Mark Koernke discussed tactical preparedness and vehicle maintenance, covering spare tire strategies, battery terminal care, vehicle jump-starting procedures, and low-tech communication methods like chalkboards and flags. He emphasized trailer hitch systems (pintle-ball combinations) for supply logistics, scout vehicles and four-wheelers for transport, and modular equipment deployment. The show featured extensive discussion of Camp Stasa construction projects, variable geometry shooting ranges, and upcoming training exercises at Knob Creek (October 8-10). Caller Mike from Texas contributed practical tire repair techniques including plug kits, patches, and tube installation. Koernke promoted Maine Military surplus items including Swiss M84 canteens, Swedish stoves, and British Mark III chemical suits.
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We're on the Hallmark network on the eastern seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico headed towards Louisiana, Texas. Oklahoma, a big chunk of Nebraska. Kind of like a tree root, you know, tree root, trunk and then big tree branches everywhere. It's kind of, you know, cool the way part of that works. Then the third of Wyoming, of course, Iowa slash Iowa. Don't want to forget all the rest of our northern plain states, Montana, the Dakotas. Then back over to the Golden Spike Project on the eastern part of the country, well from the Mississippi east, and a big J-hook right up along the smokies, slash the ridge. So if you're up there in that neck of the woods, remember you have a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday, a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday, a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. We're going to be pretty busy. A lot of activity in the area of communications, signal communications this weekend, don't forget that. We've already given the information out. I'll post it here in a few minutes to get on the air so everybody knows where to go if you want to plug in your shortwave equipment and listen in because all across the state here and all over the country, Liberty Net. And of course the possum net will be up and online. We have some individuals who will be stopping in the area, but we for the most part are going to be pretty busy trying to catch up for the Knob Creek weekend coming up. That's really what the goal is next. Knob Creek 8, 9 and 10. of October and that ain't that far away but because of that we've got to be planning now weeks ahead or we just won't be in the right place the right time with all the other projects that are you know on the stove so for all of your our friends we've got some construction going on up at one of the new facilities Camp Stasa which kind of call it Camp Stasa too now But in reality it is the Camp Stasa since there is no other Camp Stasa. The original one has now been shut down. That was expected. Time waits for no one and unfortunately Frank Stasa has passed away. And other facilities have had to have been developed and that's taking place. That's happened now. So congratulations to all of our friends for the effort that they've made there. I think everybody's doing a good job. We have a number of other people who are plugging in up at the Instruction site this weekend and over the next two weekends and again We want everybody to remind you all be prepared for bugs because guys you're up in the woods we the deep dark woods in Michigan and the mosquitoes and well Let's just say the mosquitoes flash the flying Hawks with I should say with with proboscis Yes, they look like they're big the mosquitoes are big up there. Even little ones are dangerous. Oh bug spray Make sure you've got mosquito bars for your camping gear and or for your tent and be prepared. You know, be putting in a long day because we've got a shooting range. More importantly, we've got a small village that's being constructed. I've been sending some modules up north and they've already gone to where they need to be for first step assembly for preparation for assembly. And what we're doing is what we call variable geometry shooting ranges using pallets and a combination of construction materials guys, we're able to actually set up buildings where we need to for house to house and for urban warfare operations. We can assemble them and reassemble them into different configurations. Never are they the same twice. The objective here is that you're not familiar with what you're going into in a combat situation most of the time, especially in a situation like that. So the variable geometry construction allows us to put a very realistic looking structure together. We're going to be posting some of these images in one of our videos coming up. And in fact, you'll see little variations, small variations on this in some of the other training videos. The look like horizontal sided buildings or sections are in reality totally mobile, can be put in place and disassembled and restationed at our discretion wherever we feel we need to use them. It creates a little more realism, gives people the opportunity to think in a little more in line with the environment they'll be in. They're getting a mental registry of that. So it's a plus plus situation. Well, that's what we're going to be doing up north. And Stasa is where the next construction is going to be taking place. We've already dropped off and built two of these sites in other parts of the state to the north and one to the west of where I'm sitting right now. So it's pretty cool. Up to 15 to 20 buildings per site. of and i better do that before i before i go any farther i promised to do it and i know it'll happen so i'll get on subject i'm going to break away from probably where you need to be okay you've heard this a hundred times but you're going to get LibertyNet is on from 10 p.m. Saturday night to 2 a.m. Sunday morning plus. Now, it doesn't mean it'll stop right at 2 a.m. If the signal is good, the propagation is good, guys are going to keep broadcasting and transmitting and listening for as long as they can. But 3950 is the base frequency. If they are not at 3950, they will be at 3960. That's LibertyNet, 10 p.m. to 2 a.m. every Saturday night to Sunday morning, 3950 or 3560. in the Washtenaw County area, but it's a possum at 2 to 5 a.m. 3840 is the