Live 365. End of the Revolution. Thank you for listening to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. MaineMilitary.com has a large selection of pistols and rifles suited for your needs. Are your local stores sold out of ammunition? Call or visit them today for prices on hard to find ammo and bulk ammo orders. You don't need to worry about having a military surplus store in your area because MaineMilitary.com is the only store you'll ever need all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MaineMilitary.com. That's Maine like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, and speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free. and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's number and you've traded in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. and your daughters visit doctors. So their children and people, your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, keep the torch of freedom 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 and 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'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free? Mark Kornke one day closer to victory for brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines and occupied territories west, southwest, net technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're in the hallmark network from top of Maine to the bottom of Florida, from the bottom of Florida to the Gulf of Mexico. Headed Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, a whole bunch of Wyoming, between both the third, fifth, and our friends in the recall state of Colorado. We even left coast from east, we sweep across the plains. the burgeoning banks of the Mississippi barely touching our toes because it's still pretty wide. All that water we've been getting in the Midwest here and landing in the Smokies with the restaurant crews, cramma teams, OK teams, and the Ma Bell Gramma Consortium of retired telecommunications workers bring us the Golden Spikes. And today's date? Down there real quick. September it is the sixth year of open Fabian Soviet Association of Occupation of America with a K2000 and tomorrow the beginning of the week. It is Monday. Course is the end of the work day for a lot of people. Some people are packing up right now, getting ready to leave work where they are, shutting us down and heading on down the road. We understand how that works. Be careful. Remember, drive offensively home, just like you drive offensively to work. Make sure you've got all your row and you stay away from the goofballs. Just not really staying focused on what's going on. Remember, get around them, get past them. Once again, the 17th regimental combat team, Colonial Marine Militia, the combat engineer group. We want to say thank you. You guys did a fantastic job. The initial parties were on the ground on Thursday. A lot of digging, in fact, excavation. Actually, pretty straightforward. You guys know what you're doing. Most of you guys are construction crews that are part of the team. In fact, 99% of the engineers are. And so it was just a matter of doing well. And the guys started Thursday morning. They started delivering the concrete for the long haul. They got a whole bunch of seconds in concrete from a company that, well, they cast the stuff out. If it's rejected, it's rejected. They can't use it anywhere. Well, we went for what we were doing here. So we ran the line and we now have out to the 500-yard mark. Now think about that. Some of these sections, I understand, were about 40 feet long. and were cast for a special project. Others were 10 feet, 20 foot sections, the usual and modular. Of course they have junctions, tees, things like that. Those were taken advantage of and they actually built a series of underground, revetted positions, security points where they actually were able to observe the terrain and also were able to set up excavation to go from that tee or from that junction. in whichever direction you want to go depending on how they laid it and they'll add more. Apparently the company has more than we get so much work done. It's a clock Sunday night. Very good. I want to say congratulations and thank you for donating the time. And everybody else had pitched in to, yes, you know who you are. It was a, well a good time was had by all understand they had a pretty good barbecue but they couldn't relax so they got a chance to eat but they didn't get a chance to roll up the fences until late. But they stayed the course. the your country, everybody thinks, down there on the Texas end, since it's near the river. So you might want to make sure you've got bug repellent, good deke quality, whatever you want to do there, or whatever you prefer. Take extra. If you're going to be down there on the border for any period of time, it's just one of those things common sense. Also, we're not used to the heat. As much as anything, it's the idea that they're going to be out. So yeah, kind of like a joke in the morning with that one thing. Oh, sunscreen. Yeah, probably want to take some sunscreen. It doesn't mean you can't buy it down there, but if you already got it on the shelf, you want to take the old stuff and use it up when you're done, then buy some more stuff. The big thing is, again, those are the two most common sunburned noses and bug bites to all the exposed parts. But enough to make it