Live 365. Look, it's not like we're bugging the phones or anything, so give him a call at 922-4457. That's 922-4457. Or visit machinegunshoot.com. It's easier to find than my birth certificate. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat. And speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from Tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. 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 is 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 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 and people... Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, 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'd 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 him 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'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the f... Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. This is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Cranky. And I'm Donald Butcher. LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are on live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, and ultra net technologies both east and west of the Mississippi. along with southern and central Alaska. We are the Hallmark Network on the eastern seaboard from the top main to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the area, go to Mexico, headed towards Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma. Oh, took Nebraska. We're talking the third of Wyoming and then back to Iowa slash Iowa, over to the Golden Spike Project on the Blue Ridge Mountains. And I want to say hi to all of our friends over there in the great state of Tennessee, Kentucky. Virginia, West Virginia, and other places too numerous to mention. Well, Tom, what's the date today, sir? Mark, today is the first day of July. You're of our Lord 2010. You guys, again, it's July 1st, Aukend. It's a great day. It's a Thursday. And I just got to tell you, you know, if you're going to a funeral tomorrow in Michigan or anyplace else, you should probably consider that you should take your buddies and, you know, have one in the chamber and a whole magazine to back that buddy up. But again, I wanted to do that right. I know it's not Weapons Wednesday, but you know, this is still America and the Supreme Court said I got a right to do that. Bear that in mind. Thank you, Parker. Very good. And again, Don, it is a beautiful day, still real mild out there. It's going to start cooling down again now. So it's been a beautiful day across the whole state. Didn't get any rain today. May not get rain tomorrow. We get a little cloud cover, not cloud cover, but spotty clouds. That's what we've been having on and off. So that's happening. Anyway, I know we had a couple things we wanted to cover. Don, you had a couple things that you specifically wanted to touch on. So jump in there, please. Well, you know, for those that haven't heard, there will be a funeral tomorrow near Lansing for Clint there. And that was the reference earlier, and you know, we can talk about a little bit of recent history there, the hukari thing and whatnot. I'd just encourage you to, you know, exercise your rights. and your lefts if need be. But you know what I'm telling you, so we've talked about that and we've touched on that. If you can make it tomorrow, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm kind of nailed down here, Mark. But there will be a service for Clint Darrin Lansing tomorrow, maybe White Buffalo will call in again and give us the particulars on that. But you know, we can go back into the Not that long ago, and you'll recognize the word when I finally get to it. We suffer losses in a number of ways. Some of them are natural, some of them have causes, some of them we kind of took care of ahead about. But Mark, our machine gun Randy came by today, and he was off to the VA, and they took care of a couple of things for him. He brought me back a card. It's about the size of a playing card and it's just slightly less supple than a playing card and it's an ACE. Well, you guys, we've touched on this and I'll basically give you the hearsay of what Randy had to say to his doctor. This ACE stands for Ask the Veteran Care for the Veteran in Escort. Now, why would you want to do that? Ask the Veteran. The question you want to ask your Veteran friend, Mark, is Aren't you thinking about killing yourself? Do you think you might try to hurt yourself? And then you're supposed to ask directors right here on this card. What of any means it could be used for self-injury? Stay calm and safe. Actively listen to show understanding and produce relief. And then E. Escort the veteran. Never leave the veteran alone. Escort to emergency room or medical clinic. Call VA Suicide Prevention Hotline. Here's the VA Suicide Prevention Hotline, because at the bottom of this card here it told me to call it. That's 800-273-TALK. That's 8255. Press 1 for veterans. 