September 30, 2016
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1h 3m
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2016
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Mark Koernke discussed military history, tactics, and preparedness on September 30, 2016. The episode featured extensive commentary on World War I and World War II aviation, including stories about the Red Baron, Japanese Zero pilots, and historical taunting tactics in combat. Koernke and co-host Don Fetcher covered night vision and thermal imaging technology from ATN, discussing the Thor thermal device and its upgrades. The show included a fundraising drawing for Liberty Tree Radio with multiple prize items, caller interactions about medical pack donations, and tactical discussions on night vision applications, tracer fire coordination, and interlocking crossfire techniques for defensive operations.
- night vision
- thermal imaging
- atn thor
- preparedness
- world war i
- red baron
- japanese zeros
- military tactics
- second amendment
- liberty tree radio
- michigan
- combat tactics
- tracer fire
- interlocking crossfire
- gun owners
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O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God as I awoke he'd vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, I free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep, and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, build the land of the free? Intelligence report, I'm our krunky, and I'm Don Fetcher. Hello, sir, to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on on and behind the lines in occupied territories. Southeast, you're listening to us on, and we're on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and OAK and Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with OAK. Good afternoon to our friends on the Pacific side of the east. On the rainly in the morning, on and on. off, real light light, just like it's been for the last day, and then it kind of backed off and now it's in kind of gray and kind of... Man, it's typical, you know, situation for us right now as far as fall goes, but not with the colors, guys. It is green out here in Michigan right now. We've got a little, very tiny amount of change, more in line with the kind of crinkle you'd see if it was dry August, but very very little even of that. Right now it is medium temperature, not too cold, not too warm, drizzly and green. And that's unique for the end of the month, which we're heading to a new one, Dom, but what's the day today? We're jumping off up there in your neck of the woods. What's happening, please? Oh hey, it is the 30th day of September, isn't it? And, uh, oh, beautiful, wonderful day if you're a duck, cold, dank weather and not seeing the sun to be able to warm you up. You know, if you're a duck, great wonderful day. It's been intermittent rain and lots of use of windshield wipers and just about the time you think you should turn them off for a while, you start training again at any rate. It is the 30th day of September 2000 and hey, if you're looking for worms to put in the loom so you've got bait out the winter and other things, well, they're coming up a couple more days. That ground will be so cold they won't come up anymore in a while at any rate. We did mention it's the last day of September, right? Now, I want to do this, Mark. There's a number of different ways we can do this. And we could, we could, this could spring into so many different thought lines. But, you know, we've talked about that song, and sometimes we talk about that, that cough and humor. And I found a copy of Dawn Patrol. Yee-haw! And if you've never seen that movie, I'd encourage you to see that movie. And if you've never heard that song they sing in that movie, I, I, I'm, at the end of the movie, it'll tell us, uh, Hopefully the name of the song so we can bring it to the hour sometime. But in it there's a portion of the refrain goes, and hurrah for the next man who dies. Maybe that sparks a memory. You might, oh I remember that movie. I saw that when I was a kid. They don't broadcast that anymore. Why? Mark, it's in black and white. Nobody had watched that. In a particular portion of this movie, the Germans attacked aerodome. And they strafe the airplane for a minute and they strafe a machine gun position and then something falls out of the sky and the German plane all checkered winged flies away. Why, that was von Richter. And you know they couldn't use a real name there I guess. But they got close. That was von Richter and that which fell out of the airplane was a pair of boots. And there was a note on those pair of boots. And I'm right at that scene right now and the note says, one pair of trench boots for the use of British flying officers, you'll be safer on the ground. Von Richter. And the squadron starts to fight over these boots, Mark. Perhaps you remember the scene. Again, I haven't seen this movie so long. It's almost like a new movie to me. Last time I saw this movie, you guys, I was a teenager. But we've commented on this movie a couple times over the years. Now that pair of boots thrown out by the... Von Richter by the Baron there... was captured or maybe taken from a shot down plane. And it was a taunting. That's what it was because again all of those guys were fighting over those boots. They wanted to put them on and get in their crate and go shoot down the Baron. Well, who knows what's waiting in the clouds, you know, those mean evil nasty Huns. But that's not the point here. The point is the taunt. And you know, you can find that throughout history. You can find that many, many battles. You can find it to where it comes down to even personal battles. We've talked about the enemy at the gates, where it comes down to just a match between two people. We've brought up the, uh, I haven't brought this to the hour in a good long time. But when the Zeros were storming across the Pacific and Sakai was a young flier and didn't have all of those 60 kills under his belt and he still had both eyes, they were flying over Port Moresby one day and they made slaughter of the