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That's Main, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that Well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, we've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy 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 is 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 will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms He'd fought to keep what would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free? And this is the first hour of the afternoon. Intelligence report, Mr. Kornky. And I'm Don Betcher. 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're listening to us on... libertytreeradio.4mg.com, Ronnie, M&M Microstations, CB Base Stations, and Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're in the Hallmark Network on Eastern Seaboard from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico, headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma. Big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd and 5th pit and our friends in the recall state of Colorado, waving to the left coast where we have the great state of Jefferson, a shining example of how things can be done as opposed to the failures of the SSDs there and how things shouldn't be done. Turning back to the east, moving away from the stench of Feinsteinism, the sputum, the excrement, the drool of Both she and the diaper stain of brown we sweep across the plains leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi and land in the smokies slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews grandma teams okay teams and the mob bill grandma consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the gold and spice. Well, Don, we had snow to the point where you couldn't see across the field, but it wasn't heavy flakes, guys. It was that high altitude, fine, wispy, dusty stuff. It went on for most of the day here, and then it kind of slowed down, losing gusts. Now we have strips of blue sky and strips of cloud. This is part of that cold you might have sent us down because it's supposed to get cold for a little bit. Gee, freestyle, freestyle. And then drop back to rain. Oh boy. So, ooh, as we say, ooh boy. So watch out, people. This is going to be interesting. Right now, temperature is average. The snow is wet. It gets just a little warmer. In fact, I've already got driplets off the roof right now because it's It's just warm enough that it will go right back to movable moisture. Otherwise, straight down for the most part, a little bit of blowing out of the north towards the middle and end of this. This snowstorm over the last 20, well not even that, what am I talking about? What is it, 512? What has been going on since about 4 this morning, so about 13 hours worth of weather. In the last 13 hours' worth of weather, it's been up and down and back and forth, so expect it to continue to do the same. We're headed towards spring, and that means we're going to have some excitement. What's it like in your neck of the woods, Don? And what is the day today? Mark, we are a dozen days into March, aren't we? Hey, it's the 12th day of March, year of our Lord 2014. And it's been a sunny day here. The contrast of the shadows on the snow is just tremendous. It's a beautiful day. We got to about the mid-20s though, so we didn't see any saw today. It's one of those days, Mark, where you talk about, it looks like you can just go outside in a t-shirt when you look through the window. Why? It's so beautiful to end. You get out there and it bites you really, really hard. But it is a particular day, again, the 12th day of March, 2014, which requires a particular mechanical sound. and I have in my hand my 1911 God bless John Moses Browning. And I have in the other hand one of the magazines for this 1911. And we've talked about this before, I'll do this in a little bit of detail. That magazine right now is laying on left-handed, I must admit it. That magazine is laying on my right hand between my baby finger and my index finger. If I wiggle my fingers up as if I want to move them back toward my palm and keep my palm level, the magazine moves with my fingers because it's right there at the ends of the bases of my fingers. It's kind of nestled right in there. I could do it in the dark. That's the point. Once you learn that feel, it's there. Again, with 1911 in one hand and magazine in another, Guess what? The magazine is in the well. Just like that. Just from matching the two planes of your palms and just running that up and it kind of, it's a natural motion then. But again, the magazine is in the well. Hey, touch that slide release. There's a bullet in the chamber and going to take the time to top it off because no one's busting down the door. But I can tell you that it is Weapons Wednesday. The perimeter is porous. But you know, but he for that because there's plenty more where that came from. Now, what's going on in this neck of the woods, Mark? Beautiful day. It's Weapons Wednesday, you guys. We'll talk about mechanicals and we'll talk about ... We'll get your phone numbers and everything, but let's talk about some real basics here. Because there are people that are going to be coming in and there are people that are brand new to you last week, last month. If you're being that big blur, if you're being that instructor, it starts from your feet, doesn't it? Think about this. It starts from your feet. Let's go over to a particular philosophy in martial arts. There are certain martial arts that have the thought line, and it's been exhibited in one of the movies as of late. Although someone says kung fu, it's two words. Also another two words, vertical and horizontal. I'm stealing that from one of the Ip Man. I'm stealing it. I'm admitting it. But it's a basic philosophy in martial arts and he exhibits it there in the movie and it was told to me the first day I started to train under Mr. Shim. If you're on your feet you're still in the fight. If you are standing up you are still in the