Have you tried VIP membership yet? That's the best way to enjoy your favorite music with higher quality sound and no commercial interruptions. Hey, free mobile apps included. Learn more at live365.com slash VIP. Live 365. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations this legacy we gave. In this the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. But tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone. Your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money'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 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... 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 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 to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave is to still the land of the free and home of the afternoon intelligence report on our kirky and i'm done better one-day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines that occupied territories west southwest central and uh... ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us liberty tree radio dot four m g dot com indiana freedom talk radio dot com ronald michael micro station will be the base station and all throughout net technology is and west of the mississippi along with all last uh... well ladies and gentlemen you're listening to us on liberty radio dot for m g dot com uh... right now we're also on a new Some reflector right now that is part of the alternate technologies out in Oklahoma. So good afternoon. This is an odd arrangement running off one of the other feeds, but we want to say good afternoon. And yes, if you're listening, you can also hear us on libertytreeradio.4mg.com. We are on alternate hallmark and Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska and that's 24-7 Independent from all the other mechanisms that we use out there Don it is gray today. It has been a interesting day uh... got learned a few things that i didn't expect only because i was seeking out technology more on that in a minute it is communications to stay what's today today what's it look like up there in your neck of the woods and what's jumping off the wall please hey it is the third day of work here of our lord two thousand and fifteen and as you pointed out market must be great across the state because it sure gray here and the sky almost looks like the snow in the distance kind of day But hey, I'm not complaining. How does that go? It's another beautiful day at any rate. It is a communication. Sounds like you've got some stuff you want to do, Mark. Well, I'll tell you what. Interestingly enough, Don, this morning I started out with a call to the Ukrainian people. You know, the Western Ukrainian people are being cattle driven by the Shysters, the Oi boys from outside their country. And for those of you who may have been listening this morning, it is in the archives by the way. I just asked a basic question, why are you putting up with this garbage? You know, a year ago Ukrainians weren't killing Ukrainians. Rise up my brothers, rise up my sisters. Turn to Kev and route the buggers out. Well about noon today, something happened Don. Yeah. Well it's turns out that a whole bunch of people showed up at the capitol building got past a couple years of defense course now the the new secret police are not to be confused with the old secret police with the regime but the new secret police who are the same batch of secret police that worked for the are you well the way it was the other secret police only not being run even more so by the israelis etc well apparently a bunch of people are demanding the uh... no expulsion of certain individuals in government I don't know who was listening. This might be what fired people up, I hope, because calling for the extraction of another Ukrainian unit that has been encircled and is being choked to death. Now, remember, guys, these are militia units that are fighting the Ukrainian regular army controlled by the Western Shyster Bankers, the Quadriplegic Homosexual Escamole Pedophiles. and uh... of course you know what we have to describe the quadriplegic homosexual pedophile international show you know israeli bankers and everybody knows it there has to do it actually i don't know if you caught this he probably didn't go to work on american television except maybe an archie It was flat out stated by the opposition slash the crew that are on the eastern side that these characters are the most miserable examples of the Jewish population that are over there running the slave as slave drivers like they did back in the day, guys. They picked up on that. I hope they are paying attention. They know exactly who's who in the zoo. Individuals that are in charge of operations for both of the districts that are fighting as the Eastern Ukraine by the way, they also called for an additional 100,000 men to step forward because they've got to put up where they need to to get rid of the problem. Since they're on the positive end now, beating down the Western invaders from Western Europe and the United States, they're not Ukrainians. Right now they're being slave-driven by the Israelis and we're funding it and the Western Europeans are funding it too because they've all got their little short hairs being pulled. Well, a lot of people are kind of receiving through the facade and they're not going to play maybe 1925 all over again. We'll see what happens because right now it's winter and they've got all kinds of heating and eating problems and they didn't have those a year ago. Not at all. Not until the Shysters came in from outside. If I were the Ukrainian people in general, I'd be hunting Shysters right now. I would be looking for every international banker I could hunt down, and they've got lots of weapons. Hell, you ought to see all the SBD sniper rifles that are showing up in these images, Don. Which I would point out something we haven't really talked about that much, but... The SVD is basically in every squad. Now different units are organized in different ways, but every squad has at least one SVD in it. If not two, kind of like you got, let's see, you got two RPGs, you've got at least one, but preferably two, which are permanent launchers, guys, those aren't throw away. And then you got two SVD sniper rifles, and then don't forget you got two RPK men, one for each fireteam, and then the rest are riflemen, which means that you're really a cutout numbered with special weapons, you're heavy. So the SVDs are out there in force, and I think they make quick work, better than