useful for the bugs to go look. The other thing, now that gets into something else, some people purchase specifically short sleeve shirts and those do work, but Remember, long sleeves can only always be rolled up, which is typically what everybody's doing. Weight stuff, which is a guy's that has the idea rolling up when you got to, you know, ventilate during the day and evening and the night when you're in addition maintenance on ammunition, something that we need to remind everybody of, too, since we're down near water. It's like up here in Michigan or anywhere where you're going to be in any kind of environment where there's lots of moisture, guys, which is mostly the outdoors are no different. Winter data regenerates. The winter operas in the past have been unique to say the least because of the coming and going in and out of the heat. People have the tendency to forget this and systems literally will sweat and then they will freeze. Now the AK is pretty forgiving for that by the way. The AK was built from 16. Now the first round will simply be a little sluggish or slow to the second cycle but it picks up real quick in extreme cold weather. The AK works hot, cold and indifferent. nature of the design of the Karth 39 and the 760 by 54 are. They're designed to, again, be a proper taper so that they offer a breaking of any kind of adhesion in the chamber guys. And very positive feed for the same reason, too. Again, it's a personal choice, but whatever you got, if you're going to be looking at wet water, do a, every couple days, do maintenance on the mags, drop all the rounds. the inside of the mags with a dry cotton cloth. Wipe down each cartridge. Now that sounds tedious, it is. But you're going to be able to inspect your cases. You want to rotate them out anyway. While it's on the top, put it on the bottom or put it in the middle somewhere. State everything around a little bit. While you're at it, clean each round off. Throw it down. Inspect just to be safe and reload it back in the mag once everything's wiped. Again, step by step by step, the idea here is that you're doing general maintenance on the mags, during maintenance on the ammunition. Congratulations, so it'll work out pretty well. Big thing here again with the equipment and weapons systems that we're using in the field is that we're not, we don't have too many belt-fed weapons. There are some Browning 1919s. If you're using a cloth belt system, well, you've got to keep that out of the weather. If you're using the link system, you've got to pay attention and inspect your links, too. Remember, you keep carrying the same thing over and over again, and it's in canvas or in nylon. It doesn't make any difference. If it's in any kind of moisture environment, that's in the dark and it doesn't have a whole lot of air circulation. You want to take your belts out and make sure that you dry them. Get them out there where the sun's gonna cook them, and it'll keep them from building up any moisture because, again, oxidation, your natural nature, you know, for that accordingly. Another thing, there's really good footage coming out of the Ukraine that's private footage. You want everybody to pay attention to the equipment and something that I pointed out here a couple of times over the last, you know, several months. The render revolution companies that are out there that built machines on both sides. Look at the helmets. Take a look at the web gear. Look at the uniforms. Some interesting footage here showing some of the troops. And again, what are you seeing? That British DPM desert that's been coming out. That's in the render revolution market in Europe, obviously, because it's pretty motivated over and moved over into the Euro market, especially the far eastern Euro market. And it's showing up along with full vegetata. the Chinese variants on that because remember guys everything we're talking about the Chinese manufactured plus they have their own camos which are showing up in Ukraine on both suits so obviously as long as you got the money you can buy the product but this gets back to friend-fo and one of the most recent videos is now demonstrating where as they're getting more intense into the contacts you're now seeing target friend foe identifiers on the uniforms. So on the one hand while you're all covered in camouflage, all of a sudden you've got like yellow bands, the back of the helmet, the arms, so that you don't make mistakes shooting people you like. See, that's one of the other problems with captured equipment and with equipment, you know, working back and forth from all these different servers. When you do not have the standard, because you have, you know, and everybody does their own thing and everybody looks totally different. Yeah, it's like an action movie. That makes me feel really good. It's like an action movie. The uniforms are there for a reason. Friend-foe, friend-foe, friend-foe. You really as a brag, I guess, we are normally really standardized on anything. Well, that's cool. Now, for digging ditches and doing maintenance and stuff or garrison duty, even there, it would be a good idea for all of your people to have a basic system that everybody is working with. You can kind of know who, you know, the good guys and bad guys are. Somebody kind of infiltrates your garrison site, you know, your safety site. It'd be kind of nice to know who is and