September 25, 2014
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Mark Koernke discussed a multi-day manhunt in Pennsylvania, analyzing how low-tech evasion tactics defeated high-tech surveillance capabilities over 12 days. He covered thermal imaging limitations, terrain advantages, wildlife interference with detection systems, and tactical survival methods including cache placement, decoy techniques, and concealment versus cover principles. The show included extensive instruction on smoke grenades, pyrotechnics, camouflage, and preparedness equipment, with updates on NBC protective mask availability and upcoming militia training classes.
- pennsylvania manhunt
- thermal imaging
- evasion tactics
- concealment
- smoke grenades
- cache
- nbc masks
- preparedness
- militia training
- surveillance defeat
- terrain advantage
- tactical survival
- pyrotechnics
- night vision
- camouflage
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If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? Just real quick here, Spike, you're going to be running the program then for this evening, right? Yes, sir. Very good. Just so heads up, Tights, don't be frustrated. We've got weather conditions around the country down on the southern part of the planet. They've got thunderstorms and thunder boomers rolling in. It happens. So when he does best, he's jumping in there. Of course, as the next man in the relay, it's kind of like using a relay race with a baton there, guys. We pass it on for next as needed. Take a breather, take a break, next person grabs a baton, runs with after that. So that's what's happening this evening. I'm Mark Corkey. And I'm Don Betcher. Went West Central, Southeast, and Indiana Freedom Talk Radio dot com. Liberty 3 Radio dot 4 mg dot com. AM and FM micro stations, CEP, base stations, and Ultra. Net technology is east. Along with Alaska. We're on the homework network. From top of main to the... For the bottom of the floor, we're crossing Huggabilly off of Mexico, headed to Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas, Oklahoma, all state of Colorado. Waiting on the left coast, where we have the great state of Jefferson. We turn back to the east, we cross plains, leap over the burgeoning banks of Mississippi, and land in the Smokies, where the restaurant crews, grandma teams, OK teams, and the mob, the Grand Consortium, bring us the Golden Spike. It's the 25th day for 2000 N for us. Sun's going down on that day. For everybody out there, again, night vision technology, right off the bat. Don, your number for night vision. Hey. Thank you Mark. quick reminder if you're looking for the technology where you're dealing with a stranger we have a friend right here about fifty five minutes dot will be available right now we got a lot of people ask questions you can call seven one two four three two zero nine zero zero three two zero nine zero zero i get you into the complex and then get into the room back back back nine five seven four six four five that's the number nine five seven four in to get in and you're with us. You can ask them to live down directly. We've seen all these neat sci-fi and all these television shows guys. In no more than half of the episode or in other words the time it takes for them to pick up the phone, they're chasing somebody and first of all they always chase somebody and even though he's out of sight they have this telepathy machine and it allows them to turn every corner that the guy turns even though they can't see him and they run through doors like look around and go oh That must be the place, now mind you, if they did a camera pan, there's like 25, 30, 40 storefront doors. Yup. Whenever they show you all of these action movies from the future, and all the fun stuff that's going on, by the way, it's futile to resist because they can just see you from the air and from the ground. And so for the last 12 days, I guess they've just been fooling around with this guy they're chasing in Pencil V... Playing games with him, yeah. Oh, darn! you know it's like when they have about to tell you all about how it's good or is there still be a terrible if there's been about a one-week war right i mean we were done all gone we tell everybody there were gone right we don't know but i will confuse that so but they tell you it's beautiful resist and they show you this imagery of how look and see we did to these guys you know guys standing up in the field when they're you know using thermal their chute the style of somebody that uh... you know on bare surface you're talking about Well let me point out something. Today, they might have caught him, maybe they didn't. I don't know, they could have even was worth speaking. Maybe they've, you know, decided to grab more for that matter. This is something here. They may be lying as is typically the state every step of the way. Blah blah blah blah blah. When in reality it's all part of the, you know, Dog and Pony show. But let me ask you something. Don't you think they're using thermal technology guys? Oh, to the best of their ability. Don't you think they pulled out all the bells and whistles and all the stops? helicopters and horseback and dogs. They think they're watching from overhead. They think the FBI was able to access even satellite if needed. Right? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. They're trying. I mean they gotta be trying. I doubt that they're sitting on their hands. And they have state-of-the-art because they got the Class A. They got the third and fourth gen stuff. They got the present gen stuff. It should all have been over about half an hour into the whole chase. How come it ain't? What happened? It doesn't match with the movies. propaganda does it anybody want to answer that for me what you think about this for a minute because they put this guy out of the FBI ten most wanted list which means that the FBI to make brownie points and because the Lodge brothers needed to have them there for the you know because oh oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah you know they got to show everybody teach all of us a lesson bike murgling in that guy now they got to kill him okay he's on their list for certain he's on their you know their Gordon Cole kill list Okay, now, over by no more than day one. What about day two? What about day three? Oh, you think for certain that I had them by the third day? Right, because all the technology would have turned their roving eye towards this guy. But what is going on? Well, first of all, let me point something out. A couple of different SEAL teams were completely wiped out or mostly wiped out because of a bunch of guys hiding on the top of a hill, slash what they call a hill, like a hill, we call it a mountain over here, okay? And they're there on this hill and nobody can see them and the choppers go into land and all of these Afghans come out of nowhere. Now how did they come out of nowhere? Well, the thermal didn't see them. And that's without tree cover, that's without forests and, you know, like temperate forests like we have here. Yeah. And yet the argument was 50 or 60 guys sprung out of nowhere, sh** the snot out of all these SEAL team helicopters. crashing to the ground guys were dead all the first group went down on the other group had to go back to the only people behind that they went down and died with them they went down because the chopper got the job is not shot out of it anyone down to okay now pennsylvania unlike afghanistan isn't this basically occupy tory but the you know i can only take a police supposedly own us they'd like you to believe that yeah Well then, isn't this like, you know, like Terminator, Predator, slash, you know, uh, you know, the adventure, you know, they see all the jump on the jet motors, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, What the movies do and here's the really bizarre thing. If the kid had been just a little sharper in some ways, I mean he chose his ground, he's dumb, but he's dumb. It's up to that each person how you fight, right? You know, things we've talked about. Supposedly they found his Jeep. I mean we can't really count on any of the garbage they've generated, guys. You know what I mean? They've mystical crystal ball, or however it happened, there are things that you learn from this that if you had corrected, You know, let's take into consideration that if you just simply park the vehicle somewhere with a bunch of other vehicles and just abandon it. Don't draw attention to it or don't put it anywhere, or just take it out in the middle of the woods, park it somewhere else, have another vehicle ready so that you leave it, and they can find it wherever it is and it doesn't mean you're missing, but you don't put it in, you go to a place where nobody is truly going to pay attention or notice. That's the basic rule. Cars don't typically float. We don't drive on the water or in the water, right? Right. So that has a tendency to make people go, hmm, Don, that's something you don't see every day. Nothing's up here. You're doing equipment from the primary. In other words, if you had the vehicle in the direction, Chuck would make it a cash for someone to go, look at all the bad guys, make them work for a living. Go so if you have to, disassemble the sucker. Don't even give them a complete weapon. Pull the slide, pop the slide, throw the slide one direction, throw the frame in another. If you got like a bolt gun, pull the bolt, throw the bolt one direction, throw the gun in the other. You know what's really best? If they do find it and they don't find one over the other, guess what? They don't have a complete system. You know what I like about that? Now they don't have something that's valuable. Make it so that even what they capture isn't of value. You can't wrap it up in a tree, you don't have a Willy Pete grenade to make it all go goodbye and melt its flag. But you toss it. You again, it's