October 18, 2010
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Mark Koernke and Don Betcher discussed night vision technology, security lighting systems, and defensive preparedness strategies. They covered practical applications of night vision equipment, legal considerations in various states like California, and techniques for integrating lighting into perimeter security without compromising night vision capability. The hosts emphasized low-cost defensive solutions including solar lighting, LED modifications, chemical light sticks, and unconventional camouflage methods using Halloween decorations and dollar store items. They provided detailed tactical guidance on positioning lights to silhouette intruders, using tripwires and natural obstacles, and employing motion-sensor lighting systems.
- night vision
- security lighting
- perimeter defense
- solar lights
- infrared illuminators
- tactical preparedness
- motion sensors
- led technology
- chemical light sticks
- camouflage
- tripwires
- defensive tactics
- california gun laws
- thermal imaging
- first generation night vision
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Live 365. That website again www.jrhenterprises.com or give us a call the number is 912-379-9441. That number again is 912-379-9441. JRH Enterprises. Had a dream the other night that well I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. And this is the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors so their children won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic in each God-given right. And pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dill the land and good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the evening intelligence report I'm Mark wonky and I'm Donald betcher One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines, in occupied territories, Central, West, Southeast, and Northwest. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are live 365. Then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM and FM microstations, CB Bay stations, and ultra net technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, along with southern and central Alaska. We're on the Hallmark network, top of Maine where the black bears have pretty well been looking for a place to hide for the winter here now, snooping around for a good hibernation spot. Meanwhile, probably should have checked all those girly bears. But then, down to the bottom of Florida, treasure crabs contemplating their belly buttons and chanting to the setting of the sun. Actually, along the setting now, it's already gone. Then back over. The Ark of the Gulf of Mexico to Texas, all the way up from there to Nebraska, a crossover to the pit crew. I want to say hi to the mines over there, actually our mine broadcasting unit over there in Wyoming, and to the third of Wyoming also. Then back over Iowa slash Iowa, screaming as we go by. Ahh! To all of our micro stations that are running the farm grid over on that neck of the woods, or I should say that corner of the back 40. Then do the Goldest Bike Project over on the Blue Ridge, the Smokies. That's right, the restaurant crew, the Gramit teams, the OK teams, and... on It was a great day. So for everybody out there that's listening, I tell you what, Don, because I'm not going to wait until the end of the hour, I know you have night vision technology available. Why purchase from a stranger when you can deal with a friend? Somebody you've known for quite some time, heard on the air, you know where Don is, and where he's coming from, and the fact that he's genuine, he's stuck to his guns and stayed the course, guys. So I tell you what, why don't you give him a ring? Don, go ahead and let everybody know what's available. And we were talking about a couple of things that might be just on the horizon here, too. that you think might be available in the industry. something you don't know. And you know, even in California, it's legal to own a night vision and even have it on top of a gun. But in California, you can't have an illuminator you got. I just thought I'd mention that that's one of the night vision boogaboos about California can have a illuminator attached to your once $1,000 for it plus and everything in your talk about well, this will hold up on your 50 and all have a line of sight. There's a device now that parallels puts a thermal device next to brain looking through inside and the green screen on the other. and time it takes to take back together and got an infrared illuminator. Even in California there, people are going to think that because you're going to give it a real wide burst, they're backing in the right place. I'm not certain where you wanted to go Mark. One of the things that we wanted to tie in tonight, I guess, would be good to start B is The idea of integrating lighting systems into your security grid with your night vision to enhance it without damaging it. One of the things that you have to remember in the latest video series that you've done, there are critical do's and don'ts. But one of the things you don't want to do is you're setting up lighting. Most people don't think about this. I actually always look at that, look at what I'm setting up lighting for