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But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. And this is the land of the free and home of the brave. You've I permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number. You've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children 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? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight if He stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms He fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave is? Distill the land of the free and home the good afternoon ladies and gentlemen this is the First hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Kornke and I'm Don Butcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, central, southeast, and east. Well ladies and gentlemen you were listening to us on... Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. We're on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, alternate 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, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both Pitt 3rd and 5th and the Seven Sisters. Colorado, where the recall state continues and they're only a trigger pull away from open warfare on the ground. Waving to the left coast where the stench of Soviet socialism continues to spew across the landscape through the diaper stain of Brown and Feinsteinism, the stench, the California Soviet socialist democracy. C SSD. Turning back to the east we sweep across plains over the Mississippi and land in the Smokies for the restaurant, cruise, grammar teams and okay teams. Bring us the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium of retired telecommunications workers in the effort to perpetuate the Golden Spike. Well, I'll tell you what, Don, it's clear. It's going to be cold if it stays clear. A little bit of a breeze, not real bad, but we've got some wind. It is the 20th day of November, year of our Lord, 2013. It seems as if the tables have turned. It's overcast here. A whole bunch of different clouds, horizon to horizon. You can tell that the clouds are not smooth, it's not one clean slate. It's a late fall, early winter sky. Beautiful day at work and it still is. Again, the 20th day of November 2013. It's rumbly. Yes, exactly. A beautiful day at work. At any rate, it is a particular day and with that in mind I'm going I'm going to remove that from the magazine well and I'm going to touch this here so I can pull that slide back and jump that one that was in the chamber out of the chamber. We're describing minuscule things right now, but you know what? Between index finger and baby finger lies that magazine and that's kind of a natural thing. We've talked about this before, but you lay that magazine flat in your hand as if it is an extension of the plane of your poem. directed by the little finger and the index finger. Now you bring, this is a reference you guys. This is what we develop as muscle memory, but it is also one of the natural ways your hand motion works. Rather than grabbing a magazine by the side like you would grab the gun grip itself, if you hold the magazine as previously instructed, it tends to fall right into the magazine well. Now we're proceeding along with what usually happens on a day like this. And you touch that slide release and man that, hey, it drags one out of the top of the magazine and takes it into the chamber, doesn't it? Oh, now I'm going to touch that mag release and I'm going to put that bullet generally that just jumped out of the chamber back into the top of the magazine, down and back. And the magazine between baby finger and index finger goes back into the magazine well. We can tell everybody it is a weapon. The perimeter is secure and there is plenty more where that came from. We now have the ability to offer equal opportunity coercive force. Don, if you want to cover a particular subject and jump into it, not a problem, but there are a couple of things that there were some questions about. We're going to talk if we can. I'm going to get you to touch on them during the hour here. Go ahead. Okay, great. First thing I want to say is the movie Parkland came out yesterday. It's Hollywood and you can't help but some things. Timing is everything. Sometimes I would expect to hear, distance is everything else. But this is true. Timing is everything and the movie Parkland is about the hospital where Kennedy and Kennedy's died. The guy that they say shot Kennedy died. The movie Parkland, you guys, is if you keep a library, it would be something to put in your library. We talked this very morning about pain and emotion and how they can be mixed together. This is a very painful movie to watch. There are some things in there that are very private. I heard this description before, but when you see it acted out, after they pronounced Kennedy dead, Mark, the president, Mrs. Kennedy stood up and she was standing there and she was sitting over in the corner and kind of hiding. The basic things of, I don't want this to go on so you try to hide from it. She's balled up in a corner, leaning against the wall, squatting. They pronounce him dead. She stands up and she walks over. She takes her husband's hand out from under the shroud they have covered him with. She takes off her wedding ring and puts it on his little finger. And that's painful to watch. But I knew, I heard that description a few years ago that that's what happened. But to see it acted out, it's another thing. It's one thing to talk about misery. It's one thing to talk about war and to beat your chest and say, I would do this. And plenty of us do that. I throw myself in there too. Plenty of us do that. But what would come to, hey, it's war time. Now, Mark, you've pointed out a number of times that even in these civil times when particular actions are needed of