gonna sink, trust me. It's gonna sink, right? Water, gravity, gun, sink. See how that works? And then with regard to, you know, obviously, and this is something you finally admitted as it turns out, that he's caché'd a lot of other equipment that's finally come out in one little blurb, which we argued from the get-go. Gee, if you were setting up in an area, wouldn't you? Caché materialized. And no matter how we look at it, the basic rule is of what we've been told, all of what you have had pumped into your head about how it's futile, and how in a matter of moments, super spy in the sky will be on your arse so close. will be flies on non-theses. Well, 12 days. This is a guy by himself, but now let's add some other parts to the formula. What's something they acknowledged to you today? You know, Don, they've been combing them there mountains of Pennsylvania. We've been looking and looking and we just can't find them. But they did find some things. When they go into the caves, it turns out something else is in the caves. They've had to shoot some bears. They know. I don't think they've been shooting them. I think they've been getting the hell out of the way. the problem is that yeah they probably even have they're all so hyped up and paranoid up but yeah they probably have shot some bears but they've admitted that they've run bears out now guys let me ask you something what's the average weight of a of an eastern black bear? 250 pounds or so what's the average weight of a good-sized American? Oh some were slightly less than that or around there for a big corn fed Iowa boy but he's not in Maine yeah so about 200 pounds 180 200 pounds okay this guy's six foot one a Pennsylvania? I would believe that there are a lot of deer in Pennsylvania. Just as many deer in Pennsylvania as we do in Michigan every year, guys. Lots of deer food there. And how big is the average deer? Oh, 120, 160 pounds, some bucks and some old does if they're allowed might get up closer to the 200 mark. Size of a human being again, aren't they? Yup. And then we've got Rocky the Raccoon. Now, Rocky like here in Michigan, populates the background, you know, the areas quite well. And there's a lot of farmsteads here and there where there is open terrain in Pennsylvania just like there is in Michigan. But they also like the mountainous wooded areas because they populate wherever they can. And they're pretty good size. You can run into raccoons at 25 to 35 pounds, kid. Oh, yeah. A thermal signature, do you think that throws under the can of... If you guys... The basic thought line here is if you have your your thermal tuned to white is heat and you're looking through a canopy if you see portions of something with heat moving all you're gonna see is slivers and flashes and dots and odd shapes on the other side that's because you're looking not at the whole shape. Think about it. Yeah. It's a, you know like in that movie here's my problem with that. It's the right live in the first can. be things that live in the second canopy and things that live in the top and not to mention the things that move from top to bottom. You don't have to move a man. You can move a whole stinking army with a thunderstorm. By God, you can move so many bodies and there's no clue, there's no idea. You're willing to be out there and get wet and cold when the other side's busy hiding in the shiver's nanny. You see how that works? So everybody needs to be thinking this through. Again, day 12, even if right now, maybe they caught him today, I don't know. I haven't seen anything to the contrary. Now they're whining that he's crazy. Well, what do you mean? He let us see them and then he was too far away because of the terrain. This is like one of those things where every Lodge brother out there has been told we gotta go kill this guy. Every blue shirt and their gang. Yeah, everybody that can come. You will volunteer. We get to go hunt him. That's happening right now. Okay? Now, consider though. one guy. They're not dealing with a platoon. This is just one man, and it's tying up how much of their resources. I'm forcing you to think, because this is day 12. I mean, like I said, if all the garbage you see in the movies is so factual, and boy, they just know everything, what if you don't carry a cell phone? That's gone. You don't have a pager. That's gone. Hell, and you're not even worried. If you're by yourself and single, you ain't talking to anybody on the radio, kids. All the things that they would hope for, I mean, they might be able to draw on, are not applicable here. What just happened is low-tech met dependent high-tech, and dependent high-tech is 12 days behind schedule, isn't it? Exactly. See how that works? Well, Mark, I always love the naysayers. Well, eventually they'll get him. Well, yeah, your point. Only if again he's stuck in that area, one good monster storm, and he'd have 20 miles outside of the area of operation. better than that because I'll be elsewhere