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If he stood by your bedside in 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 free and home of the free? Ladies and gentlemen, this is the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kurnkey. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and northeast. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4mg.com. We're on AM&FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet Technologies east and west of the Mississippi. along with Alaska. Good morning to the Aleutians. Well, forgive me, good afternoon to the Aleutians. And still quite a bit earlier there than it is where we are here. They actually have a fun shine still. Also, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com. 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For all of you out there listening it is a beautiful winter day out there across the country. A little bit of flurries, a little bit of snow and a little bit of unique weather dotting the landscape. Today's date is the 16th of January. It is the sixth year of open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K 2014 Old Earth Calendar or Mayan Crazy Town Crazy Town Calendar Big Time! And a reminder to you, it is Thursday by the way, so we still got another work day for everybody out there. And tomorrow morning we've got the big drawing for the Kenwood transceiver of the micro effects. So for everybody out there listening in that direction, interested in finding a medium standard transceiver for medium to long range use. Well, that's the solutions. You might want to get into that drawing coming up. We're going to have a drawing here for the Liberty Tree radio crowd, and we'll be passing the word on that here shortly. We've got everything set and ready to go. So we'll probably start, if not tomorrow, it will be over the weekend. We'll give everybody else the information everybody can pass it on. Again, this is going to be an end of the month drawing, though. So we've got lots of time to prepare and We should have three separate items as part of the surprise drawing. In fact, what's going to be each of the boxes is unique to say the least. As a gift from our friends who are out there who have sent donations and a lot of LTR paraphernalia, CDs, DVDs, and of course all kinds of other cool stuff to include Shark Pointy things and stab stuff, which we always enjoy having around. And more is always better when it comes to Shark Pointy things that you can stab stuff with. Anyway, it is pretty medium temperature outside right now. We've got wind, which is bringing up the little wind chill factor. If you're going out tonight, grab your coat, grab your cold weather gear. Hey, Deb, before we get off that subject, I know you're talking about also doing a drawing for Liberty Tree Radio. We might have a problem with the PayPal account. I need somebody to, well, it would help if I had another set of eyes on it. I need mom to take a look at that page when she gets a chance. Oh, okay. Not a problem. There's a bar at the top she needs to pay attention to. Okay. Well, it falls, Phil. Like I said, we can use simply the, people can use snail mail. We got to the end of the month. I figured we do it from here to the end of the month. Again, we'll give you the particulars tomorrow how we will initiate this. We can get this in motion as quickly as we can because we'll still have half of the month, only about two weeks, guys, and we'll have the drawing at the end of the month, whatever's closest to the weekend. So that'll work out for us there. So appreciate the heads up. We'll do what we can from this end. Also, again, a reminder that it is It's going to be a pretty busy weekend. All facilities are open and tomorrow morning 0800 for Camp Emmerich and Camp Emerson. They will be starting initial broadcasting then with rebroadcasting on their micro-FM's. Rest of the facilities 0900 hours. Emmerich and Emerson have an over-scheduled facility but because of manpower coordination it shouldn't be a problem. However, the main buildings are going to be very occupied. So as soon as people are done with the class they are going to be leaving. The next groups will be coming into the classrooms and because of the people that are visiting and the nature of the classes we want to make sure that everybody is cycled through and if we follow the schedule the instructors know what they have to do because we're going to treat this as a series of tack lanes. These classroom instructions at Emmerich and Emerson will be very tight Please don't interfere with the classroom activity. Be you pay attention to what's going on. Try not to make any more noise. Again, we don't need any eruptions or interference. People are going to be moving at breakneck speed to get everything done, to get everybody through the activities because Saturday night we of course have night orienteering operations. Cold weather night orienteering, that means we're going to have additional instructors and safety personnel in the field. So I can't stress enough and I would also recommend that if you have winter operations you should always have a ready response stick prepared to deal with cold weather casualties. This is where your medics get a chance to practice what they preach. Okay? So just something to think about. It's not that we're planning on having anybody hurt. The idea is that before anybody gets hurt we're going to be on the problem and dealing with the person immediately making sure that person is taken care of. That's a basic policy that all of you need to embrace. take seriously what we're doing. The objective is to get out the other side with all of our people intact. We're going to do just that. Anyway, a couple of things here. On that very subject, but also having to do with signal communications, etc. And we haven't touched tools. Well, we've talked about most of the tools, but one of the tools that I highly recommend, and I don't care if it's China Sport, I don't care if it's whatever particular name brand you think is the next best thing to sliced white bread. Every one of you needs a multi-tool. Now, what do I mean by a