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He called out from the grave. Well, the land of the... Tribal drums. I think it's small arms fire. Yeah, that's okay. Ladies and gentlemen, this is the hour of the afternoon Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Hernke and I'm Don Fetcher. Today, closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on the lines in occupied territory south, southeast, west, and boom, and you're listening to us. The Tree Radio dot 4 mg, Indiana Freedom Talk Radio dot com, and where I am, and I've had micro stations, CB base stations, and Ultra Net Hallmark and Golden Spike Technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska. We're going to our friends in the great state of Jefferson, the Aleutians and the Bering Straits and the old girl parked there in the Bering Straits that you and I aren't supposed to know about. Let's see. Susan fried rice just add lies. Unmask the flavor. Wait a minute. Soap on fried rice. There's no treason not to love it. get that? No treason, not to look. So anyway, as it stands, it's going to be a pretty, I think, wet evening. We've got darker, darker clouds moving in. Over to the east, we have had nothing but dark, I think. Detroit's getting a little more rain and the Detroit River's getting a little more rain than we are right now. We have been around us, but not on us. But I think we're going to, it's going to get caught up. So cover up whatever you got to cover up, get the plants out there, get some moisture, and be ready for some temperature dropping too. heading our way through the week. So Don, what's it like in your neck of the woods? What's the day today? We're stepping off the wall there, please. Hey, today's Tuesday, the fourth day of April, the year of our Lord, 2017. And they say we might see snow Wednesday, so that means tomorrow, but that ain't today, the fourth day of April, 2017. So it kind of looks like springtime out there. The grass hasn't turned green yet, but it looks like it wants to at any rate, again, the fourth day of April. 2017. And as you bring up the rice thing, there's something I want to do this. Maybe I can kind of get through this here in a particular little way that might be understandable. But the following public service announcement is brought to you by concerned citizens who are not Zionists. Please, we implore you to keep $25 in your pocket this Passover season so that you might enrich yourself and deny the nation of Israel $25 from suckers all across America who are deciding to send their money because of their their beaten into them Judeo-Christian ethics. America has sent far too much money to Israel already this year and will continue to send far too much money to Israel for the rest of the year no matter what I say about it. Please keep that $25 in your pocket and do not send it to Israel this year because they should be able to support their own people and feed their own Holyoke survivors. The preceding has been a public service announcement from the concerned citizens who are not Zionists. Thank you, Mark. Show me the money! The money! Don't remember the Tom Cruise line? Show me the money! No, actually they want to change that. Send me the money. Just send me that money! Your money is waiting for me! I'm telling you, I'll set it free! Only $25 push muck! And then, well, the rest is history as they say. Oi, I'm telling ya, if it goes over there, you won't be coming back. They just keep expecting more, and more, and... Oh man, more. Well, again, that's the uh... So the television ads, are they continuing? Even as we speak? Yes they are, and tomorrow I'll have an addendum to that ad. Yup. Oh man. Well, again, you know, interestingly enough, uh, I gotta change this subject for just a moment. You remember all the Canik, Turkish pistols that came in? What happened to all the 55s? You know, the TP9 is out there, it's kind of like the Star, I mean I'm sure like everybody else, they make this proliferation of different L's, P's, T's, B's, Nines, L's, TEL, K, BAM, you know, blah blah blah blah whatever. But it's interesting that they've got the TP9 is the next one that's been coming in, all matching, instead of two-tone, it's all matching one color except for dark accents. But it is out there. So just a heads up, not too expensive, but more expensive than when they first came in, hovering around $200. Remember that? Well, now the Turks figure that, I guess since they got cut off on their cheap free oil, they had to go the other way with the guns. So the prices are sliding upward. Anyway, just a little heads up on that. I don't know anything about that one. I mean, I know it's been around, but the TP9 looks like another Glock knockoff. So if you don't want to buy a $700 Glock, buy a $315 Anak TP9 from the Turks and you get basically the same gun. And then buy another one and you'll have money left over. Yeah, and still, if you buy two at the same time, you will get a better price. So just a little heads up on that one. A couple other things here real quick. Yeah, we know about the incident in Moscow. It kind of came and went. You'll notice they kind of started to shut up about it real quick because over there they're talking about it having come from the Middle East and not from the Muslims. In fact, it's pretty obvious you had Netanyahu and Putin talking to each other and I'm sure that somebody's wagging their little kosher weenie in one direction or another and the end result is what we just saw. Another thing, yeah, we've been watching the border thing. There's been a whole bunch of little releases on this about the contractors. Now, you've got to remember the contractors, these are not the wall builders. These are repair crews. Step one right now is there's no validation on getting any of the stuff done that they propose except for, remember there was a discussion about maintenance? So they're now talking about having M-Raps for the maintenance crews and all this other fun stuff guys and it's like, really? Well, I guess you got to pile those pieces of junk hanging around