1-800-273-8255. I didn't start into this to give you that phone number. It just kind of progressed that way because I've talked about the whole side of what looks like a playing card. On the top it says VA ACE and then there's the Department of Veterans Affairs, United States of America, the Eagle and the Two Flags and that seal for that organization. And then at the Bonsai Prevention, VA Suicide Prevention Hotline and I gave you that number already, didn't I? But you know, I want to talk about this for a little while because, well, this is kind of like all of the crime committed by the Vietnam veterans. We've addressed that over the years, Mark, and even Larry Pratt and others have other in classed against God. There are a number of examples about how they went out and committed crimes. They say, I was a Vietnam veteran. Maybe they were Vietnam veteran era, but worse yet, maybe they were. This one guy, as an example in the book aforementioned, was training in seven days because he was super crazy. The Army didn't want him and they figured it out in about seven days. So 20 years later when he shot somebody he said, well I'm a Vietnam veteran, you see how that works there. This is more directed you guys into the sandbox people, be it Gulf One or the current thing. But they did touch this on Randy because well, In fact, throughout the day he was with his doctor for a little while throughout the day. They'd be talking about something, his foot, his back, his neck or something. The doctor would just offhand interject into the conversation again. By the way, you're really not trying to kill yourself or thinking about it, are you? Now I want to touch on that, Mark, because let's do this like a sane person, a rational person. people down in fifth and sixth grade. They say that about half of the marriages in America come to divorce. A lot of children who run through that unfortunate cycle in the schools, Mark, they'll set them down in front of their counselors. The counselors will, they're supposed to be like career counselors and help them move their education in the proper direction. Well, they'll set them down and they'll talk about, well, how do you feel about your parents' divorce? And then they'll ask them the question, and by this time, you know, 5th, 6th, 7th grade, in particular, by about 6th E. Giatrist, you know, the psychiatrist they are, you guys, they're the school shrink. They don't put it in that form. They might have one head shrink and counselor of the area, and you'll wear that tag to school. But the school counselor will say, or maybe even the psychiatrist will sit you down and ask you when your parents are in 4th, 5th, or 6th grade, they'll ask you, well, how does this make you feel? And then they'll ask you if you think that psychiatrists are Well, have you ever... Now, let's listen, because you know how loaded that question is, you guys. By very definition, suicide, if you know what it is, what definition of the word is, let's try a little more. And contemplated, now in the broadest of the word, contemplated, means you have thought about or you have pondered or tried to understand even just the very definition of the word, suicide. So now see when the physagiatrist, the headshrinker, the school counselor, or eight or ten year old child. Have you ever contemplated suicide? The child just looks at the wide eyed and says, oh God, no, never, I wouldn't do that. The psychiatrist writes down on the paper in denial. Because see, by very definition, if you know the word, you know the definition of the word, that means you have put it into your head. You have studied it, even if it's just enough to. But the word Contemplated doesn't necessarily mean you've intended to work it upon yourself. And the psychiatrists do this as hard as they can. They are from the same murky that most lawyers are. Most attorneys, word twisters, they spring from the same murky. At any rate, when they sit down and ask you, if you go to your VA, you're probably going to see this because this is a brand new program, Mark. And this is a brand new card that they're passing out. And you go to your VA dentist. or you go to the VA about your gout or you go to the VA about whatever they're going to start handing these out across the nation so you guys, you want to run that. Yes, I have contemplated suicide by the very thought, studying the definition. Yes, I have, but no, intended. Never have any intention. And that's going to drive the psychiatrist goofy. They're not going to know what to write down with that when are they, Mark? Think about it, you guys. They are working on the veteran every single angle they can be it the old timer about a veteran from the Cole, Rean, Moore, a veteran from the Viet, Nam, or a veteran from the First Desert Dust, or, oh, there are other actions in there. How about Grenada? There are other actions in there. But they are working as hard as they can to get them to stumble. We talked about this years ago, didn't we Mark? There will be a myriad of questions and no sane person could answer all of their questions in a way that would satisfy the FISA geotrists, the psychiatrist. crisis of the moment as they have done so many times where they fabricated this condition over and over and over again and then they point, oh look, and we have these numbers that you know they're using, they're fabricating their demographics in the process. Almost every veteran is in denial. Well actually the only thing is as we've said the most dangerous place you can go is to the VA hospital. It's not there to help you, it's there to do. To do something to you I think that's the biggest problem. Now do something for you, do something to you. At least with the characters we have. Many of the people who gravitated to the VA, especially some of the psychiatric end, have a hatred for A, the military, but B, for people in general in many cases. And it's interesting, we've watched this and pointed this out over and over again about the agenda that is afoot. And of all the people, consider this. Here's what's really bizarre. The people that are asking the question, are one of the two most likely groups to commit suicide. A, psychologists and psychiatrists are parallel, they're like almost tit for tat right now for suicide rate, not veterans. Psychologists and psychiatrists along with cops are side by side for suicide rate. Not the veteran, not the average American out there, the very character who's doing all the angsting