multi-tool? Well, you call them Leatherman. It's interesting, kind of like Xeroxing. The Leatherman tools were the first to come out in force. Everybody's familiar with. The Chinese have made copies of them. The cheap ones used to run only four or five dollars a piece, all stainless. Some stainless with plastic handles. Those aren't as durable. But the whatever brand it is, and if all you can afford is a Chinese Sport one, fine. But everybody needs to be carrying a multi-tool on their combat harness. Not on their backpack, on their combat harness. The reason, well of course the better the tool, the better the blade. So if you've got to cut things with a pair of side cutters or pliers or whatever you got there, the better the quality of the metal, the more likely it's going to repeat the task many times without having to fidget or fudge around or trying to wiggle the blade to get the metal to cut properly. But it's awfully advantageous to have a hundred people with the same tool in one place. So everybody thinks, well no, we have one ratchet or a pneumatic, whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo, we can do it this fast. Yeah, well if you've got a hundred people and they all have tools, it's amazing what a pack of people can do to disassemble something or to chop something up. Let's say it's communications wire. You want to destroy single communications in there. You want to knock down fencing. You want to work on a number of different objects. Maybe you want to just take bolts out of something. If everybody, yeah, yeah, it's just like lots of Mexicans on the ground and we said it'll be us. The big thing is to make sure that everybody has one. Now some tools, you can buy a tool while multi-tool and everybody makes them now. Every knife company makes a multi-tool. Some. have made some that are not as successful as others and some have actually been phased out because in their effort to try and put too many widgets and digits on the thing, they actually kind of over-engineered the design and actually had weak spots. Most people don't realize that. You know, you would think that you would think this through, but scoring the medal, for instance, one of the Leatherman type tools that was made by, oh, come on, the people who make channel locks. They made an electrician's model and they put a little scale on the one side of the metal. They scored the metal to make basically a little tape measure. A ruler. Well, the problem is where they scored it was right next to the pivot, right at the edge of the flange that held one of the pivots for the handle. And when you applied pressure, that pre-scored spot where they put the starter line for the measurement scale was a perfect knock into the metal and it would progressively shear, it would break apart. It would complete the, in your process of squeezing the pliers, you would apply energy where that knock, that cut in the metal was, which is more than half the depth of the of the stamped sheet metal that was used to make the body, and lo and behold, snap, handle would come off. Now, every model, I actually had several of these and every one of them broke the exact same way. They were replaced under warranty and they broke the exact same way. So that's one thing to take into consideration. The markets pretty well been ironed out on that, so not too worried about that there. But again, just because it's more expensive doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get any better than the less expensive models. The other thing is more widgets doesn't necessarily mean more efficient. Better to have two models that carry two separate batteries of blades and tools than because, remember, you've got saws, files, blades, rasps. mauls, awls, and fish hooks, you name it, everything's on there including the kitchen sink. You want to open that bottle of wine? Yeah, exactly. You even have a wine screw there. Yes, everything you need, guys. Well, two separate models will work just as well as one big one. And the other advantage of that is, real quick, and we've got a caller, real quick is if you have two different tools, well, you can also share. Which is kind of nice. Don, you do this thing. Mark, I'll do this thing. And between the two of us, now we get it done twice as fast. Something to think about there. We got a caller. Call or jump in there, please. Yes, this is TexMakes. Hey, go ahead. Yes, I totally agree with you. For a long time, I used to see these guys carry their multi-tools with them, and I kind of poo-poo you. This was back in the 90s and stuff like that. And then people talk about them. I thought, well, I'll just give one a try. So, what I have, I carry the Gerber. It's the older one, USAMates. They'll have a whole lot of gadgets in it, but it's got quite a few. I like the fact that it's got the long nose pliers come out from the front and everything, and all the tools are inside. And it locks, and it's the homemade USA. The Gerber's a good one, and it's just amazing to see people, Gerber or something. and all i do is with this picture whatever they need done in pic they'll they just kind of like that exactly we know there's a bunch of different out there gurbur in the in agro bernard made several of the earlier models that uh... parallel with the uh... the uh... bigger knife companies gurber is it is a big knife company don't make a mistake about that i'm not saying they're small but a lot of other companies followed suit very quickly when they saw how the market how much of the market to absorb and there are still some that shine above others and again in each one you want to inspect and look at these because Swiss Army Knife makes them Gerber makes them Porter Cable, everybody. I mean I don't care and you can get some that have gone to the point where they might as well be in fact they're in tool bags now. So you can go to the next extreme where you're basically carrying a small tool pouch and that's not really even a bad idea if it fits you know that particular you know like part of your mission. The big thing is if everybody at least has that basic tool, they're not going to get flummoxed by anything. They've come up with all