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A lot of real estate we got to take care of with the mountain peaks and of course those pweas, we call them valleys. Is that 50 caliber ammunition being burned in the background there? Well, of course it is a special day today. It's been kind of cloudy but sunny on and off. It's like we're going to get rained on but we haven't yet right here. Everybody around us has but we've been staying actually work capable. We weren't soaked out of the back 40 or pushed off the construction sites today here in this part of the state. But that doesn't mean it won't change by the time we get done with this program. So it is a beautiful 25th of August. Second year of Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist occupation of America with a cable. What that means is that we are only a, well that's right, we're looking at weapons Wednesday here, only a breath away. Well we are on the money right now, we're on target. Anyway, it is a beautiful weapons Wednesday. We've been covering a number of different subjects and rifle marksmanship, of course, is the center of everything we do. Let's point something out. When you hear the term, he's a rifleman, that was not a casual phrase by any stretch of the imagination. In many parts of the world, different forces had different skills that were developed. For example, you hear the term fusilier. or the term Grenadier. Well, they weren't just bandied about. They were very narrow and specific units that were Grenadiers or Fusiliers or had special designations. These were elite units in their day. Well, one that was also an elite unit or elite designation was Riflemen, part of a rifle company. Not to be confused with musket or regular infantry formations. Riflemen were given better technology or had better technology that could reach farther, greater accuracy, and again, means greater firepower placed upon the target with a high confidence of hit. Riflemen, full company, was a flag designation, a banner designation. In other armies, it would be for instance like guards, you know, the 36th Tank Guards Army. When you see that with Russian forces, That designates a little higher notch in terms of performance and reliability. The unit has had combat experience typically, or has had a very specific combat experience that has brought it a notch up and its esprit de corps is supposed to be raised in the process. And as a guards unit, it can be a guards battalion, guards brigade, guards division, etc., etc., guards army, by the way. That designation is to note that the formation has had some form of elite experience that has put it a notch above everybody else. Not all units are guards units. Not all units were rifle units. And that designation, kind of like actually the original National Guard, which really did have a special designation in our Army, it was not simply something that was thrown out to everyone. Lafayette, when he was the Inspector General for the Continental Army, would go around and also inspect militia units. If the unit was above the rest, if it had 100% of everything, if it had all of its equipment in place, all the troops were squared away, the unit looked very strapped, its formations were true to regimental requirements, well then it received a guidon pennant, and the pennant read, Gardia National, or in other words, National Guard. an elite designation or a special designation which has come full circle. Back in the day for some time there was a constant deratement or attack on the National Guard as opposed to the regular army, as opposed to federal forces. And since the government has done more and more to absorb the Guard and make them disappear as a separate and independent entity that was supposed to be supporting their respective state, now having betrayed the state they have become federalized forces on a regular basis. and pretty much are now hacks for whatever the Fed wants to do. So the National Guard designation is irrelevant for most of those formations. Many of them are pawns in the game now with the rest of the schmucks that have bought into the scam. On the other hand, there are many other formations that still take their titles and their heritage seriously. So, just a point there. When you hear the term rifleman, that is why you will see it on penance, you will see it in specific uniform, patch requirements or designations for earlier formations, not just the more recent stuff here in the last several years. Several of the different badges have models that incorporate the rifles. There will be golden rifles or the rifle spearhead company. There are a number of different of latinized models that are out there you'll find them on the older unit designations because these units have been around or were around since the American Revolution. Many have, of course, all formations have both a unit patch and a unit crest. Typically the heraldry, the artwork as you would call it, for the unit crest will be different from the unit patch. And in both cases, they may express the history of the formation, depending on how old they are or if their heraldry has been changed. Sometimes for political correctness, because of the slobs that are gravitating towards positions of authority, the old designations are being made to disappear because again, it's part of the heritage of the unit, it's part of its history, and they don't want that. They want all these poor characters sterilized into global imperialists. and global imperialism, blah, blah, blah, blah, you know, which is the big scam even in the Marine Corps that they've been pushing for a while that they're Imperials. Well, you know, we shot those suckers out of here a long time ago, Imperials, just remember that. And