September 15, 2014
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1h 1m
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2014
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Mark Koernke and co-host Don discussed preparedness and tactical planning using The Walking Dead TV series as an extended metaphor for real-world survival scenarios. They analyzed group movement formations, the importance of planning multiple contingencies, noise discipline, trust-building in groups, and the psychological aspects of decision-making under stress. The show emphasized that proper preparation, training, and situational awareness are essential, and that people should avoid standing passively during crises. Don also promoted night vision technology and military surplus equipment available through his sales operation.
- preparedness
- tactical planning
- group movement
- noise discipline
- situational awareness
- survival scenarios
- night vision
- military surplus
- trust in groups
- contingency planning
- self-defense
- the walking dead
- formation tactics
- decision-making under stress
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You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay attacks 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 will be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic in each God-given right, and pray to God, get the torch of freedom burning bright as Iowoki vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. Or even now as tyrants trample 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'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Dill the land of the free. One day closer, for all of our brothers, behind the lines in occupied territories, westb.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, we're on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, and OLA Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi, along with Alaska. A whole big chunk of Nebraska, a bunch of Wyoming. And our friends in the recall state of Colorado, also the Wyoming, where we have a leader in a sinking ship. California is a state just plain going below the waves kids went on there and all I can say is we turn back to the East Plains leap over the burgeoning banks and land in the smokey slash the okay teams and the mob El Grama Consortium bring us the many hands make for light work a Million pretty good everything else is well done. It's gray down here It's like in your neck of the woods where you guys you know when you got a Friday the 12 and Monday the 15th You know that and you dodged it by one day, right? So well and all of that stuff. But we went past Friday the 12th mark and that leads us to again Monday the 15th day of September, the year of our Lord 2014. It's raining, it's chilly, it should be a little warmer, it's got a breeze out there, even the air is just damp enough it pulls the heat out of you. You know one of those days I would reiterate and put that out on the shelf until it's a beautiful day. No, again we did that September thing right? are ineffective. Take your pick. That's what it comes to in a lot of places. It's not like taking your pick is going to, well my vote counts, but take your pick. You can look at it like this or you can look at it like that or you can overlook the whole thing. But I want to use this as an example here for a little while because You guys, a number of years ago now, someone sent Mark and myself the whole first season of The Walking Dead along with the comic book that was, what do they call that, Mark? Illustrated Novel. Yeah, that's an adult phrase. To cover up, you're reading a comic. No, I'm reading an illustrated novel, Mom. Mom's 83 and he's 47 and you're sitting there reading a comic. No, Mom, it's an illustrated novel. But again, the back story, you get some of it out of the illustrated novel that you don't see in the movie itself. But in this case we're talking about the first season of The Walking Dead. A listener sent that to Mark and myself and that's what brought that to my attention. And it came to the point, someone else loaned me the second season and over the weekend I rented the third season all for like $2. all four discs. I sat and watched that real quick because there were some other things going on and I'm waiting for other things to happen. But I watched that. We've brought discs to the hour before and used it as an example. I want to mix in a few thoughts that we've brought over the last You can get into a small group of people and out there in the world, you know non patriots non militia and you mentioned that Walking Dead and there are people who just oh, yeah They know every character's name and I don't know every character's name I just trying to glean little things out of it kind of like the CIA does in order to You know, we've talked about and brought up you will mix this in with this the the or what was the name of that movie three days of the Condor where the CIA has sections or departments of people that all they do is watch and read this and read the latest novels and they're looking for little gunts of information that they might use out in the real world like how to kill somebody without you know with other people around and nobody knowing it. You guys they do this because authors are imaginative people and they might come up with a scheme that the CIA could use in the