Mark Koernke discussed operational security and field equipment management for border operations, emphasizing the importance of camera surveillance, proper gear maintenance, and standardized uniforms to prevent infiltration and theft. He covered tactical considerations including weapon security, night vision protection, and quick-change optics systems, then shifted to discussing affordable surplus clothing and body armor options for those deploying to the border, including woodland camouflage uniforms, five-color desert pattern shirts, and carrier plate systems. The episode included product recommendations from apex gun parts and military surplus vendors, with detailed guidance on uniform maintenance, sewing kits, and the advantages of various camouflage patterns for different operational environments.
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You may have caught some of the programming this morning where we had the men that were down there on the border doing their part, some of the, in fact, for the first hand report of what transpired with regard to the border men, or well, down on the border. And well, working with the border patrol, keeping them at arms length still, they still created an incident and the rest is history, as I say. So the basic rule is remember, you're on private property, Anybody and everybody that is coming onto that private property that somebody else owns is an aggressor. Top shops, they're in the business of skimming. You've got to remember one of the big problems that was going on down there. It was into the business end of stopping what was going on and there's a lot of pad their pocket as they get behind by the characters that they are confronting. They probably got a, can we say, a bag left behind every once in a while, but they pick up and Can't do that when you think there might be some, well, just crazy Americans out here, you know, keeping the bad guys at bay and stuff. Interesting stuff. If you're headed down to the border, remember that everybody is part of the aggressor. Every. In this case, fascinating. In this case, we need resupply or support happened with that. We're going to find out what we have. I don't have it in front of me. Hopefully within the two hours, I'll push another workstation, the main studio system again that just miraculously all just Everything cleaned up and of course they did change everything on our side of the wire but the phone company just seemed not to get anything right. Then miracle of miracles, it's like everything just got, we're gonna get down there, supply and support, and have an SOP for breaking contact to a secure point. Another thing, cameras, cameras, cameras. One of the problems back then is they don't have to work. Guys, even if you just have cameras everywhere, They don't have to work, but it totally changes the demeanor of the critters that are out there. Okay? Helmet cams can be gimmicked up if you don't have them, and they're really, with China's port, they can be everywhere. Hell, airsoft players and range operators have helmet cams and gun cams now. The wazoo, why? Well, they're the, not even the ice cube. Hell, you can get sugar cube, and what are sugar cube cameras other than the camera circuit? And the little camera tape that you have in your cell phone applied to a very, you know, milliamps designed to run off a part of the mini-balance of makeup here, Star Trek communicator, that you can get any tiny cameras out of that are out there now. The biggest issue is lens quality. Remember, what you collect is what ends, so if you're looking at cameras, if you are going to use alternates or little cameras or micro cameras, you have to take into consideration micro camera maintenance. Especially if you're leaving them in the field or you're going to be deploying them. They make a great little series of kits that can be done with wireless now that are security camera sets. Well, why not use them as field camera sets? One person can become six, seven, eight individuals right there on the spot by being able to monitor six or eight different locations simultaneously, working as a spotter for the rest of the team in an overview situation. You can also catch issues on camera that the bad guy is both in uniform and out. Really, really, really try to exploit or manipulate or flat out lie about on a regular basis. To eliminate that problem, well, use the tools that they all financed for their spy rat secret police operations. Only use it on them. They don't like it, well obviously they don't like it. Duh, it's the whole point. You can catch them flat footed one way or another and every time something out of ours it's like, really? Oh don't worry, we have film. It's up on YouTube right now already. It only took about a minute and a half after we shot it here. So everybody around the world is seeing what's going on. What did you want to try and say happened here? Yeah, it's already in the social media. Oh yeah, yeah, I can't. I can't remember. There's about a dozen of them. It sends out, it shoots out automatically. What's your point? Everybody loves the live feed on the border stuff we're doing. What do you think? You know, dad, that gets back to what I've talked about before and I stress it because I'm serious. We always talk about bounding overwatch with weapons. It's pretty much the same thing when it comes to cameras. You should have a camera recording the camera that's being recorded by another camera. That way they can't take your stuff and say, well, that's not what happened. And the person farthest out from the incident is the first one to pull away once he has everything