kinds of stylized and ergonomically designed pieces now that fit into the hand better or designed so that when they're folded up they fill more of the palm giving you more thrust and more strength. The one I think is cute, like if you can find one of the better made ones, is they actually make them with little tack hammers. And that sounds kind of goofy, but between the tack hammer with the saw, the can opener, the wine opener like Don was mentioning, and one of the more complete conventionals, you have pretty much any tool you can run into to do a lot of little bollocks work like sabotage and or any kind of booby trap work. Because there's times where you want to drive a nail in to run a wire and a little tap tap tap with something other than a precious tool, you know, the side of a rifle or the butt of something else that you'll break. To have just a little hammer surface makes all the difference in the world. Now of course we carry our hatchets and everything else or carry your tomahawk or your drywall hammer. By the way, I got a Craftsman drywall hammer today for $2. You can't even buy them on the shelf anymore guys, that's another one of those combat hatchets, effects right behind me. Hey Mark, Tex-Maxx, about this, I didn't bring this up but about four months ago, middle of the summer, I walked into my bank. The door closed behind me and the lights went out and I thought, well that's odd, it was about three o'clock in the afternoon so there was plenty of light in the place but the lights went out. The bank manager got up and locked one door and locked the other and I thought, well this is getting weird and I got to the comm... I was the next person in there. That business was transacted on paper. There was a person at each side on the counter when I stepped up. And just to be joking, I pulled a little light out of my vest pocket. And one of those little snake lights we've talked about, it's a laser and it's a light. It's confused, but I offered it to the bank teller. You want me to shine a little light on the subject? And the woman standing next to me at the next booth? She acted as if I was robbing the bank. She couldn't understand that someone took a dinky little light out of a pocket and was trying, you know, just almost in... It startled her so much. Oh my... He's got his own light. Oh my gosh. And went on and on about that. But that only exemplifies I bring that because as you point out, you know, in the midst of crisis, when someone tightens down the screw and something starts running right and someone says, where did that come from? Or how did he do that? When all the people are standing around gawking and somebody's doing something, it's good to be that person, isn't it? Yeah. Well, the other interesting... Go ahead, go ahead, Tex-Max. Yeah, I was going to say it happens to me a lot. And I want you to know, make sure you get the needle... If you can't get one with the needle nose, the longer pliers, I like it because I work construction and nothing's better than a discreber. splinters. I mean, it's really worked good. Let me ask you this. How many of them have you owned? I rest my case. I didn't need it. Exactly. I knew what you were going to say because my brother left me one of those. They are almost as if they are made out of a rock, aren't they? When you turn them open to the needle nose, the big the player thing, they feel like that tool, don't they? Yeah, yeah, they don't feel rickety and even the cheaper ones are actually fairly well made. That's the big thing. The other thing is, another example, like you said, if you're in construction. If you're in maintenance you're up on a ladder to have I started carrying the multi tools because you know I carry it you carry a tool bag you carry a box you're doing a certain project you're working in crawl spaces or whatever and You know what you're down in something where you had to get over three pipes get underneath a conduit and to go back is going to be a whole lot of work But if you just have one example of each of the basic tools that you may not have brought Well, it may be slow, but it's a hell of a lot better than that crawl back through that wreckage. And you'll get the job done. Or if you're up on a ladder, it's the same way. If you're up on a ladder, you only need it for a minute for one item, one little doodad. And rather than making that whole trip down and having to go through all the other problems, hey, it's already here. I recognize that voice in the background. Yeah, go ahead. Jump in their car. Fluffy. Yeah, this is fluffy. Yep, we gotcha. And it's always the case. It's a rule or something that You bring your tool bag or whatever and you need something you don't have. That one little thing and it's only one stupid turn. There's that Murphy guy again. And that's where those little utility tools come in handy. Because oh look, on my other tool it's got, let's see, hex, square, and I've got a little bit of those, a little set of those little nut drivers and oh, there's the one I need. Done. And that's all it needed to do. I've got a little pouch thing that is called a pocket, a slot for my Leatherman tool and my little MiniMag light pocket for several like Batman with my utility. Yeah, well no, same thing. Leatherman makes a really nice, one of the first ones I picked up has a MiniMag flashlight holder in leather. with a utility scabbard on the side for a multi-tool. And that was the first thing I did, and then it was like, you know what, that other multi-tool would be kind of handy, so I got another model that was made by, oh, come on, it was not Channel Lock, it was one of the electrical, oh, come on, make electrical tools. Klein, yeah, the Klein tool, Klein. Because they do all the nippers and side cutters and things like that. And it was really, it was built like a brick doghouse. It is built like a brick doghouse. and that had the flat blade pliers, but the longer nose was like a paddle foot. And between the two, that's pretty much everything you'd have to deal with. I mean, you get cutters, snippers, pokers, maulers, allers, scissors, wire strippers, you know, I mean, come on guys. And here's one kicker, for