P-40s and the Brewster Buffaloes. You know, that airplane that couldn't do a loop from level flight, the Brewster Buffalo, but the Finns worked wonders with them. So that was in a different part of the world and perhaps a different attitude. When the Zeroes flew home, there was Sakai, Saburo Sakai. He was co-author of the book Samurai. We refer to this now and then. They had such a good time that they thought the next time we're over Port Moresby, that airport there, that army air base, let's do some loops. And let's all put on the same color muffler. You know what a muffler is to a flyer, don't you? A scarf around their neck so when they're moving around and they're not stopping scanning the skies they don't literally chase their neck and their chin and the back of their neck and even their head and ears on the leather. Let's all wear the same color muffler so they'll know it's us. And the Japanese flew in like finger three at the time. One in the middle and one on each side. The one on each side was like the wingman. It was effective to a certain extent, but you find that when you turn one way or another, the guy on the outside, he gets left behind because he's flying a big old circle. It gets hard to fly that formation. But they flew back over Port Morphy, Mark, two days later. And as they were leaving, they'd escorted the bombers in and they'd watch things exploding on the ground and they'd watch the P-40s come up and they went and they'd mincemeat on them because they were diving on them. They had tremendous speed closing on their target and they did what we've referred to as that flashing attack. We've talked about that in a number of ways, both in the air and on the ground. And then as they started to fly away with the formation, these three flyers, Saki, Sakai, and two others, they made the motions and from about 10,000 feet, both toward the airport, and they did a big lazy loop amid the anti-aircraft fire. Then they're losing altitude because of this, and then they did another, and now they're down to about 8,75 hundred feet, and then they did another. And then they were down to about 5,000 or 4,800 feet. Basically, you know, right in the jaws of the anti-aircraft gunners and doing these three loops, three zeros, right above the enemy airfield. And this was recorded that the commander of the airfield and the gunners, they all talked about them. You know, you can find this recorded on the American side. And then those zeros flew away. That was a major taunting, wasn't it? Like putting your, you know, remember like in second grade, putting your thumb on your nose and putting your fingers in the air and wiggling them and going na na na na na. Now there's one different war and another war. Well, you know, those, Mark they say that might have been just one war with a 20 year intermission. You know, some historians refer to that timeframe in that way. And it, well, I based that, that's all from flyers. But we've talked, you can find different ways. Army and individual groups down to three and four men have taunted each other. Read the accounts, Arlo Sathcock and a couple of people he came up against just kind of walking around in the jungle there. You know, taking a walk in the woods, a couple of the people he came up against were there to kill him specifically. So they were on a mission, and you know, once he realized this and recognized it, he was kind of on a mission both to get that guy before he got him and in another instance to get a woman before she got him. Read those accounts and the taunting that came on and the traps that were built and we refer back over to that enemy at the gate. If you've ever seen that movie, it is not uncommon for a sniper to build the hide and to make all indication that he is there. And then to move away and overwatch and see if anybody moves into a place that might be advantageous to them to shoot into that hide. Taunting on the highest level from a personal point in where we're standing here where we're trying to shoot each other. That's taunting on the highest level isn't it? I'm hoping I'm gonna make you do this to it. It's well beyond the schoolyard bully or well beyond even the na na na na na na. But it's meant to draw out. That's what it is. See what I mean about it's taunting to the highest level, to the nth degree. That person is out there hunting another person. You, or you're out there hunting them. You might come to a place where, I think he was there yesterday because I walked through there yesterday. Maybe two hours bef- after he left. And you move to a position thinking he's going to be in there, but there's already somebody there. And because he's a highly disciplined person, he's not moving. And if it's really a good person, he might be 50 yards away and he might tug on that 20-pound test and make that body move a little bit, just to get you to thinking that's really somebody there. And you try to move to the best position to shoot into that area while that other person already has that covered. You understand, that's the nth degree, that's taunting taken to a pinnacle. We can talk about all kinds of different ways. The rattling of swords. You know they're over there. You can, we can, when that lieutenant, when that colonel ordered gentlemen, six bayonets, about what? About 300 army? And most, every one of them that could did in the next instant, not even a moment, in the next 12 seconds, every one of them had it done. Don't you think that everybody that was surrounding those men heard that? Don't you think that was a taunting? Don't you think he wanted that done all at once in an instant instead of one man going to there knowing what's coming, going quick? He wanted that all done in that moment because he wanted everyone that was around him in every direction to know, you come in here, we're going to make you bleed. We know we're in a bad way, but we're willing to fight. Click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, click, and all them bayonets being fixed in one moment. Taunting to the nth degree. I yield to you, Mark. Thank you very much. I yield to you, sir. We wave our private