the X of people that are expected to show up, we could put another portion of a formula there and say, Y. Y, isn't it? That X or expected Y show up. Now, that's a letter in a mathematical formula. Why when it's pronounced? It sounds like a question, doesn't it? Why didn't these people show up? That's what I'm alluding to. That's where we're going with that. It comes back over to, well, there's the emotional thing. I'm going to beat my chest and say, I'll be there. How does that go? We've brought up that eternal question from that guy who does that. YAMO be there. answer that question, who's YAMO or what does that mean? Well, yeah, I'm going to be there. That's a ghetto contraction, YAMO be there, I guess. But plenty of people who say, yeah, I'm going to be there, don't show up. So with that in mind, we'll have to send the ranks. No question about it because if you're there, well, you're looking around and say, well, Frank ain't here, Ralph ain't here, but everybody else is here. So you're going to, that's basic human nature. That's something to be expected. There are those that will brag about what they do, what they can do. This goes over to the adage, those that can do and those that can't teach. And I'm not trying to insult any teacher because plenty of teachers, when they hear that coming, they want to get up and leave the room. Understand that. It's like a contradiction, isn't it? Mark, we've brought this thought to the hour before. I know a number of black belts. second and even third degree black belts almost in another year or three, they will be called master by the people who study under them. When they gain that fourth degree black belt, who have never been in a fight in their life to ponder, there are people who study fighting to the extent that they steep themselves in it. They soak themselves in it as if this is all of their life. Now, there are other people who do the same thing and then go out into the octagon or go out into the ring and fight. There are other people who go out and literally, you guys, I've met a couple of people like this in my life who train and then go out and fight because, well, they can. You teach someone to break somebody's wrist and they go out and do it because they know how. This is part of the I'm trying to run a change here. But this is part of what a lot of people can't believe that people can be that mean. A lot of people, because it has never come to their door, don't believe that someone would actually burn my house down, someone would actually burn my church down, or someone would actually fly planes into a building. Because, well, they just can't believe that people are that mean. That people would do something to hurt people like that. Think about that. Ponder on that for a moment. You don't have to spend a whole lot of time on this. Many of us over the years have been subject to that aforementioned human condition and not in a friendly form. The bully wants your lunch money. That's part of the human condition. It really truly is. Whether it's the bully that wants your lunch money or the president that wants to pump out all your oil and tell his people that the oil will pay for the war. See how that works? We've gone from a one-on-one scale in such a minutia that it's fourth grade to problems of the world along the same thought line, I'm going to take all your oil. I'm the bully on the block. And oh, by the way, I'm going to tell my people it's going to pay for the war. We've witnessed that, haven't we? So again, the thought line that it'll never happen is delusional. to say the least. It will never happen here is hopeful. I heard something earlier in the day about hope. You guys, it's nice to have hope and it's really good to believe that things can change. But I heard something today about hope. It ran parallel to the Marxist thing about religion being the opiate of the people. If all you have is hope, Well, man, you don't have a whole lot left, do you? If all you have is hope, it appears as if your last straws, your last threads to civilization or any chance of survival are disappearing rapidly. If all you have is hope, hope is unto itself the equivalent of the Communists telling people that religion is the opiate of the masses. Because if all you have left is hope, it is as if you are hopeless. If you ponder on that, that will not seem like the contradiction that it sounds like. Again, I don't wish to talk in circles. I don't want to make you try to think one way and then think he's talking about something completely different. That's not our objective. Our objective is to make you look at what you have and to get the most out of it. of it, whether it's your fingernails clawing at your opponent's throat as you rip it out. That's not a very pretty picture. But I would hope you have that, oh there's that word. Wow. I would pray that you have that ability in you, that you've mastered that thought line because this goes over to being what you want to be. I was talking with someone else today about freedom. And these people, they're from the subcontinent and they have their own ideas about freedom. And when I mentioned the chicken mark, remember a week or two ago we talked about the slave and 150 years ago when slavery was legal on this land, the owner of the slaves, he could throw a slave a chicken. It could be dead, it could be sick, it could be dying, but he'd throw it to them and say, here's your dinner. And they would know what to do with that chicken. If it's already dead, they just boil it, they got it, they boil it. You only put it in the boiling water for an instant and then you can pluck out the feathers nice and easy. Then you boil it for a while, you make chicken soup. You roast it, you put it under glass, you got cock-off in, you got pheasant under glass, you got whatever. But how many of you out there, I pose this