about how, oh, you're really bad or you really got a problem or you really, oh, I know you do, you must have a problem, but you're not relating, you're not talking to me. I don't want to talk to you. You're a stranger and you don't feel, I don't feel, I don't feel that you can be trusted. Oh, you're paranoid. No, you just give me the impression that you're a really unstable individual that went to college and are a goof. I mean, I'm sorry, it's just the nature of what I see in the person that's sitting there across the table. That's the attitude a lot of people have. And it's correct. In fact, it's dangerously correct to trio. You'd be very foolish to trust them. They, on a regular basis, have so many schisms. By the way, almost like if you want to talk about somebody who is a hypochondriac, Then most of the shrinks are just exactly that because the shrinks have shrinks and then the shrinks that shot over the trunks at Fort Polk, a psychiatrist, and Obama-Loverall. Oh, yeah, exactly. In fact, he would fit the mold perfectly. He was brought right into the into the Cubbin. He was brought right into the little clique of witches and he was loved. And look what it is. Well, just think, if you were to run that, definition and answer about suicide that I gave earlier, they would move you up the ranks of handlers. That's what they would do. Some that are better engineered than others to manipulate other people's lives. That's really what it's all about. I hear we have Mike here, Mike Lewis as a matter of fact. Hey Mark, I was trying to get an after-action report last night. We had a little ticket with difficulty, I think. Did you want me to give it again? I'll tell you what, Don, I think we can jump in there right now, can't we? Oh, yeah. We got Mike. All right, sir. We got a good clean signal, too. Mike, you're coming in five by five. All right. All right. We had a big training exercise last weekend about 80 miles southwest of Fort Worth. We had been doing airsoft for combat simulations, and this time We put some money together and got about $300 worth of blanks. We found some good deals on 223.56, it's a military designation for that war. And then 308 and 7.62 by 39. And we found out that with the Airsoft we're tending to get in too close and we're learning some bad habits, getting in close enough to hit each other in the daylight with Airsoft. So we're going to be regulating our airsoft to just night ops or building and room clearing. And we had some real good battles with the three-eight blanks. And we had a referee calling out the hits. And the referee was figuring that whoever took slow, careful aim and fired first was the one that scurried the hit. And one of my guys that had been used to doing this with airsoft, he told me that When I was shooting at him with my wouldn't move 308 bolt action without a blank firing death on it It was a lot of tech. He said he's about totally disoriented and couldn't think straight like he could always get shot at with airsoft I think and we're gonna be doing it again Saturday July 24th and this time we're gonna be back in East Texas. We're gonna be by Woodville and Also that Saturday July 24th the other the other group we were having the joint training exercise with their butt south of Fort Worth, they're going to be having a training exercise closer to Fort Worth also. And they're still our allies and friends, but we just figured, hey, we can get more people trained up if we split up and they take it closer to Fort Worth. And we take it to East Texas where most of them. And our training exercise is going to be Saturday, July 24th, by Woodville. And to get an invitation, just go to our website. Our website is texasmalicia.info to get invited to ours, to get invited to theirs. Their website is www.dallascitytroop.org. And they're real good guys. They're led by a man that was a U.S. Army captain and they have some good training. We're going to have some good training. We've been doing the Tex Moist a little bit different. Tex is all spread out and people have to drive a long ways to get somewhere. So at our train by Woodville, we're going to let people come and camp out with us any time after 8pm that Friday night. So if they get in like 3 in the morning, that's alright too. We'll be there all set up and waiting for them. We give them out real good maps and directions. We put a Fleischer or a Chem Light at the gate. so they can find it in the dark. their person and then they got a buddy team and load their magazines in front of each other. Good. So you got to practice some discipline with the troops as well. Yes sir. Another thing I'd recommend, are you planning on having the exercises in the two locations on the same weekend? Yes or no? Yes sir. Hook up here. Here's an idea. What's the distance between the two sites? About 300 miles. That's a little long for marine, but it might work. Marine radio actually might be able to just make that jump. You're flat territory up there. Marine or ham. Ham would probably be better. Okay, you got a ham operator. The eastern part is a lot of hills, and then get towards the west, there's more hills. The reason I bring it up is it would be a good chance to test with either increased power or CB. Obviously, ham radios would be nice, but also test out the marine, get a couple of decent marine radios used. Okay. And since you have a 2 meter radar, I can rub it a tree and get me up there 30 feet. Well, the thing is that you want to make sure at the other end they've got the equipment to receive, but you could actually be working with the two, and you might as well do a radio exercise along with the regular training exercises. You could have a check-in point specific