so why not hand them over to the construction crews? What the hell? And they are really a lot more survivable in our desert. Yeah, they're really kind of Cadillac in that you know, you got AC or completely sealed in, everybody's got their own little bucket seat. If you're not familiar with the inside of those, You need to check them out. One of our guys got one of the trainers from, it's actually an MRAP and everything but full armor. It does have all the armor shielding and panels but not to the same level. But it's an MRAP trainer. and everyone got a chance to take a look at it and go, hmm, interesting. Not much to fight from. It's supposed to be apparently, it's like a really grossly overexpensive, overly sized, extra bulky, custom van. Grossly overpriced. Oh, again, what's your wife worth? Well, it's grossly overpriced, it still comes down to. They picked a dog platform they couldn't sell as a truck and made it into an armored car. And that's why it got stuck on the military, the MRAP. That's why it got stuck on the military. It was one of the... So we could give our soldiers the best. Yeah, it's interesting there. The platform itself, the motor has got a lot of issues that they don't even know I come close to talking about. It has been major downhill with regard to performance in several categories. not the least of which is horsepower issues which they've had several times have had to address by modifying and modifying and modifying so it's kind of like a rebuild of the Humvee thing. When the Humvees came out they just kept changing and changing and changing and some of the ideas weren't really great ideas it was just a quick solution to try and make things work. It didn't work out the way they planned so they had to change it again and then they changed it yet again. So there's been more than a few variations on the theme with regard to the modifications there. The same is true of the MRAP. Anyway, they're talking about them being down there. There's some discussion about different pieces of equipment. They could easily resurrect stuff from all along the bone yards that are in Texas, in New Mexico, and in Arizona. There are several depots and if they aren't right there then up towards the four corners or up in Nevada they could pull from the inventory in that area too. Several thousand vehicles of mixed types to choose from. You mean take this big bandsaw and cut this half off of that and weld it to the other half that survived the war over there? And make it work. Well again here's what I think is fascinating about this especially with the Some of the stuff they're pulling out of their arches. Guys, the Minuteman 2 project involved thousands of people who went down to the border while other people pissed their pants and got spooked because the cartoons are going to come out well. A lot of people said this. I don't know. They just went down anyway. A lot of grandpas and grandpas and everybody else you can think of. A lot of people have body armor, I'm sure. I mean, most of the combatants didn't. Many of the people who didn't look so much like they were combatants, but were ready to fight or defend themselves, were wearing body armor. Night vision, they all brought some in, in some form or another. But basically, they were able to sit there for the whole month, and once they had the system in play, the border settled down to zero activity. Now if they were to take this just as seriously and really where they would save money and time is putting junk in the air. No, they don't need a 50 billion dollar drone. That will be some Israeli, once again, mark my word on this. If they get a drone it will be some Israeli BS that costs 20 times what it should. You could put a trike gear Cessna over top just like they did for the Minuteman project. and it'd be less expensive. You put some eyes and ears up there, eyes to observe, and a voice to talk. And if everybody calls for assist, a plane can move in, so you use your ears to move, fly into the area. But you can patrol nonstop, and it'd be random schedules. You could take three or four existing aircraft out of the inventory. There's Cessna's all over through the inventory that are part of the executive slash messenger corps for the Air Force and for the Army. Any number of different planes. So there would be no big expense. Anything comes near the border. Anything's down below. Don't we have thermal technology? Don, we can buy thermal technology off the shelf, can't we? Oh yeah. And the government gets better, don't they? Oh yeah. And we could even buy some of those Cessnas that are leaving the country because private pilots are selling their airplanes. Yep. There's plenty of stock. A lot of people are going to China. that they're even trying to figure out how to loosen up the flight requirements for older pilots because they're running out of people to fly planes. They did such a good job of making it so tough and pissing on everybody that the FAA has put themselves out of business. The tenths rolling up with the average age of the pilots out there being 55 and 57 years old depending upon the rating. that scale keeps sliding up and there's no replacement from below, age-wise. It's just going to look... Think about this. Here we are in the 21st century and everybody is so paranoid and everybody is so piss-willy and people are so busy crotch-worshipping their cell phone that they can't get up off their dead end to walk out and do anything unique. So, well you can watch a video about flying a plane, or you can play a simu- well how about you actually fly a plane, which is what the whole purpose behind having all the simulators were. Yeah. Well what? Well that costs money! And time! And you'd have to be doing something else other than sitting under your dead ass, you know, worshipping your crotch. See how that works? So that's one of the other reasons you're, you know, again, priorities. What kind of priorities? Well, of course, there's no job that's making the money they did. Back in the day when aviation reached its peak and everybody was buying these