two or three or four days out is when you're going to start to really notice it and the problem is it takes time to build back up. So, before that happens, common sense dictates. Again, water. Water is life. We understand that. Food and calories. It can be any number of things. Come on, there's no excuse, guys. Hell, you can go to the dollar store and buy granola bars. Anything you can stuff into that pack to provide additional carbohydrates and proteins, especially if you can find something that's got extra nutritional goodies in it or is fortified like most of the military rations are. At the very least, one of the things that we've argued for years is, in fact, Emergency Essentials has them. I'll give the number out there real quick. Oh, come on. Here's an emergency food ration bars. Mainstay bars? Yeah. They're just another... They're fancy guys, but they are heavy and they're loaded with all kinds of calories. And if you at least throw one of those in every butt pack plus whatever else you can stuff in there. Now, either lifeboat rations, so basically three of them are three meals per day. And again, no, it'd be nice to have more, but... And they are heavy, so they're going to swell up. They're designed to fill up a little bit too. But everything you can throw in like that to at least balance it out. And also something, the reason I do those, the reason I recommend them, nobody's going to go over into their butt pack and go, hey, Elfie, I know I was going to use these things when I got to the exercise, but you know those fruit bars tasted so good. I ate them all before I got here, and I forgot to repack my pack. Instead, the lifeboat rations, man, they're kind of doughy. They got lemony. and i don't think i want to do another one of these okay that we don't mess with them now it's kinda like a there they're okay to eat or feel yeah they won't feel it that's another point so anyway real quick emergency essentials guys they do have these on hand one eight hundred nine nine nine eighteen sixty three that's one eight hundred nine nine nine eighteen sixty three fact i see they may have a sale on right now it's five ninety nine a pack Let's see, I'm going to double check the size on these real quick. Forgive me, I'm off on a tangent here, but this is something to help out hopefully. Yeah Mark, they're either like 2400 calorie bars or 3600. Right, and that's what I'm thinking here. Uh oh, wrong page. Let's hold on. I'm looking at the catalog right here. As a matter of fact, the one they have on sale is the 3600 calorie. The better one, yeah. $599 for the 3600 calorie blocks. So, that's not a bad price at all. They do have lesser prices. You don't have to spend that much. They've got 1200 calorie, 375, 2400 calorie, 495, and 3600 calorie, 599. So, again, purely matter what fits your wallet, guys, but there's no excuse. So, again, go ahead, Alfie. Any other recommendations in that area? You guys are the ones setting up the class. What are you pushing for these guys to put in the butt pack? Well, one of the easiest things to do, and again it does take a little prep, but just doing about a couple fingers of rice in a baggie with a bullion cube, nice and lightweight. You can go ahead and eat up your water any time along the way, throw the water in the baggie, you can come back and eat that later after it's actually rehydrated the rice. Even a cup of noodles, a romaine noodles, smashing them up, put them in a baggie, same thing. Add a little water, eat them at your leisure. It gives you a chance to get some hot food too. It's nice to have a little hot food. All you've got to do is boil some water to do that. You're all sitting there. Carrying peanut butter and honey too. Tastes good any time. Hot, cold, doesn't matter. And a baggy, I suggest a Ziploc freezer bag for those to give you a little more secure to hold the item in. But then you can eat on the run too. It's not complicated and it's not expensive. With some off-the-shelf items, you're just going to have to repackage them a little more. Yes, and again guys, the dollar stores, you can go down through any of the grocery stores. I want to do a little video on this actually because a lot of people, if you can find a source for military rations, fantastic. If you've got a good price on them or if you can bite the bullet on the existing prices, go for it. However, a lot of people can't and for the most part you can walk right down to the store and for about $20.00 if you pay attention and check out the markdown items too guys. Go over in the markdown bins. They're marking down stuff that isn't going to out date for two decades. For instance, they've got retort packaged dry noodles and stuff. Or retort packaged instant rice, just like you were talking about Alfie. And what you can do is, for about $20, you can not only load up the butt pack, but you can also load up the backpack. It depends on even the higher priced stores. There are a lot of little items that are out there right now that are in good quantity. You are looking for a combination of things. You need quantity to fill up that hollow space and you need to make sure that it is providing you nutrition. Now you can obviously mix and match and you can still carry a food supplement, a vitamin, which is a good idea. But if all else fails, $20 in the dollar store, that will give you multiples in many cases. It will give you a combination of meats. You can get all kinds of dry goods. Can cheeses, cheese cracker combinations, whatever. So you can't