July 26, 2011
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Mark Koernke and Donald Butcher discussed advanced communications techniques for field operations, focusing on silent signaling methods using mirrors, lasers, and light-based systems. They covered practical applications including line-of-sight laser communication through tubes, coded flash patterns, phonetic codes, and pre-deployed communication stations. The hosts emphasized the importance of operational security, minimal radio transmission, standardized operating procedures, and teamwork in tactical situations, contrasting well-organized militia units with poorly-coordinated conventional forces.
- communications
- line of sight
- laser signaling
- operational security
- morse code
- night vision
- tactical operations
- militia
- signal mirrors
- phonetic codes
- standard operating procedure
- encryption
- field deployment
- teamwork
- preparedness
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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 I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now his tyrants trampled each God-given right. We only watched him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, this is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Wernke. And I'm Donald Butcher. 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 south. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com, pbn.4mg.com, and we are on live 365, then go to Liberty Tree Radio. We're also on AM&FM Microstations, CB Base Stations, and Ultra, Net Technologies both east and west of the Mississippi, along with Southern and Central Alaska. We're in 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 Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the Pitt and the 3rd. And then working our way across the plains over the Mississippi in this landing smack dab in the smoky slash the Blue Ridge. Wow, we're getting some background off something there Don. I don't know what. Wow, for whatever reason. We might have another yeah hum Anna That's kind of interesting anyway Well to the smokies where the restaurant crews gravity teams, okay teams and the mob L grammar consortium are doing their part to get the job done That's right here with the Golden Spike project Let's not forget the mob bill grammar consortium out of Cleveland the retired telecommunications workers Don what's today today? What's jumping off the wall there in your neck of the woods? Mark, it is the 26th day of July, year of Our Lord 2011. A great day, just enough breeze to keep you cool and you can stand out in the sun and get things done and the plants are loving it. If you give them a little shade, you don't have to give them that underarm thing so they don't suffer from so much trans-perspiration and raise the humidity across the land. A little throwback or something referenced from the mainstream but we don't need to dwell on that. It's communications Tuesday you guys. That's a guy in a suit delivering a line. He's trying to communicate something to you and get you to think in a different direction and kind of not pay attention to what's going on. It makes you wonder Mark, what they're trying to cover up now with all of the big hub in Washington which is post created. This is written, you could see this, you could tune in at two o'clock every afternoon on one of the major channels, or probably one of the cable channels now, and watch the soap opera and realize that it is scripted as what's going on in Washington right now. And we're talking about, did you bring your cane? And you know, if you're trying to get something done, do you really stand up and walk out? Here's conversely of that, if I'm trying to get something done, and someone gets up to stand up and walk out of the room, he's going to lose an ankle. He's going to, you know, I'm going to grab his little finger so hard and turn it in such a way that all of a sudden he's sitting back down in front of me. We're going to get this done. Guess I'm not talking about politics in all reality, Mark. You know, another thing about delivery. This very morning, they were talking on one of the, oh, it's that 300 Club or something with Jerry All, I think, something like that. They were talking about the obese America mark and they were saying, well, it would be good to put a tax on every ounce, a penny on every ounce of soft drinks that are sugar sweetened. And that would be good because, well, it would cut down on sugar consumption and people that would probably live longer and all kinds of things. But in order to reinforce that, we need to do that mark, they talked about, well, I can't figure out, but they somehow, Mark, that's going to make tomatoes cheaper. Huh? Again, it's in the delivery, isn't it? And, you know, sometimes it's the container. You know, we could talk about the Trojan Horse for a while. Sometimes it's the container. But a lot of times it's in the delivery. How it's brought, how it's presented, even as armies are arrayed as they are ready for battle. Sometimes it's a container, sometimes it's how it's delivered. But sometimes it's flat plane, just what you see, it's real. And you have to, well, because you know something else, you know he's really lying to you. Much like the weathermen these days, and I've dwelt on that. I'll yield the floor in just a moment, Mark. But the head meteorologist in the big television mainstream that goes over Wayne County or comes out of Traverse City or Cleveland. Isn't that WKR Pete? No, that's the rate. I don't think they're in business any longer. But what I'm trying to say is, in your location, the biggest meteorologist, the guy that tells all the little weather guys what to say, even on Saturday night, late, late weather, when it's just probably the local lowest paid news guy that's telling you the weather because even all the weather guys, their time is