to God I would be just looking would be looking you can dance around and circle in that area until hell freezes. In fact, ideally, he understands tracking. So one of the other things is you can especially the organics. Number one, if you're stuck in an area, cross over your maps, you know if you're moving but infiltrating and exfiltrating, don't take the same path. If you know that organics are in the area slash don't is that my interlocking path if you're working or you're working an area and you're combat operative. You're in a situation like this where you're having to deploy and hideout. By interlocking pathways, the dog can be tempted by, because the spore will vary in terms of value, but if you had to work through an area within, say, a 12-hour period, that dog is going to be crossed by however many paths you create. Eventually you've got it running in circles. Yes, running on itself. Now, will the dog determine the freshest spore? environment in terms of, you know, again, what is it? Oh, again, uh, then a 12-hour period. The other thing is trying to avoid leaving any more impressions or obvious ground markers that give them something to bear so they can count bodies. Where you pay attention, don't walk the middle of a beaten path or like a mudded path. Use the pitch. If, and the other, the other option, guys, grass is, if you can't do anything else, you take in lash grass to the base of the foot, uh, in tussocks, Congratulations, you've muddied, you've muddled it, there's no defining track. This impression that somebody's moved to the area, but that's given no matter how you try to work. The big thing is to stay off, you know, minimize motion in many cases for a period of time, but if you're going to be ahead, if you're stuck in an area. The other thing is you can also draw the, draw them off by creating other spore. There's all kinds of neat things. Pressing a bottle, garbage laying around, peeing to a dressing bottle. It's got and you push it, it will squirt. Pee into that as far as you can. Squeeze it up the tree. It is obvious and then crack it down. The idea behind this is that, again, the dog is going to get something that gives him high confidence and it will give everybody else something to pay attention to, something to focus on. Look at that. It's a big one. He could be up there and the dog is very confident because it is a positive physical. The only problem is that when you do that, you have to get it off your person. Don't leave it on your, you know, again, you gotta clean yourself up too. You have to be careful when you're deploying stuff like this because you enhance yourself. It's just something you need to avoid. Another thing, the perfumes. Remember, when you're scrubbing up, use earth, use sand. Watch for sand bars, watch for sand sains. Know what your terrain is like. Always check geology for the areas of operation. If you're moving through an area and you've established yourself and you have caches and you're operating in the area, minimize no obvious human contact wherever possible. But remember, know what your terrain is like. Know what you can take advantage of. The bad guys are willing to get wet, but the colder it gets, the less ambitious they are swimming and they don't have any way to cross. Now, the big thing there is to have your cache set up so you even have closed deployed. You can have material deployed ahead of you. There's a good hint on each side of the river. Yeah, exactly. No matter which way you use it. It's a planned obstacle that can put distance. Sometime it buys you time. Most important thing to remember. Now, you still have to stay clear of whatever it is that's tracking you, but the idea behind this is, this guy is giving you an advantage of what I've talked about for years. Whenever we've set up you know, bait, you know, like possible almost straight up. You take them into the deepest depression and you go right up the other side. Then you cross over to your interlocking paths that you've already established because of operations. And typically you try to operate where you have multiple hills. Again, they're trying to follow and identify the pathway. You know where you want to go. And you've already established the networks and everything else that you need to make this happen. So this is long-term planning in an area where you may be in a rustic situation, you have deployed, and you're trying to minimize contact. But eventually something happens or somebody who is aggressively looking for you finally catches up with you, so to speak, especially if they're doing grid searches and things of that nature. Now remember, you can completely abandon an area and you have enough high traffic or enough what is considered to be flag activity. then you can tie up a tremendous amount of the manpower that otherwise would probably be tracking you in true. And that's a positive thing. Remember then, instead of packs, you have an individual team that you may