frequency. Want to make sure we get people up on that? You can listen, you do not have to talk. This allows you to test your equipment. You can hear other people using theirs. Listen and do as the natives do later when it comes to participating, when you're talking about connecting under those situations. Another thing real quick here is we touched on vehicles the other day, but in light of what we're seeing here, I will remind you that if at all possible, try to round up a second spare tire for your car. Two spare tires per vehicle should be minimal standard. Okay, minimal standard. Two tires, two rims. Everybody's like, what? Even if you can't afford two rims right away. Here's a suggestion. Guys, go to the garages in your area and you'll see that there are tire sets that people have dropped off. Let's say that you have a Dodge Dakota or a Chevy van or a fill-in-the-blank, whatever it is. No matter how you look at it, you're going to need spare tires anyway. You may not have the tire, but you certainly now have the material. I should say you don't have the rim, but you do have the tires available. They're free from the back of that little junkyard there, that little garage. Grab a set that will fit and the vehicle that match up what you got there and as long as they look at the inside when they're off the rim it's easy to see if there's a hole or a puncture or a major tear. If they look clean even if they got worn tread. We don't care how much treads on there. We're looking for something to hold there, get you down the road and keep you alive. So two spare tires in any form are good. That's a plus. If you can get more and you can store more, better still. This is a priority for you. It's not because of mark. This is in general a tactical policy we've tried to establish. Sets of six, sets of four, whatever you can afford. Always sets if at all possible in pairs is your best first choice. Anyway, spare tires are critical for our tactical vehicles simply because you're going to lose stuff to nails in the road if nothing else. Ace tomato pointed this out with her so we say demolition derby military Ford truck. It was built like a brick dog house and one of the last things that was done is to go with the hydrofoam for the tires. Why? Well, it turned out that during one of the hurricane events where they went down to help the people in Florida, lo and behold, people were driving down the streets and they'd see that they, oh my goodness, every car tire, anybody was driving down the street, their tires were just loaded with roofing nails. Why? Well, in those big heavy winds, rip all those shingles apart and break them up into little individual components again. Where do you think all those roofing nails go? And if you have thousands of roofing nails per roof, what happens if you have a subdivision with a thousand houses? Oh, so one of the priority items to have in an operation like that actually is a couple of street rooms, literally three foot wide street, hard bristle street rooms. And what do you do with them? Well, you first of all shave a path through all of the street debris. Now the street debris does not have to be something the size of your head made out of concrete or a rock or a chunk of tree or whatever. Street debris most critical that could do more damage than anything else are those nails in the road. So you want to be able to get them clear. You want to clear the street as quick as you can. Magnets, brooms, whatever you come up with. The point is you want to get the street clear. Otherwise, you can hear the vehicle going down the road after a while going, as all the nails that have embedded themselves in the tires progressively collect to the point where there's more nail than there is tire after a while if you're not careful. Oh yeah, it can happen easily. And needless to say, if it's a regular-aired tire with no anti-flattening slash limousine safety foam, well, you don't go very far. And the tires are expensive to replace, especially on a 16 or 16.5 or 17-inch tire base. So watch for spares, people. Something happens. You've got to be able to change out. Are you going to be able to do it in the field? Hell yes. You're going to have to get used to the idea of doing it in the field. In some cases you just won't be able to get enough spares, but you can have as far as rims and spares. But you do have spares and you can change out in the field. You get pretty good at it after you practice it for a while. But again, practice perfect. So you have to remember how to do it. Not just the idea that you need to do it. But two spare tires, jumper cables, as we mentioned the other day. Another thing that I point at, especially with this rainy, damp weather. Here's one of the things that a lot of you are going to have happen. The car is going to go sputter, sputter, and stop. is going to go, what the heck happened? Well, one of the first things you want to check is to see if your battery terminals, be they side or top post, are corroded. Now, if they're corroded, what happens is as moisture builds up, it swells between the lead. The oxidation, the oxidative material, which of course is a powdered lead, but with an acid contamination. Well, when you get it wet, it swells and nothing will make contact or not enough to really significantly do the job that needs to be done. So, you've got to clean up the battery cable, put it all back together to include the post or the top post or the side mount system, and then re-establish, reattach everything as you feel is necessary. Now you may want to be careful with this. Remember, if somebody is looking for a piece of equipment you're trying to put back online, and it's been offline, the last thing you want to do is draw attention to it until such time as you're absolutely ready to move whatever it is. So this is something you want to think about when you're operating especially in a battlefield or a sensitive situation, a survival situation. Leave the thing to look as much like it normally has been for quite some time until you can actually get the thing to move. When you're not working on it, whenever possibly, when you are working on it, try to conceal the activity. Try to deflect interest in other ways, in other things. Keep them busy with their eyeballs going in one direction while you're