all of you who know how we feel about having a tomahawk, guys, we now make, Sheffield makes a multi-tool with a hatchet head. Oh cool. Well before we get too far away from that multi-tool, that Leatherman so to speak, you guys you learn a lot of things. Here goes that different hat thing. Sometimes my hat is made out of neoprene and it's called a wetsuit. Time divers when I get in the water I get wet. At any rate, where you station your knife can be a good thing. On land you can stash Knives in places it's easy to use gravity to get to your ankle, but if you get caught up in something It's good to have your knife in a central location a leather on your harness be the on your harness Yes, a leather man would be the same way so you can get to it with either hand So you don't have to so it comes up almost like jumps to your hand that way a good place to think of one of the things one of the reasons why is It just does so many things. It's not a bayonet. I know that. It's not your combat knife. It should be in a place where man, hey, I got the tangle foot here. It's going to take me about 37 clips at least to get it out. And you know, it's tangling up my arms too. It's a good thing. I only have to move my hand about three inches and feel free here. Worst case scenario, but again, you guys, that comes from a the cross training thing. I want a knife where I can get it from either hand. I want one of my sidearms at the least where I can get it from either hand. Just a thought. Yeah, go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, you know, as you were talking before, tell everybody, you know, I mean, like you said, you know, we were saying before, gawk at you. I mean, when you pull, you pull out your knife to cut, and it needs cutting or... I use mine mostly for things I used to cut, but I would say, you know, your multi-tool, just enough tool. Yeah, all it has to do is be and it doesn't have to do everything perfectly, but if it does everything a little that's enough That's all it has to do. Could you just keep repeat repeat repeat? First of all, you'll get focused You know, it's kind of like that old MacGyver thing or actually more like the Magnum PI Remember when he's working on the lock ignore the dogs focus on the lock ignore the dogs focus on the lock That's basically how it works. It's like ignore everything else focus on this task because if I want to get through it I'm going to have to cut or work my way or undo this bolt and then this one and then this one. I'm already done Congratulations See how that works? All right now Go ahead. I just said now you can deal with the dogs. That's right now. We get pop pop Oh, they're actually drag them on through with you need something to eat They never think about that one. It's like well. They got the dog I'm going to pass the barbecue sauce. The dogs keep disappearing. It's almost like they're luring them for something. What do you mean for something? Yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum, yum. So again, there are many different types out there. There's some really neat ones that have multi-heads for that. In other words, they actually have a tapered series of knocks to do hex bolts. You've got several that hold in different fixtures or sockets that can be attached. You can extend it. Again, they've been so creative with these things, but the basics look like the standard Leatherman and there's several variations on the theme. It's a personal choice issue. It's one of those things where just like pistols, you can pick what you think fits your needs, experiment with it, find out if that works, and then get on with other stuff. The important thing is everybody has one, and I highly recommend that everybody listening, if you're in Any kind of preparedness or militia mode at all, every individual needs to have one with them. Like I said, a good place on the combat rig, if you'll notice on the old Vietnam Air H-Harness and on the LC1s and LC2s, you basically only have the hangers up off of the shoulder pad. One of the nice things that I've seen about the new stuff with the MOLLE is that they've added a few more MOLLE type stations on the suspenders. So they go right down the front of the suspenders actually. Either double side by side for the standard pouches or at least a single strap station. Now the neat thing about that, like Don was saying, is you have a chance to fixture your utility tool somewhere up or down the rig like that. Even if you had to have a custom hanger made for it, It would be worth it because where it's right there where you can bend like your left hand and it's right there at your chest. Think about it guys. Bend your arm. Where would it hit? Bend your right arm. It's right there. So either way, whichever hands-free can reach it and you want it at a utility point where it's, you know, again, you're not, you want it so it can be secured and, but you want it accessible and within one half of an arm is especially desirable. If you, we put for instance the radios up in the high station left or high station right depending on your unit and we obviously have the compresses and comp or compass pouch on the opposite station. That actually is a little bit of stretching. If you try it even right now you have to reach a bit which is why the equipment is located where it is. It's up and out of the way. But the utility tool like a fighting knife and all the other items has to be within that first bend grab. In other words, just think if I had minimal motion, how can I get to this? And in reality, it does have a blade, so if I had to stab a guy with a pair of needle nose, I'd stab a guy with a pair of, what about it guys? Come on, think about it. I found a hole. Yeah, exactly. Now I can get to my tomahawk. You'll wish you gotta keep stabbing him with those little things. This is gonna really hurt. It's a way you have to think about it. You're going to fight for your life, anything, even just a blunt square object like that. That gives you a lot of thrust, doesn't it, Don? Just if you could even reach that and use it as a strike point. Oh, to concentrate that force, yeah. Street fighters would call it a fist