we're going to be dealing with that problem again real quick. So the rifleman accuracy over volume fire doesn't mean you can't deliver volume fire. In fact, one of the nice things about certain weapons is that provided you can maintain control over yourself, The weapon offers the option as needed to deliver a decisive amount of firepower when needed and you don't have to have select fire. The AR-15 works just fine with you and a fast trigger finger. In fact, provided you do everything else right, keep the shoulders, you know, the shoulder stock snug into the crux of the shoulder, the face is welded to the cheek, and you have proper multi-point control of the weapon. Guess what? You're going to do just as well as anybody with select fire. In fact, you'll probably do better because, as you know, our emphasis is to make every round count. Right off the bat, we're ahead of the other side. just because of mindset that direction we're not spraying and praying we're actually focusing on fixing on the target in engaging in putting the target down this is critical uh... but they can the a k forty seven offers you know excellent recovery and you know in some automatic mode for it certainly can deliver thirty rounds as quickly as you can move your little index finger there fifteen same scenario even ask a s properly employed it's impossible of you know even if the person can see the rifle You know, be able to be sure as long as you use the three round burst method if you're going to be using rapid fire. You know, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, and then you might throw 1-2-3-4-5 or in this case with the SKS, 1-2-3, 1-2-3, 1-2-3-4. Then, another stripper clip in quick while you're undercover and the person can't be sure if you're using an AK or an SKS because the firepower potential is in question because you have used discipline. even in dumping 30 rounds downrange and you're hitting the cats, the dogs, the weather vane on the roof, the neighbors, four blocks over because of the golf ball around that didn't hit Jack's squat but it's coming down on somebody's head. Instead, aiming the weapon, and bringing it to the shoulder, aiming the weapon effectively, and again, placing the round where you need to put it to put the target down. If you do this right, you still have anywhere from 28 to 29 additional weapons in the magazine, or weapons, excuse me, rounds in the magazine ready to use. That's if you have a 30-round mag. Smaller the magazine capacity, typically I find the more motivated people become to stay focused and engage accurately. It's amazing what that will do for you when you realize, eh, I can't reload more often with this. Sometimes reloading is not as convenient as most people would like. Here we go. A handful of chicklets trying to be clipped into or shipped into a weapon or jammed into a weapon one after another. I want you to think about the idea that before this happens again, I better make sure I hit that target so I don't necessarily have to fumble around trying to get this thing loaded again, depending on how it's configured. There are some unique weapons out there that take a little more than just the usual stand on your head and move, patch your tummy and spin in three circles. There's a lot more to it even than that. That's one of the reasons that we want to, again, engage effectively. Now, weapons options. There are a number of different things right now, although there are no new weapons truly on the horizon that we can see. There are some variations in semi-automatic versions of full-auto option weapons like the belt-fed weapons out there right now, the browning of semi-automatic belt-fed rifles, the MG1, MG3 type 8mm or .308 knockoffs of the MG34 or MG42. We also have even copies of the Peppierche, some machine guns in some automatic mode again, some automatic with a large drum magazine. This is the one advantage of those little carbines that most people seem to be overlooking. Stick mags are pretty straightforward. Now I will warn you about drum mag feed. It takes time to feed the drums. And that's why a lot of Germans, especially in the assault, if they were using pilfered Peppierches during World War II, I preferred to try and capture the drums already loaded because it was a lot of work. And if somebody else had loaded the mags for you, loaded the drums for you, woo woo, all the better. Now, we're not going to be able to load. We don't have that luxury that we can toss them out, but the drum mags for the peppish-type carbines and the sumoi-type, the sumi-type carbines is so incredibly cheap, I would be buying this nut on them if I had that weapon right now. Another consideration is using that as a fixture weapon for a vehicle. The reason I say that is you've got a little longer barrel than on the original, but you've got to be careful because by the very nature of these pistol cartridges, you don't need the barrel to be too long. And there is such a thing as going too long with the barrel and actually reducing performance around. But the longer barrel, increased accuracy, hopefully a little more velocity. You're going to eat a whole lot more, but you'll get some. and a lot of firepower. That 72-73 round drum is awfully handy especially if you have a whole box full of them sitting there with them stacked side by side by side by side by side. Now you mount that into a weapons fixture on a Doom buggy or on a light assault vehicle where you've got a number of different fighting stations. That's an awfully nice tool to have in the toolbox for firepower guys. and the 7.62x25 is not a round to be sneezed at, it's actually a very hot round, it's a very unique projectile slash, you know, system unto itself, and it has armor penetration that