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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. 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Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God to torture 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 trampled each God given right we only watch him tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? So good the evening ladies and gentlemen, this is the Evening Intelligence Report, I'm Mark Kornke. And I'm Don Betcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, and north. Well, ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on... 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It's turned clear and blue and calm, which You're supposed to have storms and thunderstorms until Friday. Today is Wednesday by the way. Probably another front on the way, but for the moment we are neutral and purified out there and actually quite comfortable. What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the date? What's jumping off the wall there, sir? Well, it is the 20th day of August. You're of our Lord 2014 and it's a beautiful day. It is. I could run the same description, maybe a little more steel, gray in the sky, high ice perhaps. I don't think it's the chemtrails. I didn't see them earlier, but maybe that air has moved into here from someplace else. It's funny how that works, isn't it? But again, beautiful day, the 20th day of August 2014. And it is a particular day with 1911 in one hand and magazine in the other. I fill that empty space known as a magazine well with a magazine touch that slide release and oh man everything moves forward and drags one of those cartridges some call them bullets from the top of that magazine some call them clips right there into the chamber and you know everything went to battery some say oh that gun's ready but it is weapons Wednesday but the perimeter is secure and there's plenty more where that came from And that means we can offer equal opportunity, coercive force, when the time comes to develop our ability to control our perimeter or move our forces accordingly, infiltrating or exfiltrating from a threat area. A lot of work to do. Now enough time to get it all done, we've got to get to work and stay focused. And that means Weapons Wednesday, well, solutions. You know, we talked about a number of different packages, and the important thing is matching up gear and equipment to make it work. Don, you mentioned something. Is that bag big enough to fit a small like pelican case? Well, in other words, will that fit down as night vision technology? Now I would point out something guys. There are special tools in your toolbox and just like your magazines, you need to tailor your system to support them and work effectively with them. As a matter of fact, I'm going to get a couple samples of these really cheap for sale right now on the Slidecheap sale items that are overseas China sports stuff. Basically, it goes all the way back to the American Civil War. You had a Diddy bag. You didn't have an official backpack. You didn't have an official...well, they did have a utility Diddy bag that hung around the shoulder over the neck. It was a utility pouch and everything kind of bounced around in there. Well, there's been a reinvention of this Don and these pouches I'm talking about, they're $13, $10 and some as little as $8 apiece, multi-pocketed, obviously with the quick release clamps, tie downs, hold downs for ponchos, the whole nine yards. And yeah, for actually the kind of work we're talking about doing like perimeter security garrison work, you know I've talked about that before, but this is something you could do with a hanger pouch like this. You've got a nice big pouch to store your night vision equipment in there because again, we don't leave it behind day or night. Does everybody understand that one? Well, we'll be back in three hours, Mark. Yeah, it's just a quick cakewalk. We're going to go in and, well, the U.S. government's going to go in and they're going to kidnap a bunch of government officials in Somalia. And it'll only be a few hours. And they'll be right back for lunch in Crumpets and they're at the stadium and they can stretch and relax and laugh it up and yuck up how they got over on the locals. Aha. And a day later... They wish they brought that night vision all night long. Black Hawk down. And don't watch the movie. Throw the B.S. propaganda movie out the window. Seriously. Watch, well, how about with your mind, the book. Cut out the lion middleman. Yeah, Hollywood. Read the book guys. It is, it's priceless because there are points through the whole thing about everything from weapons systems and both, you know, active, you know, use and failures along with mistakes that were made that guys were basically what they did is they broke their own rules. Everybody understand that? I've talked about this a million times. You set up an SOP and then somebody goes, whoa, I want to light this up because we're just training. And so you start lightening stuff up. And things that are supposed to be out there in training aren't where they're supposed to be when the time comes. And you train as you will fight so that you fight as you have trained because it's muscle conditioning, guys. And Hanford is having the equipment where it's supposed to be, and you're actually going through the motions because you're going to have to use it. This is especially true with what happened to them because they were old they were going to be in and out in no time well they ended up getting punked on the ground in the middle of an urban area and It was a shooting gallery in all directions It was he was equal opportunity dying time for both sides contrary to the movie Where it was like a video game and everybody just popped up to get shot well We actually did get in front of you to get shot and they shot a lot back to well It was like a video game when helicopters were flying over the city and RPGs were flying Sometimes you hit them sometimes you don't Yeah. So again, for everybody out there, even with their supremacy, didn't do them any good when they were on the ground guys. Okay? Right. Just keep that in mind. Now the reason I bring this up is these bags are really interesting. If you go to www. and I'm pretty sure I still have them in the scroll way back, but for everybody out there, www. airsoft-club.com and