pack, whether they used it like a hammer or like a fist, yes. Exactly. And we have another caller. What do we have? Go ahead, caller, jump in there. Oh, go ahead, Vlavi. I thought there was another boy, sir. Although Needlenose, they would be almost as good as a spike in a punch. Oh, yeah. Years ago, I used to do leather craft. I taught myself to make all sorts of stuff. And I discovered that at Fabrics, they at least used to have a bunch of nice tools like little pliers and the eyelets that the pliers can install on almost anything. so snaps the tool to set them. You could easily sight and set a snap anywhere on your... Yeah, as a matter of fact, the other part about that would be with being able to do the grommets, throwing a lanyard in there. I have one knife on the Alice pack. It's a multi-knife, like a Swiss Army knife. And that's always lanyarded to the pack. It's the grab tool if you had the pack deployed. Rather than pulling something off the combat gear, if you're going to do any work around the backpack or an encampment or when you're stopped, use that knife and obviously roll the lanyard back up, tuck it back in its pouch. So again, the leather tools for fixturing everything, just in case it doesn't have it like the pouch itself or putting the snaps in like you said so you can apply snaps and keepers wherever you want to. That's another valuable trade. We've got a woman that that's what she's doing up north. In fact, she's building... If I have my way, I'm going to try and route other machinery to her. We've got other sewing machines and we've got somebody that actually has a sole stitching machine. And she's already doing canvas work and leather work right now. In fact, she's got some stuff I dropped off a month ago. And like I told her, whatever time you have, when you get to it, get to it. But it's just stuff that's on the list of things to do. Each item is marked for what needs to be repaired. And that's all she's doing. and that includes a few leather items that are old but very serviceable. So good point there. And everybody needs to be picking up that as a backup trade because leather is the next thing we're going to be going back to. Everybody's got hyper nylon. What oil plant's going to be running after six, seven years of war, guys? Where are you going to get plastics from? You see? Think about that. Eventually, leather is going to come back into style simply by need, if nothing else. In fact, it's going to be faster than everybody thinks. That gets back to the whole thing about these multi-tools. You may not do it fast, but you can do a little bit of everything. With one of the multi-tools like the Gerber's, you could do regular leather work. You'd be stitching. You wouldn't be necessarily pinning if you don't have the tools to do it. You're not going to. Stitching and putting together any number of different devices or objects depending upon need. Example is when we talk about World War II, the holsters. If you take a look at every holster made in World War II, that was a combat field holster. They're all one piece. They're cut from one piece of leather that's folded and stitched. And then minor pieces of leather are attached to the hangers. And they're so simple it's ridiculous. All of you could make them by hand. Literally. If you had to. Yeah, and so and the idea behind it was a minimal waste in material. That was a whole idea. Thank you. We keep keep it simple Minimize waste don't let anything that you've got if they affect everything, but the moo is used kind of like everything with the yoink Everything with the whale yeah, yeah, we've got another caller. Go ahead callers jump in there. I think it was me. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. Okay, go right ahead. I was gonna say I recommend you know, it's my it's it's my opinion, but I would recommend getting one of the super big ones, a good sized Leatherman tool or multi-tool because like you were saying, you can use it, it can fit your fist and use it well. I find the little ones, they're just not enough. Also, don't ever forget to not, make sure you take one to the range. I think Leatherman makes one for the site adjustment. Yes, an armorer's tool. Yes. They make several different armorers. That's a good point. They make armorer's tools that are Gerber multi-tool, Leatherman type multi-tools. They're actually very reasonably priced. If you're carrying an AR-15, I think they make one that actually matches all the AK specs for all the parts too. What you want to do is if you're carrying an AR, you need to buy one of these. Anything that will help to support your weapon system or keep you alive is definitely something you want to have in the inventory. Those are priceless. Go ahead. I'm sorry. Uh oh. I heard somebody else. That's okay. Anyway, I want to bring it up. Let's combine a few of these thoughts like the sewing machine and keeping something in front of you. When you start wearing dedicated clothing, some of you that know me, when I open up When I show you inside of another piece of clothing, it might look like I'm trying to sell you watches in the parking lot of the grocery store or outside of the... Except those aren't watches. Those aren't watches, you're right. But you better watch out for it. Get the idea. But if you just put a little pocket on your field jacket, your daily blouse, your summertime, all of that stuff. It's your shirt, isn't it? It's your field jacket, isn't it? If somebody you know has a sewing machine, a little pocket right there would really come in handy and you don't have to worry about it until you take it out of the pocket. Believe me, if you hit the ground and you have to think that that Leatherman is holding you up, that Leatherman is going to dig its own little hole. Yeah, y'all know what I'm talking about. Exactly. In fact, with the other models that are out there, there are some that are virtually butterfly type, that are high speed, or designed for one-handed work. You can experiment a little bit because there are models that boast of that, so we want to keep that in mind. And in addition, well, like I said, you pick it for blade or sawtooth or a combination