Military.com is the only story you'll ever need, all from the comfort of your computer. Visit them online today at MaineMilitary.com. That's Maine, like the state, Military.com. I had a dream the other night that, well, I didn't understand. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and, speaking low to me, he said. We fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press. and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken some, you've traded in your name, you've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and see and re-farm. and keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children and 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? 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 for freedom, as Iowoki vanished in the midst of whence he came. His words were true. I hear the drum. Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Herkey. And Don Don Butcher. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters on and behind the lines and occupied territories west, south, southwest, and central. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on... LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, IndianaFreedomTalkRadio.com, and we're on AM and FM microstations, CB base stations, and UltraNet Hallmark and Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. Good afternoon to our friends in the Aleutians. Don, it's been a perfect winter day so far. What's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the date today? We're stepping off the wall, please. Hey, it's the tenth day of February. Year of our Lord 2017. And it's, uh, well, there's hardly any shade out there. The light has become a lot more uniform across the snow as the sun just touches the horizon and no direct sunlight on the snow. But, hey, beautiful, wonderful day. Can't complain and the daylight's almost gone, but it's... It is still the 10th day of February 2017. Now, you know, sometimes I walk away at the end of the hour or the end of the day and I'm, how does that go, in the cold dark night, laying there and bed, trying to go to sleep and sleep don't come because I'm thinking about what was said on the hour. And it took a long time to get to that. I know it's that drama thing. But, you know, we opened up the, I guess, the hour yesterday and we're talking about Oh, the bad conditions on the roads. And that led to talking about cars. And someone called in after, around the bottom of the aisle and said, what are we doing talking about cars when we should be talking about freedom? And I don't fault that person at all, because in that same time frame, I'm thinking, man, we've got to get this place back on course, you know, get a correction of the direction there. And reflecting on that later in the day, We've brought this thought to the hour before. We could start this with like you're standing on two pieces of wood and they're waxed and they're strapped to your feet and you've got these poles in your hands and you're going downhill. It almost seems as if you're doing this all by yourself without any extra well gravity still working and you still need those things to go that fast. But then you get inside the cage known as a car and you're going down the road and there's that word. And you know, I think even Chevrolet had a commercial talking about freedom of the road. And that's why I'm bringing this subject up just for a moment. We don't have to dwell on this. But that freedom of the road, that's something that we perceive and it falls under freedom to travel. It really and truly surely does. But you know, we, oh, what is that word? overlook, we take advantage of. Even with the EU, the United States of Europe, when you cross a border from Germany to France or from France into some other place, you have to show papers. The Europeans are amazed when they come here. The Japanese in particular when they come here and drive from city to city and how big the place is and how many golf courses they are and that still happens. It didn't happen just to Yamamoto when he came here. But that's when we talked about perception as of late. And that's one of the ways that we perceive freedom is to get in the car and go, here comes that phrase, wherever we want. So we did get a bit off track the other day, but that's part of freedom too, isn't it? I couldn't help but mention that, Mark. They're in that same thought line as the groups of states where riders don't have to wear a helmet anymore. And man, they've got nothing else to moan and groan about because that was their whole center of their universe when it came to oppression. You shouldn't make me wear a helmet. And now that they don't have to wear a helmet and they're enjoying that freedom of the road even more, I'm completely free. And they don't have any idea of the other ways that they are being attacked or the ways that their freedom cannot be expressed. I only bring that as an example, Mark. I'm not admonishing the caller about that because again, in that same time frame, we're thinking, we should change direction here. We've got to get back to something serious. But people get serious when they start talking about their cars, and there's one of the reasons why. It's like my horse is better than your horse. You need to let your hair down once in a while. I don't have any hair. I mean, it's fun to bring the breakout subject once in a couple of weeks. I didn't think it was any big deal. Well, I didn't either. And again, I'm not picking on the guy who called in. I'm not doing that at all. And I did in that same timeframe have the thought line, we got to get back on point here. But I only bring that because, you know, Don sometimes he'll think about what was said during the hour and