they really don't like to talk about very much. Also, in the light carbine, another thing to think about, The nice thing is if you run into submachine gun ammunition, the light carbine knockoffs that are being made that are semi-auto right now will eat that stuff all day with no effect, no detrimental effect to the weapon at all. This means you're also getting a little more energy. You've got a little, you know, again, a hotter projectile going down range, a little more barrel, and it'll spend all that powder and use everything accordingly to give you a higher performance range. Again, I cannot emphasize enough, there are, for instance, you guys have the Samoy, some of you bought these things already. Well, if you'll notice, apparently they're not going to be making as many of them as they thought, and they have a whole bunch of the kits available, cheap, for under $100 right now. If you have that weapon, you better be buying those kits, greasing them up and burying them. ASAP as many as you can if you have the system why because all the spare parts you would ever need to keep that weapon system online are right there ready to go wow when the time comes you don't have to worry about you know fabricating or crying about trying to make it work you'll have everything that you need sitting there in a creek in a can in the grace in the second wrapper in a blister tube underground, someplace buried where you know where it is and nobody else needs to. Or in a caron or a safety point away from your property, completely away from most of the civilization. This is how you need to set up most of these supply points for your weapon systems. They need to be away from the weapons themselves. if you evacuate from an area your parts are necessary to be where they need to be when the time comes to me you can't keep one spare parts kit wherever you are uh... secured in underground but uh... your backups should be away from your present site or wherever it is you think you're going to be initially initially uh... located in the event hostilities develop another thing more mags more mags more bags while these drums are cheap for these weapons by them out I can't stress that enough either. For you guys buying the PTR-91s, you're never going to see mags as cheap, especially real, true military mags. Made by, of all people, HK, or the rottenest of people to deal with, HK is the worst possible company to deal with in the industry, people. If you don't know that, you'll find out if you buy one of their unique designs. They will not produce additional mags, they will fail to deliver the mags where they need to be, and you will be screwed. There's a whole bunch of civilian counterpart weapons they produced in the 70s, in the 80s, and into the 90s. And lo and behold, the owners can't find magazines anywhere, and they will not be provided by HK. But wait, they made the weapons. Yes, we know. So, if you have a PTR-90, I forgive me, PTR-91. and it's in 7.62x51nado. You can't buy mags any cheaper than $1 to $2 apiece. Maine Military, by the way, is a company that has them in stock. MaineMilitary.com. MaineMilitary.com. Maine, M-A-I-N-E, Military.com. The guys, Frank, has got some of the best deals on mags right there. You can't beat them. Check them out, because guys, there's only one big source for those mags in the country. And these guys have them, they've got a source for that, they've got connection with that source. That's the only reason they're cheap for the moment. As this inventory is eating down and it's being eaten down, then the magazines are going to slide back up. So they're also a good investment because they're not an aftermarket, odd company nobody ever heard of, mags. These things are all made by West German military contractors for the HK91 slash the G3 assault rifle. So it's about as good as you're going to get. And you'll notice I harp on this a lot. And I'm harping right now for a reason because I want to see you well equipped. If you're going to get the PTR91, buy 100 mags. At least... I would buy more, but buy 100 mags. For $1 to $2 a piece, you can't beat them. And you can match them out. You can get 1963 mags and separate them. You can sort them out by date and by manufacturer. Then turn around and sell some of them if you want to and keep the ones that you really like depending upon the year of production. What do you think about that? Personally again, I would save them all. Put them off to the side, put them on the shelf, and forget about them. That's simple. Don't worry, they'll be worth more later. Do lubricate them and make sure they're cleaned up and bagged and everything so they're kept from the moisture and don't put them in a place where they're going to get wet. That's the only thing I ask. That's the only thing I'll promise to do. Now, on that note, since we got the PTR-91, we got the magazines, what about ammunition right now? Well, All the major companies have some 308 NATO in stock, not as much as you as everybody would hope, and the price has not been really coming down. But there are some reasonable by today's standard prices that allow you to put some ammunition on the shelf quickly. Remember that every APC and every tank is carrying a 7.62x51 NATO standard firearm. They're either carrying a mag or they're carrying something that's a commander's variant that goes on one of the vehicles. There are all kinds of different systems. While the belts may change, though not likely, most certainly the ammunition is the same. And there is no significant change from one manufacturer to the next or from one vehicle to the next if you capture ammunition. You will find that the Russians even and the Chinese have some 308 slash 762 by 51 NATO weapons in service now. One