thereof. There's, again, a personal issue there because they do make electrician models. As I pointed out, they make mechanical models, they make armorers kit models now. So they've become quite diversified with these. The big thing is that this is actually a very significant change in dynamic performance for a unit. In the past, if you're looking to the military, tools were issued in the military as a specialty item. Most people, for instance, did not have wire cutters. One of the things I pointed out, remember here several years ago, guys all of a sudden the Eastern Europeans were selling and even most of NATO were selling all of their wire cutters. Now these are not cheap tools, these are industrial grade tools. Even if all you were were using them for electrical work, they far outclass a lot of the stuff you presently would buy that's China Sport, no doubt. And of course, as typical American or European steel, from the heyday of steel. Today I would recommend everybody grab a pair. There are still some British ones that are available that are actually double folders, kind of like a multi-tool. But everybody should be carrying a pair. Now it seems like it's excessive, but you see we're not the US Army. We don't have to worry about table of authorized equipment. You will not have a pocket there. Yeah, exactly. You will not put anything in your pockets. No, just in reverse. I'll make sure everybody's carrying them. See, this gets back to the battery of tools that we have as heavy infantry when we go into an area. Or, since everybody's talking about prep or guerrilla warfare, remember, tools are as important as the firearms that you are carrying. With tools, you make the rest of what you need to perform in the field. The Ho Chi Minh Trail wasn't chopped down with AK-47 rifle fire guys. It wasn't cleared where it needed to be with overhead cover intact with anything other than a combination of people power, handsaws and shovels. The same is true with those tunnels that everybody talks about from Vietnam. Think about it, like we said, the number one most significant item that Guy Ap said, and remember he just recently died, Guy said the most significant thing that America brought to Vietnam and Southeast Asia was the entrenching tool. That did more to change the Vietnam War than anything else that was brought there, and it was the most beneficial to the Vietnamese. Because it was those little entrenching tools which to us seemed like toy shovels. Well, have you paid attention to the size of a Vietnamese soldier? Now, if you consider the size of an American E-Tool with a wooden handle on it and then take a look at the size of a Vietnamese soldier, you just provided him with the perfect American steel oak handle. the And if you followed an American unit or an Arvin unit anywhere around the countryside, you could pretty well outfit another formation if you were careful. Yeah. Yeah. I know. Can I do that all? I'm serious. You know how much 308 ammunition from machine gunners I picked up? You know, actually from the gunners and the crews. Because all about two, three miles going cross country, you'd find a belt of ammunition in a bush here and a belt of ammunition in a bush there. One of the guys that was a captain was SF. When he was following the low landers, as they call them, the Arbonne, the reason that the officers were in the rear isn't because they were leading from the rear. The American officers were behind the mortar and the weapons crews to make sure they didn't throw their ammo away. Because the mortar crewmen would dump their 60mm mortars. Well, what happens when you need them? They didn't have any ammo. and the Arvin troops were spending up too much of the Arvin but well the Arvin and the Lowlanders as they called them so what they would do is follow up behind them and kick them in the button and shove the box back in their face as soon as they drop it because they try to shuttle it somewhere you know throw it in a bar yeah go ahead. This is me here just to chime in real quick I always carry a weatherman or multi-tool whatever you call it with me it's helped me out quite a bit Another thing that, you know, just because you have to think about being self-sufficient, I carry a special socket that is, I can use it for I think any metric and inch, multi-sizes. It's a really cool tool I picked up for, it's only like $10. So I add that to the socket almost from, you know, a small whatever, I think it's almost like a number 14 metric or something crazy thing. You guys may want to think about that and going to as far as the troops, it's winter now so I don't know how much activity is actually being done in the guard units but if you live in an area that has an active camp grailing in Michigan, Most of these bases are open in National Forests and you have a large unit or whatever you're doing maneuvers. They sometimes just come behind them and they'll literally leave a lot of gear behind time and time again. Yes, that's what I'm talking about. You'll find everything from smoke grenades, flares, web gear, pieces of equipment, stuff that they don't want to carry. or that they're sloppy about, and they don't care because, well, Uncle Sam paid for it, and Uncle Sam will get him another one. So you're absolutely right. That's one of the reasons it's a good idea to sweep the areas, or public areas that they use for training. Yeah, well, that's what I'm saying, that any public, again, a lot of these, where they train, I think camp grailing is largely public, because I remember dodging snowmobiles more than once out there. But you know, the military makes it such a pain that, let's say, just blank rounds. I don't know how many blank rounds have been dumped because if you don't quote unquote fire, you have to count off each one you have and along the line everybody has to fire each round. Often guys would just dump the whole box, complete voucher of rounds. because they really didn't want to put it through their gun because that meant hitting their gun bar. They wanted to turn it in because if they turned it in with everybody counting blank rounds of ammunition, we'd have something in charge