isn't supposed to be there to glance. And so a uniform of the day or uniform standard should be established by your unit. While it's in the field, you keep that standard uniform copacetic, so friend, foe, good guy, bad guy. We're doing our own thing man. Yeah, that's really cool. They don't like the militia thing too for the same reason because well they get the uniform thing out. Yeah Stupid on a way we might be thinking about the idea the rat you want to be fighting and somebody shoots at us. Well now work on that Establish a standard that's where you guys need to get together work as a formation as a unit and get the job one day We're gonna try to do it in the color jump in there. I'll tell you what what's the link up in your neck? What's clear and blue here? Oh, it is a nice day. Just a dinky little breeze and enough sunshine to keep you warm. You might want to go in the water, but it's still kind of cold here in the middle of Michigan, the water. But a beautiful day. I do believe that we could call it like the eighth day of September. Man, oh man, we're more than a week into September already. What's going on in the neighborhood? Well, we could run up a number of different things, you guys. We could talk about water. We've talked about that before. We look at examples around the nation. They have plenty of water in Phoenix right now, Mark. It's kind of a joke, but in the Phoenix area, you guys, more water than they've seen since the last time there was a flood. Please stand by while we try to reconnect. If you could spirit a couple of those away from the water fountain thing, the cooler there, that wouldn't be bad for storing water. It's like a grown man to pick one up though. It's not something that 12 year old Ralph is going to be real sure with. But we've talked about deploying water. I thought I'd mention that you guys. If you don't have it for very long, well eventually you're going to want to find a little white rag and put it on the stick and wave it around in the air just because you're so thirsty that man you can't even see straight. Let alone fight. go in a number of directions. How about, oh, I did a little overview of the Guian Bien Phu. You guys, if you took all of the articles and all of the magazines and all of the books that were written about that, and put them all in one place on one scale, you'd probably have a quarter-ton worth of literature. That's not an exaggeration. But if you look in particular places, you find that it only examples, sometimes you take big old things. What is it when you have that little chunk of bullion? How many cows boiled down into what? That's three square inches? Used to be how many cows? Ask a chef about that. That's incredible. Mark, you know what I'm referring to, but you got to ask a chef about that. Somebody who knows what. Even the moo on this one. Yeah. The interesting thing about Din Bin Q, the argument that it could have been avoided, a greater army the greater can make you know we'll be clogged shopping with french really him kinda holding on the french in doe china for whatever reason and so we were involved in that just like don't forget that a certain person was involved in both campaigns pretty well rewrote it except that i can't say rewrote it but pretty sit you know stick with the ten years after the fact first with the phone with the french and then did it again with the americans It's rather interesting, again, the resources, the amount of materials spent. Don't make any mistake about it, we handed a whole lot of American equipment over to the French, which by the way, they were standardized on German and French equipment. Most of the way, nobody really dwells on that. In 1950 to 1955, the French army looked as much like the German Wehrmacht as it did the American army. question that, you might recall, let me just jog your memory. Remember back in the 90s when all those really cool gray P-38s showed up? And they have stampings on them from 1946, 1947, 1950, 1950. Wait a minute! But they've done all the dies and tooling in their occupation guns, like right on the same machinery and tooling that the Germans did. Now another thing that should be noted is that while they fought with American equipment in Southeast Asia to a degree But then they also had a lot of their own weapons especially for the sake of mission of pride such as small arms In Europe the French, you know ground forces at time their main battle tank their primary battle tank was what? the Panther Most of the entire Panther fleet that was available in Europe went to France. I don't know what happened to it I assume that they must have either A, cut it up, although I don't think they did right away, because we don't see the Panthers showing up in the Middle East, do we? Now, think about it. If the Panther was going to have the Panthers, of course, well, they were a wartime production tank, so as far as conditioning goes, they had to progressively upgrade equipment up. In its day, the Panther could hold its own in 1955 with pretty much everything else that was still in the field. Think about that. But that was the French army slash the German army of Europe. I mean the French army of Europe, oops. Meanwhile, in Gen Ben Fu, it's like the French Indochina campaign, the first one, they pretty much looked like the American army going to the field. In fact, by that point in time, they were