October 1, 2010
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Mark Koernke discussed militia preparedness, equipment maintenance, and field operations on October 1, 2010. The show covered practical topics including load-bearing equipment (LBE) repair and modification, proper use of pup tents with ponchos, metal identification and precious metals trading, night vision equipment specifications, and tactical dummy construction for deception operations. Koernke and caller Don emphasized equipment preservation, the superiority of older American-made gear, and detailed field craft techniques for cold-weather and desert operations. The episode included announcements about weekend militia range activities in Michigan and a mandatory Sunday meeting.
- militia preparedness
- load-bearing equipment
- pup tent shelter halves
- precious metals
- night vision
- field craft
- tactical gear
- equipment maintenance
- michigan militia
- alice pack
- bdu uniforms
- desert operations
- cold weather gear
- ammunition links
- surplus equipment
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Live 365 We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money 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've traded in your name You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist from whence he came, his words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free and good? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the afternoon intelligence report time our corny What a closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines and occupied territories West Southwest East and North Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on Liberty tree radio dot 4 mg calm pbn dot 4 mg calm and we are in live 365 then go to Liberty tree radio us one AM&FM Microstations, CB Bay Stations and alternate technologies both east and west of Mississippi along with Southern and Central Alaska. The Hallmark Network on the eastern seaboard, top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico all the way to Texas. Then back up through Oklahoma, Nebraska the third of Wyoming, high to the unit there, and then back over and units of course as a lot of other people in Wyoming. But then across Iowa, over to the Golden Spike Project on the other side of the Mississippi from The Mississippi along the Blue Ridge and the Smokies all the way up on that Jay Hook to Pennsylvania and New York and all the places in between. And that means it is a beautiful blue sky day out there. I think we got Don with us. Yes, we do. Don, what is the date today? The first day of bow season here in Michigan. And if you got a look at the calendar again, October for October, there's like, you know what, 90 days left. And you know, when you look at it like that, you have to have the years gone. What have I done for my country this year? What have I done for the militia in my area? Have I created one? There will be something. Oh, I'm getting carried away, Mark. And that means it's a beautiful Friday. Well, you and I, we're all going to be busy, busy, busy, busy, busy with work this weekend. But I will remind everyone, the ranges are 100% up and online. Everybody is squared away, ready to rock and roll. So for all of you out there listening, remember we got a lot of work ahead of us for the next three days starting tonight. Some people are already on the ranges as of 10 o'clock this morning and we have the doctor in state here right now. He's going to be at Niagara-Hitcham Range 3 and I believe he's also going to be over at O'Gama. That's going to take a little running though. He'll be over at the O'Gama Range 2 to visit but the mission here is to review the B7B belt-fed Sussman Ackerman 50 caliber kits. There are some tweaking ideas that some people have kind of accomplished with the design and what they're doing is they want to show it to the doctor. So the main man is here, the second son, I thought that's the oldest son, but I believe the second son is in the Carolinas, the doctor's, well, second right hand man. He's over in the Let's see. I'm trying to think which county. Yeah, well, let's put it this way. Isn't the Carolinas that good enough? I like that. They've got another message though that the rest of the family is going to probably be in the Carolinas 2 for the next three days. They've got a couple of mission like projects where they're going to have everybody sitting down and doing their kits together so that everybody is step by step by step understanding what's going on. It's going to be a classroom experience, but each person is doing their own work on their own piece of equipment that they obviously put the parts together for. We are going to see, I think, some maintenance work two weeks out at the Ogama ranges. It's not a big deal, but it's going to be for lighting. So the electricians, anybody wants to volunteer to run some additional wire, there's been a gift of a bunch of exterior grade wiring harnesses and fixtures and all kinds of cool stuff, prison grade. So it can be put on the range out into the chute. and other locations but they need help running the wires so get hold of your team members and let's find out what all we got cooking there and hopefully don't mean that that's electricity we don't want to just no no no no no let's all keep it cool there we