October 1, 2013
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1h 1m
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2013
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Summary
Mark Koernke discussed colonial-era fortifications and private artillery, then pivoted to extensive tactical guidance on battlefield logistics including corpse stripping, equipment caching, and signal communications. He covered radio procurement strategies, antenna theory, weapon system consolidation, and the importance of spare parts and armorers' support. The episode included commentary on government shutdown theater, World War II veterans, and recommendations for purchasing surplus military equipment from various vendors.
- colonial fortifications
- block houses
- private artillery
- battlefield logistics
- signal communications
- radio procurement
- antenna theory
- weapon systems
- spare parts
- mg42
- hk91
- ptr-91
- 50 caliber
- ammunition caching
- quartermaster
- government shutdown
- world war ii veterans
- preparedness
- militia tactics
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You read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold you trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame You've taken Satan's number You've traded in your name You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside 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 is this still the land of the freedom's call afternoon ladies and gentlemen this is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report time our currently one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines and occupied territories south southwest east and northeast well ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com, run AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're on 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. Headed to Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Big Junk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both of their the fifth pit and our friends in the great state of Colorado, the Civil War state. Waving to the left coast where Feinstein and his embalmets its wretched filth across the landscape, we turn back to these sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of Mississippi, and the Smokies, where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, ok teams, bring us the Golden Spike Project. Today's date? Well, as you all know, it is the first October. It is the fifth year of open and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a 2013 old earth calendar or Mayan crazy town crazy town calendar. That's right for all you Mayan worshippers out there. Well, I'm a Christian. Well, everybody's really focusing on the Mayan we're all going to die calendar. For those who are demi-mions, there we go. Well, don't worry. 2012 came and went. We're still breathing. The timeline continues and as I said before, yeah, doesn't really wait for any of us. So it's purely a matter of, again, how motivated you get to stay focused on mission and, well, embrace our liberty. We got a fight in our hands. Looks like we're going to be in the middle of a good knockdown, drag him out, kick him in the head kind of conflict here, just like we've said. They come at it. and then they back off and they command it again and then they're after the guns a third time, a fourth time, a fifth... well actually it's really count way past that because they've always popped out and now they've thrown the big card down, the UN Gunman. So I think pretty well the game's over on that one. It's either a defecator get off the pot, they either have to try and take them or they're gonna have to back off and people just buy more arms and now they're learning to build more and make their own to the point where Pretty much whatever we want to construct we can and when they come after that it's going to be like well Why did they go to Concord? Well, they went there because they didn't like the Patriots. No, they went there because of the guns the gun carriage and a slash wheel right the foundry and wheel right that was located just beyond Concord building Oh Private artillery pieces which everybody nobody had problem that goes block houses all over the colonial West All had artillery. Most people know that. Have you ever looked at the design of a stockade home? An octagon-shaped home? Or even a conventional double block? How about the classic double block or the, you know, again, where you, what it basically would do is you'd build a cabin up to square configuration. That's your first floor. Deck it off flat, flat top and then pivot by, you know, about what, 40 degrees, 45 degrees and put another block the same size as the block down below on top of the other one and make yourself a second story fortress. Sometimes they went with a octagon, sometimes they went simply with a block. That was the fastest, easiest way. And then reconfigured the upper floor accordingly to make the shooting stations. Now the artillery, usually two gun tubes, which could be two pounders, even simple one pounders. It was purely a matter of how much money you have and what you're going to spend on your colonial outpost. Typically, these were the hard, like, rally points in the event that the, quote-unquote, tribes or the peripheral, you know, population was going to go after you. Everybody fell back to these block houses. They were fortified, reinforced. Typically, everybody had a kind of a community investment in food reserves, being set aside, powder, shot, casting technology. spare pikes, short fighting implements, everything was stocked there on site. Now there's a lot of these that still survive to this day and they weren't as crude and simple as a lot of people try to imply. And typically the limited museum allows. Remember, these were fighting stations. Now, they were living quarters in most cases too. Somebody typically garrisoned the site up. But if they were on the property, depending on how much money the person had or how much everybody was willing to invest in their mutual militia defense, That determined how big and how elaborate many of them were the most extensive being the classic stockade fork type That most everybody thinks of when they hear Daniel Boone or if they hear Davey Davey Crockett, oh, baby Well, in