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For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a 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? Dill the land of the afternoon ladies and gentlemen this is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report timer krunky one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and northeast. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. We're on AM and FM Microstations, CB, base stations and alternate technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're in the Hallmark Network on 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. 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Lighting in the Smokies, where the restaurant crew's grandma teams, OK teams, and the Mavel Grandma Consortium of Retired Telecommunications Workers bring us the Golden Spike. many hands make the light work a million pedico junctions the ability to continue to function when everything else is off line uh... what's a what it is friday and it is the 20th of September. It is the fifth year of open Fabian socialist and in your face. Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. Some of the fruitcakes have decided that they don't have a deal with the devil, so they're starting to play games in the legislature. Too late, kids. You already fragged the system. The machine's broken because of the demikins and republic rats that were out there. Both of those pile of fools have fragged the country. Everybody knows it. Everybody knows who to blame, and it's both of them. Well, this is not isolated. They've all played the party hardy routine. They all exclude themselves from all the laws they pass. It is, again, part of the chicanery going on. Well, use the system against the system, though. Get them to bite each other, because that's really what the checks and melons system is all about. All right! So anyway, we're going to do just that. But it is 2013 Old Earth Calendar, or my in crazy town, crazy town calendar. We're checking down in 2014. It's September, guys. We have survived more than three quarters of the year of 2013, which with a 13 in every day we should have been doomed. Well, in theory, application may be nothing entirely. I will point out a couple of things here real quick. It's Planet Support, it's Quartermaster Friday. We've been talking about radio and signal communications systems, but that is Quartermaster also because if the technology doesn't get to where the ROs are, you know, radio operators or the RTOs, radio telephone operators, then guess what? You don't get the job done. No ticky, no washy. I want to qualify this whole thing with the idea of saving stuff. You can do a buyback like the shysters and the fake recycling plants do. Now some places are pretty cool. Where we are here, you can buy electronic technology from the recycled bins for a dollar a pound. One of my boys, my youngest boy. Bought it completely functional with all the extra goodies laptop for $10. Is it cutting-edge state-of-the-art? No, it's works. Just find the way it is. I remind you you gotta be careful with some of those buyback things because when they say buy back They want you to walk in and pay them to take your stuff Oh, you thought that they were gonna pay you to pick it up because they're gonna make money off it. Oh, no As a matter of fact- What was the name of that place on the other side of Ann Arbor? I can't remember. Did that turn me off to that place so fast? Oh, that was one of the recycle sites, yeah. But it was a- Yeah, but they were selling the computers that you were turning in and they were giving you five dollars before taking it right from people and putting it up on the shelf for 50 to 75 dollars. To a hundred dollars, yeah. Right in front of you, do it. Yeah, it's like, well, I- but, well, yeah, thank you very much and please get out of our face. Bring more stuff later. Well, the thing is that- Hold on, the thing is guys when we're talking about these buybacks we're talking about setting one up. Remember just tell them you'll take everything all electronics. Let me tell you why. A lot of people get grandmas and grandpa stuff. Try and buy a decent can opener right now. You know, for I've had all the new can openers are absolute garbage. They're all made in communist China. They're worthless. The can opener we're using right now, I'm electric for convenience because when we do a lot of big stews and stuff, you're opening a lot of cans. Or you open a lot of number 10 cans. Guys, the one that's 35 years old is the one that works and still works. The newer ones, all dead and gone. So, the other thing about taking electronics is you can also preserve and find better tools for your purposes. I would recommend doing electronics buyback where you take any electrical tools, any electrical components. You'll get some monster stereo systems. I've got around here for a little bit. Now the world has changed again. Sen-sui. Okay, Sudden Sui! It was the top end in stereo components along with a few other companies, guys. Well, guess what? You could buy a whole Sen-sui rack-mounted system for about $25 to $50 because nobody, you know, the guy got it, didn't know what it was, probably it was dads or grandpas, and threw it out of the yard sale for $25. Now, if you don't get it work fast, somebody else will grab it too because they've now got it at home and they're listening through some of the finest solid state audio synthesized technology built in the last thirty to forty years. There is not any great improvement. It's just cheaper under the hood, chintzier and lighter is all you're getting under the hood now. You're not getting better quality and you're not getting any durability. Cool because you can buy it cheap, fantastic. So you got to replace it twenty times for the price of buying it once and it works for a lifetime. So, one of the other things taken into consideration, you can set up sound systems. People ask, how can we set up, for instance, a movie production facility? How about you start by using all of the turn-ins and handouts that you get like this, where people drop the stuff off, separate it, categorize it, itemize it, and then reinstall it for your purposes. It doesn't have to be cutting edge. It's not going to be playing video games in this case. It's going to be, for