building our Jeep, the complete exact copy of the Willy's Jeep. You couldn't tell the difference. Every nut and bolt traded out, and I would move on their part, because they ran on spare parts for the next 20 years from the U.S. inventory. Wow. Yeah, in fact they still make up until recently they made the standard Willie's Jeep So just something to take into consideration there. It was an intelligent process. It's weird the French on the one hand made spark moves I mean, it's like why build different Why not just keep building the same and build three forty years worth of it and that way no matter which one I have out there It's broken. Don yours will fit mine final fit yours Like toss me a magazine. Yeah, it would make sense. It really did make sense. In fact A lot of the things that were done with regard to the changeout didn't make any sense. But as far as the resources go, basically what the French faced, or what the Vietnam...Viet...men faced back in the day was the U.S. Army Generation 1. And then by the time we get around to the American version of Vietnam, you know, the adventure continues. It's basically the door of the small arms, pretty much all the other basic weapons hadn't really changed all that much. And the basic support... supply systems so they really had quite a bit of experience fighting us already in advance. Oh, bet. Yeah, with a French flavor. The snail-less cargo sea rations never did go over like a camel. Quick, run out there and get that case of red wine that just fell into that parachute. Piare, hurry! Hurry! Run out there and crawl if you need to. And by the way, that is the officer's wine. That's why they were sent off. Fair thing else. We mean, we all get some, right? No, the officer's. When the first outpost, was it Guinevere or whatever, was destroyed, the guy in charge walked into his bunker, the guy with one arm, and he must have put that from that grenade between us and he pulled it to his chest. The last thing he ever did on this earth, when they destroyed, I think it was Guinevere that was destroyed. He was piecemeal isolation of the individual strong points, points isolating the main force. Yes. And it was the strong points were supposed to be destroyed. to again the classic French fortress and tower routine. For those of you who don't understand the towers, I don't care which distance in this, watch Bojest. Nothing changed with the French army during Vietnam as opposed to way back in the French foreign legion days. One of the reasons that time we're actually in French Indochina, doesn't mean we're going to have people. It's pretty just traditional. We send them in at the tower. You can see farther from the tower. You can see eternity if you stand still. Gravity sucks. come down. Whoo! Time to put another guy up the door. True, by the way, if you haven't watched or observed any of the imagery, which, by the way, they've done a whole- they did this intentionally, John, I really do get it. John, talk, sorry about that, John. Okay, I've been calling you back. This is something I've noticed too. The blockiness now and the garbage coverage of World War II but totally slanted to the, you know, the minorities and the Jewish mafia won World War II. Especially the guys who were piano players or fine lint, don't you know. Were it not for them that we possibly won the war without the fight for themselves. What's fascinating about this is the lack of, it's like now they play on, one person produces a picture They just crank the same stinking thing out for everything. You're seeing an introversion in there in that situation in World War II. Granted, we've got more detailed coverage, I think on the shelves, than 99% of what kids in the school will see in any way, shape, or form, obviously. There are a number of movies from China that have been released here in America now, martial arts movies. One of them, or more than one of them, end if they go across the period of World War II, end with the in 1945. It might be phrased different and it might be printed, but it goes roughly in 1945, China brought about an end to the war with Japan. Yeah, like China was sold to them, but granted there were some fierce battles and the Chinese and the Japanese between them, there was no quarter drawn. The other problem there was the Chinese were fighting other Chinese. In addition, that's where we try to explain, guys, just like everything else, like the Japanese, like the Americans for us, the eight Pacific theaters where the older equipment went because the priority was Europe. Much in the same way, although the Japanese fought the Chinese and put some of their best divisions on the ground to gain experience. In reality, as the war progressed, Japan is what the Pacific theater to the U.S. was. In other words, there's nothing that was thrown away, and one of the reasons is because whatever they had, even if it was an older aircraft, the tactics necessary in the opponent and what he was carrying in the Chinese military. So at any given point, any older weapons systems, pieces of equipment continued to be fielded. And this is an important lesson to be learned because you hear all these people yapping about how, whoa, whoa, whoa, war in Europe started, so it'll be all the newest stuff, really? I will challenge all of you to watch what's happened in Europe with from the Ukraine campaign. There is a bunch of