dwell on it and, you know, kind of try to sometimes build on it. Well, I didn't think we'd be talking about this even that long. Well, let me tie something in here just on when we talk about vehicles we talk a lot about it about a lot of cool stuff and first of all we shouldn't be displeasure well We should be able to enjoy ourselves now the enemy hates that more than anything when we can be talking about their device And it's as casual as talking about our favorite car But I don't talk about most of these cars casually guys. Let me give you an example Now, what's a 427? When you hear that number, what does that bring up? Oh, I think about 10 second quarter miles in 1970 with a car that could be driven on the street. You drive it to the track and back, and a porcupine motor or a rat motor and something anybody could get if you had the money. And I'm just going to get me some aluminum heads someday. A 427, a side oiler, a side oiler Ford that can do the same or better. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Now, what about Corvette for the same year? What was the best? Let's see, the average engine you and I could ride out and buy. Oh, you could get in some years you could get that 327 or the 427. Yeah, right? Yeah. What's a Corvette? What good is that to me? Well, let me now let's change to another, move in another direction here. Chrysler. That old 318 was pretty much workhorse, wasn't it guys? 318 out there in a lot of Dodge pickup trucks. Yeah, it's better to go the grocery store engine, but it's reliable as heck. Oh, yeah? They'd run like Riddle Oil, put a right carburetor out here, and she'll stand up for the rest. And the 360's nothing more than a 318 on steroids dudes, you know what I mean? Otherwise those two are sisters. Now, let me point something out about why I know so much about them. Number one, I love the cars. And they go in, even though I never had a Corvette, but there's a reason I need to know about those engines. When the M114 armored personnel carrier came out, one engine, gasoline engine, was under the hood. The 427 Core VET engine. Did you know that? Yes. When the M113 armored personnel carrier first came into service, it was not a diesel engine. It was made by or assist made by a consortium and a company called Chrysler was involved And the engine under the hood that first came out with the Gavin M113 and its E model was the Chrysler 318. How many of you knew that? How many of you know that if there's a monument down the street there and you go look at it and we decide we're going to resurrect it like them there Ukrainians have been doing and we want to bring it back online. When we open up that engine compartment, if there ain't no engine there, You guys got a Chevy down the road? How many of you now know that that Chevy drops right down into that engine compartment? You now know that, don't you? And you know that if there's an old Corvette laying around, no it's not a battlefield vehicle, and I know, Don, we like to keep it intact, but you know what? And then she goes down the road. Now that M113, and there's thousands of those laying around right now. All those, basically the first ones that have the turret on the roof, not the fighting station for the Browning M250 caliber. Before that, guys, they originally came with the same cupola that was mounted on the M48 or the M60A chassis. OK? and the gun station was mounted forward and center so that the turret could depress a little bit with that front slope on that Gavin hull. And when I got here, we still was behind the engine because the engine's up front. And those models were gasoline models and then eventually some were actually converted to diesel because the power plant specifications dictated they needed to be able to do that. So, as long as you've got a Chrysler engine of any kind that pretty much is a match up for that 318, and since you probably have a little bit of experience for that old snow commander, maiden 76, that you got sitting in the backyard maybe, well that engine could drop right into that Gavin, and now you've got a working APC if you get to working with the break free and the oil. and you make sure you start chugging on a few things here and there and nipping on a few others and banging on the metal a little bit to break it free in case it's been a little too long. But amazingly enough, it's just fasting how much of that oil just comes loose when you start moving that tonnage. So you see, it is kind of handy to know about those things. And it's like I've mentioned many times, I mentioned the Bren gun carriers. We got a bunch of those. We got them for like five, six hundred dollars years ago. And the reason I love that vehicle is because we can upgrade the armor which we have and we can arm it up like a porcupine which we have. If you've seen the one picture, the most common armament on a lot of the brain guns that we have is a 20 millimeter gun that sits over the original gunner station and then a .30 caliber gun in the nose. Plus, coaxial mounts, you know, like fixed-pittle mounts all the way around the outside, like boat-lock, you know, boat-locks for the oars out of rowboat. That's a standard flathead pickup truck engine. Any old flathead out there made by Ford will drop right in, bolt right up to the pumpkin, which is a Ford pickup truck rear-end pumpkin. And you can run anything under that hood. It's a straight rail fixture, so all you do is adjust your motor mounts accordingly and fit the engine based upon the motor mounts you have from the vehicle you stole it from. Isn't that neat? It was a wartime production item built before the wars, the Cardin-Lloyd Carrier, and the guy built it. He designed it and built it in his garage in England, in his