October 14, 2016
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1h 3m
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2016
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Mark Koernke and Don Betcher discussed self-defense principles, focusing on timing and distance in combat situations, including the 21-foot knife attack scenario and shooting mechanics. They covered tactical ambush response, including L-shaped ambush tactics, suppressive fire, and movement toward threats. The show included extensive discussion of martial arts training, muscle memory development, and competitive shooters like Matulik. In the second half, they reported on a Venezuelan prison riot involving alleged cannibalism and starvation, discussing prison survival strategies including water storage and medication dependency issues. The episode concluded with announcements about donations and potential shortwave broadcast expansion.
- timing and distance
- self-defense
- 21-foot rule
- ambush tactics
- suppressive fire
- muscle memory
- martial arts
- shooting mechanics
- venezuela prison
- cannibalism
- preparedness
- water storage
- tactical movement
- l-shaped ambush
- shortwave broadcast
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And your Christian values can't be taught. According to this, 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 trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seemingly farm and keep our country Put men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children and your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? 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, freedom, as I awoke he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, not 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 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? This report, I'm Mark Harnke. And I'm Don Betcher. Loser to victory, four of our brothers, and behind the lines in occupied territories west, southwest, and we are on AM&FM microstations, CV base stations, and alternate hallmark and golden spike technologies west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to the Aleutians and to the, well, the very straights and, oh wait a minute, the Marianas and Goa! territories and that's where they try to do the wraparound, you know, run around the outside and attack us directly at the federal level with complete gun confiscation, taxation, the whole nine yards. Well, one federal judge kind of starts to put the kibosh to it and back them off a bit. Maybe figuring she'd like to keep her job when whoever comes in next, just in case there's a shift in power, the fact that it probably would have hurt her too and maybe people she'd like to have guns, maybe in the drug trade, who knows. Anyway, It has been a perfect day today. This has been the perfect day for a Friday and for the end of the week and for the farmers. Everybody's out doing their beans right now. Every machine's out there because today was just the sun sucking the moisture out, clear air, a little bit of a breeze, not too dusty. Everyone, I mean every big machine you could imagine. So, good work. And we are seeing a massive and bountiful harvest of the soybeans right now. What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the day today that was jumping off the wall up there, please, sir? As you point out, it's a beautiful day, the remnants of, oh, the 14th day of October, year of our Lord 2016. Breezy and that's like you say, lifting up the moisture out of the place and hey, you can walk through that tall grass that was pretty wet this morning and well, your shoes will probably be wet. But hey, wonderful day, lots of sunshine, intermittent clouds, I think a few of those to the south look like chemtrails mark on the horizon. Zig zags. Clouds don't usually zig zag through the air like that. You know, they tend to go in one direction, kind of like, you know, a bullet. But that's just an overall broad brush observation, and, you know, we try not to do that too much. But, you know, those don't look like real nor were the years. We don't have to address that right now. It's just, you know, what... chemtrails and question mark under google or whatever search engine you use and you'll be amazed and you'll also understand that well there's one more way that your enemy is areying threat against you now I want to address this because I saw this one video I had a moment to sit down and there are a number of self-defense videos on the on the web and someone said, oh, watch this for a minute. So here's this Russian guy and he's talking about distance and timing. We talk about distance and timing. You know, Mark, you know, it might seem annoying sometimes, but you probably noticed by now that I know you have that every time you say timing is everything I try to squeak in immediately, distance is everything else because they're bound together like strands in a rope. We are timing and distance. But sometimes they intersect like, you know, when that guy with the knife is 21 feet away from the guy with the gun and all of a sudden as he gets out his knife he starts running toward the guy, the gun and the holster. And we've talked about that as far as timing and distance and you know that's not a good intersection when those two meet for the guy with the gun because generally the guy with the knife, if he, if it, this is a common experiment you guys. This has been done more than once and we've referenced it The guy standing 21 feet away from the guy with the gun in his holster and he's looking right at him and for no apparent reason he just gets out of the knife and starts running toward the guy closing the distance like he's going to stab him and before the guy can get the gun out, well he's been cut once or twice. Before he can get the gun out, you know, rack one in or whatever, bring the gun to bear and make your rubber band go bang, he's being cut. Now that's an example of timing and distance. Another is, you know, in that last moment, we've used different venues for this example. You know, that bomber in the last few moments, just when the bomb bay opens and, well, everything