reality, there was quite a mix. And the farther you are to the frontier, well, initially the idea was to get something in place that quickly offered strong defense against pretty much everything you were going to run into. That's where the block house or the fortress, you know, central location came in handy. Later again, walls, and upon that, palisades, revetted positions, You name it, all kinds of modifications to the defenses depending upon the threat. With the French and Indian War, both conventional and the unconventional had to be taken into consideration, depending on how far out on the frontier. Probably the best example of what you see are major extremes in the movie Last of the Mohicans. Okay. All this to explain that when they were going to Concord, they were going after the privately owned artillery pieces and the shoulder guns too, but those were a sidebar. It was the fact that these people had committed to the Patriot Movement. They were continuing to build better. They had people with a lot of experience in the foundry work that they were doing and in building gun tubes, though almost all blacksmiths could do that. Pretty much everyone had the ability. It's whether or not you had the money to buy the metal. Wood was everywhere, so that's not a big deal. But strapping for wheels, strapping for axles... Oh! That's right. Those things all had to be manufactured from scratch The gun tube had to be cast the gun tube then had to be properly bored chambered and then properly tooled so that the touch hole was in position where it needed to be and all of the Nonsense and ultra fine work that was required to make that happen. You don't see that in movies they usually cut short on that because that's a very dull part of Well getting ready to wage war. It's like the other 80% of the stuff that's really dull. If you're a child, you're gonna have a hard time dealing with it. If you're an adult, you realize that you have to repeat, repeat, repeat a very dull process to get to an end result. If not, well, you're dead at the other end. The pretty uniform doesn't just make it if you thought you're with the regulars or with the addressed or the regulator or other supported militias. It wasn't just the uniform. There was a whole lot of other support behind it that was needed. This gets over to the whole point we're seeing today. Logistics, logistics, logistics tied into signal communications. It's not just the logistics guys. It's being able to route. This is where we talk about Quartermaster and also Quartermaster coordinating with field commander's needs. Now there are two things everybody always wants more and if you're in the field and you collect it, it's kind of yours but typically you'll find that we're going to use the idea of routing to the rear or routing to caches, stock points, whatever we come up with simply because we're going to acquire, especially if you have a victory, more material than you can use. And you need to have a system, a mindset in place about how you're going to evacuate everything that you can that isn't nailed down. Spread it to the wind, drop it off into caches that are prepared in advance of the action to take place so that this stuff can be, first of all, concealed from overhead immediately, the cache point. Then it's going to be filled with whatever goodies are there. The mapping system or the ID system to recover it is, you know, passed on and then progressively it can either be used in place as an ongoing supply cache until exhausted or It can be recovered for depo-ing with a larger formation or with larger operations. You need to be thinking through on this in advance. This is where we talk about like stripping the dead. You don't say, oh look, I got goodies! Oh, you see all this in here. Oh look, ring! No, you don't have time for that. You only have so many seconds to so many minutes to work on each of the targets that have been knocked down. Typically it's seconds. So you get really good just like speed dressing a deer. You have to look at speed dressing your enemy dead the same way. Boot laces are expendable cut the laces pull the boots throw them out to the the poncho that you've laid out That's your enemy's gear is rain gear is your best choice if it's bloody and it's leaking and there's all kinds of you know body parts entrails brain part You know chunks if you throw it inside that poncho that'll keep everything contained and it's already contaminated Whatever's got blood or whatever nonsense on it is already in the bag, okay? You do what's called a hobo bag. Use the poncho, lay it down, or use a garbage bag, obviously. Garbage bags are nice, but you remember you got to keep stuffing things in. And that sounds easy, but watch what happens when people get panicky and they're moving fast. If you gut the deer or the fish the way you're supposed to, everything comes off while he's laying on his back. flop him over, move the corpse out of the way, pull off whatever needs to be done there still from the back or from the legs or whatever it all goes onto the plastic or onto the poncho you roll it up like a hobo sack, like a hobo bundle. Remember the hobo hobo's where the bag used to be on the stick? Well, you just make a big version of that. And one nice thing about most military ponchos or ring gears is that it has grommets and snaps and stays For instance, if you use a top, a Gore-Tex top, you can very quickly lash down the bottom, snap the base, leave the center open, and tie the lower wrap around, which is an elasticized tie down, around the base of the coat, tie it tight, and it will spank through that right up. The hood does the same at the other end. Once you've got all the junk inside, zipper snap up the center with all the material in it, take the arms, roll them back over the chest to be from one side to the other, tie that off with two good conventional knots, click and you're done. Now you've got a carrying device you take the hood you take the center with the arms you take the tail the butt end of the parka the Gore-Tex parka which has got all the guys Gore goody stuff in it and You grab it and carry it like a bag throw it in the truck go to the next one or better still Throw it off to the side and you have pickers whose job is to grab what you have culled from the casualties You've created