off now. The guy that tells them what to say, he gets to see the satellite views of weather as it forms, the eye of the hurricane, the jet stream, and all of this and that. So I wonder what some of them thought lately over the last few months when if they were watching satellite feeds watched it with rectangles form in the tops of clouds as if it was being introduced there. Or if they stand and scratch their heads and wonder what's with that line that's just or that pairs or that tens of lines that are just zigzagging across Lake Michigan or west of Phoenix. By the time it gets off of Lake Michigan or over Phoenix it looks you know that's the container the weather we're going to watch the weather and the delivery isn't it? It is kind of like a Trojan horse. So even the weathermen are lying to you. Well some of them are being told no any better. as demonstrated a little while ago, but the guy who watches the chemtrails form and then tells you it's a cloud two hours or five hours or ten hours later, he's lying to you. Vacation's Tuesday. Mark, I yield the floor to you, sir. Well, interestingly. What do we have here? We got Dave? This is Dave. Dave, hold on. Stop for a second. Dave, stop. Before I didn't know you were there, we had some background noise coming in. It's probably from urine, so be careful. Again, speak up a little bit and stay close to the mic. That's what I was talking about. I was going to give you a report. The background noise is a telephone line. crossed some where you've got I don't know whether Ed can correct this or not or There's a telephone line open somewhere that's feeding back into the system It is a telephone line feedback where you got a second line crossing over feeding back into your system Not on my end it's not on my end Dave. In fact everything sounds clear to us Well, your dad's hearing it. I hear it here on the receiving end Right now Dave, listen, right now it's gone. It's somebody who didn't mute up. They either muted themselves up before I sat back down here or they hung up. Okay, go ahead. Anyway, take care. What do we got, Dave? Go ahead. I still hear the hum, Ed. I just went back and- It's not on my end. But it's still there. Let's get past that. Go on. Go ahead. In any case, one other thing real quick. I missed last week. I'm sorry, gentlemen. A birthday was last Monday, I thought was mentionable, though I consider the guy probably one of the greatest liars of our time. Here's one for you, Don. Last Monday, this man celebrated a birthday, one of the strange birthdays, too. Not many people celebrate one of these. He was a Korean War veteran, a pilot. His wingman was Ted Williams, the Hall of Famer. Any idea? I'm not sure. Korean War pilot. Well, this guy also piloted one of the strangest looking ships back in the 60s or 70s and he claims to be the only man that ever batted a golf ball on the mount. Got me. When John Glenn, last Monday, it was his 90th birthday. 90 years old. I thought you'd like to know that one. That one's for the history books. was done by never on the moon no sir without been well documented that he take the whole thing in a movie studio over in london what a scam what a scam posted all over the internet and the actual movie producer admitted that produced the whole thing what a lot of world we live in greatest liar and i had time convinced everybody he surface of the moon but he's ninety years old last monday so that's sort of intriguing that he's still around if you remember that so-called trip uh... you must be all the people yeah you've been around for a little while you're right that was the apollo mission i used to own the truck that he actually that they used for the apollo mission the the truck that they transported the astronauts from mission control to the launch pad i've bought that truck at auction Back in 1980, I think it was, I bought it for $75 and that's just long ago and I thought somebody would want it from a museum piece and it ended up nobody wanted it. Nobody wanted that truck and yet it was a piece of history. Sorry about the noise there gentlemen. I just thought maybe I could help you find it because it is a telephone home that's coming over the air. Catch you all later. Okay, thank you Dave. You're welcome. Bye bye. They're so simple it's ridiculous. They don't really cost hardly any money at all. You can make them from a number of different objects, improvise, adapt, and overcome. But they also are commercially made. And in fact, there are commercial signal emergency mirrors done for downed pilots, backpackers, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. And they even have a little two-way aiming slot so you can actually look through your glass and target the objective. Well, You can also use them in a number of different ways, as a semaphore to send Morse code, to simply signal to confirm that you're in a location. Let's say that you are supposed to be at a certain point by 4.30 in the afternoon. And it's a high point. You're supposed to turn due east, and then signal an objective with the mirror to confirm that you're on the site and ready to mobilize for a particular activity. or you're confirming that you're sweeping an area, you're just doing a security sweep, but you don't want to break radio silence. Well, mirrors are one of the several solutions that work quite well. Of course, I guess you can use carrier pigeons, but you still have to wait for the carrier pigeon bird line of sight to get to where he needs to be, and that's a delay. Whereas your little signaling mirror, well, that's the speed of light as opposed to the speed of a pigeon. That makes a big difference guys. So one of the things to always remember is again you go to the dollar store they've got these little compacts you get all the goodies for the girls and there's extra little mirrors in there. All kinds of neat ways to find solutions for