parts in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father's think of elderberry is. The idea is, you know, again, you're trying to bring them in. You know, there's two ways you're doing this. Hey, you're trying to do it in deception. I'm so stupid, I'm on a reasonable target. Remember that that's one of the things that's done intentionally. We've talked about ambushing. If you're going to bring somebody into an ambush, you have to, you can't be too blatant. You have to look like you fumbled. You screwed up. You were stupid. You got unaware. So, boy, I'm a dummy. But you can't be so obvious that it's like, wait a minute, this isn't right. So there has to be a balance to it. There has to have that illusion of shock and surprise rather than the next step which is of course well we're just waiting to cross the battle through from each other every once in a while I stand up and I flip them to the bird you know by the way they can't hit anything they've never hit anything so far oops wait a minute maybe they trained riflemen oh this is not a good bright idea on the battlefield see the problem with getting up there sometimes they may have changed technologies or weapons or better shooters showed up Which is another thing I was just going to say, on Richter is here. Oh, this is not the plane that flew by and dropped the boots. Somebody else's plane is here. And every one of them was unique. The Geschwader that, in fact, the Stauffel that Richthauven created, the flying circus that Richthauven created, had many different aces. And one thing that has always played up, as far as propaganda goes, is goring. Guys, Goring eventually took over Rick Toulven's position. Did you know that? When they talk about him being a World War I pilot, let's correct that. He wasn't just a World War I pilot. He was one of the elite. In fact, they put him in charge of a whole bunch of elite. Yes. Step by step, of course, attrition is a terrible thing, but it wasn't like he was 58th or 20th, like 216th down the list. Grohring was one of the top pilots in that particular battle group to the point where being hand chosen by Rifthoven and his brother, don't forget his brother was involved, and others that progressively they built up one of the best combat groups available through the German Air Force, prioritized for certain actions and constantly in contact, which happens when you create an elite force. Which is why you see an attrition rate that becomes rather horrendous if you're grossly outnumbered and eventually the enemy, you know, takes the air or the ground, remember? They constantly expect you to keep fixing things. You're the fire brigade. Well, Goring was part of that. And Goring survived to get to that position while being a fighting pilot. Another interesting thing is that contrary to what you might think of course the the the Fokker, you know the Tri-wing Fokker that you're all familiar with the Fokker Tri-plane was not the final say in Fokker design and in fact by the end of the war Rick Tovin Squadron had received the Fokker D-7 which is the only aircraft think about this of all the planes which they never show you by the way the Fokker D-7 is the only plane specifically mentioned in the armistice for absolute destruction. That is how significant that plane was. It was a master of the skies, no question about it. And you gotta remember, spades were out there. This is an example of, you know, understanding, see, parts of history that are very critical because In other words, the Germans had the technology and were holding their own. Why did they end the war? Why did they just flip flop and turn around the war? Well, there's a whole bunch of politics involved, which we bring up into this Belfort agreement, betrayal by the kosher mafia behind the German army on the German side. Sabotage and betrayal with the Communists, who later on would then be bringing the queers in and the pedophiles into Germany. that helped to undermine the troops at the front. The troops had just won. Here's one thing to think about with World War II, granted we came into the war too, but the German army had just won an entire front. Consider this, the entire Eastern Front was led up because of an armistice with the, oh wait a minute, the Communists. Well, this is actually Tsarist forces, the White Russians, and the, well at that time it was the White Russians initially. or a combination with the Communists mixed in basically set aside any conflict with the foreign power and so Germany was able to extract almost all of its combat strength from the Eastern Front and it turned it to the West which means it just doubled its numbers. And then you're led to believe that the entire action was supposedly malfeasance or incompetence on the part of the German army to hold their own. It wasn't. It was a complete betrayal from behind. The technology was equal to, or in many cases superior to, comparable numbers in force strength were readily available. So what changed? Oh yeah, we were pretty vicious on the battlefield too. We were crazies. As far as that goes, I've talked a lot. They're all gone now, but I used to know a lot of World War I vets. and the French were terrified of us. Oh, you thought I was going to say the Germans. No, our allies were more scared of us than the Germans were. Understand that. And that from officers. The last man that I buried that was a World War I vet was an American officer in World War I. And I talked to him and knew him quite well. And he would explain to you all about the situation. He said the French were terrified of us. Everything that they told us to do as far as safety standards or whatever, we threw right out the window. French would flee from our guns. No, not the Germans. They were fighting us. The French would flee from our guns because we didn't listen to them. And they didn't really know how to fight. The French knew how to sustain a fight, but they didn't really make any great effort to win a fight. The changes in technology, and again we'll see the same thing, if we're betrayed here and let's get into it and we get into some form of acquiescence, if