throwing rocks like when everybody's fighting amongst themselves, you know, a little less than a year ago when everybody thought that they were gonna, you know, get over whoever was in, you know, Kev at the time. So, there's a lot of stuff going on over there. But again, I want to say hi to all of our friends listening. Good job. 100% the first time, didn't quite make it. You're demanding to be on the national air on the national television through the President's Office, Premier's Office, Barrow's Office, Commissar, whatever the hell his name is. He just made puppet like bummer for the Israelis right now. And they want a bunch of people fired. The problem with that idea from the western side is will they have anybody that's kosher approved? If they don't have the kosher stamp of approval for being commissar puppets for the new communist commissars coming in and running west Ukraine, what will they do? So, they're probably not going to fire them. And part of it is that, again, they're embracing the kosher mafia commissar from the rear, you know, demanding everything from the men up front, slave driving them, cracking them, you know, cracking the whips, like the overlords in Lord of the Rings. Remember when they were talking about, you know, about forcing the orcs forward? Well, that's what the kosher mafia is over there in Europe. And they want to do it here, too. And they are doing it to a degree like they did World War II and a lot of other events, too. So, you know, just those overlords are getting so pissed. On the other hand, both sides of the Ukrainian population aren't exactly happy either because they're starting to look at these characters sideways out of Kevin, understanding that they aren't Ukrainian to begin with. There's always been a percentage of the population that's had Russian ties. There's always been a percentage of the population that's had German ties, which nobody talks about, by the way, because Back in the day, way, way, way, way deep back in the history, I've got some really fine maps we printed up years ago, it used to be that like the western part of Ukraine and that area when the population was a lot thinner, this is back about the same time as old Kingus was running back and forth over the landscape. The Germans went east the way we went west. And there wasn't anybody that wanted to be out on those steps in those plains, guys. That's the only sound you heard most of the year. No trees. Prairie, though, great place to grow things and tend herds. And that's why the Germans went east, the Germanic populations. And nobody has any real working or understanding history. They should spend some time a little bit and work at it. And so then you see the joining point with what happened with the Ukraine. And interestingly enough, it's been back and forth. Don't forget the Swedes had their chance. The Poles warded over everybody for a while. The Poles are trying to get into the warding over everybody, but more like a cheap prostitute for the Israelis now. They are being bought and paid for. That is sad. The Polish should know better. But I guess you wait long enough after World War II, after 1940, you can get screwed the same way again. A whole bunch of those memories die. Yeah, literally. They were all executed by the Communists, the Commissars who were all Jewish. They executed all those Polish officers and enlisted men. Well, they went down a long shopping list, killed even the Boy Scouts and veterinarians and everybody else, kids. You have glasses? You're going to die. You look pretty. You're going to die. You're a handsome man. You're not my cousin or my brother or a communist. You're going to die. Yeah, because that way the epitome is the, well, you know, Blatsenstein and he ain't so pretty. Those buck teeth and that little tiny chin and the big schnoz and the bad ears. Well, that's the epitome of what you should be looking forward to because They're going to kill off all the rest of the regular people out there. Those in bread commies. They keep the ones with three front cheeks behind the scenes. Or the second row of shark's teeth. Which by the way does happen with that road crew from Deliverance inbreeding guys. I don't know if you're familiar with that. Just a little thing about some of the stuff that came out of the Warsaw ghetto and stuff way before. anything else happened with World War II. Like I said, rogue crew from Deliverance, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah, nah Well again, for everybody out there, the fascinating thing about this is, take a look. There's a few scrolls out there and some stuff running around about what happened in the Ukraine. And you might want to check it out. A few people have been talking about it in the different social media. So we'll find out more progressively as we go. And let's see, one, two, three. What else we got going here before we're going farther down? Oh, uh. AtlanticFirearms.com, want to remind you, just in case our friends that were asking about this before weren't up with us at the time, Atlantic Firearms, they have AK-74, you know, the breaths of doom, the double beta type mags with the AK-74 fixture, so they will work in your AK-74. So there you go, there is a drum available for the AK-74. It's AtlanticFirearms.com. They want $99.99. I'll put a penny in there. $100. Okay, that's close enough. That's $100. But hey, you were looking for a drum. There you go. That's A-solution. So go to www.AtlanticFirearms.com. AtlanticFirearms.com. Now, since we're on solutions, it is Communications Tuesday, by the way. But I would remind you all that in the meantime, Don has some first-gen night vision that has been made available. We're harping on it for a reason. Can't offer anything else. The green screen. We can offer white screen. I know that you've all been talked we talked about that extensively down. What do we have available? What's it looking like on the horizon there with this particular item and how can we get hold you if we're interested? Well Friday we had sick I'm certainly have a smaller number, but then again we have a couple perhaps three cases coming in so Monday perhaps today. They're there and that would be 20 or 30 pairs of the generation binocular five power. It is a two tube one power source. We've addressed this, the body is one piece. Trying to separate it and turn it into a couple of pieces. I can get you probably two first, well I can't get first generation anymore. So I can't really say that. Again, it's a first generation binocular. It is five