July 21, 2014
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59m
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Mark Koernke discussed border security and immigration policy, advocating for National Guard deployment and catch-and-release tactics at the southern border. He then shifted to extensive commentary on military vehicles and armor, covering topics including resurrected Soviet tanks in Ukraine, the effectiveness of older tank designs, armor upgrades for civilian vehicles, and the value of used military equipment. The episode included discussion of the Ukraine conflict, weapons smuggling, and practical advice on acquiring and maintaining older pickup trucks for preparedness purposes.
- border security
- national guard
- immigration
- ukraine conflict
- tank armor
- soviet tanks
- t-34
- sherman tank
- military vehicles
- weapons smuggling
- preparedness
- used vehicles
- michigan
- grape production
- armored trucks
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VIP membership is radio with benefits. Oh yeah! Your favorite music from around the world right at your fingertips. Exclusive content, unlimited commercial free access. Try it risk free. That's free for five days at Live365.com slash VIP. Live 365. Right, and they're dragging the rest of their weapons across the water. They've already got their weapons across the water. They got to get them deeper inland. Yup. See how that works? Yeah, right now Texas has got What were you talking about? Well, my problem with that, here's the thing about that too, is back when Carter was in, there's an entire element, this is what everybody, okay, first of all, who's to blame for this? Department of Immigration. The Department of Immigration has an entire handling division. Does everybody understand that? Go back to Ellis Island. Who ran Ellis Island? But they're not doing their job. That's what Carter said. The National Guard could do that. The Border Patrol could stay right on site and be like, put and take. In other words, catch and release, but right back over the border. The border patrol would be there to follow through on the paperwork and all be done electronic. They snag and tag them. They're boxed up in numbers. The guard takes them out, preferably with all their protection they can to protect the guys from disease and contamination. Drive them down the other end of the border, dump their arse right back through the gate and tell them kick rocks and get out of here. And just keep cycling them. Someone's come through five, six times. Hey, you know what? We get paid. That's OK. You don't. and just keep shoveling their arse back over. Just keep shoveling their arse back. That's our job. That's what they do. All you gotta do is hold that line. Hold that line. Hold that. That's all it is. They get a paycheck every week, so how's it gonna cost more? Right. You get a paycheck no matter what. The difference is you're not paying to change diapers and do baby rattles. That's not their job anyway. They have no business doing that. The Department of Immigration has failed us completely intentionally because it's Jewish-run. The Jewish mobsters targeted specific components of our government. Immigration was designed to undermine and destroy. That's what it's for now. That's what it's supposed to do. And that's why there's... It's perfect for a lot of people right now whose attention spans are wider than they are long because they can hear as you point out about Ukraine. about an airplane shot down there. If they don't like that, they can turn to another news network and listen to the massacre of the Palestinians. Or they can... You're right. The sporting hunting of the Palestinians by the... I feel so damn tired here about those damn Israelis. Well... It's been a thousand years. You're right. But you know, speaking of thousands and years, and we are after your next hour... We're way past the curve here. I know Ed tried to kick it. I'm sorry, Ed. We gotta go to break, guys. Don, your number for night vision, you haven't mentioned it once yet, please do now. Hey, that number is 2317-968458. You don't have to just call me about night vision as an example. If you've got a report somewhere, you can call me 2317-968458. Thank you, Mark. And for everybody out there, why are you dealing with a stranger when we can deal with a friend? We're going to need the material if the border file is finished the rest of the way. Then you're looking at one of the other major rivers, deployment and progressive escalation of actions. The idea behind this is to undermine the country across the board anyway. So one way or another we're going to have to defend ourselves and clean the country out, as in get rid of the communists that are trying to push this garbage to begin with. That's inevitable. There's no way you're going to get out of that. Be prepared. Square your technology away. Find out what you need to get the job done. And go right down the shopping list and stay focused. Food production is going to be way up in certain categories, some a little down. The cool air we had here changed some of the fruit production, which is not a surprise. But I'm going to tell you something we got big time. Be ready for a massive Michigan grape production. There's nobody talking about this but wild grape and even the commercial Michigan grape because they're built for this weather guys. Well, they like the cool highlands. Okay, the road, terrain and take a look at the weather we've had and the moisture it has been perfect. Every place we've got grapes like there are no tomorrow. So one area you benefit and it's part of the natural cycle. You're supposed to understand there's some animal husbandry anyway and with horticulture. So, understand how production, it's like the whole issue going after baker's green acres. How to deal with livestock, how to deal with vegetables and fruits. You know, that shit doubles. Fruits and, you know, grains and don't forget nuts. We ain't talking the ones in Washington, we're talking the stuff that grows out there in the wild. And I'm going to exit stage left. Yeah, we are. The music should be jumping in there any time. I know Ed tried to do it and he might be doing it. So Don, thank you, sir. Thank you. For everybody out there, 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. Hoorah! And again, thank you sir, we'll see you this evening. Yes, thank you, God bless. And we are at the top, I assume we might just go into the programming. And for everybody out there, good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report, I'm R. Kornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, west, south, southwest, and central. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com. We're on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're the hallmark network 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, whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the third, the fifth, the pit, and our friends in the recalled state of Colorado. Waving to the left coast where we have the great state of Jefferson, we turn back to the east. Sweep across the plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi, and land in the Smoky slash the Blue Ridge where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, okay teams, and the mob build, Grandma Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the Golden Spike. It is. No way! Yes it is, it's the 21st of July. It's the sixth year of open Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K2014 Old Earth Calendar or Mayan Crazy Town, Crazy Town Calendar or Nostradamus! The Epic of Doom! Where predictions are so nebulous, it'll fit anything you want it to, any year you want it to, any time you want to, just like the 6,000 Mayan calendars. You mean you thought there was only one? It was a market, it was a business, and there was over 500 years worth of it going on. My calendar's more disaster than your calendar, my mom's more disaster than yours. They're all evil, it's gonna be raining fires and storms. We're gonna burn! That's the main calendar. So anyway, as it is, and as we know, I... We had to turn to a new disaster, you know a new cop-out Nostradamus said really what did Nostradamus say? Well, somebody said that somebody heard that they interpreted. This is what Nostradamus no, no backup. What did Nostradamus say? Well Was kind of goofy Why wasn't it direct? Oh, yeah, the couch you know his words Because it predicts you. Oh BS. That's hucksterville guys That's Huxterville. He got to coach it in parallel phrases, nebulous terms. So in other words, he was pulling it out of his arse and, hey, this will pretty well keep me in business for a while. And it has. I mean, come on. Notre Dame-us, man. He's a, you know, football coach from that football team up the upper end of Indiana by the same name. Rah, rah, rah. No, Notre Dame-us. Rah, rah, rah. Yeah, well if you're drinking, you know urine-less tea I mean first of all you get the tea then you pee in it then you throw a little dash of opium in there and Well, you'll see pretty much anything you want to Dudes I am the wall of rizz cuckoo cuckoo. Just think about that. I mean really and it's like oh, don't worry There was a cornucopia of other drugs that are still out there tumors to mention old natural That were used because that was an age where Well, let's just say that poisoning was the norm and the art of chemistry and the alchemist. Well, he was very, very much, he was coveted to be quite honest. So don't worry. Anyway, well, here we are. It is Monday for everybody out there. And it's the second hour, although we're late into the second hour, but we own the network so we can do that. And we've got an interesting subject as far as I'm concerned. I've got something I can talk about, Mark. A quick freight that puts them in a business. No, that's just a truck. Just the old country, yeah. Just fine trucks. Yeah, no, not daycabs. Yeah, you know condos. Yeah, condos. 8,500 they've sold and I have 30% rise over last year so they're... The unions are trying to hype down as the reason why they're coming. That was an issue early on, remember I brought up, that one of the things they were doing in the oil field areas traditionally, they didn't, you know, like Dakotas, there's no rules in the Dakotas for much of anything, guys. Montana was much more liberal still as far as being independent, you know, etc. But what's interesting is When they first did this, one of the first things they did is they were passing laws in different counties that you can't have more than three mobile homes, as in RV homes, on your property. Now you might have a 500 acre spread, but you can't rent out to those guys so that they have a place to live. We need to be able to screw them like in the old Gold Rush days. You know what I mean? If there's a sewage, you gotta go somewhere. Yeah, but that's one of those things where again, there's some points, what they really were worried about, as much as anything, for that matter, it's like, you know, worse than fertilizing in Mexico. What's fascinating to me is the idea that again, they immediately wanted to box them in towards, well, what was already expected to be a big boom on, not so much construction, but rental. That's the big push from the other end there and everything is doubled quadrupled hell right now if you go to the Dakotas Guys, if you want a job, you can make 15 $16 an hour at McDonald's there right now But then you know what the problem is What does it cost you to live there? Hey dad, go ahead. We got it there. I apologize. We went way past the top of the hour, didn't we? Yeah, we're good. We already did the we just did our you know, just talk through intro we're fine. Okay. Sorry about that I got all be something else long as I got you there right now We've got the guys who've got the end of the year bill Edward go ahead and give us all the information there, please Alright guys, we got to tell October 7th to raise the funds. We're trying to reach the goal of $3,000. We're up to, hang on here, I just updated the website today. I believe it's $1,500 and some change. Thank you, appreciate that. And I'll hit that real quick here. Yeah, $1,005.18 raised for the end of your bill. So we're over a third of what we are asking to do. get raised for the end of the year bill. Of course, if we don't reach it, there are other packages that we can fall back to. We would prefer not to do that. We're also trying to upgrade one of the computers here. We don't need to do that per se if we don't have to. We'll just live with what we got. So primarily what we need for the end of the year bill is $2,000. And the other thousand that's on there is just to upgrade one of the machines, and that's it. Very good. So everybody knows what's going on. The amount is there. That's the goal from the end of the year. That brings all of our projects and operations up to date and covers all expenses. So that's the big bill. Well, the reason we do it once a year is to ensure that we can keep the price by half down. In other words, just by paying it once, you save a big chunk of change. That means what we have, minimal cost by the listeners pitching in, what we have is a very specific and narrow goal. We set it every year, and you guys have pitched in every year and made it happen. So we appreciate that. And again, thanks to all the additional donations I had. hadn't had a chance to check