instance, video or audio editing. You'd have systems that you could actually have set up, be using, and even program your established next generation when the other equipment runs out when it gets tired. This is a big plus because there's no downtime, but you do it by accumulating the surplus that's out there. This is a solution, but in light of what everybody's talking about, we're going to hit the wall, the economy's going to... Well, if the economy blows, do you think you're going to get anything more from China? Anybody? Take a look at what you're using today that you went out to the store to buy. Hell, if really the economy goes to hell in a handcart, how many of these stores that you're going to right now would virtually have bare shelves if all of a sudden the international trade goes into the break freefall? Go to Wally World. There's hardly anything made in the United States. How long would they last? And by the way, they have on-time delivery. So what they got is what they got. Whoever buys it first gets it and everybody else is thinking there's going to be more on-time delivery. Well, no, the economy. Everybody's talking about the collapse of the dollar, the collapse of the economy. Nobody's going to give you something for free. Well, Mark, speaking about logistics, I already found somebody, a friend leader that will take it. I was, I'm doing another temporary job of emptying out an old plumber warehouse. You know what I came across? Old fittings of lead pipes and old brass fittings. I was thinking that could be perfect for ammunition. Oh yes, as far as the lead pipe, the lead pipe quality, which by the way everybody's still drinking out of it, most people don't know it, there's lead pipe through every water system in the United States. Literally. I have to laugh because people, oh I'd never drink out of lead pipes. Well, most of the planet did for the last hundred years and amazingly enough my grandparents lived in their 90s and they lived through the lead pipe era, not only that but they were articulate and competent and could put two words together and don't seem to have had any major problems there. Well, went Mark, eventually they died. Yeah, in their 90s. Think about that. Well, oh my god, it must have been the lead pipe that killed him. No, it was probably old age. What about the old brass fittings? Brass fittings are critical for a number of things, but brass, here's two things I'm not scrapping, I'm not giving away. I would recommend taking a standard size container of some kind that you can get so you can stack it and rack it. And I would start taking all the pieces of brass, disassemble them, you know, if it's fragged, if it's torn or flattened, take all the extraneous metal off it. Now, if there's steel that's on there, put the steel into your scrap bucket. I would take that, start filling up a container and just keep it off to the side. Five gallon plastic pails would be a good choice but they're round. If you can find square five gallon pails that would be better. The idea is to minimize the amount of space wasted. But then I would fill it up and when you get to the top wiggle it around and keep putting chunks of broken brass casings, you know like scrap brass, not good brass. When you go to ranges you'll find a lot of brass people have stepped on. It's not useful for anything except scrap. Well, I'd keep it. I'd put it in the bucket. I'd shake the bucket up, keep putting the pieces of brass in there. Another thing you do, go to construction sites. I got some really sloppy electricians in this area here. They waste feet of copper wire. In reality, I've done a whole bunch of final electrical projects around the house because when I do closets and stuff like that I need a couple of pigtails. I don't pull it off a big roll. I have a whole pile of line that they've cut off that's 5 feet, 7 feet, 10 feet. And when I did the kitchen, I didn't cut anything new. I just took the wire somebody else had already cut, stripped it where it should be, and ran all my boxes together. But I would save every piece otherwise, and I wouldn't be scrapping any of it now or sending it to anybody. I would keep putting it in the bucket and hang onto it. I found a friend who is in the militia who does reloading. I would highly recommend that yes, round up all the lead you can, all the tin you can. There's places where you'll find tin. Roofers usually are smart. They're not going to just hand it over. But for instance, we got a piece of metal that's laying in another place in another county right now. I helped with a roof. The whole roof came off in one piece. What was it? It was a tin roof that was leaded together. Every part of that roof is going to go into bullets. But the tin is the hard stuff to find out. Tin and antimony are the two odd components out for commercial casting, if you want to mimic commercial casting. The tin and antimony offer stability and make the material a little more rigid so it doesn't distort or spread and doesn't lead your barrel. The tin and antimony create a bond, a low end alloy. That's what you're doing, combining the tin, the antimony, and the lead. Lead being the dominant. Lead used to be the cheapest. things keep going, lead and tin will be about the same price. But what you do is buy a bullet mold that everybody can use. Now I know everybody's going to think we need the super cart-mooth, hollow point, blah blah blah, but no you don't. You want something that is a standard that you can stretch to as many different loads as possible, especially if it's your first die that you're buying and you don't have any other dies for the moment. So let me recommend a 3.57 or a 3.56 diameter, 3.57 would be best. Round nose, or again the reason I say round nose is preferably 125 to 130 grain, 135 grain. 