power, it has on board smart technology, so if you set it in the right mode when you bring it up to your forehead, it'll turn on automatically. It does that with an infrared sensor that's going to leave a little red dot on your forehead, but you can delete that function and turn it on and off manually. So you leave the little red dot on your forehead inside the machine, never comes out. So that's a good thing. Some of the smart technology, when the company first came out with that and GunSight Smart, that was the only way it would come on and off. So you always had that red dot on your forehead, and that's not good at night, is it? Well, an infrared dot, you know, invisible to the naked eye. First generation pair of binoculars, you guys, again, five power, just over two and a half pounds. These are the equivalent of the Russian tank commander binoculars. They're just in a different body. You might remember those around Y2K in a big green case, and they looked a lot like daylight binoculars. Well, the body's a little different, but they're coming up the same. If you want to talk about that device, my number is 2317. 9, 8, again, 2, 3, 1, 9, 6, 5, 8. We can talk about goggles or gun sights or green screens or thermal, but again, you guys, this is a small window to get a first generation piece and, again, a binocular. Mark, you've talked about the use of binoculars like LPOP. It's not something you're going to want to, you know, run across the field with your binoculars in one hand and your handgun in the other. Sometimes you can get away with that with a binocular. That's why I mention that, you know, For close ranges it's the point and squirt kind of deal and well you can identify the target because of the monocular in your hand. That'll be a little bit harder to do with two and a half pounds in your hand than even trying to keep it level to each eye. But for LPOP, for observation, even for vehicle motion as long as you weld through a window down. We've talked about if you're inside a vehicle and Well first generation you're going to want to go to an inside a vehicle and you turn on the illuminator. All you're going to see is the illuminator on the window in front of you and it will light up the whole inside no matter which way you turn. It's not a good proposition. That's why I mentioned the window down for a traveling vehicle or again moving, looking through the port in the roof of the vehicle. Again, the high power station you guys. I don't know how long we'll have them. I wish I could secure a case of them but I don't have that ability. If you're looking for a pair, give me a call. My number is 3-1-7-9-6-8-4-5-8. Thank you, Mark. Very good. And then again, for everybody out there, this is another tactical solution. Binoculars have their applications, again, for team leaders, LPOPs, and other field forward groups or institutions. In escape and evasion or exfiltration for larger non-combatant formations, A greater distance and depth and visibility to scan an area that you may be moving through is a plus. Remember that typically when we move personnel in mass like that, we will use a cross formation. Now some might go to a six point, but at the very least what we have is a forward team that is the Pathfinder group. We have a left and right flank forward, and then we have a rear guard operational. Now the rear guard is typically strong. In the past rear guards would be a couple of two man team or maybe just one fire team. But we put a force strength option to the rear, obviously for rear guard support in its traditional mission. But that's why we have the advance parties forward. We don't lose, or it's less likely to lose as many people with a flanking operation when you're moving non-combatants or casualties through an area where there's possible contacts. Not probable, but possible. Either way, the cross system means the left and right flank units, the fire teams or squads are parallel and offer reasonable distance from fires so that they are able to again hold or block while the main body responds. There are a number of different techniques for that. We're not going to get into it. But by being able to see farther with a pair of longer range monoculars or your rifle sights, your more powerful rifle sights used one in each team, just that one device. changes the umbrella of observation that you have available. Remember that if you haven't made contact, freezing and locking your force down, dropping them into a concealed position, having everybody take cover and freeze motion, eliminates sound, and eliminates the probability of light and other exposure, physical exposure, obviously being the first and greatest concern. Remember, motion brings interest. But, to have the pickets left, right, forward, and back, we have the ability to respond accordingly. Now, why do we have that over-strength bottom base for the cross to the rear? Well, in the event that any contact mate takes place left and right, It's the mission of that base security element to work as a strike group, a mobile contact group. The left or right flank frees, create attention, draw fires as the aggressor would have made contact, then we create a mobile L ambush. and the stronger force to the rear can slap and sweep through that particular element creating interlocking fires from two different directions which of course is a scissoring effect and the objective is destruction of the contact group. This may mean changing directions and there are a number of other options. We won't get into that right now but the objective behind this is to take advantage of observation and then have good discipline with both the pathfinders, the security elements, and the team leaders moving the non-combatants or medical personnel and casualties. One of the techniques that's been used quite successfully, we practice this with women and children bringing whole families out and training 200 or 300 people at a time. How to dismount, how to mount, how to move, the whole nine yards, guys. And again, don't forget, everybody is a combatant. If the enemy gets hold of you, they're communists. They plan on murdering you. Your life in a FEMA camp is going to be very short before it's life in a FEMA ditch. And slash globalist ditch. We know how that works. We've seen enough of history to know exactly what the agenda is. Dying by inches. Then perhaps a quick bullet or that funny little flavory food that doesn't taste right and then bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bloop bl So, again, we train everybody and cross