aircraft, well, you know, things were... First of all, the police state mindset wasn't prevalent. The dunderheads, idiots, and incompetence that have to have posted instructions for everything or posted rules for everything. Have you noticed how that's cropping up all over the place with paragraphs? of crap on boards all over the place guys. You just know you've got more and more of these idiots and compadents and slaves, you know, going, getting into these positions of authority slash authority. And so everything has to have before it was like, oh there's a nature area. Now you've got to have a Bible there where they preach at you all about how they're going to stop your guts out and what you can and can't do. And in a place where before everybody was just fine, I know we had any problem. Well, combining some of the previous thoughts about flying and requirements and whatnot, remember that guy that flew the auto gyro onto the White House lawn maybe three years ago now? and they arrested him and they took him to jail and one of the charges they brought against him was he was flying without a license. Did you know you don't need a license to fly one of those? Did you know that? But he was flying without a license, yeah, because you don't need a license to fly one of those. But see how they can play with the words. because everybody needs a license for everything. You need to ask permission of some rear end that really doesn't have a clue and could care less and is into a little power freak-domeness. It's like I said, it's like having propane tanks loaded at a local propane fill station. Oh, give them the power. I need to look all over for the numbers on your tank so I can figure out whether or not I can piss in your face and tell you I'm not going to fill your tank. If it takes that much work to try to figure out what you're looking at, then it's not really an issue anyway. Well, it's not rusted, it's not busted up, it's not leaking. You really smell that. Well, you work down the shopping list. The whole agenda that you can get some ultra peon to piss in somebody else's face because you give them that little bit of authority. Well, they give them more and they can be TSA agents. TSA agent wannabes. Junior G-man won't be son. Which is exactly the kind of BS that you're saying. The thing about it is that what I was told is they're trying to tie it right in to just the driver's license. If you get a driver's license you can just get that pilot's license. It's not a problem and we knew it that way. It's not a big deal. They're trying to find any way they can to try and jack up the market to try and keep business going. With regard to the aviation end because There's either you have a big big big big chunk of money and maybe you got the planes just as toys off to the side not that you'll ever really fly them. or it's bargain basement time which doesn't last very long and stuff. Some of the stuff is especially the older Cessna. I mean older, I mean some of the heavier designs from the late 50s, early 60s. There was a period there when they were building them like Lincoln Continentals. Aircraft were much different construction and a very different internal finish. And several of those Cessna designs are actually classic but they're considered to be expensive to fly because they are heavier and they are more expensive to fly by a few gallons. They're actually pretty reasonably priced right now, but like you said Don, here's what's happening. The people overseas that can buy these exceptional aircraft can now get them for bargain basement prices and so they're getting winged overseas rather than sitting here on a runway oxidizing into the ground. You know what, over there they're being used. not terrified to fly and they don't have the FAA to boss over them. Guess what? They're just actually using them. The way we used to play and use aircraft here until the police state wanted to be using them, the Fruit Loops that are in government did what they've done, where they've gone. So again, just a little heads up, there are some really cool things still laying around out there. We keep finding a BD-5 here or BD-5 there. We kind of joke because this is the one thing I found out. I'm the guy who was sitting here, what was it, Saturday. It's like we were laughing. It's like, yeah, we always find them half finished. Well, that's good. If most people only have the energy to get one of these aircraft half done, since it's already half done, we'll have just enough energy and just enough patience to finish it. And it's true. It's like most of them. Although the last two we found, the one I found was 80% complete hanging on the inside of a barn. And the other one was hanging upside down on the ceiling. And that was like 58, maybe a little under 60%. It was all the big pieces were all together, but small pieces were all under tarps and canvas over against the wall on the workbench. And we got them for nothing. I mean, and that included the fact one was a jet and the other one's a prop. the BD-5s. They made them with prop engine for them, but they made, initially they made seven different jets and then they made two additional larger power packs. So there's about nine different motors you could possibly find in a jet engine on the BD-5s as kits. And about three different prop engines. And the prop engines more than sufficient to get it off the ground and fly comfortably. Now you gotta remember it's a pusher. Where the exhaust is for the jet is where the prop is mounted for the prop driven variant. And both of them get off the ground just fine and are pretty impressive in the air. A lot of fun to fly. And many of them we have found, our little BD-5 air fleet, are twin, you know, two-seaters because they were the trainer model. You know, you got a pilot and, you know, a student. A percentage of them were built or always liked that. Most of the first ones I found were like that. Were actually the most affordable and they weren't a crazy price. We just tracked them down and now they're all piled up, you know, on our aerodromes. Could