fight. If someone comes along and takes you to ground and there's more and he's got a buddy there he will hold you for a moment while his friend ends fight. One way or another, he hits you on the head with a bottle, he breaks one of your arms, he holds you in such a way that you can't get up, or he ends your life. On your feet, you are still in the fight. Now, we've talked about the cage fights that you see as of late, and you have to look at this with a bit of measure here, because in war, people generally don't wrestle around for the aforementioned reasons. Mark, you've mentioned this many times. If I'm moving through the area, and all of a sudden me and my partner come up against two opponents. And I can deal with my opponent in a moment while he's still dealing with that opponent I'm still moving toward our objective but as I pass by I kick his opponent in the knee or I put the butt of my gun or my bayonet upside his head or under his chin. You see I relieve his load immediately, right? Freeing up his fighting strength. He's able to assist making certain that he wins Yes, but that's the bottom line especially a lower component something to point out an Attack on a leg just what Don's talking about means that the opponent of your ally is now is now disabled and balanced Yeah, as soon as he's clear guess what now it's two against however or three against you're there to win for you The whole idea is the man on his feet is still in the fight. This needs to be presented because you know what? I cannot afford to wrestle, to get on the ground and stumble around and I cannot afford to fight a man like that when there are others in the area that wish to kill me. Understand that. Please. What you see is mono el mono inside the cage. There are those that love to fight on the ground and those that like to stand up. There are those that say in that particular arena of fighting, that applies right there, doesn't it? That, well, you're going to fight standing up for a while, but every fight is going to go to ground. Do not think like that. Do not think like that because a man who is capable, I really truly believe this, can stand on his feet compared to a man that wants to take him down. I really truly believe that otherwise I would not tell you. I would not tell you that. These are the most basic thought lines if you want to stay alive on a battlefield. Even if it's just one against one. Because you know what whether you're standing in let's let's do some of the common fights here We could we could talk about bar fights or we could talk about fights in we heck we could talk about fights at the PTA We've seen them on the news So it's not like you are immune to this thought line. Think about it You're not it's not like I'm never gonna be in a fight numb and I'm never gonna be in a fight I know I'm never gonna be in a fight because Well, I don't go to the bar and I don't go to the PTA. But you could just be walking along in the mall. I reference that. Somebody walks up and knocks somebody out and then the guy's girlfriend knocks that guy out. She was still in a fight because she was still standing up and that's one of the basic premise. That's one of the basic thought lines here. This goes over to, there are so many different presentations here. Let's talk about Pikers for a minute. There are those that are going to say, Don, you're talking into antiquity. Oh, sure. But the man hasn't changed the tools have, and we'll elaborate on that for a moment. But you know why the Pikers were so disdained? Mark, you know why, and we've brought you this thought line before. Because as the lines crunch together, as example in Braveheart or whatever, sometimes the line as it meets the opponent is still sturdy. what one might call it is still a line. And the swordsmen up there are dealing shoulder to shoulder with their fellow soldiers against the opponent. Now if that happens, this is where pipers are really handy, those long poles where they stand two and three men deep behind those that are welding swords and, you know, wielding mayhem unto their opponent and avoiding as much of that as possible. You know, right up front, man to man, one on one. But those disdainable pikers why they're two and three? ranks deep But they hold that pike up and it goes over the shoulder of their friend and into the chest or throat or belly of their opponent So they're removed from the battle see how they can be disdained how how that guy right up front swinging the sword can say them Damned a bow pikers. We can never get to them See how that works, but see how he's relieving the man at the front He is what one might say just as much in the fight because his results, he is gaining results. Now you think that, Don, this has nothing to do with today. That's antiquity. Hey, let's stretch out the battlefield a little bit and let's remember the thought line that historically most gunfights even in war have happened at less than 100 yards. Now call that the front line. Where do those pikers fit in, Mark? Could we call them long range shooters? Oh hell yes. Oh yes. You see examples, you know probably the best example of this for theater to give you an understanding of what we're talking about. Watch the movie 300. It's an epic green screen movie guys, if you know how they made that. It was one, it's like several of these movies that have come full circle. The old action movies back in the 20s and 30s were done mostly with you know background screen, overlap or you know all kinds of different you know cool things that were done but green screen was quite well into its heyday by the 30s. Well, blue screen, there's a couple other surface colors that were used. Color wasn't necessary because it was black and white. But you've seen these action movies. Well, 300 is a cool movie. You can always paint on packs. You can always paint on abdominal. all the color crunch you want. But watch the battle action because it's quite accurate. If you pay attention to when they fight with the first shield wall and the