to see it. Did you already post the new amounts up on page? Oh yeah, that is the new amount. It's on the page. That's what I just said. It's already there. Just hit refresh and you'll see the number change if you're looking at the number. Very good. Okay. Now I haven't even got, I don't really, let's start looking at it in a second here. I actually think I can do that. Well, as it is, let me remind everybody again also, if you get a chance, Yep, okay. No, I have to refresh. Yeah, you just must have done that just a minute ago. Yep. So we're at $1,005.18 and whoever donated that penny for every month of the year, we appreciate that. That's right. Well, it's more than a penny because it's 18 cents. Actually, the way that works is depending on what you donate, there are fees that are taken out for PayPal donations. and what happens is it's a whatever formula they come up with. I don't know what the percentages are but that's why you see that, you know, well, 18 cents. Which to me it's like if somebody donated 18 cents, I'm not gonna complain about it, hey, every penny counts and as long as we just keep chugging away, we'll get to the goal. Just need everybody's help to make sure it happens, that's all. So again, go to www.liberty3radio.4mg.com. That's www.liberty3radio.4mg.com. And while you're there, take the time, plug in, and check out what else we have in the way of links and connections there. Don't forget our Yahoo group page. And of course, the link to forbid knowledge, many others. Not too numerous to mention, but they're all right there. In other words, we could do it. I guess I may, Yankee D's night vision just gives you an overview, forbidden knowledge. You know, Craig, word from the trenches, world report, that's Henry's page, Gunners of America, Larry Pratt, and blacklisted news. Jack Mark's page. And we got a caller, who do we have? Yeah, Mark, Georgetown, Texas. You know, I sat there and read the UN Charter and figured out why it's unconstitutional. For one reason our government we should have and that is if you want to be a member nation of the UN we cannot grant letters of mark of reprisal as part of the charter. Right, well that's why we haven't been declaring any wars. Nobody wants to talk through what's been going on and how we've been betrayed already because since World War II, which by the way we're all told was a UN war, I hope everybody notices that. That's all the efforts in the Japanese education system, etc. Then after that we had that exciting forgotten war. They wanted to forget it real quick because the whole thing was a scam. It was like a compressed tiny version of World War I. where they needed enough to get people killed, they wanted to convince people they needed to change job sides and or government and we spent lots of money, they betrayed our sovereignty, it goes right down the shopping list. But because MacArthur actually had a clue about what was going on and didn't trust any of the shysters back home and because he was so far afield He was able to screw them and everybody I've talked to, many are gone now, I've had him up on the air back in the day, but they flat out explained their first person experience with the Korean War. And we can't emphasize enough that Vietnam was no different, it just went the whole 10 years that Korea was supposed to go. Think about the Korean War being known the same way as Vietnam. And think about it a decade earlier closing. As it is, they had to just kind of linger it along with that agreement and we've had the forever war with North and South Korea where the only people that benefited from that North and South Korea thing were the Japanese and the Chinese being able to manipulate the population that they feared the most, the Koreans. Or at least let's put it this way, that have a vendetta against both countries, both China and Japan, for centuries, if not millennium, of occupation on and off. Don't worry, Korea had their turn too, by the way. Most people don't realize that. Korea got their act together and fought and effectively have defeated both countries at one time or another, only to be reinvaded or for the war to eventually escalate again. After a general victory and turned around and they got invaded and enslaved and all kinds of terrible stuff. But the interesting thing about Korea is they kept their language. Anybody notice that? Yeah, Mark, I talked to somebody who works in, sort of worked for the Ukrainian government and all they could say is, the Kiev and the Hunca were the people that shot down that plane and guided it into the war zone. because they're trying to get the American people to draw public support to support the Western Ukrainian army because they're deserting, the food is rotten and they're running out of arms. Yeah, it's rather interesting. I don't know if anybody noticed what just happened. Ukraine has been selling the Russian APCs that it had, bargain basement, and of course upgrading other weapons systems. And they're building a variant on the, what is the PTR 90? BTR 80, BTR 90, my aunt's got variations. It's the superstructure where there's a variation, the chassis doesn't. And I don't know if anybody noticed, but they had about 100 rejects. Read that BTRs that were sent back because they didn't work right and the contract countries said, they're junk, they said, they're home. And they did. So the Ukrainian government out of Kyiv, guess what? They got the rejects. No, but they got no food, they got no ammunition. Well, because there's a couple things going on here. It's not like they didn't have an army, but you know what happened? They got betrayed. This has been a long-term betrayal. Ukraine was convinced that it had to pull away from, you know, first step on it was, you know, Ukraine had to be the Ukraine, which is cool. But when they did that, even before they finally acknowledged this BS with going to NATO, one of the things they were already doing is destroying their ability to defend themselves. They've been in an ongoing process of doing that. They let everything go to hell in the hand cart. They did not maintain their national defense systems because they were, again, either a pilfered by the Jewish mob who sold everything out the back door. Let me ask you guys, Jewish mobsters run the arms industry. Now, there's a waterway right there that the Ukraine is hooked up to, like you've got Odessa and everything there. And I would point out that that's an awful cheap way to smuggle out big weapon systems. When you can throw stuff on ships and barges and get them across the water, That's exactly what happened. Remember that little scandal about oh eight years ago, ten years ago, with the Russian tank commander? Well, turns out