starts to be delivered, well, they have to kind of run steady there for a moment. If you're running across the... and you stop to take a... talked about this, you don't necessarily want to stop. The shot that you take with both feet on the ground is a lot more likely to hit than the shot that you take with one foot on the ground while it's trying to move your torso forward. Now granted, when there is that instant when both feet are on the ground and your torso is still moving forward, but that references all of that muscle memory for that instant that both feet are on the ground. You know, we've talked about timing and distance, and this is another piece, I'm trying not to get too dislocated with this, But you know when that foot comes stops on the ground it literally stops on the ground no matter how fast you're running for that instant that it's on the ground it might be rolling across the foot. Sure, but it's it's it might be seeming to travel with you because it's connected to the bottom of your leg but it comes to a stop much like that people don't believe this that tank going down the road 60 miles an hour some battle tanks can do that for a little while. Some can do it a little bit longer, but none of them can do it for a long time. But when that tray, when that individual tread pad hits the ground, it comes to a stop on the ground, no matter how fast that tank is going down the road. Those rollers roll across it, and at the end of that, it starts to move up again, and then it moves forward, and then it moves back down, comes to a stop, believe it or not. Now that's not the example of timing and distance that I wanted to, but it is an example of what you're looking at and you think the whole dang tank is going down the road, don't you? In a great sense it is, but that tank pad stopped on the ground there for as long as it tanks for it to touch the ground in the front and the length of the tank to travel across it and as it starts to move up again for that instant or that moment, it's been on the ground in a stop. Sometimes when things are going in tremendous amounts of energy or going in one direction, some things have to stop to allow that. It's like get out of the way or get run over or be part of the solution and get run over and you're going to get lifted up and you go over there and you're going to come down here and get run over again and you go, you see what I mean? And it's not necessarily timing and distance that I wanted to describe there, but I wanted to elaborate on that just a little more. Sometimes when big things are moving, in order to keep them moving, some things have to come to a stop. and they're cooperating. It's not like we're going to bring this to an end so we can make this work. Now the timing and distance thing goes back to just bare minimums. That guy closing on you with the knife and the gun in your hand, or the gun rather, in your holster. One of the ways to exercise this, if you get a chance this weekend, you don't have to do this with a gun. One of the easiest things to start to get acquainted with timing and distance is to have an opponent stand about maybe five paces away from you. Five paces might be, might be, oh, 15 feet. 14, 15 feet away. And he's looking right at you and you're squared up looking right to him. Now just have him start walking toward you. And in that instant when he's just about in range kick you or to punch you, You don't know what he's going to do, whether he's going to kick you or punch you, but he's walking toward you. He's closing that range. And as he gets there, I want him to just stick out a hand like he's going to punch you. Or just, if he can't kick real well, just stick his foot straight out, almost like a goose step, and then put his foot down like he wants to kick you. But I want you to stay there. As long as you can, until that kick or that punch that's not being brought to you as fast as he can, just brushes so you just get out of the way of it. And there are a number of reasons why we do this. This is a basic thing in martial arts. In Taekwondo, it can be Ilbo, Yatsudarian, one step sparring, it can be three step sparring. But that sparring generally goes in a straight line, back and forth, back and forth, like a saw through a hunk of wood, like a two man saw through a hunk of wood, back and forth, back and forth. So in one instant, I'm the aggressor, the other instant, I'm backing up from the attack. and the next instant I'm the aggressor and then the next instant I see how you gain both sides of the tail doing it that way. But when that person is closing, that standing in the gap, standing in the breach is another way to see this. Because this person isn't your truly your enemy and he's probably going to pull that punch if he sees, well Frank just didn't get out of the way fast enough that time. I know he's trying to, you know, stand there to the last instant but he might pull that punch rather than, you know, bloody your nose or you know blacken your eye. But one of the things about this is to be able to stand at that threat to the last instant. To recognize that timing and distance. This is a basic drill that can be worked up to bayonets. To understand where we're going now, this isn't just some fun getting out of the way of this guy because he's going to slow punch me. Or my buddy is going to pretend like he's kicking me. To understand where we're going with this basic drill, This does a number of things for your martial concept. I'm not going to sit here and explain them to you. You should do this about a hundred times each way. A hundred times your friend moves to attack punch you from about three steps maybe five steps away after you've done it about four or five times he starts to get quicker at it and after you've done it about 20 times he might be doing it at half speed and after you've done it about 50 times he might be at like three two-thirds speed maybe even three quarters and you're standing there it's the last instant and you're getting out of the way as the punch goes by or you're getting out of the way as the kick goes and you're starting to determine what