in reality operating in the other. So with regard to what conditions in that situation, well even if you do clean the battery terminals off, chances are you're going to need a jump. If you have an electronic system, and it's extensively an electronic system, it's a newer vehicle, unlike some of our M880s which are very, very simple electronics. or the M715 simpler still. Well guess what? You better be prepared to make sure that everybody jumps the cables correct from battery terminal to battery terminal. Otherwise you've got a lot of persnickety small electrical systems that could easily destroy your ability to function, ability to operate, ability to move. We're going to make sure that doesn't happen. So here's one of the things I want you to do. As I mentioned, take a big square 1 inch by 1 inch piece of card stock that's white and clean. And then I want you to put a positive on one of those, one cube, and then make a second one up and put a negative on the other, a big minus sign. Then take packing tape, clear packaging slash packing tape, and tape the plus to the positive side and the negative to the negative side. How easy is that? Now you want it up towards where the terminal connects to the battery. And the reason is quite simple in that when you reach up under the hood and you turn even, you can't see very well. Those little white cards that are one inch by one inch with positive or negative on them means that there isn't going to be any mistake made if you have to jump your vehicle from somebody else's. A friend of ours had this happen where he plugged something in and somebody miscalculated to where things were supposed to go. All of a sudden having to replace battery and other components. That's not good. But it can happen. We want to avoid that if at all possible. And everybody can understand negative, negative, plus, plus. Pretty straightforward I think. I don't think it would be any complication there at all. So we've got to get everybody used to the idea that if they lift the hood, you can verify the configuration of the equipment. You can look at it and go, yep, that's positive, yep, okay, there's negative. All right, we're in motion and soon we will be out of here. That's the attitude, that's the technique. It's why you're going to be marking these things. And it's not that complicated. So again, I ask you to take the time. Come up with whatever connecting solution you might want to laminate the card that has the plus and the minus on it and then you want to affix it however but just make sure it can be easily seen. If it can't be easily seen it's going to defeat the purpose. You've got to be able to ID it so put it up near the battery. If you want to mark the battery in a second and then a third location down the line by a foot or two depending on how long the battery cables are under the hood. That's your choice. You guys are going to have to figure that out. In some cases people feel there is a need for that. I do. I agree with that. That way you can trace something and it's like yep, that's positive, that's positive. And yep, that's negative, that's negative. Okay, we're good. See how that works? So again, solutions. Not just lamenting about the problems. Other stuff going on here. And again, I want to say thanks to all of our guys in the chat room for follow up. There are a couple of other questions we had. And yes, everything is in the green for our friend on the road, so come on down as they say. Everything should be fine there. The next thing that we need to look at is, if Mark can get it up here in time, let's see if I can do it right here. I'm probably doing three things at once, yes. And I've got a four-legged keyboard operator sitting here helping me too. Yes, I see you. The other problem that we're going to be experiencing, especially with transportation, is still signal communications. But let's not forget that you don't have to have a radio to be able to talk to each other. Especially moving down the road where you have lots of road space, international highway nonsense, like the Defense Industrial Complex Highway Network, the Eisenhower Radio Road. Guys, a chalkboard, a simple hand-held chalkboard or notepad with a wide format black magic marker for either the paper or for a chalkboard with a large piece of chalk for the trouble with a hand-held chalkboard. And you can actually be writing, it's not electronic texting, this is where a texting came from, people writing letters, ugher. Anyway, either fill up the page from the one side with whatever you can to block access, so to speak, okay, from the other side of the, let's put it this way, the, if you're going to be setting up a system like this, and we're going to be trying to prevent the bad guys from seeing or hearing what's going on, you want to set this up so it can only be seen one way. You also want to make sure that it's directional. I mean, one of the things, it can't be fixed and locked in one location because vehicle position changes. So if you're going to use a little chalkboard mechanism, make sure it's big enough it can be read. Understand that you have to use it from different locations of the vehicle depending on what you're doing. It sounds weird, but it's so simple it's ridiculous. It is the mother of texting. The other thing is, even with the radios, if you're going to be using the radios and hooking them up, and I will answer this question again because it was brought up a couple, well, a week ago now. Personal radios. You can use personal radios for point to point car communication. The only consideration is what kind of effective penetration of metal and rain, what range do they have. Experiment. Find out if they work. Maybe it'll work for you for the time being. These little personal handheld walkie talkies can be had for as little as $12.95 a set in the distress boxes at truck stops. So if little texting won't be enough, another consideration tied in with the texting and the radio is flags. Why does it need to be any more complicated than that? SUMIFOR has worked for years and years and years. It means that, well, if you're a pathfinder, you'll know the way. If you're not a pathfinder and you're not supposed to be following us, well, I get through to that problem. But signal communications, in the meantime, vehicle to