120 or 125 would be your best choice. There is a reason. Number one, I can push that into a 9mm, I can put that into a 357, I can put that also into a 357 SIG. I can pop that round, that bullet into a number of different weapons, you know loads, .357 Magnum, and that projectile will work for all of them. Now the reason I'm doing, would go with a round nose is because I need to be able to feed in the auto loaders. If you want to spend the money on a semi-wad cutter instead, that's your personal choice. In other words, remember that I can make a .357 diameter bullet work in my .38 Smith & Wesson's, which are actually a thicker, actually a wider bullet, guys. But because it's cast and if I don't swage it, I'll have enough extra oomph If I go with a hollow base, round nose, when she makes contact with the rifling, it will open up the base because it is an arced base projectile. It will snag to the rifling so I can get it to work in the .38 Smith & Wesson's and the .38 Colt's, the shorts. I can also use it in 9mm. I could light load and even sculpt the bullet and get it to work in a .380 Auto. But I'm going to have to lose the cart mouth and shorten the bullet a little bit in the process. But I can cast it first, peel, you know, carve off the difference, literally with a jig and a knife, literally a knife, a warm knife. And I can take off the hollow base and I can create a short 9mm bullet that will go in the 380 Auto. So I can load with that same cast bullet, 380 Auto, 9mm, 357 SIG, 38 special 357 and most of the other three five seven three five six three five eight diameter out there That's the first investment I'd make and it would probably still be the cheapest because it's not the most popular, but they are out there Natchez shooting supply George has Still has a number of dyes on the shelf. Nobody's replacing what they what they sold I hope everybody notices that the industry is not keeping up. I don't know what yeah, I don't know repeat repeat Melting the lead, something to melt the lead in. Melting the lead, hot plate, save your old Teflon pans and your old pans that you got there guys. George, I processed most of my lead at a secondary location. What I would do is separate. When you harvest off the ranges, and I repeat for everybody here, go to the ranges. Right now we just got, and this is the fact, we just did this what, four days ago. We just took four 5 gallon pails, and we don't fill them up all the way because you don't want to lift a 5 gallon pail full of lead guys. You ever tried that? But five, four going on five, five gallon pails, a little more than half full of lead harvested off the surface. We didn't even move the surface soil. There's tons of this. This range has never been harvested. 45 ACP, 50 caliber pistol. Someone's firing 50 caliber, you know, hogleg over there, 50 caliber pistol. So these projectiles are mammoth. but we're getting hands full like pebbles. Now the point is that when I bring that back, when I'm melting, I take the pistol jacketed bullets and put them together when I melt. And I also keep track of that and log that. If I'm casting bullets with that or if I'm just going to cast it into ingots, I will stamp into the ingot with a simple stamp set from Harbor Freight or from Tractor Supply. Cheap, cheap, cheap. And I'll ID pistol, jacketed pistol. I can put Jack pissed. Okay, Jack's pissed. But the idea behind it is mark it so you know that that's jacketed pistol lead. Now if I have rifle lead, I will do that separately. If I have cast pistol ammunition, pistol bullets, they don't get thrown in with the jacketed stuff. And there's a reason. The jacketed stuff is commercial mix, probably again, standard tin, anomone, and lead. The cast bullets are not factory. Typically the majority of those are private spun anyway. So to make another mix up that's probably going to be a little softer, I take all the jacketed bullets, take those for the hard case, I take the cast bullets and keep them together for the softer bullet mold. The jackets will float. When you melt this stuff, the jackets will float. The big thing is you want ventilation. Don't do this in a closed closet or anything like that. But you can, for instance, if you have a junk, you've got to burn. Make up a rack so that you can put your junk underneath and put your pan up above. Any calories you can create, any heat you can generate, you can make a volcano chimney. where you put a little canopy over top of the fire you're going to have down below. Have it directed to a central point. Put a grate on the top. Put your pan up there. Put your lead in the pan. Congratulations, away you go. All your scrap and detritus, even bits of rock will float on your melted, your smelted lead. Grab yourself something, a little scoop or grate to pull the stuff out. Don't reach them with your hand, it would be stupid. But pull out the detritus, the copper jacket, put it over in your scrap bin over there with your copper. All the jackets can either get saved for fragmentation and anti-personnel, a fougasse type tubes if you want to make an anti-personnel charge. You can scrap it out for copper, or you can keep it for copper for future use by the Patriot Movement. It goes into those five gallon pails we were talking about earlier. I don't care if it's rifle jacket or if it's pistol jacket. All of that can be put into the scrap bin and can be re-marketed for money. That's cash. That's payola. That's part of your benefit off of your smelting process. The big thing is that when you're done you can either cast in ingots or if you're motivated and you're ready to go that day, for instance, you can always use buckshot. You can always use number four. I've got a 20 station buckshot mold. In fact, we just used it this weekend. Start melting the lead and pour a bunch of 22 caliber buckshot. I've got plastic jars full of them. They don't have to be real pretty, they don't have to be real perfect, guys. Lead sinkers are a bugger. You can get lead sinker molds cheap. Lead sinker, a load of lead sinker, a 1 ounce charge of lead sinker and a 12 gauge going down range down a hallway. Just chew your arse to pieces. Think all the mean things you can do with fun stuff like that. Some people have argued, well, you know what you could do, you take that cup, open it up, all those 22 caliber bullets, you pull off the range. Why recast them? Why not just measure them out load them up into a 12 gauge load and spew them down the tube? They're freebies you get 22 bullets up the butt I think a fun one would be to take 20 you know, two two three bullets recovered off the range that are kind of distorted Stack as many of them up into 12 gauge as you can George and when you pull the trigger They're gonna really wonder what the hell happened there Wouldn't that be kind of fun? Oh, and if they try for ballistics you got 20 different, you know 