this company like several others are the render revolution companies that bring all this junk in. So it does make the University of the Sportsman's Guide, French mid-lapse, you know like the special Bass Pro Shop and they put their little logo on it, all comes from the same place. Just like the Airsoft, all comes from that place. Built the same way same shoulder pads same pouches same stitching the whole nine yards The only difference is a lot of the airsoft don't have their logo stitched into it. Well that costs more money Yeah, and they're gouging you for it. Okay, but it's the same stuff now in this case www.airsoft-club.com And they do have some other interesting things. They don't have a boneyard. I prefer boneyards and also the cheapy air software training. But they do have a sales section. OK, let me go to this one. There's a gray line on the left side, column of subjects. Go to specials. There are three pages of specials. And if you scroll down, you'll find, for instance, with Don's night vision device, depending on what we have to put it in. You're looking at $10.50 for a tactical utility gear, shoulder sling bag, multi-cam, different sizes, smalls, medium, larges, and even really big, including backpack fixtures, guys, that aren't that expensive. Example, 24-inch rifle gear shoulder sling bag, backpack, Coyote Brown, $14. Now this is big enough to handle an AR-15, but when I looked at it, the first thing I'm thinking, medical support. Seriously, that would make a kick butt bulk medical bag. Why? It's got three big pouches on the outside, popcorn blossom pouches that are as wide as the pouch is wide. And they open up as thick as the pouch is thick, the main bin, which is 24 inches long and square and has molly components on the inside. This is a really cool solution for even, well, let's see, during the night I'm going to be using Don's Night Vision. I could mount it on my AR-15 and my little CAR-15 or M4 whatever BS name you want to come up with lately on it. And I could leave Tom's night vision sighted and right in and put it in this bag with all the other goodies and other equipment I need. And I could drop the daylight rifle with the day scope on it and switch right over to this without any problem. Granted, if it's on your back it might be a little taller and it might get shot if you're crawling. But you know what if you're crawling along? That could be in a drag bag. You know what a drag bag is. And if your night vision is in that Pelican case, all snuggled up and taking a nice little nap in that foam, I don't think it's going to be minding too much getting out and banged along outside the Pelican box world. Actually, this bag could be used as a drag bag. That's the whole point. This could be used as a drag bag all by itself. It's already set up size-wise, fixture-wise. There's only one of them. They only have it in Kylie Brown. But the other shoulder bags we're talking about, slash cross bags, kind of like a Confederate blanket roll, guys. Remember that? The Union used the backpack. The Confederacy typically had the blanket roll and the Diddy Bag pouch, traditional. That's what these pouches are. And there's a number of them. But you're talking $8.40, $11.90, $10. And if you might get my drift here, you're talking pennies. Now here's the thing. Most of the time in Garrison, right now you're listening and you're up in Kentucky and you're on the ridge. Or you're here in Michigan and we're in the, we're in the swamplands, in the lakelands. Or you're out there in the Rockies and you're, you know, covering the ranch and you gotta, you know, walk the ridge a little bit. You don't necessarily want your whole combat load, but this would be everything you need to include your night vision fixtures, the whole nine yards, and it's all palletized. So you put, grab that, put it over your shoulder, grab your car 15 and go to town. go on the job. See how that works? Ooh, ooh. Another good use for a bag of such size. Your combat engineer might want to fill it with stuff that goes bang while just before he creeps up to the or the opening of the machine gun nest or what if you know what we're really going back into history here and flinging it through the opening and taking out the enemy stronghold. Well these are really nice, these are well built. That's what really is fascinating as far as I'm concerned you know the design. and what's interesting is everybody goes, well Mark, what about mag pouches? Well, there's molly points all over the thing, plus it has a cross belt. Great for a catcher too. Yeah, you could mount all kinds of stuff on this thing. There's all kinds of molly mag pouches. Go the woodland camouflage route we've talked about, because right now you can get five furs and ten furs. I mean, it's ridiculous, depending on who you go to. So you get this base piece of equipment that's in woodland camo. You go buy all your mag pouches, get the double mag AR-15 pouches, Now you've got something where you grab it and the rifle, you go out and you're already combat loaded, but as needed you can drop it. For walking around it's not inconvenient. It gives an open side on one side of your body so if you have to work or do things with your hands and you have to have your body part of the process, like holding stuff up or pressing stuff in, you don't have equipment draped all over you. And you can wear it left or right. mag pouches, a couple on each end of the tails that come up the side of the body. A couple mag pouches plus your first aid kit, water bottle, whatever on the pouch itself or in one of the pockets. There's a whole multitude of pockets on these things. But it would be a quick, easy, garrison patrol solution for going out, instead of going out there bare butt naked. Granted a handgun and a couple of mags is always a good idea. And by the way, I'd still be carrying those anyway. This is where you know you may deal with other problems and you need and want range and firepower and still have the hand cannon with you as the option too. So again that's www.airsoftclub-club.com www.airsoft-club.com then go to, that's right, specials, go to specials. Now they do have mag pouches and stuff but they're at full price. Go to the specials section, find the stuff that's cheap, number one. After you find all the cool stuff that's cheap, then go back through and match it up with other things you can find that are cheap from