real world. See how that works? Or they might come up with a scheme in a novel about destroying a nation that they could use to really destroy a nation. So they apply themselves in that direction. We've talked about the failure of them, every single one of them, on that Sunday night in March prior to 9-11 in 2001 there. When the lone gunmen were all watching an airplane going to fly into the building. But I'm getting a little off track here. You look at all of the things. and you pay attention to or you run over to trying to work out something that will, the everyday person can use as example. Again, you get 10 people in the room and you mention The Walking Dead and you guys, there are one or two or three fans there. Again, they know all the names and all this and that. We can use this as example and have a reach into a number of people who are listeners. Yeah, I'm familiar with that scenario. We talked about traveling, we talked about columns, we talked about V's, we talked about random, we talked about line of breast. But one of the things that gets me when you see most of them when they end up walking There are zombies out there. They don't call them zombies. There must be a trademark on the word zombie mark in Hollywood or something because nobody has called them a zombie. They have called them biters and walkers. Anything but. Yeah, they are not zombies. We have talked about treating them like zombies before. There is that fingernail reference people can use from this. Sometimes you guys, this is an apocalyptic I'm hoping it's fictional. I say that facetiously. They're stranded. They're trying to get from one safe place to another and without being eaten by, let's call them the brigands. But they're the enemy because there are other alive people who we could compare to the brigands, the crooks. the people who would take everything from you. There are some references in this. There is the military mixed in every now and then, why there's a tank and there's 50 calibers and all the way back to people riding horses. We've referred to riding horses before. It might be a good thing to have a horse if there's 10,000 zombies because if they get the horse, they start feasting on the horse while you escape. That's happened in this already. The other thing to mention is people have just shot people in the leg. so that the zombie starts working on that person in order that the person who shot that person in the leg can escape. So there are some pretty rotten examples of how miserable people can be to other people. We have tried to address that over the years, haven't we? As an example, talking with the fellow before Y2K, and we are standing out here in the field, and I say, we are just running different scenarios out. I mentioned the one where you're walking through the woods and you smell the food and you start walking up and you come to the place where there's a few people there cooking up their vittles. They're making their breakfast, lunch, or dinner. They are preparing their next meal. And you've got nothing. And the guy standing there said, well, I'll just take my machine gun and go get their stuff. And he doesn't come around here anymore. You've seen examples of that in The Walking Dead and you've seen examples of that in all kinds of different movies, be it real time or the Mad Max movies or whatever, apocalyptic movies where the brigands come out, the crooks, the land pirates, so to speak. The other thing is when we talk about, let's go back to moving in formation or moving a group of people across the land. When you see this or when you watch this, fictional. It's pretty entertaining for a number of reasons. They're zombies. You're not really killing people. They're just killing you. You're just putting them out of their misery. When you see people walking down the middle of the road, now one of the ways you're doing that, you're walking down the middle of the road because, well, your opponent is going to attack you running, so you have about an equal chance of Warning from either side. You know, you can bring the gun to bear. If you're moving along and your opponents aren't zombies, you're probably, unless you're in a really safe area known to be, you know, this is friendly, and even then this is questionable, moving down the middle of the road. You might want to move along the edge of the road so that if you come under fire, you can duck into the woods. Or if you come under fire from that side of the wood that you're moving along, man, you're so close, you're right on top of each other. If you're not... And if you're not familiar with that, concentric circles, look at a bullseye. That's concentric circles. How many defenseless people or how many even worse, how many children are at the edge of this group of people that are moving? Now it always leads to the drama. You know the zombie stumbles out of the woods and there's a child there and it grabs a child. At the edge, you know, what are destroyers for? What are patrol boats for? What are foot soldiers for? What is the guy on the horse for? We've already mentioned horses and riding horses in this scenario and others, right? But you don't move a group. If you're moving civilians like that, you don't move with your tail in Charlie. The last people of the group are two or three eight and twelve year olds. If you have any concern for the children, they're in