times, try and test the different equipment to see how it works. Make sure they've got a CB in the field, it's a decent rig. Try a CB from your end. Pick a hill, pick some high ground, and broadcast from there. The marine radios may be curious about because marine radios vary. Very clean signal, they're decent little radios and you might be amazed what kind of a jump you can get out of those. So, if you're an FM and some of the mobile units have like 35 or 40 watts don't they? Yeah, you've got, well that's just what I'm saying. You can go to the, one of the options is go to one of the boat sales sites, see if they've got some used ones laying around. Typically, the older ones are more powerful. Again, look for the ones that aren't pretty. Oh, it doesn't look pretty. That's not good enough for my $100,000 boat. You're right. You don't want that $500 radio anymore. In fact, oh yeah, for $10, $15, because it's got scratches and dings, I'll take it. So that's one of the things why it's why you want to check the boat supplies because there's a lot of stuff they pull out of other boats In many cases they toss stuff out. I just got two marine radios for 50 cents apiece At the Boy Scout sale this last weekend, and it's interesting. We were just looking at them They actually are consecutive number they were picked up one saver side by side when they were bought so Again, the price is right. You're gonna need some coax you're gonna need the proper antennas That's not a big deal because they're no more expensive nor any pricier in general than CBN tennis. So you're looking at a reasonable package and they're marine so that they're set up for an external wet weather environment. They're designed to be on the ocean or be on the lakes. So if you want to test and experiment what you have down there, make sure the other guys have a, you know, print up a schedule. have your radio operators set up by a certain time and on that schedule start testing all your equipment out to see how it works at different times of the day and whether or not you can reach with the off-the-shelf equipment. No special technology, just off the shelf what you've got at hand. That's a good experiment. Yes sir, and our training program follows along with your 510 program where you tell everyone to get enough gear equipment to outfit another 5 to 10 men for when times get bad and people show up at your door. We're giving the people the training so when they get those 5 to 10 men at the door they won't know how to lead a squad and they will know combat tactics. We concentrate on the art of fire and maneuver, patrol and contact, ambush and counter ambush. Very good. Uh oh. We just lost her. There we go. Hopefully. We just had a burp in our u-stream, it's back up again. Yeah, it's been doing that. We also can't update the Facebook through u-stream for some reason. We did the split screen thing that Spike showed us and since I tried it, the u-stream has been a little goofy. I tried restarting it and it's still acting a little goofy, so I don't know. Hopefully it's working okay. It's become a Disney product. This is terrible. Okay. So Mike, what else you got? Go ahead. Okay, and as far as tactics go, a lot of people are getting these chest rigs that hold like two or three magazines stacked on top of each other on the middle of the chest. That's only good for assault. For combat where you might want to drive down and go prone, so don't get shot. You really only want one layer of magazines on your chest. And then when you've got the old pistol belt and suspenders, You don't put your magazine patches right in front of your stomach. You put them on back around past your hip bone so you can get down and crawl real good without getting full of magazines when you go prone. Right. That's one of the things we have to look at. Forgive me. A lot of the other pieces of equipment, you have to take into consideration how are you going to be using the gear. There's a lot of variations on the assault weapon, the assault vest systems to include fixed rigid type that can't be adjusted. If they are, you have to decide how are you going to be using those. Are you mechanized, infantry, etc. Molly gear can be adjusted, Alice gear can be adjusted, the Euro gear can be adjusted, the European Web Gear, you know, the component types, there's a dozen of them out there, and know how to configure for the environment and for the type of mission you're going to be performing. So the good point here. My personal favorite is the LBV-88 that came out in the early 90s. The way it comes out of the package is the magazines are all towards the front, but unless you're really really big you can take in the strings on the side and let out the straps in the front and that will shift all your magazines back around to the side and leave the front of your chest open. That way you can get down prone easy, crawl prone and also it makes it a lot cooler. You got a lot more air circulation coming up the center of your chest, makes it a lot cooler than you've had the center of your chest covered in the magazines. Very good. So again, the particular pattern you're talking about is actually quite reasonably priced right now. You can go to eBay I think and get them for like $30, brand new and a wrapper. Very good. So again, anything else you can keep going, if there's anything else you can think of? A lot of our guys have the 762x39 and some of them have the 762x54R. Those are good rounds, but importation of them could be stopped at any time, so everyone needs to stock up on them. Ammunition is better than money in the bank. All ammunition, yes, no matter what it is. All ammo. Now they're talking about shifting from the US