vehicle, using personal little radios. will work just fine provided you understand once again limitations don't get frustrated with them because you know this happens all the time I just discussed this didn't work right as they throw it into the box and the problem is they didn't know how to use the squelch they didn't understand how to use the volume control and they forgot to remember that the system itself is jamming to a degree from one direction or another and or It's just natural disruption, natural foliage or physical cover that might be breaking up your signal. Be patient. Don't start destroying things or agitating the idea that I just can't get this to work. I'm just fed up with and he throws it down and that's about the time signal stops. The fuzziness and the words are coming through as clean as if you and I are sitting right there. Oh man. But unfortunately you have to do repair now. Well, at least you may have. Maybe you'll do repair if you know what you're doing. But the signal communications concept here using something other than radio, chalkboard, notepad, large format notepad, it can't be too small. After all, the driver's busy squinting or the assistant gunner's busy squinting over a message being printed that's been printed out and put up for everybody to peruse. Needless to say, we don't print anything on a board or whatever that's sensitive or opposite operational security issues, but we can pass on specific data if it's within the limits of the type of signal system that you have on hand. In this case, a kind of alternate fuzzy, let's see, I guess Sesame Street way to do things. There you go. But it's easy and it's so simple, it's ridiculous. Other things that we have to look at, and this is something that I would like to emphasize, transportation. We talked about trailers before, and of course here we are, we just fixed the battery in our vehicle, and now we're talking while we're going down the road, well where are we headed to? Well, we're looking for our trailer packs that are going to have all the goodies that we're supposed to be using for our preparedness site. Let's say that we're evacuating out of an area. One thing about trailers, if you have a resitch on your vehicle or one of the flat plate connector hitches that will take a res or whatever other type, actually it will take whatever kind of ball plate system you have for hooking up the trailer ball to your vehicle, you know the back bumper or under the back bumper, the resitch which is a fixture attached to the back bumper, whatever you're going to do there. Consider that there are people right now that may not have the same system you have. So it might behoove you to try and find, and typically you'll get these at the farm and fleet, although they are in other places that sell both the reef system and the connectors that go on it, the ball connectors or whatever. Well, what about a pintle slash ball hitch combination system? The lower ball is the hitch for any ball, like ball trailers, 3 inch or whatever you choose, based on what's, you know, it's the lower claw of the C clamp, of the C, uh, Pental System. Now, the upper is a normal Pental. When you close it, it's a Pental Hook. When you have a Pental System, when you lift it up and you drop a regular trailer into the ball, it's a Ball System. What's the advantage of this? Well, in the field you don't know which type of trailer somebody is going to have. If they're going to have a military trailer, those are the Pental type or industrial, those are the Pental type, as opposed to military application components, then you're going to have to pick and choose depending upon need. But the Pental system with the ball hitch for the base of the sea, the lower jaw coming up. is your first best choice. You've got the best of both worlds. If you park a trailer, you bring a trailer in with ammunition, you don't unload it. You're a target, a rolling, moving target. So you should be dropping the trailer almost instantly with the assistance of whoever the ground crew is, hooking up whatever other trailers are that can go back empty and back down the road you go. Yeah, actually it's a pretty straightforward system. You can drop two, three, or four bundles of equipment like this into an area. trailer wise and not lose a moment's motion. Most important is that once it's dropped off and it's retail formed, because that's what this is, trailers that are tactically deployed are part of the retail delivery system for wartime operations with Quartermaster. Act accordingly when you look at organizing and planning on, say, perforating a defense grid or trying to break into an area or exfiltrate out of an area, that has to be taken into consideration. Where do you think you're going? How far are you going to be going? What kind of equipment are you going to have available? How can you access it? And if you are going to be penetrating a site, there's a little spare tires come in. That's where a little extra sandbagging comes in, all the other things that need to be attached. But transportation, you're moving an empty trailer out. Well, it can also be running recyclables. What do you mean by that? Well, I'm not a recycling center. You are if you have brass, you are if you have grenade pins, you are if you have fill in the blank, etc., etc., etc. So being quartermaster in both directions, supporting by pulling out the empties or certain components that can be reprocessed back into the system. spare ammunition if there is any quantity, it will be redistributed to the troops who could use it, who would actually help to protect the country when the time comes. All of these things are done with those stinking stupid little trailers, be they the ball hitch or the pinel hitch, with regard to creating a tactical local supply chain. Wow, so simple, it's ridiculous. It starts out with having the right hitch though. In other words, you don't want to be too specialized. So, if you go to the farming fleet, they were running as little as $56 for the fixture and for the Reese base system that plugs into the Reese receiver. So, that's something to consider. If it's that cheap still, you're lucky. Let's assume it's probably going up in price, and I'm sure it has. You may have to special order, whereas in the past, these things were