other locations. See how that works? And yes, they do have multicam. They've got woodland camo and the sales section. So now there's quite a wide variety of trinkets to choose from in the sales section itself, the specials section. And I will remind you, but a wrap for has, of course, the assault vest, if you want to go that way with the standard pattern that they've been using for quite some time. But these drop bags, or these again, these shoulder bags, would serve a particular niche. Another thing, hey, for $8.40, it is a cheap Web Gear solution for you guys putting a 5.10 program together. And the wrapper on what was known throughout the Pacific Theater in World War II as a satchel charge. Yeah, exactly. Some of these even have holsters. Wow, these are not extensive. These are for intricate. Go ahead, please. Another thing to do when I referred to a catcher, you guys, you go into it empty on your chest. And if you get the moment when you hear that order change mags, we referred to that earlier in the day, or when it is necessary to change mags and you've got that breather instead of dropping it on the ground, it goes in the pouch. You might buy this pouch and go in with it empty on the intent that I'm going to carry out as many of my empty mags as I can. It is convenient and survivable. Now there's a lot of other fixtures and stuff on these things too. Like I said, variable geometry. You can hook up more MOLLE gear. There's OD green. Every color that's typical with the China Sport stuff that's out there, it's available in this stuff. make great utility medic bags and you know any number of other options purely matter personal choice or what do you have what you need you know when when look at the variety but for hovering around or less than ten dollars you can't build it for ten dollars you simply can't i'm telling you right now you can't build these things for what they are their variable in in geometry with dimensions so you can extend the strap for bigger people It's got multiple pouches, got a main chamber, external pouches, molly hang points, the whole nine yards. So it's the other half of the deal. Especially when we're looking at trying to come up with ideas where everybody says, Mark, I don't have the money for it. OK, well then buy cheap. Buy this on the cheap, then go get all the mags and ammo you can, and in the process, take advantage of the solution. Another thing real quick, there has been a rush. I talked to Ammo Man. and they talked to UN ammo. There has been a major rush progressively, you understand because of what's going on, there's two things. The Porter and this thing with Ferguson which everybody knows it looks like they're going to try and escalate this around the country or at least around St. Louis. Now, 308 ammo just went boom all at once. Somebody went out and said, I need a whole lot of 308 ammo. Whoever did it, somebody will say, the government did it. Well, that's not the people that we're talking to are saying, it ain't the government buying it. It's the little guy coming in and buying another two wheel dolly full of it guys. But the other thing is 223 and 7.62x39. Ammo Man was up to 9 flavors. In fact they had 11 flavors of 7.62x39. They're down to 2 again. In addition to that, the price that you saw at CenterFireSystems.com. 1000 rounds of steel case, Russian ball ammo, 123 grain. for $200 that's the best price I've seen so far in the country. Now it doesn't mean there is another hidey hole here or there and if you see it post it in the chatroom but what we're talking 1000 rounds of steel case AK 762 by 39 for $200 that's pretty much the best price I've seen in the country for the base price. You've got to remember you've still got shipping in there somewhere. But for a base price that's decent. Now UNAMMO.com does have a few other selections. If you can drive to pick it up, you can save. But what the guys say there, they've had a lot of people driving in with pickup trucks and bending the springs leaving. So there's a bunch of stuff going on. The media's not going to cover this. They can't. But what happened the last time, they know that we're only a breath away from everybody saying, you know what, 401k ain't worth a jack squat and you're going to steal it anyway. How about I just have $180,000 worth of armaments? Ooh! Or like say, $40,000 or $50,000 or $50,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40,000 or $40 They have the 7.62x39 $200 for 1,000 rounds, 20 cents a round. Can't really beat that. It's not bad. It's still a good price. As far as the 5.45x39 ammo goes, there is still some reasonably priced 5.45x39. If you've got an AK-74, I've said this a million times. Every month you should be buying ammo. Buy a can, buy half a can, buy a couple boxes, but every time you got a paycheck, buy some 545 by 39. If you've committed to that, you want to make sure you don't run dry. Okay, so it's that simple. Now beyond that, now we're almost to the bottom of the hour. Well, we might run dry, but if we do, it could be daylight or it could be at night. Man, if you need something to make sure that, well, as long as I'm spitting bullets down range, maybe I should hit somebody. Night vision would be a cool solution. Don, you've got it. What do you have available? What are the, again, what are we looking at in terms of weapon sites and monoculars for security? With that ditty bag, I might just use a monocular for scanning. And also, what changes are coming up, please? Well, we're looking closer and closer to the end of the four and six power gun sites in the green screen. I don't have the numbers at my hand, the numbers I gave you a week ago were pretty close then. Gun sight generation, it is a targeting. You know, when we talk about gun sight, hey, it solves that problem. Mark was there, you know, what do you, what can we put on top? Well, this is entry level. It's a first generation gun sight. It's four power. We scavenged up all of the two power ones. We're looking at the power and the six power. Four power will go right in your mailbox for $390. right in your mailbox. That's delivery, that's everything. That's the whole nine yards. There's a gun phrase. Got a second generation gun sight. O8 capable as is the first generation device. Right in your mailbox for $1,248. We can talk about thermal. We can talk about goggles or monoculars for second or third generation. You guys, If you want to talk about, you know, you have an interest in something, I still get a lot of the calls you the guy with the night generation with the night vision goggles. Oh yeah, oh yeah. And then we talk for a while and the gun sight goes out the door or a viewer goes out the door. Goggles are pretty specific for, you know, they're real good for certain things. Almost all your goggles are one power. Now one power is pretty good for certain things. If you want to talk to me about night vision, you guys, my number is 231-796-9. 