the center of the group, aren't they? You have adults leading the way. You have adults flanking the whole of the... Now this is basic, you guys, but if you see it on television, that must be the way to do it and plenty of people think that way. So this needs to be addressed. And you have multiple adults following up the whole motion, right? Just to make certain, nobody wanders off the path, nobody gets lost. Now that brings up another issue that was another whole chapter or whatever, this weekend's version. Little girl steps into the woods and somebody went looking for her and the little girl got lost. We've talked about, even in these times, we've talked about if you have to go to the bank, if you have to do this, try to move in pairs right now, haven't we? We haven't brought that to the hour as of late. You know, you might not have heard it in four months. You might not have heard it all summer. But even in these times, try to move in pairs, if at all possible. Why? Well, again, a team that can look in more than one direction is less likely to be surprised by the zombies or the living people or the brigands or this, that, or the other thing. We can go right down the list of things that are a threat to you. When we talk about zombies in this instance, tongue in cheek and being a little bit ... We're having a little fun with this one, aren't we? But this goes over to if you're moving anything, the most precious portion of what you're trying to get from one point to the other is in the center, isn't it? Now, you can use other examples. This is a basic, and many of the brigands think that there's the big formation, there must be the big payoff. You know the story of Mark, the devils of Cameroon, the French Foreign Legion that was escorting a bunch of gold to be paid to the other French military there that was occupying Mexico before the Mexicans chased the French out. The French foreign legion moved through with the caravan of the gold and other able and willing soldiers to guard that caravan following hours behind. Maybe it was two hours, but the crooks figuring that while there are all of the soldiers there, that must be where the valuables are, attack that body. Giving warning to the body two hours behind that, well, maybe we shouldn't march into that battle. So there are variations on every technique. In this instance, let's bring over a different thing that you might see now and then. That's a smaller version of the shell game. red cup is the P under, which red cup is the domino under, whatever they choose to put under there. Many times it's not under any of them. But this goes back over to moving valuables, moving people. You guys, these are common things, but let's do this. Let's continue this thought line. Mark, it amazes me. In these scenarios that you see here, how many people with a gun at their side or a clobberist stabbing instrument, stand there and watch something happen. Again, let's do it like this. The zombie stumbles out of the woods, out of the shadow, from around the corner or they open the closet door and three zombies come out. People just stand there. while somebody's getting their arm ripped off or they're bitten on the forehead or whatever, you know, and you don't want to get bit by the zombies because well, that's you know, that's a death sentence. But again, how many people stand there? Now we've addressed this in a number of different ways, haven't we? We've talked about training. We've talked about plans, haven't we? And if you don't have a plan, You're probably going to take a little while to stand there and try to figure out an individual situation until you figure, gee, I better shoot this zombie. It's eating Fred. Now, it doesn't sound like a fun situation, but you can see what's going on here. If you don't have a plan, it sometimes can take a little while for the mind to generate one. You know your imagination. We've talked about imagination over for a good long time now. Because if you cannot imagine it, your brain cannot tell your body to do it. If you don't have that source code, you can't run it into the computer and you can't make the computer, the computer can't drive anything. In this instance we refer to that most efficient battlefield computer on the planet, that gray matter between your ears. But this is what even minute planning goes. We plan to win. We plan to be there at the end, but how many different plans is it going to take to get you there and your group there? And how many of them have you thought out? How many of them have you dwelt on? Even to the extent, sometimes you see, oh, one of the good examples, and this goes over to habit. Mark, you'll have a reference to this one. I'm sorry to mention it in this way, shape and form. But when they take over a prison, the people who are fleeing from the zombies, the prison looks like a pretty good place to be. You are protected by bars, you are protected by double layers of cyclone fence with the laser wire on the top. By the way, the prison has an armory somewhere so they got more guns and bullets and they started growing food out there. All of the things we have talked about, all of the things we have talked about, security and growing food and guns and bullets and a roof over your head or the ability to defend yourself and build a perimeter. We have mentioned all of these things over the years. But when they