of the reasons is because of cooperative activities and operations that they've agreed to participate in. So, you're not going to have a problem acquiring more, it's just going to be a balance. Again, you're going to understand the percentages. A lot of mechanized units out there, lots of through-air weapons up on the roof, a lot of them in the turret is coaxial guns. Figure about 20 to 25 percent of the inventory that will be available is going to be 762 NATO. all the difference will be in either two to three or thirty caliber and then a smaller percentage in five four five by thirty nine etcetera etcetera then there's a mix in this purely matter of what region you're in as opposed to the foreign troops that are inside the united states that's the only consideration that is a variable on the one place to go real quick here collect a list the ww w dot classicarms.us, classicarms.us, classicarms.us. Scroll down through the inventory there, you'll find some through-eight, I think it's Radway right now that's available, and take advantage of their ammo can deal. They've got a monster deal on .30 caliber ammo cans, they've got a lot of them in an odd size too. Some of them are on the odd size, it depends, you'll have to ask. 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So it's another way to hook up to the program and listen in, by the way. So far we haven't been able to crash it, so we think it's pretty well unlimited. We'll have to see how far we can go. But our Ustream feed is another option for hooking up and listening to the Intel report and many other programs here on Liberty Tree Radio. Don't forget that. getting into different problems that we've seen a lot of people been asking about my mark to use helmets You know I'm gonna point out something here You know to ask you about helmets with web gear with gear you know equipment and there's people who would argue Well, what's the sense of the home? What if they're gonna get you get you well, you know bullet wise Yeah, there's some pretty big heavy stuff there that if they get you it'll leave nothing but your boots and maybe your fingernails and nothing in between On the other hand, I'm going to tell you something, a helmet has saved my life twice in my experience in field operations. In both cases, had I not been wearing the helmet, I know I would have been severely injured. And it's because, especially with night operations, for all of those run, dodge, and jump stuff that you do guys, When your noggin runs into that low-lying branch that's made out of oak and is about 4, 6, or 8 inches in diameter, well, you can pretty well figure that a branch doesn't give a whole lot, but your head will. And if you're a dead weight sack of potatoes out for the count with a whole bunch of the people, if you're lucky, that are around you, that are like-minded or friendly, you've just become a burden to everyone. Doesn't mean that that can't happen even with a helmet. There's things that can take place that just put you down for the count. Years ago, I was, in fact we mentioned this, this was one of many operations before us working with 12 special forces, and it was an RO at the time, and this was the night that the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. I was with the ground unit, the team that we infiltrated into an area, our job was to signal and control a boat landing unit at night, wee hours of the morning. In fact, very late at night, wee hours of the morning. And we were pulling all the equipment in that we would need for the coming week. Everything was, if you didn't have it, you couldn't use it. So everybody was carrying a maximum amount of equipment for all of these support people that are part of your 18 group. signal communications, administrative operations, support tech, encryption equipment, you name it, we're carrying everything. And plus weapons and ammunition and pyrotechnics and everything else is attached and carried in bundles, bags, and you look like a woodchuck going across the sand dunes. Well, we hours of the morning, lightning storm was extremely heavy to the point where there was more light than there was dark. The dark was the odd spot in between. Otherwise, radio transmissions were interfered with nonstop. Everything had to be repeated three and four times. Repeat, repeat, repeat. And again, the same would be true with stuff trying to get to you through the interference. Now, there was a point where we had to cross through a tree line. And there was a series of steel pipes that had been buried in the ground. I don't know what they were a part of, don't ask me, but they were big old, Well-tight pipes about six inches in diameter stuck up out of the ground at about let me give you a hint crotch level oh You see where this is going? Now we don't we don't have helmets for this spot the body, but what was interesting is. I'm on the radio. I'm talking I'm carrying off course We're also observing while we're patrolling while we're moving because we're moving to a rendezvous point which is a lighthouse on the on the on the beachfront So anyway, we're moving along and I hear the point man even. I can hear this. I'm on the radio. We've got lightning, gun thunder, constant. And I hear, watch out for the post. Watch out for the post. Now, you've got to remember, we're tactically spread out, but we're crunching up a little bit, which always happens, no matter how hard you try. Because when you get to a choke point, everybody tries to compensate, but they want to keep moving. I'm number seven at this point in line. We had two men that were to the rear of me that were rear security. I'm number seven in line. Number six is carrying two rolls of combo wire draped around his body. Plus he's got