this. There are mirror cubes that you can buy that are available for actually their tiles. They're plastic, some are metal, some are glass. Obviously you want to avoid that if you can, but hey. Price is right. You might decide to keep them stored in different locations where they're not necessarily going to be bounced around. The idea behind this is, again, it's a silent signaling process. And the other option, of course, as we know, the next step is, well, if the sun's not around, then remember, Mr. Flashlight, a piece of toilet paper tube or a piece of plastic wrapped around the lens to create a tube to focus the light in a particular direction, and using a flattener of some kind. Remember, if you have the old military anglehead flashlights, they have different colors that are opaque. There's blues, reds, greens. Some are clear, some are opaque. You have flat white so that you actually can use white, but it's white in a neutral form. It's not going to broadcast as much of the beam in a focused way. And this is another form of using signals, either combinations of numbers, Morse code, or a code established by you, a phonetic code that only you, say, myself and Don know. And when signaling, the code specifically means something only to you and me. So there's a number of different options there. And these are the simple, simple solutions. When they first came out, let me give you an example. Wow, man. Remember when mag lights first came out, Dom? The little ones? Oh yeah. First you had big mag lights, those were cool. But then they had mini mags. And now of course there's many other variations on the mini mag light. Well, one of the first things we did was like, man, that's a lot lighter to carry than a D-cell angle head flashlight for illumination. Wow, guess what? People started to think, well, back in the day guys, bingo was a lot more popular. I think it's still popular. But the thing is that, remember the old bingo sets? They used to be clear plastic and they used to be red and they used to be green and there were different colors of clear plastic circlets that went over the numbers. So you could see the number, but it would cover it so you could see whether or not you're going to do a bingo, right? Well, it turns out that those little circlets, Don, were the exact same size as the cutout lens for the mini mags. What a miracle! Go ahead. If you can draw a gain attention line of sight for sometimes as example even in the night vision video there are radio towers the lights on top of the radio tower now you can see them with your naked eye but you can see them real good with the night vision in fact you could see something very much smaller with the night vision even at that distance. Now if you know about minute of angle if you think about this if I were just to take a trash can and shine a laser into the back of the trash can on and off now everybody in a wide swath of land beyond could Determine what you know they could either look at there's a laser and eventually they might even figure out there's somebody in front of it and you know it's being flashed into the bottom of a trash can like you point out mark a long skinny tube Now, if you wanted, you could probably be creative and do this somehow with a box behind even a good rifle sight. With a small box behind it and the laser pointed into the box, you tap out. Now, this one's so simple that I'm going to just talk about it on the air. But it's kind of, unless you capture, you don't really know what it is. Now, you guys, for a long time, computer cars If you didn't, some computer cars will still do this, but they're moving over towards you have to have the handheld little plug into the dashboard or into the big computer down at the deal. Even some computer cars will still do this. You bypass a particular input. I'm not even going to mention it because I don't want you to go and think you can do this to your car. Now when you take and jump position A to position B, like with a coat hanger, and the car is off, the radio light will flash on and it'll flash a number of times so that it tells you that it's coming up and it's reading the codes. Then it will like flash three times and when it flashes that three times it's telling you here comes a code. Now you wonder how many codes can you contain in just a flash? Well you know if you have three separate things of flash you can go to 999. If you gain Attention, attention, attention. That's the handshake, so to speak. And you know that over there, five miles away, right now, by schedule, your people are supposed to be there and they're supposed to be looking in this direction. And you point, well, it might not. Well, I'm going to have to work on that rifle tube thing, that rifle sight thing, just because I set it on the air. I want to see how that works. But even a long paper tube used to be the paper towel. to lack it on the other end with a piece of tape turned the black side in and now mount it much like you would a spotting scope so that it is pointed right at where you want this to be read. And if you shine that laser right down the muzzle, you're kind of taking away a good portion of what we're trying to do here. If you cut a little notch and have the laser point in and even cover that with a bit of tape so you don't have any spillage there, That laser is just going to tap the back of that and if it's all black in there, it might not even exit. Right? It will just bounce around in there until it's absorbed by the black. Now you can take a bigger tube and you could make this tube four or five feet long and use it, extend it like a telescope and you could do this with and make it a permanent thing and you can get that minute of angle So small that when you point it at that station three miles or five miles away and they are looking back at you with a piece of night vision, there is the handshake. Now you