completed. You stay out of sight, out of mind. Exactly. And that's where, again, Overwatch with camera technology is so affordable now, too. Guys, this is not like it was even 10 years ago. Although 10 years ago it was already resource rich. Man, I'm picking up cameras that are digital cameras that are as good as anything you possibly could afford. I mean, as good as anything you'd expect. The Kodak cameras are coming out right now. all over the place laying around. I just got two for free. They have a little three inch screen. Well guys, those make great security cameras. They have a digital memory like there's no tomorrow. They will run video. They don't just run still shot. They don't have to be perfect pixelation, but you know what? When you have those things deployed and you have them set up in a number of different ways, on vehicles, off vehicles, on tripods, monopods, nailed out of trees, duct tape or nail or whatever. I would also like to remind people one thing if somebody wants to take something from you and is not willing to give a receipt they're breaking the law in the first place. Right. They're not I mean even if they want to claim you know number one they need a warrant to do it and in that warrant they have to list the items that they are seizing. They can't just seize it from you on the spot they didn't arrest you they didn't take all you into jail they just took what you had. I'm sorry, I've been thinking about this all day. That was you were mugged by the Border Patrol out in the wild. They took you out into the middle of BFE, they ambushed you and took your stuff. And stole the stuff, exactly. And this was planned, this was not accidental, that's the only problem with this. Again, we have seen this over and over and over again and there's always these new people coming in. And it's like, well I've done it this way! And it's like, no you need to, but again, there's been no sharing of knowledge. Everybody always has the, I've been watching television and all those other guys didn't know what they were doing, because they've been in the Patriot movement and I watched them, I watched ABC and I've been listening to these other guys that are goofs that are, you know, what's supposedly in the Patriot movement but aren't. And the same flapping yep is done over and over again. Guys, we've got a system set up, or again, we can at least cross-reference and establish information base to explain, okay guys, this is what they're gonna say, hi. We're not asking you're gonna be helping us, but we'll be in the area and you guys, we'd like to be in communications. We need a communications line. And we need to talk. And what do you got? And who are you? And how many and where are they? Can we see your weapons? What kind of radio do you have? And of course you go right down to what it is. It's an inventory before the action is what they're doing. So what the eyes cannot see, the heart does not long for. And again, also random. Don't worry, we just have lots of cameras. What? Yeah, we camera everything up by the way. Everything's videoed. We station cameras all through the area. We station cameras in our area of operation. A hundred different points. We video everything. So just in case you have an accidental shooting with us, where you try to claim that you don't know who shot, don't worry, we'll have it filmed from 40 directions. What do you think about that? Is that okay? You want to see them make just right from the get go. Don't worry, everything's on film. Everything's on digital. We got live feeds going out about what's going on on the border here now. What do you think? You want to see the old cross-eyed routine go and then catatonic brain fart? Watch. See, that's the kind of stuff that they will work. The other thing I want to point out is in operations. Anybody that has ever been in the field with me knows I don't leave equipment laying around. If I have a suferent of material, if I have an excess of material, and I have equipment stacked up, I have somebody on it. Somebody will stay on it, but that's a unique situation. My personal equipment is engineered for my needs. Everything that's there is supposed to be there. I don't take anything off to lighten it. I don't think I can take anything off to change it. I put down there, served a purpose on there as opposed to be there. Okay? If I am in the field and I am in daylight operations and for whatever reason I absolutely know that I'm not going to function at night, then I don't need my night vision or any other material or technology out there where it's accessible. If I do carry it, I have a case. We've talked about this a hundred times. A Pelican case built into a pouch. where my night vision goes and stays. Two reasons. Number one, it's where I need it. It's on my person. We never know what's going to happen in a contact in the field. If we have to break and star a shell, then you're on your own. So it should be on your person. Your optics should be on your person. Not in a vehicle, not in a glove box, not in the back of the truck. It should be on your person. If your combat load is on you, then the equipment stays there. And whenever you rest, the combat load stays there with you. The equipment stays there. Your personal firearms stay there with you. They stay on your person. I never leave them out of reach, but typically it's always in one hand or the other. I'm talking about my primary weapon. I was taught this. This is what we were disciplined to do. And it didn't take long listening to the rest of the team that were my seniors. In fact, my first rule is this. The people that I'm working with