8-4 to 5-8. In the first generation field, when the green screens are gone, we're going to be looking at some instead of white light. You'll be looking at a little black and white television and that will appear to be white light on your face. Imagine a flash of white light in the woods instead of that eerie little bit of green that hardly would have your eyes' attention, let alone another piece of night vision, but that white light on your face, in fact, your Opponents natural eye let alone his night vision. So we've addressed this before that stuff is drying up and I'm you know, hey $390 is a whole lot better than 449 plus delivery My number is 231-796-8458 sometimes it's good just to be plain and that's as plain as it gets right there, you know $390 is a whole lot better than 449 plus delivery beyond that depending on where you are in the United States of America Again, my phone number is 231-796-8458. Let's see what we can do. If you're looking for a gun sight or goggles or a thermal, 231-796-8458. And we are at the bottom. I was curious, are we going to run some music or do you want to run right through this? I think what we'll do is Ed might have our traditional weapons Wednesday music there in the repertoire in the quiver. Oh, that would be good. haven't spun that disc in a little while. And we can play that in just a minute. He's probably going, oh, no he's not. He's actually pretty well organized, but we might have caught him just a little. Oh, in the interim, punch in Tarawa for me in the Marine invasion. We'll need some numbers. I would like to run a little subject matter along that. Would you please, Mark? One of the worst debacles of the Pacific theater. For a number of reasons, yes. Yeah, it was one of the worst actions of the war, guys. For anybody who's not familiar with Tarawa, that was My dad missed out on that one, fortunately. He wasn't a Marine, but remember the naval operation wasn't much better. A complete mistake in understanding coastal operations and the tides. And because of that, men died without firing a shot and basically just stepped off the landing craft to the abyss and their death. Whole landing craft crews full. Whole groups, 30-40 men to a whole. stepping out of the landing craft because the vehicle was under fire because it was stuck on our shul, it was still a mile out from shore. Yeah, run up on a coral head. Yeah, the level of destruction was was horrific at best and many of the men of course when they had to recover the bodies they were just literally all combat loaded. 60 pounds worth of junk holding them down and 30 men, one on top of the other, inside a little coral pool. None of them able to get out except the top but even they couldn't because they were being struggled with by the guys below plus they were being pulled down by their weight and none of them made it. They all drowned to death. It was not to mention the ones that came out in shoulder deep water and had to wait that 100 or 300 yards to shore under heavy machine gun fire. Between cutting coral and muck. Yeah, take your pick and either in both of them you typically is what they ran into first You know muck and some muck and debris and then cutting coral and then more muck and debris and then cutting coral and meanwhile You're someone's trying to kill you and that was just getting ashore. Yeah, that was before you Yeah, they didn't even touch sand yet, right? So I was wondering if we're gonna Hear we might be going to the music. I don't know. We'll follow rifle and this is my rifle. That'd be really good and Ed might be off to the site taking care of something. That's okay, not a problem. Now here's another thing. on that note with regard to night vision technology done like car beams we should have a problem with them but anything in particular should be watching for with regard to the nine millimeter rifles and such I know a lot of guys kelton was mentioned not many people people have them but not as many people have because my god they still are kind of pricey beautiful firearms I have no problem with kelton whatever you do show up with if you got the money for it congratulations well If you're going to purpose dedicate a gun, a rifle to night vision and bolt that piece of night vision on top, it would be a real good thing to build by procure or find scrounge up or beg borrow or that other thing, flash hider. Cone Flash Hiders are pretty good down range. It reduces your flash to a dot depending on how disciplined the builder of the cartridge was. We've talked about excess powder and flamethrowers. Need we save more? That's not really good at night. Cone Flash Hider hides almost all of the flash from the piece of night vision. That's the point to be made here, keeping you in the fight. Second and third generation, even first generation in a minimal flash will just simply shut off for the flash for that instant. There won't be any information. But if you've got a basket type or a wire cutter flash hider from the M16, what do they call that, the pickle fork, you know, you insert it across the wire and pull the trigger and man you're going through the wire now just like you cut it with a bullet. Well that's what you did. At any rate, that produces a star pattern and at least one of those is going to move up in front of your night vision. You do that long enough and you're going to burn a little bit of a pattern there and you'll get less information there. A cone, like an ice cream cone, we told you a month or so ago they were offered up in the cone, probably those are all gone now, a cone tighter for your M1. It would fit around that 30 caliber barrel. You could probably put a little space around it and somehow make it fit around that. 2-3 barrel. But you guys, a cone flash hider is going to be the best thing for a piece of night vision for the operator. Not to mention it will reduce your signature