Persians are moving forward, what are the second and third echelon men doing? What are they doing with their spears? Remember, the spear was the integrated weapon in their battery. It was the sniper of the time. Oh yeah, right over the guy's shoulder, right over his shield. Right on his shoulder, if you notice in many cases, the man knew exactly what was going to be resting on his right shoulder or his left shoulder, depending upon where he was in the position. Now, one could say that it was the arrow that was the sniper of the time. Mark, you know that's true. The way arrows were deployed was more like artillery, wasn't it? Or actually long-range machine gun. Yes, yes. What you see actually in the battle, the problem is you show these battlefield scenes where it's very lopsided. I would point out that in Braveheart, the one thing that was missing is Well, their archers supposedly were away, remember that's the first movie, the first battle that you see in Braveheart. They hadn't arrived yet. Yeah, in reality, guys, the way it works is you have a whole bunch of men with bows and they have a whole bunch of men with bows and you better probably should have brought a shield with you because you literally would see waves going back and forth in both directions. It was not lopsided. If any man there had a bow, he was going to be involved in trying to decimate the deep elements of a fighting force. In fact, one of the things about the F-300 that isn't shown is that there were other forces on the ground. Remember, they always focus on the 300. I put a Chevy motor in mine. It was a competition device, guys. It was one hellacious weapon because the idea was to practice not only throwing it but putting it on target. The target, strange enough, just seemed to be about the size of a human. See how that works out? Yes. Remember, the sling. You see the sling used. Well, those weapons were all the reaching weapons and as much as anything, especially when your enemy was deep and concentrated, the idea was to throw weapons, throw firepower into the crowd behind the fight because they were less suspecting. Now they're expecting to get up eventually and get in there and duke it out with whoever they were fighting. But the idea is that there was no real way to respect or predict. You could try to watch, but it was attrition. This is where attrition sets in, where you've got waves, even if it was only 20, 30, 50 bowmen. If 20 or 30 or 50 bowmen let loose with bows on a formation that's 8,000 men deep and they're all crowded together, don't you think that pretty much every arrow is going to find somebody? You see, so while the guys up front are hacking and chomping, remember too that even if that soldier continued forward, this is the other part about attrition, about all you long range riflemen, like I've told you. Oh, he might stay in the fight with a chunk of his flesh bowled out of him from a 300 win mag, but how much fight does he got in him when he gets to the front? Is he 100% now? Is he all pumped up and excited like he was? That would be the last thing he ever does. Right, exactly. When he was all excited, I'm gonna get out of this truck, I'm gonna go kick in that door, we're gonna confiscate those guns, I'm gonna move, puffs. And he's not even near where you're down the road, you can hear the, instead it's, blah. And he hears that after he gets part of his leg taken out. See, I'm not saying crack the bone. Just think about the idea you're standing there. You're all Billy's bad, but you're all pumped up in black uniform. I'm going to kill. They told us, the Connecticut cops told us, no, the Connecticut state police told us, we're going to kill. We're going to rape. We're going to get in here. We're going to take guns. I'm going to get out of the truck and I got my spiffy black uniform. I got, oh, I got $1,000 worth of junk the government paid for. Oh, yeah, I'm all pumped up and all of a sudden, pfft. And then you look down and there's a divot in your leg. It's about three fingers deep, but it didn't cut the bone. It didn't quite take the muscle out. Now, of course, now they might tell them if it's just a good grazer, you just cut through all the top flesh and ripped a whole bunch of that muscle. You know, it's in a leg. You ever tried to move? I can move for, I'll give him an hour. I'll give him an hour going, I can bite the bullet. He might even go, and hit himself with some chemicals to reduce that pain. Number one, muscles serve a purpose. That is negative on a battlefield. All of a sudden it's not like he's going in with a, ahhhh! Now it's like, every time you move there's pain. Every time you move there's pain. You know what? It was already demonstrated that from a long way off, because he finally heard the gunshot that hit him. after it hit him. You see how that works? Now the world has changed because now he, before he was all pumped up, I'm not going to get hurt. He's going to rape the Pillage and Burn. He's going to take cash off the nightstands. He's going to steal watches. Hell, he might get some jewelry for his boyfriend. He might get some new jewelry for his boyfriend. Oh yeah. Yeah, his boyfriend. You get my drift. All of a sudden there is a chunk missing from him, sometimes worse. Do you think he is going to advance forward? Like I said, he might dope himself up, might even bandage himself up a bit. But, given forward after every so many minutes of operational activity, the shock factor wears off and Mr. Payne delivers. See how that works? Every one of your shots, as long as you make them count, I don't care how you hit. We were told years ago, and it is absolutely true. You know, if you were on the pop-up target range down and you fired at a target, and if a rock gets hit, or you bullet bounced the bullet up into the target, and it knocks over it, well that's a kill. You know, that's a knockdown. Now, again, the idea, understanding is that one way or another that bullet either went straight into the target or it's simitared in. If it hits the