go let's keep it cool and frosty no we don't want any water with the electricity that's we're still and no matter what I do we're in trouble so it's gonna be pretty busy and we're gonna have a great time I think in general for the guys that are out there there is a meeting at the restaurant on Sunday, meeting at the restaurant on Sunday, meeting at the restaurant on Sunday. Critical to get everybody plugged in. This is a mandatory meeting. Call your meals in advance. You still have a little under five hours through tonight, so you can call and let the cooks, the chefs, and the food prep people pull what they need and have a lot of stuff ready to go. This will get them home faster. They volunteer their time, and I emphasize this always because this is a tremendous gift in terms of effort. They volunteer their time. They're probably going to have record people there this weekend. They're planning on breaking it by a couple hundred because they've got new people present. And I'm supposed to say hi to the grandmas over there in Cleveland. Hey, grandmas in Cleveland. We got some Bell Telephone radio geeks. The ladies have been, I guess, been retired. They have a little bit of an association. They're now tied in with the alternate system and also with the golden spike and they will be helping to expand or not part of the regular system internet from yet another direction of these women have a lot of time handling wire and dealing with hardware also operators actually did the work way back in the day so this is a lot of fun for them anyway congratulations to the grandmas there And last but not least, oh, Communist News Network has been saying some bad things about the militia, but that's not an accident, guys. We had a series of pieces that were anti-malicia, all in the same little block here, so that's a flag that we've got the poof-tos behind the scenes pushing the BS from there. Remember, we have a warning order from about the second week on, from the tenth on, is what some people have said, but we've had the 11th, 15th. You've got several different windows, so let's assume the earliest one forward for mobilization and standby for all of our Minutemen. They cause any problems. Guests are going to war, kids, so just be ready for that, okay? That's just the attitude you've got to have. This is 1774 or 1775. If it happens, it happens. Be ready for it. Be ready to win. So Don, what's happening up in that neck of the woods? Beautiful blue skies down here. Overcast from the horizon, all points of the... It is heavy clouds. It's that drizzle kind of, you know, rain that the garden doesn't... It's going to be really cold. Some squash out there that will probably survive. So, you know, that ramy-manuel thing, they're cooking that up. But go there. I'd have to... When you mention the word militia mark, the last... Oh, the last two days have been pretty heavy with the pictures. How they get them. They must come out on Al Jazeera or something and selectively send them to us, but they're banging the drums, come on America. So you know what I mean, it's right down to the clock on the corner now. When America gets here, we'll be ready. Exactly. In fact, that seems to be an interesting thing, is that that seems to be the bad guy theme, that there expertly going to try and whip some nonsense up on the bag as we're talking about the ring knockers miss pit swappers in the system they've got their own it you know they get an agenda cause a whole bunch problems more than one direction at once and most everybody nobody's being fooled by their bs everybody but everybody also is understanding well user loses Now there's no negotiating. There's no discussion. These characters, you know, they keep no promise anyway. They make no arrangements other than the ones that they want to for stealing or pilfering or, you know, thieving, whatever. That's what the globalists are all about. Well, Mark, wasn't it the, I don't remember the general's name, but he told you, you guys, about maybe three weeks ago about the general who's in Afghanistan, and his biggest problem is how to get the natural resources out of the country. And he said that, right? They're on Face the Nation, then again on Meet the Press. About three weeks ago, you guys, just before the... Interestingly enough, we have, well, spheroid worship. We got that? That's right. Tomorrow's a football game day, I would say, Saturday. Stay away from Ann Arbor, Michigan. If it's a home game, it might only bother looking. Is it away? It only means it's going to be a rotten place to be, so stay away from Ann Arbor over the weekend. The football crowd will be, shall we say, obnoxious as usual. Let them worship their spheroids. We don't have a problem with that. Just stay over there. What we're doing, our thing over here, that's all we ask, guys. Anyway, uh oh, Christopher. Oh, by the way, yep, I better make sure I note this. Jason Palmer in Joyce in Willow Hill, and then Christopher in Pittsburgh. Everything is in motion. We'll pay attention. You may have the stuff in the mail, probably not by as early as tomorrow, but we'll say Monday or Tuesday is approximately the window for your stuff coming in. Big envelopes in the mail, headed your way, torpedoes. You include Dons, night vision, You'll see a couple of the programs here. We've got a single