of this stuff. We've got to get up in the... We're at the next range. We're going to empty a couple hundred rounds here. We've got to make sure everybody's clean and double check to make sure Private Gomer doesn't have any rounds on him because if they find one round on him, you have to account for all of those people that live in those areas and those active ranges. At the very least, you'll find tons of blanks and saw cases. Some of these people drop whole magazines. Canary, don't go in there with your car hearts on and your bullwinkle hat. It has for entertainment. It makes you laugh, yeah. A lot of this is that I always ask for something and through doing something. hunting there, you can go hunting there and saw people with their very, most of those places that are active. You can, you know, if you look at the, someone gets some of the maps, cool stuff like that on the piano. You can train and also pick up some new gear. Well, you know, that's like at Fort Custer, which of course remember was a non-perimeter base for the longest time. Back in the 60s, lost a tank. Now, my personal attitude is that they said they lost it in the training area. Now guys, I don't think anybody lost a tank, though I do think a tank left the area. You know what I mean? It's like, yeah, somebody's got it. What's your point? It's safe now where it can be used by somebody else. And that's not the only time. There's a lot of other things, especially around all over the country that, well, they didn't get DX'd, contrary to what everybody thinks. and they're very safe and secure and they're very well maintained and all the spare parts and everything have been readily available for them. So don't worry, they're alive and well and ready for use when the time comes. Don't worry, it's only lost to those who don't know where it is. That's right, and don't need to. And again, one of the advantages of paying attention A lot of stuff is tossed out intentionally too. Used to be they had, in fact they still do most of the bases, they have a sand pit dump where they take the barbed wire they deployed, razor tape, they take it over and they throw it in the sand pit guys. Well they don't cover it up every day. If you're smart, you go over there and make sure that the razor wire isn't buried. They leave a percentage, in other words take the stuff you can't handle or move out, dump that, leave that behind, but anything that's coiled and secured, and a lot of it is, They get bundles of sandbags. They'll take sandbag bundles for building a two-man fighting position and just throw them in the pit. And just as a policy, it's a dump for them, a garbage dump. They don't even have to really do what they're doing with it, but they do. So you can carry a lot of that away, and a lot of the extraneous material that you need is readily available. Usually it's a remote location out away from the facility because that way with the civilians cannot see, nobody will have a clue that they've got a fill hole that they shouldn't really have and virtually every base has one. So there's something to think about there, especially open or old bases. Even some facilities, the stuff is literally laying all over the place. And again, it's not secured, but it also isn't even, it's not accounted for because it's been technically off the books forever. It already went down range. Yeah, exactly. The other thing about this too, remember if you pick up blind inks guys, that brass can be reprocessed. If it's US military brass, it's boxer primed, it's non-corrosive, heat annealed just like the other brass that you load, it's just got a little extra brass at the end of that case. And if you trim it off, you've got yourself a standard round. But if you also know how to trim it down shorter, if it looks like it's really mucked up, then you can build it into something else. But right now everything we see in the way of brass needs to be picked up and carried away. I don't care what it is. A lot of guys know if you fire M60 machine gun brass, as you fire the case stretches a little longer, guys. That's why some people have picked up .308 brass and wonder why it doesn't seem to work right in the dies. Well, that's because if they've been extensively firing the weapon, they've preheated the chamber and she's really warm. The brass will start to loosen up a bit, get soft, and it is extruded a little bit from the chamber. So if you end up with anything like that, you can whack that down the other cool thing about it being stretched. For taking 308 and converting it to other calibers, it's a lot easier when the brass has been thinned a little at the upper wall. It makes it a lot easier to resize the throat to whatever dimension you want. So just something to think about there. Don't toss. anything away and if it's blank brass or if it's live blanks be very careful but remember that's a prime piece of brass right there already to be properly reconfigured so that you can then load it up for your standard 223 or you know MM14 depending on what it is or HK91 etc etc. Scavenging, well the basic rule, if it didn't nail down, carried away. In the field during a battlefield situation, like I've said many times, what they try not to show you in the movies, but they reference on occasion. In the movie Platoon, remember what he says when they're leaving the village where they had the shooting incident. Police, you brass! We don't leave nothing for the dinks! Remember that? Well, why would they what was it? What do you mean by policing the brass? That's like policing cigarette butts guys. Anybody remember that's an exciting task in the military But policing the brass the idea was that you picked the brass up you fired because if you don't it may be the next round that kills you next week So at least shrapnel. Yeah, exactly. It can be everything from shrapnel to being a loaded projectile You know what loaded case down the road see that's but there again how many people have that discipline and in this day and age they don't So, most of what's going to hit the ground is going to be sitting there waiting for you. If you win the day, then you're scavengers. Everybody is going to learn