the enemy combatants the black-inform mousse the knuckle dragging roided up idiots And it takes a very short time to leave them as nothing but dog chew. Okay? Take the socks. You'll find out you never have enough socks. Take the socks. On top everything else, not just the boots, take the socks. Wrap it all up in something, we'll wash it all later. I know, oh god, some of this stuff is going to be stinky, but you know what? Hey, you got gear, some people are going to be walking around bare butt naked, tattered clothes. We're going to switch them out to better equipment as we can. Besides, sometimes we want to dress up like enemies. Smile, wave, get close, knife them good, hit them with a ball of peen hammer. To do that, you got to look like your enemy. Remember that. Another thing you may want to watch for are, for instance, microchips. You know, like everybody talks about chipping the soldiers, right? Scanning is not hard to find. With a scanner, it's not hard to find those. The big thing is keeping them at 98.6 if you pull them off the corpse. You don't want them to cool too fast because that ID's and flags. The subroutines even include shutting down the chip so it's not identifiable. In other words, it doesn't work for them. But if you make your enemy disappear for at least the first 24 to 48 hours in an aggressive combat operation, those chips could be taped to a person's arm. Ideally what you want is a thermos with something that is already brought to temperature or something that is a heatable system where you can bring it to temperature, you can drop the chips in. You don't care whose they are. When the time comes, tape them back in, people coming in, they do an electronic scan. The chips show that it's somebody that is out and about, so that creates hesitation. Remember, hesitation means you can get closer, if not right on top of who you're trying to deal with. The individuals that are close, perform their mission, the supporting personnel, follow up. Oh, even the chips don't have to go to waste. Now you are going to have to come up with a, you know, again, a no-entropy can, in other words, a null can, to contain them. But that's not hard. And the idea behind it is that, well, they won't be reading the chips when they're being transported around for other purposes. The big thing is, think ahead. Anyway, again, 98.6. That way they don't become room temperature. And he goes, wow, this guy's still alive and moving around. He's room temperature? That's not likely. See, if they get biometric information off the chip when it's in the corpse, well, that's not good. So we want to make sure that the corpse stays at, and the chip stays at 98.6. Of course, if it's a summer, it'll be warmer than that real quick. Ew. Anyway, a couple of things here. Let's see. With regard to signal communications, watch the truck stops. There is just exactly as they're saying about the economy. There are a lot of problems taking place in terms of the supply system. What I found out from most of the truck stops is if they're sent the wrong item because of computer glitches, what you're happening all the time, they're saying you're getting stuff, that's why these grab boxes are showing up. Hey, look at what they've got. Why are they getting rid of this? Because they don't carry it. They're being sent stuff that they don't have inventory for on the shelf. And so what's happening is, as I talked to one of the girls at the truck stop, she said, well, no, we can't send it back because that would cost money. So we're just making up a bin and figuring out what price we can market it down because we want to get rid of it. So, quartz of oil, radios, handheld radios. Right now, especially, the stuff that just was tucked in a corner or left in the back room when it shouldn't have been. Faded packages in these China Sport plastic containers, as I pointed out this morning. Don't take them out of the container. Example is these China Sport knives. Is there anything else that's coming in? They're already in a sealed plastic container for on the shelf. Guys, these are airtight. You even have a hell of a time getting them out of the package without a blade typically Well, you know what that means? Don't take them out of the storage package when you get them if you're picking up knives or a lot of this other stuff and it's already one of these sealed like for hanger, you know hanger type systems and It's sealed solid Then make sure that it's secured the way it is. You've got yourself a storage mechanism that isn't really going to go bad. In fact, now throw another Ziploc bag over that and you've got a second tier protection. Put that in your cache, a can tube or whatever, or put it in your supply barrels. and it's ready to use. Everybody knows what it is, quick and easy inventory, don't have any questions. Of course, now if you're trying to save space, you'll cut the wrapper off, you'll pack it in tight as can be, and that varies depending on how you're setting up your caches and what you're doing. But for a lot of what's being done by Quartermaster out there, just like we're seeing at these stores, these radios are in bubble, heavy gauge bubble plastic designed so that they're displayable. Whenever the last one goes off, the next one up there looks just like the one that was sold. And they're designed for long-term use. They're designed to be sitting on the shelf or going through salt spray oceans across the ocean, getting over here and still looking like what it did when it came out of the factory. Well, cool. One of the last sets of radios we just got, like it was $3 a set, $3 Burgundy, it was in these personal radios, two frequencies, and it was in the grab box. Bunch of other radio odds and end stuff, didn't recognize some of it, it wasn't necessary, but trucker, radio kits for the heavier radios, fixtures, fittings, cable, etc. Remember guys, they're changing inventory out and the computer told them to do it even if the exact same thing is on the shelf. So if you pay attention, typically you'll find it's like, well, they're selling this one out. That's the exact same one. This one looks better made than the one they put on the shelf to replace it. Either the same model got the same packaging and this one is $3 and that one is $12. Oh, well I'll take the better made one