one that we're setting up right now. We should have Kenny up this week coming up. Don't be surprised there. interesting thing happened, one of our friends, you know, Don, you try to tell people something. Now, he's looking at, you know, flea markets and the swap meat and stuff. And person has what looks to be a couple of one ounce gold bars, you know, the little gold one ounce ingots, right? So he kind of points out, you know, these are one ounce of gold ingots. and they're like, no, no, we don't think that, no, they're probably one ounce of gold ingots, no, no, no, we don't. So basically they sold the one ounce gold ingots for $39.98. Well, no, he tried, he was being, I really do think this is gold, you might want to check this, it's like, no, no, no, no, we don't know where it worked, I don't think so. And so he actually was trying to correct them, but it wasn't like he was going to be okay, I'm going to hit you with a club or anything. Pay attention and be careful. That's one of the problems I have with platinum and silver. I know some people, we've had people that are using platinum or have platinum in hand, but I will point something out. If you were to go to say the Philippines, or if you went to Afghanistan, or if you, there's two not remote places, but there's two dissimilar, yet similar places with regard to attitude. Now, dissimilar in that one's obviously an island state and the other one's about as remote in the mountains as you're going to get. Short of maybe the Himalayas and you know, in Tibet, okay. And Tibet's not that far away from it. They're pretty close, actually. But, you know, the point is, if you were to take metals, currency, I don't care what it is, and you drop into those two unique parts of the planet, I guarantee not only will they give you the spot price, on the exchange rate on any piece of paper you show up with Swiss francs British palms US dollars Japanese yen anything from anywhere D&Rs I don't care what it is they would give you the moments quote because they're even though they may be very primitive and they'd be sitting there in a grass hut or they may be sitting there in a little stone and adobe structure that was built 400 years ago or 300 years ago when the British were you know over there in Afghanistan say well 200 for the British there okay But whoever was invading at the time, the place was built years ago. And it looks just as run down as it did probably 200 years ago when it was only 200 years old. Now, amazingly enough, inside the guy's wearing the latest pair of blue jeans, although he may still be wearing much of the other traditional garb. But you'll find that over in the corner, he's got a satellite phone. And or a little satellite dish hooked up outside, maybe in the back for you. Maybe shares it with 20 other people who knows. But you know what? I guarantee they'll be able to give you the currency exchange rate. Number one, right now, and do the penny. Now here's the other thing that they could do, and they don't need to talk to people about that except to get the international spot on trade, is gold, silver, and any other precious metal. I guarantee you that those connoisseurs of wealth, those entrepreneurs, would be able to tell the difference in a flash. It would ID for you, although they might not tell you. If you had platinum and you thought it was silver, they wouldn't tell you. That's right. But on the other hand, I guarantee if you tried to foist silver off as platinum, you'd be corrected in a heartbeat, maybe with a knife. Maybe at the cost of your nose. Yeah, I was going to say. So the point is that, you see, in all these other parts of the world, except where we've been dumbed down in America, the refined eye and the hand and the mental processes needed to evaluate metals are still just as alive today as they have been throughout history for those people. The difference between Americans that really don't have a clue and Europeans who have been starving a little longer, although they're back to having some **** again, a little bit of money, and the rest of the world that has been starving and shot at and has been in war for as long as they've existed. Okay? But we're learning again. We're going to get back. We've got a real sharp learning curve here. You either catch on real quick or you're in trouble. And if again, like if I want to buy a foreign soldier down the road, You know, US dollars will be wiped behind them. But Euros, if it's the right soldier, I can buy what I want or maybe get past him by bribing him. Yeah, I'm gonna either shoot you or bribe ya. How's that sound? You know, if you're talking to a sentry, common sense is like, you know, Schultz, good old sergeant Schultz there, you get the drift, is gonna go, hmm, shtudu, and lots of it. Or I'll get into a firefight with these guys. Hmm, I think I will take the shtudu. It is much tastier, and when I am done, I can go home. See how that, see how gold and silver are a good thing but you've got to know your metals and platinum to me is dangerous because in confusion and in failure to communicate people who are not up to speed could make very bad mistakes for you while you're not around. And then afterwards they'd go, oh you mean that was platinum? Yeah, yeah instead of about 20 some dollars an ounce that was about like you know a