I use that term? We have them at all aerodromes now. Anyway, um, let's see, oh, before we're done, we're getting close, so again, anything else jump in there, please. Well, you know the old standards. It's a communications Tuesday. Talk. Keep looking around, know your area, but talk. One of the things you're doing when you talk to people out there in the world is you're kind of figuring out where they stand, and you might find friends. So, you know, I'll keep it brief. But talk. Make your... values known. And you might come up with some friends who are constantly asking, how do I grow? How do I bring people in? Sometimes you might bring someone in just by talking. And you know that guy that you're working, that you've seen working at the bank or the grocery store or the insurance company or the wherever for years and years? He probably doesn't work for the CIA or the NSA or the FBI or the... You get my drift. So why would you be afraid to talk to him? I'll finish. I can't... What else can I say about communication? Think about it. There are plenty of people out there in the world. You know what they've been doing for the last five or seven years. You know that they haven't spent that time in Washington at Quantico or any of the places where the Rangers train or the Marines train. Why not talk to them? It's that simple. It's the communications Tuesday. Why not talk to them? When you figured out that these people have been here for three or five or seven years, how did you get there? Wasn't part of that thought line to keep looking around, know your area. Need I say more? I've already said that once. Dang! I'm gonna have to scram and without prodding from Mark or urging you guys, if you want to see Night Vision, go over to the website, ydkoe.us. You'll see goggles and gun sights and more gun sights and gun sights and green screen and thermal and digital. And if you have any questions about any of the products I've mentioned like the gun sights, give me a call. My number is 231-796-84. 518-net website ydtoe.us and you know if you tell somebody about ydtoe.us they might purchase a gun sight or a pair of goggles and you might show them to you sometime and if you've never used night vision before you might go wow when the first time you use night vision like I've experienced a number of people have done over the years wow But again, the website ydtoe.us and if you want to reduce the prices, the phone number is 2317968458. And again, get out there and talk. You know who's been here forever and you know, maybe not forever, but you get the idea, don't you? Thank you, Mark. I have to scream. Thank you. God bless you. Thank you, Don. And again, while you're dealing with a stranger, when Don Betcher is available. Guys, when it comes to night vision and thermal technology, pretty straightforward. I would remind everybody again, as we pointed out, with regard to thermal. With the Minuteman II project, although thermal was brought in by people who were part of the ground element, it very quickly was understood by everybody cooperating that the air assets are where the thermal would be best suited. So the pilots who had brought in their aircraft divvied up the resources they had. They also slept and maintained total control over the aircraft 24-7 on the ground. It was a good cooperative project as far as the personnel that showed up. A number of different night vision devices, third generation, were put on people's heads that were spotters in the aircraft. The thermal rigs, one in each and two in a couple of the aircraft were manned by other individuals and were virtually side observing into Mexico. It was not possible where any of these aircraft were operational for anyone, day or night, to approach the border without being seen. Now this was all off-the-shelf technology. And this was all off-the-shelf aircraft technology that was readily available to anybody who wanted to purchase it in the United States. The government has bigger, the government has better, and the government has failed us completely to secure the border. We could do it for less, and in fact, if we had better, we could still do it for less. Power required, the air fuel required to secure the border for one month, was minimal. In fact, it wasn't the cost of the government at all, but it knocked down traffic across the border. When the bad guys started to exaggerate and create all these rumors about what could happen or people going to be shot or executed on the border by the Minuteman project, the second deployment, well, that did nothing but help the situation because traffic went down to zero. Not just in the area where deployment took place, but because of rumoration by the leftists, all across the whole of the border, border crossing activity reduced by 80 to 90 percent if not higher. Of course in the areas where the people were on the ground it was stopped 100 percent. There was absolutely no crossing activity where the second Minuteman deployment took place. So just a little heads up there. Say it can't be done, it's already done. In fact, what I am fascinated by is the idea that very few of anybody, very few people are making any effort to bring this forward to other individuals in the Patriot effort. It's a part of the history of the Patriot effort of the post-9-11 or around the 9-11 window, guys. The Minuteman 1 was a smaller deployment. Minuteman 2 was vastly expanded with volunteers from virtually every state of the union. Hell, people from even Hawaii and Alaska came down to help on the border. Most were just observers, grandmas and grandpas who plump themselves down in lawn chairs with binoculars, literally along the patrol road, and any time there was anything that was suspected, in fact, there was only one, not even a probing action, they had individuals who in a column started to move towards the border, they immediately called the border patrol, the border patrol had to show up because there were witnesses and they were calling it a crime, a possible crime in motion, it could happen. And so the Border Patrol was there to deal