he wasn't a Russian tank commander. He was originally with the Russian army, but he was with the Ukraine. Oh, and he was selling tanks out the back door. Well, who the hell was he selling them to? And who were the marketers? And remember there was like about an oh 80 or so tanks found out in the middle of nowhere in a woods? T-72 slash T-80s. Yeah, well that's the one, yeah that's the one, God of War, that's the one, they talk about the arm purchase, and they're all Jewish mob, they just aren't, they don't emphasize that part. He's from New York, and he's got background, and they was dealing in arms all the time, boy, I'm telling you, I'm angsting all the time, boy. Well, what she told me is like, like about 500 BMPs keep missing, and also too, Hundreds of thousands of rounds of ammunition. Well, it would be millions of rounds of small arms ammo, probably in the billions. But you got to remember, what are you buying here in the US? What's that red army ammo? Where does it come from? Ukraine! It's surplus ammo, steel case, military ball. What does that tell you? Also, the SAGR missile. You heard of the SAGR missile, right? Well, the SAGR, I've told you about that time and again. I've mentioned the SAGR. The SAGR, as originally it was constructed, originally seen in the 1973 war, SEGA 1's, 2's and 3's. The difference between the 1, 2 and the 3 is the 1 is 1000 yards, the 2 is 2000 yards. SEGA 3 with its additional booster could reach 3000 yards, which means that it could reach the same distance with a briefcase rocket. It's a toy version, a video game arcade version of the tow rocket. The difference, like the RPG-7, you could carry one of these in each hand, although ideally you really don't do that. What you want is, if you do carry two briefcases, one would have a launcher and a couple of missiles, or at least one, and that's how they come. And then the other would have nothing but replacement missiles, because all you have to do is recover the optical sighting system, which is like a periscope on an RPG-7, but it's a little longer. It's taller and then you have a joystick control to guide it right into the target. That's the Sager. The Sager has been around for a long, long time. It's like hellfire. It's been around for a long, long time. Toe has been around for a long, long time. Hell, all this garbage has been around for a long week. Even the Viper, you know what I was thinking about this the other day. Everybody goes, well, we got the Viper. Guys, I'm gonna talk to all you Marines and Army personnel. When did we first get the Viper? What year? You realize it's over a quarter of a century old plus? Already? Time waits for no one. Anything new replacing the Viper? Oh wait a minute, the Marine Corps bought that 56 year old Carl Gustaf and put that into the inventory. Why? I don't know because we had our own 90 millimeter recoilless rifle. So instead we bought the Carl Gustaf in under the under 90 millimeter gun. And that's what you see like in many movies. They show the Marines of use the Carl Gustaf. You know, they made a point emphasizing that, you know, that the Carl Gustaf And that's not a new weapons system guys. It's actually as old as the 90mm Recoiless Shoulder Fired. So all that stuff is over there. Recoiless weapons, I mean God, there's so much stuff. Oh most of it's been pillaged. I mean, and not only that but let's point something out. Guys, have any of you been keeping track of the story about the monument tanks that they recovered? I think you told me about it. Well, okay, there's videos. Go to YouTube. You'll see them starting up all of these monument vehicles that are up on slabs. Now guys, number one. Monument vehicles literally are the cheapest to buy in surplus. And when I was buying armor, you've got field grade A1, you know, A, you've got field grade used, and then you've got monument grade. Now, monument grade is where, man, you've got a lot of work to do if you think you're going to bring that up to speed. It'll move, I mean, probably sometimes. They won't move on their own power sometimes. But what's interesting is that if you watch these videos, they are resurrecting Joseph Stalin 2 and 3 tanks, T-34-85s, ASU-100s assault guns with a 100mm main gun, and they found or built ammunition for them. But if you haven't seen the one story, the one tank they resurrected has already knocked out 5 BMPs. It assaulted a motor unit and overran a Ukrainian motor unit. And they don't even have optics. They've been bore lining the gun. They've been stopping, fixing, loading, firing. And what I mean by fixing, guys, is they're literally looking down the breach. They also knocked out two other tanks. Now this is an ongoing story because this is the age of videos. This is the age of everybody can put a stinking cell camera on whatever they want. and they did. So tell me about, I had jackasses for years, well it's old armor you go to, the militia has old armor and anybody who opens their mouth like that usually has a dimwit. Well I heard someone make fun of somebody in the militia in Texas that owns a Sherman tank. Yeah well any tank, here's the point, any tank changes the dynamic of the battlefield. We've got many Shermans. Shermans disappeared from all places where they were laying around and are now put together. I haven't known an old patent tank being refurbished. Well, the patents are not as common because the M48 and the M60s, both variants as far as what's laying around up there, they are. I helped to track down the motors for the one because, like I've said, stuff was just laying around. I mean, literally laying around. And people in the system really do like the Patriot movement, and so everything that was needed was progressively found. Or if you're patient, it's out there. Much of it's still brand new in the wrapper. The fact of the matter is armor, here's the first rule of armor. Number one, armor does not degrade. Does everybody understand that? If you have four inches or six inches of homogeneous armor plate in 1945, you have four to six inches of homogeneous armor plate in 2014, right? Now, just a little sub-note, some of these tanks are resurrecting like that Joseph Stalin at JS2. The one it's an impressive video because it's like man they started that son of a bugger up that diesel turned over however remember Russian diesels are as sloppy as the day is long and Russian diesels do not work off standard diesel. They will run on grade 3 diesel grade 3 Diesel we don't sell grade 3 diesel. We're talking crude and rude Okay Well, if you watch that video, they're cranking her and she goes, not only, she didn't sound pretty at first, but you know what? What's amazing to me is whoever was working on those engines got