everybody fumbles and the spineless, you know, win out, there's going to be a point where the same type of arrangement is made with the castration of America and very specific systems will simply not be allowed. If we fail to step forward on this and get rid of the present occupation, which includes foreign occupation right now, then this is a reality down the road. Needless to say, personal firearms are already telling you, personal firearms are on the agenda. Because the ability to wield that kind of coercive force is especially critical to preventing any opposition to what comes after they get the weapons, which is mass murder. Not an if just a when so we don't have to experience that or what well we have to wait and see I always love that one for MIDI It's just like really no. I'll tell you what you up front in fact. You're over there with them Well, what are you talking about? It's like you know you well if they get this past they're gonna get our guns how Well, we'll have to turn them in you're over there in that camp with them Why don't you just go over there and be with handgun control incorporated for that stupid? here's how you work it we're not giving away anything and it's pretty well at the pushing point minutes it's on the edge right now again their their using that go to doing what like waco okay russella with friendliness have a try to the kind of like what worked what down was talking about they came out they did the performance action to try and wag their we need everybody's face and everybody was supposed to be so terrified we're going to fall around our backs and let the bob clinton's continue to do what george bush started Okay, cause George Herbert Walker Bush was your enemy. If you're a gun owner, George Herbert Walker Bush hated you. So much so that he gave up his NRA membership, guys. Yeah. No... Lifetime membership. Yeah! What happened there? How could that be? You know, he was showing his true colors. Remember that old ad with the true colors? Oh, yellow. Yeah, red and yellow. Well, I'll tell you what, we are almost at the bottom. Don, I have a little four-pawed grayback that's just enamored with helping with the program. And the motor's going a mile a minute here. He can hear you every once in a while. Well, let me whisper in his ear for a moment. After those three Japanese fliers flew away in their zeroes, I think they had green mufflers on, green scarves. Two days later, there was a bombing run against Rabool, the air base there. And as the fighters flew away, one of them dropped a message that was an invitation for those three fine gentlemen who performed those three perfect loops over our air base the other day. Please come back. We have something special for you. I couldn't help but finish that story. Yeah, come on down. In other words, come on down. Watch and see what happens. Yeah, works both ways. But we are at the bottom. Okay, what let's do here real quick before we go any farther, not real quick. In fact, just reverse, take your time. Guys, it's getting dark earlier. We are having to deal with changes in the environment, which so far we've been robust with no extreme. In fact, so far we've had a flat summer. Not too hot, not too cold, not too dry, that's for sure. In fact, it's green outside, but you know what? gets dark and it stays dark underneath because here's another part about that formula if you can't see into that dark canopy there's a lot of places to hide and be out of sight right now aren't there Dom? Oh yeah, might be kind of handy to have both night vision and thermal in the inventory guys because outside out there you got a lot of cover. Works both ways, we can use it on the enemy and of course it also helps with regard to overhead cover from aircraft. Combine that with low cloud cover and storm and in climate weather. Well that's our weather to fight by the way. That's when we're going to town. But you may just be in a defensive posture a retreat, you know again medical support units other activities And you got to watch your security accordingly. That's where you need night vision. We're gonna call her. What do we have? Actually got it in the studio I hate to interrupt but today is the 30th and tonight is the drawing Uh oh, oh okay, well we gotta keep reminding people of that. Sorry about that guys. Yes, you guys will have until the end of the second hour of the intelligence report to get in and then during the town hall meeting and the first part of the intelligence report, I'll be making sure we have everything set up for the drawing. If you don't get in in time you will be added to the drawing for next month. We are going to be doing another drawing next month. Hopefully you'll be able to understand me. I'm told I sound good, Dad, with the new equipment, but to me it still sounds like I'm slurring a lot in my head. You're going to have to move the lips any of them? See, that's all. Get used to doing singing exercises like you think you do. I have been, and everybody's been telling me I sound a lot better now than I did before. I still sound like I'm a little drunk, but I'm not quite there yet. www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Go to the donate key and get in on the drawing by donating to Liberty Tree Radio. Follow the instructions. Please make sure that your mailing address is correct on your donation. because there is a place for it there and if you've done something before or moved or had it sent to a different location and that's still there that's the address that we know and nothing else. We don't have a crystal ball on that one so you need to make sure that you get the address right. That's all we ask. And of course let everybody know whether or not you want to be in the drawing. Needless to say I would think if you're going to jump in there and donate today you're probably going to want to be in the drawing and once we get the last numbers, Ned's got all the information I believe we'll have... do we have anything down there that's in the drawing? For that dad, I had my ears elsewhere. I'm sure. Do we have anything there that's in the drawing? I didn't actually