survived a They've been in action, they've come out of action, but they're intelligent people. This is when I was in the military. These are individuals that work at going behind the lines, they're going to places where nobody else wants to go or they try to avoid. The fact of the matter is that, do as those trained professionals do. I don't usually use the term trained professional. Professional even that they don't necessarily like to use. I might have just instanced some of the old guys. But the fact of the matter is you secure your equipment and you don't just have it stacked or racked or locked around, chucked around somewhere. We watched this with Night Vision. How many pieces of equipment in the last four months? The Bundy Ranch thing, there were sticky finger thieves there, or people who were feds there that stole night vision from people. And I hear the lamentations. They got my night vision. I spent $1,500 on. And it's like, well, who was the they? Well, it was supposed to be a quote unquote, The first rule is if already you know that stuff has kind of vaporized or disappeared, then the rule is, do you know who all the players are in the drama? Then your equipment is secured with you and if it's not secured with you, you better find somebody that's going to be awake and functional and not a dimwit. And as far as, again, that you're an ally, you have people securing it whenever you're not immediately upon the equipment. For whatever reason, you have to drop your gear because you're going into a civil environment. There's a number of different ways it can be done, but you have to think this through in advance, and remember the basic rule. Anybody in uniform typically are thieves if they're cops. Well, you just heard on the morning program where, well, you know, all the night vision disappeared, other stuff disappeared, and oh, they stole a radio too. It's like, and why did they need the radio? And why were they allowed to steal the radio? Or was the radio a spare laying around that shouldn't have been laying around? Operational security is the first thing that you have to discipline into everyone. Now, another problem. One of the arguments that I am sure they can use, and it was the, well we aren't like a boy show, we don't have a standard uniform. Well that sounds really cool, except that, again, if you're going to shoot, no shoot, friend foe, then I shouldn't have to go down through an inventory going, is that GI Joe, is that GI Fred, is that GI Mark, is that GI Mike. Instead it's, oh, that guy's wearing our kit, our uniform, at the very least our uniform, the kit may change even. But we've talked about this before, everybody wearing a signature piece of equipment or a signature system that can't be copied. There's a reason for that. Using material that can't readily be made available without having to go first look observe you and then go find it. If they're just in the field, there's no mimicking at the last minute what you are and who you are within that team. And that means ensuring that everybody has similar headgear, a similar shoot no shoot uniform, and even changing the whole unit up on occasion. After establishing an activity for a period of time, remember that the skunks in the system or the spy spooks and kooks will go out and find what you've got and they'll buy into it. And then they'll go out and create an incident. Well, that's why you have a change out every so often in gear. Well, that guy is wearing what we wore last week, but he ain't wearing what we were wearing this week and he's not one of us. Everybody's like, because they're leaving me muck with the characters who've been briefed that are supposed to be the buds on your side that are the, you know, with the cop shops. Oh, you know, we don't really, bud, don't like you. It's not that we don't like you, but you know, he's my boss. I always loved that one. So in other words, no matter what happened, live stream. So tablescraping is the middle name of 99.9% of any of these characters are these special police groups to begin with. They're thieves. They are corporate thieves. It's what they do wherever they go. And that's why you need to be thinking accordingly and acting accordingly with regard to preparation to secure your... As it is, again, we're trying to get support down to the guys. I'll have the numbers, try to forgive me. I had to take care of a couple of things just before I came up on the air to make sure this system... work right and it is actually it sounds like we've got regular sound going down the line of the phone system on this particular leg so I guess I did right. It took me right up the last minute to get it all put back together and in place. It wasn't our problem but just in case I made sure I changed out everything looked like it would be an issue top to bottom brand new. So just a reminder you can do that. Yeah, yeah you can. As a matter of fact. Now, it is Quartermaster Friday, and you guys are going to have to make a decision. This is not a super great price. Using a flat top, looking to shoot, no shoot. Being able to see at quick cue point and fire, intermediate. Really, if you're out with a red dot, trouble you got. But, $49.99, UTG red green CQB dot site with QD Smart Mount. smart mount, $49.99, that's $50. But the mount is at apexgunparts.com. It's on the front page, as a matter of fact. That's why I jumped at me real quick here. They have a number of different optics that have been getting from the rent a revolution companies that are coming out. But this looks like it's new. Now I can pretty well figure that it's China's sport. For $49.99, if you're looking