any kind of perimeter to ensure that it doesn't, if at all possible, directly beam into my position or blind me while I'm trying to illuminate an area. shielding and directing the light can be done even if it's in obliques or in odd angles because it doesn't take that much to enhance night vision with conventional light or with infrared does it? You're right. As mentioned, if they think that they're moving through an area that's lighted and they perceive that lighted by their night vision, they think they're going to skirt around it, it doesn't take much for them to be silhouetted. When you're looking at that area, buy another piece of light vision. That's another way to... to point that out. You're right, it's not a whole lot of ambient or artificial light is needed to excite that image intensifier too. If it gets kind of dark out there, and you guys, this works just as well for a third generation, second, and particular good for first generation, because, and not to throw in a goofy rhyme here, but if you're using first generation, by the time there's no moon, You're thirsting for some ambient light. You're happy that the clouds blow over. You have a star-filled sky, but depending on other things around you might be happy because the clouds are reflecting that light from the city and bouncing a little bit of it down into your area. Much like your natural vision, your natural night vision, one of the ways that you can kind of, even in real, real darkness, what is perceived to be really darkness when you're standing up. and trying to look across the field. One of the ways to master a short area just with your naked eye, you guys, if there's no other, you can't pop a flare or anything else, is to use that skyline to get as low to the ground as you can and try to silhouette anything on the skyline. And if all of your buddies around you have agreed that that's what we're going to do, anything out there running isn't the friendly, is it? See what I mean? Now, even that's your natural light, your natural night vision eye, your naked eye, so to speak, using the minimal of low light. But that's in a good area. That's going to be a lot harder to do under a canopy or trying to determine a lot of in a heavy woods and tree stand. Now, the thing that's going to be the ambient light there should things start to happen will be muzzle blast. When enough muzzle blast is in the air, it seems to light up the area a little bit, doesn't it Mark? Now you're talking about, if you're looking at something, and we've addressed this before, much like a flare, if you're engaged in something like that and all you have is your natural night vision, I know it's hard to do. because you want to be able to look everywhere at one time and you want to grow an eye on each side of your head and a mirror used on both of those. So you want input from 360 degrees which is physically impossible, that's what I'm trying to say. But one of the things you want to do because as fast as things light up they can stop and if you've got both eyes open and you start to learn to depend on that muzzle flash for everything, well there's a target, there's a target in your muzzle flash and while you're aiming at muzzle flash and whatnot. Well, when things stop, you've got a lot of retention of muzzle flashing in your retina, don't you? And it's almost like you close your eyes and you see streaks and everything, and that's all you've got. You open your eyes back up and it's dark out, and all you still see are streaks. It goes back over to that. You want to be stingy with your sight when the light levels get high and low or low to high. You want to cover up one eye or try to close one eye, and I know it's awful hard to do to close one eye when there's a gun sight going on. But now we've talked about this before. You might be laying in a particular position with that armolite at your side on a box of ammunition. If not, we'll play that sometime this week. But all of a sudden the flare goes off and you hear it rattle up in the air. You hear it rattle up and you even hear the gun that fires it. You want to at least, at the very least close one eye while you use the light that is created by that flare just like your opponent will. Because he is putting that in the air for a reason or that Louis over there on this side, he put that in the air for a reason or ordered it done for a reason. And everybody is going to use. Flares are like tracers and lightning and floods. They don't, in winter, do for everybody what they do. all agreed. If you can get one eye closed, this is another reason why we try to work to get you to shoot around both sides of a post or a corner or pretend that post is a corner or even create a foot of solid object between you and your target and then try to lean forward to the left and then lean forward to the right like it's a whole wall or a corner. Because you're going to use both eyes when you do that if you're shooting with your right hand Let me see around if you're if you have that that gun on your shoulder on your right shoulder aren't you kind of fitted to be standing up to a wall to your left shoulder and on occasion just leaning up the edge of the wall and laying that gun out and taking a couple shots