check. Do we have anything down there? Yeah, actually we do. We've got some pink camouflage. Oh, what are they hanging on here? Those, you know what they are, dad. The pullovers. Oh yes, those are a real tree. A real tree. Pink camo. Pink camo, the girls camo. We have, it should be... We're going to be giving one of those away in this drawing that we would draw it out for the end of your bill. Very good. and we do have six additional boxes again. They're mystery boxes for you, but not for us. Each one is definitely going to be a happy time for whoever gets them. We have the Last Liberty Bible from Brooks, which is in the drawing. So that's eight items. And the book that Mom entered into the drawing, and I can't remember the name of it right now. Which is nine. So we should be in good shape. I think nine items, would that be good or would we want to go 10? I think nine is good, but we could round it off. I do have a couple of things I can put in there. Yeah, let's go to 10. What the heck? We've got other boxes here. What we'll do is we've got one, two, three. So we'll have seven boxes and three other items that are a little more specific. And for everybody out there, if you can get in the drawing now, please take the time and do so. Go to www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com and then go to the donate key. Make sure you check the address. and plug everything in your mailing address, your mailing address. Remember says there is a mailing address. Remember you've got till the end of the second intelligence report hour, but if you donate after that you'll be going right into next month's drawing. So that's... Hey Mark. Cool. Go ahead, caller. Yeah, you know I donated... Remember when you had those medical packs you were given for a $20 donation? Yes. Well, I sent 20 in, but I never got the medical packs. Uh oh, because we did send those out. Umm, do me a... Well, wait a minute. Let's do this. Let me check. No, I know I sent them all out. I personally buy them. Hey, Mark? I got a question. You did remember... No, I mean, the truck driver. Sorry. Yeah, that's okay. You did remember to flag that for the medical packs, because if you didn't, I might have put it in general donation. If I did, I'm sorry, and we'll make the correction on that. Did you mention, did you say state medical packs or did you just put it in as a $20 donation? No, I said, well I'm not sure Mark, I just thought I'd put my address. That's okay, we'll take care of it. Well, I'll tell you what, Ed knows what to look for. He can let me know if it wasn't listed for the medical packs. I'll take a look in the records, but anything that was listed for the medical packs I did forward right to Dad. Was it sent in by a PayPal or you're talking about a mail donation? No, it was PayPal. It was PayPal. I know I've seen a donation from him. I don't remember if it was five like that or not though, Dad. I'll take a look. I'll go back through the records. Sounds good. Okay, we'll take care of that. That's what we need to know if somebody didn't get to remember. We double check, see how it's listed, and confirm. For everything that I had, we sent out. So if it was side barred, then it may have been, sorry about that, it may have been because... It was, didn't have the Medkit notation. There's a notation where you can put anything you want in there. If it's something in particular like that, you gotta put a notation in. Yeah, I know. I think I put my address. I don't think I put medical back. I probably screwed up. Well, that's okay. That's good. Well, I've got them on hand. I have a few left in reserve for that reason, so we should be good. Okay. Actually, what is his sets? What you're getting are two. Everybody else knows that. Everybody who's got them already knows you. You actually get two bags for that because they're the other part of the system. I thought they were the bigger bags. I bought every last one I got. So everybody got two. Just a little heads up there. You may have made a surprise. I'm going to go ahead and send you another 20. I'm just going to send this for a donation, just to kick it up a little bit for you there. But I don't want to be put in the drawing. I'm just going to send it in as a donation. Very good. OK. And I'll tell you what we're going to do. We're past the bottom of the hour. We got Don right here. Don, your number for night vision and all the information. And bring us up to speed on the thermal, because again, there's some things we can do with the programmability upgrade there, right? Yes there are and you guys if you bought a Thor two years ago and did download for the RAM and turned around and inserted that SD card in your device and well it loaded up everything and you're running it well there's been a few upgrades since then and you should probably go over to the computer and repeat that process because One of the things that I had thought when the Thor came out was, oh, you can touch the button. It'll change from black as heat to white as heat. You touch the button, it'll change to black as heat and green as the background. Then it looks like green screen night visioning. And you don't have to worry so much about the light coming out on your face. You might remember when we talked about that, well, it just gained that ability a couple of months ago. I was talking about something that they were talking about. No, it will be able to do this and do this and do this. And finally that program came along and if you haven't done the up, I'd encourage you to do that on your Thor because well, it'll do a whole lot more than it did before you downloaded that information into that micro card and turned around and put it in your Thor and watched it say uploading and then upload complete. Man, the next time you turn it on, you're going to be really happy. It'll do more than it did before, that's one way to put it. Now, if you want to see the body, the Thor, the basic device, go over to the website, that's Y-D-T-O-E dot U-S, that's Y-D-T-O-E, scroll past the digital, you know, entry level, there's a viewer and a couple of gun sites there, those gun sites will