Live 365. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire is on the run. But we are on the march, both day and night. And by the way, the Chafee tank is ours! The M24 was moved over the weekend, guys. It's in the garage where the first thing, tracks came off it and we're working. Guys, the wrench heads are on it now. So that's going into 12 Squadron if everything goes well. And that'll be the third Chafee that we've rounded up in like 15 years. Not bad. There's not a lot of them around, but if we find them, Especially in the back 40 somewhere we get them Don thank you sir. Thank you mark. God bless you. God bless America of the revolution. Thank you for listening to LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.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. 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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's 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. 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'll 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 and each God given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd 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 trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is this still the land of the free? Because I had no magazines and then I met a man who had no ammo Which would you rather have? Lots of magazines and no ammo or lots of ammo and no magazines? Well, dudes, at least if you've got a bullet you can keep loading it one round at a time until you get what you need from the other side. Right? Yeah, that'd be better than harsh language and throwing empty magazines. So anyway, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the... ...of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm R. Kornke. one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, east, northeast. Ladies and gentlemen, you were listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio.com. We're on AM and FM micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska Hallmark Network from the top of Maine to the bottom of Florida. From the bottom of Florida across the arc of the Gulf of Mexico and Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, big chunk of Nebraska, a whole bunch of Wyoming to include both the 3rd, 5th and our friends on the left side of that state, the 13 sisters. That's in 11 different valleys. And for all of our friends out there, on the left side of the country from all the way to the bottom of, well, down by San Diego and down there on the border, we know you guys are still doing your part to try and secure what you can. The great state of Jefferson, all the way up to the top of Washington state. We say good afternoon. You guys are still, of course, looking pretty bright out there. We got darkness here already. Turning back to the east where darkness says, on a darkling plain, we sweep across it over the Mississippi, the muddy black waters, and land in the Smokies with the restaurant crews. Grammatines, OK themes, and the Ma Bell Grammar Consortium bring us the Golden Spike. Many hands make for light work. A million petticoat junction operators. the ability to continue to function when everything else is offline. It has been a very busy, busy Monday for everybody. I want to say thank you. Congratulations again to the recovery crew. We got that M24 Chafee out of the mud. I should say through the mud. We had to pull up with moist conditions around the building where the Chafee was located. She's out of the building. The tracks are out of the mud. That was the big thing. one set is going to have to have a lot of work done to it. It's a little worse than we expected only because it wasn't covered or anything. It's not the first time guys we have a whole technique for recovering track pads that have been rolled up and left on a pallet. Even if they cover it with canvas, canvas only lasts so long and people don't replace it. It happens. But don't worry, we have a system and those pads will not be destroyed. They will not go to waste. We will re-clean them and build them and they will be ready to roll on one of those tracks. as needed if we have to replace them again. So for you guys out there, you got a special gift coming from one of our other friends who is a wrench head himself. He bought a bunch of tools for you guys just for that machine and they're on the way. So that's a friendly gift from our brothers up north. in the wheel division up there by Emily City. You guys, they are hard chargers and they're doing what they can to support you. Collected a lot of stuff over the years and they're making sure it's in the Patriot Movement and with the militia. Today's date, by the way, is the, well it's Monday, it is the 8th of December. It is the sixth year of open Fabian Socialist and Soviet. socialist occupation of America with a K 2014 old earth calendar or Mayan crazy town crazy town calendar or Nostradamus doom take your pick I really don't have an interest in either one however A lot of people do so, hey, play into it. Yeah, dudes, you're right, you're gonna die. Give me your goodies, man. You don't want all your- Oh, but since you're a Mayan, what do you want with the stuff that makes up of this mortal coil? Why don't you just give it all to me? We're doomed. That's right. We're doomed. Weez, weez, weez. We're doomed. Weez, weez, weez. We're doomed. We're doomed. I agree with you. Why don't you give me your stuff. Lilies of the Field. It's written. It's the end of the time. Blah, blah, blah. We're all going to die. And why don't you just give me your stuff if you really believe that. Yeah. He says, just more excuses, the cop out to sit on their arse and do nothing. So we'll expect that from a percentage. And