But now trying to do that Leaning up to a wall when your shoulder is leaning up to the wall your right shoulder is leaning up to the wall and shooting off the shoulders shooting off that right shoulder with your right shoulder on the wall. It doesn't work, does it? And we've emphasized that before on weapons one face, but you see where it goes. You're going to want to try not, maybe when that flare goes off, maybe you don't want to close your generally dominant, your usual gun eye. So it depends on the position you're in or which area you have to cover even, which eye you want to use. And that's getting down to nitty gritty and stuff, you guys. But you know what? It's the dinky little dots that make up the whole picture. It's what the individual soldier does that reinforces the soldier next to him that helps the soldier on the other side and the soldier ten men away down the line stay alive. And it's the dinky little things that keeps that individual soldier alive and keeps him aware throughout the battle in front of him. Instead of, man, that flare went off and a man, I got me a bunch of them, but man, when it got dark I couldn't see a thing. Is that you, Frank? Is that you, Mark? Is that a shrub? Is that a shrub, right? Or three shrubs. Wait a minute. And one of them moved. A lot of shrubs have died over the years at about one in the morning, which is why night vision comes in awfully handy. One of the other things this time with this, a lot of you guys out there have, for instance, lights that are solar. In many cases you have them at ground level. Now you'll notice the way ground level lighting is set up. It's actually, like I said, shielded to the perspective of the observer. So that what limited light is there illuminates the ground area in front of you but doesn't blind you personally. Have you noticed that? Remember it's down at below knee level. Now here's something to think about. A lot of you have set this lighting up for the summer and it works really well. But you're in a temperate environment. That offset lighting does a good job of illuminating, especially with night vision. It's like the whole yard is lit up, but not directly. In other words, it doesn't blind your equipment, but it does illuminate anything that's out there. When there's three feet of snow on the ground, where will those lights be? How tall were they above the ground to do the math? They're probably going to be under at least two and a half feet. There you go. So something to think about before we get to this happen and you're going, man, those are gone for the winter. You might want to look at picking up PVC pipe, real cheap, cheap, cheap, making sure that you drive, for instance, a piece of rod or a piece of metal or a piece of rebar into the ground that will fit inside the pipe. making sure that the PVC pipe you chose matches the pin or pressed because they have like a pressed plastic tube typically or a metal tube and it's very cheap guys. They're trying to go minimal cost on everything to get the most profit. That's how they keep the price down. These things will fit right on the end of another piece of half inch or three-quarter PVC depending upon what size base you have. and how the pressure fitting is. Usually it's a male pressure fitting that goes into or the other way around. It either goes into something or goes onto. You take your pick. Now, what you do is figure out what will work best in the PVC pipe, extend it to a certain height, and that way when the time comes you'll still have that light out there and you won't have to worry about the solar panel not working. Although even if it does work when it's too deep under snow, that doesn't do you any good. Enough light might filter through the snow to get to the solar cell for at least a little while. So, under the spill it's like, yeah that's impressive, there's a glow there somewhere. Wow. The light out there in the field might treat it like a drive-in. Yeah, it doesn't work. But it's more of a shadow show. Yeah. So instead, and by the way this is also true for illuminating areas out to your front. This is mobile lighting, easily stored. The latest generation is a very bright, bright lens, a very bright light by the way, cold white that's used for the nightlights. for yard work and they're solar panel independent. Each one is on its own little panel. Guys, that's a great thing to set out there to your front and put up in the trees where it can't be accessed, can't be picked up by anybody else. Now remember, solar charging is not as difficult as we continue through the fall with equipment like this because there aren't going to be any leaves in the way. Oh, that's right. Yeah, so you got nice overhead, you know, you got the strong branches, you can't just reach up and get rid of it. You may want to shoot it, but it won't do any good. But you can actually lay this lighting properly so that it will all, you know, be offset and will beam generally into the area indirectly so that it won't flier any of your equipment. Instead, it's going to leave a general glow background. to whatever degree is determined by how many more lights, LED's or lights you put up out there guys. But this is a trick that allows you to get them up off the