are looking at them with basically the same device and once they recognize it could be something like a 10 second blast. They go back to that 999. The computers in the cars, I think they will run up to like in the middle 80s a GM car would have like 140 different And that was enough to tell any smart mechanic where to look or where to begin to look, not only to diagnose the computer, but to diagnose literally in many instances the mechanical parts of the car. So there was a lot of information, you guys, being held or delivered in 144 different cues, 144 different number bytes. Now, if one were to sit down for a while, we've talked about, oh, what is that? general procedure, general policy, and you know, I don't have to give that order twice, right? We've talked about that. But now different orders may come through the day, and you know, you could sit down and in an hour, might take some people two, it might take some people 15 minutes, but I'd say in about an hour, you could come up with 100 or maybe 200 different commands. We're gonna double that because responses. So now if it was 100 commands and 100 responses, now, you know, when you get an order, you're generally not supposed to have to talk about that, do we? But you know, when you get an order and things are changing in front of you, it may very well do good information back to the source of the original order so that they're aware of what's going on. They might change orders. They might tell you to hold. They might come with reinforcements. But again, it's good to, you know, this is Communications Tuesday, isn't it? Now, the handshake. and you pause for a moment and one flash and you pause for a moment and three flashes and you pause for a moment and five flashes and then the loner we got we got a one and a three and a gee that's command number 135 now you might think well Don they'll figure that out real quick but you know what we did talk about capture didn't we Because if you run that long enough and somebody does get in the line of sight and maybe observe the actions that happen from the individual instructions and they're gonna have to see them over a number of times. It took a while to figure out that the jet that it didn't it took a little while to pull the jets into thinking that midway. But now look over take all of that that we've just talked about that's dirt simple, isn't it? Well, you're gonna have to even a piece of first-generation night vision would be good for this. I'm foggy or dark. well, darker nights, that little dinky light is going to stand out a little more as long as you still have that line of sight. But even a first generation piece will work in this, got all these instructions written down. And the guy over there in charge of the night communications direct line of sight communication, he's got all those instructions written down. So he like doesn't want to be captured. We've already talked about, think about a wheel or think about shuffling down the number. at a given number that can change every three days or every week. You have a cycle of numbers like 1, 7, 4, 19, 4, 3, 5. Every day, the first day, it shuffled down, just one. The numbers moved down corresponding to the next group of instruction, right? You can do the same thing with, well, we just got this coming, we're just going to do that moving out. Now that kind of throws a wrench in the transmission of the guy who's trying to intercept or day to day, doesn't it? Even the guy who's down low on the horizon with the satellite that sees this flash every now and then and eventually, man, we gotta look there tomorrow night. So now you see about line of sight things and even being so narrow that you're less than one milli rad, you can get the device I've just described down to less than one milliradon, one millirad, and point it in the right direction and make this form of communication work. But there's parts that have to be written down unless you've got a genius on one side and a genius on the other. And it's all in his head and it still goes over to capture, doesn't it? And he has to figure that number shuffle too, doesn't he? I mean, that's a... We've talked about this before, but we've never talked about that. And bringing in, well, let me see, a modern computer code. combining it with a written word and then looking at the German Enigma, I did say that right, don't get me wrong, machine only with a single wheel. You've got a code inside a code there, right? That should be enough if you're creative. And you know, you can shuffle the whole thing around and you know, one day, one order might mean one thing and literally mean something else. and even into how the delivery, how the handshake happens, what the acknowledgments are, can set up what the code will be in that instant. And if that's all pre-worked out, well, you don't have to worry too much about shuffling the numbers because you just know where to go right that moment, don't you? Mark, I yield the floor to you, sir. One of the important things with codes, especially, you know, it's interesting because we're, this is where we really want to go today too, is tying in the whole idea of codes and the term handshake by the way means that we send out a blurb, you know, we send out a ping and we wait to see whether or not we're getting the proper response. Now we can even shut down I mean, in other words, we're going to disconnect anything other than just a passive low energy listening system to confirm that we're getting a handshake from our ally at the other end. This can be a combination of beeps. This can be a particular tone. There's something else to think about. Beep. You hear this while like if you're monitoring a lot of these cop shop frequencies one of the things we've done for years I'm gonna just tell you now because it's rather comical the bad guys don't know have a don't don't know the difference