for someone looking back at you to a single dot instead of a star. That single dot might be hidden a little more if the person trying to look at you is slightly oblique like you have a little bit of brush between you and him because he's at 12-30 or 1-30. instead of looking right down your muzzle. And that might be the difference. That flash hider that sticks those spikes around, some of that goes up too, don't it? And if you're in just the right place where that cone works, man, but oh darn, that pickle fork didn't because again, it's three-dimensional, the plane of the... So if you're going to dedicate a gun, you guys, and that cone flash hider looks kind of primitive. of more to carry around in the daytime, but it's a great big crowd, isn't it, in the daytime. You're not going to hurt that crowd or that muzzle, are you? No, as a matter of fact, the cone flash hiders, if you can find them, are quite desirable for obvious reasons, specifically night vision, but they also do create a standoff to protect the end of the weapon, just like any of your conventional flash hiders do. And typically they're longer. So they actually, you know, they actually They last longer in general. They actually do a better job in many ways. They're typically deeper and longer because of their design. If you want to talk about night vision, my phone number is 2317968458. Goggles are gun sights. Green screens are thermal. Let's go back to that subject matter. I'm going to steal the floor for a little while. You look at different people and we've addressed this in different ways. The Japanese people are known to be a war-like people. The German people are a war-like people. I don't know, almost 300 little fiefdoms in Germany. At the same time, we were done with the American war for independence and they were still all fighting each other for rights to a creek or whatnot. You killed my deer. Let's go back to the Japanese. When you look at the Orientals, granted you can see it in different ways. The Vikings might teach his son how to split wood when he's just a few years old, but what he's doing is teaching him the basics of the axe. But now the Chinese, to a certain extent, take that to a greater extent. They'll keep martial arts inside families and develop them over generations. These secrets are handed down from father to son. When you look at certain bits of history and you think that that man who was the Japanese general at Tarawa, he was one of the cream of the crop. his whole world, of the Japanese world. And again, possessor of secrets, military and marshal handed down from generation to generation. He was born to, he was bred to that. He was the kind of man who when given that job you will be in charge of Tarawa and you will repel the round eyes when they invade. He was so confident at that job, Mark, when he was given that, he bragged. You guys listen to this. That Japanese general, now he was no slouch. He was not a stupid man. That's my point I'm trying to make here. He was a military man almost since birth. He said, Mark, a million men could not take Karawa over a hundred years. Now that's a military general pounding his chest, telling the world what he thinks of his installation, what he thinks his charge can do, what he thinks he has brought his troops to, and his abilities have been honed and sharpened to. A million men could not take Tarala in a hundred years. That's exactly the quote right there. A million men could not take Tarala in a hundred years. Think about that statement. Now that Japanese fellow had this great long history of learning about fortress defense and fortress assault, but he also had that history in him of armies moving. He totally ignored that. He totally ignored that. Mark Caro was big enough to have an airport there. I'm not even certain of that right now. Parriller was dinky you guys. I've always talked about this, guys, understand terms that are lost in time and even try to make them disappear. All the Japanese, we just rolled over them. Guys, many of these islands were called Mandate Islands. They were surrendered because Japan and World War I was supposedly on our side. They fought against Germany and these were some of the war prizes. The Treaty of Versailles, they were given these sites. So from 1918 on, 1919, they had these under their control. Unlike most of what you would see later, the Japanese like the Swedes and even we did the same thing. Most coastal defense guns are nothing more than older naval battery guns off of ships that are converted over and switched to defense. And they come up with land platforms of different types to protect the guns. You see in the old Three Stooges movies the guns that had the armatures that slid the gun up overhead, over the revetment and fired and then when the gun fired the recoil action drove the gun back down to the station for loading. You ever see a real gun? Almost like a trestle. Yeah, like a drawbridge bringing the gun up. Exactly, like a crane. Now, the Japanese didn't throw anything away and because they had a large fleet in World War I, Well, everybody upgraded. They didn't throw that away. In fact, to the point where Tarawa, they actually turreted what were old cruiser guns. Single guns, single cannon on what were light cruisers. Typically anywhere from 12 inch, they could be 10 inch, 12 inch, up to 14 inch guns. These were well placed, they were well supported, they were cement reinforced, and they were prepared to fight. Yes. When this position started out, we started out with almost 5,000 men to defend. I think it was whatever it was, 4,500 plus. The numbers, to say it was exactly 4,500 isn't likely because with all the comings and goings with garrison units and because they were also transferring units to other islands all the time, the numbers, they probably do have more accurate numbers. But in general, the fighting force that was available included, for instance, maintenance support workers. When we fought in Midway, guys, before we had the Seabees, in fact at Wake Island it was the same way, we didn't have Seabees, we had contractors. Yeah, we had a lot of civilians there. And they fought right next to the Marines. Yup. Why? They had no place to go. Exactly. And so they armed up. Why? Because they had no choice. And it's interesting, the Japanese were in this situation. They had not just Japanese on Tarot, but also Koreans. Most people don't