foot is he on just as he gets into the range where he can we've talked about this a hundred or seven hundred or a thousand times over the years when you're looking at your opponent where he is determines what he can do and in that last moment if someone's generally going to punch with the with the hand with the foot and combination that they're putting forward most people won't throw what is known in the martial arts world as a reverse punch for their first punch If I'm right handed, I'm going to step forward and swing with my right hand and my right foot is coming forward to back it up, to move my whole body around with it, right? You see, that's a basic, but somebody might decide to do something else. But in that last instant, where his foot is, is going to determine which foot he can kick with as he closes range. It's going to determine which hand he is most powerful with. And he's probably going to want to hit you with the strong side, right? These are basic things. I understand that, you know, sometimes they don't work out like the basics. But there becomes a predictability in how someone closes to a certain extent. But as you stand in the breach, as you stand in the door, as you... There are a number of... As you receive this opponent's onrush. Instead of thinking about getting out of the way, moving backward, Think about moving 90 degrees to either side, or thinking about moving 45 degrees forward. So now, like a chess piece for a pawn in passing. There's a French phrase for it, I won't say it. In passing. It's like the horseman changing course ever so slightly as he swings his sword into the course that he was just on and beheads the footman. Or the other horseman. In passing, as you've passed, just past that present, the counter to it, to the head, the throat, the arm that's extended beyond you, timing and distance, much to that. And it extends up, person, doesn't it, Mark? It extends up from just my feet and my hands and my eyes for perception and depth and the hearing. Maybe hear that ruffle in the bushes behind me. We talk about listening and getting that. sniff of the air every now and then too. I don't have the factory of a hound dog, but I can sure smell some of them in the woods sometimes. I yield to you, Mark. One of the other things to remember, and again, this is why you're doing slow repetition, is, guys, I don't care what your operating experience is, You start out in manufacturing at a lower speed, we're progressively building up detailed muscle memory, and then you can accelerate as your body and your mind, and specifically your subconscious, it works quite extensively into this process of, again, auto response. something, you recognize a sound, it's an auto, there are natural and conditioned responses that exist within the subconscious just on the edge of consciousness ready to activate. We've talked many times about fight-flight. People cringe or in fact, or the body responding to what it perceives as a threat gets into what are called preparatory auto response reaction, they just take place. The adrenaline rush is part of that. You don't command the adrenaline rush. Your body tells you about that. Your body, your subconscious mind, but also the auto inventory actions that are available, kind of like breathing. I'm going to stop myself from breathing. True, you can. And even if you were to hold your breath enough to actually allow yourself to pass out, unless you do something really not natural like duct tape or a rope or something like that, typically guess what your body does for you. It's going to make you breathe. Yeah, I think that was a fun trick but we're not playing with that, okay? You keep on going. Now, what you're doing when you create slow motion repetition, it's almost like again, it's like rock memorization with math or whatever else you're doing. In this case, it's physical. It's in the physical world. You're repeating this process to the point where it is a second nature motion and then you can accelerate the action because your memory, the muscle memory is there so you know the limit of the motion necessary. Because one of the things to remember, you can throw an arm out but you better have control to make sure it doesn't just keep going. The body needs to be able to compensate for that. Natural actions for that take place are your progressive learned development with regard to balance and walking. I mean, it doesn't really come totally natural, although it does through progression. I would point out, when you were born, you probably didn't hit the ground, do a double somersault, simulate pulling a weapon from a holster, shooting from under your armpit, landing on your feet, and then singing, Hello, my baby, hello, my darling. Did that happen with any of you? Yeah. It didn't happen, did it, right? But eventually, you did learn to walk. And you do pretty well at it. I would point out though something about that learned process and you may already know about this. If you've had older family members, you might recall that the doctors are reminding people that you kind of need to get up and move around and exercise that part of your brain muscle because otherwise people have a tendency to lose balance and equilibrium. That's a fact. As you get older, you need to get out there and work them, their brain muscles, combined with those physical muscles, and reinitiate some of these procedures and remind the body of how they are supposed to operate. It's like riding a bicycle. You may not have ridden a bicycle for a while, and you're going to be a wobble for a minute, but it is a learned thing. Once you've used that technology and you understand what body parts need to do what, it's a learned thing. Skiing. I've mentioned this many times. Water skiing. Same way, you use mussels as water skiing, which is a seasonal sport, that you're only going to use for a very short, you know, like one third of the year, one quarter of the year. I mean, we would ski as soon as the ice was gone and you could get in the water. You can for an instant when you get up and down out of a chair, but not for the length of time just to get up out of