have to deal with. At a given point, if you work the terrain right, you can identify what it is that is behind you. Sometimes you might just decide to consume them before they think they're going to catch up and can number of different reasons for that. I've got their radios now. I'm not going to talk on them. but i can't listen the other thing if you have a radio is to learn playing their position and trying to catch the guy who's straight away from the floor so again day twelve i guess that the movies kind of lied to me it's people resist you'll be absorbed a c all-nal and i watched all those videos on youtube and why look at all that technology but the iraq war went on for and still is going on yet again now and that can't work well the afghan drug occupation drug drug maintenance service that we have over there keep and market covered in years guys well about the outbreak everybody stay right where you are you know how it works you guys uh... don't touch that back and we might have some music we might have a sponsor but we'll be right back We all need to prepare ourselves. 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Not to mention, they kind of hungry by now, and like I just pointed out in the chat room, it's like late winter Indian treat, you're a grain, and later in the winter, you open that, you know, we think about it, you open that basket or that clay jar, a bunch of mice and the last of your grain is gone. Guess what? Close the basket. You fed those mice well. Now they will feed you. A packet, a packet of ranch dressing from Arby's and it's a chicken wing. Oh man. Well, what actually wrote woman Jim, but the girl that wrote this, she's like taking and doing like she's got her teeth pulled back or her lips pulled back away from her teeth and she's you know nibbling on the mouse and she goes, he's Steve, but I end of the winter when you're starving, it'd probably be pretty decent. It's high in calcium. We have the benefit of little barbecue packs and things like that. Yes, we got to call her. Who do we have? Yeah, Josh, I'm on my car with you. Technology defeats everything routine, guys. We've talked about this. It doesn't mean we don't know how to use technology, but we don't worship technology. And we also understand its potential, its capabilities, and act accordingly. That's the thing. It's like, you know, for rule number one, cover and concealment, kids. Cover and concealment. Concealment is not cover. Always remember that. There's this one image that we had a young guy, we had a group that we were training from Michigan University. And we had, they were being sponsored by, they were being sponsored by an MPPW company that was out of, at the time, Jackson. And I think that it's been moved up to Lansing. And we were deployed. One of the training, you know, it was one of the public areas. We were using one of the state parks. It's a free exercise. Everybody's moving. And, you know, you had to find each other. You actually had to perform all of the mission. That was usually the objective behind our four exercises. You actually had to do the job. Well, everybody was told to camel up. And this guy picked up his baseball. To him, he was well covered because the strands of grass dropped right down in front of his eyes. He was the ostrich camel. forget the major who was standing there and he kind of looks over and he looks back and he's kind of staring off into the tree line. And the guys, the young man's behind a like a three inch pole, you know, really doesn't offer any cover or concealment, right? But anything's better than nothing, guys. People will do this, you'll do whatever you can get, right? The fact of the matter was he thought he was all camoed up because the way the big blades of grass were laid in front of his face, he couldn't see much and he was obstructed. just like the television screens of the movies. And of course he looks at him and he looks over at the master sergeant and the master sergeant looks over there and he looks off in the tree line and he's trying to stay calm. He doesn't want to say, you never attack anybody for trying. We progressively had to bring everybody back in and explain, let's recap camouflage. And remember, cover, concealment is not cover. Cover is what you need. You need to protect yourself. Concealment is where you obstruct the view, but that doesn't mean it obstructs bullets for that matter. Concealment can even be drywall. Exactly. Look, he's in the corner of a building, and I know what the building's made of. I'll wait for him to come back around that corner. Yeah. He sticks his head out from the doorway and sticks his head out from the doorway and sticks his head out from the doorway. If you let him do that three times, it's shame on you. It depends on the active components because there are... Now that's something... Good thing we brought that up too. There are two things to beware. Number one, How many of you have ever deployed smoke and