hey, they'll be the first to sop up whatever it is in the way of freedom or liberty when the time comes after you've bled for it. We've watched this time and again. Same game, different day. So as it is, we have, of course, a number of other projects going on. and I would remind everybody we have the drawing that is now in motion for this week a $10 donation get your hat get your name in the hat five times no you don't get a hat you might get a hat I can't say that you might get a hat but again go to www.liberty3eradio.4mg.com go to the donate keys and just general donation using a PayPal account you use credit card and donate, get in on the drawing and on Friday we will be putting everybody's name in the hat. I will not have any control over that. That's completely under the control of ED. So all of you out there listening, $10, it gets your name in the hat five times, five times for the drawing. And what we're going to do is use this past all the costs to get the prizes, ship the prizes, et cetera. is going towards operations. There are certain things we just have to replace and we're just going to get it done. We've got a couple of computers that can be rebuilt to be matching dragsters and those will be for Ed's operation. We've got to get them down there. Plus we've got some additional hard drives to pick up. We're going to go with a little bigger beast this time. and provide the tools once and for all to keep us in motion a little longer. Everything wears out on radio guys. Can't stress this enough. We're running 24-7. Boards. Rack equipment, mixing boards, you name it, all the stuff that you use on occasion through the day is used non-stop. Those little wheels are turning, those little motors are humming, those little transistors are transisting, resistors are resisting, the diodes are dioding. By the time you're done at some point there's a weak link in the system that goes... And that's all she wrote. Doesn't make any big noise. There's no explosions like in the movies or smoke or gas. It's just... and then it doesn't work and that means we need to fix it. Don't take any washi as they say. Go ahead caller jump in there. What color are you going to paint the trash? Actually the first thing we're going to do we have a batch of lead based paint. Real lead based paint. This came from a company out of Indiana years ago. The one we bought a lot of the ferret armored cars from. The guy has caches, he has buildings full of lead-based tactical paint. The base color is the standard flat green. Then we go with the seasonal colors. In this case, we're probably going to go with a pattern that the 12th has used for a while, which is called an ambush pattern. It kind of looks like the German wolf pattern or the ambush pattern at the end of World War II. They used it, only it's in a woodland line. I don't know how you guys remember, but we had many different camo patterns that we've used for different theaters in the US military during the Cold War. It's going to look more like the mid-folded gap pattern. It didn't have the bright greens in it. It had more of the earth loams in it. It was the middle woodland pattern, kind of, but we do a little doppel rain pattern over it that works really well for Michigan. I don't have an example. In fact, if you look at some of our videos, you'll see some of the other vehicle painting patterns. If you look in a couple of our militia videos that are from several years ago, there's one piece of footage where you see at least one van that's in a camel pattern. That's in the Italian waterfront pattern, which we've done a bunch of vehicles in. And by the way, that's all house paint. If you use a house gun, if you're doing vehicles and you buy a clunker for a couple hundred or five hundred dollars and you want to dress it up, guys you don't have to use automotive paint. Use house paint! It works really well, unless you got some good lead-based paint and you want to do a lead coat, a couple of them, because that lead-based paint really sucks in all of your finish work, even if it's not too good. It fills in everything, helps to bond everything, and does a good anti-rust protection. That's why I like the lead-based paints first anyway. Then you can do a house base, a house cover, and that's latex. Now let me give you a little hint. World War II, Germany. When they went into the Eastern Front, they had this fantastic new paint formula they came up with for snow camo-ing the vehicles. The cool thing is that when they were done at the end of the season, they were going to be able to use a power washer to wash it off. Well, it turns out that that's a way, it was a latex paint that they came up with and the paint was a lot more durable than they expected. So, the paint didn't quite wash off the way they planned, but they did discover a few things about paints, which the paint industry kind of stuck with for a long time thereafter. So, don't tell me it hadn't been done before. It has. Okay. Which is kind of cool. Anyway, as a matter of fact, what's interesting about this is that most all of your house patterns, as far as the colors you need, they're already on the color charts. You use an ultra-flat, we use a flat paint and then tell them, put a little more flattener in it. And that gives you your base colors. But if you're doing like pickup trucks or Jeeps, or if you're gonna make a vehicle camouflage, rough it up, clean up all the rust, use the house paint on it. It's good for 30 years. They guarantee it, don't they? What kind of gun does this thing have on it again Mark? Well originally the Chafee, the way it originally was packaged, this one had originally a damaged gun tube on it which we got with the main fixture. The guys had already found a replacement 75mm main