their act together. Because they got that thing to move, and of course, you know, run, crank up, and turn, and move. Well, that Joseph Stalin can have, depending on where you're looking at on that front armor plate, that front glace is either 11 to 19 inches thick. Homogeneous armor plate. Now that's as good as anything out there in any modern tank today. Oh, but Mark is not ceramic armor. Yeah, but ceramic armor can be penetrated like butter with certain rounds and will deflect modern or high-tech rounds. Everything has its advantage and its nemesis. Number one, again, armor does not degrade. Okay? Second is how automotive is it? Now granted, World War I tanks I could walk next to, but guys we haven't seen that for many many many many many like, oh wait a minute, a century ago. Okay? In World War II, the average battle tank could sustain a mean speed of 45 to 50 miles per hour comfortably. Don't think so? You better look at the specs. So as far as actual automotive performance and speed and agility, almost everything we have, the only thing that has happened since the beginning of World War II has been throw weight. Now what do we mean by throw weight? Well let me give you another example here. The Sherman, we just talked about that. It was the Sherman tank, that's how it dated. Well that's really strange when the Israelis had them. We bragged up the Sherman tank and the fact that the Israelis were so smart and so innovative, what did they do? They took the Sherman tank and they put a 105 gun, a main battle tank gun. First they did 90s. Now you've got to remember it started out with a 75, some had a 105 Stumpy Howitzer for assault work. And then they went to a Firefly variant, 76.2mm, right? Then the big main gun for most medium tanks, because originally the Sherman was a medium, was 90mm. And it stayed that way for the longest time. The Pershing all the way through to pretty much all the modern tanks that we had into the early 60s were pretty well carrying a 90 as a main gun. And that was true for all NATO. Then the Euro guns in 105 started up and the US of course adopted a 105. That 105 became the dominant standard for another couple of decades for the state-of-the-art Class A countries. Well, the Israelis took a standard Sherman, either a Firefly or one of those that was carrying a naval gun, and they turned around and put a 105 in the turret. Well, that meant that that Sherman Although it didn't have the, again, all of the on-board tracking of the modern M48 or the M60 of its day, although they really weren't that much more sophisticated, that Sherman could do everything at the same range that any other tank on the battlefield could. Now the Russians had a different philosophy. Why change the steel if the steel isn't worn out? So the Russians came up with and were the first to really push discarding Sabo, which now is the norm for everybody. The Russians, though, took it a step farther and explained, well, here's how it works. Discarding Sabo's solid shot brings the round up into the 20th century, no matter what it is. So they made modern munitions for every gun, no matter how old. So now the throw weight's comparable, penetration was comparable, the only issue is how much can I push down range at what distance? And because a 45, well 47 millimeter gun or a 57 millimeter gun or a 50 or a 75 or a 90 have not quite as much power as a 105, no, they couldn't reach as far. But if they were in range, they could kill. So even that Sherman with that 75 or back in the day, the T-34, 85, was upgraded with all of the modern munitions available to say the T-54 or 55. or later the T-62, not as popular for whatever reason, there's a bunch of arguments about the T-62 not being the best Russian tank. However, you've got to remember they made it in quantity, so live with it, it'll kill you, and you can kill people with it. Then of course the T64 which we call the T72 although the 64 is a very specific variant in how the main bogies were configured and return rollers which aren't necessarily the standard on most Russian designs remember. They weren't. Anyway then the T72, the T80 and the T90. The last variants are only upgrades in armor, same basic chassis and even retrofitting other chassis. in the policy of both Europeans and US military. We don't buy brand new all the time. We've taken existing chassis and upgraded and modified accordingly. Now the other thing is onboard fire control because well, Markette Sherman doesn't have onboard fire control to do this and doesn't have the fire power to do that. Or for that matter, like a ferret armored car. I want you to do something. Here's an example of understanding the difference between original factory and adding a racing foil. punch in ferret armored car, go to Google, do a image search, punch in ferret armored car and take a look at the original Mark 1, no turret, Mark 2, small turret, fox configuration, big turret, bigger gun, then take a look at, oh wait a minute, the weapons, The weapon salesmen came up with some really cool ideas. So what they did is they didn't change the turret on the Mark II. They made a frame that goes right on the turret and puts a big tooth. You could even put missiles or you could put twin 50s, quad 30s, whatever you want and it would be controlled by the primary gun station in the middle of the built into the turret. Now what this did is also with electronic add-on It could do everything that any of its counterparts could do that were brand new. However, remember a lot of this British stuff and a lot of even the Russian stuff had no mileage on it. Even the stuff that's presently going into combat in many cases was part of what we call the B and C echelon of the Russian army back when it was the Warsaw Pact. And a lot of this equipment was parked and had no mileage. So it's really low on the it's it's not long on the tooth for fighting and for wear and tear It's just long in the tooth in the calendar Another thing if everybody did their job and the grease is all where it belongs and everything is lubricated Guys, it'll fight for a good long time. And if you keep working at it, you can even resurrect older pieces of equipment I don't know it. I got no saw me bread and gun carriers I rebuilt right here in this driveway and Ed knows because Ed's pictured at least one of them and So, he could tell you right off the bat. In fact, TUNAMOBEEL! Anybody remember a TUNAMOBEEL? What did I pay for it? Nothing. We had to go pick it up. Why? It was sitting in a barn. Right where it needed to be. It's not the only one. We built what? 20-some Bren gun carriers. They'll do 40 miles, 45 miles per hour. God help you. They've got steel track if you're on a paved road and you have to