20 different bullets and 20 different jacket, you know 20 different rifling's Wouldn't that be fun? Thumb up! That'd be kind of mean. And by the way, use a cardboard cup base. Don't use a plastic wad. Use a cardboard cup base. When you pull the trigger, that hard cardboard pushes the bullets down the tube. They go tumbling down the hallway at maximum velocity. When they hit, if you think a 2-2-3 bullet tumbles under normal configuration, if it's already partially distorted, can you imagine how how how delicious that would look? Not only that but what would they say they were shot with my god? What kind of an AR-15 was he using? Ooh, that'd be kind of cool, wouldn't it? Hey, that's good. Anyway, what else? You know yesterday I went to Houston I'll tell ya, I'll walk you to a Starbucks and I tell ya to think the place was a ghost town at Brush Hour and I figured out why the controversy over a Starbucks allowing people with guns because People are bringing up the Second Amendment and these coffee shops and you had a few mini California Quanticator complainers. Oh yeah, what it comes down to is the panty waste are making noise and the panty waste that own the company, they're listening to the minority panty waste. First of all, Starbucks is expensive. Nice coffee, but it's expensive. There's another Canadian company, oh come on, what's the name of it? They're just as bad. They're worse than Starbucks. They're rabidly anti-gun and it's like I said, just stop going there. Coffee houses, they are terrified of coffee houses. Now I'm going to tell you that. The Patriot movement talked about this in the 90s. That, hey, set up a coffee shop. People come together. They offer really good prices, but make it Patriot. Guys, wherever they set up a, in fact one was right next to a train track which was busy and it was industrial. You know what? Even though every once in a while you had the going by, they couldn't keep business loaded. They couldn't keep material up fast enough and the cool thing is it was all patriot oriented. Well, they were swarmed upon by the county which was being pushed by the Michigan State Police to harass them every way they could. What was fascinating is eventually the county and the township got sued up the arse, lost their shirt big time. All it turned out in court that the Michigan State Police had been the one pushing it because they were terrified that the information and people were talking at this coffee house and these coffee houses. It's rather fascinating. We're not selling beer. Nobody's getting doped up. They're drinking coffee. But I think part of it is that usually people who drink coffee they kind of sip they relax their brain is stimulated by the caffeine and they start talking about things and using their brain and People who don't use their brain are terrified of all of us who do Socialist parasites hate us Because we're thinking and we look right at them and when we see something we call the spade a spade It's not a heart. It's not a diamond. It's not a club. It's a spade And so, yes, everybody needs to be talking about, well, you know what, Starbucks is expensive anyway, let's just stop going there and save the money. Look at all the money you'll save. Go buy your own coffee somewhere else. That'll settle it real quick. I just buy a thermos and fill it up and while I talk, I'll fill up their coffee cups. Exactly. Well, or find a freebie place. Most a lot of places are courtesy coffee places, even have little tables and stuff. Everybody go there. Oh, well, cool. And by the way, buy some pastries while you're there from the usual. That's what they do. The coffee's the enticement. It's the pastries they make money on. There's a campaign get ready to start in Texas one guy He's out of northern Texas because we have HEB which is in the state of Texas and they want to get their pressure HEB to pull all the Benning Jerry's ice cream off there Hold on George. You're really busting up. It's gonna have to adjust this year But he's doing something else real quick But go ahead finish up what you're saying, but we're gonna hold you off for a minute only because I'm we're gonna clean up the line Go ahead. I'm just saying there's a guy up in Dallas Freshman H muted. The Ben and Jerry's also are their poof to supporters on top of everything else. Don't forget that. That's why in most of these television programs, wherever they mention Ben and Jerry's, it wasn't because they're anti-gun, although that's part of what they do support. The big thing is they're queer as a three dollar bill. So I don't know who's dipping what in your ice cream when you're getting it. You know, before you get it, you don't know what they're using to stir the ice cream chuck with. You might not want to see on camera how they're doing that for you and you don't want to what special Additives depending on when they use it for a toilet what they might be doing while they're busy having their you know gay poof to experiences in the ice cream parlor Oops, I mean at the production facility And if you don't think that isn't the case. There's a whole lot of stuff like that going on people Well, that's the thing we're gonna try to pressure like get Ben and Jerry's off the shelf. I mean I gotta say why support your enemy? You know if he's gonna use what you pay for against us Apparently, I would rather them stay neutral. That'll settle it real quick. Oh really? Won't buy any of their product anymore. Another thing real quick before we go any further, we're at the bottom of the hour break here. George, pay attention to the tractor supply clearances right now. Guys, they had a plethora of those ultra blight super LED flashlights come through. They went overboard out of them in most places. You might want to check down in your neck of the woods. Tractor supply has mark downs. Go back in the rear corner of the store and or just go through and peruse the place. At half price these things are great lights for, you know, again, blinding or distracting an aggressor. You don't need to be there. You hook up a remote switch, tag it, it's already got a power supply. Guys, that can be going off and give them something to look at in one direction while you're operating in another. These can be set up as a remote package something to take into consideration They can also be remotely