dollar being the reserve currency. So that's going to make everything that can make everything that is imported like that go double in price. We can anticipate that across the board in several categories. Other than that, what was the weather like during the training exercise? Hot, dry, hot, wet? It was very hot and dry. It was extremely hot. I made the mistake of wearing it. I thought, well, it's real hot, so I'm going to wear these real thin dress socks in my jungle boots. Because I do distance running every day, I never get blisters. But I got like first degree burns without blisters on the bottom of my feet from those thin socks so it's good to check your gear out and take a long march with all your gear and just see what's going to work. And now I know I don't ever want any thin socks again. That's right. So, and again, there's a number of different options there, but the military cushions, whole socks are a little harder to get than they were in the past. If you do run into them, take advantage, especially if you can make a deal with anybody that might be a surplus dealer, like at the gun show and such, usually they'll finagle. If you buy more, you get a better price. Socks in general in the surplus end, guys, have pretty much dried up. There's an occasional sale here and there, and that's about it. So, We'll find out. They've been actually picking up a few unique things here and there that nobody else has or They've got a better price on because surplus, you know, it shows up like that in the system it can be a little niche corners and Be very convenient for one person to pick it up, but nobody else knows it's there So you wonder like you see mark surplus is it like Walmart's gonna it's not gonna be there tomorrow next year You see some surplus you grab it up quick because it there's you'd be lucky any more than ever. Yep. That's right and We're not seeing any replacement of anything in terms of in the system when it runs out certain things are running out and they're gone So we're gonna we're gonna have to improvise progressively. We might have to use layers of socks That doesn't sound as comfortable heat wise but remember you can do a cotton inner inner sock with a commercial wool outer sock and it'll give you the same cushioning effect the cotton will wick the wool will pad and of course the cool with two but it keeps it retain heat and cold weather to Yes sir. And speaking about blanks, they've got a big bargain going on on West German DAG, D-A-G head stamped blanks. The base of it is metal, but the body is plastic and they're really good blanks. Cope's Distributing is sold for about approximately 290 for 2100 rounds and Amaleman.com is sold for about 350 for 2100 rounds. Our guy that was an Army captain, he tried them out. He said they're everything is clean and powerful as it's best US made black saber tried. Very good. So again, it's cycle. Now again, ammo man dot com, what was the other company that had those? Copes, distributing. Okay, Copes. P.E. Yes sir. Well, I've got to go. Thank you very much for working on it. God bless you all. Very good. Thank you, Mike. A very clean signal. I think everybody can hear you this time. That's good. OK. Thanks, sir. Bye bye. And Don, before we go any farther, it is Thursday. It is the evening program. We are still getting another day here. We're headed towards the holiday weekend. You have night vision. You've heard everybody all the information on how they can get hold of what you have. You guys, right up front, the phone number. I'll give it to you again in a minute. You can get first, second, third, even fourth generation. We'll talk about it if you want to. Let's do it like this. Just as an example, one fourth generation piece is just about a third generation gun sight and a third generation viewer. As far as price, there's a good balance, but a good comparison there. So with that in mind, if you really have to have a fourth generation piece, I'd call you, if you call me, I'm saying, I want a fourth generation piece. And you don't have any other night vision, I'd advise you, hey, for that kind of money, you could get a third generation piece for your gun and a third generation viewer. So you see, you want to talk about night vision, you guys. You can reach me at 231-796-8458. Roughly the same thing. When you talk in fact it is for what I get for a third generation gun site right now I can put you in a second generation gun site and a second generation viewer. So it equates on down you guys. First generation is even a bigger gap there. It's a far easier statement. But if you want to talk about night vision be it gun sites, viewers, You can reach me at 2317968458. That number I'll give it to you once again here. 2317968458. As example Mark, a second generation viewer. It will take either a 3 volt battery or a double A battery. That's a way cool feature. Multiple power source or multiple power option. A 3 volt battery or a double A battery into the same port. And if you want to talk to me about that, manufacturer wants $1000 for a plus delivery and they'll probably get about $40 to deliver it into this side of the Mississippi. There's a little bit of a gap there. It's their entry level second generation piece and it's a very fine piece. It's been very uniform. Comparatively, I could put the same words on the Trident gun site. You've seen that mark. Granted, it's got a couple of appendages on it that you might just take right off. Like it has rails where there's need for rail, rail where you might want to put something else and if you're crawling around in the beam patch, you might want to take one of them rails off. There are four rails on it, one that attaches it to the gun