say you can't come up with field ration packs. And it would be good for more than three days. $20 I could eat easily for about a week. And even probably better than that because you give me a chance like you said go into the dried grains, go into the other inventory there and at different points you cook in different ways depending upon the amount of time you're going to take and again the type of mission you're on, the kind of patrol or the type of operation in the field that you're performing. So, you can engineer it to your physical needs in the process. The quick food life ration bars, guys, to me are just cool because I know I've got that much of a lump of food and if I've got any other goodies or anything I can forage in the process, I'm eating like a king. That's better than I usually did on patrol when I was in the military or in operations simply because the old story, Travel Light, I'd grab everything everybody else threw away and I'd be saving up their stuff and I'd pack my gear up accordingly so that everything I needed was already there. I didn't have to wait for Quartermaster. I didn't have to wait for the Air Force. There's one I don't trust. Now, the Air Force never dropped anything on target, guys, except bombs on our own people, I would say. But resupply, I only made that mistake the first time the Air Force promised to resupply us in the field. And after that, it was like, I'm never going to do that again. And I will say this. I've talked about when the Battle of Trenton took place, people wonder, our troops were starving, they had fevers, they were up all night crossing the river, they were laying there in the snow and melting 18 inches of snow with their body heat, laying down just taking naps in the snow. Their body heat was just that cooked out. And guys, you want to know what motivated them? I'll tell you what motivated them. When they got within smelling range of the German cookeries, that's all she wrote. I'm telling you, if there's... That's incentive. Oh, I'll tell you, if you're starving, there's two things that we're thinking about. A, that smells like meat. Wait a minute. That smells like beef. Oh, man, fixed bayonets. We're going in. And the other half is when you get there, it's like, hey, wait a minute, where there's heat, there's warmth, where there's home warmth, hey, there's dry stuff. And by the way, this is German soldiers dead here with some really nice balls or good boots. I can get rid of my rags. I better not do that. I might need them later. But I got me a pair of boots now, too. Oh, yeah. I'd say that's a high motivator. On that deployment, that operation, that particular exercise, I could smell an open bag of strawberry liquid. And this is a fact. Guy had a bag of Twizzlers. He was hiding out of this company, right? We're going across sand dunes to a helicopter pickup. The guy opened up a bag of Twizzlers. and you could smell them a mile and a quarter away. Cocaine enemy. Everybody could smell them. It was funnier than hell because I was to the back. I'm in RO and I'm standing there and I'm walking along and it was like, oh man. And it's like who the hell has. And first you're looking at everybody nearby. Because you are thinking, what the hell? Who the hell is chewing on that? And then I realized there was a little old ranger rod that had been holding out on all of us, which again, the old supposed to be a team thing here. And he had himself a good pound of this stuff and he is up there chewing away, of course, way off in the point. And I realized, everybody did the same thing. We are all looking trying to figure out. Everybody is side glancing, everybody is watching, seeing somebody's hands going to their mouth. And it was like, what the hell? And then finally we picked it out and figured out where the hell he was. So I'm telling you, you get hungry, you don't eat for three or four days, or five days at a time, or eat properly. You're chewing on anything else you can find. We were killing stuff left and right, little and big. And you get used to the idea real quick that if you don't carry it, you ain't going to have it. So, Elphie, the point you're making here is really critical for a lot of people who aren't thinking ahead. And I want to thank you for that. Because the other half of this battle, guys, is what happened with the Montana deployment with the Freeman siege? I tried to explain to our people that we needed to carry as much food in with us as you could during the deployment because if you do get into a conflict, supply lines don't exist. The roads are going to be controlled. There's going to be a fight to do or move, whatever you're going to do. So, when you can move in easily your equipment, the idea is to take in, and my argument was 55 pounds of food, I don't care what the food stuffs were, 55 pounds of food and at least 5 to 10 and preferably 20 gallons of water per person. And the idea behind this was to carry it in with the troops, drop them down. The units that did this did not have to expose themselves once they were deployed. The units that did not do this had to go resupply themselves guys from water points that were almost 22 miles away. And because of this, their positions were identified. Because even though they only had to send one or two vehicles out to do water resupply, the problem is then they had something to follow back to the general area of operation. So, on the other hand, you deploy with the equipment. They had their foodstuffs in place, 25-pound bag of