stop. But most people seem to think World War I kank tank when they think World War II Korean armored vehicles. Guys, you could not outrun most all those pieces of equipment if they decided to run you down. So they are highly automotive. They can have additional or supplemental firepower added. They have whatever armor existed and upgrading armor is not that difficult either. Not the least of which is, here's a little trick. They make what are called Kevlar blankets. Even the M113 and the Bradley have these, although some are jettisoned to save weight and add more ammunition, depends on the unit commander and how much wear and tear the vehicle gets. But you can upgrade all of the armor. People say, well, wait, half track. It's a tin can, really. So I add a half inch armor plate to the outside that I bolt in with about an old wave 85 to 90 degree taper to it. Then I put Kevlar blankets all around the inside of that white armored car when the time comes In fact, I don't even have to bolt that outer armor into play I can literally hang it around the outside of that white armored car and I've upgraded the defense capability threefold Wow, these are all things can be done off the shelf. Yeah, I know because we've done them. Oh mark Even like I heard you talked about, even like in World War II we started confiscating the Panzer and the Tiger tanks. If it wasn't nailed down, we turned it around and drove it. And I know, in fact, I wish Doc Robinson were here. He passed away. He was in World War II. It's like you said, if it wasn't nailed down, they turned it around. A lot of the guys when they went inland, as soon as they could capture it and it was driven, they'd use it. And the reason is because there wasn't enough tanks, despite what everybody thinks, there weren't enough armored vehicles to go around where they wanted them or where the troops wanted them. And the units would accumulate armor and then make it disappear whenever the inspectors came around. By the end of World War II, pretty much every U.S. unit on the ground had anywhere from 50 to 119. In fact, they say the average is about 109. around 110, 109 vehicles, German armored vehicles per unit that have been collected. But they just keep watching for ammunition. They kill a crew, they'd be stripping it for gear. They'd grab the weapons off the roof, they'd grab the coaxial guns, they'd grab all the ammo they could find, and they'd keep pushing forward with whatever they had. And again, Black Forest. Look at the Battle of the Black Forest. Everybody talks about the Battle of the Bulge. Guys, the Black Forest, we were bogged down. It was a slopter. A lot of men who went into the Black Forest, if they were there, I've watched them shit. Just like Ty, I can imagine us talking about Shiloh during the Civil War. The men who went into the Black Forest, they know tens of thousands. We lost tens of thousands KIA. The Germans held and they held well and that's where we picked everything up We could and the Germans did the same thing everybody did it was no different. See it's like right now guys All of the I'm telling you this whole BS with regard to the controlled media is so absolutely manipulated Show the American weapons for the American guys show the Russian weapons and if it's a bad guy show them with those Russian weapons Well like in Egypt why is that they don't show you pictures of the Egyptian military anymore? Because you're almost still thinking it's 1967 or 1973 and you've all been conditioned to thinking the Egyptian army is a Russian army. And I hate to tell you, but when they show pictures of them, it's all like American oppressors. It's totally askew for psychological warfare reasons because it looks like Americans oppressing the population. Why? Well, they've got Abrams tanks. They've got Bradley fighting vehicles. They've got Humvees. They've got everything we have and they build it there. So you don't see any pictures you'll notice even though they'll tell you about, oh there's the Egypt Spring and oh they're gunning down the population. A few times they've shown the glimpses of that. They've been told, oh make that disappear. Why? Because all of that Egyptian army looks, you've got Kevlar helmets, they've got US uniforms, they look just like your boys. Just like the Chinese do now. Exactly. That's why again, guys, go to their national parade. It's a couple hours long. Now granted, they got some boxy and clunky, lunky pieces of equipment. They've learned to go fast and build more. Look at a lot of their equipment. It's slab technology. It's as basic as it gets. But they've also thrown a lot of it into the field. But when you look at those troops from a distance, When you see them marching by, take away from the distance. They look just like our people. But they're not goose stepping anymore, are they? Oh, well, they goose step. Yes, they do. In fact, you watch, they go to parade step when they get in front of the stands. Yes, they do. In fact, there's a whole video on them getting ready for the parade. If you haven't seen it, there's a whole bunch of excellent shots showing where they hand-picked the, God knows how many hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands you saw there that day. Count just one battalion going by and multiply that by how many hours worth of people marching by. And all in the same uniform, of course, because China makes all of that. But in addition to it, if you pay attention, Wow, they're all the same height. They're all perfectly aligned. Well guys, they saw, they ran strings, and they selected the people by their size. And I didn't see any white people in their formations. I didn't see any black people in their formations. And I didn't see any Hispanic, and I didn't hear the announcers in America deriding the Chinese for their lack of diversity. Why weren't they forced to have some quadriplegic homosexual, you know, European people? But there's none! It's all ethnocentric Chinese! I'm really confused about that one. And they should be screaming about it left and right. But they're not. Isn't that amazing? Selective political correctness is always fascinating to me. But anyway, yeah, again, all American equipment, hell, all their mass executioners, look at the, what jumped out at me is the female military personnel and female police. For those girls out there who have been in the US military, you know that you've got that women's dress cap that is kind of like in a U shape. It's got a bill in the front. It's well built. It's made overseas. We don't make them here in the US. Well, they do, but you've got to buy them special. If you'll notice, all of their female personnel are now in that gear. Notice also the color of their class