question. If I were to hand you a chicken, how many of you could have dinner in a little while? I know that I'm kind of, singing to the choir here preaching to the choir because many of you know what to do with that chicken, but I use this as example because well tying it in with the wage today compared to the wage from 1973 most of us work for what would apparently be a slave wage and When you tie those two thoughts together most of the slaves don't even know what to do with the chicken They could not even feed themselves and when you realize that We're not a whole lot better off than those who were legal slaves, are we? And again, this goes over to preaching to the choir because plenty of people here know what to do with that chicken. I'm not deriding you, derailing you, but if you don't know how to make dinner out of it, well, it doesn't matter if you know how to maintain the nuclear facility over there, does it? I mean it's good to keep that place from blowing up. It's good to know how to maintain the nuclear facility, but if someone threw you a chicken and you did not know what to do with it, we have talked about being specialized in what you do over the years. You've heard the phrase, if you're a one-trick pony, you better learn another trick. You've heard that here on this hour many, many times. But it goes over, here's another one, and this is key to what we're trying to present here right now. Because you've heard it said before that knowledge is power. You've heard that said before. That can't be taken from you. Well, there are ways that you can be attacked. But basically knowledge can't be taken from you. You know how to do this, you know how to do that. That's a skill that you've gained and you carry through your lifetime. Hopefully you're teaching other people that skill too. What to do with a chicken, so to speak. So that we rise above being the slave that cannot feed himself. See how that works? Now you think that, well, this is a weapons Wednesday and we're supposed to be talking about bullets and the ability to defend ourselves and all of this and that. And that is true. I'll give you that. That's true. Don't have the reason why bother. And that's not part of a mathematical formula. That is not a letter. That's a question. If you don't have the reasons why, why go forward in any endeavor? We do this for you to the best of our abilities. You know that. And many of the things that we touch on are basic. You already know them. And all we do many times for you is reinforce them. Because, well, the thought that you have, this goes back over to I was talking to some people about freedom today. And the freedom thing, you guys, it came up that someone from another continent said to me, if you're not free, if you don't think you are free, you are not free. But now that statement is an oxymoron. Think about this. To grasp that statement, to master the English language and know what those words mean, on the face of it it seems if you don't think you are free, you're not free. Or if you think you are free, that's the basis of being free. But ask any American if he thinks he's free. He'll tell you, yeah, this is the greatest nation in the world. Then ask him if he thinks he's free and remind him that when we go from door to door in Iraq there and we remove multiple machine guns from a house or 10,000 or 20,000 rounds from a house, we leave the owner of the house one AK and at least a box, a case of shells for at least 1,000 rounds for it so that he can defend his home. What's that have to do with anything, Don? And again, how many of you own machine guns? Scratch my head on that one and scratch your beard on that one for a moment, your chin, and ponder on that. And there's an example of freedom right there that goes over a lot of people's heads. Freedom is something that many, what was it, Schmedley Mark who said most men can't handle freedom and it takes, most men that know about freedom are called rebels. I'm grossly paraphrasing it. I could look through the stack here and find it, but we've read that for you on the air before. I'll finish this and I know Mark, you want to do some things too. But you guys, think about this. We're getting into things that are like stretching your mind now. We're getting into places that some people are uncomfortable with because the talk we had this morning, grown men don't talk about pain. And grown men don't talk about emotions. But wait, we did that for an hour this morning and I think we did it rather convincingly to the extent that these are things that need to be addressed. And these are things that build a warrior. I'll share something else with you. I wrote this a little while ago and I'm going to move this into some place soon. But I was wanting to write something and it's a pirate thing. I was wanting to write something because I don't know, you guys, we talk about pirates, but pirates have been on my mind for a little while as of late for particular reasons. I wrote something and I'll put it in here someplace. I'll fit it into something, but I'll share it with you because it fits in with the thought line that's being presented. I'll have it for you here in just a moment. It's right behind this thing that I'm looking at right now. all I have to do is turn another page or two and I'll be there. So I beg your patience there. But you guys, it's a thought line on emotion. Pirates are bad, bad men. You don't mess with a pirate. He'll make you into multiple pieces. Look at them sideways. And again, I'm looking for this peace mark. It goes back over, and I'll have this for you. Here it is now. And I'll fit this into something a short story of or something. But think about this and ponder on this for a moment. I cried. Sat down and cried like no pirate ever before. But don't you tell me it makes me less a pirate. I'll beat you down while I