the water. Exactly, and on top of that, remember, you're holding yourself in a motor motion by making mussels rigid to control the toe of the boat. think about what your body is actually great exercise it really really is because you exercise muscles that you otherwise would not use in that course so in reality it is an excellent exercise in endurance and building up stamina within those muscles remember you break them down so they build back up with martial arts and shooting it the same way Matulik, actually they apparently say, everybody's called the calling guy, Matulik. And it's Matulik, or Matulik, the shooter, the high speed competition shooter. We've had him up and as far as playing him on the air where he's doing the .50 caliber shoot with the Barrett and you know, seconds. It should be remembered that how did he get to be the way that he is? Well, he started out the same speed as everybody else. And then, like he said, well, you gotta be the first person on the range, and at the end of the day, you're the last one to leave. That's how you get this good. And what does that mean? Practice, practice, practice. Another example, Mark, is that guy up out of Texas. In fact, his father, one of the ranges over at the NRA shooting range there at the Whittington Center, is named after his father, Mr. Tubb. The younger tub has shot at Palma a number of times and showed them how almost as many times as you have fingers and thumbs on your hand if you're normal. Just one short of that that I know of. Tell you that he'll go to the three gun shoots and he'll show the guys how it's done with a rifle and he'll hold his own with a pistol. But when it comes to those guys that shoot 100,000 cases a year in the shotgun category, they are the ones that begin sometime. Repetition. That's that. You know, I don't particularly care for that phrase, muscle memory either, but once you've done it so many times, it just becomes second nature. I'll tell you what, I got up in the middle of the night here about a month ago. Been shooting earlier in the day and I'd sit box of ammo down at the corner where it shouldn't have been and I stumbled over in the middle of the night. I really stumbled over and I'm head over heels almost and my head is headed for the door. motion block came up naturally and saved a good knock on the forehead. I know it saved a good knock on the forehead because I still have that swelling right to the wrist bone and that pressure. You know how you can push flesh so hard that you cut it? That pressure cut is finally starting to heal. But that was just a little night semi awake reaction because I've done that probably 10,000 times that up report if not 20,000 times portion block. And that's just in the middle of the night some old man falling down. He's talking about himself, you know. And now he's talking about himself in third person. He comes from doing it and practicing. Granted, I might have blocked some other way. I might have put my hand up or how it came up natural. That little hunk of that wrist, which has been, you know, what they call knocking. You guys, there's in real martial arts, there's a thing called knocking. In some martial arts, they pretend to do things. But in some martial arts, there's somebody trying to punch you and he's not moving out of the way. And you're trying to block that punch out of the way so you can step in. So as his punch is coming straight at you, you're drawing an arch with the front of your forearm and that little bit of bone just underneath your wrist contacts that, knocks that punch out of the way. And if you don't do that, like a couple of white belts, you're doing it kind of like, you know, the white belt. by like green belts and red belts, you're building up bone there, building up calcium there, and that becomes really more of a tool area. And if you apply that to someone who's never experienced that before, some thug on the street, and you whack his wrist like that, he might even grab his wrist with his other hand. Some tough guy who's never been hit right there, because there are nerves across there too. What you're doing is you're deadening those nerves. When you're knocking. But when you apply that little bit of almost bare bone to that almost other bare bone at real high speed and that's never happened to that person before, many times they grab that wrist and they look at it and they wonder what just happened to them. And in that instant, well there's a good thing about timing and distance because you're close enough already to put a hurt on them, right? And now he's got both hands and he's looking at them for that instant. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? I pose that question again. What are you going to do? But that comes from the difference between we're going to just stand here and wiggle our arms around or we're going to, we're kicking something or make, you know, real physical. That's just one little portion of. Thank you, Mark. And again, close contact, especially, or long range. Well, let's put it this way. Closing the distance should be you hitting them so far out you don't hear them scream. That's the rifleman's creed. Okay? We understand. See, this is the thing. Think about the... Well, I guess the best way to do it is this way. Go watch a lot of the shooting sites where they're pumping the whole thing about doing what I call the firing line to stupidity. They're doing the charge line. They're always doing the movies where somehow you just keep facing each other off and bouncing off each other's frontal force. And you know, you just face off like, well, that's as, to me that's as bad as a British musket line. It's a great idea in theory, except that if, as soon as you fight anybody that knows how to defend in depth, I would peg you to do that, and that's when my .308 riflemen from 100 yards farther back would just mow you down. In fact, ideally I would do an L pattern on something like that. I was just going to say, look to your left. Yeah, your last time. In fact, you probably wouldn't notice until it was too late because if you run down the file with firearms, with small arms