go in there, they start cleaning out the zombies in the prison. They open a door and three zombies come rushing out and they kill them. It's like the sheriff and the original zombie, the night of the living dead. Mark the sheriff says at the end of the movie, they're dead, they're all screwed up. You might remember that. You knock them in the head and they go down. But when they took over the prison, they found some inmates that they were willing to kind of deal with, you know, we're not going to let you into our group, when we're all done with this clearing out the zombies, you can live over in that wing and we'll live over here. They did that deal because they didn't trust them. We've talked about trust. But the sheriff told these guys, you've got to hit these zombies in the head. You've got to ice pick them in the head, stab them in the head, shoot them in the head, crush their head. But now they're doing the patrol mark with a number of the prison people and a number of the people who are there to turn the prison into their secure home. And they come around the corner and here's a bunch of zombies. And three or four prisoners rush over to this one zombie and they grab him by the arms, one of them by each arm. And another prisoner is just doing the machine gun with the little knife right into the zombie's gut. He's doing it like a singer's sewing machine. And the zombie's just going, ahhhhhh. And they couldn't figure out why they're not killing this zombie. Later it was told to them, this isn't the prison, you know, riot dance. Or however it went. But there was the prison riot shuffle or something like that. Multiple stab wounds to the abdomen and thorax across the body when they were instructed. The only way to kill these things is smash them in the head. But this goes over, and we've talked about this, habits. We've talked about trying to break bad habits over the years, haven't we? Yes. Tried to address that over the years. We could talk about this for a good long time and even look at different things and draw example from that. One thing you don't see in this mark is somebody empties their gun and then they throw it at the zombie. Somebody empties their gun and they turn around and they start using the butt of that handgun to crush the zombie's skulls. I mean, well, the walkers or the skin eaters or the biters. Anything to zombie. Anything to zombie. But now, you guys, Mark, how many times have you said that? Hollywood conditions, I'm gonna empty my gun and then I'm gonna throw it at that tank. A lot of good, didn't it? What do we hang onto until we get more ammunition? Just in case, we have a holster for this and we even have places... More zombies. The other thing is, noise attracts them. And we've talked about, let's take that whole thing and talk about... noise discipline, light discipline, smoke discipline, even a gunshot for discipline. You know how far a gunshot carries? Mark, you've talked about this a number of times at night when the traffic is down. This was mentioned, somebody said it's so strange not to hear airplanes. Remember the couple of days after 9-11 when you could look up and you didn't see a chemtrail or you didn't hear that if you live near an airport where it actually shook your windows when they were landing? or if you live near any major city you have the landing paths over your residence. Those flight paths as they close to the airports, they can't make at low speeds just about ready to land. They don't turn on a dime. So all of these things in order to be safe and do it consistently, they need gradual little things. In order to keep the passengers happy, it's not good to do sudden things in the air. Let's leave it at that. But remember the days after 9-11 when you didn't hear an airplane in the sky? If you wake up in the middle of the night, even in a city, and you find that little bit of gap in the sound where you don't hear a siren, Or in the city, literally, you guys, you don't hear a siren or you don't hear a gunshot or on occasion, literally, you don't hear somebody scream in the middle of the night and how quiet it can get. But you know that siren could be a good long ways away or that gunshot, a good long ways away when there are no other sounds to mask it. When there are no other, even just dull sounds to hide it. We've talked about this many times over the years, haven't we? That's just sound discipline. You try not to shoot them if you can smack them on the head, dab them, crush them, make something fall on them, make them fall into something, burn them immediately. All kinds of things. But that goes over to sound discipline and even just one shot. How far away can that be heard? And if I choose to allow this opponent to move to such an area where he is close enough that I can deal with him without taking a shot, without using a firearm, am I or is the person capable of doing that that we are allowing to do that? We've talked about this and I do not wish to reduce people to tools. But one of the best examples for this in this instance is the right tool for the right job. You don't want to send a child, a boy, to do a man's job. And some men aren't capable of allowing someone to walk right up to them behind that tree, around the curve of that building, just over that swale or beyond that little rise to where they have that one-two step and they're on their