and then there's three other rails on it where you could, I guess that's why they call it the Trident. Second generation gun sight, two power, 308, an M1, an FN recoil capable. And generation gun sight, the manufacturer wants $16.99 for that mark. I'll put it in your mailbox you guys for $15.60. Write in your mailbox. If you want to talk to me about night vision, I'm not going to go on and on about this, but you know, we can talk about thermal too. Call me, call me after the hour. That's a big pile of pop-ups and some of the real good stuff. I can't get it anymore like a real nice, uh, I'll tell you if that was pure presidential executive order or just a manufacturer's decision. I can't tell you. But that was a, a per- that's almost like what you see on a helicopter. You know what I mean? But maybe that's why they took it off the mark. But if you want to talk about thermal or even something, you know, the entry level, like first generation, you guys, you can reach me at 2-3-1-7-9-6-8-4-5-8. I think I heard the beep a minute or about seven minutes ago, Mark. Do we have a caller waiting? We might have a patient listener. There we go. On the thermal, one of the things to remember guys is that the bad guys on the other side understand that we, first of all, have experience of the technology. Their biggest concern is the fact that now we're accessing tit for tat. We will take a piece of equipment that's not as expensive, but still, reasonably, we're very serviceable. and put it into the field and employ it effectively for a lot less in terms of cost and punishment. We're not going to be abusive with the equipment, especially the special, you know, when it comes to special tech. We paid for it, the government didn't. And we'll get every mile and every minute out of it that we can. A little trick here, there are a couple of techniques that can be used for thermal detection, etc. that are in the industry still. One of them is a deer targeting system that was built, actually it's a thermal sweep system. That is also to a degree used in industry for looking for hot spots on walls, for electrical wiring problems. The neat thing is, is that you scan through an area, it will pip an ID and then give you an actual flare and it will show you the image of what you have that's in front of you that's going hot. not as expensive as a regular constant feed thermal system these are out there in now the first second and third generation as used pieces of equipment that are even showing up at pawn charts the older ones are even cheaper and all they do is just give you like an LED readout as to how hot it is So there's another technique where again you can take advantage of older systems and incorporate them integrate them into our program. Remember we can overlap with other systems. One or two people may have thermal, others may have third generation night vision equipment, and other detectors or scanners can be integrated to offer either peripheral, side-by-side defense for scanning. or perhaps even narrowed into the front and with overlapping scan detect an ID anybody or everybody that's to your front that may be a threat or at least that is you know there but may not be immediately noticeable with conventional light vision systems. So there's a couple of tricks and there are you know on that point Don as we see helicopters there are companies out there that have thermal technology off the shelf that they use for industrial purposes. Scanning the roofs of buildings, for instance, for again, hot spots and insulation leakage. Here's one that disappeared. What happened to the car scanning system that was being offered by the auto industry? I think Jaguar still has it. They're using it, but it's in their high-end cars. Oh, but GM offered it, remember? General Motors offered it. In fact, it even showed you Bambi. Remember the two Bambis down? The guy comes around the corner. You can only see this far. Ah, but with the new, you know, see-ahead technology and the little, you know, the five-inch or seven-inch screen is right there in the middle of the dash, and it's up towards where it's towards the driver. And all of a sudden, ah, but with see ahead technology. And you see Bambi look up, and it's a classic side silhouette for anybody who's a marksman. And you go, oh, dear, I need to slow down. Yeah, OK. Well, now the thing that, as we pointed out right off the bat, Don, hey, it's been old enough now. Those things have to show up in car wrecks, guys. You got to see one or two in a salvage yard not too far away from you Yeah, yeah They've got to be I'd be curious to see you in fact to be kind of fun to do a little scan of that because remember these things were built to be mobile and They were built cheap because they're putting them in the auto industry run out of 12 volt. Yeah, they run out Yeah, they run off a 12 volt system They aren't putting any special wind generator on board or a little minute mail it could I guess but that's not what they're doing It's running off the existing power supply on a car that runs on a 12 volt system So that means you can adapt it to everything. You can adapt that to boat, you can adapt that to a field stationary position, you can even make that semi-portable. or, you know, man portable without any problems, still not that heavy, just a matter of ruggedizing it for the field. But it was built to go in a car and guys, they have to figure that in the vehicle, it's getting abused a lot anyway. So here are little solutions for technology that we got to keep our eye out for that they may have, my attitude is they may have also decided, hey, phase this out. Don't let anybody get any more of these. Can you hold off on that? Okay. And