thousand some odd dollars an ounce. Yeah, yeah. Well actually what I think platinum's higher than that right now but uh... and Long time ago when platinum was down real cheap like gold. Yep, but the reason why I used one as a one why I know what the metal was that but not much Different noise and careful guys. It's my first day. It's got a company say Don Gordon hit rubbing the pearl particular feel to it and as you point out You know if you can't feel the difference between silver and then rattle that's exactly right Don if the previous hour y'all weren't on the air but replay of another hour your load bearing equipment you might sell some of around the world. But you know one thing that people don't, is I gotta go to an army placement, buff or your mole gear. And what I'm recommending to kids is got all this stuff. Their fathers and he's, what dad will. I'm trying to get them to understand, if they go through and cut them out, have them mail in feet and pairs and I throw their mole. If you wanna be mole, cause right now mole is what's coming. Find these things, little bit of hardware, up in cap, whatever you gotta do and then when you get on the field, Oh yeah, actually one of the things that we've done is, I just had me get up on YouTube, is I've got a video already on Mali repair that we're doing and we'll probably incorporate it into another video beyond that, but I've got the different Mali equipment that we got from one of our allies. Variations of damage or also improvised repair to get somebody back out of the field. They actually, you know, while they were out there, I really were. They had to reassemble things. What's cool is it gives you an example of different ideas that people came up with. The other thing is also I wanted to show where the where points are. I can talk about them on the air, but I was able to actually depict them in video form. Everybody gets a chance to look at them and think, how are we going to fix this? Then we're going to show a few of the ideas beyond just the improvising. What should we be doing in advance? I've always talked about our BDU uniforms. When you get new ones, I don't care who made them, nowadays you need to take the break out the sewing machine and you need to restitch the pockets and you need to restitch and go over a couple of times the flaps on the pockets. Guaranteed they're going to get snagged and they're going to pop off the pants and then once they start they don't slow down. And also if you've got some old material, Mark, is take the pants, turn them into can and a head stitch, put them in the nuc. You won't wear your knees out so fast. That's why I think all the boys and girls are wearing those You don't want to walk or march those things on. It's just that heavy material to keep your uniforms being run out in your butt and your knees. Just like when we're doing ghillie suits, we always reinforce the thighs down, the knee down, and the forearms underneath. Right. Okay. Using the same kind of canvas. If you've got a frag, like say, shelter cord that's damaged, Maybe it's got moisture wear, maybe it's got just weather wear. Maybe it got in a fire. A lot of guys had them in their fire. They got a little splits on them, or rips on them, and they got some burns. Well, that canvas may not be usable for tents anymore because there's too many holes in it. But you know what? There's your canvas. It's not super heavy gauge, but it's heavy enough that it's a thicker material. The wear item. That's right. Let that wear out and preserve your equipment that way. best way to look at it so you can reinforce them. Plus it is a stronger, older, you know the first thing that's most important is it's the older American made cloth. It is a tighter weave, it's a heavier weave, it's better material typically. Most of the junk that's coming out right now is not made in the US even if it's made for the US. It's not being made here. It's being made overseas. It's being made in other third world countries. And they're trying to cheap out every way they can, and the inspectors are letting them get away with it. So that's why we need to preserve a lot of the older equipment. Just because it's tired doesn't mean it can't be reworked or rebuilt for something and spare parts off everything you can. Another thing on the oldie, but really tired and decorative stuff, Guys, you know what, if it's to the point where it really can't be used, then you can strip off the goodies, break out a staple gun or a rivet gun and make up a couple of decent dummies, and put some web gear on them. Grab yourself an old clunky belt, doesn't that be a web belt? Get an old clunky belt, staple the web gear on, bolt it on, whatever you want to do that's cheap and fast. And that makes your silhouettes look that much more realistic with regard to your permanent sentries that can be standing anywhere you want to move them to. They look a lot more confident. They look more, you know, remember, what is it that creates confidence in silhouettes and deception technologies? Detail. more detail. How would the soldier look? Another problem is, and you'll see this when you create dummies or silhouettes for, you know, for deception, same with tanks or anything else, it's the little things are the details to include the idea that how does gear set on a person? Doesn't