opponent and their opponent is done. Many men can't do that. Again, this goes back over to when things get really bad, one of the other things that happens to people, look what happened to the sheriff's son and how his wife was concerned about he was not growing up like a child should. He was having to do all of these things, kill the zombies. It progressed. He got what one might say, colder and colder until there was an and Mark as the opponents left one of them a young man maybe 18 maybe 22 years old turned and came running back only had his rifle in his hand and he runs up on these an old man and the sheriff's son and he's trying to surrender and the sheriff's son looks at him for a second looks him up and down and Then just brings his gun up and shoots him now in particular this brings up what we've talked about on a number of times about situational ethics. They used to teach situational ethics in college. We've talked about this before. This is something that we haven't brought to the hour in a while, situational ethics. That used to be almost a hidden phrase inside the psychologist's world. Ricky Ricardo called him the FISA geotriss. But as they brought this out more and more into the open, they started to, because people would college students talk, and I'm going to be a psychologist, and one of them is sitting there talking with his buddy who is going to be a lawyer. Because of situations, and even doctors find themselves in situations, and the psychologists talking to the lawyer, or whatever, brings up that phrase and takes it a little more out into the open, situational ethics. This is how it's come to be almost for people who are aware, not exactly common on their tongue, but it's in their vocabulary. That phrase, situational ethics, might be compared to another, there's a book out now, I've never read it, I've been told a little bit about it, but there's black and white, But there are those that say, well, there's that little thin line of gray right along there. And if you look at black and white, black and white is right and wrong, well, doesn't that blur right there at the center of that gray line? And this book is titled Fifty Shades of Gray, which only, that Fifty Shades of Gray, you guys, is a way to conceal or a different way to talk about what one might call The aforementioned phrase, situational ethics. What is right in one instance might be wrong only if little bits of the situation are changed. This is example in this, well, the Walking Dead. We used this as example this evening. Forgive me if I'm boring you with this. This is example in this one. Well, they come across a group of people and there's an argument among these living people should they kill those living people and take their stuff and They leave for a little while and on their way back they find out that oh darn everybody there's dead but zombies didn't do it other brigands did and they lament among themselves that we should have taken that because Somebody else took all of our stuff. I really that I bring that to the hour because there are people who live like that. Somebody else took all of our stuff when it wasn't theirs to begin with, but that's how they see it. And we've addressed this before. You guys, it goes over to a trust thing. And this, we've talked about how do you bring different people into your group. That's addressed in this also. We've talked about building your group now so you don't have to build your group later from people you really don't know. Because again, there are times when people are asked to give someone up from the group. If you don't really know everybody there, you might be the person that is left behind for the zombies or given up because they are all going to stop their patrol and hunt for us when they capture you. So again, it goes over to trust in building groups now, doesn't it? We have addressed this over the years. How do you bring new people into your groups? We have addressed that. Sometimes it goes over to man, you know, there are so many zombies over there and you look alive to me and you're shooting the zombie so we're going to, you know, make our escape. And, you know, it might not be zombies. You know, if you don't like that example, Whatever you want there. It could be Russians. It could be Chinaman. It could be Congolese. Who was that guy there, that Mutaburu, Mugabagi, or whatever that said, we need to eliminate the white man from the earth? What was his name? Mugabe? Yeah, Mugabe. Yeah, Mugabe, slash Mugabe of Zimbabwe. Yeah. So again, I don't bring that as particular I don't bring that for any other reason. It brings up an example of a huge... Now, let's bring up another example. Let's mix something completely different. We haven't brought this, although we have in a number of different ways, we haven't brought it to the hour exactly like this. You're in a big firefight on the radio. And you know, it's probably going to be a pretty slim chance that you get on the radio and you can call in the helicopters and just fly right into your LZ and they're going to swoop right down there and they're going to kick out cases of ammunition for you. Wouldn't that be nice? Oh, that isn't that a Beach Boys song or something? Well, that song addresses a completely different subject. But wouldn't that be nice if you could just get on the horn and the helicopters and, you know, drop out a