ground, maybe it got bent a little bit. Well, I needed a pretty bullet when it hit you. You know what I mean? Because if it's already bent when it hit you, what do you think it does when it hits tissue? It doesn't go straight no more. Okay, in fact, the cavitation factor with the bullet going end over end is bad enough with any round, but especially with light rifle rounds like the M16 or the AK-74. Oh, now you distorted the bullet and then it hit the target. That's acceptable. And or you know equal opportunity here with regard to energy you pop a rock with a two two three round that's doing Two thousand six hundred two thousand seven hundred feet per second Okay, or a twenty four hundred feet per second, and it hits a rock what velocity is the rock now traveling at? Now it might only be in fact well Here's the thing not only it might be a little heavier, and if it's going if it's doing anywhere Let's consider what a pistol round is going traveling at guys if it's traveling at a thousand feet per second Do you want to get hit with it? What's your 45 round traveling at? What is your 9mm? Your 9mm is traveling a lot faster actually, a few hundred feet per second faster to be quite honest. But think about it, what's the 45 traveling at? See, so anything and everything, once it hits a ball, maybe it pops an eye, maybe it just takes the side of his head and rings his gourd. You know, that helps. And as we've said, there's a whole lot of places you don't want to get hit, which is like 100% of your body. Let's go back to that front line, that basic line. No, go ahead. Jim, please. Thank you. Imagine that. There's a whole bunch of people. We don't do warfare like that anymore. But one of the things that is still a basic in warfare is flanking. Now, this is basic and these are one of the things you need to tell your people because to try to describe these actions on a battlefield, I want you to go over there and I want you to sneak over there and I want you to get around on the side of them and then I want you to cut all hell loose on them. Well, that's a pretty good description of what you need, but if you do not have these basics in you. There's another portion of this if you do not know the land, but this goes over to adaptability instead of being the basics itself. You adapt to the land with your basics, don't you? Don't you? Now, with that in mind, they muster to the front. You have to understand that they're going to have the pikers there. You know, the long distance shooters. To the best of their ability, they're going to try to array in a way they're going to try to show and not show. Formation that they know works historically. It matters not if the bullet jumps up to you off. It's what matters is mastering your opponent on the battlefield. What matters is the basics so that you can display them to your opponent in a way that, wow, gee, we didn't see that one coming and we didn't know they could do that. Mark, one of my boys came in here a while back and we sat here for a little while and I was talking with him about kicks and he said, Don, I did this sidekick. I knocked him backwards and he says, who showed you that? It wasn't the question, he didn't answer that question, he answered, that looked real good, didn't it? It looked good, didn't it? Now it was a sidekick, a basic kick, you guys. A basic kick, but when you are able to work the basics, when they're needed, it's the point here. That's the whole point here, you guys. You need to work the new people in, not just as a man that sits at the front. You need to make him start to think like a sergeant right now. Now, I'm not telling you that you need to make everybody a sergeant, but you know the private that thinks like a private will never go anywhere. The private, your foot soldiers, the men around you that think like, I can't think by myself, they are doomed. This is brutal to say. But you have to. We've talked about imagination. And when you start thinking, there are people out there saying, Don, you talk to me about imagination. You must be stinking crazy and you can put any word you want in front of that crazy. You must be stinking crazy to talk to me about imagination. I'm a warrior. I'm a battlefield master. I'm a soldier. I've been there. But you know what? If you cannot think it in your mind, your mind cannot command your body to do it. So if you do not sit and study the basics and take them into the field, and work them in three dimensions, not just in that, how does that go Mark? That greatest battlefield computer on the planet, that gray matter between your ears. If you do not extend them out and share these things with your people, these are what make you winners instead of, well, if you're not a master on the battlefield, what are you? Pose that question to yourself. Pose that question to every man that you've ever trained. If he has been training with you for 30 days, ask him that question. If you are not master on the battlefield, what are you? Think about it. It's not a Don original. There are a couple of songs out there that I've written down and there are a couple of other quotes that I've written down and we've brought to you over the years. Some of them I'll write something down and I'll write W I W T under it. I wish I'd have wrote that. I wish that was a Don original, but I'd bring that to the hour because here comes something else that Don wishes he'd have wrote. But it's Asians. It comes out of the Asian world of martial arts. Advanced techniques are the basics mastered. And if you've got five men and you have them all looking in one direction, I'm going to beat you. I could even possibly beat you by myself. Here is one thing about that. Here is one of the most common ruts that everybody gets into. Hal's on the right, Fred's on the left, and everybody does what they are supposed to do based upon the idea that if Hal's on the right, he looks to the right. The most important thing, guys, is to change up, is to intentionally force people to change up so that in their mind it is