A uniforms are identical to ours now. The olive green is still in the provinces, but their green is that Forest Kelly, it's not quite a Kelly green, it's a Forest Green in a polyester cotton blend, high polyester. And that dress class A uniform that we all have here is what they're wearing there and the women are wearing the same thing in the dress slash the slack configuration depending on what they've got on. So again from a distance you wouldn't know even mid out mid distance other than the facts just like wow They all look like cookie cutters. They all look the same and they are For all for at least the ones they pick out for the formations and the parades So just something to think about there. But again old armor any armor changes the dynamic of the battlefield just an armored truck and Here's a quickie, be ready to do. You could cut steel so that you could do a front quadrant left and right and cover the fenders. It actually bubble them out a little bit with sheet steel. Not A-peam sheet metal off the barn. We're talking 1.8 inch and 1.25 inch steel. Now, remember that when you angle it, if a bullet strikes, it's going to take more to get through, but it's also progressive retardation of flight that you're looking for. It's not going to stop everything. It's designed mostly to protect against fragmentation as much as anything, because Mr. Grenade is not your friend. Of course, you also don't want an inside with you, so don't tell me about that. We're not like we don't know that one. But as it is, the basic rule in armored truck for the rear end, sandbags. You sandbag the deck on the bottom first. Then you put sandbags, you put railbars on the side. You could have preset, hanger, quarter inch steel already pre-cut. You use the post stake points that are in the truck for your coordinate, for your control. You could even stress bolt them in so you don't even have to drill anything. It can be done with bolt clamps. so that you have a flag that comes down, overlaps, and there's a bolt that would be torqued right down to the sheet metal on the inside of the box. The back end can be done the same way, but you've got to remember you've got to be able to get in and out. And you don't want too much coverage to get retired you from getting away from the vehicle. But you could armor up the back of the cab, you could armor up the box on the inside. I'd put quarter inch steel or Kevlar in the box Back of the box towards the driver station. That's one spot I'd cut another piece of sheet steel to be go right on the deck lid throw You know the box, you know rear not on the outside on the inside so it really isn't noticed But you could put a 3 8 inch piece of steel there Hell you want to add more armor have another hanger piece But it's got to be able to be it's got to be able to stick with the wood the trunk lid forgive me the box lid Because you got to open and close it guys You also have to take into consideration the weight, but if you're offering protection, that's the way to do it. The sandbags are a quick, cheap solution. One sandbag in length, front to back, thickness, and the steel with that, and you've got a pretty reasonable armored truck that you'd be willing to abandon. Do you take your best truck and do that? No. If you're watching the videos we do, you'll notice we use the M880s, the Dodge Chevy square body trucks, et cetera, the Cuck-Vs. If some idiot made some comment about the M880, oh, this is an old truck, yeah. And it runs like hell, runs like a rape date. If I have to abandon it and blow it up myself or burn it myself, I won't think twice and I won't cry. I don't want necessarily brand new with all the plumber's nightmares. In fact, you lift the hood on that 318, you can put four illegal aliens and two dogs under the hood and still have room for the motor to run. That's the whole point. So again, it doesn't have to be newest, it just has to be maintained. And again, when you look at the cost of things nowadays, how many hand-me-down pickup trucks could you get for the price of one brand new pickup truck? If you spent, you know, I'd have to spend $30 to $50 to get myself the latest flim dandy pickup truck, really. So how much in the way of used equipment that would be in serviceable condition, not rusted if you're down south, could you pick up where you grab four or five of the exact same truck for a couple hundred or maybe six, seven hundred dollars a piece? And then you spend the money on replacing parts rather than $50,000 going into GM's wallet. Mark, there's somebody, the county is selling an old pickup truck, it's a 19, I don't know, 1980s or something, but the only thing that's wrong with it, nobody knows how to fix a column shift. It's a standard, but it's a column shift, not a Ford shift. Three on the tree? Oh, that's nothing. The only thing is, I'll tell you what will be the difficulty with the three on the tree, what you'll have to fix. Typically, because people Armstrong that a little bit, the two components that hold the indexer that are the indexer are clamshell made out of stamped steel. And what happens is, in the process of working that, is the two parts of the clamshell open up a little bit and it becomes sloppy. And a lot of people get tired of having to know where to knock the shifter to get it where it belongs. That's what happens. There's a pivot. It looks like a climb show with a little bit of a shaft where it pivots. There are two knocks on either side, two axle points on either side. Again, that indexer allows you to identify the three on the tree, three speeds, and of course reverse. Typically it's three, not five or four. It's real simple to maintain. The big thing is that yeah, it would be a little more difficult to get parts for because it's usually unique to three other trees to be pretty common but not like it used to be especially if it's from the 80s. It's interesting. Well, the interesting thing is I drive it home but it would be stuck in first gear and I would definitely get a ticket for driving too slow. Why? I picked up a cement mixer at Salford International Guard Base. I waited until... In fact, you know what? We started at 9 o'clock at night and everybody said, it'll take you two days to get that home. I said, really? We're going to travel at no more than between 11 and 14 miles per hour. I've already picked out the route by using the mapping books that I had. We didn't bother using the computer. I just went by memory and I had to get it two counties, three counties away from, right over there off of Lake Mish, off the Detroit River. Okay, that's where Sulfurge International Guard Base is. We drove at less than, well an average of probably around 11 miles per hour. We left at