activated, but they just make great flashlights in general. They're aluminum. They're China sport slave made and They're reasonably priced where they're marked down 50% or more Also just got a bunch of wrenches from the same place $2 $3 for these you know unique extension wrenches or combination crescent wrench and half inch ratchet drives Those are awfully good tools to have in a toolbox where you have limited space. I'm putting those in all of my tactical vehicles. We already do this with a bunch of the other tools. If it does more than one thing, yes, I need it. Well, some people say, well, it doesn't do it that fast. No, but it keeps doing it. And without having to carry more weight, I've got the other tool right there. And in reality, like the ratchet, works just like any other ratchet. But it has a crescent wrench on the other end. So if I need a starter and I need a universal, because I don't have the right socket right there, guess what, guys? I can keep working rather than having to pull my way out of something or crawl off underneath the vehicle to get more done in less time. And that's something when you look at. George, I'll tell you what, go ahead and if you want to step back for a bit, we're going to go to break here, as a matter of fact, thanks for calling. And for all of our friends out there, again, hey, Starbucks, there's too many of them out there anyway, and they don't want our business, and they hate firearms owners and they're listening to the queers, well, let's see if they stay in business with only their buddies there, you know how that's going to work. So, one more thing, it is Quartermaster Friday. ApexGunParts.com, more on that in a minute. But remember, like with this Navy Yard shooting, body armor is not illegal, guys. Why aren't you wearing it? We'll be back. This is the Intel Report Live, and it is Friday. Well, real quick again, from the TrenchesWorldReport.com, from the TrenchesWorldReport.com, it's Quartermaster Friday. Excellent article here. This is done by Max Velocity Tactical, Battle Belt, question answered. read the article, take the time to do that, but I'm going to insert something from another direction again because this is the year 2013 back when, if you'll notice, these guys were in DPM camo, okay, and it's a DPM rig that the guy is showing, which when these type of combat kits came into play, they were new and a neat idea and really are a good idea the way they're set up, but the idea was the Minimist concept. In other words, minimal transport maximum result from what you're carrying for the number of pounds carried. And of course, combat load is the big thing. We talked about this over and over again. More mags, more mags, more mags, more mags. The shift from the 1950 Sisk type web gear, or forgive me, the 58 for the Brits, for the Commonwealth troops, the Commonwealth rigs were really cool. I really liked the web gear, but you couldn't get it because they won't bring it in the United States. And only recently have they started bringing some of it in. because the British know they're going to be fighting us. The commonwealth, the shyster globalists didn't want us to have stuff so they don't send their civil defense equipment here. They've got so much excess civil defense in England. They'll sell it to any dictator. They'll sell anything to any dictator that murders or slaughters hundreds or thousands or millions of their own people. They'll sell it to the Syrian terrorists that Obama backs, but not to the American people. In fact, where somebody tried to do this and they thought they had carte blanche, it turns out that they perceive you as the number one enemy on the planet, the American people, the American militias. So they don't sell the stuff here, for the most part. What you see coming in is excess or what's trickled in through second or third parties, typically not directly from the English supply system, the British supply system. The old 58 gear had mag pouches everywhere. The FNFL was the standard for the day. And so they distributed the weight of the FAL mags across the whole of the web gear and kept it snug and tight to the person. That is the key to reducing fatigue. It also is critical towards fast and quick reaction and movement when you are operating with combat gear. You want it snug. You don't want it so snug you can't breathe. But you want it so that when you turn, everything turns with you. There is not a flopping hesitation like it is extra flabby body weight. One of the things about this belt concept is remember that you also had things that people were using to eliminate some weight or they're taking and making the whole system work for them. The idea was that you could operate out of that battle belt. Everybody looks at that and goes, man, that's just a belt system. Where are the big backpacks and this and that and the other guys? We made pockets on uniforms to be used. They weren't for pretty effect. Oh, look, he's got baggy pockets on his safari pants. Aren't those so chic? Oh, but they don't really work, do they? Oh no, they're sewn shut and you never put anything in them. You know how stupid that sounds. Well in reality, when you were looking at living out of a battle belt or a battle rig or a Type 56 rig, which by the way, the US Type 56, the TA-56 gear, remember we had the Fanny Pack as part of the integrated system. Even the fanny pack is limited in size. It's not unlimited. You can't keep blowing it out so it's the size of an Alice pack. So the idea is that you tailor your load accordingly by taking advantage of technology. Well, what were some of the things people did? Space food. This is something where people say, how could you live for three days out of that? How do you carry calories? How do you carry this? Space food. What was really neat is back in the day food tabs became, in fact, you remember these guys, you can still get them. You might notice food tabs are built, the container is built to fit right into a standard old one quart canteen pouch. Did you notice that? Anybody? If you go out and buy food tabs, which by the way are supposed to be in these tasty flavors, you can buy them in chocolate, I don't know if that really what that was, strawberry, that ain't strawberry, it's pink, it's like, ugh. And then they had vanilla, and if you believe it was vanilla, please, agh! However, here's