backyard. Have you ever seen English backyards? They're not very big, are they? Not very big. So this guy worked in his little tiddly shop and came up with a light armored vehicle that could be built from standard truck parts you could buy anywhere down the street. By the way, a lot of those parts are still around. And all of the straightforward mechanical parts are still made to this day. So bearings, races, and all critical components are available off the shelf. Brand new. So you see, it's kind of nice to know about these wrenchy twisty things and to talk about these good old days which really aren't that far back and if we get into trouble, we're going to be putting everything into service we can just to get the stuff down the road. By the way, it may only be just to move it. We may then pull that motor and drop something else very different inside that engine pack there, inside that engine pod. And it would be diesel. It could be another bigger block engine. Could be a number of reasons we changed it out. Diesel, safer to use with armor, but if I've got to use gas, I'll use gas. We've done it before. We can do it again. But again, always looking to change. We have to have the mechanical skill. We have to have the mechanical wherewithal. And so we need to immerse ourselves in as many different subjects as possible. Because, let me give an example of what one of the guys did. Mercury Marine Motors. Wow! Lots of horsepower. Fairly cheap. Normally that motor would be going on a boat somewhere in a straight shaft drive. Amazingly enough, lots of torque, lots of horsepower and some of those are really cheap right now. You can virtually get the engines for free out of boats that they're tearing down all around the Great Lakes. And Mercurys are very common. So guess what's in some of our vehicles and have spare engines stacked up to the gills? Yeah, see there's method to our madness and the knowledge is useful. And it's fun later on too because if we ever find somebody else's wreck and that 427 is there and I find another body for a Corvette, I'm gonna give Don a present someday. Another word I've been a pet. Those marine engines are not choked up with pollution gear in most cases. Right, exactly. And they have greater horsepower and less plumbing that bollocks up the works. Exactly, thank you. That's one of the reasons they did it. In fact, one of the things to remember about military vehicles are they're typically variable geometry motor compartments. Many military vehicles are kind of like the old CJ-5 of the armored world. They are designed so that in the event something happens I can improvise and pull from something else. Now the Army did this in reverse order, and this is why Don knew where I was going I think, because the 427, guys, I bought 427 engines all over the place for $75. Years ago, not anymore, every once in a while, those GM 715s keep showing up. Guys, do not assume that they have the six cylinder standard engine in them. The Army, when they started pulling the 427s and they stopped using M114, had pallets of brand new engines, never with not an hour on them. All from the Corvette engine plant, right? Well, guess what? That vehicle I just mentioned, the Jeep. What are Jeeps famous for? If you got a motor in it, yeah, you go get a motor from a Vega or a Hemi motor in it if you want it and everything in between so what the military did is they took that tornado engine out and they took the 427s because they had them available and they put them in under the hood that way they didn't waste your tax dollars because the 427 was a gas driven vehicle Okay, forgive me, the M715 was a gas-driven vehicle, so it didn't make any difference. You're going to burn gas no matter what. But how about you save the taxpayers a little bit of money because we got all these engines and we got to use them. So the neat thing is, this got lost in history. And I've had people in motor pools when they lift the hood, well it's got one of those six-cylers. No, it doesn't. Yeah, it does. Let me show you. And they lift the hood and there's a V8 in there. And it's like, well, stop the motor, it comes with it? Oh, yes, that is. As a matter of fact, you know what motor that is, by the way? And they scratch their head, and then they look at the paint job. Because the paint job on those motors was the same as the one that went under the hood of that Corvette back in the day, guys. And then they get quiet. Because he realized, I just bought that thing for $115. I got a nice truck and I got a stupid, priceless engine. And we've got a whole bunch of these. It's about 50-50. Half of them are the Corvette engine. Half of them are the original six. If the engine went out, the originals, they kept using the original engines until those started to become a problem. And then they started pulling from the inventory. And it was a project that was done by automotive, Tank Automotive Command. as a solution to supply because of available inventory. You know, what can we do with this engine? We got it. Well, I don't know, we can put them out in the sales block and let Corvette owners really go to town and wet their pants. No, we can't do that. We could figure out a way to use these things, and they did, okay? So there's a lot of stuff like that out there. But remember, if it's a military vehicle, example is the M48, the M60, and the Abrams tank. What do they all have in common? pretty much the engine that's in the M48. It sounds weird, but it's true. The motor pack that went into the M48 had to be adaptable to the M60. Had to be interactive with the M60. So if they wanted to pull an engine pack because we had how many thousand M48 tanks when the M60 came into service. Well, because they did that, when