it set heavy? If you've got those mag pouches filled, I'll give you an example. You ever watch GoldenEye, the movie GoldenEye with James Bond, right? uh... they did a good job of put web gear on the troops but did you notice like when they're in the bathroom the web gear that hang on the wall is all perfectly blossomed out like it's got something in it but they pick it up like it's cardboard it is blossomed out with something in it correct hours for that exactly did to make it look correct you know you don't want to think about it and what and battle you know battle for galactic a slash you know star wars lived in now because that's our collective just copied star wars all they did lived in look So remember, the lived in look used equipment, and if you want to fix it, guess what? If you want to make it look a little prettier or if you want to camouflage it a little more, dollar store, ultra flat, an OD green paint, whatever else you want to break up and make it look like you tried to camouflage it. That way, even if it's tired, it doesn't look tired because you can't really get a focus on it until you're at point blank range. And by then it's too late. The dummy could be the kill zone, so to speak. That can be the pyrotechnic. Kaboom. uh... they can be the of the century doesn't have to be perfect back somebody off from say a hundred yards if they see somebody or something standing there and it's got a helmet and i will be all called to the dimension is to consider me another train of thought today it's halloween season right now guys i don't want to if you want to make the best uh... dummies that are really a problem for the bad guys Dollar store, I'd never throw a pair of sunglasses away. If I see a pair of sunglasses that are broken, they get picked up. You wanna know why? Cause that's going on my dummy. But the other half is this. Cheap dollar store or less, and during Halloween, I guarantee they are not gonna sell out of all their China junk Halloween rubber masks. People mask, old man mask, old woman mask, witch mask, I don't care what they are. Ideally something where it looks like, you know, it's a regular human. Flesh tone is what you want. You don't care what it looks like. You put that onto a one gallon jug and then put a pair of sunglasses where the eye holes are and until you get right on top of that target you can't tell the difference. Oh and by the way the rubber masks are kind of handy for future operations because why give anybody any intelligence if you don't have to? Know what I mean? Can you say disguised facial features? Yeah. The whole idea... The other thing you're talking about with dummies is Claymore is your friend. Yeah, exactly. Remember, the dummy doesn't have to be a dummy. The dummy could be the last thing they ever see again. Kaboom! Oops! Well, one thing I marked about the old LBE stuff too is, guys, if you've got some old LBE that really has eaten up and everything else, and you're not using it for dummies or whatever, build other load-bearing equipment on me, I'm old. Exactly. And again, there are so many different things that you want to cinch down. Let me remind everyone again. If you're going down to the desert, Most everybody is not from Arizona that's going down to Arizona. Even when they head towards what they call winter, daytime temperatures are in the 70s and 80s. You are not acclimated, you have not readjusted. Typically, in other words, you're from the upper climes, let's say we go down later into the fall and winter, our blood is already tempered out for cold weather operations. You go down to Arizona, it's like, man, it's like summer down here, which is true. It is like our summer down there during their winter. But as soon as the sun goes down, Don, what's it like when the sun goes down? It's cold. Yeah, so during the day, you're not going to want to carry your field jacket. So, Marcus, those straps you're talking about, guys, make up a set of what the Europeans call turnister straps. Well, it is two straps to take your field jacket, and here's a little trick by the way. Have you ever tucked your field jacket, carried your field jacket like a sausage? You take your field jacket and with your liner you stuff it all into your left or right arm. Stuff it right into its own left or right arm. What this, it creates a tubular package for carrying the field jacket without you having to carry a sleeve or a cover or whatever. The field jacket is already camouflaged. So you don't have to worry about that problem. Now you take two green turnister straps, hook them up to the back of your V vest, your V straps, your H straps, whatever it is, or on the backpack, and you can cinch down that sausage arm that you have there that has the field jacket all tucked into it. Nice compact package, not going to hang all over the place. and you cinch it down, lock it in, and you carry it during the day. It starts to get cool, you stop, you drop that Alice pack, you undo your little turnister straps, you can either tighten them back up or you can disconnect them and stuff them inside so they're not hanging around. And lo and behold, there's your field jacket ready to be used as the weather changes and you see a 25 to 30 degree shift in temperature from day to night operations. Got to make a recommendation on that, Mark? Go where