the thing, did it keep you alive? Oh hell yeah! In fact, what it did, basically where they came up with these food tabs, was the bodybuilding industry, where they already had all of these bodybuilding powders, and by the way, they were done as quote-unquote, if you want to call them that, flavor shakes. Now, this powder was, of course, high protein powder with all the goodies and nutrients and reinforced to the, you know, space age level. And you drank one of it and pumped yourself up, you were busy building the muskles. Well, you take the same concept and switch it over to compression. You're looking for a combination of calories and all the minerals, vitamins, and nutrients to get things done. That's part of the factor. That's what made the Battle Belt idea work. And you didn't just carry it on the Battle Belt. Be quite honest, you didn't carry a lot of your gear on the belt anyway. It was in the pockets. You have six pockets on your pants. Use them. You have four pockets on your blouse. Use them. You have four to six pockets on your battle blouse jacket, which remember for the Brits, they've got, in the later models, the earlier ones are basically like the type 45, type 50 field jacket. They have four pockets. But later on, the Brits started to add more pockets. You had a butt pocket on the back of the field jacket. You had two zipper pockets in the front, which you still see is most of the patterns for a lot of the stuff that's coming out of surplus. You had two popcorn pockets on the top, really baggy and angled, conveniently. And you had two lower pockets on your field jacket, which were big chipmunk cheeks. So when you talk about the idea of a guy using that battle belt and living out of it, it was part of a system. And the system, you carry the food, your extra socks. Remember what I said, I don't put all my socks in one pocket. If I have my pants pockets loaded, and there's a number of reasons for doing this as a team leader, too, guys. Because everybody always says, man, you're carrying a lot of extra stuff. No, not really. Never, it's enough. It's never enough. Never. I'm going to tell you that right now. Never when I went into the field. I can remember only one operation where I had enough of what I needed. So that I was actually at a standard level of comfort that stayed flat for the whole operation Any other time it rained it gets wet it gets cold you expect that you're still gonna You know there's something else you realize man. We needed just a little more of this or that more on why I needed more of that in a moment because you're playing daddy, okay? But what you do is you take for instance your food stuffs, energy bars, and nowadays you've got space food energy bars. If you were packing to be hyper light, you're going to be a hop light infantryman, then you spend the money and you buy the high-tech food where you can. Now I'm not worried. Well Mark, what about carcinogens in the centimeter? Guys, you're talking about bullets probably killing you. Okay, so I think the least of your worry is temporary consumption of this kind of food stuff for a short, short period of time just to keep you alive so you can maneuver better and you can stay functional in the field. Okay, but you don't have to worry about that because there's all kinds of positive food stuffs that are out there made with yogurts and with all kinds of stuff that are pasty, tasty stuff. Ultra thick, ultra heavy, lots of nutrients. Well, you put one of those, for instance, let's say you got one of those food bars. Put one or two of those in every pocket, except for your butt pockets. Don't put anything in those butt cheek areas. Okay, back there, not yet. After you put one or two of those bars in every pocket, candy, some kind of sugar, some kind of just junk calories. I don't care what it is, but preferably something hard, something well packed, something difficult to get into. Seriously, because that means it's also protected better when you're carrying it. I'll tell you one that's really good right now, but you've got to watch for noise. Gummy things. Okay, the gummy foods, you know, gummy worms, gummy whatever. You can get little packs of those. They'll watch you out for the crinkle factor, but if you can find something that's in those foil paper packs, the juicer types, those are a good one. Throw a couple of those in there. Throw some chocolate in there, whatever you want. If you can find some hard chocolate that doesn't melt easily, that's hard to do. The old military chocolate was fantastic. That's what you put. You'll put a couple of those in your pants pocket. Put a couple of those in your jacket pocket. Now, also, extra socks. One extra pair of socks in the left. One extra pair of socks in the right front leg pocket. The popcorn pocket down below. Extra glove liner. One each set. One on the left, one on the right. Now, do the same thing with the lower pockets in your field jacket. Another pair of glove liners. Another pair of socks. Your field gear doesn't need to be as dense with regard to your add-on, but almost everything you'd be using or supplementing is out of your gear kit, your clothing, depending on what clothing system you embrace. You adapt to your needs. Remember that the Brits have a system, the Americans have a system, most every country, the Belgian stuff is kind of mimicked after and the Dutch stuff is mimicked after the British designs as far as embracing certain ideas. So lots of extra pockets. Some of those pants have 11 pockets on them. Now if you kick yourself out and by the way everybody goes, man you got a lot of junk in your pockets Mark, wouldn't that be heavy? Well that's what suspenders are for. I highly recommend you invest in a pair of cheap suspenders, alligator type, crane, those will work just fine. Okay, but whatever you're going to do, if your pants don't have them, here's the thing, go get yourself some commercial military suspenders. Figure out where the buttons need to be sewed, sew them into your pants on the inside, you can be the seamstress, and put a pair of suspenders on your pants, just like on combat field pants. What this does is it gives you the support needed so you don't lose your britches while you're out there running around, which is kind of a positive thing. They're well made, they're durable, they're