the Abrams came out, they had to have a compatible motor pack system that could take the M60 Battle Tank motor package. Well, because of that, for all practical purposes, the Abrams tank could be riding on an M48 engine plant because each had to be compatible with the other. The one had to be compatible with the second. The second, its parts inventory in the, especially the first generation of Abrams that came out, had to be compatible with all of the working components because remember the Abrams originally came out with a 105 and the M60 had a 105. All of this was not an accident. It was part of overlapping generational maintenance support. That way nobody was caught flat-footed. We wouldn't have two totally disparate systems, although many parts of the Abrams are totally separate and independent than the M60. We know that. But the idea is that critical components, especially having motors laying around, you got an M60 wreck laying there. You tow in three or four wrecks. You got to wash out the crew from the inside, if there's any crew left. And then you figure out what you're going to do with it. Can you rebuild it? Well, maybe the engine plant took a hit. Pull the engine plant from one, throw it in the other, and it could be a mish-mish. You got three M60s, six or seven Abrams knocked out. What's your priority? Well, your priority would be to get your newer tank running. How do you do that? Take the parts from the other clunker, put it in the other clunker, and make a non-clunker, or a semi-clunker. This is how military support... The gun part is fun. The shooting part is fun. The wrenching part and the work part that they don't show you. It's like when they do movies. Let's do movies based on an hour of flight for a jet and give equity to all of the elements of what keeps a jet in the air for one hour. And we'll do it in so many minutes. You know, you probably wouldn't sit down and watch very much of the movie, you know what I mean? Because what's he doing? Oh, they're pulling the engine. What are they doing? Engine maintenance. Oh, it's got gun holes. Well, they're going to start taking rivets out and popping panels off and putting new panels on. Might have to do some structural repair. Well, wait a minute. I thought we were going to fly and see some dynamic acrobatics. Well, yeah, you did. Wasn't there some in the beginning? For every hour of flying time there are seven hours of maintenance. This is going to be a real exciting movie. Yeah. It ain't the razor, it's the blades, son. It ain't the razor, it's the blades. It's kind of like talking about weapons. Nobody likes it when we talk about weapons maintenance. How many people have bragged about how, oh, I don't clean my M16 at all, my A-R at all. It's like, really? I love it. I can trust it with my life. Now I think that's wonderful you just keep doing that you know that's that's your that's your forte You keep doing that But you see that and again, what's the what's the point of doing saying that that you're against maintenance in reality? What it comes down to this the person is against work Now when a person expresses something like that does that demonstrate that they're an adult or a child? Not more childlike you see how that works I'm not going to get upset about it, but it helps me to register the person and to know more about who I'm dealing with when the time comes about reliability. See, because again, there's common sense, real vehicle operations, the same way guys, it's real, it's fun when you're driving them. One day, this is an experience we personally had. I had one M60 under my command, one M60, one M48A5 against two tank platoons. The two tank platoons were part of the part that they had. Everything gets moved. Every so many, like every three months, you better move everything or she starts to rust in place, right? So we go up against the, I had two out four companies in the field for anti-tank operations. I had another one that was a column ambush element. And then I had the two tanks beyond us to support and engage whatever armor theoretically went through the screen. at a water ford, you know, of course engaged everything. Now, during the process of the travel out into the contact area, it looked like the Arab-Israeli wars. Out of three columns of five M60 A1 tanks, well half for A1s and half for A2s, or no, forgive me, A3s, not A2s, all of a sudden somebody throws a track. You ever see a tank when it throws a track? I'm watching from a hill, probably a good three miles away, at vantage point, and there's a lot of metal. Now granted, if you're on the vehicle, it ain't no fun either. But here's the thing. I can't observe for very long. I'm preparing the defense. And my reconnaissance people are observing a confirmed route of travel to make sure that we're deployed properly. And at the end of the day, well, it should have been the end of the day by sometime towards sunset. Every tank crew is out there, the recovery tanks, all our recovery vehicles are out there. Two cranes are out there because virtually three quarters of that column was knocked out, not that it would have been theoretical, you know, fire, but was knocked out for lack of maintenance and all of those vehicles had thrown a track. Three quarters of the vehicles before they got to contact had thrown a track. Now you think force for some grief. Oh, oh, yes. Well, we don't need to do maintenance I don't clean my m16 and I don't work on any of the vehicles I'm assigned to I mean they are all put together right aren't they? And you know what would what they decided was improper track suspension, you know, what is you've got a track tensor, right? And there's a gauge I mean you can you can eyeball it but you can only do