gun as far as the gun tube goes so it looks good. I don't know what the condition of the breaches are, but they had a number of different parts collected from scrap wrecks that they got from the junkyard and Jackson years ago. Years ago there was some really cool stuff north of me here. There was a yard that had about 800 to 1,000 armored vehicles. And the guy had bought a battalion of armor. And everything was carried away that could be carried away as quickly as possible by people who were thinking. This particular gun, or I should say this particular platform, remember the Stewart tank, everybody remembers the Stewart, that's kind of a boxy. We have a bunch of those by the way. We have a whole pile of Stewart's, I found those years ago. In fact, I had five of them in one place. What they used to do to demill those, well actually guys were cutting them up, is they cut the turret laterally from top to bottom in a few places. Those damage points had to be repaired, but in the process we upgraded the turrets anyway. So they were more like a later model Stewart. Well the Stewart was a light tank that we started out World War II with. By the middle of the war it was obviously known that the Stewart was outclassed. And so the model for the next light tank in a light, medium and heavy tank family was built, was put together, and that's the Chafee. The replacement for the Chafee was the M41 Walker Bulldog, which I really love. The Walker Bulldog is a kick butt tank. The Italians still have a bunch of them in service. They keep upgrading them. Nowadays it looks like a baby Abrams battle tank. It looks like an M1. and they haven't bought any new tanks, well they do buy new tanks, but they haven't got rid of all of the Airm 24's, they just gave it some new BS designation and put different armor on the outside so you're made to believe it's a mini Abrams, which is kind of cool. The 75mm gun good to a thousand plus yards easily of course doesn't have any on board laser fire control but uh... you know what everything else on board is in pretty good shape it was stored indoors leather shot typically the cases basic stuff organic stuff gets tired uh... the other thing is the phone padding and stuff that was underneath it that's tired because a lot of it some of the early synthetics uh... the optics they had collected in fact i even got a couple of periscopes about what uh... I think maybe 15 years ago. I knew where this vehicle was and what was being done with it. The periscopes and the optics, the sighting systems, they were all dollar basement stuff. I really could buy the optics for the Stewart and the Chafee for like $25. So these guys, and it was still in the cosmoly, it was from a company called Barnacle Wharf Trading Company. They burned out back years ago. But back in the day they were the best, cheap, old army surplus type of fields and fields of stuff business. And they had optics of all kinds. Well, they'd have sales every once in a while. And so I bought out most of the gun optics and mortar optics. And I got like 50 of the 81 millimeter mortar, you know, sighting devices. for like about $4 a piece. We bought every one of them they had when they put them on sale because they just had a pile of them and nobody really had an interest in them. It's all American built optics. The stereoscopic site system for the chafees were pretty reasonable and there weren't very many anyway that were from the Barnacle Wharf. There were a couple other companies that had them, they charged more. So, we upgraded and this stuff is sitting there, still in the cosmoline wrap, still in the original boxes, still in excellent condition. One of the groups they've got, they're Sherman, they have for instance, 3 spare motor packs, they've been collecting, a lot of people that do this, you know, they're collecting air before it's coming. Guys, their vehicles are completely operational, they've got spare tracks, anything that's oriented to the vehicle. I, you know, I route stuff that way myself. Right now, World War II periscopes, there's a couple companies that are selling them for like $4 and $5 a piece in the Cosmoline, never issued triple wrap the whole nine yards. Well, we're grabbing those and pointing out that's one of those things you're going to have to replace. That's why they made them, because periscopes get shot. Just from scrapping garbage flying around on the battlefield doesn't mean you're going to get punched straight through. It's the idea that garbage is, hey, the battlefield is a wrecking yard. It has little ticky things running around. It has big chewy things that will cut you open like there's no tomorrow. So you've got to be prepared for that. That's why spares and spares and spares. And we're not shipping our equipment overseas. We fight for Michigan. See, so we don't have to we know where we're going to be we're fighting here. We initially we're fighting here We'll be staying here. This is our piece of real estate So everybody engineers there, you know support equipment accordingly. We can always distribute it We've got haulers movers trailers and everything else but for the time being the squadrons or the different attachments the different elements are Oriented around total local local defense and they're where they need to be. They don't have to get called in They're already where they are on site We're not paranoid, you know, schizophrenic nutcases like the government, the annual retentive control freaks. We have everything. It's ours. You know, it's already in hand. And amazingly enough, you don't hear about anybody having any problems with this stuff, even though there's tens and tens of thousands of armored vehicles out there in the hands of the general population, which they don't