noticed how it hangs in the air? Now I've deployed, and actually I did this intentionally during one operation to familiarize our own people with this, depending upon the thermal activity, you know, like even during the summer. Do you have temperature variance between, you know, the 20-foot mark, the 10-foot mark, and the closer you get to the ground? The thermal claims. Yes. And it's interesting, just like you see fog when it will find a plateau or the thermal, how the active temperatures are obviously in opposition. It's off the ground by two feet or the top is some feet in the air. Smoke will do the same thing under most currents. So remember that yes you are, you can still be exposed. So it's important to remember that if you're using it in an urban setting where the grass has been mowed or whatever, then you may be still very visible to somebody who knows how to guesstimate. If you're in a rough terrain environment where you have rolling grass, tussocks, you have shrubs, brush, junk, then the smoke probably will cover the area effectively. Now again, this varies depending upon climate, time of day, etc. But it is something that needs to be taken into consideration as a factor. Now the other thing that we point out is, as we said, what are the active components that are allowing for that material to bond to the air molecule and rise. There is always a certain amount of thermal activity because that's what allows for it to happen. You're seeing a chemical process take place in the air where it activates, it heats up, activates, attaches to something that allows for it to be drawn and moved. Okay? But there are more effective or hotter systems that can be used. For instance, Willie Pete blocks everything, but it's not your friend. You see all these actions where burning tires are used. Well, burning tires have been used in more recent years because it does create a thermal chimney. A column. Yes. And that in and of itself is just like with regard to thermal technology is just like a tree or a rock, virtually a pillar of rock in place. Something you can hide behind. You're 98.6. It's a lot hotter. Pretty cheap because on the battlefield usually there's wrecks everywhere. Okay? Like a tire store or whatever. The only thing is, many and after a while you run out of things to burn. So you have to regulate that. You don't go crazy with it all at once unless you perceive a significant threat and it's confirmed that you're in the middle of what is an active high threat environment. In other words, you're going to town on this one. You may want a signal. Remember that you can use with thermal at one end, you can use messages. So to smoke signals, only instead. If I land, too, if I see side by side, says don't shoot at me. You all get the drift. It's just like, you know, other objects can be used. Players, hey, we're friendly here. So there's a number of different things they need to be taking into consideration. When screening or blanking out, remember color. Now this is something that we've talked about and you saw this when the East German smoke grenades came in. The Germans made black smoke grenades. Wonderful at night. Because it creates the optical illusion that there isn't anything going on. A huge shadow. at varying depths on the battlefield and in large numbers can effectively screen a lot of activity that's taking place. Now, black is not common in the American inventory, but there are some other colors that are that work really well. One of them that will, of course, work effective as a camouflage at night. Two colors that are really effective, blue and purple. Now, while blue isn't very common anywhere, you will find it on occasion. Usually it's kind of a lighter shade. Purple or burgundy is. And in fact, if it wasn't purple or burgundy, red smoke would be the other option at night. Why? Because, just like those South African battle uniforms that were made back in the day, they were done in lavender and purple. Do you remember those? It was found with natural night vision at night that those camouflage colors worked exceptionally well to disrupt natural night vision and visibility on the mind and the eye that the black smoke to think about. They threw an illuminator if they wondered and threw the illuminator on and into the black smoke they wouldn't be real surprised but into the red smoke they'd wonder what because it would be a very bright image. Right, it would give a very different image and again remember it's still thermally active to a degree as it of course cools And as the air activity has changed because of that, you know, the thermal plume is being created by the grenade. Eventually it's going to cool and that changes how the air is moved in the area of activity. Another thing I will remind everybody about, guys, don't hang on to smoke grenades. Do not hang on to CS grenades. Now I'm going to tell you why. Number one, we have a wide range of dates for inventory. in the Navy, the Air