to head. He said, he said, you stuff it in the right or the left, you know, that's fine, take turns with it. Medium pack, you have the shelf. Guess why you won't lose your, and that shelf will keep that thing right there when you need it. Yep, so then what you can do is you can actually lace your straps into place, and if you do that, now if you go with that option without having a meal, because there is another location too, I know where we're bouncing all over the place, the Alice Pack, you know, we love the Alice Pack because it was actually a Thinkers backpack, I don't care what anybody says. The base of the Alice Pack has two suspension strap points. That's another location. And you can actually, if you're not wearing the butt pack, and you don't have a whole lot of stuff cluttering behind where you're carrying the Alice Pack, that's another location where you can cinch it down so it's right up to the base of the Alice Pack itself and stays there. Again, however you hook it up, it's a matter of whether you do carry a frame or don't carry a frame. Don't tell me there are 100 places you can't hook it up on the Alice Pack. I mean, come on, you can put it underneath the, you can sit you down and still put it up underneath the top flap and then hold it down with the cross straps on top of everything else. Well Mark, I modified my medium Alice. My camouflage bag, I dropped my Alice, snapped my combat, and all my, because I'm a three-way shooter guys, with magazines and campaigns. One of the things I like, and as I said, it was a, the Alice system, a solution to a series of questions and issues that were addressed during the Vietnam War. It was originally issued in the last stages of the Vietnam War, the prototype Alice gear showed up. A lot of people were very happy with it. They were surprised that they actually had the military actually listened to the troops. It was one of the few times in that era where they did. The neat thing is that they came up with different sizes. There is a small Alice, medium and large. The rarest was a small and there was one company that actually still had them in the United States and they were forced out of business back during 9-11. After 9-11 the company went under because of harassment from the kosher mafia, the feds, getting rid of competition in the industries. It was very interesting that that was one of the few sources where we actually had real Alice Smalls, Alice Pack Smalls. The largest are available and in fact right now there's been a little flurry of them because they've been released from strategic reserve or from different inventories around the country. They're being cycled out for the new gear finally to other troops because many still have the Alice gear by the way contrary to everybody thinks. Nobody has switched over completely and if you don't think so, if you don't think I'm correct on that, take a look at the hodge podge of equipment the troops are still carrying. One out of three or one out of ten may have matching equipment. And I've noticed this in all these deployments where, oh look, the National Guard is going to be at such and such a location. The ones that typically have 100% are either in Quartermaster or they know somebody in Quartermaster. or they went out and bought it themselves, which a lot of guys do. It's just that simple. You're not going to get it. Typically they aren't going to see the system and get it for you. Even if they were active, the problem is look what happened to Desert Dust 1 to Desert Dust 2. Triple colored modern desert, old five color chocolate chip, woodland green, molly gear on desert camouflage uniforms, back and forth and all over the place. A lot of that we did hand over to the Iraqis and you can see that by the gear they're getting now. They're getting all of our hand-me-down inventory to make them feel good. If you don't have to put your outfit out there or have one together, we're both on that duty. And they're pretty decent. They'll put the same impact, same belt correctly, usually under $100. Good. Well, and one of the things too is that, as you pointed out, the different sources have it. The main military has a pretty good selection of the stuff right now, guys, on the shelf. And if you take the time to go through what they have in inventory, he's been adding by the way too. Frank's been throwing a few new things up there so you might want to go through their listing because I got caught off guard by a couple of things that he pulled out of another company I think that just went under. Whatever he has, one of the things to remember guys is there aren't that many surplus companies in general that really have surplus anymore. and that's hard to find. So if you're looking for original stuff or if you find a watering hole where somebody's got a warehouse full of stuff and you're doing a 5-10 program or you're putting your family into the gear they need, do this ASAP. Get it done, get it out of the way. Don't have to tell anybody else until you get all your stuff. Then tell everybody else where it is so everybody, all of us, we'll all know where to go. Or at least your allies will. But you can take the cream of the crop. We don't have a problem with that. Well Mark, I got another question for you. Are a lot of people still find and and some others, different