firearms, two and three men fall at a time. Yeah, and especially a half inch gun. Think about a half inch gun just targeting that and waiting for the lineup and then letting the bullets sail. At medium or short range for the 50, which still would be hundreds of yards, even a couple hundred yards. Something like that, no travel time, and a 700 grain slug, a plus or minus going down range and going thud thud thud. And Mark, you know, here's what got me about the McCulloch, you know, his shoot. Now he was talking about timing, but he said, well, that round's a little off. Guys, every bullet that he fired in less than what, a second, in 1.1 second, that was his first shoot, you know, hyperspeed shoot with the Barrett. Fired all 10 rounds. and he had, oh, that one's not as good. Well, he had a wing shot that hit basically would have been the bottom of the rib cage and three, four fingers into the body. Do you know what that would do? You wouldn't have to hit him with anything else. That person is down. He's down and he's going to be wishing he was really not there. So, you know, when you think about it, the man's shooting a .50, but he's still, even the way he evaluated it, he was thinking in terms of small arms fire like, you know, 90 millimeter .38, .357, whatever, which I still want you to know, .357 or any bullet anywhere. But a half inch round with what it's doing as it travels through the air and then traveling through people, any hit is devastating. especially a torso hit and especially on bones. I mean, when you start crushing and snapping bones and then sucking body parts through the channel, the bone channel, which is what happens, you see, any hit's a good hit. So the thing about it is, is they always push this close to the target, close to, well, that's based on the idea that somehow you and I are on the same table. And that I'm gonna wait, stand in line, wait for you, and I'm just gonna pound my head against a wall. And you're going to scare me so much that because I don't have a whole lot of time shooting anybody, supposedly, which, you see, that's the problem with waging war against us. It's pretty much everybody's had a lot more time on the system and machine and in the Oregon government or whatever and with operational equipment and dealing with threats, etc., etc., over the years. So you're not going to baffle us. And that's what we're trying to do with these to kill people. Yeah, you're not going to baffle us with the BS, but we're also not going to be nice to you. We're not going to... We have to be fair. We need to be a pop-up target in front of our enemy. No, we don't. And the first rule, get down. The second rule, minimize target and put bullets on target. Aim and hit. And this is where, again, not a line of people, but an in-depth, integrated party of individuals with a combined arms team that know how to apply their weapons. Contact made, down, return, fire. If you're close, close, close, then yes, dump all the rounds down range you can. Suppress because your other people have to be able to acquire target and be able to put bullets on target. Always remember that, you've got to buy time. Don't pop smoke. Your long range rifleman will do their job. Don't throw any smoke up yet. He'll probably try to do that. Here's another thing, and I'm starting to remember. We brought this to the hour a number of times. And here's the reason why. You're walking across, you're walking down a road and you're trying to make fast time so you're not moving through the wood. And you're walking down the road and you've got that guy out front and he's got eyes as sharp as an eagle. And he walked right by the ambush. Eyes as sharp as an eagle. It's never happened to you before. But he walked by, they're good, they're real good. And they're about, you know, three feet into the brush and six feet into the brush and they're about 20 yards wide. And when your column gets in front of them of 10 men, when the meat of the column is in front of that ambush and they open fire, we've talked about this a number of times, you move directly toward it. When you're standing out there in the road, there can be of that 20 men, there could be 20 guns to bear on you. The closer you get to them, the what, it can come to the point where there's only one gun to bear on you and you've already shot him. Now you look up and down the column. As Mark was pointing out earlier, two and three bullets traveling down a column of five or 12 men can work wonders camped it. But you move directly toward that threat. In the middle of the night, you're moving down the middle of the road because you want to move fast. You look over there. The hell is that? That looks really, really bad. You don't just stand and look at that. The longer you stand and look at that, the more the guy behind the gun realizes that he knows that you know what he's looking at. I'm not trying to double talk you. You understand that, right? The more he, the less time he has to really produce an ambush. The longer you stand there and look, the more itchy his finger gets. That's the buck. You move toward that threat. You negate that threat, or you bring it up to you. It's talking to us now. It's talking to all of us. That's the pink there. We've talked about this in so many different ways. The man on the wall, the guy who has to bring that alarm. But if you're moving, and your column comes under attack from, you know, one side or the other. You don't run up and down the road. All you're doing is running through their field of fire. That's all you're doing. You move to the other side. What happens, Mark? If you jump in the ditch on the other side and they've been there for a while and they're ready for that, too, what happens if I'm going to get over there in the ditch? And what happens, Mark? Generally, in a prepared ambush, you move to cover. They turn the clacker and the cover goes boom. Or you jump into that ditch and you jump onto a bunch of spikes or the lions in the pit. Now I know sometimes your enemy doesn't have a lion in the back pocket but you know what I mean, right? So again, directly toward it. Directly toward it. And