automatic that if I am on the right, I will observe to the right. If I am on the left, I will observe to the left. It doesn't make any difference which job I get. I must know them all. That's the mastery thing. The most common problem I have is patrolling. I try to teach everybody right off the bat, I don't care whether you're strong, left or right handed. If you're moving and we're using standard distance, everybody's argue they have to be 10 yards apart. I also disperse them on any kind of moving trail if you're going to travel. There is traveling, there is overwatch, and there is bounding overwatch. Traveling is where you are moving quickly. When you are moving quickly, if you are using a variance in a column technique, you are going to spread out by 10 yards. You are going to be dispersed left and right of whatever your path or travel route is. If you are moving on a road, you don't just line up. The fact of the matter is that not only do you do that, but there are other things you need to think of. Number one, immediately the first person is on the right side of the trail or the travel. The weapon automatically, without me or anybody else having to tell them, automatically shifts the barrel right. This is exactly what Dom is talking about. But here's the thing, that same man 15 minutes later, you may have had contact or you may have changed the radio operator. Most commonly you're stopping in certain heavy tasks or traded. So it's hours down the road, or 15 minutes down the road. If you change position, then you change your perspective, your attitude. If you're on the left, you're going to be holding weapon muzzle left. If you're on the right, weapons muzzle right. It is a rule. It is not your job. the job. However it is handed to you and each individual task works the same way. When you are working as a team even if it is hand to hand combat, one of our friends this morning described the situation where he was by himself which is always bad when you have to fight. He had to fight and he actually did a pretty good job. By the way, his primary weapon, having listened to you Don, One of the weapons that he took and applied, he was coming out from a place where he had been doing laundry and he had a jug of laundry detergent. That made a really nice bludgeon. He thought he was dealing with one and found out he was dealing with two, so he decided just to be bitter with them. In other words, don't hold anything back because if they get a chance to hurt you then there ain't no fixing what they hurt. He still got hit but the idea is that he defended himself and he wasn't bragging or anything. He was just pointing out that what helped him was what he heard on the air. on the radio program from us in the morning. That's the idea behind what we're doing here, guys, with everything that we're trying to impress upon you, the idea of versatility. We have the thinkers. They have the stinkers. Our people aren't trying to steal people's property. They are. Our people don't have the mind of a thief. They do. Our people are not fixated by a public fool system failure process. Theirs are. We have the ability to be versatile and in fact think not outside the box but in a diverse number of ways. However we actually need to. Improvise, adapt and overcome. We've always heard that term. Those are basics and they do fit. Your mind is your first best weapon. Improvise, adapt and overcome. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. You know if you take these basic axioms and apply them into your team very quickly you'll find that you work like a machine. But you have to get serious right from the get-go too. And the other thing about it, well I don't have this or I don't have that. You know what the first rule of combat, you don't know what's going to do. Well let me give you an example there again. You've seen all this guys. You know every time a landing craft hits the beach you know every man had a job. Yup. But, you know, probably the best example of that in the old movie, which is old now, but it was Bangalore torpedoes, guys. You know, there was a number, there was a numbering system for the crews carrying the Bangalore torpedoes. And they would call out, starting with number one and number two, dad, number three, dad, number four, hair, move forward, blow it, and, you know, keep weight, move forward, get the thing attached, shove it forward, up, and then he got hit. Then it's number five, dad, number six. Number six would jump in there and progressively they would get it done. Now they didn't all die. The idea was that in many cases they didn't die putting the Bangalore torpedo in place. That was Normandy Beach where yes, many, many, many, many, many men died. Friends of mine that are not with us anymore were there. Everyone said the same thing. When he jumped out of the landing craft, he never touched the sand. That's the difference between what you see in the movies and how it really worked. He swore that he never touched the sand for the bodies on the ground. A man came up and said, well, I can't quote him. He said something like, well, we've got this and we've got that and we work with what we've got. That's to be applauded, that very thought line. It's not like, I wish I had this and I wouldn't go to war without that. If we don't get this, we're just going to stay home today. See the difference and see the mindset exhibited there. I answered earlier in the day if I had a rock. I had a knife. Think of it. In the fight. Well, this gets back to, okay, well first of all, you take stock of the weapons you have. You evaluate the application because you are immersed in the military sciences and you do understand the capabilities of each weapon system out there, not just the one that you're carrying, right? Guys, you find out who's got the most firepower available to be able to put on target and what you do is you adapt the weapons you have to the jobs within a fire team. I've said this before, I don't have belt fed guns throughout the whole of our inventory