claymores. He's got all kinds of other, he's got 60 pounds, 70 pounds worth of Alice backpack, all his personal stuff. And by the way, it's raining, so we're adding weight constantly. Everybody's already fatigued. and everybody i heard watch out for the pipe watch out for the pipe watch out for the pipe the other guy in front of me is to hear a one-way and i heard the other guy for him say watch out for the pipe right in unison as we're moving forward here uh... and i start to see him fall over and i grabbed him from behind grabbing by the x words caught with the common waters drape over his body wrapped around his body you know next and i grabbed him and start to hold him in a course he dragged me down and i'm carrying eighty pounds ninety pounds worth of equipment and I'm soaking wet. I'm still trying to talk on the radio to the Coast Guard cutter that's got our landing crew, our landing component. And now we've got a casualty. Now that's something where you, as I said, unless you're going to wear other armor or unique armor or another spot, that you can't protect a person from. But right off the bat, what are you going to do with him? He's carrying 60 to 100 pounds, depending on how you want to count it, of extra gear plus his body weight. He's injured because he didn't hesitate, he didn't slow down, he was a full force. Oh look, there's a pipe right in the wrong place and ouch ouch, he's down for the count, things are starting to swell up. Now you leave him behind, you can't shoot him, he's an ally. This is a training operation anyway as we know. And so the whole point is that we ended up having to relieve two men behind with him. So right off the bat, we've lost the security detail, the rear security details, who we left with him. Each person's already got so much to do as it is. I'm the RRO, I'm the primary RRO, there's a secondary designated RRO carrying another rig. He's not gonna use it, he'd just be interfering with my work. But progressively, we end up, the first sergeant who's there, who's in charge of this particular detail, he's a team leader. He's decided that he's wondering where these guys are. They got actually getting mucked up because of a combination of the weather and the sand dunes. And so he sent back to them. And now we're paired off. We still have to secure the area. We have to do a sweep. Plus we have to be on the beach. Actually we have to secure a site on the beach and talk in the landing unit. Attrition like this will really screw you with your whole day. And of course, muck up any high plans that you had. Well, it's just as bad if you get bopped in the noggin. So when we talk about helmets, any helmet will do for the type of work we're talking about to protect you from impact injuries. Smacking into trees, bumping your head on a log. You drop fast and you miscalculate the fact that there was a stone there you didn't even know existed. Well, the stone wins and the side of your head loses. Okay, whereas on the other hand, you might ring your gourd a little bit, ping! But mostly it's going to ping on the helmet. Many tricks have been used. There's a Delta Force or whatever name you want to give for them, but everybody recognizes Delta Force. They have other names they use. For the years we're using hockey helmets. That was their trademark. It was unique. And they were goofy enough that, well, who the hell is going to wear that in the field? Well, it was a functioning helmet. It's designed to offer good sound ability, sound collection, and good armor to the head, top and sides, which is what you need. Think about it, hockey players constantly are communicating with each other in different ways, so they need to be able to hear. But they also are carrying weapons onto the arena that they play in, onto the ice. So they've now been told that you're going to be wearing a helmet because you are carrying a weapon on the ice and we don't want to see you out for the count and then having to pay medical bills. That simple. Now another option which a lot of people will find that actually pretty squared away too are these half helmet bicycle or motorcycle helmets. The reason I bring those up is the bicycle helmets are really nice because they offer good wraparound protection to the upper part of the head. They still offer you to pull your head back and look up because that's one of the biggest problems, depending on the helmet you're wearing. You've got to be able to articulate, be able to move your head left, right, especially when you're in the prone position. Remember, get down, take cover. Now, steel helmets pretty much are designed that way, although the old German coal scuttle helmet for being as good a design cover-wise, If you moved your head back, it was very uncomfortable. You typically had to push your body up to crane your head a little bit to be able to lay prone and still look and do things. That back bar where the angle of the step on the helmet was would bounce into the back of your spine or jab into the back of your back and the base of your neck and it would hurt or cause problems. It would be obnoxious anyway. It would be one of those ticks that just wouldn't go away. Anyway, the US Kevlar helmet modified to deal with that has a cleft in the back. If you'll notice, it has a little bit of a dollop cut out of it. That was to take into consideration the very idea of design that was already looked at as a detriment on the old German colstetle helmets. Now, other helmets, for instance, one that I do like, two that I like is one of the M29 Swedish helmets. That's one that actually has saved my life at least once. Another, which is harder to get, but I was reminded that there is a cache of these right now coming in for one of the other companies, is