kept on the shelf where they were useful. Two, of course, should not be a surprise. We know how the economy has gone in general. Another thing, canvas and plastic. Canvas is priceless but it's becoming fewer and far between in terms of finding anything in decent shape. This includes tents and tentage. A lot of the stuff is being rebuilt and rebuilt and rebuilt again by seamstresses who are working for certain businesses because the canvas for most of these military items are not where, you know, the canvas isn't where the vehicles are. The canvas isn't where it's needed for shelter. The canvas isn't what it's need, or there isn't enough of it to make the proper shelter. So you need to look at the idea of having certain canvas covers and support equipment with the trailers in place. They should be organic to the trailer. They should be attached to the trailer, and they should stay with the trailer. Because typically a lot of the stuff is kitted out. Unless it's an absolute flaming wreck and it's burned and destroyed. Remember, if you can leave the equipment on the person, you have it pretty well squared away as Webgear is identified to the equipment, you know, weapons system. His utility gear in general is going to have a variety of different items that can be processed out if you're either using or if you're recovering. All this again through the supply system, you know, having it modular or palletized to go on the trailers. The reason I'm bringing this up is because we have moved a lot of stuff recently and it will help other people. A lot of the tactical rigs have worked out pretty well, but there are little things that we have learned over the years that we need to pass on every once in a while. I can't emphasize the Pental Ball Hitch combination and with the Reiss Hitch System is still one of the best little ways to be able to trade out and use what you've got, especially when it comes to when you're picking stuff up. Convoy, shot to snot. Oh look, a Jeep trailer. Oh look, a one ton trailer. Oh look, a generator with a panel hitch. Wait a minute, they're all panel hitches. Oh, I've got us a ball system. Well, you need to fix that or change that. By the way, you can get it to move. A panel system will work with a ball system, but you need lots of log chain. Because what you're going to do is you're going to use a log chain to create an articulated or flexible hinge. hooked up to the safety system on the, uh, ball hitch is still on the vehicle. So, uh, whatever it is that you have. So this is just another little trick, which is why your kit should also have log chains and other components. Some of them don't seem to make any sense while you're carrying them until you need them. Example is heavy industrial cuff type zip ties for backups to go in your pickup truck. If you're going to haul any of this stuff, why? Oh, wait a minute. Oh, that's not, doesn't it? Anyway, trailers, trucks, transport. I want to say thanks to our friend to the west here because he brought us in line with another M880 Dodge Ram truck. I'll find out more about that. Oh, forgive me. And we should be able to plug in a couple of other guest speakers. In fact, I was working on that today. I didn't get a chance to finish it up. But we should have at least one guest speaker. Maybe for tomorrow afternoon we'll see what happens here on transportation support. We've got a lot of mechanized forces here in Michigan that are militia and because of that we're trying to pass on some of the tricks of the trade or basically at a PM magazine or it would be if we'd hit our way. Maybe some of the stuff wasn't, well at least more recently. But if we've got any little ideas or tricks of the trade we can apply, we make sure we pass them on. That will be part of an instructional class this weekend that's being given up at Camp Naggy-Hitcham. One of the reasons is tactical like trans support is critical to our overall success. Let's tie one more item in there, our scout ponies. And our scout ponies. What are we talking about there? How about the motorized bicycle kits from good old communist China that we've been working on and been applying to everyday use here? Scout vehicles of any kind, four wheelers, two wheelers, even older trike bikes will work just fine provided you kit them out for support. Oh, another thing, if I'm going to move empty trailers, I don't necessarily need all the horsepower. that I would get when I'm using my truck. I can use the truck to move stuff that's loaded, but I can actually move trailers back. All guys do this all the time with four wheelers and with three wheelers. Yeah! So I guess that little cavalry vehicle is probably kind of useful after all. The biggest thing is patrolling model products to include the fuel itself. So you're going to have to be thinking ahead in advance on that. That's one of the reasons if you pay attention to some of our videos you'll see large quantities of Jerry cans. Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of cherry cans. Yep, you're right. And we will use them when the time comes or they're already in use. Now again, we distribute those that we have a couple per vehicle or a couple per trailer. Every time the trailer comes in, it's moving fuel, food, munitions, etc., etc., etc. Everything that people need to stay functional. But it's in pod form too. In some cases, the trailers that we have are preloaded. They could be moved by a four wheeler. Frank Stasa did that many times at Camp Stasa with a four wheeler taking care of moving around and transporting supply trailers and such that we had already packed up and put in position on site. The equipment that was on board was periodically used for range or for tactical use in the field. We, of course, would then repack everything we've done, air it all out. That's one of the good things. You've got to take stuff out and train with it once in a while, if nothing else, just air it out, guys. The trailer modules were the solution to not having to double or triple handle stuff. One of the other things we have to become is very efficient when it comes to how we will employ the equipment we have. Double and triple handling defeats the purpose behind why it is we've been lighter than the average bear but able to make our equipment work where others have not. Light