for a number of reasons. One being, as soon as I get there, there's a lot less guns on me. And even if they turn a gun on me, well they might even shoot one of them. See how that works? Not to mention you've brought to attention what's happening right to everybody else on your side. Right. A prepared ambush means that there can be second and third kill zones, which is why the basic rule with an ambush in the suspicion that typically they're prepared is to counter-strike immediately. And this is what we've talked before about why when we travel we carry drums in all of our weapons or large stick mags even though I'm not excited about 40 round mags. all the time. One of the reasons it puts the A high if you try to go prone and to ground, but it's in its original form as an assault weapon, which it really is if it's select fire, which we don't own, it would be normal for them to just continue to stay in motion and again, the idea is to suppress with fire on the target. In fact, they're constantly in ambush mode. is that's what you do in an ambush. Turn and put fires on the enemy, penetrate the ambush line, and there are two philosophies. One is break and run. In other words, break, run like hell. Turn and put fires down the column, just like we said when you have the mobile stooge line when it's moving across an open area. Only in this case, you know that the enemy has a prepared skirmish line typically dug in or can be dug in. For that reason, if you can put fires on them from a flank, you've done a major job of disrupting their agenda of trying to destroy your allies, destroy the friends that are moving with you. Once that is changed, remember they can assist and bring more fires to bear on the friendly side. But most important is to continue to fire no matter what. Wounded, continue to fire. Last breath, continue to fire. Focus on where you know or suspect the enemy to be. Keep dumping rounds down range. You've got HE in your hit. Dump it towards the enemy. Throw it towards the enemy. If you've got smoke, throw it in front of the enemy. Anything you can do. Whatever you can do. If you're out of ammo, dump your flares. everything and anything, point at an area where you see fires coming from and dump it into the target area. Now if it's a hasty ambush, remember this is where two forces are moving, one is a better recon than you do or better pickets up front or better scout, and they identify and they quickly choose a location and then they quickly deploy. Now this really puts you at almost an equal footing provided that your picketor scouts are doing their job. If they do, a hasty ambush is not always that successful. Both sides practice trying to accomplish the task, but you need to be prepared even as the aggressor, the person holding the ambush, you need to be prepared to break, contact, and leave. Because one thing that can happen is you can also grossly miscalculate the size of the formation you're attacking. In a hasty ambush, you may have only identified the forward element. Let me give a reverse version of that. Custer thought he was attacking the outer perimeter of the Indian encampment and remember it turns out he had actually sortaed to the center because he grossly miscalculated the size of the enemy force. See how that works? It got embarrassing when you create self-envelopment. Yeah. And it works that way with an ambusher. If you're in the situation and you've decided, yep, we're out here to hunt something and hit something and we found something, you deploy and set up a hasty ambush. If you can, even in a hasty ambush, Anti-personnel technology is deployed. Claymore mines, command detonated grenades, command detonated improvised weapons systems, whatever is available. So if it's possible to do so, it's always away from your, you know, again, your line of attack because typically, again, people will try to turn and run. Now, they will run away from, strangely enough, away from the fires. I don't mean going back down the road. If they do go back down the road, remember it's usually an L ambush, guys. What does that mean? There's a long leg, that's the one along the road, the route, the path that you're following could be just through the open area that you decided to move or semi-open area. The L is the short leg is to run fires down the length of your formation which of course creates interlocking crossfires that will help to destroy quickly your ability to fight because well, putting bullets on targets is what it's doing, if at all possible. And as we've said, running down the length of the formation like that, you know, I mean, think about it, when plain strafe columns, where do they go guys? To the rear end and follow up right up the hind end. Yep, that's a target rich and reliable environment. One bullet misses, it scuds down the road and hits somebody else in the tire, it's a wheel, it's an axle, maybe goes up into a vehicle. But everything you're dumping, all that spalled and junk, goes somewhere into what you were shooting at. Same as through a small arms fire. So it takes that into consideration. Oh, and with night fire, pretty much the same scenario except... Well, you pick a direction, either illumination by white light or, again, night vision and thermal technology and prioritizing to the critical control points and, of course, also allocating night vision and thermal to both the short leg and the long leg so that they can command the kill zone, so they can put fires where they're needed and also direct the other people who may not have night vision. One of the most common combinations is using both the night vision and or the thermal and tracer. We've talked about tracer before. The idea behind this is giving everybody else a point of reference for fire. On my mark, on my trace! And everybody out of like your one, if you had two or three men only with night vision, the other seven, every so many of them are designated for each of the night vision riflemen or machine gun crew members, whatever it is, you know, the gunners. and those other two men fire on your fire. Well, it's pretty logical you're going to more likely score a hit. A