ground. Number two, if you want to use the same technique with more PVC, you can camouflage it by painting that gray. Paint the hull of the light a little gray and spots. Don't have to switch it all out from black, which typically it is. Don't leave any chrome spots. Chrome's not good. Usually it's plastic chrome anyway, so it'll paint over quite nicely But the point is that you then drill a couple holes in the PVC pipe and grab yourself some screws or nails and wherever you want to put them Or just hand screw or hammer with a number 10 nail or a two-headed number 10 or a two-headed spike A couple of them. And now that little PVC tube is secure where you want it. The light's beaming where you need it from an advantage point. And you can still block the light by putting it behind the structure of the tree so that it doesn't neutralize your defensive vision when the time comes. That's another consideration, different techniques that can be used. And indirect lighting alleviates part of that stress. Now the other thing is when you're using this type of lighting, if it doesn't have a solar panel attached to it, figure out how to make one. There are so many systems out there, there's no excuse not to. In fact, you can even find what are basically an added modular unit that has everything you need except for the light bulb. And most have even that nowadays where you can actually set up a separate freestanding piece of equipment. Put all the plug and play pieces together and you end up with a light that can be out there every day, every evening, from sunset to sunup. And that's pretty cool because very efficient, very reliable, and not outrageously expensive. In fact, you could go back a few generations now, two or three generations with the solar lighting, and get some pretty decent equipment from Little to Nothing. The thing is to shop around. Oh, and by the way, it's the only way. They try to get rid of all the lawn and garden stuff down, so it's really cheap. You guys, we did mention a box store earlier, like, you know, dig a whole lot or save a bunch or something like that. And I do believe, you know, that one of those national chains, you can find the aforementioned or describe solar lights for $1.99. If you go with the great big ones, if you look in the right places, you guys, I know it's, you know, might seem a little bit frivolous. But this is one of the things you guys, we've talked about this before, and here's the comparison. You might have the whole of your wish list filled up. And man, I got so many beans. I'm going to power, I'm going to own a gas company. You know what I mean? I got so many bullets. I could run my mini gun forever. You know what I mean? You could have your wish list full. stuff like this, the dinky little deploy and forget about or deploy and after everything is over you go get them again because well after everything over is over you're still here. Why? Because it was deployed and it was cheap and it was used to your advantage. Well it's like uh... Well end of the day dawn comes. Oh I didn't give you all the goofy build up like thirty seven dollar illuminators deploy. Two op force brought in in the first wave. All the victory at the Another thing too, you know you mentioned the modular units and let's bring this up too because I just picked up one for free here somebody was looking closely what I was When I grabbed I didn't realize what it was but although somebody taking one of the modules off There are completely self-contained solar floodlights now that run with a gel pack battery. They have even motion sensors That's basically what was left of this unit They had the light fixtures themselves the motion sensor unit and a few other trinkets attached a little box there That is a perfect combination for economy and force and being able to broad beam an area again while controlling the limited light source that you use. The most important is aim it towards the enemy, front towards enemy is the rule. If you do this right and a little extra shielding if need be, you might even have to put back shielding in it. So that there's no backwash, there's no black back flare towards you. The idea is to dump everything you can on the bad guys and then dump live fire on the bad guys as needed. So, we need to use all the tricks of the trade that we can. Now, the advantage of something like this is it could be put at ground level, it could be put above, you know, at eye, a little above eye level. So, it's kind of out of reach, but still in a very inconvenient location. And the purpose is that it could also, you know, raise some havoc with the other guy's night vision. It doesn't mean everybody's using third generation out there. There's a lot of other stuff that's laying around. But even with third generation, it can create an interesting diversion. Any extreme amount of light that's flooding in is going to have some effect on the operator. They're going to notice it. It's going to track their attention. It can distract them in other different ways. And so every bit of that helps with the defense, depending upon the scenario played out. So that's one of the reasons. Check out Lowe's. Check out your local hardware. Now, I will say something about that. These