right now, but I don't necessarily want them. There are a couple of other things that people don't think about. Belt fed guns require a whole lot more education and progressive maintenance. In a situation where right off the bat, how many of you out there have handled an M60? How many of you have handled a MAG 58? How many of you have handled a SAW, a Squad Automatic Weapon, and a 223? Ok, think about it. So, I want a belt fed gun, how does it work? I jumped up on the vehicle and I saw all those movies that I got behind it and I pulled the trigger and it did fire another 50 rounds. But then after that it was empty and the belt was gone and wow what do you do? Well you lift the cover thingy and then you look at the guts and go what the hell was that? Have you operated a belt-fed gun or have you immersed yourself in the working knowledge of how it functions? You got a Ma Deuce, do you know the double-cock it? Think about it. By the way, don't be a baby with a 50-cout. Don't think you're going to hurt it. You won't. Let's put it this way. For the most part, you can't. Okay, but the idea behind this is that since I don't have those belt-fed guns, who showed up for the party? Let's do it this way. One guy shows up with a PTR-91. Two guys show up with AKs. One of them has a drum. One guy shows up with an AR-15. The other guy's got a carbine. He's got so many mags, he's got them poking out every pocket. Okay, hmm. We got firepower. We got one 308 rifle. Well, 308 rifle is the marksman's gun. That's the weapon that's going to reach. So he's going to be a designated rifleman. Who has the most ammunition and mags? Well, it's a toss up. If the guy with the AR-15 has a Titsadoom Beta Mag, I might make him the automatic rifleman. I'm going to tell him 3-5 round burst, you know, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop, b One guy showed up with a K98 monitor. One guy has a Hakim semi-auto. The other guy has an M1 carbine. If the M1 carbine guy showed up because he's been saving up ammo for the last 30-40 years and he's got a whole pile of mags, he's going to become the squad automatic gun. Not because he's got the heaviest bullet because in reality if it was the next gun in line it would be the Hakim. I would show you how to make the Hakim sound like a B.A.R. and operate like a B.A.R. Not full auto, just the idea that you'd never know that I only had a 10-round mag. I would make that gun operating in such a way because it's not hard. Just make sure again, stripper clip, stripper clip, stripper clips. And boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom See, somebody down range, they ain't going to ask what I've got because they can't figure it out. Common sense, improvise with the weapons you have available. Make sure that you apply them so that your team functions the way it intended to. Now in this case the team is improvised, we're talking totally improvised, so you have to be catching everybody on the fly. So that means it's basic instruction time. Now that gets back to again, you might be somebody who is experienced but you're not normally the person in charge. One of the first measures of a group that comes together like that, Mark, this needs to be said. If you have a small group and you come across what one might call stragglers, there's this word called bravado. And there's plenty of people that are going to want to puff up because of the instance. Look them in the eye and ask them if they've ever been in a fight before. We're talking about a gun fight here. Yeah, we're talking about for your life. Yeah. And this is where again, it's like here's how it works. There's five of us, one of you get your act together, kick rocks, get on down the road and do your own thing until you're dead. Well, you could hang back and not do anything. You only end up being worried about dying, at least not right away until they start searching for everybody else if you decide to let everybody hang on their own. The idea behind this is working as a team. You need to train and practice with regard to SOP or changing the jobs out. Remember, I'm a squad leader and I've got 10 men or 9 men or 12 men depending on how your squad was set up. And I got a whole bunch of people that have shown up that want to do something, but unlike 1775, unlike April 19th guys, we have the ability to mobilize efficiently and to mobilize effectively as a team, not just a mob. See, the demonstration of force was excellent with April 19th, but had they just a little more organization, the British forces would have been utterly destroyed in the field. Had they not to think, present like a single line, what do you think that lieutenant would have done? Had he seen a line present in front like the standard and then another line present off at 90 degrees? Oh, what's that called, Mark? That's right, interlocking crossfire and a flanking operation is safe. He would have been doing what some of them tried to do and eventually did during the retreat. He would want to surrender. The only problem is if there is no structure on the other side, who do you surrender to? That only examples what you just said, Mark. Had they been more organized, had they worked on their basics, granted a number of them were veterans, but they were stuck in a little mindset of this is how we make war with the Redcoats because this is how the Redcoats make war. Think about it. And if every man that is standing there in your squad has already been trained properly, if each one of you listening has been trained properly, we've got four people here, okay, let's see, John, you're carrying an AR out of the group of 40 or 50 or 30 or 10 or whatever you've got that just came in. They're an ad hoc group of people that decided they're pissed off enough and they're finishing what's going on. How many people here have ARs? 3 or 4 of them raised their hand. Congratulations, you're a fire team, you're with this man right here. Why? Because y'all have the same weapon and the same ammo guys, that's why. What you start doing