the Swiss, I think it's Model 1970. It is an excellent helmet. It looks like an M1 helmet from the back, this old steel helmet. But the front brim is cut short like a paratrooper's helmet for the British or Germans in World War II. Now there's a reason for that. Very well, it's a Swiss helmet. What do you think they're doing a lot of? Oh, that's right. Looking up because they're mountain climbers, not necessarily from the prone. They can be upright. parallel with the bare face of a mountain cliff climbing and they've got to be able to look up. Now another thing is these helmets are fairly heavy duty. Why? Well, another thing about the Swiss stuff is if you're climbing a mountain, the guy up ahead of you and up on top of you might not be too careful about what he's grabbing hold of, or he may not have a choice because he miscalculates in the wee hours of the morning while he's trying to climb a vertical slope, you know, vertical face, and, you know, attach a carabiner and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, he grabs something and he miscalculates and he sends a rock your way. He doesn't have to do much. If he just loosens it up, gravity does the rest. So it behooves the military that's putting you in the field to build a helmet that's going to handle rocks. Ergo, the Swiss helmets, especially the Swiss combat helmet, the later one, the steel, before they go to the new design they have now, is actually pretty well engineered for what it's supposed to do. And again, it's a good option. It offers reasonable protection. I will warn you, it's a little heavier. The M29 helmet that we were talking about that's Swedish isn't. it's actually quite lightweight by comparison to most helmets but again it's designed to offer some protection from fragmentation flying bits and pieces of metal and in the process also protect so that your beam doesn't bounce on the side of that APC and you know we leave a dent you know that matches you can even read the rivet marks you know on your forehead if you do it right well have the steel helmet ping do that instead of the better choice So yes, there is an application for helmets and soft caps. What's the big deal? You roll the thing up and you put it in your backpack or you put it in your popcorn pocket where you can find it when you need it. You want to hang the helmet, you want to drop the helmet for a bit to rest your body, to rest your neck. Hang the helmet on your Alice pack and then pull out your soft cap and put it on. But when you're going to business, when you're going to work, but the helmet back on you don't get nobody needs to see your hairstyle we're not trying to win any kind of decorum contest here okay i just don't look cool enough it doesn't match well with my ballistic glasses i played eighty eighty nine ninety five four and it's just not modern enough i mean i have to look cool okay and uh... so we have a nice open casket you know funeral for you for looking cool maybe you're probably not even open casket you were wearing much armor we can have someone you're being So they have to kind of paste that all back together to make it work if they want to have an open casket funeral. Anyway, yes, helmets, if at all possible. There are a number of different sources. You'll find that, again, you may have to shop around a little bit to find what you need. A warning about European. Remember, European helmets are metric sized. American US M1 helmets are unsized, one size fits all because it had an adjustment system that was designed into the helmet system itself. So there are no in the regular what's called the old piss pot, okay, the old steel helmet that we have the two part system where it has the helmet liner and you have the shell. That is a one size fits all system, the sweat band that's inside and the pack strap which most people don't have because they didn't know where they go that's supposed to be in the back of the helmet liner. It helps to compensate for the size of the head. Now, warning, the NATO slash European helmets, east or west by the way, not just NATO, but eastern or western European and such are sized. So you need to know the size range. Before I go any farther, as you, I am sure, have noticed by now, US Kevlar helmets are sized. This is something that's new within the last, you know, this generation of helmets are now size specific, so you have to size them to the wearer. With a metric, smalls are, and we're talking really small, would be like 52s, 53s, even 54. That's a small to extra small. 55-56 is small headed towards medium, 57-58. Then 59 is an average 7-3-4, forgive me, 7-3-8 to up to 7-1-1-2 inch head size, 59-60 metric. Ideally you're going to have to try a size helmet on and then experiment. Okay, there are purposes for this experiment. Go to a surplus shop where they have a bunch of these things laying. Pay attention to where the number is posted inside the helmet. Trust me, it's there. And then once you do that, figure out what size fits you best and there you go. If you're going to buy it from somebody else for less, you can use the surplus store as a shopping mall sizing point. Get my drift. Now pay attention to the size that you wear in metric because typically, although there were variations in all the other metric lines, hat sizing and helmet sizing for metric is pretty consistent from country to country. There's no change there. So once you've got the size down for your headgear, you're pretty well set. Always remember that. And again, common sense. Take advantage of utilizing the sizing offices and facilities that are available when the time comes. here we go anyway other things with regard to the helmet uh... and i mentioned this there are two different types of strapping systems