with anybody who might have come across. Well, they stopped dead in their tracks before they even got within a mile and a half of the border. So obviously they were in touch with or in contact with somebody observing and it was probably left us on the American side of the border who were there protesting, trying to coordinate an incident. Well, the only incident that was going to take place is whoever came across would have been grabbed by the Border Patrol. Without you, it's fine. After that, pretty well went to zero activity. Everybody said, well, it was kind of dull there. Well, that's kind of cool. That's good. That means that you guys are doing your job. If you knock it down to zero activity, that means that the other side has realized that you are serious. They know you're going to be there. And there isn't any possible way, day or night, that they can get past the obstacle. That's a double plus good thing as far as demonstrating your abilities. And actually being able to put your money where your mouth is, if you're going to spend the resources, you get a definite benefit from it. Well, for 30 days, you change the math formula for activities in the border. That can still be done now. So just a little heads up, guys. Again, it's another one of those things that should be on the minds of everyone. How serious are they going to be about? Who knows? Anyway. But it is again one of the other solutions. Everybody figures now that you've got Trump in, everybody can sit on their hands. So yeah, somebody goes, oh you're going to go back to jail, you're going to go back to the Facebook jail for that one Mark. Oh really, for what? We're talking about the border. Oh that's right. Yeah, we're talking in reality about the border and the way things actually have worked and without any panic. The only problem is that Minuteman 3, the deployment was planned, it would have been bigger. People lost their focus and their intestinal fortitude and the rest is history as they say. And interestingly enough, you know, the cartels are saying they're gonna... If the cartels had touched Grandma or Grandpa on the border because the way the thing was set up it was perfect. Had the cartels decided to do that, they would have been slaughtered. people would be hunting them. There would have been, in fact, it'd be the Pancho Villa situation all over again. Well, you can try to argue way out about four Mexican nationals coming across the border and attacking Americans on the American side openly. Hey, dudes, at time in the OK corral for the fools stupid enough to come across and do it. So again, just a reminder, it could be done. It's not being done right now. The organization is at a smaller unit level. Keep that up, of course, however you can. I would point out that some of the things that worked really well included the use of camera technology to fill in the blank in certain areas. Example, people deployed on the border, brought their own security camera technology as I recommended. They put it down a half mile from where they were actually sitting using wireless. And so the eyes and ears capability, and of course in many of those cases those deployed wireless cameras had microphone pickup. So at night they could actually monitor both visibly because many of them were night vision capable. Now again with the security cameras, something to point out, we've talked about this before, a lot of your new security cameras are IR sensitive. Now they do have a gang lighting system around them of LED lights, infrared, That's not a problem. In a security operation like this, let's say where you're... The aggressor is known and the border environment is known. Using IR and less expensive IR is acceptable. It's not like you're... This is not a combat, you know... combat unit versus combat unit situation, this is a security activity. And most of your security forces, you want them to be seen. That's the whole idea. That's part of the retarding the motion and deflecting the energy of the aggressor. So any place where low tech could be deployed and then the higher tech could be traded out to, for instance, the mobile combat units, or you know, response units, or to the aviation units, which is what happened. The better equipment was handed over for the duration of the operation. Ours were put on the equipment, but it tested the equipment. A lot of people developed their skill with the night vision technology, with the thermal technology. They got a chance to rotate personnel. Nobody could be up 24-7. So they had to practice a lot of basics and learned a lot of basic, you know, management skills that otherwise they wouldn't have had an opportunity to. be part of until we get into an actual fighting situation. Active deployment like this is a very positive thing because you get a chance to plug in all and you know, to light up all of the, you know, candles, to plug in all of the bells and whistles and to actually find out just how well your technology, your equipment works, whether or not your theory, if you have one, says many places, many cases people have different ideas about how to do things. That's not a problem. But the best situation is where you can actually deploy and then are forced to employ those ideas. Did it work or didn't it work? If it didn't work, but it worked, yeah, okay, but it didn't work as well as it should have, then you tweak the machine. You make it work better for you. You do what needs to be done to reapply the energy and to, you know, again, establish proper, you know, proper discipline to, ensure that when you tweak it that the modifications are applied. That way there's no stumbling and bumbling. Example, communications. Everybody initially was concerned because people were showing up with all kinds of different radio equipment. And I had to point out, it's like, well, that's not a problem. That means you have several different tiers of communications capabilities. Some people brought in ham sets. Some of the people literally brought in ham radio trailers with everything on board, every bell and whistle. Eventually