to bend at the hip to pick stuff up. I'm serious about that. Everybody, because the sooner it's picked up, the sooner we're out of here. Or, again, we need fragmentation material. We need replaceable cases to reload. Also, we need raw brass for other work. See, nothing's going to go to waste. Even steel cases the same way. We need reloadable cases. We'll make that work. We need fragmentation. We'll make that work. So anything and everything, no matter what it is, you'll try to prioritize separating it even as you go and you get really good at it. I mean, come on, we can do a 40 gallon barrel of brass, separate it, sort it, and categorize it within a very short period of time with about six, seven people. Everybody gets real good at eyeballing the brass to the point where it's just automatic. You guys work so fast. Well, it's because we've been doing it for a while. In fact, even... Yeah. Most of you guys don't know... I'm sorry, go ahead. I'm just going to say even 22 long rifle brass would make good shrapnel. Yes, or it's brass for brass, or it's again, remember, and we've got to emphasize this, there are three formulas out there right now for taking 22 long rifle brass and turning it into 55 grain of spitzer jacketed .223 bullets. There you go. And that's why I'm curious, that's why I've been wondering about not bringing this steel case Russian back in. Because the guy's already experimented and it makes a nice steel jacket. It forms perfectly. It's not real high grade 22 steel. It's not real high grade steel for a 22 steel. It wouldn't be. But the stuff in its mild steel form forms up just like the brass does to make a 55 grain spitzer base projectile that's jacketed so it will operate in your gas system all day. So that's something we all need to remember and start working on. Now it used to be you went to the hardware to buy your lead stick, your lead solder stick. Now, it will probably be more tin or more, again, more of a pot metal today, but it wouldn't make any difference because it's a jacket filler anyway. It's just going inside the jacket. It's going to be squosed in when you reform it in the bullet swage. The whole process is so simple, it's ridiculous. Are you talking about making the Steel 22 long rifle use cases into bullets? Yes, or the brass. The first thing they did this with years ago, when we started to run out of bullets in 1977, everybody was scavenging around and trying to figure out what to do. A couple of guys out of Pennsylvania came up with this really cool idea. We did it here in Michigan with a little different process, but they took a bullet swage And what they did is they took the 22 rimfire expended case, lined it up, used the lead stick rod, cut that, ran it through the form die, clunk, and you end up with a squosed brass jacketed 55 grain, 223 spitzer base bullet, the flat base, not a serial boat nail. Remember, there's no primer hole in that case. Right, so it's a solid piece of jacket, a solid piece of brass that you're squeezing into that mold. I knew about the brass, I didn't know about the steel. And the steel works the same way. Actually, all they did was take the same form and they tried it, they experimented, we know it works. Because it can't be that high a grade metal to begin with. To do what they're doing to make that... First of all, think about how thin the metal is, brass or steel. If it's a 22 case, it has to be malleable enough that not only can they fold it, but it's got to be able to fold and not compromise as in, you know, the crystalline structure has to be flexible enough that it can turn and make that curl for that rim lip. One of the basic rules of engineering, if you've got moving parts, one of them is going to be sacrificed over time. And if you continue to move, you know, in this case bullets into a given, in this case the chamber, you want the chamber to last. So even the steel is going to be extremely mild. Yep, exactly. And it's got to be worked. So the cool thing is that those... But the problem is this. When was the last time any of you out there saw any of the Russian steel case 22 ammo coming in? It's been a while. It was coming in in force and it was a good price and all of a sudden it stopped. That's a big question mark for me. They have had some Russian, actually it's Tula, is bringing in some brass case but they're calling it Competition MO. It's five times the price now. Do you know what I think the difference is between their competition and standard grade? The box and the labor. The price? Yeah, the price. And the price goes along with the box and the label. I don't think that they're doing anything that much more special because I don't think, again, what standards are there? And to be quite honest, nobody's really going to ask. People are desperate to try and scarf up more .22 ammo anyway, so they're paying what they're paying to get what they can get. And it's just the way it's working. But the steel case to me is a big question mark because see the Russians and all the Eastern Bloc, they didn't throw out their child rifle marksmanship program. Not until later on when the Communists obviously finally collapsed and a lot of that stuff just went into limbo. So they've been using .22s forever. And they've been using air rifles forever too guys. We've got a bunch of the air rifles. Look at all the Romanian air rifles that have come in and East German. Anyway, ideas, we got at least a few things driven home I think. Those multi-tools are a priority. Down your number for night vision, because that's a priority too, and you're going to be available in a minute. And now I'm going to take my number four steel wool and scour on my new hatchet that I got today. How do you like that? God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. Now I gotta get another big old fighting act to go along with this big old nasty hatchet slash drywall hammer, Don. We'll be back. Tomorrow, same time, Don, you remember for a night that you give it out twice, please enclose us. Thank you, Mark. Debt number 2311, 796. 8 4 5 8 2 3 1 7 9 6 8 4 5 8 Again, thank you. God bless you Mark. 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