You the meaning of each word I me an individual a committee of one pledge dedicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity Allegiance my love and my devotion to the flag our standard Oh glory a symbol of freedom wherever she waves There's respect Because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybody's job United that means that we have all come together States individual communities that have united into 48 great states 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose all divided with imaginary boundaries yet united to a common purpose and That's love for country and to the Republic, Republic, a state in which sovereign power is invested in representative chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people, and it's from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people, for which it stands. One nation, one nation, meaning so blessed by God, indivisible, incapable of being divided. With liberty, which is freedom, the right of power to live one's own life without threats, fear, or some sort of retaliation. And justice, the principle or qualities of dealing fairly with others, for all. Which means, boys and girls, it's as much your country as it is mine. And now, boys and girls, let me hear you recite. the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Since I was a small boy, two states have been added to our country and two words have been added to the Pledge of Allegiance under God. Wouldn't it be a pity? If someone said that is a prayer and that would be eliminated from schools too. 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 tyrant flavored 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 the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper, so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. This number, you trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm, so they could burn down churches and seize the family farm. And keep our country deep in debt. Put men of God in jail. Harash your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters visit doctors so their children will be. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children? to live in fear and be a slave. O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of plan, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he vanished in the mist for whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as fire and trample each God given right we only watch in tremble too afraid to stand and fight If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Is this still the land of the free? Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the and good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, this is the Second hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Kornke. First hour was pre-recorded. Second hour is live. Well, until you hear it the next time around and then it'll be obviously pre-recorded. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. Southwest. North. South and East. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on libertytreeradio.org.com and a myriad of other resources at our disposal, and additional ones being built as we speak. It is the 13th year of open Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2021 old earth calendar. 2021 Battle for the Republic, the Dance of Swords. Isn't it good to be in an epic? It is wonderful. It is Red October for our enemy. They think that they are going to spring upon America. And then we are going to reach out, grab them by the throat, grab them by the scruff of the neck maybe instead or the belt line. Smack their head like a pumpkin into the wall two or three times drop them to the ground kick them in the crotch six or seven times Bend their elbows and legs backwards their knees backwards in the process do a little more stomping on the kidneys and then before they gasp and die we're going to remind them that We're gonna bring them back and do it again. Oh you didn't think I'd like to die right away Hunt them harder than they could possibly in any way think they are hunting you Bring them to their demise Set them up for their fall Hell, we might be the ones making a call. See ya over on 4th Street. Yeah, yeah, they're over there Remember bring your enemy to their doom We bring them to where we want them Just a little heads up on that one. Just remember how things work. Anyway, it has been a pretty classic fall, early fall day in Michigan here. Warm, tropical, but wet. And then a little cool. So it's sea-sowing back and forth. Temperatures are actually medium, 71, 73, maybe 74 degrees. But the humidity is up, and there's these thermals that rise with it. This is one of those situations where the bugs have plenty of opportunity in last gas to come out and sting ya or to bite ya and eat your blood. Don't forget that. The bug mosquitoes are still out here in force. But they all know that they better hurry up because their environment is changing. Now, we do have some leaf drop, but still very, very green. You couldn't really drop all of your green right now if you're going out into the field because there's a preponderance of still green leaf everywhere. So for the first week of October, here it is the fifth of October, it is interesting that we have good weather right now. We actually get a lot done. You name it, we've been completing it. We're still working on cement. That'll be an ongoing thing for quite some time. and roofs, still got time for roofs before the cold cold and everything will set properly so that's another thing. Camouflage, all the objective locations that need to be decked out or reconfigured with their plants, we're doing that. I've even grown some stuff this year that's, you know, now it's about time to put it in. And by the time you get into spring, it'll grow up into an area and do what it's supposed to do. So I'm really happy. A lot of little sidebar projects have gone really well. And all you need to be constantly, keep many irons in the fire. Don't rust up. That's something a friend of mine, And my dad used to say again, there ain't no sense in retiring. If you do, you just might settle in one place, grow roots, and that'll be the end. So always find something else to do. Of course, you still have to take advantage of it. Enjoy yourself, rest, look around, smell the coffee, breathe the fresh air, etc. But in the process, constantly be preparing. A couple of things I would recommend in communications Tuesday, but I would say go out the Dollar Tree if you want and buy $20 worth of their packets of coffee or their espresso. If they have your Dollar Tree, some places they do, some they don't. But $20 worth of coffee, can it up or box it up in something, a five gallon bucket, and throw in some powdered creamers, some sugar. do a mix of things. I'd even throw in two bundles of 100 count or 50 count, whatever they have at your dollar free, coffee filters to be safe. And next is we'll start watching for a couple of old coffee pots you can put the 5 gallon pail. Little ones, nothing fancy or medium sized but regular. Perculator slash put them over a fire, put them over electric, put them over gas, and they work. They just kiss, keep it simple, stupid. Go to the resale shops, pick out a couple of them, load the stuff up inside, clean everything up, load them up inside along with the filters, leave one pack of filters in one of the copy pops, put the pack of filters in the other, throw a bag of coffee in there and congratulations or two, whatever will fit. But leave no dead space. And that way you can actually issue these out or you can hand one over to somebody. There's one for you and those guys. Here's one for us over here. Or you can