going to last a long time. Be creative, think ahead. Now, otherwise, even on the combat load itself, you can distribute the food tabs or something like that, the energy bars, on the assault rig. There are a number of ways you can attach supplemental ultra-light pockets matching up the web gear pattern so it can go around the back, off to the side or whatever. But don't forget you have all these other field jacket pockets, your blouse pockets and everything else to utilize. Think ahead and think full system not just the belt itself the idea that they said who said well You had to be able to operate off that belt which is true But the bat belts that they created were quite extensive by the time they were done For instance now not everybody carried tools, but wire cutters were part of the integrated tools issued to a team E tools now some units the policy was every other man carries one Not every man. The idea here was to lighten up the load so more ammunition can be carried. Remember if you're not carrying the E-tool, especially if it's a steel folder and it's a tri-fold, they're kind of heavy. drop that weight and in favor of more mags and more ammunition. Another thing mentioned in this article under the quote-unquote old-school philosophy, this was something that was pushed, you don't need a handgun. I have a problem with that, I always have, because if we don't go into anal, unlike the anal retentive control freak militaries that are always of course trying desperately to, you know, impose the political correctness of the day, this is why the handgun wasn't out there. It has nothing to do with carrying more mags, nothing. The politically correct officers and the politically correct bureaucrats did not want you to have a handgun. They want everybody conditioned, especially coming out of the military, to be politically correct in a particular way. Let me ask you something. What is a chief special way? What is a 38 chief special way? What is a 380 auto? Look at the guns you were buying for $69. A mackerel pistol for $69. Magazines, 50 cents a piece. Ammunition, a nickel round. You mean to say you can't find a place to carry that in a shoulder rig or in a hip rig or attached to an outer part of one of your pouches and that's not weighted that's that's that weight is like you know useless you know tell you what if you have to contribute to the battlefield and you have a weapon shot a weapon blowed up a weapon that malfunctions it just overheat something went wrong Well, you standing there with your thumb up your arse really looks stupid, but on the other hand being able to pull out a 380 or a 9mm Mac-Rub or a .38 and continue to bark like a dog? Well, that's contributing to the battlefield. That's contributing to the defense, or at least again, you may have to back off. You don't have the range, but you can be security for another rifleman who has a complete weapon, and if you don't have other weapons laying around on corpses, which does happen on occasion if you're fast and smart, Otherwise, that extra firearm in everybody's hand makes a big difference. Now the policy that most people have is the handgun is not attached to the combat rig. Today with hang holsters being the big thing, you know, hip hangers down by the thigh, that handgun should be on your person all the time. Never leaves your system. You've got food and auxiliary clothing in your popcorn pockets, you're carrying a handgun, you carry three, four, five, or six spare mags, and I firmly believe in carrying at least six. Well, now if something happens and you're caught unawares and somehow you were stupid and got caught away from your firearm, your rifle, at least you can pull out the handgun and for defense purposes you're not sitting there with your arse hanging in the breeze. There's a million reasons as a militia man you should have some kind of handgun on your person. and every man should be carrying one. Not the least of which is this. Your pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, Fred gets hit. Not you. Fred gets hit. Fred doesn't have anything. He just lost his gear. The gun's blown in half. Something happens. He falls back and retreats. He got stunned. He had to run to save his life. Now Fred standing there in his hat is ours is hanging in the breeze Which would be better for you to have to be firing while Fred covers behind a position because he has no weapon or you being able to hesitate for a minute reaching over pulling out the macro oven going there's eight in it use it and All of a sudden instead of one guy, you know shooting and the other guy using harsh language and trying to scare the bad guys Which ain't gonna happen instead you're putting bullets in them or bullets downrange two guys shooting is always better than one guy shooting wouldn't you say? So there's so many there are so many points here that are critical and this is why the handgun why not this is America We're not the slave states of Europe. We're not the slave states of Asia. It is the land of the fee in the home of the slave I understand that But the only reason that they did not want anybody to carry a handgun is political correctness and the fact the government doesn't want to spend any money on you But we're not we're not the government as far as you know, the bureaucracy and the anal retentive control freaks. We're militia So, whatever you're willing to carry, my attitude when you show up at the table for the dining experience, whatever you bring along, I'm more than happy to see. I'm not going to do that. Oh, why are you carrying a handgun? Or, oh, why aren't you carrying this? Or, oh, why aren't you carrying this? You know, the guy showed up. I won't complain about whoever shows up and how they do. Now, once they use the tools they have, Once you get into what's called OJT, on the job training guys, you're going to tweak and find out what works best with what you've got. Or you may eventually upgrade because you're stripping your enemy corpse for everything he's got. Maybe it is better than yours. Maybe you can only afford a certain quality of arm. Well, we're going to prioritize to kill an aggressor and strip him. And I don't want what he's got because I already got what I want. But maybe you need to upgrade. Well, I'll strip his corpse and give you his goodies. Now, we're not going