for a quick as the counterpart to that night vision device you get from Don to go on top of that flat top, pick up any rail on the AK or whatever. For $50, it's a quick fix and not really a bad solution, fairly small. Once again, this could go into a can that goes on your gear. Your night vision is in one kit. You could actually just trade out back and forth really, go with a bigger can for Don's night vision. When you go to daylight operations, that comes off, this red dot goes on, and you're set right at the end, just marks going to be on the rail, and it stays there. And I would actually mark on the rail with fingernail polish, bench points for where your equipment are going to be. That way it's easy to find, especially in the hours of darkness or twilight. Remember, your vision is starting to become impaired one way or the other, OK? In dusk or dawn. you need to be able to quickly make solutions happen. Well, part of that is to have little guides set up that allow for you to quickly identify an activity. These little benchmarkers will make all the difference in the world. It can be, again, tagging where your quick release mounts are supposed to be by putting a marker in paint, front and rear on the rail. You can use two different colors, but just make sure that they're a little lighter so that they're easily seen against the contrast, you know, contrasting against the surface. Also, you don't want them too thick because you don't want it to interfere in any way, shape, or form with how the fixture attaches, but that's pretty much common sense. You can figure that one out. The big thing is that you're able to quick change from daylight to night systems quick and the solution is... Anyway, that's GunParts.com 719-481-2050. That's 719-481-2050. Take the time. Plug in. and check out the site that's apexgunparts.com. Apexgunparts.com, that's Apex and they do have a lot of other cool stuff including gun parts. They just changed the format of their page. Why? I don't know. There again, they've changed the format and you'll find that it's really not much different but it has only a single item. They do have a sale section. We'll see what this is. Nothing exciting. New releases are on the front page. That's where they have this UT. to Anyway, anything that's cheap, cheap, cheap, we mentioned, if I bring it up, remember guys, it's not going to stay cheap, cheap, cheap for long. What's going to happen is, like with parts kits or accoutrements, they usually steal the accoutrements. I hate that. That, again, something's been done though for quite some time now. It used to be it wasn't the case. The other thing is with these parts kits that initially they came in, they're an excellent, they're really nice, and then, well, you know. What they did is we'll charge them less to make it look like they're saving some money. In reality, by the way, the bayonet, the sling, the oiler, the extraction tools, everything, we'll sell those to you separately. That's been like an ouch for quite some time now. the next video. and in the molly, it's a larger mouth, it's not a standard cat, but they're going to for free, so I'm finding these, and they're brand new, get them for five and throwing them in the recycled bins. So we had a whole pile of these things show up, and brand new. Most of them, they throw them away in the box. I know what the box looks like now. So it's like cool, fantastic. So there is a throwaway solution, but they're not throwaway. They're actually pretty well built. They're just done in that, you know, Lexan plastic. Anyway, the ID here is I can put a quick kit together. Clothing, I go minimal cost. There's a couple different options I have. Number one is like I said, the Woodland Camel shirts, $5 apiece. Woodland Camel pants, $10 brand new. Military issue, pairs, five pairs, each sets of five sets. Pants, t-shirts, grab new obviously I won't worry about leaving the underpants behind but I'll leave everything when I leave the field I would leave everything for the guys on the border that's the idea if you're going down and you're only gonna be down there for a short period of time this is a way to outfit up you don't have to won't cry about anything because it's you know again it's it's field issue it's for service issue and it's gonna be left behind for someone else when you're done very simple very straightforward underpants Find a source. We've got a weekend sale that shows up on Saturday. I can get t-shirts for 10 cents a piece. And, of course, obviously underpants. Brand new. Hell, if I want a brand new brown military issue, I can go to Gov Liquidation, go to Uncle Sam's, get the retail. And they've got underpants right now. Three for like $2.26. Brand new or whatever it is. There's a sales section. One is in the clear. It's got sweat and salt. They get heavy. When you feel a t-shirt, when you're done, you notice it gets heavy and it's just like, wonky. Guys, that's salt. Those are minerals. That's junk. That's why you need to be washing this stuff. Your clothing is in the same boat. You're getting salts and minerals and debris from the inside. That wetness helps for other garbage to be a track from the outside. And that's what breaks down your uniforms. The reason for washing them isn't because I'm trying to be purdy. It's because I'm trying to keep my clothing on my arse without it wearing off my hind end right away. Oh, mountains of Grubian. Yeah, that's good. Well, I'll tell you what. Every time you move those little particulates of micro sand that you got in the clothing, they're stripping away at the outer layers of the whelp and the thread that you