between theirs and ours you can use VHF UHF 900 meg frequencies and You can send signals out over it and as long as they hear something that sounds like what they've been listening to all back with different pitches different tones Nobody intercepts and nobody blocks it guys See how that works? So it's a very simple process. It's a very easy way. And that handshake, that initial code tone, can be used overtly. And then you can go to encryption. You can go to whatever you want, obviously. But remember, even using enemy battlefield frequencies, as long as it sounds enough like what they're doing and there's so much chatter and clatter, you can operate with impunity, even on your enemy's frequencies. Think about that. And Don, that's one of the neat things about, again, the process of using particular phonetic codes combined with monitoring and listening to the aggressor when the time comes. Go ahead, please. Uh-oh, I think we may have lost Don. No, I hit the mute button for a moment. Oh, sorry about that. I actually had, I started to respond before I realized. No, it's okay. That's a highly professional action there. I'm sorry for you. That's okay. That even happens. Don't worry. That even happens with what we're talking about on the battlefield, guys. You always got to remember, too. And by the way, on that note, something good point on that. A lot of your equipment has LED or have light indicators and if they don't they should, but if they do, two things. You've got to shield the identifier to show that a button is active or inactive, something most people don't do. If you're in the field, you want to actually create a shutter or an angled cover that kind of directs only to the operator any illumination is going to take place and if it is illumination remember it should be either blacked out to either green, dark green or to red range if you're going to make it visible at all it should be kind of buried so to speak that way it doesn't wash you while you're working as an operator sometimes guys will take for instance fingernail polish and even cover it to the point where there's only a barking little sliver that can be seen and that's all they need, especially when your eyes are adapted to night vision anyway. Before we go any farther down, I heard a beep. We might have another caller. Do we have anybody else? We might have a listener. Go right ahead, Don. Thank you, sir. Go ahead, Don. Jump in there, please. Well, again, going back to the line of sight communications, it's You know microwave was big when the army first started using microwave and it wasn't long before well it you know Hey, it's not like it can't be intercepted. This is line of sight and so narrow again To counter something like this when it's done proper might be such a high-tech thing. That's why I brought satellite into the picture counter something so low-tech as of six or eight foot pressively bigger so and you know slides over itself built for this purpose something it would have to have a satellite on the horizon in such a place that it sees that dinky little laser signature and to be that low it would have to be looking through a lot of atmosphere to see so we're starting to wonder could even a satellite read that on an opposite horizon? hmm that that's a that's a logical question we're talking a dinky little light signature here dinky but enough to be read if you're looking right at it. The thing about that is, again, you have to be looking right down the tube. Like the gun that's not pointed at you can't hurt you. That's a general thought line about when you're disarming people with guns as long as it's not pointed at you. If the bullet goes right by your ear, it might hurt your hearing. Now, running back to that, I have to brag on that a little bit. We talk about high-tech versus low-tech. And that might be so low tech and if you can get that down and become dependable with that like you know where the reception team is, right to the pinpoint. You know right where to point it. It could be miles and miles away. Literally. And the same thing pointed right back at you. You know you're going to be right here. Once you have the identifier and you know when it's so clandestine, you can run that up. They're supposed to be there at 9 o'clock when you start running. It might seem cumbersome, but let me think. It beats trying to fly a barrage balloon to get an antenna in the air and have a guy sitting there, turning the bicycle, leading over there to the ham set or whatever frequencies you want to get out. And then putting a signal into the air that, well, you probably got to settle it. I'm sorry. One of the things about this, Don, that we need to point out to people, guys, do you realize that anything like this could be buried? Oh, pre-deployed. in many areas like at Camp Nagahitcham. They're probably close to 12 miles worth of field telephone wire that's been laid over the last, what, three, four years at least. Not to mention cable. They get cable that's being dumped by the cable company and they have bought nothing new. They just simply are running the old stuff and then they save the excess up as coil and whenever something gets damaged they replace it with junk. But the point is that you could do the same thing. If you have somebody with a surveyor, you know, with a surveyor's compass, okay, somebody can lay down a line. then think about what you can do. You can lay a line, gravel, bed, everything, have the light source set up, seal everything with bathtub caulk, have this thing put in the ground, aimed towards a target area, a specific target area, and a counterpart at another end of a valley across another ridge line so many miles away, even tens of miles away. Remember, it's still got to be line of sight. It's got to reach. And by the way, let's not forget Don't forget that you have growth during the summer and spring, summer, and