that and you want to gauge it guys You want to put up you want to put a torque tester on it? And more than half of those, they had simply not done a suspension check. It could have been completely avoided, but instead they spent hours more recovering each of those vehicles. One about a half mile down the road, two of them about another mile down the road, another one about two miles down the road. And it was just like a, it was a battlefield where not a shot was fired, but a whole column was knocked out for lack of proper maintenance. Prior, proper planning. Prevents, piss, poor performance. Now I'm going to be quite honest, what would you do if you were an aggressor? I would be merciless to those people. Oh yeah, those tanks, they never go home. Yeah, I might own all of them by the end of the day. I might not even knock them out. Because the column had to proceed with its objectives. Remember, that's the rule. If you've got dogs and they fall, you know, what does a rat pack care for if a rat falls? See how that works? So here's this crew out by itself, and if I had been, if I were, I would have, if I were more aggressive, if it were not part of the requirement of the operation to fulfill my obligation with the agreement we made, if it were a real life situation, I'd have sent 200 killer squads out, and each tank would have been taken one after another. They would never have been able to properly defend themselves, and they had no supporting security. In fact, they didn't even link up with their, they hadn't linked up with their supporting infantry until almost the final... Oh, that's like farmer formations without fighter escorts. Tanks without boots around them are a lot easier to kill. Yeah, see guys, this is the thing about the real world as opposed to all this Hollywood BS with everything just going perfectly. It is true, there are days, there are moments, very few days, but there are moments when everything goes perfectly, and then there's all the rest of life's experience. It's like, yo, you gotta take off, we are at the bottom. And for everybody out there, guys, why are you dealing with a stranger? Don Betcher is available, Light Vision Technology is his niche. Give him a call, take the time and talk to him if you have any questions. Don, give us all the information out before you go please. If you have any questions about any other applications or how much application it might take of money to loose one of those from the website, it will be less than what is advertised there. Give me a call. My number is 2317968458. Again, the website, ydte.us. The phone number, 2317968458. Thank you, Mark. I've got a scram. last half hour for the afternoon intel report. It is Friday. Cinco de Amo de and Master Friday, also known as Quartermaster. For everybody who knows the Quartermaster, now typically they work in the US military. Yeah, we can't give it to you. You might wear it out. And if you wear it out, we'd have to give you another one. So we won't give you one of those, even though you could use it. You probably wouldn't have frozen you last weekend or this week or when you're out in the field next week. But yeah. We saved the government $1.14 per unit so they could sell it for surplus out the back door for pennies on the pound and the soldier it was bought for and the taxpayers had money taken away from a gunpoint. Well, the soldiers never saw it. Yeah. But it's brand new and shiny in the surplus box. Yes, it is. So again, guys, there's a lot of stuff out there, material support out there like that. Should have gotten to the troops, never did. It was a castaway item, so it shouldn't have been worried about getting it back, really. But there's a lot of neat stuff out there if you look in the clearance and close outs right now. And again, colmans.com, colmans.com, colmans.com, they have in their clearance and close out sections, they have the, again, dust goggles, day and night, with laser protection lenses. I got five sets of these for personal use and we're going to be also demonstrating some of the technology with Don's new video. Kind of give you a feel for how this would be useful in the field with personnel. We're going to be using lasers, we're going to be using illumination flares and other technologies. Kind of show you how the program would work in a multi-faceted battlefield. They are $7 for a pair or two pairs of frames with the lenses and the laser lenses. Both of the sets of glasses come in their own carrier and it's very self-explanatory but everything comes brand new in the box for $7.65 or whatever it is. Also, there are a number of other sales or clearance items you need to check and always go through to see what's available there because Coleman's is a real military surplus site. They don't sell much of anything that's aftermarket. They sell original military surplus. And if you want to, you can even buy an Abrams tank there. Now, check it out. You'd be surprised. And no, we're not talking a toy. Anyway. Oh, that's not possible Mark. Anything is possible Myson. Anything. Showing me together we can bring order to the galaxy. The Emperor Fisk. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, wrong direction. Oh, that's right. Anyway. As it is, there's still a whole lot of cool things that are out there. Too numerous to mention. And another one. I don't mention very often, but right now I got some nice sails going on again. For you Quartermaster personnel, if you're using the ATAC camouflage, you know that smoky fog camo, you saw it being worn by the guys standing in front of the Bundy's out there at the Bundy Ranch. Remember when you had the one detail and they were all in uniform? That uniform they're wearing is the ATAC uniform. A lot of units like it and use it, either in the green range or the brown range. Well, right now over at Major Surplus they've got a bunch of sales or clearance on the ATACS gear. Some of them made by Voodoo, some of them made by another company. And all of them are pretty serviceable, but if you're looking for matching up mag pouches, assault gear, blouses, pants, and you know, a mix of stuff, there's a wide range of items there including, they've got a plate carrier, And they have a chest pouch rig that's in the HX. Again, price is reasonable. One of the clearance prices. Then remember, they sometimes get on their emailing list. You sometimes get a little notice for a 10% off everything on the page. That includes the sales items. So you save that much more. So it's a good idea to get going on it from the computer end and sign up for the email notifications for sales and goodies. And they have for their email customers, internet customers, they have discounts that should pop up now and then. It varies depending on which company organization. But that's majorsurplus.com. They have the ATACS uniforms. Pretty good price and good size range too. At least they did. Now, they could be selling down on those because a lot of people are scarfing their stuff up. over at Maine Military, understand that there are some things they have in the shop if you're willing to buy quantity. They do not necessarily have them listed on the page, so you need to call and say, hey, I know you got these cheaper in the store, and or I'm looking for this item and I understand you got a bunch of them, just tell them, just do it the way I say it. You know, you got a bunch of them and they're cheaper in the store, and I want a whole bunch of them. I understand you got a bin full you want to move. I need a whole bunch of molly pouches, M16 molly pouches in Woodland. I need a whole bunch of fill in the blank, ask questions, find out what they got. What do you got over there right now? The reason is if you're out fitting a unit, guys. Well, first of all, your molly gear doesn't have to be perfectly matched up. It does look cool and does work well. But the Woodland and the Marpat and the Digital Woodland and the other Digital Greens and Browns, Pretty well blend in and work together. They complement and go together. It's not a bad way to go. In addition to that, they do have some regular sale items for you desert troops if you're out west. DCU camouflage helmet covers. I think you get like, what, a dozen for $3, $4, whatever it is. You've got to take a look at the present prices. So you're looking at pennies per unit. So if you needed Kevlar helmet covers, that's another way to go. for the brownout season and if you want to modify them, if you get the DCU 3 color desert, well if you don't like the pattern quite because you think it needs a little more color, well go to the hardware store, get yourself some flat camo paint and improve and modify all of those helmet covers so that they blend in more like a crossover to the ATACS. You'll have a good base color and you already have something cut that fits your Kevlar helmet And you can make it up to the rest of your system without any real great expense. Kind of cool. And you'll always have that three color base, no matter what, on top of whatever else you touch up the unit with. So there's all kinds of ways you can come up with your own patterns, or you can even mimic what's available commercially so that you can make up the difference in what you need to keep the cost down. because I fully appreciate the idea that nobody's made out of money. OK? In addition, people are asking about, I just had a couple of flags here about finding out about the Night Vision videos. Guys, go to libertytreeradio.4mg.com. When you get to libertytreeradio.4mg.com and you go to the page, you'll find that we list videos. You'll see the Night Vision videos are listed right there. We have them available on DVD and we'll shoot them out as quickly as we get the order and it's just follow the instructions. If you're going to order it via the internet using PayPal, make sure that you post that your mailing address is correct. Remember, these are not going to be really big envelopes because it's DVDs, but we don't want them lost in the system. The system is very bad. It's different parts of the country already. So make sure that that mailing address is correct. You can then place the order accordingly. And we'll get everything in motion to get the magazine videos to you as quickly as we can. Also, we have the many different militia manuals. I just sent a batch out to our friends in South Dakota. And it's a sampling of everything so that the rifle team, for instance, the rifle management team, One instructor's manual and ten of the range log books. That's for a squad. In addition to that, a militia SOP, how to build a militia. militia anti-armor, the anti-armor manual and the recon manual. So everything is listed there. We do have it available. It is in the inventory and we'll shoot it out as quickly as we get an address to send it to. And you go to www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com. That's libertytreeradio.4mg.com. And then go to the donate key and then go to Again, the donate section, scroll down, you'll find manuals listed. You'll also find videos and music listed. And you can place the order right there through our webpage at libertytreeradio.4mg.com. Off of the donate key. Go to the donate key, everything is self-explanatory from there. And yet, it's another way you can support Liberty Tree Radio and in the process, you'll get a gift in return. With regard to the manuals, copy. If you want more, you can get more from us to support us and in the process you get a