tell you it makes me more. So that's a good little thought line. And a cornerstone. I don't really like to use that. Mason reference, but that's a good little cornerstone. That will finish Don's diatribe for a portion of this hour. Thank you, Mark. And we are headed to the bottom of the hour, so I'll tell you what we're going to do with... Let's see. I think we've got Ed there on hand. We can take a bottom of the hour break. Don, I wanted to cover a couple other things too here. Again, most important is to remember, as we said this morning, your mind is your first best weapon. We've tried to emphasize that in that we have to be well rounded. We're a warrior caste if there were such a thing in the US, but we are, what was that term? The warrior bards. What do they mean by that? Warrior poets. The idea is that we in America truly believed in and founded this country on the idea that you could literally do whatever you wish with regard to developing yourself. You weren't stuck in a rut or a niche. You could develop your mind. It was our intent to do so. The strength of our country was so great and has been, up until recently, because of the idea that we were generalists. Heimler wrote extensively about this, the idea that a man should be able to do everything from shovel commoner to pilot a starship and a million other things in between. He listed a whole bunch of things he went through. It was totally opposites of each other. We are not infects. We are not so hyper-specialized. We are not limited. That's the key to this whole thing. To be dynamic, be emotional, be focused, But enjoy the process of life in itself all of these things are you you there's the idea? We're going into a war and everybody does the weezer routine. It's like oh No, you know what? I'll sing when I go into battle kid don't be surprised about that one I learned that a long time ago. I Will sing my voice will be raised up going into a fight Unless I have to be quiet because I'm going to be stealthy and cave your head in from behind with a one pound ball peen hammer. Then after I'm done I'll sing praises of the battle and the strength that we've had to exert to accomplish the goal. See that's the problem with most of what we're seeing here. The shyster is a thief. The shyster is the stinkers, the rats, the buggers on the other side. There's no joy in their heart. They're rotten people. It's horrible. If you're around them enough, they drag you down. They're miserable. In their death, they are miserable. No joy, no height, no strength. It's just rotten, rotten people across the board. Well, that's not our side. We all need to understand and focus on that accordingly with regard to how we live, what we do with the time that we have. Each of you has something that is a specialty, something you like to do, something that is of interest. That is not insectism. That is where you find your niche in terms of your life's experience. How do I express it? What do I do? What do I have that is of interest to me? Your reason for being. It is your forte, as I say. I tell you what, he is really good at a lot of things, but I tell you what, he is really, really good at that. and because it fits your demeanor, your psyche, your person. And that I don't have a problem with at all. There's a lot of people that I can even suffer with people who would be enjoying football if it didn't become the center of the universe so they could hide from reality. If it's the hide from reality BS which is what most people are doing, I don't know what to do, football! It's a distraction for the sake of not having to face the real world. A lot of the BS that's out there right now, that's what it's for. It's the distraction by the other side. You can judge pretty well, it's like, I don't get into any of the thinking stuff. Well, there you go, brains off. Football is quite appropriate. So what does that tell you? You have a brain, you can rattle off stupid statistics that have nothing to do with anything that had to do with real life which got us to where we are as far as football, blah blah blah blah blah. But it's fascinating when you start talking about, well maybe we should deal with this very serious problem that will burn the house down around us. YOOOO FOOTBALL! That's why I don't like sports. Because their characters will paint themselves up in any number of colors not think even at all about how You know, what purpose that serves. But then turn around and you talk about the idea that you have to apply themselves physically to deal with their liberty and they'll go off in a brain fart or they'll go into twisted sister mode because they're so outraged. Then go ahead and goofy paint themselves up in the color of that football team again like there's some kind of Celtic warrior or something. All the while convincing themselves, Mark, that they are free. And we're doing the, I'm doing the thing. Yeah. Well I think we have Ed there and we have a bottom of the hour break coming up right now. I'm hoping. Well I'll tell you what, just in case Don, before we go any farther, and because you're here, benchmark. Night vision technology. You have it. It's available. How can we get hold of you? What do you have? Hey, we've got first, second, and third generation goggles and gun sights and viewers and binoculars and we've got thermal viewers and gun sights and if you want to talk to me about any of the aforementioned objects or items you can reach me at 231-796-8458. That's two, three, one, seven, nine, six, five, generation gun sight 308 capable. We still have that available. This time last year it was like eight weeks back ordered. It's just a couple of weeks from, hey, you drop it in the mail and a couple of weeks later it's right there in your mailbox for the paltry sum of. And you know, you guys, I know $429 seems like a lot of money, but you know, wow, $429 