lot more fire on each individual target, but it does require intelligence, forward thinking, and, again, discipline. The temptation is to do something else, but in reality, through a planned attack, and even in what is a critical confusion situation, the end result will be very different. Of course each group has their own concept of how to accomplish this. Some people would argue, you know, break and run. It's a personal preference or a personal flavor choice thing. Me, my logic is to get as many of my people out of the kill zone as possible and to do that I need to do as much damage to the enemy as I can. Just a little heads up there. Before we go any farther, real quick, Henry Head is drawing it from the trenches, worldreport.com, guys. You want to see the list for the winners? It's over there at from the trenches, worldreport.com, top of the scroll. Go over there, check it out. See if your name's on the list. Oh my god, my name's on the list again. No! Save me! Wait a minute, look. My name's not there. My name's not there. Hey, wait up. I can look at it. There's a lot of people over there name is on the list so you guys want to check that out. Some really cool stuff. Okay. Um, let's see uh tell citizens to find out where the closest bunkers are. Oh, okay. One of the things, this was just an odd story. Don, while I got you here, uh, it'd be rather interesting. Beanie Goodman. Oh, okay. Right. And claims son was eaten by fellow inmates during riot in Venezuelan prison. Have you heard anything about this? No. Well, we know Venezuela's getting a little tight anyway. The socialists are not faring very well there. The communists and people are hungry. Well, don't you think they get hungry in prison? Well, guess what? Let's see. Caracas Juan Carlos Herrera is beyond devastated. He says his 25-year-old son, jailed in 2015 for robbery, which turns out to be a death sentence, was beaten, dismembered, and eaten by fellow inmates at the Tachira detention center. Shocking claim became public on October 10th when Herrera told the local media he made the gruesome discovery during a regular prison visit. He explained the alleged atrocity occurred during a month-long mutiny that had ended three days earlier. One of those who were with him when he was murdered saw everything that happened, Herrera told the reporters. My son and two others were taken by 40 people, stabbed, hanged to bleed, And then Doracel butchered them to feed all detainees. He added referring to infamous inmate Doracel people eater Vargas. Hey with a name like that. Should have put a bullet in him. Who is he? He's got a reputation. Yeah, it's like who would you kill first and if you were in a situation like that? Well, Mr. Doracel isn't with us anymore. And I mean isn't with us anymore. But anyway, he's alive well and apparently leading the pack of people who were slightly hungry after quite a while waiting for stuff to show up Vargas who was in prison since 1991 for cannibalism. That's why the guy was put in prison for cannibalism, okay? The inmate with whom I spoke Spoke who told me that he was beaten with a hammer in order to force him to eat the remains of the two boys or a rare added tearfully Herrera declined An interview with Fox News Latino due to safety concerns. Juan Carlos Herrera Jr. and one other inmate were unaccounted for when prison guards re-entered the facility after the calm returned and did a routine count. The Tichar Mutiny had started to do many of the hundreds of mutinies that take place in Venezuela prisons every year. So far this year there have been close to 200 riots. Hey, government agencies like that. According to the non-government organization, Una Ventana de la Libertad, a window to freedom. The news comes as Venezuelan economic crisis keeps worsening with food shortages, not in that prison. They didn't have shortages there, well at least they didn't have pork problems, and rising poverty, they're changing the landscape of this once prosperous country. On September 8, a group of prisoners protesting overcrowded conditions took eight visitors and two guards hostage and demanded some of the 350 prisoners to be transferred somewhere else. But to cheer detention facilities, centers capacity is 120. A month goes by and finally, on October 7th, the department, the government authorities, authorizes the transfer of 16 inmates. That's not exactly taking a whole lot of pressure off, guys. 120 is what it should be. 350 is where they're at. And they took 16 prisoners out. Woo-hoo! Yeah, that means you would only have to eat one of the people instead of two. No, they'd probably still eat both of them. The next day, Herrera and Anthony Correa were nowhere to be found. A police force, a source, forgive me, who asked him remain anonymous, told Fox News Latino, the claims of murder and cannibalism are true. Two inmates are missing. They cut them up and fed them to several of the fellow inmates. They made the bones disappear. Doris L. cut the flesh, the source said. He was the butcher. And the butcher of Bakersfield. No, that's another guy. And that's the running man. Quit that. On Thursday night, the Minister of Correctional Affairs, Iris Varilla, confirmed the disappearance but denied the cannibalism allegations. She said while she understands the father's pain, she regretted that he's being used to channel lies that can be easily debunked. Omerto Prado, coordinator of the Venezuelan Prison Observatory, OVP, said the alleged trustee would be nothing new in the country's convulsed prisons. Prisoners have been dismembered before and some inmates have forced other prisoners to eat their own fingers. Ooh, yeah, eat your fingers. No, your fingers, not mine. That happened in an attention center in El Tigre. He told F and L, but inmates die not only from that kind of violence. There are many prisoners who die of hepatitis, cirrhosis, or famine. Bum-bum-bum. He says the ovaries are starved to death? Starved to death? Well famine, that's what famine means, doesn't it? I don't think it's faminae. I don't think it's famine strike. There's a difference. If it was hunger strike, he'd have probably