chains that we have you would think logic would dictate that these big large super hardware store chains are you're going to get a better price. It's true they do have a tremendous amount of purchasing power for their size but what's fascinating is I found that our local hardwares and you need to check the same thing out too guys are still offering some items especially what you thought would be volume stock items where that's where that's the strong point on these super stores. Well, the regular local store actually saved me about two or three dollars per item, which adds up real quick when you're talking gallons of this or five gallon pails of that or packages of fill in the blank. So don't assume that, oh, I'm going to go to all these big super chains and it'll be cheap there. If you can find damaged packages, yes, because you can usually make deals with most of the chain stores. If there's something damaged or it's already got a gank or it's already been ripped open, they'll mark it down for you because they want to move the product. They don't want to have it sitting around. This is also true with construction materials. With electronics and such, it varies. But especially if you find something, hey, somebody's already dinged with this. Looks like it's already been damaged maybe, but I can fix it. I don't care about pretty and looking for cosmetic. Then this would be a solution now the fact that the thing comes with a motion sensor is kind of handy in of itself because That creates problems for the bad guys whoever you're facing when all of a sudden something lights up, and it's got lots of energy That's an indication somebody's in the ballpark, so it does psychologically mess with people's heads just by itself just being there well the Motion, I'm sorry go ahead go ahead that motion sensor many times you guys is driven by what? infrared now what is the First and second generation mostly feed off of what band of the spectrum? You know, infrared. Third generation goes into ultraviolet. That's where third generation gets a little more performance than second generation because it works in infrared and also ultraviolet. So it reaches to more across the broad spectrum of the scale. If you're clever enough to take that dollar flashlight and those few dollars worth of LED emitters and put them in that flashlight. Well, you might not want to leave it on because as mentioned, if you're being pursued and they've got night vision, well, they might see that area and think, I think that guy wants us to go in there. And as mentioned, if they try to skirt it real close, well, They are going to be silhouetted because you are looking at them from a particular area. You have set that in a way and you have got people close and you have got people farther away. Granted, they are not all in the same line of fire, are they? So the guy far away isn't going to shoot the guy close and see how that works. But, because if you are clever enough to alter that flashlight, you are clever enough to string a little bit of fishing line across the field. through this particular area that one single light would offer that supplement. When they moved through that area, because why? They didn't want to move through over there because it was already set up for them to go through there. They, having night vision, figured, man, I'm not the sucker that they think I am. They try to skirt the area. Then they think, I've done this before and I saw where the Yankees man, I don't know how they'd say this in Chinese or Russian. I saw where the Yankees set farther back and used the illuminated area for silhouettes. So I'm going to go very far around and I'm going to catch them on the wares. Well, when they go very far around, they move through that tripwire area and now they're standing in a lighted area instead of trying to approach and determine what is going on in a lighted area. Now they're standing in a lighted area. That's kind of like, how do you spell that, Mark? D-O-O-M-E-D. Whomed I tell you. Oh, yes. And you know, that runs a chill down your back when you, it's just, you know, it's just like you set off a mine. It has to be, because you're sneaking along in the dark, and all your comrades are around you, and you're doing this very good because you've been training at this a long time, and your English is very dull because you've been talking to all your comrades, and it's about the English you know. So your English is good and you're talking and you're sleeping and you're trying to catch them Yankees, you know, and and all of a sudden oh Where did all that light come from you look through your night vision and you take your night vision off and you realize that it's Comrade only you won't even saw buddy worse That's what you'd say that to your comrade friends when you're looking for those Yankees that got you in a trap like that So I've just built not a trap and not the layer of a trap and not even the sec the third how about the that be marked concentric circle of a trap? Get bigger depending on how patient you are, how many people you want to put in, and how hard you're being chased, and how much time you have, or even if, well let's bring them over here. sparked a couple of thoughts in more than