train everybody in the different tasks. Even if groups are broken down or separate, the idea is to know the area of the path of advance, basically, and then to exfiltrate out in smaller teams if needed. But the night vision technology, especially using cover of darkness, proper concealment, that's overhead cover and terrain cover. We don't move across an open field. open fields are not where you need to be. All those propaganda videos they always show of them, you know, gunning everybody from the air, is always with people in open fields. Why? Because it's harder to see people with obstructions. So for propaganda purposes, to do that feudal resist, you'll be absorbed. You have to have those farmers in the open fields that you machine gun to death at night, of course. That's their job. That's what that's the propaganda thing strike one up again. They got a tractor and they got some farmers who? Anyway a couple of things here too with regard to night vision technology is again guys husband what we have a Bunch of night vision videos just went out. We have another wave of packages that are gonna be going out. Well actually Nancy we have shift them up today I don't know yet, but if not, they'll be gone tomorrow and we have Another batch of text going out, including one batch of training videos, another classroom package. Whatever we send out, when you get it in the mail, copy, copy, copy. We expect, okay, just that simple. Anyway, Don, anything in particular, jump in there, please. We've got you for the, and still for half hour. Communications Tuesday, you guys. We've talked about this before, but you know, there's a number of ways to do this, but Even a piece of night vision can be involved in communications. When you're working across ground where you've been there before, so you know that someone can be in a certain place and you can be in another place and there is a line of sight, certain date, you piece of night vision at that location over there and you read the blip. Now they could be, it could be a laser just up it's counting like Morris Code or left or right. It could be even an infrared LED at the bottom of a tube is pointed at the other site so the people not interested or they might be way too interested don't get to see that light. We've talked about this before that's just another thing that you can do with your night vision other than just you know look around people, snakes. If you develop this system it's a way as long as it's a line of sight you know hey you can really narrow that down to where it can only be seen by well a couple of minutes of angle from someone a great deal of sense of way. If you know that someone can be, you are here at X time and they know to look here, and they know to look, it works both ways. This can be a two-way communication. The signal, which is because if they were to apply a computer to something eventually, there's a movie out now about busting. codes, the Enigma machine that the Germans built, bunches of rotary dials stacked together, and what is the number of the day or the letter that would start the whole key. Apply most any code to another computer, well eventually the computer, if it's not witnessed, if it's not intercepted, granted this is a line of sight thing, I can't talk from my house to Mark's house like this. It's the difference between strategic isn't there Mark? Oh absolutely, yes. So again, in a tactical situation for short range, we don't want to talk across the state. This might be a good solution. We've talked about this in so many different ways and I've brought this encouragement up. You can just bump around on the Internet. You guys do a search would be a more proper way to put that instead of just bumping around on the Internet. It sounds like you're stumbling and, oh, ran into a Greek column there. Who put that stone there? Do a search for American hand signs and there's hand signs that go with word everything, but do a search for American hand signs for alphabet. Now we talk about strategic and tactical. You could use that communication as example in the desert, some places like 50 miles away from mountaintop to mountaintop or some places in the Ozarks. You get my drift there, right? It's just a far can you see. Sometimes you might look right over there at somebody and you don't want to yell, but there's just enough light. Or maybe you're in the broad daylight, but you can see your friend there. Through a small hand motion, you can communicate. No radio signal, no yelling, no screaming. Man, you're making plans right there. You're making plans just by wiggling your hand. Now, we've encouraged that over the years. We haven't brought that to the hour in a good long time. keep you busy for a while in the winter time, sitting down and studying those American hand signs with a friend until, man, you can sit there and talk by moving your hands and fingers. That out loud. Communications Tuesday, isn't it? I'll wiggle my fingers for a few a week copy. Well, you know, one of the things here, again, that we mentioned, a couple of the companies out there right now, especially after Christmas, are moving inventory. One of the things I have not seen as much of, but we do need to keep an eye on, are Marktones on hand-helds right now. We're into February, the economy is soft, this is the best time to buy when it comes to technology like this. Plus, remember the new inventory, quarters coming up and stuff gets moved in. The only thing is that a lot of people have been grabbing up the personal radios and have them on standby. But if you watch the truck stops, and I just checked things the other day here and today, there are some neat little buys especially in those two double sets, handheld, not too expensive radios. Some of them are fixed channels. They have like 20 channels, 22 channels. They're not CB. They're typically FM, although there are AM and of course VHF, UHF varies. You have to pay attention to that. But all the information on the radio is typically in the little plastic bubble card. You can't rip it open, even with your teeth. You gotta have a knife. They're secure in the package. In fact, the environment that's inside there came from Communist China, the factory of doom, wherever they were built. But the cool thing is, because of that, if they've been sitting on the shelf, it makes no difference. But it's last year's model! What? Like it's gonna go stale? Okay, excuse me. Okay, so here you've got a situation where there's some pretty good equipment out there, as we were saying, short