said that. We do not have any food to give you. Well, yeah you do. Just open that key to that cell. Uh oh. His name is Timothy. He used to be a minor. Oh God, what did we do? Timothy, and it remembers as a song, man! Where did he go? He said the OVP will ask the Attorney General's office to start an investigation and will submit the case to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. What the hell good will that do? What hurts me most is that I cannot bury my son. I can't give him a Christian burial. I beg you, just give me at least one bone. So he ends up with a dog bone or a chicken bone or something like that. They just pass up here. We found you a bone. Oh, porque. Oh, bueno. Oh, see, so anyway, a Tzidakin Berryman relieves some of his pain. Anyway, that's the end of the story, but yeah, I believe it. There's Venezuela. Come on. Number one, they're not exactly doing well already and I told you before, guys. If you think prison is as easy, that's real easy. Jailing, as they call it, varies depending upon economic climate outside, age and experience inside depending upon the wave of activity outside as people are arrested. And unfortunately when you have young and shall we say the punks off the street especially, the way they believe having watched too many stupid movies, jailing works and how jailing really works are two different worlds. But they can cause a lot of problems. Not so much riding. It's interesting that see prisons like riding. When you hear about 200 prisons here in Venezuela, guys they love riding. They also justify their existence. cannibalism, well that's where they kept shaving so much food away from the budget and stealing it and running it down the road to their homes that eventually it kind of shows up in the, well, the response of the prisoners to lack of calories. They're going to find the nutrients somewhere. In this case whoever's slowest or whoever they can gang up on, guess what? That's who was eaten. And for whatever reason they didn't like him. And maybe because they were just new prisoners and there's no attachment, they haven't aligned themselves or been in an alliance with anybody. So they don't have any mutual defense capability. Tonight they have new guy Tartar. Yeah. Mmm, num, num, num. So anyway, yeah, I believe it. In fact, one of the questions, that's one of the things I always try to point out to anybody who hadn't thought it through, it's like, One of the advantages of being able to have lots of food on the shelf is just in case they don't open the doors, but you better include some fluids with that and always keep water in some way, whatever extra water you can. One of the tricks there is actually just filling cups with water and you'll have as many as you can. The guards come in and ransack the room, they'll knock those over, dump them in the sink, whatever, or make a mess in your room and try and force you to clean things up after they're done ransacking the room. But if you had it when you, if they shut the water off because most everybody doesn't understand, they can shut the water off to individual cells. The controls are there to do that. They can shut off a block or they can shut off an entire complex, a whole building. And that means whatever water you got is all you got. So you better start thinking ahead, okay? Just something to take into consideration. detention camps, prison camps, all of these are the same. Whatever you can use to improvise, to, you know, again, build up a reserve. Let's say that you get locked down and stuck in there and you can't do anything. You're still running. Electricity's still working. I suggest you take advantage of getting as much of whatever you can out of the pipes while you still have power and while you still have water. But that also means being creative. What would you do if you knew that? Do you have a box or a waste basket? Can you make a box out of something? Have any garbage bags or plastic bags? Have anything in the way of plastic where you can put it in and make a trough and dump as much water to make a water reserve bucket as quickly as you can? Are you ready for that? Or did you even think about it until I just mentioned it? Imagine if you were in a 6 foot or 8 foot wide by 10 foot, 12 foot or 14 foot room. And that's your space. And if you're really lucky you're by yourself, but in most cases you're not, that's the other half of the battle. Can you get the other numbskull that's there to actually think? Or is he already in stupid mode and really sinking fast? See that's the other problem. See that's the other problem. You can go to sleep. Problem. And don't worry, lots of drugs, doped up, not necessarily, I mean even after having been in for a while, remember the government dopes people up guys. Remember I always talked about Prozac and all the other Prozac type drugs and what they do to you, what happens when you can't get them? Just imagine if you had a prisoner that was like that and, well, let's say you did have enough to go for more than a day or two days or three or four days. What would that person be like in about 24 hours after not getting medication? Oh, that's not medication, Mark. That's chemical restructuring. Chemical, yeah, well, chemical manipulation. It is. Now, induction. Okay, well, the thing is that What would he be like after four days? You ever seen a Prozac user when he doesn't get a Prozac? When my brother came home, when the state brought him to my front door, they gave me a big bag of pills. He was supposed to get 17 of them every day. In less than a week he was down to three. Yep. He didn't like that, but it was good for his kidneys, it was good for his liver, it was good for his brain in the long run. He didn't like it at first. Think about it. So anyway, again, here we are. It is, well, it's Friday, guys. We're almost at the top of the hour here. Donnie, stick around, you gotta go. Okay, guys, if you're gonna donate, we've got a couple of donations in the mail. I'll pass those on. Make sure that those are in the log for the end of the month drawing. We appreciate that. 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