that is as likely as not the case or the scenario that's played out here. On that note too, now on the first generation scopes you have, I want to reinforce this with everybody, these scopes are not discontinued, they've just come up with a different body for the tubes, right? That's right. It's like a 55, 56, 57 Chevy. It's a different skin. same motor transmission or rear end, probably even the same radiator. Yeah, exactly. Or if not, the first six months worth, you know what they do? They'll cobble it so that that radiator does work. They used to do that with everything, guys. If you had a 73 to 74 or 78 to 79 GM, well, you know what? They still had firewall panels and insulation left over from the last model. You think they threw those out? Oh hell no, they said make them fit, but they're a little different. They actually came up with a cut here snip there and jab, jab, jab and take your fingers and stuff the rest up where they can't see it and no one will know the difference. So, you know, guys, that's just how it works. But again, the tubes here, these are not obsolete. They're a system that is going to be available as far as, you know, if there was repair that needed to take place, or if there are issues with it with regard to, you know, buying more of the same, yes, the same tubes available. the same ability, the same collection ability is off the shelf and readily available. So it's a consideration for everybody out there if you're looking at multiples and deployments, for instance in Arizona, or in preparation for actions in wherever inside the United States where you may end up having to defend yourself. You want multiple systems, everybody being able to understand how to use them with your baseline equipment. If at all possible, you want to kind of keep picking up the same model. So the model that Don has can still be had in its latest hull configuration and with all the basic features pretty well the same. There won't be any change there. The other reason we bring this up too, Night Vision, remember that if you are deploying, guys, at least go to Wally World, see about picking up some poor man's pelican cases. They got some dollar store versions at Wally World that are made to be either universal or like camera cases or whatever. Watch for those at the yard sales and surplus sales. Those have variable geometry in search. You can take all your support. You can take your chargers, your rechargeable batteries, your night vision device, and all your spare tools and everything, and put them into a kit. And break out Mr. Dollar Store OD Green and Dollar Store Brown and Dollar Store Tan and Dollar Store Flat Black and make a camouflage. Big up. That's all you do then that goes in the backpack. Guess what now it's secure You've got your night vision equipment with you plus the support technology you want to you want to deploy the thing Not only can you deploy it, but you can deploy it effectively Something happens that you didn't anticipate or something loosened up because you didn't tighten it down the last time You've got everything there you need to secure it to the fixture or secure it to the weapon system or whatever and it will be You'll be much happier with the fact that you have the right tools for the right project at the right time. But think ahead on this, and that's why again we've pointed out little cheap Portman's Pelican K. You don't have to buy name brand top end. Sometimes the equipment comes with a hard case, but if it doesn't, improvise, adapt, and overcome. We need solutions, not just complaining about the problems. The report you heard from Mike is a classic example of this. Thinking ahead, putting the project into motion, and then tweaking it as you go. You've got to figure out how or what you're going to be doing based upon input from the last exercise. What do we need to fix? What do we need to correct? What do we need to change? That will mean that by the time you get into the field there's not a whole lot that's going to surprise you. And I think that's really the most critical point here with regard to operations. Your mind is your first best weapon. Always think that way. Don, I know you got more for us. What else have we got up that way? Well, you know, we could go back to that. We touched on it earlier in the hour. You guys keep an eye out for those. Looks like a playing card, the Ace of Hearts playing card from the VA there. Again, if you want to move up in the ranks of psychiatric handlers, think about the answer. I know it's kind of a prep kind of answer, but if you want to move up in the physagiatrist world, talk to people who are willing or hard at work to shape your mind. Some people actually call that a career mark. Well, one of the ways you could possibly answer is, have you contemplated suicide? Well, yours. What? Oh, well, yours. It seems to me that you people are all dwelling on this. I mean, virtually dawdling on this. I mean, like, drooling. You know, drooling on it. That's exactly. And you know, that's the thing. It's this little click. They've made this a bonus pack money deal. Remember that by doing this with a veteran, the veteran is then disarmed. because that's one of the things they passed into law guys. That's what they said they were going to do. Handgun Control Incorporated was bragging that they were going to use these laws that were passed, remember a couple years ago, against the veteran. So this gives them an excuse to put them on the can't buy a firearm list. It's just like the terrorist led to watch lists. It's the same scam, but you don't know that you're on until you decide well I'm gonna go get a 12 gauge cuz oh dead want to go bird hunting. I'm sorry, sir