range, and intermediate range that's actually proven, simple, easy for that individual to handle, so there's no confusion when things are critical. See, this is another thing we talked about over and over again, is do not over-complicate your training. Simplify standard operating procedures always, guys. Remember that the British and even the American system for loading a rifle, a musket back before the American War for Independence and at the beginning took anywhere from 14 to 22 steps depending on whose idea that was. It was purely an arbitrary thing, part of, oh, I think we should do it this way, or do it this way. Well, in reality, if you take a look at the average mountain man out there, he wasn't counting numbers, he was counting grizzly bears. There wasn't a whole lot of cowying involved here. It's like, oh god, oh god, oh god, reload, oh god, there we go, I checked up, boom. Okay, and then oh wait a minute. He's still coming so you don't get him down that went off his frontal plate Yeah, forehead that next one better be ready and don't worry the pistol was already primed as in my belt and that's going into him if if if he keeps coming after this second one and I might get it in there I might not then obviously the pistol the tomahawk the fighting knife and everything else better be used because mr. Bear's got a whole bunch of big old claws Okay, now all I'm regret is the birds. There's big old Browns and his black bird They are all pretty motivated when the time comes. So, with that being the case, there was a very different process which always awed both the British and even the Germans to a degree when they met militia units that really didn't have any regimented conditioning for their firepower. However many bullets you could put down range as fast as you could depending on what you bought determined that these crazy wild-eyed Americans are almost like they were carrying machine flint locks. And again, three rounds in one minute was not unheard of. Especially if it was not command oriented. By the numbers, one! And of course then two, then three, then four, etc. No. Instead, first volley fire, and then the order just simply to reload, get motivated and move. And everybody did. Now the other half of that is taking cover. Well, if you recall, again, because of that little technique of independent fire, combined with what we have now in the way of independent communications, we have still the same basic rule in place with regard to militia today that we had back then, or independent fighting formations, whatever name you want to use for them. Really, those main words are militia, but they can try to slip around the corner by calling themselves something else. The bottom line is that by having the less expensive technology available in one area, we're able to force multiply our potential for being able to put energy where we need it. That's one of the other things about saving money in one direction obviously brings us up in another. With the sale items, the biggest thing you've got to watch, guys, and I've mentioned this before, it's happened about four years ago, a little under four years ago. A bunch of FRS radios showed up that were burgundy, blue, and gray. Of course, everybody started picking the gray ones because they were more of a tactical color. But the big thing is that people just snatched up every card that was there. There were two radios to a card. But they weren't reading what was on there because these had specific frequency potential. And while they might have gotten nine radios, and they did get them for a good price, so they didn't lose any money because marked down, they were originally like $38, and they were marked down to $11.95. So for $11.95, you got two handheld radios. We'll do the math on that. You're talking $6 a handheld radio. That's a lot better than shouting, Don! You know, so guys right off the bat you were a little jump ahead. The other thing is that these radios do take, typically all of them, very few of them don't, they have an earbud connector which means they can do an ear set or a handset system and typically have both the mic and the earbud. So you have a double connector, you can buy these from deal extreme. Well now you've got a tactical headset system where you have V-O-X and you can talk. The only problem is if you get hit and start screaming everybody's going to hear that too. So, V-O-X is cool, but something's not so much. Okay, especially if the person won't think to shut his radio off. Remember that did happen at Waco. And because of that, it was very demoralizing for the assault troops when they kept hearing more and more people screaming in the radio. And then more and more people that wouldn't shut up, and they kept jamming frequencies by... Yeah, begging for help me, Frank. Help me. So that's not good. So again, there are pluses and minuses. You need to prepare everybody for that. Well, simplification in the design is part of the tie-in to success. So in many cases, especially if you've got new recruits coming in or new units that you're building up, I would point out that you have different tiers of equipment for that reason. The individuals coming in should receive the Platts OK 402 as opposed to the Albatross III and they're certainly not going to get a focal triplane. You know what I mean? Yeah. Now if you don't understand the reference guys, in all these movies I've talked about you notice Flyboys. It looks really cool, Don. I mean it does. Flyboys was really neat. But guys I hate to tell you, no single unit flew one of everything. You know like the same model one model, okay like all the Germans were always flying poker drive planes unless they were flying the gotha bombers, okay? But that's not how it worked and the plats was kind of like the well It was the Pontiac or Chevy of the fleet and it would stay when it came out It was you know cutting edge against its counterparts The Albatross, the Albs, there were Model 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and more. The Albatross was upgraded based upon engines and other improvements, but the basic design didn't change. Then the Fokers came in, and there were a lot of planes. I'll point out the Fokers, D7, the last model made, indicates there were obviously six models before and certainly there was. The Fokker Triplane being one of them and not the only one. One of them was an I-indector. Yeah. Think about that. Well, monoplane, yes. Now that again, for those people out there, think about that. Those aircraft were never thrown away