weight tactical support systems especially are the key to our operations and transportation or transport especially trailers, generator pack trailers, cargo utility trailers. Guys, you want to accumulate them now. Somebody thinks you're going to steal them all later. Well, it would be a lot of people thinking the same way. And the problem is we don't want them stealing ours in the process. So we're going to make sure that we have everything we need when we need it beforehand. We don't wait until after the fact. You're on a down curve when you do that. Well, see, last but not least, wanted to shift real quick. Oh, that's right. Yeah, right. Before I forget, another thing here. Maine military. Man, it's wet outside. Gee, I do want to harp on this because I checked around today. I didn't have much time, but I checked around today when I found out I don't know where Maine got these Swiss canteens with the canteen cups. Now, I'll see what I can do, but guys, it's the best price. If you go to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4mg dot com. This is some of the stuff you'll put in those trailers I've been talking about, the tactical transports. And you'll put in your storage sites, your cash sites for your 510 program. By the way, you can also load that trailer up so that everything for your 510 program is on it. All you do is wheel it in, drop it off, tell everybody to offload and issue out everything. You'll be back in a bit, take what's left and hook it to the trailer and take it down the road. Well, mainmilitary.com, mainmilitary.com, mainmilitary.com. Go to our webpage and if you scroll down you'll see there's an icon left which is of course a map of Maine rifleman and Maine military surplus. Click that, it'll take you to... www.MainMilitary.com. Now then when you get there, scroll down the side, over on the left, there you go, and it says LTR specials, click LTR specials. Now when you get to LTR specials, then scroll down to the second line of items, third item over from the left, and it's a black Swiss military canteen with cup. Now these are five for ten dollars. I can't buy them anywhere. I do not know where these came from and of course one thing I do know is that Frank makes deals around the country and I'd love to know where the rest of this M84 series equipment is because the system itself was very Swiss, very well made. But we're only seeing pieces of it. That's odd, but Swiss don't release a whole lot of stuff all at once. For example, right above that we've got the Swiss gas, 40mm gas mask filters. Swiss M71 stove packs, but the M84 canteen and the M84 system, these are nice because they'll fit in your Alice pouch. They'll fit in many of the other MOLLE pouches or some of the oddball ones, where this canteen will fit perfectly as if it was made for it. Hey, well maybe it was. But anyway, it's a solution to a question, but you get a lot more goodies for the same amount of money you'd spend on something else. You get the canteen cup and the canteen. Don't get a cover with these. You're going to have to come up with a cover and that can be any number of ways, including making your own. I also pointed out you can use the popcorn pockets on the Alice pack or on several of your other tactical packs where either left or right there are supplemental pockets. Sown into position for just these kinds of items. No, this is not a camel pack. I know everybody, oh, I'm going to have a camel pack. Well, those are great until they go bad. When they go bad, you're out of chunk of change and darn, all your water is gone at once, especially because rip torn, shredded or shot. As you know, of course, maybe you'll be next to be that close to your back. Oh, I wouldn't want to get shot there anyway. That's true. Okay. Well, anyway, uh, Swiss M84 Cantines with cup right next to it. 5-pack of Israeli gas mask with hose. Now both of these 5-packs for $10. You can't beat these items for what they are price wise. And I can't stress enough that if you're looking for solutions that are inexpensive, we've given you a solution that will work. Okay? Now all you gotta do is make a decision with that and you're gonna jump on it. One other thing, canteens from one side and the other thing on the OTR special is 5-pack of Swedish stoves. And these are stove kits. Now this is the kidney type mess kit that the Euros use quite extensively combined with, oh that's right there, the stove stand off tool right there, actually it's a rack. Then you've got the little fire unit and you've got an alcohol container that's built to go along with this kit to help to set up your little external, mox external stove. So everything's there that you need. Again, the price is 5 for $15, $3 for the set. I'll tell you right now that I've been buying these European mess kits for years. The only thing you get is the mess kit. You don't get the standoff stove unit, you don't get the little canister unit for the fuel, none of that. All you get is just the unit itself, the can slash, you know, what upper and lower can and inner pan for cooking and for, you know, general mess utility use. So, this is a solution. Maine has got a lot of goodies, a lot of good stuff. They're Molly gear. I've gone through that in a couple of different programs. But something else here, because it is cold weather, the chem suits, the British Mark III's, come in smalls and mediums. Now, I'm an extra large. I'm a big guy as far as, you know, I'm not overly, you know, I don't think I'm too overly weighed or anything like that. But, amazingly enough, a medium in that Anorak Mark III, because those are an Anorak system for the Mark III chem suits that are British. They're available at five sets for $50. Well, the medium, I can pull it over, and it is a comfortable Anorak for cold weather or mild cold weather use, like the weather we're having outside right now. Oh, that's right. Yes. The point is that you actually have a cold weather item. piece of clothing that you don't care too much about but the fibrous material that makes up the outer hull of the sandwiched material for breathing, your body has to breathe, that's why the chem suits are built where they are. Well if you wash these things out a few times, there's a number of ways you can do that. You can actually hand wash them and hang them