Force, and the Marine have been hanging on to. Even a fresh batch, typically Smoke and CSCN and other distribution systems like this, first of all, they are thermally active. They're green when they're cast. These are developing crystals. What happens as they get older is in many cases there are little pockets of crystal that have another level of potential terms of expansion. And I have seen many, not a few, I have seen many of the smoke or CS grenades explode. In fact, I have it on film where I tossed one and it literally it beyond fingertips. I actually was holding the camera because I was coming off a chopper. I come off the chopper and I pull the pin and I throw the CS grenade. When I threw the grenade, it goes off to the left and right on the edge of the camera as my arm moves forward. When I tossed it, because I pulled the bend, tossed it, sure it was inintinated instead of burned. Now it still burned! It actually burned hotter and faster because the active component now had more oxygen and more material exposed. But what we got was a greater shortage of CSCM. I had it happen with concentration smoke grenades. Now, key word there, concentration, what does that mean? More smoke in the can, kids. That means there's more junk in the can. And that means more of a potential for something to go bad. Well, guess what? I've seen it, and it's done it. And each time, about four to six inches from the hand is when it went off. So I will remind you again contrary what you see in the movies where they look so cool, where the guy pulls the pin and lets the clapper fly away while he holds the grenade to his chest. Okay, I hate to tell you what that would have done. So again, Mr. Grenade is not your friend. If you're worried about trying to get it there a little slower, lob it a little higher. Yeah. You know what I mean? That way it doesn't come back to visit. And the reason I bring this up is I don't trust grenades anymore. You don't know if Sally was thinking about tonight's date at 11 o'clock and she's on the production line and well those last sets of fuses, they were a little short on the hopper. And what's the difference between 3 seconds and 2.1 seconds? Come on. You see how that works? About one third of the time. Yeah, exactly. You don't know if somebody had a bad day in the factory, you don't know if somebody was not paying attention, you don't know if somebody slipped up, and they don't do, once they're assembled, they're assembled. Nobody's going back in to disassemble anything and check to see if you did it right. They're not lifting the hood, because everything is pressed and lacquered into place so that it doesn't get wet. It's sealed. It's a sealed, you know, an equity's got coming back. And that's why, again, even though they claim a three-second fuse or a ten-second training or delay fuse, which by the way are really cool, that's one that can really mess with people because some people think, oh, TUD, or some people will think, oh, it's real function, and 1,000, 2,000, 8,000, 9,000, boom! They came right back out there to see what was going on along with it, and I got two of them. That works. So, again, training fuses are cool, too. They work just as well for the mission. Now they make a training fuse for two reasons and not the least of which is training. If somebody gets panicky because they're handling a chunk of high explosive with fragmentation and they drop it, well the sergeant and or whoever's in charge of the grenade pit has enough time to, you know, get the people out of the way and make Mr. Grenade go away too. Yes. Little reminders there and again it is true that the smoke is an application, is a tool. Our policy is three smoke minimum. This is minimum for anybody in our unit. Three-player, three ground illumination. Player, we're talking pairs. If you're a Grenadier's unit, then three-rifle grenade flairs carried by each person. They can be German, Japanese, or American. Because those are all available in emergency service flairs you can get for the best price or military surplus you're going to find laying around. But again, guys, think that way. Everybody's going to be carrying pyrotechnics. Everybody needs to understand and know how to use it. Everybody needs to understand that just because you've seen something in the movies, that's not how it's typically done. It's not gonna work that way. Still watch YouTube where people are live training? That's your best bet. Where the guys are filming stuff and there's no editing and people make mistakes because that's what you need to watch. Is those mistakes? That'll remind you why not to make them dead, Don. Some of them will kill you. Ooh, that hurt! When they're trying to generate casualties and get rid of secondary characters. Kind of like wearing a red shirt. the time they couldn't hit you. But this time they lobbed that thing right in there and hit you dead center. Gone. He was wearing it right here. It's okay, sir. Don't worry