in 1973 was a lot of money. Okay. But again, you think that I've actually heard it said, Mark, and someone said, oh, I'll wait for the price to come down. I don't think we're going to see a Russian gun site much cheaper than $429 right in your mailbox. If we're, you know, I'm not talking about you and me, I'm talking about the nation as a whole. If we're civil in another three or five years, maybe that'll be old technology, maybe. And well, first generation is kind of older technology. I'm not trying to double talk you, but maybe it'll be by something so efficient and so new that well, they'll just run it for a while. It'll be like, you know, the $10 zoomy I've been entertaining the thought of buying a pair of those and learning to drive with them, Mark, because, well, to see the cops a little bit farther away might be of interest, you know what I mean? But you guys, that goes back over to trying to drive with magnification or trying to walk with magnification. We've talked about that before. It's pretty hard to look at your feet with a four, five, or even six-power gun sight and see where your foot is going to be when you put it on the ground. for like one power stuff, zero magnification, like what you see. If you have two one power tubes, one for each eye, then when you reach for something out there in the ethers out there in the world, odds are you're going to grab it the first time because you almost have that binocular vision giving you that. Then you can drive with a two tube system. While we're on that subject, to drive with a first generation device, it's possible If you get into low enough light, you're going to want to turn on the illuminator. And if you turn on the illuminator inside your car, all you will see is the inside of your car because that glass is going to reflect that infrared light back to the device. It won't go the other side of the light, the other side of the windshield, side windows or whatnot. And again, all you will see is the inside of the car. If you're driving the little ATV, you know, the four wheelers, people drag gear out of the woods with and carry the bale of hay out to the... you know where I'm going with that. If it doesn't have a windshield, wow, you can turn on that illuminator if need be. And wherever the illuminator is built right into the goggle and wherever you look, it's going to be light enough for the device to produce an image for you. Again, just to say that I've got current night vision goggles, first generation, and I can get in my car and drive without any lights on. You can, but if it gets dark enough with a first generation device, as soon as you turn on the illuminator, you might just drive into that tree that you can't see anymore. If you're looking for something as important as driving, I would encourage you to go up to a second generation, particularly if you're looking at the Humvee, the Suburb, something that you're going to have a windshield in front of you. identify that at least with a second generation device or ex-illuminators on the vehicle. Now, hey, I'm not going to go on and on about this. If you've got a question about night vision, you guys call the hour. That number to call into the hour is 712-432-0900. Again, 712-32-0900. 9 0 0. And when you dial that number, or rather punch it into the keyboard these days, you'll get a nice, pleasant, mechanical lady voice asking you for a conference room number. And that number is 9 5 7. And then touch the pound sign. And man, dang, that's voila. That's just French for there. That's an example of what the magician can do with just a word. The magician says voila. And you think that's some magical word. That's just French for there. But, you know, if you're looking in that direction, if you want to go there, my phone number is 231-796-78. We can talk about, again, in our third generation goggles or gun sights or green screen, thermal or binoculars. viewers or mentioned gunfights didn't know it but in the gunfight because what i wanted to there were some questions i have somebody asked me today as a matter of fact from just no i was here ok instead of listening right now i know they are cuz they're only twenty minutes from home when i talk to them and they were on the way uh... make vision technology we've talked about daylight ranging and daylight you know daylight scope use at great range obviously bullet placement Application with night scope, taking a look at the differences between day and night orientation for long range shooting. For long range night is obviously going to be different for long range day. But what are we looking at in terms of how we can evaluate and adapt our processes to night fire with a night vision device like that? We need to arrange wind, we're looking for wind development, etc. What are the differences? Is it readable or is it as readable with night vision? Go ahead. That's a good question. It prompts a couple of different statements. First, let's qualify this. You're looking at a two-dimensional, you're looking at a television screen. You're going to have to pay more attention to the image rather than looking through a daylight scope. You're just looking at real time and the real image only magnified. When you take that three-dimensional image in a day light scope into your mind you can process it just like you do looking at anything else. When you take that two-dimensional image into your mind, it's a little more complicated in your mind because there's literally less information there. There's no depth there. So you have to start to look at that and pick that apart. We've addressed this in a number of different ways. The more pixels, the more lines per millimeter on that phosphor screen that you look at on the ocular side of a night vision device, there will seem to be a finer picture. That finer picture seems to generate depth. The