rice, so many pounds of beans, so many pounds of foodstuffs in terms of meats and canned goods and engravings and stuff, whatever they wanted. That was up to them. And lots and lots of Kool-Aid to mix with the raunchy water if you had to purify it. So, again, example of actual, a physical first-hand experience. You've got to be carrying it with you if you're going in as heavy infantry. And that's really what we are. We're heavy infantry. We've got all the supply and support we need. We're usually up-gunned as far as the amount of equipment and weapons systems we're carrying. We are designed so that we can actually sustain ourselves in the field longer. We are in that category. But many of our other militia units are hoplite. Well, still, supply and support. What you carry on your back is what's going to keep you in the field longer. So engineer it accordingly. Anyway, I'm sorry, Alfie, what else we got for us? That's all I got. I'm going to go ahead and cut off and you guys can continue on. Good job, Nate. Alfie, Alfie, before you go, let me ask a question. Go ahead. Would you still recommend that a guy carries five packets of multivitamins just because if you don't have the oranges and some of the other stuff, just to have something better than nothing? The only way that you can supplement that vitamin and mineral intake is to get that vitamin. You can eat a lot of other food, but you're still going to have to supplement that vitamin and mineral intake that you're going to need for the body and for the cell activity. A good one-a-day vitamin minimum, if you can add more to it, that's great too. But I'd recommend you put one of those in each one of your packs with your meal. That's something that you can take out. You can take that first or you can take it at the end of the meal. But that's a reminder that you need to add that vitamin in it. So what we do is we add those vitamins into our individual pack, taking more than one a day. It's not going to hurt you. That's a good thing. Bring it up because Mark mentioned it for a second there, but he didn't explain. That's why I want to ask that question, guys. There's nothing wrong with taking vitamins with you. You're not being a wimp. Your food just keeps you from really being hungry, but you've got to have that other stuff to keep the processes going. Exactly. There you go. One of the other things tying into that real quick, guys, remember that under even military research that was done in extreme hot weather, Quartermaster is supposed to issue an additional meal. In other words, you're supposed to be issued four conventional MRE meals if you're on the MRE cycle. And the reason for that, there's two-fold. Number one, the assumption that if you're in an extreme environment like desert, we're looking at 100 degrees, anywhere from 80 degrees plus, constant, you're looking at a degradation in the mineral content of the food. There's a shift because of the heat. It actually does degrade the food a little bit. And for that reason, they calculated everything out and figured that because of additional calorie consumption, use of minerals, and the need for additional vitamins, that a fourth ration should be the norm. Now, not all units follow through on that, but that is a standard. I can even pull the book and the manual right here, and I can pull you the quarter master manual out where it actually has been in place. health since before the Vietnam War and it's something that was known. Typically it was done, but here's the problem. The Quartermaster gets that fourth meal ration, you get three, he takes the fourth one home. Now that's SOP. So it's not that it wasn't there, it's just that the Quartermaster, also as we know, excuse me, you know, the Quartermaster, but the Quartermaster, as we know, can be quite unique sometimes. and is very creative with regard to resource and procurement in both directions. Both what goes his way and what goes back out to the troops. Anyway, Elfie, thank you for calling and I appreciate that. You got it. Have a good show, guys. Thank you. God bless. I greatly appreciate that. Also, that means we're out there on the AMFM stations too there in Oklahoma. I'm going to say hi to all of our friends. We've got to remember that. and stay focused and continue to educate up and down the line guys, do as much as you can as quick as you can. I think the bad guys realize they're going to try and pull something and they aren't going to get away with it. It's just not going to happen that way. Everybody's going to put their foot down real quick. We're not giving anything away. People have not bought 12 million plus, actually it's closer to 14 to 15 million plus arms in what, seven to eight months for the sake of setting them up as door stops. That's just how it works. Anyway, Marcus, real quick, down there right now, you still have a lot of red clay there in Georgia, don't you? Oh, Lord, yes, sir. The reason I ask that, and that's being facetious, is that the Swiss camouflage, the Alpine Flau. The Alpine Flau, yes, sir, works real well. There are some pretty good buys on that right now from our source. We're going to have to get together on that. In fact, they have the rain suits right now, top and bottom. and I will get you a price. Actually, I'll be able to quote this on the air too. I think we're going to offer them on the air. We haven't been doing that very often recently, only because of the logistics, the amount involved in material support. I've got a few other things we need to