is since the others are not committed, okay, Hal's a fire team member, he's a rifleman. Well Hal, congratulations, you're a fire team leader, you just got a promotion in the field. See those 4 guys? Okay, get them squared away. Now that's all you should have to do as a team member. Now what that means though is this, as a team member, as a team leader or a fire team leader or a squad leader or platoon leader, I don't care what it is, remember what I've said about you have to have discipline amongst your men. You physically inspect your people on a regular basis because what you're doing is confirming that they have followed SOP. Now they can have more then but they have to at least have minimal. Some people try to shave stuff off during training, don't do that. You need water the same way. Everything should be immediately the man gets into again inspection mode. What do we have? How much do we have? Who's got what? Now somebody short as opposed to somebody who's bountiful, you might ask that the man that has just a little more, maybe he was smart and he showed up when everybody laughs because he showed up with two or three extra shoulder bags for Air 15 magazines. Maybe he was listening to what we were talking about, but the other guy was told, oh you don't need any more than four or six mags. I wonder if he's had that given that guy half my dinner. Yeah, exactly. All of a sudden here we're in a situation where instead he decided, well he was told to buy an AR-15, he got three mags, and he can contribute, and he certainly wants to, and I'm not going to leave him out. But we might have to take one of those little shoulder SCIA bags, as they used to call them now, they're called bandoliers again, which is, you know, that name has come back and forth. They have a little six pocket bandolier, three pocket bandoliers that are in woodland, three colored desert, they're in whatever color. But they carry six or three AR-15 30 round mags. Well, the guy that's carrying a bunch of those are his, oh yeah, I got a bunch on the truck. Well, one of those bandoliers goes to that guy that doesn't have much of anything and now he's up to snuff with the rest of the team. Up to snuff. Might I elaborate on that? You guys, let's go back to that. Have you ever been in a fight? You might find some people that'll say no. But they're there. As you point out, Mark, and they've got whatever they picked up off the battlefield or grandpa's long gun and they're willing to ask you to do something. You might not think it's right, but when we get through it, you'll think it's right. You're gonna put that guy with somebody who really knows what he's doing. He's his buddy now. Yes, you're gonna put him with or you're gonna immerse him into a team that is veteran that you know. Why? I'm not asking you to babysit this man, but think about it when you're on the battlefield You're looking out for that man on your left and you're looking out for that man on your right too, aren't you? If you put this man who's the newbie, the cherry into a place where he might come out of his first battle. Rick Topham did this to the best of his ability, you guys. Manfred von Richthofen did this. He cradled new pilots into, literally almost carried them in his arms, if it could be possible. But this is how he made a Feared by his enemies. Conservation of manpower is the term. This is what you are doing. You are keeping the men alive. You are not just throwing them to the wolves. Learn or die. You are going to expect them to perform but you can't afford to lose any component you have got on the ground or in the air. That's right. That's your mindset. You are going to have casualties. See this gets in the other half of this. Understand you are going to have casualties. Remember what he said Ian and it's what we were taught years ago. It's why you inter-train. That squad leader may get the fickle finger of faith in the party. No, it doesn't mean he didn't do his job. Remember, the man who was in charge of the actin militia is the actual man that got the offensive going at Concord Bridge. Always remember that. It was not the Concord militia. It was the actin militia commander. He showed up after marching all morning with his troops. Everybody was spread out on the far side of Concord Bridge. There was a field that was right there. He came forward and men were standing along the road. Some were laying on the ground. He said, what are we doing? He said, we don't know what to do. He looked over at Concord. The tom was on fire by what they could see through the trees. It looked like the British were ransacking and burning. They were ransacking and they had only been burning some. So he turned to his own men and he looked at them and said, I know what to do. So he formed up and he put his unit up on the road in formation, the fife and drum to the front, the sound of the caucasian and stepped forward. The British panicked realizing an actual organized force was now in motion. They fired. He was killed along with the fife and the drum. Both men took a brace of bullets and they were dead there. What a waste! Boy, that was a waste of his time. Really? His fighting force proceeded forward based upon his training and routed the British and they never stopped running from that point forward. His unit, his formation, based upon his years and years of training as a militiaman, impatient that they had not fought. Why haven't we done something now? See, I don't have a problem with people saying, well, we can't do now. But if the person that says, we don't want to do that now isn't getting them off his dead ass and doing something, then all he's doing is playing the coward he is. You see what I mean? I'm going to get these patty waste here right now. It's like, well, we're going to be calm. After all, we're talking about war in Connecticut. I've seen several of these things written up, and Henry posted a couple things where some guy wrote a fake article supposedly in some of their, you know, he was doing this to try and, you