talk about either. When they do, they try to make it sound unique. Big guys come on. People used to buy and sell stuff like this all the time. So, it's cool, I mean it's a really neat, this is one that again, it's in better shape than the average bear. It's not completely monument grade. We won't pass it by, I won't pass up a monument grade vehicle if I run into one. What's it got for, what's it got for that power mark and how fast it, does it really fast the ground? Well, the average, okay, any tank can do 45 miles an hour. How much maintenance you want to do later, or you know, I mean even older, our older armor, World War II armor, can comfortably do 25, 35, 40 miles an hour without any problem. I don't think there's anything that can't reach 45 miles per hour or convoy speed. How long it would do that would depend upon how well it's maintained. Example is that the Chafees and the Walker Bulldogs were what were called highly automotive tanks. Of course the Stewart was too. The Stewart was a nimble little beast and what you do with the Stewart is like what we do with the ferrets. You don't put more stuff inside the turret, you mount more stuff outside the turret. In other words, think about this, make like a bicycle or an I-frame that goes around, that fits, fixes onto the turret, articulate the front with a hinge, And whenever the gun manlet goes up with a gun that's in the manlet, be it a machine gun or a 37mm gun or whatever, whatever is mounted on the outside is lifted, you know, elevated or depressed when you lift the main gun inside. In other words, the gun manlet, which of course protects and shields the front of the turret. The cool thing is that you can mount anything on the outside you want, then you can do recoilless rifles, whatever you scavenge. You could even improvise so that you could take, for instance, a Viper anti-tank weapon. Rack mount one or two of them, which is what a lot of countries do as it is. Let me give an example of how you add on firepower to older pieces of equipment. If you look at these APCs that are over there in the Ukraine, but they've been doing this for years anyway, everybody has. If you'll notice, there's these funny little tubes on the roof. Well, those are recoilless anti-tank guns or they're, you know, rocket-fired throwaway disposable launchers. And they've adapted fixtures for them so that they can fire either closed up or they can fire with the loader, you know, with the commander, aiming and then activating the weapon system would, you know, hatch open whatever, depending on how old it is and what it is. So basically the same idea. The Chafee is a much bigger vehicle than the Stewart, for instance the Stewart, and then the Walker Bulldog is bigger still than the Chafee. The Chafee is about the size of the length of a four, three-quarter ton Ford van, only about one half wider. There's a way to think about it, not much, but a little more than wider than a van. They're street legal, technically. I mean like anything else, it's like mechanized. The power plant, they made a Ford power plant for it, International Harvester did too. For its day, the thing was a pretty neat little standard straight V-block engine. In fact, it's a standard truck engine. You can pull that engine out and it drops any dozen other engines into the RSN of a Chafee just like on a Bren gun carrier. Was it gasoline or diesel? Oh, gasoline back in the day. If we upgrade them, we go to diesel but we don't get rid of any gasoline engines. What we do with the gasoline engines is something that could have been done years ago and that's we we've already diaphragm all of the gas engine fuel tanks. If we're going to run with the gas, we run with the gas because it's economical for you know again horsepower you know for applied torque. That's the reason you keep a lot of them the way they are. And again, you're not supposed to knuckle it out. You're not a main battle tank. These things are designed to go in, backstab you, and then keep running moving. They're fast attack is how you treat them. Or if it's armor and it's heavy, but it's older, well it's kind of like what you're seeing in the Ukraine right now. I know if you watch all these videos, take a look where they're taking... They took all the monument tanks and have been standing up on pedestals in concrete for the last 30, 40 years. I've been talking about this already. The Ukrainians, the eastern Ukrainians resurrected all of those tanks. If you guys haven't been paying attention to that, go watch, go to YouTube and punch in some of the stuff you know like starting up old Russian vehicles. There's a number of different ways to find them but if you go and search it, they're starting up stuff that hasn't been started in 30 years guys. And not only are they starting it but it's running which I think is really scary. It tells you something about you see that there's an old thing the others used to laugh at the Russians because they use grade 3 diesel and they do what we call build basically the you go of Warsaw diesel, but it's what diesel originally intended crude rude and functional and They'll run forever. Well guess what those crude rude grade 3 diesel engines that the Russians built They've been sitting for 30-40 years parked in a piece of concrete. Somebody put some oil in them, lubes all the right parts, shoves some diesel fuel inside the tank, and... And then drives them. Not very far, because they don't want to drive them too hard until they've got everything cleaned up. But you know what? It's amazing what they're pulling the service in like they were bragging the one tank that they recovered with no optics. It's already knocked out, their arguments are, you already knocked out 27 pieces of equipment. It's paid