footage being put out there by the militia units of first hand engagements. In fact, I've been saving stuff left and right for that reason. Hopefully it doesn't get lost because it gives you a better feel for what we've talked about over the years. uh... with regard to small unit operations and you're seeing it first hand and it's real world it's not the police state the mean all american police state forces uh... iraq kicking indoors beaten on women you know beat down the kids and you know bragging about how well we we could care about well after twenty years yeah we get a plan back to the place uh... in this case the militia units are you engaged they're fighting for their lives everybody knows it they've got to get their act together quick or they die It's that simple. And it's, there's again, some really good examples of small unit operations, how to keep yourself, one of the most common mistakes made, and this was true of, you know, effective, the Vietnamese comment on this with the French, they had a tendency to, you know, hover friendliness, but the problem with that is Mr. Grenade is not your friend. Yep. And more that they acquired the French position in defense, they can't be snubbed for that. We did get a position overrun. It's kind of like what happened later on in America's Vietnam. If we kept dumping stuff out in a soon position, then we started arming our enemy with better equipment, and the casualties weren't very high initially, but once they started getting hold of the American munitions, the casualty rate went up very, very quick. And this is true of what happened in Vietnam in the first phase with the French. Oh, look, a grenade. It's probably a French grenade, no, it's probably a Chinese grenade. But later on, oh, that's one of those American grenades they sent us. Though with regard to combat operations in Vietnam, the most significant General Guyap said uncategorically, the number one most significant American military provided to the Viet Cong and the Viet Minh and the Viet Cong was what? Entrenching tool. Yup. Over and over again, or a choir said it tends to think, oh, this isn't important, so they drop it. They'd dump it because they were getting tired and hot, it's 100 degree weather and they're sweating up a storm and they're ready to fall out. And so they'd start tossing stuff. Mark Vietnamese would just kind of be slowly moving behind these large formations. And look, there's another American entrenching tool. Yeah, maybe two or three, five. You know what, look how big a Vietnamese soldier is. It was like... Look at that. Yeah, we gave him a tool that was built. Where did they go with that, Don? Underground. straight down, didn't it? And guess what? Then we couldn't figure out where they all appeared into the brush. We invited them with the tools. Through with regard to high explosives, guys. Now, improvised munitions can be well made. It's purely a matter of the teacher slash the instructor and discipline. Let's understand something about improvised, you know, anti-personnel slash trying to mimic exactly what somebody else is building. It doesn't have to be an exact copy to work. But let me give you an example of munitions. Did everybody enjoy the 4th of July this year? Don't you enjoy the 4th of July, right? Oh, yeah. And you probably saw a lot of local displays where people bought stuff and you could see it off in the distance and people were setting fireworks off and stuff. Mm-hmm. Here and there. We had it here, same thing. I think there were seven different people that had private displays that were pretty good. I mean, they spent a couple thousand dollars in between. and whoever they had with them, and man, they could start throwing fireworks all night. Let me ask everybody something. You ever thought about this? Because you can bet one that goes up and it goes, boom, you know, boom, and there's like a bright reddish or a yellowish core, but it's not as big as other ones. And all of a sudden there's this back, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom Let me ask you something. If I knew exactly what the distance to activation was on that, and I turned that on about a 40 degree angle out towards a tree line and I knew what the distance was, would you want to be standing around those when they go off? Pretty effective that somebody know that you got an idea of where they are and that you're actually trying to... Now imagine 17 of those in a bank going In other words, they're relayed and electronically activated. And you have to see those like, now of course everybody knows what a Kiyushika is, and everybody's seen all these big rockets, but guys had the big rockets, and in fact the US Army and the Marine Corps both had small versions where they used like a multi-point five inch launcher, and it looked like a little calliope on a trailer. You can then use PBC, you can take that same device that you were just taught, we were just taught, the launcher, and you electronically squib activated, and you go, chum chum chum five and chum chum chum five and chum. And at the other end, he goes, yay, boom boom boom. And there's just a, wow, that would be like a poor man's cat, Yushka, so nobody be asking what they were that you were launching after the first battery started to go off. They'd be trying to dig deeper holes and run farther. Yeah, it'd be a good stun technique for