about it. Anyway, we are at the top again. I've got to say, someone once asked, where is that confounded bridge? Someone once asked, where is Waldo? Now, in a moment it seems we'll ask, where is Eric Holder? Where did he go? Why? back down the uh... latest they've been trying to drag out farce quincy features slash operation governor operation governor operation governor and apparently the latest ruling is uh... you don't have any more time while you're dragging your feet give you've had more than a time to find everything that's been expected of yet now you're involved in right now i think they're going to get with and that's the going to be found in contempt as down in a precious to work So apparently this will be a... He's not with the administration now. But he was when it happened right, Don. That does not absolve him, does it? Yeah, they wouldn't... Well, guys, I don't work for that company anymore. I know that they did a lot of absconding with houses and things, but that was two years ago. Bernie Madoff said, I built them out of those billions years ago. Does it work? Not a good excuse, is it? and everybody probably stood there and was like looking for a minute going, I know, think about it, it makes about as much sense. Are you having a lapse of brain? We have a lot of work, tomorrow morning 0800 hours, all of our micros will be up here online, they're an hour earlier than usual, we have a lot of activity, the 401st is going to be doing NBC classes at Camp, apparently Camp Emmer, Camp Emerson and Niagara Hetfield, I was wrong this morning. They're going to be at all three sites, they're going to share time and they'll be traveling from one location to the next. They're covering all the basic masks and confirming everybody gets an overview. It's not as extensive as Sean's NBC class because he covered everything. Including stuff that, well, now you're actually running into. Back in the day it was a little bit more of it available. I can't stress enough to get a protective mask. Look what just happened to the price of the filter at Gun Parts Corp. It's reasonably priced. They're gone. $100 a case. They're recording us on Friday, guys. again you'll be priced if you bought him you bought a case of those there will be a court master program and you know we told you we put it means that they have to shop around to find other sources to get the best price you can't main military i've had masks on the shelf the things you can ask about remember call if you're looking for certain things called them uh... keep shooting dot com has a couple of new mass that nobody else has they've got the uh... Swedish, I believe it's the M95. It is the, actually the Finn and the Swedes both use this mask. It's an upgraded M9 but it's in the modernized lines. Otherwise though the mask is the same basic pattern and is the newest. It cost $100 for that mask. Under $20 or less, about $20. The Dokias, you find them for a little less than that for the moment. And though, you know, for the M9s or the copies of the M9, and that means you can buy five of the, nope, one of those M95s. See, that means five people can be outfitted or you have five gas masks cashed for yourself somewhere. One on your person and others pre-deployed. Right? Stretch the dollar, we'll do what we can to help you out with that. Whatever happened to that deal on the matter? The problem has been working out the financing. I talk to the guys today and they still have some. They have a percentage and I'll see what I can do with that fluffy. I didn't forget everybody on that. That's been an ongoing issue because I can drop ship it but I don't want to double handle the cash. Understood. Yeah, we're trying to get it so you guys just pay direct. It's all done. It goes right to your doorstep and I'll be in the under my aegis, my name. I'm just going to be doing the Hail Mary and confirm that it's going where it's going. That's all I have to do if I do it right. But we didn't forget you guys. Thank you Mark. Anyway, you'll remember for night vision you'll be available in just a minute sir. Hey that number is 2317-9684580. In fact, that was one of the things I was doing in the in-between hours between all the other cat feeding, cat medicating and everything else. Taking care of it, trying to deal with the mass and the uniforms. We've got another unit that needs it, is in fact going to be issued a whole bunch of stuff. We are on the march folks, day and night. Pay attention and go to www.colonialmarinemilitia.4mg.com. John, your number for night vision is closest, please. It is 2317968458. Thank you, Mark. God bless you. God bless you, Mark. Geico presents Strange Saving Stories. Ken Marcus was making a pastrami sandwich when he noticed an odd pattern on a slice of pumpernickel bread, one that spelled out Geico. Ken found himself visiting Geico.com, saving hundreds of dollars on car insurance with great discounts. 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