good product. But we don't have any problem with you copying anything and everything that we generated. You know that with regard to videos and with regard to training manuals. Anything and everything you wish to use, run it. Just a little heads up there. So again, if you need more for platoon, you'll have the basic components. I sent a basic component package out that was ordered by one of our friends also in Colorado, no not Colorado, Wyoming. And it's one of everything. Now again, they've got a photocopy machine out there. They've got staplers. They can do it themselves if need be. It is a little bit of work. We do the quarter page manuals for the SOP so that they fit right into your pocket. Again, you'll be able to carry it nonstop. You can carry it wherever you go. You can carry it if I put it personally. You should put it in your backpack. Even in the field, you guys should be reviewing, reviewing, reviewing any of the SOP so that it's virtually muscle memory. It's ingrained into the subconscious. It is automatic procedure. Example, gas masks. How to operate an M17 type mask means you can also handle the M10, but their variation in how the masks are donned is really not all that great, and the basics are there. Now, that's why we didn't really change that because the M10M has been out there in force quite some time, and it really, you know, it's going to be around for quite a while still. As a matter of fact, the vehicle I'm putting together right now is going to be almost all M10M equipped with gas masks. That's what's going to be on board, hanging by the rings, ready to be grabbed in the event somebody doesn't have a gas mask and something's going on right there. Again, I always outfit all the vehicles with spare masks. All maintenance and support vehicles are built the same way. But any mask, of course, will do. Go ahead. Yeah, you know, you brought up a real good point about the gas map mounting in the vehicle. You want that thing as close to your head as you can get it. When I had to use wine, it was too far away. It was a real pain to get to it and darn it. I mean, it's here, it's right on the money when you say you want it right there next to your head. I mean, that's so... That's no joke because every second counts if you can't breathe. Exactly. Well, actually like with a vehicle, one of the things the guys do is strap them right to the seat. Take that waist strap. It'll adjust out to go around your waist. It can open up far enough to go around the seat back. And then your other strap goes around the seat back also. and you adjust it to the left or the right depending on which you feel is more comfortable and stays out of the way of your other safety equipment because you still got to wear a safety belt and all the other BS. And for that reason you want to test it. Make sure it's where you can turn and reach it and grab it or where you can drop it from above and grab it. Now reach up and go up. There it is. So it's right there. Fingertip. Go ahead. Yeah, that goes for medical too. That medical will allow me real close that I got my little I got my pouch right next to me. I got both couches right there where I can reach a medical and Dab path. The Dab path is probably the most... You want that thing right there. If you've got to reach for it, it's too far away. You know, you want to move your shoulder and grab it. Exactly. If you're scrambling for it and you're trying to drive, it's kind of embarrassing when you make a little error there, right? Yep. We don't need that either. 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You can turn around a corner in a town and wobble right into something you never expected. In fact, you go to the airport. You're just going to go to the airport to see your grandma. You get off the taxi, you're on the front porch of the airport, and along come about 80 or 90 black uniform thugs with clubs. And they think you look like you voted for Trump, so they hit you in the head, and they bust you in the knee, and they kick you in the head on the ground in the face, and they're laughing, and they're sneering. And then they keep on going, and the cops do nothing. See how that works? That's America right now, okay? And the same is true with any other area where you're operating when you're passing through other communities or other places, especially those you're not familiar with. You don't know where these dummies are going to show up. These Fruit Loops have an agenda, and it's not yours. So they're not going to do it to your schedule. That's the most common mistake made. Oh, I'll have plenty of time because there'll be warning and well, to a degree there will be depending upon how well-offixed you are and how defended you are. But if you're mobile, then you can be set upon it anytime. And that needs to be how you think. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah, you know, I mean, also, I make darn sure I just I've been listening to Mike on Micro-Facts and I've been listening to you guys and so I put together a really cool article. You want that tourniquet real close too, but I'm sure you know that already. There's a lot of nuts up there that like to shoot things. There's going to be a lot of nut cases shooting at vehicles. There already are actually. We've never heard about it, but if you get shot in the arm or or the shoulder or whatever, you want that jacket right there too, man. You know, you don't, I mean, at the start, you gotta, you gotta pick throttle. You got a real bad bleeder and all that. You gotta have a jacket, you know, close by. That's all important stuff, you know, to keep in mind. Well, the biggest problem of being taking an injury in a big vehicle is the vehicle doesn't explode, guys. It