that's a year older and actually looks like it, you know, they maintain some standard. The new ones, it looks like Ciao Chiu Bing was half blind, had arthritis and certainly couldn't follow instructions even if they were in Chinese. Oops. So just some of the other things taking into consideration, but watch the truck stops. There's a lot of stuff coming in there. Also, radio rigs. Now I had this question again. Guys, make up Morse code cards for your radios. You should also make credit card size Morse code cards for everyone to carry. You should be carrying one right now. One of the reasons is again if we have multiple copies we're not going to have difficulty. This is one of the things that we discussed for years too. If I have multiple copies power goes out with some of the other technology or I can't get to it. I at least have a primer card. 99% of what you're doing doesn't require a manual that's as thick as your hand. A simple process of having one tutorial and instructional piece of material in your slash information can accomplish most of what you need to do. So a Morse code card along with phonetic code would be a good idea that way everybody can practice, practice, practice. You're sitting there picking your nose, you're out in the middle of nowhere. Whatever you do have to read you can actually turn, you know, to focus your mind you can actually start practicing. Use these training aids while you're, you know, trying to find something to keep you busy. See how that works? So it's pretty straightforward. Again, With regard to other codes and such, no, no, no, we don't write those down except in a particular codebook if it's authorized and it's a personal logbook. It's prioritized for destruction. You know that that's to happen to it. Fireteam leaders, squad leaders, platoon commanders, assistant platoon commanders will have minor code books for a daily operation and it's a policy that the coding may be upgraded progressively but also that if there is a situation where it appears the unit is going to disperse and as there's a risk of being captured or material being acquired the technology is to be destroyed. basic rule now one of the tricks there is do it on basically air mail paper or tissue paper a Match gets rid of everything real quick now tissue paper courses you know an air is a water sucker, but You will find if you look around you'll find the very very thin typing type paper You used to call it air mail paper in fact a lot of the old stuff you'll find if you watch grab boxes and stuff at yard sales You'll see somebody has air, mail, letterhead, and even air mail envelopes which were also ultra light so you could save on the cost of sending a letter. Not a bad idea, in fact a very good solution. This is also good material to use for code books or for coding and information. Burns fast, lightweight, even water will destroy it. Not as easily it will say tissue slash toilet paper, but the next best thing. You get it wet, you just rub your hand over it on a flat surface and it becomes a ball and not a chunk. If need be, pop in your mouth and choo, choo, choo. Oh, that's another trick. Now there's all kinds of things you can do. I don't know, the ink's not going to taste good, but paper probably won't either, as we know. But the idea is it's another way to dispose of very quickly material information data that really we don't want the other side to access. Even though it may not mean much of anything to anybody other than you and the other person, It gives them a database to work with and again the first rule is deny this resource to your enemy. No matter what it is. Anyway, again ideas, the truck stops, radio and signal communications. Another thing about radio, remember guys we've discussed antennas and antenna theory. Height is always better. Now that's if you're trying to reach. Now on the other hand, I don't need, and I've had this problem with a couple of people I was talking to two days ago, We were discussing radios and it's like we need bigger and it's like well Are you trying to talk to the other side of the county? Are you trying to talk to the fire team leader? That's about a hundred yards away We don't want to be offering a conversation about blow-by-blow operations or you know progressive fire maneuver Five counties over in a situation where it's covering an area that where you're fighting over a space the size of a football field Okay So that's one of the reasons that some people complain not knowing or having any background when they would get hold of military radios. It's like, man these things cut off at a, you know, like they don't have as much power as they should have and they really don't have the output, you know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. It's like, well, again, when you have how many, what, 20,000, 80,000, 100,000 men in a combat area, an area of operation with a combat situation going on. Would you want 20,000 radios all listening to everybody else's information if they're all within the same bandwidth? Bleeding over with side banding and all kinds of other stuff going on background noise. You see the whole point is that again those unit members aren't supposed to be that far away from you. Within the area of activity of any given situation on the ground, you're supposed to be maintaining control over them. They're not to get off your, you know, if you're the squad leader, the fire team leader, they're not supposed to get off your leash. And that's really what your job is, to perform a certain mission with a certain parameter, a certain area of activity. This is your area of responsibility. Other people who are other fighters have the other area of responsibility to your right, the other area of responsibility to your left, maybe to your front, and also to your rear. Hmm, now why did I say that? Well, you're talking paraconventional and unconventional operations. Remember, you have areas of activity. Well, it's going to be just like a free-for-all. Well, to a degree. But, especially as we become better at this, everybody's going to understand that they're a little chunk of real estate that's there under their control. Once they've learned all the nuances of it, they command it. So even though you may and in fact almost assuredly will be assisting or moving through