because there never were enough planes and there, well, always were new pilots. And there was a lot more new pilots and then some more new pilots. Well, a new pilot had to gain his flying time, guys. Had to earn his wings, so to speak. So you put him on a plane that was patched up that still worked. It was combat worthy, but if you lost the new pilot and you lost the tired plane, you didn't lose much. See how that works? Well, kind of sad, but it's really how things are. Well, there's another reason. There's a learning curve. And progressively the person will build up experience, build up time on the stick, etc. Well, the same is true with radio equipment, weapons systems, and any other support technology you have. If you have a new unit coming in, and again, granted, eventually you'll be picking up second gen and third generation night vision off your enemy corpses, You'll buy it, possibly. Some of you already made that decision. But first generation may go to, as you build up resources, would go to your new people coming into the system. Your less sophisticated, simpler weapon systems go to those with less experience. And the reason for that is KISS. Keep it simple, stupid. Across the board. Well, the radio equipment works the same way. Programmable, multi-button, multi-facet, multi-function radios for a person who's right now kind of panicking can barely get their magazine into the magazine well. Well, then giving them a radio that's a little grossly over complicated while they're busy having to think about all the other things they have to do. First, we want to get them focused on the idea of mission and what needs to be accomplished. And then we need to give them a little time on the, shall we say, the range, I mean the live fire range, as in the, hey, when you shoot, they shoot back. And so focusing on minimal action, you know, again towards maximum end result is why you would have a battery of radios, you know, a bank of radios that would be the simpler system. They would be tied into your more sophisticated command radios which can deal with both that green unit that's coming into the system, but also talk to the other formations or units, squads, platoons, that have more sophisticated technology and the experience to run them. with weapon systems you don't give anybody a full-auto weapon if you can help it to begin with that's my attitude period I don't care who the hell it is for the most part because again we've only got so much in the way of resources but we start out especially with individuals coming into the system even if you had more of a glut of AKs or M16s progressively M4s whatever goofy name you want to give them now but they're still it's just an M16 with a shorter barrel hacked down barrel. Oh well. Anyway, whichever you do, you give the new people coming in the simplest and most straightforward of design. No extra doodads, no extra complication, not even a laser sight. The reason we need them to focus on the basics, we want them to focus on getting the weapon to function, putting the round on the target, using the sights, practicing rifle marksmanship. We then can progressively graduate them cycle by cycle upgrades through the process if available. We may progressively decide that certain individuals will stay with certain weapons systems while others may graduate as it can be determined what their potential or quality of performance is. But radios, they still need to be able to talk, we need to be able to withdraw the men, we need to find out if we have a casualty, in other words, we've got a man down. Certainly the team leaders will be keeping an eye on everyone, but the battlefield is a busy place. So having communications and the ability to talk to each other is a plus, or at least listen. Now, let me give you an example of that. Everybody remember when the personal radios first came on to the military circles, what they did? How many of you remember about the middle of Vietnam when the receiver transmitter separate systems were developed? The receiver was mounted to the helmet, guys. Well, that's cool. That's like Star Wars. Yep. It was mounted to the steel pisspot. As a matter of fact, that's how old it was. which is not old but it's all for you young guys coming out who were to steal over the stupid really i'll take any home in the storm anyway uh... they would hook up the receiver to the helmets and kind of like the russians with gas masks for the regular soldier doesn't get a voice matter but the sergeant the officers do well we did the same thing on our side even so it's not a brag up where we gave everybody a receiver And then the NCO and the officers had the transmitters and the receivers. The transmitter being a separate radio unit that would actually hook up onto your web gear. You typically put the monitor down to the left side where your flashlight would be. Uh oh, we have Darth Vader in there. Don, you okay? Oh yeah. Anyway, I just wanted to share where it was coming from. Anyway, with that point, I would remind everybody again that we've gone one step farther than back in the 60s and into the 70s when these radios were committed and used, and I used them quite extensively. Now, they were designed to give shorter range, squad control. Everybody always asks me, well, why are these things only about a mile range? Well, because if I gave 5,000 of them out, do you want to hear some sergeant's order from, say, three miles to your right? repeat who is this? See how that works? Kind of confusing when you get to hear five different commanders or five different NCOs giving you five different orders, right? And granted you might tell the difference between the voices, but you'd still be in a little bit of a confusion. So that's the other reason for less powerful transceivers and why these little handhelds in many cases are actually a blessing as long as we again understand we don't want you two or three miles down the road. As a fighter team of five men, we better be in close proximity to each other. In fact, the next thing that comes up is whether or not we would power down the radio. Now that can be done by lifting the hood and a lot of equipment and actually powering back. But let me give you an example of someplace where you've seen this and probably most of the time you didn't use it because you wanted power. Remember the golden age of CB Don? Oh yeah. Now back in the day guys you might have had even on the cheapest radios, I don't care what it was, there was a little switch. You guys all might remember it was a toggle