for itself. Including fighting APCs or putting rounds on tanks. Now you don't stick around for something like that because you're not that fast. You're not that... It's not fast in the track. I've got to remind everybody something. Guys, it's... In a tank duel, remember that it's a matter of your turret and your optics and your ranging capability. How fast are you on the target? Now today we have laser range finders. You have thermal technology. What you do is you understand how to fight the dinosaur. I'm going to challenge you to this. Take a look at all these main battle tanks. Most of them have done away with all of the conventional stereoscopic optics that used to be on there as a standard. Or at least so that you have the ability to switch from electronics to man systems. Because they are on electronics and they have all these cool pieces of equipment, they have put what basically I call a bread box on the roof of the turret. There might be one bread box on the side of the turret, maybe, in some cases, but in most only one bread box that you have to worry about. Now let me point something out. In order for them to be able to see, don't you have to be able to look forward? Don't you have to be exposed? You can't have steel in front of optics, right? So whatever it is that's running their optics for their glorious thermal technology is in that bread box. It's got a glass front face on it. It may be ballistic, highly polished glass. It could simply be that they drop a shutter and all of that equipment is exposed. But I'm going to tell you something. With all the precision weapon systems that everybody has that can now put like a 30mm or a 20mm or whatever on target, I would be aiming for one thing and one thing only if I was underarmored but gunned up. and that would be that bread box. Everybody's fire on the bread boxes on every stinking vehicle they've got if you run into it. Smaller APCs just fire them up in general. Mid-size APCs just fire them up in general. But that bread box on those main tanks is the weak point on the dinosaur. If you poke the eyes out of the dinosaur, what good is he? You know that the Abrams loses that fire control mechanism. They've got a set of strap-on big old iron sights. that they're supposed to put on the main gun tube? Did you know that? They actually built a big set of iron sights and the commander is supposed to kind of line up that iron sight if they lose all of the tech that's, you know, again run through those collectors. Which is kind of crude and rude but better than guessing by just kind of lining up the gun tube. So I guess the iron sights are a good choice in G like Mark has said for years for all the optics. You better have an iron sight as a set of backups just so you can hit something. Now the thing is that what they've been doing is again cheat and beat. You know beat feet, fire, beat feet and run. You sight bore. You literally look right down the bore of the main gun. You set your vehicle so that you have reasonable cover and concealment. and when you fire it's always with a disadvantage to the enemy you fire on their arse, you fire on their flank and as soon as you fired you move if you fire again it's a covering fire while you're moving from the position but if you don't have all of the optics and all the aiming technology that the other guy has then you better be working on guile and you better be working on stealth and you better be working on highly automotive that means being able to perform know what your vehicle can do and know where your vehicle can do it. Most important is lighter armor can go places big boys can't and I don't care what they show you in the movies about tanks running over everything. Guys, they're not bulldozers and if they want to take a 70 ton tank and try to run through a treed forest or a place with a lot of junk, all the soft chewy stuff they have on the outside is going to take a beating or here's the thing, where does all that debris lay? It lays on spots where critical components are. So there's all kinds of stuff that they show you that you're not supposed to think through. Well, how the hell could he see the drive if the whole front glacis plate is covered with brick and wreckage? How can he even move? He might move forward a little farther based on assumption, but until somebody gets their hairy hind end out there and moves some junk off of those optics, they're basically covered in crud. So all the BS that you see, even with tanks, tanks have to think things through. The driver is so critical. An experienced driver is so priceless. The driver's job is to get you through things and he's a battlefield calculator all by himself. What he does is get you through the terrain calculated based upon his knowledge of the space available, what he needs, and the conditions before him. He is totally isolated from the rest of the crew in a tank. And Abrams, a T-72, I don't care what it is, but his job is to get you around and through the battlefield and he will do his job and based upon the orders given to him by the tank commander, the track commander, If he's going to do what he can the way he does it, then you're totally doing your job from that fighting turret as a totally separate project. Totally focusing on now, he's going to move me and keep me alive and get the vehicle to where it needs to be and to use the terrain. Remember, drivers are trained to use the terrain. More junk between you and what's flying across the battlefield is always good. Getting out there and exposing yourself, it's like thinking that you're going to do some kind of cowboy gun fight when in reality there's nothing fair about what you're going to be involved in. Fair doesn't work. Kindness is not applicable here. They're going to