know, show, you know, it's people resist or he's showing whatever. I don't know really what the purpose behind it was, other than the fact he was lying to everybody. And I wanted to type in a thing. Remember, Rogers, uh, uh, wait, uh, Rogers, Rangers rules, guys. If you don't have a copy of that, that's another one of these basic axioms. It's so simple, it's ridiculous, but it's so true no matter what era. Rogers, Rangers, Rules. And there's a part in there about intelligence. You can brag at the bar all you want. I'm going to abbreviate it this way. But when it comes to giving a report on intelligence, you don't lie because an army's life depends upon it. Not to try and fake somebody out not to try and show that oh anything could be said well We already know that so the idea is we're gonna sort it out But the bottom line is is Connecticut plans on trying to confiscate the guns period any buffoon and of course in the body of the guy I did this because oh People are talking about helping Connecticut. Well. Yeah, you know no squat fool I want a few more years of buffets and I've got conferences to go to. An Indian man who is willing to trade his freedom for safety and comfort deserves neither. There is no doubt that they in fact they're chomping at the bit But you know they're only they're only pissed at that cop who said I want kicking your doors I'll give my little boyster right now to kick in your dog take your good Now the fool actually actually said that well, you know what he didn't express that out of the blue That's going on in the whole stinking department. That's what they're flapping. Yeah, though Yeah, you know locker room like I said, they're all pumped up because they think it's gonna be business as usual But the other side is these characters say we are going to buy more time. Really, what have you done to prepare a fighting force? If you are buying more time, then you are telling me by next month you are expecting to double your combat strength. Is that it? Because whenever they say fight, most of these panty ways are like, oh, and I'll have more paperwork so we can go to court and take those out. Wait a minute, there was a rock. Yeah, it's bunk. There you go. Get him out of the way. It's too late for that BS. We have wasted too much of our lifetime with these panty ways piddling. And what they do is they always sacrifice people. They always sacrifice our people. Hey, we're just about to the top here. But I did bring to example the Rittmeister there. You know, Manfred von Rittpulvin. Some more of you might not recognize the name of him unless I tell you the Rittbaren. I used him as an example. If he could have flown some of the newbies planes into battle the first time and the second time, he would have. That's how concerned he was for his people. Taking care of his men. Yes. Now, this goes over to he was one of the first people to develop Wingman. In the First World War it became Miele's, but he was one of the first people to develop Wingman. people to develop that but he would fall away from it. It wasn't a true tactical habit and applied all of the time. It became more of an honor thing, the individual combat. But if you read in the right places, sometimes Von Richthof would be walking across the... one of the underlings would look up and say, elbow to his friend and say, there goes the master. Think about it. And by the way, a little sub-note in history for all the comments made about Goering, When Rich Topham passed away, there were two other commanders who took over his flying circus. Propaganda dictates that they try to piss on or screw people's memories over. Understand that Hermann Göring, the German socialists do this when they are talking about World War II. Göring was a World War I flying ace. And, in fact, took over Baron von Richthofen's flying circus guys. Gloring was shot in the stomach during the Beer Hall push trying to run the Communists out of Germany. When the Communists were planning on expanding their forces so that they could water their horses in the Rhine and crucify and murder Christian women and children and men in Germany, which is what they were bragging. Gloring wasn't in the back. Gloring was up front during the fight and took a rifle round to the stomach. It underwent virtually months and months and months of recovery time to include all kinds of issues with peritonitis. It ended up, of course, very ill. They ended up with a pain issue, abdominal wounds being what they are. That's where he got into morphine. Of course, in the process, the injury, him being bedridden, etc., caused all kinds of other problems that stuck with him for the rest of his days. Twenty-seven I think was his victory number. Twenty-seven. In fact, he received the Blue Max, the entire battery of awards that could possibly be given to a flying ace in Germany at the time. You look at numbers, I think that's equal to Eddie Rickenbacker's number. Rickenbacker might have had 26 or 28, but they survived that many individual combats. You guys, that's beyond bragging rights. But of course, because of propaganda and conditioning in the public fool system, well again, in perspective, there weren't any Nazis back in World War I. I'm getting tired of watching stupidity as they're now, no wonder they have to take the history books off the shelf. They're now yapping about how they were Nazis in World War I. No, no, there weren't. There were communists already in motion and in fact what betrayed the German army and the field of World War I were the backstabbing Scheisters, the Scheisters setting up and screwing Germany up and English as they were. The Jewish-run munitions families. Yeah. So anyway, real quick, we are at the top by the way. Before we go any farther, Don, your number for night vision please. If you want to talk to me about goggles or gun sights, green screens or thermal, you guys, my number is 231-796. 8458231-796-8458. 4,305. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. 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