those became LPOPs. They were listening points, observation points, for monitoring radio traffic without going into Mexico on the Mexican side. So listening to cartel traffic 20 miles inside the border and even confirming that they were very concerned about losing resources so they parked their arse is an example of having the ability not to squawk and talk, but just to shut up and listen. Being able to patiently sit and be able to observe And to be able to record, to collect intelligence allows you to be able to paint a broader picture for the decision makers so that they can determine force deployment, resource allocation, again, priorities. One of the things that they did with the deployment, which you would also do in deep defense or like say area defense, is set up mobile response units. The mobile response unit used along the border were five or six tactical vehicles per clutch with a number of fully combat-kitted personnel whose job it was to be prepared to assist anybody who might be threatened in the event there was an expansion of activity on the border, which again, I will remind you with Minuteman 2, there was none. In fact, there was progressively, day after day, less and less activity. In fact, the local farmers and ranchers on both sides came up, talked to the people, said hi. The Mexican ranchers and farmers on the other side of the border walked up, said hello, talked about what's going on, they cross over here, these characters do this. So you actually had the locals talking to the Minuteman people and giving them a little bit of an overview of what they've observed. Now it wasn't especially critical because again the aggressor, the enemy, the invader had to back off on activity in general but it still gave them an excellent overview. Now how do I know most of this? I got a chance to read, let me point this out. Some groups that deployed were really piss poor about creating history. Others did a really good job of not only writing everything down and setting up a journal, but they also gave what was an excellent after action report. I have a complete after action report and journal from the pilots and from the air crews and people that deployed during Minuteman II. And these guys obviously had some experience because they did a great job of doing follow up data and information evaluations. Okay, we deployed this way, our equipment worked this way. Now, if we do this with Minuteman III, here's how we can do it better. and they had a complete evaluative process with establishing needs, again, minimal requirements, but especially needs and things that could be improving their tactical deployment for the next one. On a broader scale too, because logic is if you get seven or nine aircraft to show up for Minuteman 1, Minuteman 2, There were a couple aircrafts that made a man one. Then the next time around once everybody knows, hey you got that neat little tail dragger or you got that former military recon aircraft you wanted to play with, how about you bring it down on the border and you actually get a chance to use it and apply it for what it was originally intended. You got some of that, even that older equipment on board still attached to the aircraft. How about we light it up and make it work? In fact, here was the other thing that they actually recommended, and I think it was neat as could be, making basically the equivalent to a recon aircraft pod that would provide radio surveillance, thermal monitoring, whole nine yards, kind of like, again, a manned drone. In other words, the people would still be observing, but additional technology would be attached to the aircraft. It would not be a big deal. Many of the planes that are privately owned have hard points on the aircraft. They have the ability to actually affix whatever it is they had in a military package. on their civilian counterparts. Let me give you an example. There's a couple of planes that are designed other than the cockpit, which is actually designed for two or four men. In other words, a pilot, a copilot, and two passengers. The aircraft is modeled after, in fact, virtually spar. For spar, it's the P-51 Mustang. The basic frame is a P-51 Mustang, modern construction. Well, because of that, all of the hard points that were part of the original design are on the aircraft. Anything that you can think of that you'd like to mount where those hard points are located, well, all the test and evaluation and the many, many hours it took to figure out where to put what were already done with your tax dollars. So again, taking and turning one of those into an owl, you know, into a night, a night reconnaissance aircraft would not be hard at all. And needless to say, there's all kind of Well, example, Cessna, you know, Sky Masters, Strike Masters, remember those? The Push-Pull Cessnas? There's a bunch of those out west, and a lot of people have improved them to basically their original military mission. Those aircraft are readily available all over the place. And again, we make great reconnaissance, remember they were also used for forward observer aircraft. And again, multi-engine, but because it's a Push-Pull plane, None of the concerns about typical twin engine operation you'd run into with a side by side fixture on the wing. So it's just a little heads up, another cool idea, another cool design, something that would have been in Minuteman 3. Had the people followed through on the ground that were on the border that didn't. Okay. Everybody did the, oh my god, they're going to die. Yeah, well, it turned out that the bad guys won without firing a shot or actually doing anything. They simply fumbled them all, based on money provided from the government and the Mossad to other people. So anyway... Next, before, well we got a few minutes here, I want to get this in. There is a sale going on over at Apex Gun Parts. Well, I got to do this because I don't know, it's for the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot. Which, by the way, is this weekend. Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Big time, big time, machine gun wrestling. That's right, maw-doses, miniguns, Broughton 1990s, MAG 58, you name it, it's going to be there. Magazine Fed, Bell Fed, Launch with a Tube, poof! And all kinds of other fun stuff. That's right, it's Knob Creek Machine Gun. Shoot, if you get a chance to get down there, of course. Well, Friday is going to be the big first business day and a lot of stuff just walks right out the front gate real quick as people have a shopping list. If you want to actually fire a submachine gun, a real assault rifle, not your semi-automatic weapon that you have, but a select fire gun, a belt-fed gun, a Ma Deuce, whatever you want, you got the money, you can get up there on the line and you can pull the trigger on the big boys, okay? Somebody else did the paperwork, all you gotta do is walk up and decide how much you're gonna spend in order for you to gain a little experience with full-auto Kino capability. Eh, well you'll find out it's awfully... If you just pull the trigger and dump that 32 round mag, it's like, man, dollar, dollar, dollar, dollar, that's gone. So here's the thing, as I mentioned this morning, if you're gonna go to Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot, really mess with your head, remember, hold the weapon, lean into it, three to five round burst, three and five round burst, but about, but about, but about about, but about, but about, none of this, empty. That's really embarrassing, don't do that. Okay, really a lot of fun that way too. Whoa, wait a minute, actually somebody told you how to do it right. That's a good thing. That is a very good thing. Anyway, ApexGunParts.com has a sale going on because the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot is going on. Well, there are a couple of goodbyes here. One of them, they've had this priced before and I wanted to make sure we got this out on the air for all you guys that have AR-15s. Special, 10, Set Me Model L AR-15 magazines, steel, 556, NATO, $60 for 10, that's $6 apiece. These are military issue, steel, Set Me L slash AR-15 mags, and they are 10 for $60. That's over at ApexGunParts.com. A-P-E-X-G-U-N-P-A-R-T-S dot com. ApexGunParts.com. Now that's the one big thing as far as, you know, for price, that's a good buy. If you guys have ARs you're putting together, there's a solution. There's a number of other items there that you want to look through and see if they fit your needs and float your boat, but one of them, also a project shotgun barrel, one off special, $50 a barrel, brand new, AK Model 982 12 gauge shotgun barrels, miscuts. I don't know what the miscut is, but I would point out that if you're looking for a project shotgun barrel, There's a brand new shotgun barrel for $50. You've got to be able to figure out some purpose for it. You know what I mean? If you're a creative engineer out there, engineer. Also, now these are not great, but here you can figure out what to do with them. SKS ammunition pouch set of two. Two pocket and two pouches per order. $1.79 for two. Now these are leather. The trick to stretching these back out. Here's what you do with leather like this. Cut yourself a block of wood about the size. In fact, probably again, one by four would be your best choice. Cut at the length and a little more of the standard SKS stripper clip with 10 rounds in it. Insert that into the leather and stretch it out. You can scrub it off while you're at it too. You must clean it while you're getting it wet. And what will happen is leave the wood in while it dries. Now what will happen is you're forming that pouch to the stripper clips. Now I don't know if these hold two per... Let me double check this. You might want to put two of those boards in there or maybe you might be able to just cut a two by four to make it work for you. The pouch is designed to hold SKS stripper clips. They don't say how many per pocket. So you've got to make, first of all, scale your expander, your stretcher on what it is that the thing is supposed to hold. You'll be able to guesstimate that. I have not seen these. I'm familiar with them, but I haven't had any of these. They're Yugo. They're military-issue. They came in with the Type 66 guns. And they're a useful item if you're looking for something to hold SKS stuff in. Also, they can be cleaned up and then restained, whatever you want to do to just make them a little darker and make sure that they stay supple. You know, you can work on the leather a little bit. They are an interesting thing for a casual carry. You want to grab a belt, you've got an SKS, you want to carry some extra stripper clips. This is a good way to do it. These are nice. Anyway, they're less than a dollar a piece, you know, $1.79 for two, you figure it out. That's 90 cents a piece. That's not bad. But nothing to write home about. Like, oh my god, I need 1,000 of them. However, I'm going to pick up a few because they're so cheap, cheap, cheap. Next, Sega AK Russian Polymer Stock Sale, 5 for 10. They've had this price before. But I've noticed that all of these Sega stocks that have been pulled off, the thumb hole model in this, are creeping up in price. Not a surprise, there's only so many of them, but I would point out that I keep the Polymer stocks in inventory because I can take a Dremel tool and a few other tools and make that stock fit any AK that I need a stock for if one's broken. Oh yeah, now this is a C-type stock. This is for the Sega, this is the original they came in. The pistol grip thumb hold models that are at center fire systems are also have gone up a little bit in price. They were dirt cheap for the longest time. They've started to creep up too, but they're still worthwhile. Another thing, special, four AK gas pistons for $1. Four AK gas pistons. These are the ones that are knocking them off and putting the American ones out so they conform to the specs. 4 for a dollar. 25 cents a piece. If you've got any AKs in the inventory, grab these. If you've got a bunch of AKs in your unit, grab $5 worth of these. A quarter a piece. Now if you've got any other project guns, HKs that are maybe earlier imports and you're looking for flash hiders, they've got HK 10 pack of the HK 91G3 flash hiders, rusty as is, I've seen them, they're serviceable. 