laugh about you and kill you if they can get back to the bar. Your idea is to kill them before they even think about getting back to the bar. So with light mechanized, it's stab and run, stab and run, and it's set up. It's not one action. It's like a group of people in a fencing contest with two teams on each side fencing. Infantry operations are this way, mechanized operations are this way. You might show your hind end as long as you don't show too much and you can get out of the way fast enough so that the bad guys are pissed and want to avenge your insult. Now that's a basic rule. If you can bring them into where your combined arms team, not just tanks, but infantry, mortar, artillery, indirect fire weapons of any kind, whatever you've got, everything and anything gets laid into that kill zone. And accumulative damage does count with armor because every little thing you rake off the outside that's breakable is something they probably needed. And that's another thing to remember, you know, like why would you use small arms fire on a tank? Well that's stupid because most people are not educated to our philosophy of anti-armor operations in World War II. The idea was that everything contributes and the more firepower you put on something the more damage you're doing. Vision blocks. vision slips in that case back in the war vision slips were the common in other words their eyeballs were lined up with that hole a bullet going downrange hey if I may not kill him but maybe I'll just hurt him if I wound him and distract him he's not doing his job a driver is part of a team a gunner is part of a team the uh the the commander is part of a team if I can spread the tank commander's brains all over the inside of the cupola I've done my job for the price of one bullet or for the price of one anti-tank round or 150 caliber round or whatever I got. Remember guys, you aren't going to see dynamic big billowing explosions. Something might just stop. Why? Because what's inside is dead. You know, most of this garbage about where you got to see billowy, flashy, bubbly explosions, I really would prefer not for the most part because don't you want the 20,000 rounds of 308 that's on board the tank? I do. Wouldn't you rather spread their brains all over the inside or suck their brains off? You know, in other words, there's all kinds of horrible stuff you can do. Where, you know, it might be messy on the inside, but you get all those cans of ammo and you get all those personal firearms and you get all those tank rounds which you then transfer over to the tanks you've captured. If you can help it, you don't want to brew them up. You want to knock them out. When they wake up, they'll be dead. Bare butt naked, hanging from a tree or buried face down in pig feces. No kindness to them at all. They plan on laughing and killing you. You better be laughing and killing them. Think that way. Anyway, mechanized operations with light mech, rack packs. Rack packs and always match up equipment. In other words, let me give you an example. If we're in this next war and you got Fords, Fords ride with Fords. But Mark, that's my truck. Trade with that guy that's got the Chevy because you got Chevys and everybody else has got Chevys and you got the Ford. Guess what? Fords run with the Fords. Chrysler's run with the Chrysler's. Think about it. Chevy's and GM's run with the Chevy's and the GM's. Why? Parts. It's a rat pack. If you've got to keep things running, you're not going to do a hodgepodge. Any time you can trade off with another unit to match their vehicles up, they'll get hold of orphans. You're going to get hold of orphans. start routing the orphans to specific units. I won't care. I might have done a whole lot of work on something or at least kept it up to snuff. But if I got another vehicle that I can trade out so that we're all around the same vehicle, if mine gets shot off from underneath me, the tires are still good on all the other vehicles in the column. all of the spare parts are going to get stripped off it. If she's tired and knocked down to the point where she can't be used, you strip that horse at everything and then you move it off to the side, kick it out of the way, hell you probably even scrap her to the point where by the time you're done, not even the bones are left. Remember, those are cavalry. That's what pickup trucks, that's what SUVs are. That's what those Jeeps are out there. If you had Jeeps, Jeeps are a bastard. They're an oddball man out. And I'm not ridiculing your vehicle, I'm just reminding you all guys that everything requires parts support. So all the Jeeps better be going together and even with the Jeeps, just like any of the other companies, you better kind of match them up even by year if you can. Why? Well, you start taking bullets and electronic components are going to be going wiggle wiggle on you and other small parts are going to start to go bad or get fractured or get pumped and perforated and folded, spindle and mutilated. And man, with this new junk they've got coming off the assembly line, everything is so heavily integrated, well you're going to need spare parts pretty quick. So think about it, you got big trucks, you keep all your Peterbills, you go more by power plant than anything. Whatever's under the hood determines what that truck goes to column wise. If you want large heavy-duty class A tractor, you want 2000 or older. Yeah, I mean, the computers are just so ridiculous. You don't want nothing with a computer, man. And that's not an accident. That's one of the things that we're going to have to take into consideration very quickly is the newer stuff we're going to use and then abuse. In fact, if it's newest and it's, you know, again, very user-unfriendly, it's a