have. In fact, when they embed in the thread, that's why you get shiny spots. Because what happens is literally on a micro level, you have the light, you know, it's mini gravel. And it's virtually chewing away. at you, at your equipment, every time you move, every time you flex. Oh, and when you sweat and you lubricate it, it works deeper into the material and becomes harder to get out the longer it sits in there. Hopefully I just taught somebody something. See, that's why, again, I'm not looking for purdy when I wash your... I don't have to wash my... I know that's tough. You can be tough when you're out in the middle of BFE and in a situation where you have no choice. option to continue to maintain your equipment, I don't figure that you only got a certain amount of money just like I do and limited. So whatever you do have, you better take care of. And again, prior to proper planning prevents piss poor performance. We only have so much resource. We're going to be taking it down the field. Everybody's talking, I'm going to travel light. Well, if you travel light, you have to perform certain actions. One of them is general maintenance on your equipment for technology. Your web gear does the same thing. That's why, again, if you look at the maintenance suggestions that were done for, you know, after Vietnam with all your lessons learned, you'll see that a lot of these individuals out there, of course, pass their working knowledge on about maintenance on Alice gear. And follow those instructions, because basically the nylon that they were working with is the parent of pretty much everything else that's out there. And there's really no difference in terms of, you know, final effect if you don't do maintenance. Now in some cases like I said if you bought absolute throw away and your logic is I'm going to run it until it falls apart then I'm going to toss that off to the side because I got it cheap and I'm going to grab another out of the pile because I got a pile of them. Well if you've got that system going for you I guess it's okay but see the basic rule is going to be down the road is that there's people that have nothing and whatever you have even if it was tired they're going to ask you when you throw it down and you want that? I don't need that. Oh okay cool fantastic thank you. and then it would be cleaned up, then I would do sewing and maintenance on it, and then it would go to somebody who has nothing. Difference in attitude with regard to a lot of the characters I run into after decades of this stuff, it really plays on you after a while. It's like, man, okay, use common sense. It really gets tiring after a while. And again, I think that's one of the, that is more so than the actual job. It's like what happened that was described this morning about all the incidents. That's why it just got quiet. because I've watched this over and over and over and over and it's always the same thing. Well, you guys don't do years. Yeah, okay. Then it happens exactly as we kind of said, hey guys beware. And then it's like, well, uh, uh, uh, uh, and then there's more belligerent. Well, I guess, how are people are going to learn? They're going to learn. Maybe, maybe not at all. We'll see. Call her. Jump in there. This is BC down here in Carolina. We got your weather. You know what? This is like what I remember. People might want to know about that. I think that I was just kind of moving around on this. see, uh, uh, you know, that's gonna be shot down there in Augusta, where I know he goes to Lake Tim. But anyway, uh, if anyone's concerned about the bus, and again, the thing you need, you're really into MOLLE, which, if you're going to the heavy plate, MOLLE is gonna make sense. Yeah. Because you got the fixtures on board, you're already carrying the plate, the plate's gonna be, you know, again, dictates that you're looking at, uh, you're not gonna be doing as much dropping and rolling, but you will have to on occasion, so you gotta keep that in mind when you configure your gear. Yeah. Molly makes sense in this case because we have seen the heavy shot plates come back into service. The fourth generation or fourth wave hard plates are shot plates. Well people, people, once they get shot it's worthless. We go with R and he goes, well, if you plan on getting shot, not getting shot at all, but I don't want to... It's the idea that you have to understand the limitations. If you get it cheap, then you know what's, you know, what's going on. Now Kevlar, soft Kevlar will take more than one hit in a local area, just not on top of it. Yeah, but... The likelihood of that happening is... soft armor supporting the hard armor creating more of an armadillo effect is something that people could take into consideration. If you can't afford the big, big plates or you figure you want to lighten it up, remember that you can take a soft armor, soft QA Oreo center and overlay that with the hard armor. It's one of those things where you can at least protect core components because a lot of people you know, there's different attitudes because they don't want necessarily the wraparound, they don't want the side plates. I've heard all the arguments and I've seen it as far as I'm concerned. Whatever you show up with, that's fine by me. Now what he... Again, that's the patient, right? $40 plus and which is a phenomenal price. It's all... and then of course the P Carrier with a pair of 10 by 12 Patriot plates, nice basic carrier. And they've got that for $130 in the coyote. Okay, that might not be the curve... It's the traditional. Like you said, for $10 more, He's your easy conceal, padded shoulders and they