switch. It said broadcast and local. Well what was that all about? If you hit the local, the transmitter reduced output and it kept it say car to car or at least within close proximity you had to figure out what the range was for your radio depending on your antenna but the objective behind that was well smoking is out there listening boys so if you're using a smaller box and you're talking from car to car you don't want smoky to know that you're talking about smoky down the road because some trucker from the other direction just told you and so you all decided maybe we'll get off at exit 402 I'll let sell Because Mokey might be curious why a whole bunch of people are talking about getting off with Exit 402, especially if you're all together. And they might be curious about your activities and what you're doing. So it was a good idea to switch to local, reduce range, talk to each other about your strategy for getting away from the large pile of... Well, let me give you the best example, Kentucky. They would put a radar gun on the upward slope of a hill. and have five cars waiting on the other side of the hill to pick off cars as the cop who was holding the radar gun would point at the cars. Does anybody remember that? So you might, you have, don't worry, they had plenty of extra cops. Plenty of people to pick you off. So, it behooves you if you were especially, you know, didn't just want to have to deal with a problem because they were also harassing people to see what they were bringing from up from down south because it was on like 75, okay? And who knows what might be coming up north? And they just wanted to be able to randomly search cars until they lost in the courts and people got in their face and got tired of their BS. But it took time for that to happen, so people learned to avoid that. Well, it's the same situation with tactical combat operations. If we can avoid that larger force and kind of, you know, center around them, especially if we're exfiltrating and we don't want to make contact because maybe we're a recon unit, then close broadcasting or local broadcasting is the key. And even then, we minimize that. It's not a cell phone. Go ahead, call or jump in there. And what happened like i said if you're hurt and you start your delirium or you're in pain people will call out okay it's in it's not that you're not trying to help somebody but uh... for them for the most part ninety percent of the work you're doing maybe ninety five percent actually all the b o x option is you know with the hands free is something you don't want really to use others another reason other sounds and things could activate mike's and bring things up. So the one thing is, you know, in a sharp noise, other background noise, somebody might pick up on the VOX something that, you know, starts to broadcast and you don't even realize it, but somebody else doing a sweep of the, you know, the spectrum finds your signal randomly popping up for some reason. So you don't want that. But as far as the hands-free headsets, yes, that's where you've got, if you go to DealXtreme, guys, a lot of people, you've got to know what radios you have, or at least find out progressively what it takes, because they list dozens and dozens and dozens of hands-free headsets that you plug into different radios. And they make them for everything. They make them for the Chao Chu Pong, the Chao Pong, the Ken Woods. They make them for yay sues. They make them for everything. And they are available so you have to read the information to make sure that you get the right headset for your radio. See, that's the next step. That's what I'm talking about. I wouldn't just have little handhelds if at all possible. The big thing with those though is that if it's a couple dollars or three dollars a piece, it's not a real hardened system. Now, I can tell you that we've used non-hardened systems extensively, but what you have to do is have a repair bin or a repair box going out in the field with you, and you have a percentage, if you're putting a bunch of troops in the field, you have to have a percentage of spare radios on hand. Now, for the longest time, we were using the Radio Shack Plantronics. They have a heavier headset. Radio Shack was carrying those for years. They don't carry them now. Radio Shack, I understand, sounds like they're going out of business, Don. You could buy their one channel or five channel FM headsets. I've used thousands of those. That's not an exaggeration. We have put those into the field and used them on a regular basis. They have the VOX option. We've experimented using those radios within base radios because you can buy a base or tabletop unit that mates to those radio systems. The cool thing is you employ that as a vehicle mount. Then you've got all kinds of options because you still have the CB, you still have the 6 meter radios out there, we had all kinds of other equipment, but the handset or headset systems We're pretty common. In fact, I'll tell you what, if you want to see some of the work we did with that in the past, if you go to Liberty Tree Radio to our YouTube pages, go back to the medical instruction being done by Chris. You'll see one of my trailers in the background, one of my quarter-ton Jeep trailers. It's one of the tackling classrooms on first aid. If you pay attention and look on our headgear, you'll see how we were using those. We actually took on the booney hat, mounted the FM, the RadioShack FM 5 channel radios on the back of the hat, and then ran the booney down through the side so that it was actually all hooked up to the hat rather than hooked up to your webgear. And for medical support people, that turned out to be a very handy way to be able to call for support or to practice casualty recovery because the doc, the medic, is calling in the support. Either he's going to get, you know, corpsman to, you know, evac, you know, stretcher bearers to evac, or he's going to call for a vehicle pickup and support, either an armored ambulance or a forward tactical disposable truck, whatever's available. So the handsets are good, the headsets are a good thing. The other thing you have to take a look at is how are they going to interact with headgear? Let's point something out. Look at what's happened. We've gone full circle. Remember how down they had all those cool images of all the really spiffy stingray, really light headsets years ago for all the SF people? Right? All those movies all over the place. Oh yeah. Well, now if you go, go to any YouTube video, guys, look at what