other areas of activity controlled by other people, the idea is that each person, each group has an area of responsibility. We are going to be mostly working under those conditions, even where you move the entire formation to another site, the basic concept of particular areas of control based upon, what would you base your area of control and responsibility on? Let me give you a little hint. It's something you're shoulder carrying or something you're hip carrying or something you might have to cruise serve. Oh! Yeah, your weapons. You see, if you look at, let's review something here real quick. The Hezbollah units facing a complete supremacy unit, the Israelis, in Lebanon. Remember a few years ago? Well, more than a few years ago now. The Hezbollah units ground the Israelis to a stop utilizing a checkerboard defense each unit said its prayers and took command of its area of responsibility They didn't move outside that they took command of literally took control of the area that they were responsible for and Focused on fighting under those conditions What did this do? Well, it applied a theory, and I hate to say this and I know most of you are going to be giggling. Yes, I know Mark. The French, just after the concept of the Blitzkrieg was developed, The French understood the threat. Had they the military wherewithal that they had before the Blitzkrieg started in 1940 with regard to the French campaign, their checkerboard defense that they implemented in phase three would have worked. Unfortunately, they had neither the mechanized force, enough artillery, or any mobile units and enough infantry that were properly organized and were spread all over creation, that the defense, while it showed a promise, could not be applied effectively. The response and reaction units that should have been mobile under their proposed design simply were not available. Most of that equipment was burning wreckage 100 miles or 200 miles behind them somewhere across France or over on the Belgian border. So... If you wonder where the idea came from, understand, yes I know, the French are mondue, their lovers not fighters. Well actually sometimes they can get things right and they do build weapons built like a brick doghouse. They may not be the prettiest weapons and they have a definitely a unique look to them. But I will remind you that the French weapons work. Don't make any mistake about that. A lot of people have died at the hands of 7.5 French and other arms that are out there. So they work. They're just as deadly as everybody else's. Problem is it was carrying them, but that's another story. Anyway, the important thing here again is lessons learned. So, in the process, although electronic countermeasures and signal countermeasures were effectively used by Hezbollah units on the ground, understand that until we start embracing the same concepts of both subterfuge and direct application of the signals where it's needed, we're at a disadvantage for a lot of people and a lot of units. It's not a cell phone. It's not to be constantly run. The radio signal communications may even be limited by a time factor. They certainly are limited by a power factor. This is another thing that we have to bring into the formula. How many batteries, how much gasoline, how many generators, what do you have to power your equipment with? How long will it last? How many hours can it run? When you key the mic, the meter's ticking. Everybody understand that? When you key the mic, the meter's ticking. Something's going down range. In order for power to go up to that antenna, there is consumption of energy. Calories, whatever you want to call them. Point is, that's coming out of the wall or that's coming out of a generator in terms of a fuel tank that's sipping fuel, but it's still eating fuel nonetheless. It can be batteries, rechargeable or not rechargeable, which again every time you key the mic there's a meter it's going down. It's going into the negative. It's starting to sink. It's going to continue to do so. So you need to remember that when you're in the field especially if you're going to be deploying and this gets back to something about well You know I got some really cool stuff, and then I got some not so cool stuff But I got a lot of the not so cool stuff in all works It's really cool stuff now that other you know there has mostly the cool stuff and has some of the same older stuff that you have Now this is where you need to make a decision It's kind of like in Patriots surviving the coming collapse or the two guys are looking at each other one guy's got an M1A the other one's got an HK Each is carrying the rifle that their other unit uses in the end. They finally decide on a one-to-one trade Why well because it just makes common sense and benefits the units in both cases and both men end up with you know comparable weapons with comparable performance So everybody's happy In many situations, I would highly recommend just as with captured equipment, if at all possible, we need to route a certain amount of material to particular formations, units, or quartermasters purely because of commonality and consolidation. Not all of it with the latest stuff. See, here's something else to remember. Both sides. Everybody is going to be pulling stuff out of the woodwork that is of all ages. If you start to acquire a certain number of weapon systems that are older because they were part of rear security, because it's, you know, again, best equipment goes to the frontline troops, rear security gets leftovers. Well, you certainly are going to apply it as a front line weapon system, but to allow for it to be more combat effective in the long term, routing all of those weapon systems to where they are available and can be used is a good idea. Let me give you an example. The MG-1. Now you've seen the MG1 originally called the MG42 there's also a model 53 then there's the MG1 which the Bundeswehr hail hail the bare mark I mean the Bundeswehr hey Yeah, you know weapon hasn't changed for 60 years just as deadly as when it was made in 1942 as it was adopted in 42. A replacement for the MG34, the MG42, then the 53, and the Ugo, and other variants in Southern Europe, and finally the MG1 as it was put into service. All of these weapons are just as effective as they've always been. Well, problem