somewhere so you don't have to worry about chalking everybody else's machine up a little bit of coal. But you clean out the charcoals, what you're doing with the filament, and you should say the loading material, and you leave the filament. You leave the filter. Now the stuff is exceptionally well made, and the one that I've been wearing, which you'll see in a couple of videos at least the next time we post one with YouTube, the app that I'm wearing is a 15, 16, almost 17 year old item out of the box. that I've used on and off, I've abused it to see just how long it would last and how far it would go. And I'm very satisfied with what these will do. So there's another item. If you're looking for a cold weather item, such as a chemical item, you can put on the trailer when the time comes and load it up tactically with your 5-10 equipment. The main military has those, $5 for $10. That's really the cheapest for those that I can find. And as far as I know, the shipping is still pretty decent with these guys. So hopefully giving you some ideas there. I know there's only so much we can cover in an hour anyway. We're getting closer to the top as it is. The other thing that I would look at is, and quite seriously on this, is hats and headgear. Everybody's like, oh, Mark, give me a break. Hats and headgear. What do we got to worry about there? Well, booney hats especially are nice for the season, but they're not going to last. In fact, Cold weather items as far as cold weather gear that will keep your ears from snapping off in the cold. Oh yeah, you know that is cold. It hurts. Anyway, booty hats temporarily but you need cover. You need a head cover of one form or another. It's a shoot no shoot marker. But in the same breath you'll also find that again for keeping a body heat in. Any kind of top gear, watch cap, patrol caps, even boneys will keep your head warm and therefore a lot of the rest of your body will probably stay up and online too. It's not the easiest process to pick the best because you never know what you're going to run into in the way of weather but I like to carry a watch cap or a wool one preferably. I know, yep, you may only be able to find acrylic. Hey, that's fine or whatever it is, nylon acrylic. There are some skull caps that are pretty interesting. They're in the watch cap configuration. Not a whole lot of stretch but they actually are pretty dense and they work quite well to keep the heat in. Whatever headgear you choose test it out against your background. Pay attention to what you're wearing it with. It doesn't do any good to wear OD green if the entire surrounding area is in Savannah Tan because it's fall or winter. What happens is you're in the wrong place at the right time with the symbolism, or I should say with the symbol research technology, the scanning systems, watching for certain things pop up. So that's another reason we want to make sure we perform within very limited or specific parameters. Guess what? You make a mistake and you'll find out real quick about it. Also available, take a look at the selection there. There's a mix of stuff. We will have a report from North Carolina here pretty soon. By the way, they're supposed to have tiger striped hats for $6.50 a piece for patrol hats. I don't know if those are still in stock. We need to find out more. They're supposed to have them from extra small all the way up to 2x, slash extra large, 2x, 2x. So you might want to check those out. If you've got Tiger Stripe and you're already committed to it as far as uniform goes, this is a solution. Now, that should be enough on Maine Military. Again, Maine Military, 877-6080179. That's 877-6080179. We should have Kenny up with us with Knob Creek. Knob Creek is a sponsor of the Intel Report, Liberty Tree Radio in general. Kenny's going to be up in the 10 o'clock hour in the morning. Everything goes well. And we'll just have him up for a little bit. I already told him, you don't have to spend the whole hour, but we'll just get you up there. I want him to talk about the competitions coming up for the Knob Creek weekend. And we should have a guess, as I said from one of the colonial marine units that the president is working up north, they will probably, they might be with us as early as tomorrow, but it will be the second hour of the afternoon, probably 6 o'clock. We'll see what happens. The meeting is taking place right now, could last a couple of days away, so we'll wait and see. We'll see how they respond locally. I'm Mark, this is Mike Lewis in Texas. Hey, Mike, jump in here. uh... we get a lot of hurricanes around here and in that so true which are thing but the roofing nails causing people flat and i would mention couple things about about keeping air in your cars uh... when you have a flat uh... in emergency situation you won't be able to get get to a gas station uh... to change it because it will be too many people ahead you want it ahead of you in line or they would have any power to do it but what you can do is go to go to china mark that's a good term for walmart a plug repair kit. What a plug does is it gives you two tools. One tool you shove the nail or whatever that is causing the problem through the tire if you can't pull it out with a pair of pliers and then you shove a plug in the tire that will stop the hole and then you get a large... you should also keep a... beside the plug repair kit you should also keep a large diameter hand pump. And if you take the car off, when you have the car off the vehicle, it's a whole lot easier to air it up. But you can plug the tires without even taking all the vehicle, but do raise the tire up because it will be a lot easier to get the air in the tire. And then there's always going to be more tires than there are rims. So if you're ever in a survival situation and you have plenty of tires and not enough rims, if you're real strong and tough, you can bust the the bad tire off the rim with a tire tool where you can run over the edge of it with another tire to break the bead. And then by using a mixture of soapy water and a pry bar or a tire tool, you can push it on and mount it yourself without any power tools. That's some of my growing capitalism techniques for when I had to have more money to buy ammunition. They're trying to make it all broken. The more