You're you know your purchase has not been approved Huh? That's exactly what it's about. So keep in mind that's what these little stinking communist buggers are all about. And all the VA veterans out there listening, understand with the VA? So like I said, if you contemplated suicide, yours? Yup. That's settled real quick. Not mine, yours. Not mine, yours. I thought, you know, boy you seem to be pretty depressed, you look like you're always tired, you look like you're always hanging on the edge of the cliff. You're probably contemplating suicide. You're always asking about it. You're always dwelling on it. Are you having problems right now? Ooh, they're going to like that one. Whoa, what do you mean? Well, every so many minutes you seem to be coming back to suicide. Is there something you need to talk about? Boyd would call that a fixation. Yeah, you just seem to be like, oh yeah, and yeah, there can be some nasty things coming along with that too. That's true, you know, because it could be the old burning one's own bridge there. But, boy, you know, the first time you mentioned that, I was like, hmm, that's different. That's a weird question. Second time you mentioned it's like, hmm, that's interesting. You asked a second time. But you know, you've repeated this about six or seven times. And the only thing I can figure is that one way or another you've got a problem. We need to have you talking to somebody. I'm just fine. Oh no, no, is it? Yeah, well, you're the... Oh my goodness, they wouldn't know it. They won't know. Well, of course, they'll try to turn it around anyway, but it's the bottom line. It's like, you know, you need to talk to somebody. This is the seventh time you've brought up suicide in 15 minutes. It appears that you have a problem. Well, I'm doing just fine, but as far as contemplating it, obviously I've thought about the fact that you sound like you're looking towards leaping from a building or something, and we're on the fifth floor. You probably won't kill you, just bust you up real good. You know, you got a 50-50 chance on five floors, because remember there's a vestibule out in front of the hospital here, and your office is right over it, so you really only get three and a half stories out of the deal. You might have to have such an action, you might have to talk to one of your colleagues for the rest of your life. That's right. Oh well. So anyway, just stick it in there sideways, but again, only yours. Not mine, only yours. And I'm thinking, wow, I'm going to have to be talking to somebody new in a week or two here, right? They're going to have a new employee. This is going to really be great. I was wondering about that. Maybe somebody a little fresh. You were getting kind of stale. It could become a contest to see how deep into the cycle one might run. Yeah, it's like oh that's too bad. Fourteen psychiatrists in the last 28 weeks. And then you also report the person when you're done with the interview? You make a point of like if they've got some kind of questionnaire area where it's like, you know, please check on so-and-so You know doctor or miss or miss so-and-so mentioned suicide over nine times in less than 20 minutes I believe the individual is unstable mentally unstable and possibly contemplating suicide The references are made repeatedly Please do something. I think this is a call for help Blah blah blah blah use art use all the catchphrases they use After you've downed five psychiatrists, could you consider yourself an ace? Oh yeah! Well, it's actually just taking out another socialist. So, you know, I mean, come on, it's like, after all, how do you determine that these shysters especially are supposedly healthy? I mean, think about it. because by their own definition nobody is. So how could they possibly be used to in any way, shape or form evaluate anyone? Because simply put, they have more schisms between their ears and pretty much everybody else walking out there other than maybe a cop who of course is the number one and their number one, their parallel one for one used to be was cops and psychiatrists like psychologists was in that pecking order. But apparently the shrinks have moved up the ladder and are killing themselves more often than not to the point where now they're equal with the police. That's pretty sad. Of course, it could be having suicide committed on them. Oops, that's another thought. Arkansasider? Yeah, that's possible. Oh, that term is, yeah, that's past say, old darn textbook French. Too many psychologists being found sleeping on the railroad tracks side by side and run over by a train. Put only their heads. They didn't hear it coming. They didn't hear it yet. Exactly. It's a mile and a half track. Their heads are laying on the track and the hum and the clack clack clack just settled them into an even deeper sleep until squish squish. It was too late. They weren't paying attention to the Indian in the mark. They just couldn't connect with that inner Indian self. Well anyway again look at this properly and it's an askew process that's designed to attack the you know the veteran as a firearms owner You got all these little petty you know? Bureaucrat wannabes that are plugged in these positions that are eating this stuff up It's just like little junior g-men nonsense down You know like we saw with the characters that were you know backstabbing hutari. Oh do I get my junior g-man card for screwing the hutari people Yeah, that's exactly what one of them said And that was when they were yapping about Oz. So anyway, we are just about at the top. In fact, we should be hearing the music here in a minute. One more time, Don. 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