get in the mail to our friends down south and a few other locations. But Mark, can I make a suggestion about what you brought up? Go right ahead. Guys are these rain suits and stuff. They have a plastic liner. OK? A lot of guys do not necessarily want to wear a ghillie suit. Ghillie suits can be very hot. They'll snag on things. They're nice for if you're a sniper, but if you're trying to move faster than normal, a ghillie suit stands out just as quick as anything else because it's movement. So if you want something that's a little bit cooler, take one, just one, run it through the washing machine. and the liner will fall apart with the detergent you use. So you just can't take your rain suits with a little musty smell or whatever. Do not run them through the washing machine unless you want the plastic liner to fall out of it. But if you do, strip that plastic out, you have this nice little nylon shell that the air will pass through that you can go sit out somewhere and spread this thing out around you with your weapon up underneath it. You can eat, do whatever you want to do, as long as it's not obviously a fire, but you need snack bars or whatever and mess with your weapon up underneath this rain poncho, especially here in the south, the Apaflage one is the Swiss. The German work really, really good, but even the basic woodland camouflage, take that rubber liner out and you have this thing ball up really small. It makes a great covering when you just want to sit and you're monitoring the situation and you don't want to be noticed. You can still put up the little tree limbs around and move the bush leaves and everything else. But you've got this little thing that lets the air still flow through and you won't burn up so quick and then burn up extra calories. Go ahead. Yes, I'm sorry. One of the things about that too is with the ghillie suits, people see the ghillie suits and normally think that through. It's kind of like we've been talking about with all the snag them all equipment that people have put on their rifles. It's just part of the vogue thing when you're in the desert where you don't have foliage, overhanging brush. tripable vines, you name it. But when you get into any kind of pine forest, especially pine forest, guys, think about it. Even if it's the lower dead end of the plant, how many of those little spindly pieces of branches are out there waiting for them to catch something? We know how that works. So again, we have to look at streamline. It doesn't mean Gilly suits don't have an application, they do. It doesn't mean that you don't use them and deploy them, we do. But you have to use them and think through the process. Remember that in the event you move into an Infiltrate and an Exfiltrate out, once you get to a certain point, the Gilly suit is rolled up, it's then satcheled so that it is streamlined and doesn't become a snag problem. Let's put it into the backpack kit. and then it's carried out again or it's cache depending upon how it is being employed depending upon your units deployment overall. The rain suit technology as far as the stuff that's up there now you've got Gore-Tex In camouflage, the Dutch, for instance, the Swedes and the Norwegians, guys, they're on the ocean. They have coastline like there's no tomorrow. And they have some bitter North Atlantic weather that most people have never envisioned or seen. And because of that, their gear is exceptionally well engineered, especially for cold wet. The Dutch have a three-layer system, Marcus, right now that is coming into surplus, that is excellent. It's a fine system. It can be engineered for either warm or cold weather because you can take layers out or you can reinsert different layers as needed. The Norwegian equipment, same thing. And they also come in the different camouflage patterns. The Norwegians have a kind of a rock dazzle pattern which works very well in the environment or the type of environment they're in. The Dutch use more of a DPM type paintbrush, but with more Savannah tans and earth colors, earth browns in it. The Swedes have their own camouflage based upon their needs for their surface environment too and their colors are slightly different because they again have more rocks, more coastal area, although they certainly have forest, they don't work, they work in both and they have to have something that will integrate with both those areas. So, there's some really nice stuff showing up and it's also unique in that it's not going to catch the eye right of way. It's one of the things that Gilly suits do. Gilly suits disrupt by blending in and not breaking up the pattern in such a way that you're not seeing a human silhouette per se and you're also not seeing a familiar camouflage pattern that your subconscious is actually scanning and identifying, trying to find. So, the same is true with other types of camouflages that are actually deployed. In many cases, it's not so much that the camouflage even blends in perfectly with the environment. It's that we aren't registering the design because we're not acknowledging that that's a threat uniform until we experience it. In other words, until we actually have it where we can see the pattern, identify the pattern, and in our survival battery, our little subconscious survival battery of memories, Then it becomes part of what you are signature identifying when you scan, when you are looking for things. An out of color structure or a strange pattern or an exotic pattern works quite well with regard to