10 for $19.99, that's $2 a piece. Not a big deal, and not critical to most of what you're doing, but if you do have something that takes that, you might want to consider it, okay? Next, and last, just a bunch of other stuff you can take a look at it yourself. Over here on the second page for the Knob Creek sales, they have Polish flare gun, Soviet era, 26.5mm blue steel, fair as is. They're still very shootable. $64.79. Well, you mean $65 or so. Now the good ones are running about $10 more still this is a little better price They've been charging about $80 $90 apiece for these things they have come down to as low as $60, but that was about three four years ago I haven't seen them that cheap for a while again 64 79 they're serviceable enough to what you do get them clean them up. I'd be blasted Disassemble the take the take this the grips off bead blast everything don't mess up the surface or running contact points repaint the thing in you know, flat black or OD green or whatever color you want to paint it and you know, make a new set of grips if there's any damage or put the originals on and then make a set while you got the originals and for a utility marker gun or like grenade launcher or whatever, oops did I say that? Well whatever. Anyway it's a flare launcher 26.5 millimeter $64.79 a piece and this is at ApexGunParts.com ApexGunParts.com, they have a lot of other sales and special deals and stuff. Two numbers to mention, you might want to check them out. They have a mag, I'm not going to say a word about it, but yeah, I guess it will. Four pack of Matson 30 round magazines, 30-0.6, 8x57. These are the Matson magazine fed squad guns. That's what they were for, which are an 0.6 and an 8mm monitor, depending on where they were sent around the planet. These are very popular mag I've used for years for improving guns where we needed a bigger mag for something that was 0.06 or 8mm Mauser. They are alliuminium though, which means you have to know how to heliark. You gotta have somebody who can heliark for you. But if you know what you're doing, these are either A, if you've got a Matson squad gun in .30-0.06 or an 8mm Mauser, these are Four for $12. Average condition, typical of what we see. And for a project mag, for $4 a piece you can not blink or cry about cutting them up to make them work. Modifying them, curling them to make the feed lips. You know, the retainer lips, heli-arking the parts together at the top of the magazine, for it's going to be inserted into the weapon. And you can make a 25 or a 30 round magazine out of it. If you cut a certain amount off, you're going to drop down it with 25 round mag. The cool thing is that for some guns that don't have anything like that, This is a positive advancement. Example, we've modified these mags to use in, and then you don't put any feed lip on them by the way, the FN49s will take a extended magazine. They're a fixed mag anyway, you still load from the roof. But you can take the original mag, don't get rid of it, off. Although this is a straight retainer with a follower and the organic guide. Well, you use the follower and guide for the Madsen. You cut the magazine where the taper and the mag stops and then you have to put a tab retainer on which you have to heli-arc on and you can make yourself a large capacity mag for an FN 49 which is the mother of the FN FAL. Now all of a sudden you got 25 rounds. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom So again, just little project mags for other work. If you know somebody who's got a Mattson, you might want to let them know if they've got a Mattson magazine fed. $4 per mag, you buy four at a time. It's four mags for $12. Wait a minute, what am I thinking about? Four mags for $12 means $3 a piece. Oh, slap mark and a microphone! Oh I was doing Common Core Math, you can hit me for that one. Three dollars a piece, I said four didn't I? Oh, bad Mark, bad. Oh I'm doing Common Core Math again. My brain is, oh it hurts. Anyway, three mags, three dollars a mag. Four mags for twelve dollars, there we go. Keep looking at the foreign transposing the dollar sign slap oh the dollar or less so for three dollars a mag that's better still You might be creative with them especially if you got a project gun out there Okay, do a little research on the mag you can get find some pictures or actually are some on the page not very many just one and They are originally a 30 round mag and if you have the mats and they're priceless for three dollars apiece even more so You can stack up a whole bunch of them anyway. We're at the top. We should be here in the music and And it is Tuesday, so we have Joe from the Carolinas. While we're planting bad guys, Joe's gonna be planting seeds. If he needs more fertilizer, well, I guess it's like they live. Would you eat anything out of that garden if you used them for fertilizer? Nah, probably not. They're zombies. Eh, government zombies the same way. Give me a horrible aftertaste, dark oily flavor. Yeah, the ground would be just unusable. Anyway, so we won't do that, but we know Joe's got a lot of other great ideas. So guys, don't go anywhere. Make sure that you tune in here and stay here. Music, any moment now. I knew it was coming. Anyway, you guys be careful. God bless y'all. And again, God bless the Republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We're in a march. Communication is Tuesday, for the afternoon is over. Joe's coming up next. See, he's still reporting. Get a car. Guns and ammunition. A family owned business located in the heart of Ohio's hunting country. Let us help you find the right shotgun or rifle for you. Or if you're looking for a pistol or concealed carry, we have a nice selection of compact and subcompact pistols for that too. Check out our website at www.libertiesguardian.com. That website again is www.libertiesguardian.com. 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