is that they're not going fully into, you know, rear area operations service yet, But there's a lot of other more modern designs or other designs that are dominating. If I were to run into these, I know people would have a hard time releasing them, but trading out to put all of the belts, spare parts, all the same weapon systems into a unit's hands would be a good idea. simply because at some point one of those weapons is going to break making it useless. If you didn't pick up the spare parts, if you don't have an armor that knows what's going on, you're going to need spare parts. Now another thing, a warning here. A lot of weapon systems built by the rent revolution companies, I don't care if it's the Israelis, Israeli military industries, the Germans, the Americans, they know that parts break. They know exactly what parts break. They know that you're going to have to buy more parts from them if you buy the weapon system. It's why they don't have a problem with the parts breaking. Oh, that's why they do that. Yeah, yeah, especially for companies who really don't want to pretend to control freaks about their copyrights, which is cool. We understand them doing that, but HK is notorious for that. During the Sandinista era, Remember the Contras? Well, they were delivered a whole bunch of HK-21 belt-fed guns. Remember those? The HK, the G-3 rifle. with a belt feed system making it a squad gun. Well, a lot of these were also put on APCs. If you look back in the day in the 60s, you'll see these on the tops of mechanized units, trucks, on Jeeps. You'll see them in a number of different locations, both as a primary weapon for defense and or as a remote control gun with a few extra features. Well, the 21, the HK21, is a G3 with a belt feed adapter, but because of this, and because of the abuse, typically extractors and ejectors have to be replaced more often. There are other working parts that are part of the belt feed system that need to be replaced by the armourer. Well, when all these weapons were sent to the Contras down there back in the day, in the 80s, they weren't sent with any spare parts. In other words, supply for failure. Within six months to eight months, virtually 100% of those guns were sitting in a grass hut up in the corner, standing upright, because they simply weren't in service. There were enough broken parts if the weapon system was offline. Why? Because the weapon system required a great deal of service support it wasn't getting. And there wasn't any showing up on the horizon. Whoops! No, that was intentional. That's part of the program. So, again, if you start to acquire, or if you are purchasing, or if you are moving arms into an area, You try to ID where these weapons will best be supported and benefited to cooperate with other like weapon systems or Sisters to the systems you already purchased an example on the render evolution market You're looking at Syria right now. We've seen a number of different videos Showing pickup trucks. I've described this before with virtually crates of you know piles of submachine guns piles of stuff Inside just it basically looked like the scene from Uncommon Valor when they like I said they go down into the dungeon, you know $3,000 $4,000 these require a 24 on notice in order for us to acquire them and then well my my my my Flavor in my palate is these are a little pricey for that. You know, do you have anything cheaper? And he says come with me and he takes him down to bargain basement Well, all these run a revolution companies have bargain basement Understand that an AK goes for no more and for typically less than $150 a rifle and it's the most common just like the m16 a ones are out there in their glut However, if you think they're a glut consider this How many other Cold War weapons can you think of that you've seen as parts kits in shotgun news or in any of these web pages you're looking at, guys? Those guns were originally those parts kits were active guns that somebody cut up. You want to know why they're selling them here for $50 to $70? Because that that fully functional submachine gun on the rental revolution market, they couldn't sell it for $8. And you all go, what? And it's like, sure, $11. How many of those do you want? Eh, I will throw in a whole bunch of those CZ, those VZ-52s, and eh, I have a pile of magazines, and I will give you two pellets of ammunition, and I will give you, I will throw in some grenades. How does that sound? Yeah, well how much are they well they don't like a case. Oh, they're some machine guns here not a case Wow, I need a case my boys really really really want a case Okay, but those were really cheap. Well, he can't ditch him and he tries all kinds of benefit You know sitting oh they are now actually because you've got a major war consuming a lot of equipment. I warned you about this Some of those truckloads are literally piles of Czech submachine guns. Piles, not stacked nice and neat, just literally how many can you jam into the crate and get in the pickup truck up front. Piles of magazines, bins and bins of magazines stacked side by side, side by side, side by side, 7.62x25. Bolt action rifles. I'm going to step away from Mosalir and I guarantee there's some out there. But there's everything and anything showing up and these submachine guns are probably the best example. You're going to run into a lot of inane weapons that are being carried by your enemy that after you've finished them off, slaughtered them and stripped them for all the goodies, you also then need to route the material that you capture. Now, the other consideration, obviously, is what's the mission of the weapon. And, again, submachine guns are not light rifles. They're not, again, MBRs in any way, shape, or form. They're awfully convenient for certain missions and some people are just better off with them So keep in mind that combined arms or moving these into certain categories is not a bad thing They get a lot of firepower reasonably priced and or you know again reasonably priced for operations Ammunition common typically and remember we can always change out barrels if the caliber isn't right in whatever the subgun is built in That's a matter of your creative minds and the iron mongers we have out there working on the projects but If we can identify a certain system, we