have, I think you can break down the scroll guys, you can see what he's got available. Just a nearly new, telling me at the gun show here when I said, you know, I'd much rather gun shows than do pants sell stuff. Well that's why, it's like the surplus stores had this problem for years. There would be a pallet of something that a guy got from the auction. And there would be one, and what you always do is open one. Now the problem is having, not knowing how to make a display. What you have to do is put a big board over everything, like, or a piece of plastic, clear plastic panel, and you have the thing laid out and you put it where it's secured so it can't be lost, and you might even have to open two. But I'm going to tell you, I found, like, for instance, especially in the older style store, where we used to be like old warehouses, there would be 10, 12, 14 boxes there. Somebody just had to open another box. Oh yeah, I see that. But different in this box, and it's like, no, exactly what's in that box, noticing the same nomenclature. But you'd still find over and over and over and over again. There's an idiot in there. Look, it's right there. Oh, it does? Yeah. Well, because I've been doing this for so long, it's like, no, no, don't bother. It's right there. Can you read the box? Read those little funny numbers. In fact, read the big letters in their English. What is that? It's not Spanish. What is that? The NSN? Well, you see the problem is you've got three numbers. You've got the standard military service number, the NATO standard number, and then you may also have the manufacturer's ID number per the government contract, which in the old days used to be separate from the nomenclature or the final records number that goes into the system. And that's why all these old guys are in surplus are so good at what they do because they know how to reference the old number system. and that's where you make your money. That's like I said, I know guys who did this for all their lives. I mean they never really retired because they had too much fun making money. You know, if you want to make it a business, you can make it a business, but you have to work at it. You don't have to be intelligent. You don't have to think whenever you do something. Yeah, well it's like most people are good at it. Well, you know, real quick, I'm over in the odd section for clothing. They don't have any woodland in there. Yeah, I'll find it or you may have sold out again. That's very possible. Yeah, but he does have for you guys headed down towards the border five color chocolate chip shirts and I don't see what size but $6.49 a piece. And he's the only, I haven't seen very many shirts guys in this anywhere. I've seen lots of pants, I've found them in all kinds of tiny sizes. It's like I said, if I can make an army up of medium size or small people, they'd be better equipped than any soldier on the planet because you can buy cheap, cheap, cheap. Yeah, exactly. Small. guys that are really tough and they'd be well equipped. Well the thing is they've also got those other US made equipment. One is the five color chocolate chip, the original desert pattern that was used for the Sinai that you saw in desert dust. You'll see in all kinds of propaganda pictures what's going on in the Middle East. And the other is the Marpat Desert, which is the digital desert, which has more of that tiger stripe effect when you step away from it. Or the model tiger stripe slash, you know, Arroyo looks like it's something, you know, in the drift. So those are both good I'm sure there's more, but that's just what I found right off the top of my head. So if you guys are headed down towards an area where the five-color chocolate store, you've got my pad, I would point out something, you know, a BC for everybody. Something I noticed, digital was the Cats Meow in the end, but what's interesting is that's already three generations back with all the new camos, and it's already disappearing. Well, I've always been a b******. What I'd rather have is, I've always been a b******. I think that's even better though. Okay now, this is, I didn't find it before. The other thing is they've also got some of the DCU. Now that, oh wow, it's $6.49 for the shirts. Shirt sale. There we go. That's a Tiger Strike. It's 49 up to size large by, let's see, $4.22 each or so by three, get them all for $12.66. That's a 35% off of our already low price. of 1947 for three. So in other words, he's explaining that you get a great price if you do it right. Pants have been more expensive in general. I'm going to point that out for people who are wondering why the pants are pricier. Guys in the surplus industry, pants are now costing almost double what the earth is going for. I talked about what's happening because we're at war in too many places. Pants are closer to the debris and they wear out. keep telling you, get this stuff now and get extras. You are going to beat the living garbage out of this stuff, you know what I mean? And it's going to get torn up. It's going to get messed up. Now here's the other reason I would recommend that I've always told everybody for years, for that reason, make sure that you get a sewing kit put together. And I ain't talking a little tiny bob on a thread either. You better make sure you've got thread with you. You will be repairing things. I don't care how good the uniform is built. Unfortunately, stuff gets snagged on. You're going to turn and there's that one chunk of jagged metal that just hooks you right and here it is at belly button level going, gah! You know, one of the side of you was like, well of course we got sewing