one person's mind. Combine that with, especially if somebody is trying to infiltrate any of your defending. The cool thing is imagine all of this technology plugged in to light up an area here, light up the spot there, create all kinds of confusion. So it's not just a cakewalk thing. You're not able to just walk in and walk out. That's part of creating mental obstacles. You don't have to be physical obstacles. That line run across the field. You run into one line, you know there's got to be more. Now you're going to slow down if you want to find them. Because you don't want to find them the hard way, which is to run your knee across them or your leg across them and then hear a sharp explosion or a sharp crack and realize somebody's laying there bleeding or maybe thrashing around a bit. So the advantage of having the night vision capability combined with the illumination technologies allows you to employ how many other different weapon systems, especially where you can mount, at the very least, just a first generation sighting system. of any kind on top of the roof of a rifle. You've changed the dimension of the defender right off the bat. Now, as we upgrade and we have better technologies, then we can also place our equipment based upon how far you can physically see under the best of conditions or good conditions. And then we would allocate our equipment accordingly. Obviously, the first generation equipment, although the rifle scopes are very competent, very capable, Using first-generation improvised equipment would take care of the nooks and crannies in close order. But your best equipment would be ranging and observing at the greatest distance. Your best equipment goes out farthest. You don't worry about the closer missions with your cutting-edge equipment. You try to focus it to reach the greatest distance possible even at night, just like we talked about during daylight operations. And to get that done, the auxiliary, ancillary, and support equipment of all categories for the night vision will include the lighting systems are critical. Another thing you can do is casual lighting that nobody catches on to or doesn't really think about it as lighting. Let me give you an example. You know, Christmas time, I mean, I grab every Christmas fight I can see that people want to get rid of this, Christmas lights, whatever. But now the big thing down, if you noticed, is Halloween. I mean, as far as either people are just like, oh, yaw, and they're not doing anything where they've got these people decorating their houses like they would for Christmas now. Yup, I know. Well, that means you've got things laying around, though, that are kind of, you know, creates more camouflage. Bad guys don't want us to think this way. A pumpkin on the front porch can hide a whole lot of things, can it? Oh, yeah. And it doesn't have to even be a real pumpkin anymore. You know, you've got plastic pumpkins that are so well done, done in whatever plastic or whatever chip, you can't tell the difference between them and a real one. Now, let's say it has an LED or a number of LEDs already mounted in. Why not take that rather casual and soft LED and replace it either with a, you know, wide lens or a high definition lens IR or even a conventional. LED, visible spectrum LED light. Think about it guys. It's already in position. It could even be colored. That's not a problem because your light is still going to project out and the spectrum range is necessary. There are a number of different options there with regard to how to deal with it. But consider that with all of these lights that are just normally around, If properly positioned to look like they're supposed to be there as part of the mechanical equipment or whatever, a simple red LED in a room where there's no other light creates almost a daylight type effect with a piece of older night vision. That's how effective that is. The brighter the LED, the more you can do with it. And this is not back in the 70s when we had basically one LED fits all because that's all that was basically Hewlett Packard was making. Today, oh my goodness, it's the sky's the limit, people. As creative as you wish to be, color ranges in white, and color ranges in general that are colors, reds, yellows, greens, purples, you name it. Every color is out there in one form or another, and it is rather useful for a number of different types of projects. So don't discount the colored LEDs. Don't take that. It's more like a kitty thing. Oh no. Now that gets me to another kitty thing that's cheap this time of year, but I noticed that they've gone down as far as the quantities available. When they first came out here several years ago, the Chinese communist, uh, Yilu sticks guys, were cheap but still, you know, again, and good quantity. Uh, no, you figured one out of ten failed in the, the cheapy ones, right? Now right now, at your dollar stores, I know it big a lot, and many of the others. These Cyolume sticks that are made for the kids that wrap around the arms and you can make necklaces with and they're really fine and thin. Now Don, those produce a pretty decent amount of light for a night vision device too, don't they? Oh, if you were to combine a few of those down, let's say