are going to route it towards allies. A lot of 7.62x25 Tokarev is out there. A lot of people have Tokarev pistols have piled up virtually millions of rounds. Where do you think all that force in a round Tokarev ammo went? Didn't get shot up on the range. A lot of people did exactly what I said. I told you back when the Tokarev stuff was cheap. Remember this? Buy as much as you can. Because that bathtub cork is pulled and when that when that tub is empty tub is empty now What's well? Here's the thing two extra corks got pulled You see those submachine guns in the back of that pickup truck well that means somebody's buying ammo for him two guys So rather than shipping all the way across the US and putting up a lot of BS if they use the right transfer processes and deal with the right people under the table, you know through the arms markets and the arms bazaars, all that ammunition they got the 7.62x25 it's going into a war zone. It's getting spit down on range. It's part of what keeps the front busy. In the quieter areas where they use secondary arms, Well, every once in a while somebody burns a magazine just to let everybody know you're there. Just to remind them that, no, we're not quiet. And then a... From a Moss Rifle. Wow. And none of it is newer than 40, 50 or 60 years old. Wow. That's why it's so cheap too, by the way. Not that it's not reliable. It's just... It's older. It's not in the movies. It's not in Vogue. Will it kill you just as dead? Hell yes. Are they just as reliable? Hell yes. Do they work? Every day. But eventually you're going to wear them out, which is why again extractors, firing pins, spare parts. Any time you see spare parts when you're stripping the enemy, especially equipment material and quartermaster support, you see it looks like toolboxes. You better be going through them real quick and pretty much the policy should be carried all away. If they're toolboxes, armory kits for instance, some of these toolboxes are built just for a certain weapon system. They are designed to support nuts, bolts, screws, washers, buffer tubes, gas systems, special wrenches made just for dealing with certain problems on the weapon. All of those are kind of nice to have. And that's part of the long-term deep support. We need to be doing that now, not just waiting until later. Let me give you an example. ApexGunParts.com. ApexGunParts.com. ApexGunParts.com. They have 50 caliber linkers and delinkers there for about $64 for the tray type guys Buy one if you're a heavy unit and you plan on acquiring and you have stuff around Linker delinker for that price. I don't care if it's pretty clean it up. Make sure it's squared away. Make sure it's oiled now you got the ability to D link if you need 50 caliber for the pole guns or whatever or to Relink if you got to keep that Maa do she just captured operational Oh, that's right. And let's not forget you're pulling all the brass you can from wherever you can find it. And if you build up enough .50-caliber brass, you're reloading it for the belt guns and for everything else. Collect the links off the ground, relink using the links that have been expended. Not a big deal. And guess what? You got yourself a belt-fed weapon again. Kind of handy, OK? So little things like that that are part of the next step for a lot of you people that are already squared away, you've already got militia units organized, you're looking at building bigger, you may be looking at semi-auto 50s, kit gun 50s, whatever. It would be a good idea to start building your armorers package up because you'll be using a number of different 50s that are going to be on the battlefield for a long time. The Mahdouz is not going anywhere, guys. Even if tomorrow the US military say that they were going to start, you know, discontinuing it for some other piece of junk, which by the way in the 60s they did that several times, you'll notice that none of those guns that they were going to switch out to from the M2, none of them are with us today. Anybody catch that? You tank commanders. Remember how many different cupola guns they had? They were going to replace the Ma Dus. What's on the roof of the Abrams now? For the commander. M250 caliber. Wait a minute, but they were gonna change up. Yeah, they tried. Every one of them that they tried failed. Why do you think they called one of them the commander killer? Oh, probably wasn't a real... For all the engineering and all the speedy design work they did, they marketed it, they pushed it into one of the tanks. Every time they pulled the chain, there was a possibility of pop, pop, boom, boom, and the side of the commander's head was blown in by a side plate. Oh, forgot about that one. I jogged your memory now. You remember that one. OK. For you older guys, you know what I'm talking about. So again, here we are full circle. That Modus is going to be around for a while. Pretty does not count for anything with me. If it's got roughed up, finished, cleaned it up, repainted, do some work. Just keep chugging away. Most important is that you can build up quite an inventory of support technology without spending an arm and leg and being outrageously in the hole and have enough material support on hand so that when the time comes you'll be able to deal with pretty much any situation that you know that arises. On that note too, I would not before I forget, oh I might have to wait till tomorrow. I've got to double check a number they had a great price. I've run into several items here today but I know they were going quick and even as we're talking about the idea that these were to be You know they should be available. They probably are even sold out. They haven't had a chance to check this afternoon. I checked this morning. They were going quick. Magazine pouches and a couple other items are definitely worthwhile. But I'll tell you what we'll do. Royal Tiger Imports. RoyalTigerimports.com www.royaltigerimports.com www.royaltigerimports.com. Take the time. Check them out. They've got a few pouch deals that are definitely worthwhile for you HK gunners might want to check them out Also, don't forget main military.com or almost the top of the hour main military.com main military.com If you can go to mains page, you'll also of course go into the pouches magazines They do have the mag deal still for