live on top of your .308. And on into the green screen where you'll see a four power second generation gun sight live on top of your .308. And I can put a couple of different tubes in that upgrading near the entry level tube. We could go to a Belgian tube, I think, that's like six or seven thousand hour tube in second generation. Now that's quite a tube there for a second generation tube. It has almost the life of a third generation tube. But that would be an option in that night arrow, that second generation gun sight you see there for power the first, I'm pretty sure it's the first device you see when you get into the green screen there. Now, as you pass that, well you'll see binoculars and binoculars and then you'll be into, I think there's some third generation there and beyond that, well the third generation gun sights, they'll live on top of your 308 also. And beyond that you're into the Thores that we talk about. Man, you should put that new upgrade in it if you haven't yet. She'll be real happy you did. The other thing to point out, and I was talking with my people today. Gun sight, we're looking at building a program that you can put into it that will bring up a range and calculate the speed and offer up a... You put the reticle here and pull the trigger and it will hit the target. The biggest problem with that, and we talked about one system and my guy says he's pretty certain that company went bankrupt because one of the things he did was talk about, Mark, he talked about, I've got this cool gun sight but you know, a crook will never use it because the police can turn it off. We talked about that when we were made aware of it. Now it was a pretty cool gun sight because again, you bring something to target, you designate it as target and it will calculate the range, the speed, and thus bring you to a proper aim point by moving the reticle. Now, that guy points out that's about a $10,000 or $11,000 system, but all by itself it's about a $6,000, maybe $5,000 or $6,000 system, but that guy had it electronically hooked right to the trigger. You couldn't pull the trigger unless the reticle was right on the target. That was one of the ways he was able to say that, well, this whole system works. So that's why he wanted you to buy his whole system. So this is one of the problems they're trying to get around with building this into a self-contained, really only attached to the gun with a picatinny or a weaver rail. And keep it, you know, in a nice price range instead of, well, $5,000 for the system. Well, you've got to buy the whole thing because you have to have the gun underneath it and all of that. Now we're at somewhere between $10,000 and $11,000, but we're looking at that program sometime in the future. Now, this is another example about how the company, APN, is going to support this system for a good long time. You can't say they've got the farm because they still offer a number of other devices, but this is the future of APN and thermal. The way it's looking, it can only get better. This device, even in the entry level piece, it won't look as far as that vector. $15,000 list price piece of thermal that you saw on top of a lot of military devices. That price, you know, based on a little more than a thousand days ago, just before the Thors hit the market. The entry level Thor, other than being limited in its range, but you can get up to, you can put a lens on the front of a Thor body and upgrade your ocular side so that you're looking at twice the pixels in the same amount of area so you've doubled the fineness of the picture. Do everything performance-wise that that Raptor will and I remind you, you know, 15k versus well the top end Thor now lists for like 63 or $6500 and we can save you a good amount of money off of that. Let me see. Oh, we can save you a good amount of money off of that better than 10%. That device will range for you. It will have an elevation indicator. It will have a roll. Some call it can't. So you don't have to have a level on the gun. It has a level in the viewing area. A couple of different reticles. I don't know how many reticles, but... ATN will continue to upgrade this device again. They're not going to turn their back on this one for a long time. It's just that everybody put it in their hand. Oh man, I love this. It's a sweetheart. But if you want to see that Thor, go over to the website. You'll see the entry level, the 19mm front lens and 30 cycles and the smaller, I think that's 432 by 288, the smaller pixel screen. It's the same size screen. It just has less pixels. Another thing to point out when you look in a lot of thermal devices through a round eye port, you know the ocular side, a lot of people expect to see a round image like a daylight scope or like your average piece of night vision green screen. The image is rectangular. So that surprises a lot of people but when you double up the fineness of that rectangular picture and go with a big front lens that allows you to recognize I know that that is a human being at 1500 meters that's the top of the Thorin that's in the in that specter performance range and if we're going into the well middle five one can say it's about one-third the price of that specter and it does more. Go over to the website ydtoe.us and you'll be able to look at parts if you get in there, maybe there's a way to direct you over to the ATN forum where they talk about these gunfights and I don't think you're going to hear people bad-muffing them because everybody that gets them is happy with them. The force. So there's a way, you know, Don can sit here and tell you, you know... It's the best thing since peanut butter and jelly and I can put you into this one and if you want to move up we can go to that one. I can be the car salesman. I can sell you Rolls Royce if you want but I don't really want to do that. If you go over to the forum you're going to hear other people talk about what they think about them and that's another way to do it. I can push that off onto other people that I don't know and you can listen to what they have to say. and you can see films that they've taken and