what, about 8 o'clock. In fact I got off work, rounded up a couple guys because I needed an escort truck behind me. Went out, hooked it up, and we towed the thing back at about 11, 12 miles an hour. And we were home before midnight. In fact, we decided we took it the rest of the way over to Jackson County, dropped it off, put it in the building where it needed to be, turned around, drove home, still got back by about 1.30ish. See how that works? Why is that not an outrageous idea? You know, pick secondary locations, drive slow, and just make sure the lights, more important is make sure all the safety gear works. Why do you have to use the expressway? Why does it have to be the fastest way there? If you map it out, what's the, well like here in Michigan, we know the set distance of a county. We know the set distance from point A. We have mapping for everything. Look for all your secondary roads and ideally what I did is I used the straightest and here in Michigan, they put a compass on the map. They just pointed in one direction and that's how they cut the roads. Right there, those due west, those 20 miles that way. So any place where there were long stretches, typically there was were cut off by the expressway but there's always a bridge north or south of where the main, where that original straight dirt road was. So we just go over to that. Most of them don't have an overpass. Eight, ten o'clock at night, there ain't nobody around. Hell, I went through the most busiest parts of North End of Detroit, for all practical purposes. Well, actually, we're farther than Detroit. But we went through all the populous areas, got through in good time, didn't have any problem with anybody, didn't interfere with, had an escort vehicle behind us, and we maintained an average speed. Now, if I tried to go faster, the trailer did not accommodate high speed of it in any way, shape, or form. That was old, a little more than jogging speed. The biggest thing is whether or not you can actually fix it when you get it to the other end. That would be the question. And if it was a reasonable price and if nobody wants it, what are they asking for it? $200. And it runs? Yes. What's the engine worth? What's the engine worth? What's the engine worth? It's got a, uh, he's got $351 in it. Well, okay, I'm telling you, what's an engine cost you if you want to buy one? I don't know. Okay, and more than $200? What's the price of one of those wheel rims on that truck? Do you know? Go price the cost of a wheel rim for that truck and then come back and tell me if that truck's worth $200 Like I tell you, to replace the tires be more than $200. That's not the idea. The tires are up, aren't they? Oh, yeah. Okay. Well, what does it cost for a plain Jane wheel rim for a full-size pickup truck right now? I don't know. 60, $70? That's a good guess. Okay, well how many tires are on the vehicle? Four. Do the math. If you took it home, is it worth the tires and the rims on the truck? Yes. If you took it home, is it worth the engine? Yes. Is the truck all rusted up? Are the body parts falling off? Ah, it's a little bit of rust on it. No, I asked, are they falling off? I know they're little tap rust is not, I'm not, that's not what I'm talking about. So the truck body's in pretty much one piece, isn't it? Yes. Well, then the truck body's worth $200. Now you have to decide, and what I would do is, even as you're looking at my vacation, if they still have it for $200, I'd snag it. There's your, there's a tactical truck for you for the border. There's a medical truck you can build up from scratch. And you know what's really cool? Not many people are gonna jump behind the steering wheel and steal it. I mean, I made a column shift. Yeah, how many people actually know I learned on a column stiff So when you missed a shifter when you said that it's like yeah, how many people would be totally mucked up by that? Is it worth the bars? Yeah, well, we'll find reverse that may be the only thing they could find or one speed forward and if it's third gear they keep jamming into every time they try to release the clutch Guess what they ain't going to wear I'll think about it. And the average person wouldn't be able to figure it out. They keep trying to shift it in. They wouldn't even think about that shifter pedal. They keep trying to move it into gear. I guarantee it. I've watched this a hundred times. Grind it. Alright. I had a duster with a three on the tree also. In fact, that one, although I had a hearse slap shifter later on, but I had a duster with a three on the tree. Every time somebody gets behind the wheel, they say, yeah, go ahead and move it over to the parking space. Well, thank God, the one time there was a space, you know, you, they pulled out and panicked and did a complete you. And fortunately, the only other parking space in that line that was open is where they turned and went into and then hit the curb and stopped. Because when they hit the curb, they jammed everything and that was all she wrote because there was no gas behind the pedal. Well, can you ship without a clutch on those three on the trees when you get up and moving? When you get to the right seat. Oh, I would never do that. Only because why am I going to wear off the pants? Number one, you got to figure you got a clutch plate. You're going to have all kinds of the problems you create with wearable parts. You're better off just focus on doing what you're supposed to do. I know you can shift on the fly. When I was younger and I was probably a little dumber with regard to money. Yeah, we did that with certain things. I used to have a slap shifter in the Hearst. in the one duster that had a green guy, grasshopper green. And you didn't have to clutch that. Wap, wap. Already in the third gear. Wap, fourth gear. Wap, fifth gear. Well army teams should get float easy to do. Yeah, but there again it was because it was somebody else's vehicle. We've got a lot of, we've got a lot of, and I just had, we've got a lot of 1.5.1 Ford months. I bought a whole truckload for $60 one time up the road here in the other county. I mentioned that on the air, and those have all been rebuilt. But I wouldn't beat the clutch, because again, do I want to have to replace parts? So common sense, proper planning here, think ahead. More important is treat them well, because again, what we've got is all we've got. But that $200 truck, if you actually have that, they still have that for $200. Is that an auction or a regular just over-the-counter sale? If they try auction, it's just a regular county sale. It's just a regular sale. It's not an auction. They say you're not bidding on it. It's $200, right? Yeah, they can't auction it. They're just selling it.