assault. Let me give you an example of something. You might recall the Calliope Sherman's of World War II. You mean we did that in World War II? Yeah, yeah. As a matter of fact, the idea was they took the coaxial, they took the, what they did is made a bracket and a frame that went over top of it to load it up about, and the whole thing was articulated. They had a strip, and when you elevated the main gun, it elevated the launcher. And you had the option to go with either a lot of rockets, one big 55mm, boom! And mostly it was designed to create shock and awe, you know, fire power at a given point. Now, again, that's where all these firewalls come from. And they're a lot bigger than just a stun grenade. Stun grenades are cool, especially in battery. And PVC pipe is pretty cheap. You know what I mean? And you'd almost like, if you had to abandon it, would you cry if you had to leave it or get rid of it? Now that you could go tubular stock, a standard trailer axle, a pivot point in the center, steel pin, flat plate, and pin stations so that you could adjust your launcher both for traverse left to right and for elevation. What degree you want to. You want to remember that you want to kind of lob this stuff in so you don't want to go too high. We don't want to impress them with pop pop pop it right into their lap. Even if it's closed, it can be perfect. dropping it in and even doing a carpet adjustment. See, one of the other things to consider is you could have the launcher moving, like on the back of a truck or on the roof of something, and it would go pom, pom, pom. And you're moving forward, so it kind of cascades as you move. And you could be launching one of those every so many seconds while you're moving forward at five miles an hour. And you would have a cascading barrage with the equivalent to using cluster bombs. on an aggressor, which at the very least disrupts their idea that they can accurately engage you while your small arms fire is still doing what it's supposed to do and all your other weapons are contributing. And you know what? You can buy those things right off the shelf. Can't you? And you know what? You'll notice that pretty much all of them went up the shear. They launched out of the little cardboard tube. Well, it's not a little cardboard tube. It's a big, bored cardboard tube. Then they went up in the sky and they went kaboom. That's where I am. Now, that kind of reliability, something like that. We don't have to reinvent the wheel, because the wheel's already been made, Don! ...for the fun of it. Because, you know, every time you think you're safe, and, like, there's another... BOOM! Well, I guess that was a little bigger than that. So anyway, now I'm going farther, and I gotta step away for just a second, but I want Don, I don't want you to rush. Uh, I checked on those Orion's today. Again, we might have somebody who'll be able to get us one for the next filming. So we have that in hand, at least as an example. Everybody knows what they're gonna be picking off the enemy corpses when the time comes. Uh, but... You have night vision technology, what do you have available? What are the changes coming up and how can we get hold of you, please? I don't know if you can hear that in the background. It was kind of loud here. As far as night vision, you guys, my phone number is 231-796-8458. We can talk about goggles or gun sights, green screens or thermal. We've got a first generation gun sight, 4 Power, right in your mailbox, $390. We've got a first generation viewer. at 3 power, right in your mailbox, $205, right in your mailbox. We could go to a second generation gun site like $1,248. Again, that includes delivery. About a piece of thermal, a handheld entry level. There's different levels of thermal. You can't really call it different generations. But the gradients of thermal are how fast the device cycles and how big the screen is, what you're looking at. So for an entry level piece it's going to cycle at 9 hertz and it's going to have the smaller of the two available screens. But I can put that in your mailbox for $18.95, $1,895 for a handheld piece of thermal right from the FLIR company. My phone number is 231-796-8458. Again, 231-796-84. 5-8 goggles or gun sights, green screens or thermal again, 2-3-1-7-9-6-8-4-5-8. That officer mentioned earlier at Dien Bien Phu. That was Colonel Charles Peroff. That's P-I-R-O-T-H. Peroff was enough to pull that grenade in and that was on the night of March 13th, a long time ago. But you know, we bring that up as example or rather to use as example, many times we've talked about what happens to an army with no legs. Well, you know how many people were there? The Viet Minh captured some 12,000 people. Granted, a bunch of them were wounded. Well, we've talked about wounded and still fighting. We've addressed that, haven't we? But this is what happens when your opponent wants to sit in one place and kind of be bait and not, you know, have the ability to move. When they decided to move out of there, the number was like a dinky little amount of people who was the breakout crew. Some, I don't know, 70 people were the survivors of that. But this goes over to, well, it's been said that in the briefing before the big fight, the Mays General put his helmet upside down on the table and put his fist into the helmet. And while he was looking down, he said, the enemy is here for