fall. You're going to lose that, but don't forget that if you do something in late fall, you're going to have tree growth, brush, foliage, grass, and other things. You want to build this in such a way that it's virtually nondescript. Any time it would be left in place, it would be impossible to identify. But when you need to use it, somebody needs to be there at 0300 hours in the morning at one end, somebody at 0300 hours at the other, and all of a sudden you uncover a box which is covered under a rock. It's got a nice little rubber seal, and you hit a switch and click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, Think about it. Again, phonetic codes, standardized codes, or simple short signaling volleys or relays of combinations that literally spell a whole book for somebody at the other end. Think about how that can be done. Again, shortest is best. That's the other thing. Remember, all signals, all activities, no matter what they are, need to be as short as possible. In other words, you're going to travel great distances, that's fantastic. One of the things to consider is like it's almost equivalent to a torch relay system. If the first objective is at a proper location, the individual could literally turn to a second piece of equipment and could have a remote control. from the next side of the ridge and to the next target objective another six miles, ten miles, eleven miles away and beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep beep That way you're not out anything. Plus you can also practice it using it. These make for great tutorial or instruction sites. In other words, I've got to teach somebody how to use it. Don's the teacher. I'm one of the students and there's six or seven other people. Well today we're going to show you how to set something like this up. But first we're going to show how it works. Then we're going to have a little area where we actually teach you how to put the equipment together. And then you're going to have your own. Congratulations! And backups to backups to backups to backups and types of system guys are most critical. Go ahead Don, please. When something, if you don't have a surveyor's traverse, so you can get right down to the tenth of the minute or even finer, you know a minute is one sixtieth of one degree. One quarter of those generally is one click on most scopes, you know, a lot of scopes. roughly an inch at a hundred yards. That's what a minute figures out to at a hundred yards, one sixtieth of one degree, roughly. Actually there's a little bit of a fraction in there too. Most people will, you know, stick with that one inch. Now, running that back, looking how small that field is that needs to be pointed at, when something is set up like this, unless you really got a good situation, situation, good lay of the land and good grass. Now you can run line of sight if you might find a mound where you guys, you can **** and it's pointed. It's always going to be there and you put everything back like it was and on one end there's that hunk of shale and on the other there's well another matching rock for the area. You know where it is and when you get there one day you uncover that rock and you move away a little bit of sand and now that tube is clear on this end and you move away the rock on the other end and clear away a little more sand and now you have access to the other and you brought batteries didn't you? If you were to deploy this and not even put a laser there, this is a minimal signature for a lot of things that they would just generally give the quick overview. It's a minimal signature if it were in particular like a PVC tube. Now, Unless you can confirm with line of sight in a party at the other end, that's ideal when these are set up. That's ideal. But if you have to point in the general direction of line, and you're certain it would be good to cater at the other end that can be sighted by good glass and then the tube is sighted down the line and maybe even opened up and sighted through the flag or whatever. If you're going to talk about multiple models, you guys to set up something like this you really do need compasses you need but if you know the general lay of the land if I'm on top of this hill or I'm on the military crest of this hill I can see that hill most all the time of the year and if I move over here just to the right place it'll take about five years before that tree down the ridge grows up in front of me as you point out mark things change from season to season and you know if you're going to do this try to think about What it looks like right now, look around and what it looks like, absorb that. Do I want this station? Because that's what you're building. You're building a communications station when you're putting something in the ground like this, you guys. Do I want this station to be located here right now? Look around. It's summertime and man, it's nice and shady and you know, it's cool and it's right here. The breeze keeps the bugs off. Hey, scenario, not the winter. Now if you're going to take and clear snow at the end of a tube and clear snow at the other so that you can operate it, well, if you're going to be in one place for a while, you're kind of pounding, aren't you? But now you're building something that, well, doesn't exactly look right. Just in the naked eye, if they hit from the right, the way the sun hits the ground even, might all of a sudden just jump right out to them. I would say that our little sidebar mark, I was hunting with my buddy Jed one day, that's not his real name. But we reached the whole square mile and we beat that area up to the tune of most of the early morning into the afternoon and came out with a couple of grouse. And as we're walking through this two-track it made and we got to the top and there was a little saddle in the top, a little depression, then it went back and down