they've gone full circle back to. You've got full head cup speaker sets. I mean, full head cup. You're isolated. The only thing about that, they do have a wolf's ear connection on that. So you're not deaf to the environment. In fact, they're also ear protection. Not everybody's using them, but a lot of them or a big chunk of the troops do have them available, especially the RO's. The radio operators have the bigger equipment. But you'll notice that they're gone with also basically what is a helicopter headset. or an aviation headset for all practical purposes. They've got a different company making them. They've gone with a thinner, slightly thinner cup for the ear. But you've basically got what we've had for 40 years in the radio industry, if not 50, as a standard that everybody was using and they all were laughing at all, you know, it's all big and bulky. We got this super razor thin thing. Well, the thing is razor thin, guys, it just doesn't take the beating. The most common thing that we have happened with the light wire systems, even though they were thicker and heavier reinforced, is where they go into the radio, they start to break there. Or where they go into the headset, they break there. So what did the military do? Well, they went back to Girthy. Some people made some comments about this with the Sci-Fi series like Battlestar Galactica, because he picks up this headset, and it's this massive, bulky thing. Well, guys, that's an industrial military handset. And that's what you would use because stuff gets burned, busted, beat on, blowed up, shredded, and folded, spindled, and mutilated. Well, let me ask you this. Why do you have to have how much is one ear? Well, I prefer one, actually. But a lot of times they put the double protection up. And remember, they're also a wolf ear. They actually can either be enhanced hearing for some of them, or their hearing protection. Remember they're designed to buffer your ears from so many decibels. That's why they went with the double cup system. And in fact, DOD auction, Gov Liquidation was selling them out of Ohio in groups of 20, 40 and 60. I've been mentioning this out here over the last couple of years. I personally prefer the effect, even my pilot headsets, my headsets for aircraft. All the stuff that I have is, I have doubles, but my personal one that I prefer is a single head right hand cup with a right hand aluminum extended boom for the mic. And I've had those for 30 years. Now as long as Ed's been alive, originally when we were going to be playing more with aircraft, if I were going to be working with a plane right now, that's the set I'd grab. And the reason is because smaller aircraft You're going to be, you're getting personal with other people. So one ear is taking care of air traffic or, you know, yeah, and the other one is hearing what's going on around you. Yeah, like, you know, as you know, I'm part of a truck and I'm wearing one right now. It's a blue tooth through my, you know, if I had both ears in 10 minutes, I got to have another ear to hear more. Well, see, that's just it. With most of those headsets we were talking about from Radio Shack, and the Plantronic units. Traditionally those are single but with a harp. I prefer also the harp, not the ear hanger. The ear hangers to me are just a new... well they work most of the time, but the problem is, and you'll even see this where it happens where they actually start fiddling with stuff and they decide to just leave it. But you'll see guys in a lot of these television programs where they got the earpieces where they have to, they're talking to somebody and they're fidgeting trying to get the earpiece to fit right and they're fidgeting again and finally, you know, they just pull it out and they're just talking like you're holding a phone receiver. Well, that means that the system isn't designed right for the application. So I'll use them, I'll use anything I can get my hands on. I don't throw any microphone headsets away. I don't care how small they are or how big they are. Because better to have one than none. You see, that's the thing. So don't think I'm poo-pooing whatever you guys have. Whatever you got, don't you even think about throwing away. I grab every microphone I can find. Even if it's broken, I got one right now that's a nice handheld studio mic, but the cap is damaged. It's right next to me. I picked it up a couple of days ago, got it for free. I'm going to fix that up. I've got another wreck out there that's got the exact same basic cage that goes over that pickup. And then it's going to get covered up with a foam pad anyway. But if it's smaller headsets or smaller units, example, dollar stores, there were some really great headsets. There were no kias. They're smaller, they're tiny, but they were a dollar a piece at the dollar store, guys. You couldn't beat them! Well I grabbed 20 cards of them. I've got those made it up to some other radios that we have here. Now I figure at least one on one, but I had a couple extras so enough that I can actually put two for one. Why? Well, the guy breaks it, rips it, cuts it, whatever. Don't throw away the parts, we'll put it back together later. But he's got another earbud to go right in another headset with a little earplug and a little boom mic. So that's what we do and use all of them. In operations, remember like we said, we also prioritize. Heaviest best goes to the most active. The stuff that's most resilient. Now some people may just prefer lighter because like Don Scott, you know, a 50 caliber rifle. We may lighten him up a little bit in one direction because he's beefy here when it comes to what he's carrying in the other. Thank you very much. You see, so yeah, we'll take some ounces off you so you can carry pounds. You'll see a lot of them with noise reduction on the mic and you've heard me all the time because I'm making too much noise and I'm hearing them wearing a noise reduction mic. You still hear the wind noise. You can hear me. I think it's a ripoff. That noise reduction thing doesn't do sweet. It varies depending on the unit all the time. Well you gotta remember it varies depending on how much it costs because that determines how much tweaking they did with the technology and the materials, etc. Even then, it's noise reduction, it's not noise elimination. Right, exactly. And the other thing too, remember, what's top end now is what was China's support 20 years ago, 10 years ago, but because they've driven out a lot of the other companies that were competing, the quality