realize how extensive the Korean population was used as a mule force, as a slave force that was put out there. Not a lot of Koreans actually preferred serving with the Japanese. They liked the Japanese more than they did the Chinese. There's a little case in point. Remember, they see-sawed back and forth. So the Korean forces that were available, they had no place to go. There wasn't any swimming from these islands. They were well-developed. They were well-reinforced. They were well-situated. And that's what the Marines went into. And then on top of that, there was a significant miscalculation. Oh, the tides. Yeah. The ramp up of the amount of draw of the boat. Both went in and as you pointed out mark were hung up at a thousand yards out some of them 300 yards out It was a deadly Wade in one of my young uncles was at Tarawa now you guys We could talk about The actual action, you know, flamethrowers were involved pillboxes were destroyed was satchels mentioned earlier You know the combat engineer filled up that mouset bag. That's what the French canoneers called the bag mark was describing earlier and They carried all the little accoutrements that kept their cannon working. That island was dealt with and basically declared conquered in 72 or 74 hours, you guys. Again, the man in command of defending that, let me reinforce this and grasp this, chew on this. That man said a million men could not take Tarawa in 100 years. That island was conquered in 72 hours. They didn't bring in atomic bombs. They didn't bring in the mother of all bombs. The problem was the Japanese in general had ignored good portions of basic military tactics. He had nowhere to move his army. He had no tactical move. He had not even the ability to send out, you guys, look at Guadalcanal and look at Tarawa. Tarawa was basically naked compared to Guadalcanal. You put a man above ground there, he sighted immediately, he shot. The third place was crawling with Marines. I don't know how you say that in Japanese, but how do you say doomed in Japanese? They lost more men. In fact, that's one of the things that is the most critical part about Tarawa is we lost more men during that period of time than the six-month battle. I mean, we lost a lot of men in Guadalcanal. And of course a lot of wounded that were, you know, a light casualty cycled out and then reconstituted in other parts of the Pacific theater. So there was a constant rotation. So the numbers are actually much larger sometimes they try to let on. But the fact of the matter is during that three day window we lost more people in one day than any other action to that date during the war. Yes. Which is the other thing that to get the piece of real estate it cost. But it was still, like you said, it wasn't going to be a million men. The other thing that needs to be remembered is this is one of the first actions where it's possible, there's always been a debate on this, one of the escort carriers that was destroyed may have been Kamikaze. The question is how she was taken down because it was a multi-attack from air and from the ground. Remember the head cruiser, again, fire power on the surface. A lot of it is still sitting there to this day in the Pacific. So you can actually visualize how they were established. If I was a rich guy, I'd like to do some dives in particular places in the Pacific. In the Marianas where the Turkey shoot took place, it's just a tremendous dive in there. All these cargo and transport and support ships just loaded to bear literally from top to bottom. I would love to do that. But the point here is, you guys, That general, he knew what he was doing. And when he said that, he really truly believed that. A million men could not take that island over a hundred years. That's what he thought. And again, the basic tactics. He had no place to move his men. When his men looked through the window of a pillbox, that was their whole world. They were tied to that. The same basic problem defending Iwo Jima. But now you guys, the point of this is every general makes plans. Every general thinks his plans are going to work. Otherwise he would not institute them. He would be a madman. Understand this. There are crazy people in the world and some of them might be in charge of some things. We have one in the White House, don't we? But any general that would commit an army to be totally lost for certain and I'm just going to do it just because I want to be be be be because it's crazy is crazy that General thought for certain his people could defend that island for a hundred years if need be but they were overwhelmed now there are a number of generals a lot of monsters that are making plans to reduce us within 72 hours or 72 days or 72 months or 72 generations. I don't know how many generations they have been working at this. How old are the Masons and others of the all we hate humanity? And because of that circle that it is, us truly hate themselves. They just won't say it out loud or admit it. Think about this. Their plans, no matter how well they think they're going to work, You can be a stumbling block. Mark can be a stumbling block. Don can be a stumbling block. Every effort took their motions forward. That's the idea. Isn't it? And you go over to that best laid plans of mice and men and, well Don, if their first plan doesn't work, I know they're working other plans on us. I know that. Any good corporal knows that. Why would be an attack from the front? Yes, Lieutenant. And if you look over there, we're about to be attacked from both flanks too, Lieutenant. Why, it appears to be you are right, Corporal. Flat there to underscore the aforementioned plot line. Every plan that they throw, we can, hey, sometimes we open, you know, ooh, chemtrails are a plan. Fluoride in the water is a plan. Oh, now that really sounds coo-coo. How about chlorine in the water? How about living next to high tension lines? How about the 110 volts or the project fence that they would wish to bring right into your house? They are attacking you and me in so many different ways. How about the weather? Now this might seem like a rant to someone and almost just this side of loony to someone who has no exposure to any of those thought lines. Oh, I just tuned in and I'm never going to listen to that guy again because, well, you just heard what he said. But if you've been listening and if you know they work the weather on us, they