a moment. And then he ran his finger, took this out of the helmet and ran his finger around the rim of the helmet and said, as he looked up to his officers and smiled, and we are here. You know, I something down a long time ago, trying to like a little preamble for a little couple of paragraphs of thought. But that little thing was an undefensible position is easily overrun. And then I went on to elaborate about something else. I'm not going to recite that to you. But it is a basic truism. An undefensible position is easily overrun. Now, you can say that, well, they had big guns there and they had air supply and all of this and that. But as their ground was whittled away, eventually the airport itself was whittled away. And you've seen the films probably of the aircraft trying to drop in the aforementioned red wine or bullets or bandages. And as their holding of ground got smaller, more and more of that went to the other side. You know, it depends on which side you're on in this instance, but sometimes stuff just falls from the sky. Mark is referenced in training watching the Air Force drop to the Army. It supplies some five or seven miles away. You could just see the parachutes and you know it's way over there and that's where dinner is, fellows. You want to go and get it? 11 miles, guys. Oh, 11 miles. We had the signal on the ground. I mean, we're not talking on sand dunes and actually watching the plane thinking, okay, they've got us. And actually putting up a limited signal, you know, like directional signal to them as they're practicing what we preach. And there they are. And at the end of so many days, the rest of the operation for the FD exercise. And it's like, wow. And from that point forward, although again I'd already learned, so I didn't starve, but you know you're lean because whatever you're carrying guys is all you've got. This is why, like I've said a million times about the idea that, you know, oh you don't need this and pair off that. Well we're going in as heavy infantry. We're not going in under the assumption that something else will be there. You want to know why? Because how many people listen to the same person that told them they didn't need this and they didn't need that and you don't need to worry about this? And why are you worrying about that? And if the same fools over and over again push the same garbage to the point where by the time you're done there is no deep logistics. So you what? Move a formation into an area and somehow your supply line was going to continue? Airborne units go in heavy. I mean seriously guys, come on, do a review of what happened with Normandy. That's how militia units need to think. You're going in like an airborne unit. What you have is all you have. If you can get more from the bad guys, which by the way should be your ambition constantly, trying not to destroy but if at all possible capture means that whatever's on the ground at least you've got more firepower, you've got more food. And chances are it's safe because they don't get a chance to go, oh, it's poison the fill in the blank or let's movie trap the whatever. You're moving quick and you're moving, you know, again, it's a fast formation. So it's constant contact, constant carnivore. That's the mindset you have to have. But I'll tell you again, for the second time, actually because the first was supposed to be a riverine supply and that turned out to be the same situation. Three guys on a lerp, that's what we did. I'll tell you what, best meal I ever ate, Don, because you know what guys, when you're hungry after two or three days and no food showed up and we finally got what, two cases of lerps for like about 100 people, everybody got some. You know what I mean? Was three people on a lerp. Everybody got a third of a lerp and that was our meal for the day. I think we've got a caller waiting. Anyway, a caller, who do we have? Jump in there. Oh, you got John from Kentucky? Go ahead, John. Jump in there, sir. What do you got? I got a question for Don about his infrared night vision. Not the night vision, but the heat sensing. OK. I have one of those emergency space blankets. It's silver, mylar on one side, and it's green on the other side. If I were to hold that up over me, would that defeat someone seeing me? Almost anything you put between you, be it foliage, leaves, a tree, a wall, glass, as example, and we use this one for the high-tech end of it, you might remember the scene from the helicopter as they're running into Iraq, flying into Iraq there. They are approaching a gun position and there are like three or four AAA guns there, anti-aircraft artillery. All of a sudden you see the guy come running out from behind the gun. Then they just light him up. Remember they turned him, they pulverized him. They turned him to smithereens. Remember? They never saw him behind the gun. Had he not moved, they'd have probably just flown over. Maybe the tail end Charlie would have seen and turned back and zipped him. I don't know. But almost anything you can put between you and their sensing device is going to work. I understand the thought line about the Mylar. It's very light. It can be deployed in an instant. The thing about that is any motion is going to attract attention to the detector device also. So again, when we talk about camouflage, we talk about deceiving the eye as the overall view. But when you talk