doesn't do a catastrophic rollover all on its own or necessarily most of the time. If somebody's hurt, the driver, think about what a person would do. You're going to try to maintain control of the vehicle, but you're bleeding. You try to get the vehicle off the road, which maybe the driver does. How many people are going to think that there's something wrong with the driver? How long would it be before somebody stops after the truck's been there for a day and climbs up on the cab and looks in and says, oh look the glass has got a hole in it. Hey, this guy looks real blue and he's flopped over the side and he looks like he ain't breathing. See, that's the thing. It's like being an infantryman. In a firefight, you've got to take care of yourself because everybody else is trying to win the battle. That's the first rule. That's why again the tourniquet was brought into play again. And just simply because of the types of injuries and the tourniquet makes sense and it should have been priority for years. It's been up and down, it's been a roller coaster. But in reality, the biggest problem you've got is you have to draw attention to your injury too. First, you have to stop the bleeding, prevent yourself from being, you know, again, an unconscious casualty that nobody can respond to because they don't know that you're wounded. Almost as quickly and even while you're trying to treat the injury, you need to be getting a message out that you need assistance. And it's, you know, again, it's a priority, whether it's a phone call and the CB or both is a good idea. In addition to that though, again, first, you need to treat yourself to prevent yourself from, you know, losing consciousness. Or at the very least, if you're going to lose consciousness, preferably not losing any more blood than you've already lost. So, again, like you said, you have to be prepared. Practice applying the tourniquet. That's the other thing. We used to do this. We used to practice compress application. We used to practice all the basic. There are five different steps in first aid. They were part of the five-point tack lane. They used to be standard for the military. I don't really know if they're doing it now. But I'm sure they get some more specific training at some point. It's been up and down and it's been a roller coaster. Having the guys wear red high heel shoes so they can find the woman in themselves is far more important than actually tactically training. You see? You know, practicing and being a queer is more important than having an actual combat training. And by the way, everybody got a chance to do that, including the Marines. Okay? Go ahead. One more thing and I'll shut up. You know, a shower bar looks like. Well, actually what it is, it's actually a load bar, but a lot of truck stops have these really cool, it's like a miniature load bar. It's a ratchet with big feet on each end, and it's not really a load bar. It's a trailer. It's more like a really cool heavy-duty hang rack, but it is a bar with a ratchet in the middle and the two high grip feet on each end. It will go out to about seven feet which is just about the width of my can. I've got one of those that's miniature low bar that's not made for love. But I've got it right above my head where it stretches all the way across from one end to the other and I've got a ratchet of tight. And I hang a lot of things from that because you're just not enough storage. You want more storage. You always want more storage. So you're hanging this really cool ratchet at the door bar and you can mount it above your head and make sure it's real secure and you can hang all kinds of stuff from it. It's a really good idea to correct your story. Exactly. That's what I would do with the vans, although I didn't use a bar across the whole structure. I take hanger loop steel rings. Use a solid plastic line hanger for doing plastic pipe, PVC. Throw a hole and use a through bolt and put the hanger on the conduit ring. Then run the bolt through the two screw points. and then run it through the hole in the head of the van or the truck and then lock it down with the nut and bolt lock washer. Now you've got a hanger point and you hook up the gas mask bag right there, clip it right to it. Now it's right where it's at head height, everybody knows where they are and they're out of the way when you're normally operating. So it's a convenient way to do it. Go ahead. Yeah, well, yeah, I was going to say that the ratchet is cool because you can adjust it to different vehicles. You know, you don't have to... You don't have to cut the fit. I mean, if you go from one vehicle to the next, you've got all that adjustment. All you're doing is re-inting a ratchet and sliding the pipe in and out. And it's like instant fit. And then you ratchet it real tight, you know, which is cool. You don't have to worry about any, you know... You're gonna tell what we're at the top. We're gonna close and militia town hall's taking over. God bless the republic. That's the new real warmer. We shall for mail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire's on the run. We'll be back right here in an hour, but you'll be with DK and myself meanwhile, and taking over along with the rest of the crew. Guys, pitch in, and again, this forum is for you, so that you can help to come up with solutions. We don't just complain about the problems, we find answers. God bless, bye-bye. All with the Liberty Tree, it's just all the sons of Liv- Go to the website and check out our selection today. Join Mark and Tom for Weapons Wednesday, where you'll learn how to use everything from your bare hands to your average AR-15. The fourth gauge autoloader? 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