whatnot. But again, if you want to talk to me about night vision, give me a call. My number is 2317968458. If you want to see parts, go over to the website. That's Y-D-K-O-E.US. You may wonder about the prices there, and Mollie, you told me about this one here, and that doesn't look like this. I can't advertise for less than what you see there and continue to keep my source. But if you call me, we can do a deal over the phone and I'll give you a code if you want to purchase through the website. There's other ways to do it, but I'll give you a code to enter there and you can enter a different price and wham bam, it's at your front door. Now I know that's not true right now. I know there's somebody probably sitting there saying, oh, that's not true now, wham bam, it's at your front door. Because the big, the 5x50s, they're in They're in line for being built. And again, I talked to my guy today. They're building about 25 on a real good day. They're building about 30 a day. And it's not like they're building them. They've been waiting for just a couple of parts. Now they've got to find out, well, we've got this cyclic right in this body. Then we've got this on this end. And we put that together. And now we've got a line net front lens. And by the way, which one does the customer want? They're building them in batches of small lenses, which are the biggest I really hate to say it like this because I know I've got a couple people waiting for a better top of the line tour. I talked to my guy today. There's one that we've been waiting on for two months and he's going to try to put a bediting on that one because two months is a long time to wait even for something that's back ordered. And I don't want to use that because again, they're building them as fast as they can and they had hoped to behind the back order. This is what I was telling you at the end of August. Everything will be, this back ordered will be caught up in its beginning of August, but we're four weeks, we're a little bit more behind on that, aren't we? Because we're at the end of September. I've got little patience there. Again, we mentioned this, you guys, this is a hot item, the thors. It's like, you know, when the new Corvette body comes out or when the new Honda NSX comes out, there'll be people paying 50% or 70% over the list price for that new Honda. Because it's a cool car and they're only going to build so many of them. I don't want to buy next year's and Thor's. That's back-ordered. It's like as soon as a pancake comes off the griddle and that one is gone, there's two more people waiting. If you want a Thor, you guys, the entry-level ones are common. The 1.25 to 5 power, 1.5 to 8 power. They've got a lot of those and it's a good piece and it'll look as far as your third generation device with no moon. It'll see farther than that. Confidence in what you see. Example that in the not too distant future with a video or two. Mark, I yield to you sir. Thank you. And again, why are you dealing with a stranger? We have Don Betcher available. The technology is something that's useful. Again, like I said, we're going to end up in an interesting situation. We've got heavy effective cover. that's going to last even, well it's going to be thicker and heavier in general but it's lasting longer too. This is September 30th guys. We would already be seeing a major color change and sweeps but right now Michigan, like many parts of the northern part of the United States, have gotten a really wet August, a good August. In fact, a bountiful August with the way the crops are coming in. It's good for us, bad for the regime, good for us because record food means we can put more on the shelf and we'll be in better shape there. That helps to survive whatever it is that they throw at us down the road here in the next couple months or whatever they try the next day or two, whatever the hell date it comes in, who cares, we're ready for it. Or at least the best you can be, you know, go with what you got. Night vision technology is part of that, go with what you got. Well, again, If you can afford first generation to get you on the table, that's where you roll. Digital even, guess what? That's where you roll. If that's what you want to talk to Don about. But again, saving up a few more bottle caps, Don will get you a better price. And that means that you'll have a little better technology for less money, and you've got more to spend on something else. But there is a commitment necessity because some of you are fighting units. And if you're a fighting unit, the better piece of night vision for your technology would be a real good idea, especially our marksmen who want to run 24-7. As needed, can run day or night. And with a lot of the weapons platforms out there, they'll even be committing a specific weapon to a specific night vision device and it won't be changed out. It's going to be committed there just like the thermal may be committed there. And a lot of guys are doing this where they're building up all the AR laptops that they are. The plan is that rifle will stay assembled, it will be sighted, it will be where it will be and as needed it will be brought out as twilight appears through the night hours and then to dawn. And then we go back to the other gun. It's not a bad idea. Get hold of Don, talk to him. If you have questions, ask guys. And you don't have to ask on the air. But remember when you ask on the air, a lot of other people you notice pitch in or you know will have additional questions. You get a mental process going, you know, the old brain gear start to turn, which is good. That's the kind of thing we need to see happen. Another thing, somebody just brought up the thing about tracers again. What about tracers? You know, they do work both ways. That's a joke we always use, but it actually is something that's critical to understand. The tracers do have an application, as we pointed out, which is command and control. Or, for instance, the spotter to a night vision sniper is an observer, not simply somebody who is on the hunt. Certainly, he's always looking for targets of opportunity. But remember that if