work harp on us, they work radio waves on us, they work electrical waves on us. If they can't do that, they'll send somebody to your house and shoot, they'll send somebody to your church and shoot all your dogs and all your children and everybody else they can and then they'll burn the place down and tell you you did it. We know that to be fact. I really don't like to use that as an example, but we cannot ignore it. That's another example of being in one place and not even being willing to send out a third of the force that's in that fortress to go out and make a flank on everything that's at the front and wipe them out. You can't do that when your island is 900 yards wide and 2 miles long. There ain't no room to maneuver. I think it was in Belgium. At the end of World War I, they looked at the east and they said, I don't want this to happen ever again. How about you, Hans? You know, they talked a lot like the Germans did. And they built a couple of fortresses along natural defense lines, but one of them was just tremendous. You know, earlier in time in human history, it would have been called one of the natural wonders of the world. You know, the Germans built almost exactly a perfect copy of it and practiced over and over, destroying and attacking it. And they assaulted that fortress, that bit of land built into a fortress and reduced it in about 72 hours. So again, that was an army with no legs. We're going to stay right here and we are going to fight. How many times have you heard that question posed? What happens to an army with no legs? If you are not going to maneuver, we've got a caller. Don, what was so important about Tarawa? I mean, it was in Nothing Island. Why the hell did they want to... No, no, no. Miles was pointing out at the beginning. We could have bypassed Tarawa. Yeah, it was one of those... We could have simply let them die on the vine. Yeah, it was a central Pacific campaign point for the Gilberts. for the rest of that particular island chain and then working west. And it was also central Pacific. If you look at the Pacific, the problem is at that point in time, we only had Guadalcanal. I remember that this is early in the war. I've talked about this many times on the air. Propaganda as opposed to the real world. Up until this point, we've been fighting six months non-stop in Guadalcanal and we were locked everywhere else. Oh yeah. We were, let's put it this way, everybody forgets, we were fighting on American soil. We were fighting in the Aleutians. Yeah. For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... For the first... 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The whole place was lined with everything you could imagine. Sunken, little carriers, support ships, destroyers, cruisers, battle wagons sticking out of the water. So the thing that always is true about history is they always show you these pimple points, but you have to understand that there's a great deal of depth and there's many different sizes and scales of war, you know, in battlefields and actions that take place that are just as critical as those pimple events and they're part of everyday life. Tarawa was the idea was that, well, we've got to do this. We need a base of operation to jump to the other sites, or at least even if we're going to go around, we need to pin them. And this is also true of what happened. The argument for Pella Lou is they didn't even need to do Pella Lou, but that's argument after the fact. At the point in time, we were trying to jump around some of the islands. We needed another place for our B-29 bombers because we wanted to be able to dump big bombs on targets from way up where they couldn't reach us. We also had other objectives we still hadn't taken the Philippines. At this point in the war, you've got to remember it's very early in the war. 1942 and 1943 were not a cakewalk for our military in any way, shape, or form. They never had enough of what they needed despite what they say. It wasn't until 1944 that logistics finally caught up. So whenever we fought, whatever we had, it's the idea you pile all your goodies up, you throw them into the action. and it was a surgical action. It was designed hopefully to get the job done quickly, which they did. The problem is that the costing casualties was just about equivalent to the Japanese garrison. the actual Japanese fighting force. We lost as many people killed or wounded, critically wounded. A lot of them died afterwards, like my dad said. My dad was a wounded, was a casualty during the war, but he was in a death ward. And while he was in the death ward, that was 300 men per, you know, 300 bed death ward. And while he was in there, they cleaned out three times of all dead people. Everybody died. Okay, think about that. In other words, yeah, they list the guy as a casualty, a wounded in action. But you've got to remember that's a game playing because when you talk about like say 2000 wounded. Okay, let me give an example. There's another comment made. Here's a movie everybody loves. Everybody loves Gladiator, right? Remember Gladiator? Remember the very beginning of Gladiator when he was after the battle? What does he say about his army? I'll challenge you. You probably didn't pay attention to it. What did he say about his army after the battle and what was happening to them? Because a lot of them were just wounded, but of those, how many weren't going home? You see? In other words, they were dead, they just weren't dead yet. That's what happened with all of these actions and it was a necessary. This is where the problem see this is what we're facing our own on our own countryside It's like fighting for you know, we have for Vicksburg or fighting for you know Antietam or bull you know like a slice bull run bull run one bull run two You know in each action as I've said, you know, there's there are different philosophies one is try to get the enemy to deploy and while you're in motion keep moving and force them to read baggage and reclaim and then move and then try to follow and march with you or to keep up with you or to get around you or to whatever. It's a dance of swords. In the Pacific, there's only so much real estate above ground. I mean everything else, I mean it's a massive, big, you know, half the globe puddle. And at a given point, there's a piece of real estate you've got to pick. If you are going to island hop, what they needed