sacrifice. It's one of those that we're willing to put in harm's way because it's one of those things that you just can't maintain. It's not going to be reliable. It will be used and we'll keep using them as long as we can. We're not going to throw anything away. But we are going to have to prioritize and understand maintenance and support. The US Army Transportation Corps has entire divisions on this subject, guys. Let's put it this way. Like what I've been doing for years, when I used to be at the auction, I used to buy Dodge trucks for as little as $45 and $60 apiece. M-880s. Before that, well actually, there were other dodges. The 3 quarter ton weapons carriers, standard M37s, we were getting for about 150 to 160. The last one I bought was an ambulance. It was virtually pristine. It was beautiful. $265. Now, did I keep a 3 quarter ton here and an 880 here and a Chevy here? No. The 3 quarter ton weapons carriers all went to a particular unit in the middle of the state. Why? Because it's all common for parts. The M7-15s went to the north. Why? They're in deeper snow up to their eyeballs. The M7-15 is a jeep wagon here. Built during the Vietnam War, the trans-axle system was the foundation that's on the M7-15 jeep weapons carrier. 5 quarter ton, that's what 1 and a quarter ton guys would call them 5 quarters also. I was buying those for as little as $65 to as much as $200 a piece in very nice to in good to very nice excellent condition. Those all went to the same unit. The original big foot truck, that's the axles that were used. The axles off the Jeep Wagoneer slash the M715 and it ate your mama's Wagoneer. It was grossly over engineered for all categories for dark side of the moon driving. It doesn't go very fast. You're asking about speed? Most of our tanks can travel faster or could do a little faster like the Bren gun carrier can do the oh my god you're going this fast 55. The M7-15s could maintain about a 47 mile per hour speed with you know again for their weight and for their torque and the gear ratio for their drive axles. They were designed for cross country combat use, not for high speed road racing. But that's why they were so popular because again, they were Dana, they're all Dana underneath and Dana built these suckers like a brick dog house or like you were building something for a 5 ton truck. Now on the other hand Chevy Cuckvies or Chevy trucks When they first came out, we paid a couple hundred dollars a piece to three four hundred for those, a stupid price by comparison. The M880s, those all went to other units. The M880 Dodge Ram Truck, what that is, is the 1970 Square Body Ram Trucks. The five quarter tons all went into one group. We got crew cabs, we got single cab, short box. I had a bunch of short boxers which are really nice. I actually, I drove one of those for years. A lot of you know that with the three on the tree. The dodges all got stuck together. Why? Plant sixes, three eighteens, single barrel carburetors, all parts interchangeable. That's how you need to be thinking about this. Doesn't mean if you right now have a whole bunch of different vehicles and you've camouflaged three or four Fords and you've got two or three Chevys and you aren't going to run them. But start thinking about the idea that as you acquire more battlefield collectibles, you know, stuff that you can you can press into malicious service. Put the Chevy's with the Chevy's, put the Fords with the Fords. Just simply for parts availability with wreckage. If a vehicle is down, you're taking all the rubber, you take the batteries, you take the serpentine belt. If you got time to wrench stuff off the wreck, it comes off right there on the spot. Throw it in the, you know, I'll get back. The best utility carrier to have on board for stuff like that are milk cartons. When you rip stuff off an engine real fast throw in the milk cartons. The milk cartons don't fall apart, they can handle weight and they're great for throwing around and dragging around. So when you're doing fast recovery in the field, have the prep tools ready to make it work for you. Every vehicle should have an air system nowadays guys. I just went over to tractor supply. I just got all, I went over to the markdown section, I paid 99 cents a card and got all of the fixtures to rebuild twice over or three times over all of my air tanks here that I have. I can put brand new auto couplers, brand new connectors, tits, the whole nine yards, air pressure, air blowers, everything. Now why did I do that? Because for 99 cents I sure as hell can't build any one of those parts. But that's how people always say, well how could you build up a part of toolkit for every vehicle? By going bargain basement, but still getting pretty decent because better a tool that does something a little bit then you're you know sucking wind and you know having to share a tool between five vehicles doesn't work. Plus if you're patient nowadays, here's the thing like here in Michigan. We're in the middle of auto land Okay, we used to be America the maker now America the stealer and the taker Well back when we were makers everybody bought tools and right now at the resale shops and such grandpa and grandma's toolboxes are coming in left and right there are tools showing up that are virtually immaculate American hard steel you can buy them for less than you pay for China sport junk and you better be buying all you can. I grab every pair of pliers, every pair of channel locks, every box wrench I can find, especially the old forged American plain Jane, you know, not even chrome, just phosphate finish. Why? Because I can divide them up and make tool kits for each of the vehicles and everybody's got wrenches. And ratchets now if I need ratchets go over to tractor supplier