the other hill. As we got to the bottom of that, the top half of a rabbit, ribs, you know, just a cottontail rabbit laying there in the middle of the two-track. You guys, this is a real story. I only tell you this for you'll figure out why. And we stood there, me and Jed, Jed being given that name because he's the outdoorsman, you know. He'll tell you this and show you that and don't do this and do it this way and things get a lot easier. We're standing there for a while trying to figure out what happened to that. And we moved around and there was just enough dusting. There was a hard pack of snow which had frozen. And on top of that, a sprinkling of what people would call dust. To the extent that, well, it hadn't even moved. We looked around and turned a little bit and saw the hawks tracks. And we walked a little bit and saw where the rabbit had come running up, you know, from over there, you know, run with me on that, no pun intended. And all of a sudden you could see where the... then where the... finished, there was a little bit, it wasn't big enough, too... I dissected it, buried the haunches away. Maybe it was sitting in a tree waiting for us to leave. But you know what? We stood there for a while and looking at this and reading all of this imprints and the fine dust And only as I turned away, and Jed didn't even see this mark, only as I turned away. Because we had seen the tracks where the rabbit was la-di-da hopping along about 12 or 18 inches apart, just, you know, like a rabbit not making very much time. And then all of a sudden over here the rabbit is obviously tumbling across the ground. But by standing in a particular direction, Jed, come here and look at this! And you could see, I could see, and then pointed out to my friend, exactly where the hawk hit the rabbit. Why? Because if you stood in one angle, you couldn't see it at all, and you moved your head about three feet, and you know parallel, and then look down you could see perfectly in the dust of the snow, in the dust, the imprint where the hawk, just as it hit the, just as it started to hit the bird, the rabbit, It spread its wings to slow itself so it wouldn't impact with the rabbit so hard that it would hurt itself too. And much like a judo or an aikido or hapikido man being thrown on his back spreads his arms and slaps the ground when he hits, it's the same thing to take out the shock. And you could only read that fine little dusting of a tell from just a certain angle in the sun, in the snow, in the glint. There was a reason for telling you this story. I'll be quiet though. Interestingly enough, again here too, like you said, reading the signs, guys. Don, that's most important is that it takes time. You have to actually have to use a thought process. You have to use an evaluative mind in order to be able to read what you were looking at there, right? Oh, yeah. You look at something and try to pick it apart. What happened here? How did this come about? And by spending even until the last minute, even by paying attention as I was starting to walk away, came the very finest hint, the beginnings of the end for that rabbit and dinner for the hawk. We've reinforced that so many times. Pay attention. Look around. Just look at something once. At the beginning of the hour, sometimes it's the container, sometimes it's the delivery. If you're walking down a street here in the city or down the dusty road in the country, it makes no difference. But if someone's walking your way and He's scraggly and he's got the, you know, greasy leather coat on and he hasn't shaved his beard in a while. You kind of look at him as you walk by, you know, maybe he was on the other side of the street the whole time and you look over your shoulder and make certain he's still walking. But, you know, maybe on the same side of the street, here comes the guy in the suit. And just as he closes on you, he reaches in the vest there, and you wonder, is he reaching for a cigarette or is he reaching for a gun? But there's that thought there always, but you should always pick it apart. Look around. Don't ever look at anything just once and assume, I've seen that before, I know exactly what's going to happen. Now I'm not telling you, we've talked about and described in detail many instances of fixation. on his hat to come back into a good shot. He might be visible but we don't want to take the shot at you want him out in the clearing more where that shot is going to hit him instead of the tree. That's just one example and you become so intent on that that while you don't hear the guy just sneaking up behind you and introduces his bayonet to about the middle of your rib cage and into the ground beyond. Now that's an extreme example of target fixation. I've never actually witnessed that. but we've told you many that we've witnessed. That's an extreme example of looking at something and trying to figure it out and looking at it and looking at it instead of paying attention to your immediate area surroundings. We've talked about if you're going to deploy as a long-distance shooter, that's not one of the aforementioned reasons. We could talk this hour, the rest of this hour, and the rest of the night and offer up a hundred or two hundred different scenarios that say, aren't you glad you weren't there alone? at the end of the little story. And that only reinforces teamwork, doesn't it? And you know what? Teamwork really goes back to... I know we're running for it, but you guys... We've had Michael Lee landing on the air over the years. I'm going to try to get him back, Mark. He came out of the Army, a Lieutenant Colonel. He wrote a number of books. Sniper in the crosshairs in Vietnam. He wrote that book. Now, if you ever have read Platoon, I think I brought this up on the air with him. He had to platoon out in front of him and they're marching across the ground that is dense and