about interfering with thermal, you talk about either changing or erasing the signature, the shape. Marcus talked about acting like an animal. Don't move in a particular direction. Turn back a circle like a deer might, back to a plant or something. If they are looking down through foliage, they might not see an outline of what you are. It's a polar bear, it's a weasel, it's a whatever. But then again, if they are in a killing mood, they might just drop a 200-pounder on that instead of a 500-pounder. They'll walk around on all fours, huh? No, not so much that. A person generally walks in a straight direction. And if you've got foliage overhead, any type, even if you can look up and as you're walking, see the helicopter, see the A-10. If he's looking down through the green foliage, the bits of leaf cover, he's only seeing intermittent parts of you. He doesn't know what you are. He's seeing almost like there's a little fire moving through the woods there. That's another way to interpret it. But if you're out in the open, he'll see you. If you deploy the shield thing, you might disappear to a great extent, but any motion is going to show back up. I just lay down and cover up with it? We're going to develop some things and bring them to film here in a not too different future with thermal. I was looking for evasive maneuvers. Oh, I understand. The first rule is put material. Think this way. Number one, they always show you pictures of these guys in the field, in the middle of a field. Now, your first rule is, because we're in a temporary environment, even if we're down in the desert, take advantage of terrain and take advantage of anything in the way of physical objects. You don't think any differently traveling day or night. You look at it as constant live fire. Your basic rule is cover and concealment. Cover and concealment. the same is still true, it's just you have to constantly be thinking that way. Overhead coverage, just think three-dimensionally. Let me point something out. You've seen what Afghanistan looks like, right? If we believe the technology works so well, everybody is dead in Afghanistan after 10 years, right? Yeah, now here's another thing. How did that group of Afghanis on the top of a bare rock, kill almost an entire, and they were in the air with some altitude, low, altitude, all the other bells and whistles, and when they came in, there was nothing observable on the top of that rock where they were landing, where the SEAL team was landing. Right, all I knew was to get there before anybody else. And they came in and all of a sudden the Afghanis appeared out of nowhere. And in fact the numbers that they gave were ludicrous first of all because they claimed that there were about a hundred, there were 80 to 100 Afghanis. But we killed them all? Yeah, and supposedly they killed 60 of them, right? Because supposedly... But then they claim that the survivors carried away the dead during the fight. 1.36% each. Yeah, think about it. Three and a half corpses had to be carried out by every living guy along with their weapons. Believe that. So here's how it worked. Either they didn't kill as many as they claim, and I pretty well figured they were lying about that, to try and feel good. The bottom line is, is they got their ass handed to, excuse me, Rumpus handed to them on two platters. And this was with all the thermal, all the... It came in, it's black at night. And they worked... So how is it the Afghans did this? Because after all they don't have any cloaking devices. They hit under a lock. They use the terrain and they learn to move. In fact, when your life depends on it, you get really good at it or you don't survive. And that's really the basic rule here, is you understand how to pay attention with your ears. Remember, this is a culture that spent 20 years being murdered by the Russians before they start being killed by us. I mean, they had plenty of time to prac- Oh, don't worry, the English were there before that with helicopters. Remember, the English were out there. They went and afghans and killed lots of afghans. So we've been practicing and hunting afghans for years. And apparently we haven't killed them all because there seemed to be more available. See how that works? Yeah, I'm just a little confused because if supposedly it's fetal resist and you'll be absorbed and blah, blah, blah, and they always have to show you the pictures of the open fields. That's all propaganda they get. Look at what our thermal does! Well, really, what about rolling terrain? And here's the other thing. I just watched one of them. You brought this up. Thank you for doing it. Latest footage. They're firing up a bunch of guys. It's Israeli-Israeli over there in Iraq. Guys, did you pay attention that once they started firing up something I've mentioned many times is that they like to dump like big, big bullets on small targets like individuals? But when they do that, have you noticed how you can't see anything when they kick up all that dirt? I want everybody to go back and watch those videos and think about that. Because yeah, they can whoosh around and eventually they fire some of the other guys crawling around. but if everybody is dispersed to begin with and not thinking like it's you know a lot of walker the point a walk in the park then it's a very different world plus the technology like the mylar concept combined