few wooden boxes and men now you've got 10,000 more rounds or 20,000 more rounds because there looks like there might be 15,000 zombies in that field. You know what I mean? We've addressed this before, haven't we? That's like a dream and a half, isn't it? That's almost as fictional and I claim this exactly like that. That is almost as fictional as we will be fighting zombies. You understand that and forgive me if you don't like the zombie example, but I'm going to run with this. If you're in the fight and magazine boxes of bullets start falling out of the sky, it's probably the Op Force's mistake and you would better carry them away. It's like, look, it fell out of the sky. That's almost a gift from God, isn't it? and you had better carry them away. Now just the fact that we've said this on the air might mean, and I hate to be a fly in the ointment, but you know there's this one guy he bragged about sneaking and crawling and getting really really stealthy although even then he had a kind of a belly. And he'd go into these Vietnamese camps and he'd plant explosive rounds in their piles of ammunition. So again, if one were to be in a fight and one of those cases of ammunition fell out of the sky, I don't know if I'd use them all right away. I might open it up in every 50th one or I might just take a small percentage and shoot them with a string. You know what I mean? A gun bolted down, a gun sag back down, and I'm going to pull that trigger remotely. I might, if I have the time and the ability And not to mention, and this goes over to if they're listening, they'll take care of this problem too. But you know, mark a bullet that's built to explode in the chamber and destroy the gun and the operator. It might not weigh as much as another bullet if the guy building it wasn't paying a whole lot of attention to being really, really deceitful. But again, I've mentioned it on the hour now, so if they're going to put an exploding bullet in a case of ammunition, they might go to extra lengths to make it weigh as much as all the other bullets. So you might not be able to detect it by weighing it in some of those 98% of the time when you're bored instead of the other 2% of the time when you're just experiencing sheer terror. More than one person has described war like that. You're bored for 98% of the time, but hey, that 98%... We've addressed this before. What are you doing in that 98% of the time? You're cleaning your gun, you're cooking, you're eating, you're doing the train duty, you're doing your policing area, you're doing the KAP, you're doing all of the other things you have to do so that you are a strong soldier when you need to fight. We've addressed this in many different ways. But again, you know, The other thing that comes out of the Walking Dead series mark is the ability to scavenge, to walk into the grocery store and go into the pharmacy at the back of the grocery store and get drugs or go into the gun stores and get things. You've got to understand that in this scenario a lot of people didn't have the chance to hang around and eat up the food stores. and hang around and buy all the bullets or just generally, you know, consume things on the shelves or even the fuel in the gas tanks in their cars. The real world scenario, the shelves at the grocery stores are going to be clean. There won't be any bullets at the gun stores and there won't be any guns at the gun stores either because people will have lived long enough to clean them out. I mean, we're not all going to turn into zombies, right? I don't plan on turning into a zombie. T.U. Mark? No. It's not on the list of things to do, but I am sure they have a whole lot of other things they'll try to turn us into through the use of better chemistry and radiological technology. Yeah, mostly turn us into debt. Yeah, that's what we should be prepared for. This goes back over to... There's that word again, prepared. You know, prepared means that you have taken time to make a plan. Instead of just standing there while the zombies gobble on Junior or your grandma or your uncle or cousin Frank or your own farm. Again, it amazes me how many people in this are in, you know, fear does a number of things. But if you have a plan, instead of trying to figure out what am I going to do now, Franklin? Well, the zombies already bit your foot off. This goes over to even planning. We've talked about moving. We've talked about moving great groups of people or small groups of people. We've talked about slicing the pie when you look over a field or when you clear a room, haven't we? Many of these things should be almost, if you've been listening for two or three years, these should be almost ingrained by now when you go out in the field with a pair of binoculars or when you take that rifle scope out or that handgun. Many of the things that we've talked about over the years or when you clean your water filter or your gun or your boots. We've addressed these in so many different ways. It will not be something that, well, we're going to march into this town and Well, look it, that whole shelf of tomato soup is still there. Why? Because zombies don't eat food, they eat people. It ain't going to be like that. And sometimes we strive to practice proper English, but I reiterate, it ain't going to be like that. to find food stores like that, you would be fortunate when you move into your