like a 10 or 20 foot hallway, call that, widen it up a little. The older you guys is like water. He tends to find the easiest ways to get to where he goes. That's a lazy soldier. Remember that. A lazy soldier is like water. He tends to find the easiest way to get to where he wants to go. But what is that? Mark that stuff to the side that is the animal track. But it's been warned so much that the guy can walk down there and he doesn't. Michigan. There will be some of these bushes in Michigan. And then you're going to wish you with... Yes, in fact, there are many locusts. We have one breed here. I have a number of them on the property. If you cut it, this scab creates literally a wad of thorns. If you scab the tree anywhere, branch on a limb on the body of the tree, sprouts nothing but three inch very, very... There are needle points at the end. You don't want to fall into this. At night. If you could set up a tripwire system, you guys, or if you could lay a pressure system in to where it isn't even a tripwire and they just, you know, sign on it. You know where I'm going. It doesn't have to be a tripwire. But if you could somehow wait or something on all of those that were hanging maybe at waist height or at the time the main body is in there, cracks in the trees and they wonder what that is. If they don't have night vision, well, probably going to dry up. But if you ever come across infrared chem sticks, get them. They can be barrels of fun. Right now, it's like some of the packages are, if you get the quantity ones that are like, you know, rarer of the batch, it's a 30 in a tube for $1. If it's the... Oh my gosh. Yeah, if it's the average little dollar store, there's 10 or 12 or 14. So if you're lucky, you've got to pay attention, guys. Read the instructions. Those things can go anywhere. What's amazing is, of course, they're a holiday item. They're not out there all the time. And right now, they just came over from Kam, China. You know, Communist China just dumped a bunch from here for the Halloween season. Now, we're going to run out of time here in a minute, so I'm going to add one more thing to this from another dimension. Guys, Halloween, masks, and other cosmetic items to include camouflage stick. Oh, that's right, you know, makeup stick. But, rubber masks are a dollar a piece. Watch for the stores that have to get rid of their inventory and they don't sell all of their latex rubber masks, the soft masks, the old men, the old women, the guy, the mask that has lots of extra hair on it. You know what? Break out the scissors. You can get rid of the hair. Cut it down to normal lengths. What you have is an excellent tactical training mask if you want to do videos. You do not have to have your face on the screen. You can have somebody else's face on the screen. You can have Al Gore's face on the screen. Bill Clinton's face on the screen. Ronald Reagan, whoever you want. Whatever it is, it's cheap. You don't care what it is. If it's got some scars or battle marks on it, better still. Then get yourself a set of those wraparound glasses from the dollar store that make you look like a secret squirrel over there in Iraq, okay, like everybody thinks they have to be. Fantastic! You know what, you've also got the makings for a realistic dummy slash silhouette extra security person. Oh, when you put the glasses on the dummy, that doesn't mean that the head is hollow. That just means it covers up the cameras, one in each eye. Wow, like it's right out of a movie. But guess what, the cameras are so stupid cheap now, it went down to as low as $13 a camera. for little ice cube security cameras. Come on people, think about what you can do with this. You can have a sentry that actually does a job. A very life like sentry, dozens, a few, three, five, ten, it's up to you. Also again when you're training, if you're going to be out in the field, Take these rubber masks and use them. That way everybody is worried about being in the film. Nobody is going to see you in the film. You see how that works? It settles the whole problem real quick. By the way, sunglasses, covered little plastic eye holes, they aren't even going to have the color of your eyes to worry about. What do you think about that? composed of regiments of Ronald Reagan with 37 platoons each of Pelosi's. Oh yeah, Nancy Pelosi's. Oh my God. The horror. The horror. Well I think again we can come up with solutions but the Halloween supply system is in place and the dollar stores are trying to keep up with it. The cheap stores got all kinds of good stuff and big lots do too. Wally World will sell their stuff on sale when the time comes. We've got Dutch Jones coming up next right behind us. It's the end of the day for us here with the Intel Report. Don, your number for night vision. One more time, please. Two, three, one, seven, nine, six. the world. 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 dot com, one of the last surviving true military surplus stores in the country. Go online now to maine military dot com and discover a source for hard to find surplus items at true surplus prices. Surplus gun cleaning kits as low as $2.99. Complete chemical suits as low as $11.99. 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