people learn on jobs, the more work people should do for themselves. I'm sorry, go ahead Mike, please. Okay, okay. I'm going to have so much time, I figured, go ahead, cover whatever you need, keep going. Okay, okay. Just for survival situations, you can plug your tires. Now, if you get a flat in your tire and you go to a gas station or a car store, don't let them plug it for you. A plug is only a temporary solution. Plugs usually have a slow leak to them, but it's a real, real slow. So if you're paying someone to repair your tars, it's always better to have them patch the tire. They remove the tar from the rim, look at the inside of it, and glue a patch on the inside of it. It will hold much better than a plug, but for emergency purposes, a plug will get you by. Very good. Now, by the way, several years ago, we brought these into service. One of our friends There's a new series of plugs out there that will also do sidewalls quite effectively. They've got a large wide cap base. They're actually pushed in to position and of course they're goopy dot up before you actually insert them. But for sidewall divots, sometimes this happens with caltrops or with stop sticks or whatever. If you hit square on with a stop stick line you got more holes and you're going to be able to deal with that tire done and you may not get out of the situation anyway. But if it's a kelp drop or if it's an individual piece of pipe, a chunk of metal, whatever, and it takes a chunk out by accident, you actually can plug the side walls under certain conditions. Too big won't work, but within certain parameters based upon the size of the patch post that you use, the plug, that will determine how, if you have the right size. If it's too big, you're screwed. Then it's changed tire time. But if it's small enough that it fits any one of the three sizes available in these kits, you'll want to use them and it will give you the ability to continue to move down the road and save that spare tire for a little later date. In other words, you're getting a little more life out of the frag tire that you got. That's good. If you pack, depending on how good the tire is and how good the patch has been done by you, it might last for an indefinite slash a good long period of time. Yes, sir, and if you're at a tire store, the tire store would always like to fill that flat, not recoverable, throw away that tire and buy a new one. When they tell me that, I tell them to put a tube in it. But tubes don't matter whether it's a home and tower or not. Yep, exactly. In fact, where it used to be, that was the standard. Tube bliss is just what we're using for the time being great for the tire company. But another consideration there is that you can actually keep tubes and carry those as spare tires too. You're going to have to pop the stem. Because that of course is going to be in the way of the tube insert but when the time comes it will all work just fine. And it will get you down the road a little farther, more a little farther, a lot farther. Better than harsh language and having Mike pick up the, we'll take the tire off, run an extension bar on it and Mike can pick up the tire and run with the car. I should say the axle, you know what I mean on one side. Quick Mike, just keep up. I'm tired. Just a little farther, only three or four miles. It doesn't work very well. We don't want to do that. So anyway, repair and patch kits are another thing. And thank you for bringing this up from another direction because the big thing is to have kits in play that are already, you know we're going to do the job, but are reasonably priced because you're going to need a bunch of them. If you have a fleet of tactical vehicles like we do, we've got Jeeps, trucks, and other things. Some of them don't require any tire patching if they're tracked. But having spares is something the military learned a long time ago is critical. Now past spares is also well, once been taken off and the replacement tire is on, the other tire is being fixed, even if you do it while you're traveling down the road, while you're in motion. That way the next tire is already up and online. If you're lucky, you might even have a generator pack for air right there on the vehicle. You know, there's a whole bunch of different systems made that run off 12-bolt. But if all else fails, remember, fix-a-flat and a few other things can be done along with a hand pump to get some air into the tire. That's another one everybody kind of ignores. Hand pump? But I'm not going to get it up to 55 or 60 pounds of pressure. No, but you don't have to. All we're trying to do is keep going down the road. That way we don't leave our goodies and our vehicle behind. See, that's the most important thing, and especially if it's a trailer. Remember guys, carry spares for the trailers and then carry patch kits for them too. What else you got for us, Mike? We're almost to the top. We're almost to the top right now. We are having a training exercise one week from this coming Saturday. It will be September 25th. It will be in the southeast Texas area. Find out about it. Go to our website, texasmalicia.info. That's texasmalicia.info. I-N-F-O. Excellent. Now, we're going to close here. We're going to hear the music in a minute. So you stay here and you can close with me. How's that sound? Great, sir. Otherwise, I know a boss drowned here. There's a lot of stuff when you go right down the shopping list of things you truly need. Guys, look at an armored vehicle on the outside. That's not ornamentation that's trapped or locked to the vehicle, guys. Everything that's there is a tool to keep the thing running when something breaks. we go sir thank you god bless and mike thank you bring us up to speed again on the vehicles not just here for looks guys it's there to make you operate gets down the road if something breaks get you down a little farther thank you mike and we've got spike coming up right behind us you stay tuned don't touch that dial ltr live radio continues Where have all the military surplus stores gone? Don't worry, you don't need one. Because everything you need at Military Surplus is at mainmilitary.com. That's M-A-I-N-E military.com, one of the last surviving true military surplus stores in the country. 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