more lines per millimeter you have, the greater the depth of the picture. As an example, if you were to focus, turn the focus Some gun sites are fixed focus. I have a great appreciation for fixed focus. That goes over to the guy Ed Cole who said, parts that are not on the car cannot fail. That's a brilliant statement. Parts that are not on the car cannot fail. That was Ed Cole, that was ahead of GM back in the 40s and 50s. That's a brilliant statement. When you don't have an adjustable focal front lens on a gun site, It is not going to fail. So I'm a big fan of fixed focus gun sights in many instances you guys. And you'll see some of the product we offer is a fixed focus. All you do is adjust the eyesight, the ocular end, and man, what is 10 feet in front of you is as in focus as what is 200 yards in front of you. Now that goes over to lines per millimeter, but it also goes over to the lenses in front of the image intensifier tube, the night vision tube itself. So we've addressed a little bit of that problem. The other portion of the problem in that question, the other portion of that question that creates a problem is how do you read the wind? A lot of times at night, at dusk and at dawn, at dusk you're going to get this more than you're going to get this right at dawn. Once dawn comes up and the atmosphere starts to heat from that big bulb in the sky, you're going to start to get that rising wind, the rising air at the very least that will create a mirage. When you start to get the air rising, you start to get wind. When you start to get wind, you know, I lick your finger, put it up in the air, you feel that wind, you feel the direction. That's so primitive. But what you want to do is look down range. Look at the way grass is bending. Look at the way the leaves on the trees are. If there's particulate in the air, snow or something that's thrown up from the latest 105mm impact or whatever, There's a good indicator as to which way the wind is blowing. Now, looking at long shots at night, the best possible thing to do, and if you just, you guys, I hate to say this out loud, Mark, because I don't want to paint people into a corner. The best way to achieve a longer shot at night is to position yourself directly up or directly downwind, reducing the wind's influence minimum. But you just can't just the lay of the land, the way the trees are, the way your opponent is moving, and the what you had for lunch and how you hold your tongue. You know what I mean? It's just all of the different influences that never give you that perfect shot. That never allow you to move to directly upwind or directly downwind. So now you're going to have to deal with it. You're going to have to, if you can't gain the perfect shot, you have to, alright? Or you have to learn to deal with, man, here it comes. the worst situation, you know, off us wind. But now I'll apply this because you guys, if you've been shooting, you're not, I'm not going to give you, you walk into my unit, I don't care if you tell me who you are, if you're Carlos Hathcock's grandson and man, I shouldn't have invoked that name in this instance. But if you're not a good daylight shooter, I can't count on anything from you at night. That isn't even a broad brush statement, that's a simple, So if you cannot read the wind in the daylight, you're not going to read the wind at night. If you cannot range semi-accurately in the daylight, you're not going to estimate range at night. These are simple things that need to be stated. And again, you gain these basic steps in the daytime when things are natural for you and more normal for you. And you take these skills into night and work them with different apparatus. That's all you're doing. You're taking a basic skill and moving it into the dark. You're using different tools, granted. You don't look directly through that night vision device. You're looking at a little television screen. Wind. Wind is just as hard at night as it is in the daytime. There's nothing different. The wind doesn't get mystical at night. It doesn't grow horns in a helmet. If you can read the wind in the daytime, Those same properties work, those same, here's the right word to put there, those same values come up in the night. When you're looking at a two dimensional image, this goes back over, this is one of the things we've tried to hammer about night vision over the years. You're only looking at a two dimensional image. You have to pay more attention to it. You guys, I'm certain when you look through your daylight scope, you're giving that 100% attention. say that you have to pay more attention at night is I'm not trying to mislead you. You're IIX, you're going to pay as much attention at night as you are in the daytime. But that comes over to, this goes over to the thing about hope. Because if all you've got is hope, you still have yourself, don't you? So you hope to count on yourself and the skills that you have. Now we've talked about ranging a field in front of you. If you know you're going to fight here, you move that rock. If you put up a ranging stick, the first guy, your opponent that moves in that direction, if he can, he's going to step it down. He's going to think I'm saving lives as I'm moving toward my opponent and I step on that stick and break it. I'm saving lives. My lives. My friend's lives. You know, the guys that you're trying to put down out there in the field. Try to range to a rock, try to range to a cactus, to a tree, to the dead horse. Try to range to anything that is out there that, well, you know, the dead horse can be moved. A rigid physical object that is a landmark, something that cannot easily be moved even if it is to a degree destroyed. Example, like I said, a house, a building, a hill. a large tree. Certainly it can be burned down, but if it's a large tree, unless it's virtually exploded, and