opponent's area and you have either just beat the dog snot out of them until they don't mind that you're in their kitchen because they ain't got no say about it. Sometimes we strive to practice proper English, but they ain't got no say about it because you're cleaning their shelves because you've just cleaned their clocks. That's almost the only way you're going to come across great food stores if things go to hell in a hand basket, in the freight elevator with no brakes. That's almost the only way you're going to come across great food stuffs without someone else thinking, well, that guy's got his machine gun and he wants to take our stuff and we're going to do everything we can to stop it. This only underscores preparation, doesn't it? Again, this only underscores. You guys in in the computer world now, and I'm not a big computer person, but I know that in the printed word You know all capital letters even if I'm reading a white sheet if it's all capital letters running the running a name or a word for in in particular venues with boxed borders and everything that capital letters That's a war name another thing that doesn't necessarily have to be but there are all kinds of legal little nuances for it But generally when it's all capital letters the author, the person is trying to shout at you about that particular subject. He is raising his voice without raising his voice because it is a printed word. So all of those capital letters, you know, this is most imperative at this time. That is what the author is trying to tell you. That is what the person who arranged those words, the person who built that report, he might not want to call himself an author, he might be an anonymous. But again, When you overlook something, when I use that word overlook, I'm trying to get that whole picture. I'm not saying I'm overlooking anything by ignoring it. To overlook in this instance is the overwatch to the finest detail. I'm looking at the whole of the field. Now we employ this basic thought line, motion, color, and shape. And if everything is a pretty much uniform color and everything is pretty much a uniform shape, then motion is going to attract my eye. And if everything, you guys, let's go through this. If everything is pretty much a uniform motion, the thing that's not moving the same way is going to attract my eye. If everything is pretty much the same color, the thing that's not the same color is going to attract my eye. So again, when you take that overview, the whole of the look, that's what I talk about. To think about that's like Overwatch, but Overwatch, when we use that word, we're talking about bounding Overwatch and you're looking at the people in front of you. You're trying to take in everything, but in this instance, just think about sitting at the military crest of a hill. You're in such a place that you're not silhouetted and you're not silhouetted even to a great extent that someone might be at the foot of the hill and starting to walk up the hill, but you're not really silhouetted to them either. So you can sit and you can look at the horizon and you've got that most of 45 degrees to the left and most of 45 degrees. That's about what we cover with a good amount of commitment to interest. Beyond that, we're in the We cover about 90 degrees field of view until we get out to where I'm wiggling my hands. I don't know what it is, but I see something moving. If I move it a little more and I'm still looking ahead, by the time I'm at about 45 degrees to my left or my right, I can tell that that's my fingers. I know I'm moving my fingers and I'm not fooling myself and I'm not trying to jive you to use this as a comparison. Because I know I'm out there wiggling my fingers about an arm length away from my head. But as I move them, if I'm looking straight ahead, I use this as an example, I know that there's motion 90 degrees out. I can see something, but I don't know what it is. But when I get into about that 45 degrees, I know, even when I'm still looking straight ahead, that those are my fingers. That's my hand. Again, I know it's my fingers and my hand because it's on the end of my arm, but I use this as example for when we try to look at the whole picture, how much of it do we take in with our naked eye? You call that the over watch, the overview, the overlook. When you're trying to look at the battlefield, so to speak, the airspace in front of you, the sea in front of you, Whatever it is, when you're trying to pick out that threat, pick out that color, pick out that motion, pick out that shape. Again, once you see the color, the shape, the motion, do you have a plan for it? How are you going to respond? Are you going to just stand there and watch while Fred gets his ship, has sunk his arm, has gnawed off, his plane has shot down, his platoon is decimated? These are why we talk about plans. Now we're getting to the top of the hour mark. I didn't mean to chew your ear off for the whole hour. But every general knows and every good corporal knows if he's lived under any general for any length of time because many times generals deploy people, but that's when the general's first plan was a complete failure. And if the general is a lousy general, he doesn't have any plan after that and he runs the same plan out and he continues to do the same thing over and over until he's not a general. They've cut off his head