Harbor Freight You can buy some great combo stupid there. They're goofy. They're not going to be available forever They've got one. That's a great tool for you guys with heavier machines or trailers It's got a pin guide. Okay a whole guide a pin a pin driver on one end for the handle and it's got both a half-inch and three-quarter inch Ratchet drive on the other end in fact it's got two sizes smaller and you know mid-size, mid-size and larger and they're like eight dollars. The tool is priceless especially if you're running trailers all the time. It allows you to guide and you know run that stick that pin guide through there to line everything up, shake it with your arm, do some Armstrong, run your pin through, put your set key on the other side. Congratulations, you're going down a road. You've got something that needs to be tightened down like a keeper or connector. It's got a wrench. You grab a cheap set of box to go with it, of sockets. And you're ready to go, kids. All of you should be like this right now. If you're doing Christmas, Christmas better be ammunition first. and Christmas better be tools or things that will make useful down the road. Give tools to people who may not necessarily use them even. Who cares? If they don't want them, down the road you know where they are to get them. That doesn't sound very... That's just Christmasy's I can say right now. Ho ho ho, Merry Christmas. I spent some money on you. You're not happy? Learn to use the tools I gave you. If not, I know where they are. I won't tell you that part, but you know what? Merry Christmas. Christmas this year should be heavy. It should be metal. It should be ammunition. It should be magazines. If you know a person's got a certain weapon, buy them some magazines. If they aren't going to use them, you'll be able to get them back. Buy them tools. Go over to the markdown section. My God, right now, there's stuff down there because, again, all these companies and stores are run by a computer. Go clean out their clearance section. You can come up with a really nice combination of stuff in terms of ratchets, wrenches, guides. One is a crescent wrench on one end and a guide on the other. There's another way to be able to adjust all of your keepers for your trailers and everything if you're doing like half ton or three quarter ton trailers behind your vehicle. You got to re-sitch, you got to be able to lock everything down. There you go, the tools are there. Get a set of those, put them in your kit, keep them in your vehicle. They should be part of your recovery operations too. But a pneumatic or air tank, being able to disassemble what's on your vehicle real fast. Plastic containers with lids, peanut butter containers, stuff like that need to be ready. Why? Well you're going to go in, in, in, in, in. in, goes in the cup, put the lid on it. Now take that water pump, that fuel pump, that pump off or whatever parts they are, put them right in that milk crate along with the containers, with the nuts, bolts and screws. You'll figure it out later, but you're stripping because you're in a hurry and you've got to get down the road or you're trying to get out of the line of fire, but you're recovering everything you can. What made the German Army so dynamic for their size? You want to know what it was? For their armored units, every tread head in the German Army would tell you it was the recovery units that made their tanks seem like there were a hundred more than actually existed. They were better than anybody else at recovering and turning around armor or stripping the dead, so to speak. If a vehicle was knocked out, there wasn't anything on it they didn't carry away. They left a big square chunk of metal behind. If at all possible, everything was scavenged. They ran off used spare parts. in a battlefield situation you'll be doing the same thing and have to think the same way. I wanted to touch on something else but this is important because we got to start thinking about sorting. Out at the Bundy Ranch they've got a fleet of pickup trucks up on the hill that would be available for on-site use. Had things continued the way they were we were already planning on going out and we weren't going to take any vehicles with us. We were going to ranch those trucks up on the hill back into service. There's two reasons for that. Number one, available material on site. Things don't rust out in Nevada any more than they rust in Arizona. So the advantage would have been, number one, vehicles available that already ran but had some stupid thing wrong with them they didn't have time to fix. Now what you do is you bring them back online, you house paint them OD green or in this case earth brown with some other camo pattern. And when you're done you leave them there. It benefits the owner and it benefits you while you're in deployment. If you get into a fight, you've got support vehicles, wheeled vehicles to get the job done. Now remember, out of your transports, you need ambulance and medical support vehicles included in every formation. A medical support detachment. A lot of you guys have been medics in the military, you know how that works. Medics are assigned. A medical detachment is assigned for support. Well, if you've got medical support people, you need to start hunting down either Ford 3 quarter ton vans or vans of any kind, mini vans, full size vans, or pickup trucks that could have boxes put on the rear end. Build ambulances. Strip them out on the inside, clean them up, get all the sharpie points and stabby points covered back up and engineer the thing to be a transporter to get people out, but also to put what you need to the front to keep people alive. Medics, that's your job. 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