deception. I've had several instances where using that type of equipment, the aggressor even at fairly close range will look through you. Because they simply are looking for something else. They are looking for what they perceive in their mental processes to be the threat image or silhouette or colors that they are looking for. Just a little thing to remember when looking at designing your own gear for your own units. Yes. Good evening. Hold on, we got Dave and we still have Mike. Hold on, Dave, for just a minute. Mike, did you have something else you'd ask? Yeah, I called that number for the gun parts guy and it's the wrong number. I'm not going to write it down wrong. Okay, okay. Okay. Hold on guys marks having to do the okay. I'll tell you what meanwhile. Let's do this we have Dave was a report Dave. What do you got for us? Okay? No, I have today basically is the doll Jones it didn't go up down it went up But some other things went down strange. Let's see what we have today on the great market of scam artists silver rose today all the way to 15 dollars 55 cents at noon, but it dropped back to 1514 on the closing Bell My my it went over $15 today. That's really a climb gold it climbed out all the way on the closing Bell to nine hundred and seventy nine dollars and sixty cents Whoopie that's going up. It's going to make a thousand yet. It's pushing and crude oil It closed out at $66.51 a barrel today. Ouch! I see $3 a gallon coming at the pump again. These guys are pumping it. Now Dow Jones Industrial, oh it jumped. Yep, it jumped all the way to 8500. 0.33 rising today, 96.53 points. The other interesting part of the market, very simply, was copper jumped all the way to $2.17. It's up 4 from yesterday. Nickel jumped to an all-time high. I've never seen it this high. At least not in a very long time. $6.23 a pound for nickel, up 11 cents over yesterday. Aluminum up to 64 cents. Penny hired yesterday the sink climbed three at 68 and led jumped three cents closing at 70 cents Pound oh well the other thing that changed well We haven't done a dollar market a long time, but the dollar screwed up real bad today because the Australians dollar gained by two cents against the Yankee dollar. It's only a 25 cents difference right now in exchange difference. The Canadian kinder believe it. It's only a dollar nine difference. It jumped two cents today also against the Yankee dollar. British pound is up a penny leaving the market at 61 cents a Are you ready for a world of challenge, of possibilities, of ambiguity and adventure? Be a part of the National Clandestine Service at the Central Intelligence Agency. Are you a person of purpose, professionalism, with a strong sense of patriotism? Make a world of difference as a CIA officer with the National Clandestine Service. Learn more at cia.gov. The work of a nation, the center of intelligence. Equal opportunity employed. U.S. citizenship required. Live 365. the number one good please check to see you have the right number that's interesting because i'd just called them only this last week now do me a favor here guys here's another little research www dot g u n p a r t s g u y dot com don't know where you go there now dot gun part i would die dot com let's see if there's a different number posted maybe mark we just wrote it wrong but but punches into the phone right which is really strange It could be they've changed their number, that's possible. We'll see what happens. But anyway, on the other note with regard to... I could've dialed it wrong, but I did it twice. That's okay. I'm surprised here though, Mark, that the Canadian dollar is almost equal to the US again. Well, and again, that shows you how bad the dollar is becoming. Right, because typically you're looking at between 53 at the lowest end, and on average typically it's about 71 to 72 cents. as low as 69 in the normal flutter of things as it has traded in the past. So now parity and then last year again remember it went up and was superior to in trade. Yeah, for about four days it was actually worth more than the Yankee dollar. Yes, and what? Maple syrup and wood chips have gone up in value? Excuse me. Canada, I'm joking and I'm not, because most of the trucking, the trucking industry that we see here, it is wood or it is actually raw maple syrup unprocessed that leaves Canada. It saves them money. All they do is put it in the barrels and they take it all the way across to Canada in the raw, or from Canada, forgive me, to California. They drop the wood products and they drop the maple syrup in its raw stock in California and they pick up fresh vegetables and they take them back from the San Joaquin Valley and all around the Bakersfield area and all north and south of it, Fine Bakersfield. That's the growing season during the winter and the truckers take back fresh vegetables from the United States up into the cold heartland of Canada where otherwise they couldn't afford and they wouldn't have them. So, it's a tit for tat thing, but as far as what's coming this way, sorry, they just closed down a whole bunch of the Canadian car manufacturing. Not even the car parts are coming across the way they were. Mark, let me give this much for anybody out there trying to reach Gun Park Guy. I don't see a phone, but I do have a mailing address. 19, that is 19715, 19715 NE, 10th Ave, Ridge Field, R-I-D-G-E-F-I-E-L-D, Ridge Field, Washington, 98642. That's 98642. And the email address is gunpartsguy at hotmail.com. 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