heavily, you know, foliage. They're marching through, let's say, you could call parts of Michigan, parts of most of the Midwest, even parts of moving through jungle and they came to a place. He's talking to a radio man at the front man here and this is a man. And he comes to a place where he sees one of his men at the front of the path because he's standing on a hill. and he's watching his column move down the hill and walk out and just in exactly where he's standing, Mark, he's low. He's looking at almost all of his column. He nudges the radio guy and says, calls a halt. The radio guy gets on and repeat halt and the column stops. And he pauses for a moment and he says, giddy up. I don't remember exactly forward or what advance, I can't remember. But he said giddy up and The column started to move again and he took like three breaths. It took longer than that. I just did that to underline and he called a halt again and the column halted. But you know what he was doing in that instant over that moments of time that added up to like less than two minutes? He was looking at the whole of his command and he was giving an order and he was judging how fast that simple order would go through the whole of the column. He went on to say he learned a lot about his boys in just that few moments. people have a tendency want to be near someone because they think it's safe when in reality again once you start to cluster up you become more and more of a target of opportunity so dispersal in a tactical situation is your first best option also helps to optimize your firepower which is only people don't realize well the thing is when you do observe it is for the first time when you see people actually when when they're under one command it is fascinating to watch a well groomed and well-structured machine. And disappointing to see the exact opposite. Oh my goodness, let me tell you, I've seen both versions in multiple stages over and over and over and over again. I will say this, our op-for forces never had that problem. It's because one of the most important things is our op-for units, which became, in most cases, we're all militia formations and progressively, you know, strengthen militia formations. We're all there for a reason. We're all volunteered. We're all there with our personal ambition. Whereas the paid personnel or the corporate personnel had a tendency to be ultimately sloppy or arrogant, even among some of their own, or unwilling to work together. And to watch failure or disorganization with better technology in hand is something I've repeated over and over. It's not the technology, it's not having the latest and greatest, it's being willing to employ and to work together as a team. your enemy is most fearful of that. I'm telling everybody this over and over again, they are terrified of the idea that you will train as a team. You don't have, what have we been saying over and over again this whole hour of communications? Guys, keep it simple stupid. Minimal communication if any. Do you know why? Because SOP, Standard Operating Procedure, does 99.9% of it. I have a series of actions I need to have performed. Don and I look at each other across a 10-mile valley using our special signal tubes or whatever light flashes or whatever we're going to do. Or even direct beam, Yagi antenna, and we're going to take the risk of transmitting on radio, which of course is going to be a flare. But we'll do it only in a few nanoseconds. But if I broadcast a number, number six, at 3 o'clock in the morning on Tuesday night, then Don knows, this should say Tuesday morning, Don knows when he opens up the little manual that number six means all of this and it can be a hundred different things or it can be a hundred things at once. You see? Number six could say C5, 7, 14 and 12. Optional 28. Exactly. And I didn't ask me on the radio explaining everything to it. People are thinking telephone. Forget and throw out the idea of telephone. in a battlefield situation. Kiss. Keep it simple, stupid. Make it so that it's all, and in fact it could even be encrypted or encoded. Number six first has to be decoded from another completely different format, you know, using something else I've used to mark, you know, or to send the message with. Okay? Simply invoke another wheel in the shuffle. Yeah. Ooh, that'll drive them nuts. And remember that it does make an difference without they break it later. It has to be, if it can't be done in a timely fashion, the intelligence they collect is not useful. And you're going to change your pattern every time. You could change your codes every time. In fact, if you're smart, you do. You have a dozen different codes. No two will be used one after another, like, say, in repetition. You always shuffle up the deck. And in this way, you have constant operational security and signal security maintained. That's really what we're looking at here. I know we're at the top. In fact, we're gonna hear the music here in a minute. Don, your number for Night Vision and people want to get hold of you to find out more about Night Vision. What do they do? You can reach me at 2317968458. 2317968458. Thank you. Very good. You got to go? I got to go, Mark. Okay, God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march both day and night. Ooh-rah! Kick him in the slats, run like heck with him over there to the pier before they wiggle out of the rope, and heave him with a double-dosa backpack, Rox, into the brine. Thank you, Don. Thank you, Mark. God bless you. God bless America. I gotta fly. I'll talk to you in a little while. Go, go. Bye-bye. We all need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit mainmilitary.com. Mainmilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, wool blankets, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. Do you own a firearm? 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