that ain't going to happen, the reference is still there. Yes. The other thing, just real quick, because we've talked about the use of blinkies or LED infrared lights, making them move, pointing them towards you, So that they are observable to you but not to anybody else. A shotgun shell with a blinky put inside it. That would be far better. The little infrared blinker inside the shotgun tube pointed at you because when you start to array, and this only came to me in the last few days, this thought line, thank you for bringing that up Mark because this brings this to the air. a way. If you just lay the light bulbs out there in such a way that the guy flying by, what's the latest Russian Stromvik, Mark? The latest Russian equivalent of the Warthogger, the A-10? Oh, the Sukhoi. Okay, if he's flying by in that and sees that light pattern on the ground and he knows there's a ground action going down there, because he's been called to that area for ground support. He sees those lights and he is a thinking man. He will take a moment to discern where to figure out Where you are and to the best of his ability he's going to neutralize that threat against his friends So when you display a ray Lights into the field they want to be pointed back at you that that shotgun tube is a very good idea The the longer tube the cardboard tube even longer That's a good idea But any way that you can shield that light from the threat in the air. Boy oh boy, you've just increased your, what is that phrase? survivability? That's a single word, that's not a phrase. But you've just increased your survivability by how many points or how many percentage points or how many hundreds of percentage points? That's good. I like that a whole lot. You should too. Interestingly enough, we've talked about it. It's been quite a while. There are a lot of other passive devices that can be put out amongst an area of activity that may not be as directional or specific. One of the things that one company made down in Texas, and forgive me, I don't have it right at my fingertips this hour, but hopefully I'll dig it out by 8 o'clock, are a self-illuminating glow-in-the-dark phosphorescent tiles. And as we pointed out, one nice thing about these, they can be deployed in advance in your security area. an area like where we are here. I know what my ranges are because I've been living here for decades and I know how far out to the next tree, the fence line, the next house. We have all the distances tagged. I've gone out and marked them on certain objects so I know exactly what the distance is by either laser rangefinder or I've taken a tape measure, a long tape measure, and we've gone step by step to measure out the distance. I've pasted out in other cases. But I know the approximate range is now These phosphorescent tiles are just a little bathroom tile. In fact, people are using them to make mosaics that look like stained glass. They come in colors too. The big thing is you can have yellow, dark green, light green, blue, light blue, dark blue. You can actually ID the colors without night vision. You can actually ID and reference distance. The night vision device I'm sure picks these up to an even greater degree since they're in visible light spectrum. But they're not screamers. They're not something that has a high burn output like we're seeing a lot of the new LEDs. Guys, you've seen this. You can buy even from the dollar store now. LEDs will burn your eyeballs. that will literally hurt your eyes. Go to Tractor Supply. They provide a whole bunch of different ones. There are all kinds of companies making burner type LEDs. Now the problem with those is, and Don I would think we still have the same issue here, we don't want to be staring at any high illumination device like that for any period of time with our night vision, do we? Oh no, that goes back over to when you turn on your night vision device and point it at anything. Anything. It is going to adjust itself, much like your eye does, to the brightest object in its field of vision. This is why green screen will show you something but not show you something in the shadows. In a real hard shadow, like a full moon shadow, the shadow under the tree. Out there in the moonlight, even with first generation, you'll be a happy puppy. I'm looking and see what I can see. But again, when you're in the full moon, you'll try to figure out what's in the shadow of that tree. One of the things about this is a lot of people get the impression that the night vision technology is a dual piece of equipment. Yes, the newer generation has a little greater potential, or greater potential. Technically, fourth generation is out there, correct? Oh yeah. The fourth generation was developed to go into dashboards of helicopters. The problem with fourth generation is it's tremendous. It's a minimum of 72 lines per millimeter which gives it a little more light amplification and a little more fineness of the picture. We've discussed that many times over the years. Fourth generation has tremendous depth because of the lines per millimeter and some other things that they've done. They've removed some protective films that let more light into the device that gives it, again, greater light amplification in extremely low light. because of some of the protective films are gone, fourth generation tends to, I would say, pluck individual tubes. You guys, to build a night vision tube, one of the first things that happens is you heat a piece of glass and you stretch it. And then you cut it. And then you heat it again and stretch it. And you heat it and stretch it. And you heat it and stretch it. And there are all these pieces of glass that are laying parallel to each other. And you stretch them out until they are as fine as hairs. And then you cut them. and you lay them next to each other and then you stretch them