and this is something that has become a real problem uh... what we call the bobble or the wobble in the back of the helmet when you're trying to run with it you'll notice troops used to grab the helmet try to hold it down to keep it from wobbling now this is not going to settle all the problems and probably your best choice in ways to deal with uh... american systems you know with regard to the helmets to make them a little tighter and snugger if you want them so they aren't going to bounce around when you're running down through that back alley or bouncing around through the woods is to configure them in the airborne pattern. One interesting thing is that the airborne configured helmet system, even though it's the same basic helmet, there are some add-on straps and pads. It's designed to keep the helmet tight to your head so that you don't have any accidents or injuries when you jump from that aircraft. That perfectly fine plane that you just left. Wind buffeting, possibility of minor mistakes made when you left the aircraft, can cause bounces, bangs and tings. Well, because of that the helmet has to be kept in place. It's being worn for a reason to keep your noggin intact. So, if you look at the different manuals, you will find that there is usually a notation with regard to gear for airborne configuration. Look up helmets. You'll see what I'm talking about. There are different pads. Sometimes you've seen them at surplus stores, don't have any clue what they are. In many cases, the person selling the surplus doesn't even know what the hell they are. So if you recognize them, you can usually get them for a reasonable price or cheap. I'll fix them to the gear and it helps to stabilize the helmet. There was a whole pad system for the padcat, the helmet after Vietnam. There are two different cross back strap systems for the M1 steel helmet. The first one is a canvas ribbon slash tape. It has snaps on it. If you look inside your helmet liner, if it's a World War II era helmet to the beginning of Korea, and this varied because some companies had the newer, some had the older style, it's a strap of canvas tape slash webbing that goes across and adjusts with a buckler to tighten up and cup the back of the head as a second point of contact with the helmet system. Your chin strap is one, that back cup is the other, and then there of course is the leather sweatband which is adjusted to your head size before it's even put into the helmet or on it. If it's already in the helmet and you try the helmet on and it's sloppy in terms of size, stop. Check to make sure the clips and snaps are stable and can be released. Disconnect them, take the sweatband out of the helmet, First of all, you're going to have to clean up and loosen up the little buckles, the little A-figure-8 buckle that keeps the head straps tight. You're going to have to loosen that up. It's probably taking a set. It might even have some green corrosion from the metal buckle itself. That's going to have to be cleaned up with a toothbrush, not a metal one, a plastic one. Take your time. Then adjust and open up the strap. Put it around your forehead and make sure that that buckler point is straight to the back so it's out of the way and that the leather is resting on the side, front, and wrapped around to the back of your head. Then once you've adjusted for that size, take that fixture, take the sweat band, put it back inside the helmet liner where it belongs, station it accordingly, make sure everything's locked and clipped, and now you've properly adjusted the first point of contact on the helmet. The second is the chin strap. The third, after you've got the chin strap properly adjusted, is also then to adjust the back straps that we're talking about. Now the first model is a buckler and a snap system. The second type, most common with most of the helmet liners that we see, is the later model which has three little buckles. One is straight to the rear, up inside the helmet liner, the other two are to the side. These are not for a secondary little chin strap. These are for a back adjustment fixture made out of strapping for your standard piss pot slash helmet. What it's designed to do is again, cup the back of the head. If you come up off the neck, you notice how your head slopes out a little bit there. There you go. Well, that's the area that it tries to cup. And while, amazingly enough, the straps are out there in force. In fact, I think I've got probably close to a thousand of the things. But most surplus stores have them too. They just don't know what they're for. And they'll have them in bundles of 10 or bundles of 20. They're held together with string. If you look, you'll find them there. There's a pad that looks like a chin pad, it's not. Then there's one strap that comes straight out of the middle of that to the top, and then the other two come out the end like they're a chin strap adjustment tool. They're not for the chin, they're for the back of the head. Okay, I think I've emphasized that enough, but I just want to stress that again because yes helmets They'll work and they'll work better than you think if you know what you're what you're doing with them It's just that most people didn't have the knowledge passed on or it's really dry reading and nobody wants to read the TC's or the TMs or the FM's on helmet maintenance Ken like member Starship trooper. Are you authorized to adjust the blah blah blah helmet? okay like well how much is it adjusting the helmet? Well not a whole lot. For the sake of a science fiction and a movie guys. Anyway I know we're probably gonna hear the music any minute here because we are headed towards the top of the hour right now. 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