aluminum HK 91 mags Also, and I don't know if it's still available, CDNN Investments. www.cdnninvestments. Now they had a folding stock HK91, a PTR91. Not too excited about that one. But there are a couple of other three awaits that they posted. They're PTRs that are available. And so you may want to check to see if they still have them in stock. They listed them at the end of last week. I have not had a chance to go through to confirm whether or not those are available but I highly recommend the PTR-91s. Everybody that's gotten them is just in love with them. Most everybody, the HK, it's a good rifle so there's nothing wrong with it at all but I would get it in the 18 inch barrel if at all possible. If you can get it in the longer barrel, get it in the longer barrel. The big advantage for the PTR-91 are magazines. Like everything else we're talking about here It's volume and if you don't think that your enemy is going to be carrying them take a look at all these pictures from the Middle East take a look at all these pictures from what just happened in Africa Count the different number of weapons in their hands. They were tired No finish left on a May case HK 91s scar 308 rifles Car 15s you name it So whatever they're going to pull out of whatever theater when they start dumping them in the US to fight us to confiscate the guns You are going to be finding a lot of stuff that's useful that you know oh yeah that fits my weapon No, I didn't think they had any more of those well the one group you're you know first facing didn't The next wave that they bring in as part of their international solution will And as this escalates, more and more you'll find them using hand-me-down and or second line and then third line pieces of equipment simply because they can't afford to do anything else. As the attrition takes place, so the money disappears and factories shut down for any number of reasons. Oh no, the war production will keep up to a degree, but remember, combat casualties with factories, strategic issues going on, people dumping thumpers on each other and blowing things up or knocking things over. It's not an if, it's just a when things escalate to that point. So again, logistics, logistics, logistics. Single communications is part of that. This last weekend we also got a bunch of CB radios for $2 apiece. Nice clean radios. 40 channel, standard CB. Mid-sized boxes. Picked up a few other odds and ends piece of equipment to go with them, but the big thing was the radios for $2 came with the mics. They click up, power up, sound great. So they're going to be going into the reserve. on standby for when we get the rest of the jeeps up and online and there will be one of these radios going to each of the jeeps which is fine along with the marine channel radios etc etc. So anyway again pay attention. I understand although again I don't know and I don't care but somebody's saying, oh Pummer was going to address the country the first day of the shutdown. Nothing shutting down except they're trying to pee in everybody's faces in Washington for instance people traveling. I love what the American World War II veterans did at the World War II Veterans Memorial. They taped it off and said it was closed. This is purely just a pee in the faces of all of us. What needs to be closed about? It was purely to try and PO people that they thought would demand that Obama become their overlord. Well, the group of Mississippi World War II veterans basically told them to piss off and walked right through the barriers. Well, like they said, they re-stormed the World War II monument. Kind of like they stormed Iwo Jima or they fought in other places around the planet for about four years in World War II. So some pecker would Pennyways piece of trash in his minion for forestry service skanks Most liberal is the day as long to hate those veterans that are there those POS's were all they didn't know what to do in America, that's where the problem the enemy the enemy does understand we outnumber them And they start rough housing, I'll be quite honest, this is one of those cases, they start rough housing World War II vets, I'd fine everybody I think would agree. We just have to go quietly and just beat the living snot out of them. Give them one message, give them a chance to breathe. After that, they keep it up, finish them. Because that's really where we are with all this. This is all like we said. This is these these socialist panty waste pieces of trash You know, you know, give me my 10 million dollar millage so I can get the new heated Olympic pool in my backyard. Oh No, it's for the public works the public works. Oh, yeah Well, if you don't do that with the police they're not going to respond to your calls and the fire department won't do its job and We won't let you into the local parks. Why? Well, because without that money... What? Well, well, well, I won't get my pool. Yeah, I know. Congratulations. You're not only not getting your pool, but hold still. Plop. There, that settles that problem. You can't step up and take care of that park yourself like you used to in the past Why why then I wouldn't have an excuse to take the money from your pocket right exactly to thieve millions of dollars so I can spend jump change some mowing the grass Which by the way the grass looks just fine. We're getting towards winter and won't be any grass to worry about then will there oh well So as it is again these pieces of trash are pull the same garbage you always have I'm no respect for them What's where the POS is that are supporting them and fallen through on it same way they can go to hell Really do need to deport them and a emitter in those spiffy little forestry service or those park service uniforms Those are typical alt right Raven communists nowadays So I don't have and have any problem with when they when they're being deported. Well the whole stinking lot of them Because the only way they look at us is that we're all the we're to be used and abused Everybody's tired of that that attitude with all these arrogant POS's they need to be going no kicked on down a road Anyway, we are headed to the top. They are right now. We're going to break for everybody out there that it is communications Tuesday Check the truck stops. 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