to throw out anything you brought with you. We just got more goodies to fight with when the time comes. See how that works? But there's, there, this is another, let me give an example of arguments I always thought were stupid or foolish. Number one, shoulder, shoulder stocks on pistols. There was a debate for years about, well, a shoulder stock's good or a shoulder stock bad. Well, my attitude is there are millions of shoulder stock pistols that were made, so why not? Well, well, you know, and so there was this political correctness argument that went back and forth purely based upon the Gun Control Act of 1933, guys. It has nothing to do with shoulder stocks not working. You want to know why I can tell you that? When I worked with SF Union, I worked as an RO. You get a book, it's your special warfare, well actually what it is, is your calling manual for material and support. If you go to the old manuals, any of the manuals from Vietnam War era through the 70s and 80s, there is a code for calling in 45s as part of your airdrop. Just like, you know, M16s, M60s, ammunition, spare parts, you can order anything with a code. And it's a phonetic code. Now, when you order a 45, a brace of 45 pistols, with every pistol you got a shoulder stock for the 1911. Did you know that? Now, this is at a time when they told you that shoulder stocks are of no purpose in a military weapon, blah, blah, blah, blah, or anywhere. And yet, if I called in 45s, if I called in for a brace of five 45s, I got so many magazines, so many hundred rounds of ammunition, and I got a shoulder stock, and I got the mainspring housing to put on the weapon so I could make that 45 a shoulder stock pistol. That totally blows out of the water. All the BSI read over the years at the same time were the politically correct trying to lick the arse of the Fed and because political correctness with all this, oh this is terrible. The Brits made the English, the Canadians made the English high power which took a shoulder stock. The Broomhandle-Mauzer took a shoulder stock. The Luger took a shoulder stock. The original pistols coming out of the turn of the century of the 1800s to 1900s, every one of them took a shoulder stock. And every one of them increased in accuracy by being able to create a three point of control, the shoulder and both of your hands, your arms, and increase the probability of hit with the weapon. But they're stupid and crazy. Now the other thing is to carry or not carry a handgun. Again, political correctness. It had nothing to do with the idea, well if you didn't carry the handgun, you'd have two more magazines to carry. Oh, BS! I'll carry the handgun and I'll still carry two more mags. I'll carry as many mags and get my, I've already explained to you my policy on that, but that's something I learned a long time ago. And that's part of this whole school that the guy's talking about here in the article. You know, again, this is max velocity. It's an excellent article. Battle belt question answered. And it kind of goes through the, again, you've got to remember the philosophy of the day, but you have to add the rest of the ideas that are part of a system. It wasn't just one item, it's the idea that you're carrying everything on your person to stay functional, guys. Everything that's got chipmunk cheeks should be full. The chipmunk cheeks of all of your gear should be full. You are going to use it. Don't worry. You'll wish to God you had more pockets and you'll wish you'd carried more. I don't care who you are. Okay, so just keep that in mind. All this BS about how well you don't need this or you don't know no you'll just bring it all along we'll figure out what works later on as long as you use common sense but always more is better always carry dump bags. For all those fails you can throw it off to the side if you come back to pick it up big deal. If you're first if you're the first echelon going in as militia in a minute man unit you're gonna need everything you can grab and carry in guys. Think that way. But also you need to be in the ID behind this was that you were hoplite the airborne units are hoplite infantry So they were taking advantage of a lot of cool stuff that came out that allowed them to compress energy Which meant you could carry more in a smaller space Okay, but we as the militia are not airborne. We are heavy infantry The reason we're heavy infantry, we're ground pounders, you're not going to get dumped out of a plane, you're not going to get thrown out of a helicopter, you're going to be ground pounding in by mech. You're going to go in by wheel, you're going to go in on foot, maybe on bike. But one way or another, when you get to the other end, you better be carrying everything you can, because there's no guarantee a second echelon supply train is going to be there right away. And that's why grossly overweight isn't. You'll find out real quick you wish you carried more. Always, no matter how much you carry with you. That's just the rule. The Brits and the Falkland Islands learned this when one of the campaign took place. Everybody carried about 22 mags of FAL ammunition. 22 mags. Most all of them were out of mags in the first few hours and were scavenging the dead, both Argentine and Brit, to find more magazines and that's how they kept fighting. Go ahead George, before we go, what do you got? Well, it was something my friend said it was not a Spanish speaking radio. They were talking about since they sucked America dry, they were thinking about going up to Alaska and going into Russia through the Bering Straits, thinking Russia is going to welcome Mexicans without no documentation with open arms. They'll start shooting them outright, they'll just find them dead in the Bering Straits, that's what the Mexicans will find out. Russians won't mess around with all, they'll just shoot their hairy hind end and get rid of them and feed them to the sharks. because they think they came across the parents' street like they're ancestors. Yeah, well that's just more of the dribble from these fools that are yat. Listen to the yat by the Jewish mob out of Mexico that run Mexico. Anyway, we gotta go. God bless the Republic. Step to your world order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. And we are on the march. 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