information, lots of things too. What Mark talks about with loaded bearing equipment that we can actually use in the field. Very good. Well, as soon as you can post, take the time to do that and then also let us know up on the air so people know where to go to because those are left in inventory for people to access too with the way they set the programming up. The question mark is, is there a need out there of anybody that needs, got exactly, can you see the two-two integrating links? That's not a bad price for 50 cal. Which type of link? For the modules? Oh, that's not bad. No, in fact, years ago, the last big batch, other than buying loose bags of stuff, you know, TIDD link from other ammo, or, you know, like, you just bought with the ammunition and you de-link it yourself, or you de-link it with the weapons system. Well, interestingly enough, the Chinese are the last big batch of brand new in the box. Although, American surplus. There's been American surplus showing up, and I think some French links. They're in the usual small boxes that look like Domino's boxes. But the Chinese actually brought a large quantity of Ma Deuce. links in back in the late 80s and early 90s. We bought many many many many many cases and they're in the hamcans. That's the one that's one of the reasons I said everybody's got to know what those hamcans read out as because you could grab a can and it feels heavy, looks right and it's a proper shape and you open it up and you end up with 1,600, actually what was it? I think it's 1,118 or some odd number. uh... fifty caliber browning links with no ammunition uh... we want to make sure we kept those completely separate i ship those to our fifty caliber crews here we have to get much guys that my deuces some eyes and for him regulars and so we great we routed the fifty caliber leaks they were in the same crates all the same cams etcetera etcetera as a standard uh... as a standard uh... you know say seven sixty by fifty four or seven sixty by thirty nine m Because the Russians and the Chinese canned stuff in those cans, I mean everything you could imagine was put into those cans. So that's why we do need to keep track of the nomenclature. I'll just get some. I'm not sure exactly that's an email and I'll fire them triggers warehouse and make them as the 12 bucks for... Oh that's a good price, yes. Yeah, you still got those Montana or Whiting bought like 25 of them. Yes, we still use the regular pup tents as everybody calls them, but I will remind everybody if you get the pup tents, the standard shelter halves, guys buy two ponchos and put one poncho with one shelter half and the other poncho with the other shelter half when you roll them up. The reason is that what they never showed most of the troops, and very rarely will you find any of the original written data on this, but with the 56 gear, The whole system was designed so that once you put the shelter halves together, if you remember how the older style heavy rubberized type ponchos were shaped? Remember how they weren't square? They weren't quite square? Exactly. Well the reason they weren't quite square is because one is snapped into place to use as the ground cloth for the pup tent. The other one with the grommets located where they are on the poncho and with a few other pieces of cord is the dew cloth that goes over the pup tent to make a second tier of protection for moisture. And when you're done, you end up with one. That's a Cadillac housing unit in the field, guys. And most of us, we're in a temperate environment and what those were built for, not so much for Vietnam, even though certainly guys used them in Vietnam. You know, you will see them used and set up at different times for different reasons. They were designed for the European theater of operation. We were fighting in what was a temperate environment. It was going to be cold, cold. They were cleanse though. Yeah, Germany. Woo! You get your freezer honey down there and everybody knew it. So the gear was engineered accordingly. They also made actually they made bug net covers that are whole. Those are for Vietnam but they also work nicely anywhere else in the world obviously. And they did make an insulation liner but those are very rare. I don't know where the hell the rest of them went. They disappeared into the supply system and oblivion. They're out there, but they're very few and far between and only a handful of surplus companies even have examples of them. So there's a whole system to the pup tent. So the basic is already there. Ponchos are readily available. Pick up a couple of ponchos. One becomes the ground cloth that goes inside the tent. The other one, if you line up the grommets that are from the middle point of the poncho, those grommets lay right in the tent post pegs. You know, for the top of the tent, exactly the way they hold the tent top up. And then you just stretch everything out accordingly and tensile it out, you know, tenser it out and lo and behold with the other grommets, you've got yourself a pretty nice little tent arrangement there. Plus you've got an extra pound for it if you need them too. So it works out pretty well. Anyway, go ahead and keep some of your plastic bags. Right, exactly. Well, dry in general is nice. And dry and warm, especially when you're going to be in wet cold. One