you are limited in the best of night vision technologies, then those which are your triple A, your top of the line, constantly looking to also help to direct against targets of opportunity. Most of the rest of your crew having first or second generation, if you're lucky, progressively, you're all jumped up, you've all stepped up to the latest or closest to, say, third generation. If you dump so many tracers into a target for everybody else, even though they may not have a full idea, they may have a general comprehension of what they're looking at, the tracer scoring or tracer tagging is a way to bring all fighters to bear to increase the probability of hit. And if everybody has some form of night vision, they're probably going to be able to see to a degree what it is you're emphasizing. They may not be able to make out every detail, but you've already done that. The best of the technology is identifying the threat. The thermal can confirm the threat. Now when everybody else's fire is, you know, fire to bear, in other words, you fire, say, three three round bursts with tracer or a stream of tracer. If it's a high priority, then whoever it is is going to dump a magazine of tracer on the target. And that stream fire is an identification all fires to bear, all fires to bear, all fires to bear. You don't have to call it over the radio, don't have to talk about it. Anybody who can see it knows that there is a purpose behind what's being done. all fires on target. If you can see with night optics, night vision fantastic. If you have a thermal piece, fantastic. To be quite honest, even with conventional optics in regular glass, it does enhance your vision capability. It increases it. It's a matter of what type of back illumination or whatever else you might have available. Bottom line though is if you have a squad or a platoon and you bring all fires to bear, It is designed to neutralize a prioritized target of opportunity or a prioritized threat. That can be something massing, in other words, personnel. That can be a weapon system that's being assembled or put online or may have just exposed itself. And the idea is that from many oblique angles, from many different angles, there is no cover. Keep that in mind. Remember, interlocking crossfires. If you have two fire and maneuver elements, you call the second element, which is typically one is ahead of the other. And you now have what may even be the equivalent to a mobile inverted ambush of Mobile V interlocking crossfire, overlapping to the point where there is no protection for the objective target. Be it a cruiser, machine gun being established, or a position that's established, it could be a combat group or a combat team assembling for assault. It could be an indirect fire weapon, a committing number of things, soft skinned vehicle, but whoa, wait, it's got a lot of antennas. Everybody fire that puppy up. That's something we didn't expect to overrun, but look what we found. All fires to bear, all fires to bear. And all of a sudden... You get hung out. Yeah, no, you can blind them, you can make them deaf, and the people that they lose, they cannot quickly or easily replace. Just keep that in mind. Anyway, we're almost to the top. Donnie, you can be able to stick around if you've got to go. Okay, no problem. I'd like to hang out for about some time around 8 o'clock and listen to the raffle of the o'o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o- I was doling out Gore-Tex last night and as a matter of fact, gotta go through some of that and make sure Don has what he needs. But it makes all the difference in the world to have the right ring gear, guys. Can't get more of it unless it's, you know, special deals, special little, you know, prep package deals like I did with this stuff. I had to buy a couple of bins worth of stuff, but what I really wanted was the Gore-Tex that I got. and that's fine by me. Also, just a quick heads up, Donnie, you know those salt vests and chest pouches? There's only two types left. The two of the chest pouches are gone, two of the vests are gone. The only thing left are the OD green salt vests for $12.99 and the black chest pouches for $6.99. Both are good deals. Again, if that's what's left, that's what you run with. I'm surprised the green is actually still there. The black went first. which is okay. The OD Green I think will serve more of your purposes for those that are listening and that is at airsoftgi.com airsoftgi.com when you get there punch in TAC 9 Blams. There will be six items that show up. You will notice that four of them say now out of stock and they are in the pecking order. They always start from the bottom to the top. The ones that are out of stock are down below. The two that are available are obviously the ones that are still red. And they have the black pocket double mag pouch AK chest rigs with a couple extra pouches added on good size, secondaries by the way. And the TAC-9 tactical cross draw vest and that includes mag pouches, pistol mag pouches, utility pouches, back pouches, the holsters in the back actually it's kind of interesting I thought. You have to change position on that as you choose to do so because you can rearrange it. There's molly tech here and The total cost with the belt at the bottom of the rig is $12.99 It's enough to get you on the table or it's enough to put spare gear away where if you end up having to leave the bathtub bare naked Well, wherever you go to pull the gear out pull the clothing out put it back on slip on those deck shoes Go find the buggers who messed up your house. It's time to go kill Ching Li anyway We're at the top and we're probably gonna hear the music in a minute here. It is, of course, the end of the first hour. For all of you guys, go to airsoftgi.com and then go to TAC9 BLEMS. That's what you want to do for a search. TAC9 BLEMS. And you'll find out, well, you'll find what I'm talking about. Quartermaster Friday on top of everything else. God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. But we are on the march for day and night. Ooh-rah! 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