or they've hanged him or they've put him in jail forever. They've put him in the electric chair, whatever. But right down to that corporal, every good general and every good corporal that's lived through a couple battles knows that you'd better have more than one plan. Because as soon as you start to lay a plan into action, somebody's going to want to throw a stumbling block in your path or a noose around your ankle or neck. You're going to want to stop your plan. This is why you have a plan B that reinforces plan A. If we start to do this and this happens, if we want to continue to do this, we have to do that. And that's just a this, that, and what about the other thing kind of statement? I know it's real vague. I know it's real vague, but I don't know what you're planning. See how that works? If I have my plans and I'm over watching this whole thing and I make a plan for that specific instance time location, I work that whole event and the timeline works for me and I'm at the window at the other end. But I don't know what you're planning. So again, without a plan, where are you going to go? Even if it's, hey, he opens the door, us three kill the zombies before they chew his arm off. Again, I went back to that example because it's sublime too ridiculous, isn't it? I hope I didn't waste your time with this. I hope you were following my plan because you guys, we've talked about preparation. We've talked about keeping things clean. We've talked about keeping your eyes open. We've talked about working as a team. We've talked about even the lay of the land. It's about bringing people in. There have been so many different subjects we've talked about in the last hour that we've talked about for well since Don has been here and since before that. Mark mentioned the other day we've been doing this or Mark has been doing this. You guys if you think since 1993 Mark has been doing this since for 21 years. So there have been some references to plans over time and you had better make them in plan B, C and D. It's been addressed before but Again, Mark, I apologize for chewing on your ears the whole hour. I know you've got moments left. You've got the next hour, sir, but I yield to you now. And we are, of course, headed towards the top of Bora. We go any farther. Night vision technology running 24-7 guys. We're looking at traveling both at night and during the day. At night we need to be able to see pathfinders. Even if you don't have the cutting edge third or fourth generation technology to pathfind your way through an area, to have the ability to see allows you to navigate. So again, take the time. Listening to what Don has been talking about here. We've got both a monocular and open sites, but there variations on the theme now as far as what we have been going through the inventory. We've made the first generation two power gun sight disappear, the first generation three power viewer, it's gone. A little while ago there were over 200 of that viewer and they're gone now. We're looking at the four power gun sight, I don't have the numbers today. We're looking at the five power viewer, I don't have the last of the numbers. I'm working on doing a deal to a pretty good number of those between myself and someone else who wish them to be unavailable to the Patriot community. So you guys, I'm serious about that. If this goes right, we'll purchase about the last 200 of those. Let's see if we can do that. And if that happens, they'll go to you. They won't go out to somebody wanting to watch the raccoons or the deer. If we can make that deal happen, that'll be good. Because then, you know, the other thing is in that mass, we control the price even more. So let's see what happens there. But I don't, you know, sometimes, you know, the chicken and the egg and which until it's hatched and all of that. But if you want to talk about night vision, you guys, I've got a first generation gun sight, 308 capable, it's four power. I can put it right in your mailbox for $390. This is the standard, you know, it's entry level. I've got a five power first generation viewer. I can put that right in your mailbox for $219. We can talk about a second generation gun sight, 308 capable, it's two power, right in your mailbox, $1,248. My phone number is 231-796-58. Again, 231-96. The friend, we're in a situation where we have technology that the professor is going to change, guys. I hear the music, we're at the top! God bless the republic! Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. We'll be back just a little bit here for the second hour. Meanwhile, Dom, close this, give your number out a couple more times. People, hey, take the time and get old to Dom. Hey, you want to talk about gunsights or goggles or green screens or thermal art? My phone number is 231-796-8458. Again, 231-7964. 5. Revolution Thank you for listening to Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com. We all need to prepare ourselves. You might have the food, water, gold and silver, but ask yourself, are you truly prepared? That's why you need to visit MaineMilitary.com. MaineMilitary.com carries everything you need. Gas masks, fire starter kits, high capacity magazines, chemical suits, military surplus items, and much more. Do you own a firearm? MainMilitary.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. 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