again. Now this is what creates your lines per millimeter, your light amplifying ability and the lines per millimeter equal pixel fineness of the, but again, the more of them the better off you are. Most people, when you, okay let me get back to where I was going with that. Fourth generation, when they've taken some of the protective films off, the lack of that film starts killing those individual strands, again the stretched piece of glass. Individual rods. Individual rods, yes. They start to die. Now when they die they come up as dinky little dots on what looks like a green screen. This is the bane of 4th generation. generation right now. Fourth generation performs better than third generation, but after 20 or 50 or depending on what light levels you subject it to and literally you guys, what kind of light? Red, blue, what kind of light you subjected to, eventually you're going to start to see those speckles on your screen. And eventually you get enough speckles on your screen that it doesn't perform any better than third generation. Let's point out real quick where people can see this. Guys, how many of you have individual pixels that have died on your flat screens? Oh yeah, good point. You've all seen this. And what it is, an individual, this is again, we're large flat screen, we've talked about how do you get the definition that they have. The individual pixels, literally the pixelettes, one of them fries. It goes. And now you've got this permanent dot. You can turn that thing on every day. And there's that little pepper dot. And sometimes it distracts, sometimes it doesn't. It depends on what you're looking at. But it will continue to be a cascading problem because the nature of the technology and how it works. So in this case what we're talking about is sensitivity being an issue with regard to what the life expectancy is going to be without those filters. That's really as we've talked about before about night vision, no matter what it is, has a lifespan, right? Yes. And that's where we're tying in. Yeah, what they did is they robbed Peter to pay Paul. They got a better level of collection out of it, but they now submit the technology to greater attrition. So, this gets back to, gee, I wonder what a high energy laser would do if you keep smacking these guys with this. Like helicopters, which are really a big threat that everybody's worried about? Oh, you know, that's a federal offense now. Mark, they tell me, and they tell you on the evening news, that if somebody gets these little red lasers or the green laser and shines it into the cockpit of an aircraft, it blinds the pilot. That's BS. Right, what they're worried about is the fact that this other technology can be easily defeated. Remember what we said before? What if everybody out there listening, what if a third world country, when we invaded Iraq, people all over Iraq were shooting at us from the ground. Does everybody understand that? When we did the air war thing, the first time, as the one set of pilots pointed out, all the lights went off, all the lights went on. Remember the battle for the bridges? And the helicopter unit was responding because the armor units were under attack. And they said, all the lights went off in the town. And when they came on again and then went off, everybody came out. And we were losing helicopters, Apaches, left and right. And they don't want to talk about that because that loss of Apaches was massive. The longbows went down. And they didn't come back up in some cases. The ones that could be reflown didn't come back up for one to two years later. That's a factual story. Everybody says, oh, we've got the cello walkers. Guys, they fall out of the sky. Yeah, and everybody was putting bullets in the air. Everybody that was part of home defense started putting bullets in the air, and they all just sat over there and smacked them with a billion pellets. Now, imagine going the next step. Lasers are a direct line. There's no having to you know guesstimate or arc. It's time to flight guys. Well, we've talked about before you're talking speed of light So what happens if every mother's uncle has even got nothing but a dime store, you know dollar store laser to go blip with now let's go one step farther because there's a lot better than that out there and Considering how inexpensive it is by comparison Well, you keep toasting and and swamping this newest technology and it is to a degree China sport itself They literally what they did is they backed off on the protective technology to get what they wanted into accomplish in terms of a certain image But what they did is they also had to understand that this failure issue was going to come about Think about it. They did the testing on this. They already white why were the here's let's reverse this Why were the filters put there in the first place? well, this is your right about it for to give longer life to the second generation devices. Yes, exactly, to the other third generation, third generation being the one that... That's how third generation came about. Yes. By the time second generation was up to about 45, literally 45 to 52 lines per millimeter, and they threw another protective coat on it and found out that the lifetime went from 2,500 hours to 9,000 to 10,000 hours. That's third generation right there, you guys. Then they started calling it third generation. Then they removed some of the filters, the protective coatings, and called it fourth generation. I have to scratch my head on that. Then we step back, right, sir? I have to scratch my head on that. Speaking of scratching my head. We are at the top of the office. We are at the top, but I want to address this before I go, Mark. We've talked and you mentioned technology. We've addressed this many times when the Humvee shows up with the big disc on top or if it comes on a flat bed or whatever.