thing that everybody forgets is condensation. You know, we breathe and, you know, it's bad enough. You know, certainly Canvas. Canvas is easier to work with in that respect. Some people like prefer nylon to a degree. But most people that use nylon and also use a lot of the new synthetics, most people don't realize, like with mountain climbing, you know, they literally just throw the stuff away and they drop them more. Which is what they don't talk about. It's like oh, yeah, I got state-of-the-art this and we use that we did this You know that they they just took and absorbed the moisture. They don't even think about replaying about cleaning them out They literally drop them other gear and they shed the other equipment and throw it away Which you couldn't afford to do I mean guess well, of course if you're in sub-zero weather, it's nice to be able to do that But in reality in a survival situation, I'm sorry. The only helicopter is probably showing up her plane is on the other side I don't think they'll be dropping any cold weather gear, guys. Layers count. They'll be dropping other things, but they won't be dropping any cold weather gear. So that's one of these little tricks when everybody sees all this, I've got to have this cutting edge fill in the blankets. Really? Do you know the history and how it's used? It certainly does work well until you get to a certain point of loading. And after that, those particular synthetics don't serve you at all. It's a very quick drop off point in terms of performance. which is something that people need to consider. Canvas and wool, for instance. Wool is not pretty. Wool is, you know, again heavy to a degree, so you burn a few calories in weight, but you save so many calories in heat and cold weather, which is why wool is your friend. After all, those sheep don't come in most of the time if they're off in the boondocks. They sit out there through the whole of the winter. I know one thing, Mark, if you've got a decent sleeping bag like that, modern sleep, and you at least have one shelter half, at least keep the wind off you, a direct wind, and you can lay there and if you can keep your wrinkle of rain off of you, that can't without anything at all. Exactly. Well, I'll tell you what, we'll probably let you go. We're almost at the top there. No problem. God bless you guys. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Marcus. And we've got some other work coming over. Don, you've got still anything else to cover there? And I know you still want to give out your contact information for night vision. It's Friday. You're not going to be back again after this hour. So give all the contact information and let's do a quick review if there's anything new on the horizon. Well you guys, if you wanted to know a phone number, that ancient form of communication, you know centuries now, centuries old, that number is 231958. Again, 23179458. Now don't send me any text or anything like that because, well, it's just a phone. So again, two, three, one, seven, nine, six, four, five, eight. If you want to talk about night vision, goggles, skewers, you know, monoculars, generation, whether you guys, but you know, seriously, if you want to talk about, the biggest thing I can tell you about generation is, and it's not a whole lot more performance. That in mind, you know, if you want one piece of second generation, you could get two pieces of first, particularly like gun sights and maybe even more. Or if you want one third generation gun sight, almost you could get two. second generation gun sight you see where I'm going with that so I thought I'd kind of give you that you know a comparison and measure a a you know yardstick and you guys if you want to talk about thermal would like to have the next though that comes out beyond thermal see that I can't make a promise on that one right now but I'd like that to be again you guys two three one seven nine six big lens forty nine dollars in your mailbox now this is going to be a blend that Or, some of the things, a lens as big as some of the little pieces of night vision. So, the more lens you've got in front of the device, the more light that device will gather, and the less light seemingly to your eye, the device will still work in. So, you guys, that's one thing. If you're looking for a piece of night vision, and well, it has, you can pick between this lens or that lens, get the bigger lens, unless it like doubles your magnification. Why? Because, well, the more glass you put in, the less light gets to know this. They know how much light is at the top. And the night vision video still is on. If you want to get a whole bunch of information there, classroom information first and pull down the night vision video, you can 300 pot bottles in Michigan, you know, $30. 600 pot bottles in some nickel states. But you know, that's cheap, you guys. For the information that's on there, it's like, you know, price. You can't, you could spend a whole year and not see some of the things that are seen on the night vision video. and $30 to Nant, $1.94, Michigan. The fee fee is $4.813. Thank you, Don. And again, you be careful this weekend, guys. We're going to, well, top of the hour break here. We've got about six minutes worth of other LTR information there. 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