was a secure perimeter because as long as the other side had a place to jump off from, they could do the same to you that you're talking about doing to them. You see? See, that's why, you know, that's the part that you've got to remember. This army had not been, the Japanese were not beat. They weren't beaten in 1942, they weren't beaten in 1943. These authors are writing about how, well, there's pilots they couldn't replace. That's true, but they did replace them. And they still had a massive fleet, a massive air force, a massive army, and people forget that, well, the reason we surgically island hopped eventually is because they had an equal army enforced to anything we could put in the Pacific. And not only that, but let's not forget, you see, even at the end of the war, they still occupied a big chunk of China. Oh yeah, that's true. Their army was not isolated to the Pacific Islands. In the battlefield situations coming up, one of the things we pointed out is staying mobile and being surgical. If it's local tactical operations, we talk about infiltration and exfiltration, don't make contact if you don't have to. When you make contact, it's at your discretion and it creates casualties and minimizes yours. Or, again, ideally, oh, it'd be great if this happened every time, like in the movies. You didn't lose anybody, but that's not how it works. Again, we tried to point that out the other day, talking about the 475th, a bunch of P-38 pilots. They flew into so many enemy planes with like 16 planes. They shot down like 22 of them, but when they came back home, five of their men were gone, and they considered that a defeat. Yep. They were irreplaceable too. That's one of the things. Once you build up experience, this is one of the things we talk about husbanding. This is the problem with militia commanders and people are militia, you know, like, I'm gonna be a militia commander, really. Yeah, we're gonna have pretty camouflaging guns. Well, what about logistics? Well, I worry about that, we're all gonna die. Have you heard that from garbage here the last couple of years? You know, I heard this, we're gonna shoot our wounded. And it doesn't mean it was cause we're all gonna die anyway. Really? Well, do you want to follow somebody like that? Husbanding your manpower, marshalling your forces is part of your obligation not only to yourself but to the future of the whole movement. What are we fighting for? What are we trying to accomplish? And again, that these characters bring too many stinking holly-weird type books or BS that's not relevant or listening to BS. Oh, I saw that a movie. We're gonna shoot our wounded, really? So you're the first one wounded, I'm gonna blow your brains out, right? Oh, please don't shoot me. Well, no, I wasn't in order, sir. You said we're gonna shoot our wounded. Look up, Douglas. I like what Patton said, Liar. I'm sorry, Fluffy. Yeah, I like what Patton said. Like the other poor damn movie. Don't die for your country. make the other sport some bitch-diver is. That's right. Make them go to the...or break a die for their cause because most of them don't even have a stinking country now. Yeah. I mean, that's the one thing about this. We're dealing with mercenaries and prostitutes. And because of that, that's one of the other problems that most of these characters that are on the other side, which is really cool, haven't read Machiavelli. Read Machiavelli as the prince and what he says about mercenaries. In fact, Machiavelli of the whole bunch actually talked about the value and the irreplaceable nature of the militia because the whole of the people have a stake in the cause. Because they have a purpose. Because they know that they benefit from keeping what they own and they have a leverage involved. They have an investment involved. They have a stake in the game. And that's part of the whole liberty thing too, which is discussed. For Machiavelli, for being a bugger in many ways, still looked at a lot logical, again, progression and an intelligent process. A mercenary will eat you out of house and home in peacetime and abandon you in war. Why? He isn't part of your population. He doesn't live there. He can go get hired by somebody else and make up whatever story he wants. When you look at wounded, I want to bring this as an example. There was a movie made about this guy's life, Douglas Batter. He was a British flyer. He crashed before World War II and lost both legs. But he went on to be a flyer. He was captured and he escaped the Germans even with ten legs. Look it up for yourself. You can't do that. You did. Watch. See, it's attitude. My argument is, again, why is it that for all the argument, if we look at the math, when you do the math, the American War for Independence, if you were to base it upon armchair math, then it's like why even get started? But even there, there's a fiction, because again, it's selective math. We had as much artillery on the ground than the British Army could field. But the problem is we also had at that time, and we still do, a massive coastline. And in that day, you had to gun the coastline. Every one of the coastal colony defense grids had virtually hundreds and thousands of artillery pieces, thousands of artillery pieces. But they were spread out across all these areas to defend coves, coasts, fortresses that were defending villages, cities, towns. harboring site. It's why the British couldn't just waltz into those locations and had to keep seeking out a safe harborage or landing point because the militias did do their job contrary to the lies generated through the propaganda machine later on trying to deride the militia issue. Guys, we kick butt took names and we delivered the rumpus of the British to their right in their face with a couple of different trays. Two different sloppy, nasty, bloody trays as a matter of fact. Never even bought no chewing gum. That's right. We just kicked them and be done with it. Anyway, we are at the top here. For everybody out there, thank you for listening. And again guys, application, working knowledge, mistakes made. Well, study history. Study American battlefields. Seriously. We're going to be fighting on them again and we're going to be making new ones. Don, your number for night vision, please. That number is 2317-96-8458. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. 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