kits. Today it's like, no, we haven't seen those in two years. Most of the jobbers will tell you that it's one of those things that, again, the military is used to provide them. But if they are, those things are marketable to the armies that are in the field. You know, I would also think that selling a military of But remember, this is the mil-spec thread for putting the uniforms together, stitching on the buttons, and all of those fun things that take a lot more abuse. You can take that white and probably... Well, yeah, the option is to tie-dye it so you can actually... what you do is run different rip-dyes through the thread while it's laying in the spool. It would be totally randomized. There would be no way to predict what you don't care anyway. That's what you want. Yeah, blend it. And the thing is that, remember, you're looking at wooden uniforms. By the way, also on the shirts. Yes, he does have Woodland shirts like we were talking about here. Good sizes and 6.49 cents a piece. Excellent condition and brand new Woodland for $8 a piece. He must have sold those dollars a pair. Upped in excellent condition. If you're going down on the border, well, like I said, give them to that guy that's running around without enough equipment and pull another pair, you know, keep the thing behind. Well, yeah, exactly. Now in that note, if you're going to do that, one of the tricks, because the Belgian uniform used to come with eight pocket pants. And everybody goes, eight pocket pants? It's like, yeah. They used to put popcorn pockets on the caps. Yeah, that's paratrooper pants. Yeah, exactly. And what's cool about that is now there's two ways to go. You can go with the bigger pocket that's on the pants, or you take the lower popcorn pocket that's on the bull up shirts. and you don't try to undo everything and restitch it. Guys, if you're going to have it on, cut the material beyond the pocket, then you're going to use, and you stitch it straight on like that, right onto the pant leg. So you don't have to worry about trying to figure out how to make that work and how to pin everything. Oh no, you just safety pin it on, run the machine around it, and do three stitches, three runs. What do they have in mind, Lance? Well, the obvious thing about it, typically when you're moving, you stop and you crouch. Think about the Vietnamese crouch. You know, you drop down to your haunches. Well, think about where your hands are when they hang there. What pocket would be right there handy? Easier to get to than that five pocket or your slit pocket or your back pocket. The logic there was that they typically, a lot of guys carry carbine mags or F and FAL mags. We were using them. And they also made them out of a heavier... Now, here's the other thing about... Thank you for bringing that up. If you want to see the difference in uniform and clothing, those pants are showing up sometimes in the Belgian ambush pad. And they're the original 50's through 70's uniforms. American uniforms used to be big. It's coming out that we're finding in any, found in any quantity and they're all in big sizes. In a large, extra large, and extra extra large. Apparently they made some big boys in the Belgian army. Which they do, but the thing is that if you get a chance to, even if you go to a surplus store, the Belgian pattern has kind of a baby poop brown in it. little bit more of a russet. Then there's a light stripe of white or light green in there randomly. That material, feel it. If it's original, it is like a canvas. It's what we used to make our field jackets out of. We used to make our airborne uniforms. You used to be made out of that same material, like you said. The old airborne uniforms. Guys, that's either a three-point herringbone twill Or it was a light duty canvas material, extra dense weave. That was the way uniforms used to be built. Of course, now if you're in a home environment, I always thought of me like, man, you had to die in that in the Congo. Because it's what they issued in the Congo. And it's like, man, you're in a sweatshop everywhere you go. So desert or tropical weight is something that you need. And that's where, again, the difference is. But for Belgium, remember, it was Europe, and they were NATO. So they're fighting in NATO, they're fighting in like the Black Forest, they'd be fighting in Belgium, they'd be fighting in the full-de-gap. Well, those uniforms would be perfect for that kind of work. But again, now that's another uniform. This is what I've been talking about. If you're careful right now and you were looking at deploying and you wanted a shoot-no-shoot configuration for special environments like the border out there or special odd man out stuff, Italian post-Loregian stuff is showing. all of that is available it's out there in force and it can be accessed. There's something to think about there. Oh, we're at the top of the hour by the way. Oh, we're gonna, uh, tell you what, PC, you wanna close with me? Cause we're gonna hear the music in a minute. I think we are. Well, you gotta tell me, give everybody all the information. Your program's on Thursday, you're on Liberty Tree Radio. Yes sir. Thursday guys, so make a point, that's live broadcasting right here on LTR. God bless the Republic. Death eternal to the New World Order. Gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. We're on the march, both day and night. Thank you, sir. MainGun.biz. M-A-I-N-G-U-N.B-I-Z. Go to it, check it out. And yes, they have a great selection on uniforms. As good as any wholesaler, guys. Thank you. Thank you, BC. Bye, bro.
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