market them slash barter them out down the road. Coffee is a commodity and it's one of those things that you should continue to invest in. Last time we had the fuel shortage, one of the things they did, one of the part of the scams was the coffee shortage, which was very, very much a real scam they plugged in. So much so that they reinvented Chicory. Now, Chicory is a solution, guys. Remember, Chicory grows pretty much across the Union. all over the United States. And although they're different breeds, the same end result, you can produce a coffee type product with chicory. And back in the 70s when coffee went into the Twilight Zone price range, amazingly enough, what happened is chicory was being marketed out there, either they were marketing coffee that was being stretched with chicory, You know, it's volume down or bulk down or they were selling chicory separately in one pound and five pound cans and you added that, you know, so many scoops to your coffee so that you could stretch the coffee you had. They sold it both ways. Chicory. So don't tell me this hasn't happened before in my lifetime. This has happened now twice with coffee. And again, with all of the other issues going on, yes, every store that I go to has got big holes in it now. Nobody's really talking about it. Nobody's also, you know, they're not saying anything. You can see people kind of glaze their eyes over when they look in an area and there are whole sections of the store that just don't have a product where there's a label. In fact, the whole part of the shelf is empty still. And this has continued to expand in a lot of different areas with different stores. Now, they are doing what we've always done. If I worked in a grocery store, if you don't have the right product, you can also stretch out what you got. You can only do that so much. half an aisle of the same brand of toilet paper in a store, it's pretty obvious that you've got inventory problems. But at least you have toilet paper. You have a toilet paper brand, maybe not all the others or any of the other paper products, but you do have toilet paper. It's kind of an inversion of what we saw and remember last year. So again, coffee, Also, as a cheap, cheap investment, grab a couple of the hundred count boxes of Dollar Tree tea, mix it up, pick out whatever you want, and somebody's asking, what about Instant? Sure. I put Instant for every 20 containers of coffee that I buy from the Dollar Tree. I probably buy two of their little jars of Instant. However, I don't usually stir those with canned coffee. I store those with ration packs or deployment kits or in other locations because the instant coffee is just exactly that. It's for where you don't have time to percolate something, what it was intended to do, a quick cough, a cup of something with some caffeine in it. You know, change the mood, make you feel better, it's a pick me up thing. And in the process, also a way to throw some caffeine in the system, keep the eyeballs, you know, from just working like sandbags and you know, oh god, oh no. So the caffeine does serve a purpose, okay? The tea bags are because it's cheap, you get a lot of tea bags, a lot of people, some people don't like coffee, but they will drink tea. And if you want to add anything else to the list as far as beverages that are powdered, be my guest. The military has done that for years. You had the grape drink, orange drink, kale, lemon drink, cocoa, coffee. Think about it. How many different things do they have in there that you just add water and you have a flavor of some kind? And the idea was to create change ups, to create a situation where You know, you could have a certain amount of something interesting and unique and then switch out to the other. Now the coffee is part of the diuretic formula. I've mentioned many times, you know, people doing a steady diet of C rations or MREs. The coffee, needless to say, on the one hand is psychological thing. But on the other, the other half of that is to help keep you regular. There's a balance to all of these things. There really was method to the madness there. And the cocoa even does the same thing, although it has other useful ingredients that do of course also help balance out the system. So everything had a number and it was part of the math formula for nutrition in the field. And everything was fortified by the way. Most of the stuff that you're going to run into right now are rations. or a field of dollar tree and just buy stuff. It's not going to be fortified to the same degree that the government intentionally did because of nutritional concerns based on their field experience. If they're going to be able to put food in the field and they can only get so many pounds of food to you, they wanted to make sure that they could throw as much into your system as possible to fortify and reinforce, you know, to build up what you expended, you know, especially with stress factors. adrenaline rush. Adrenaline rush, the body hits the tap on everything you have in the way of reserve when you do fight-flight and most people don't realize this but you know hey do a little medical research. It's like you've opened all the stops. It's like we need everything all at once. Everybody shut up, sit back and now we're going to take everything from you and apply it to the muscles. the nervous system, sight. There are so many things where it's an instant power shift and like a light switch literally, fight or flight, remember that. The body has to make a decision. And so there are so many things going on in the process of that transition. And it consumes everything. Whatever critical reserves you have, that's what the adrenaline rush is going to consume. Calories being one of them too, by the way. It's amazing. They've done research. The DOD did research on this, but before that it was the War Department, and they did too. Going back for more than 100 years. In fact, what is it, 2021? About 140, 150 years. Because they were already into this kind of research. in the post Civil War period. There was a certain amount of information collected in any war, but after the Civil War and into the 1870s, 1880s, there was a significant transition in the sciences in all categories. And with regard to military science, they became much, much, much more sophisticated in terms of collecting data, being consistent with regard to the evaluation of it and applying solutions based upon a vast database that they had at their disposal. So method to the madness as they say. Anyway, I'll tell you what we're going to do. Edwards should be there and this is the one live hour. I do want a couple of piece, couple of music pieces that I want to play and I did get your music request guys. Forgive me, I just don't have the list of my fingertips and I'll shoot them to Edward here in the next day or two. I'm not in a position where I can do that right now, but I didn't ignore you. I appreciate the music requests you've sent in. And we're going to go through them one at a time. But I have one today. Edward Slade Cleves and the song is Below. We haven't played that in a while. Pretty interesting. He's a balladeer Americana. And I really like pretty much all that he does. But there's a few songs that are really well executed. This is one of them. Rust Belt Blues is another one. And there's a couple other pieces that go right down the shopping list. But Slade Cleves. Down that road alone Remembering the town I grew up in the valley We labor a friend Modern world started creeping in Making the lawyers cash in hands It's ordered on heaven Light up the land The dust gave water In the vine And in the valley It's a painted red line A drama company man, like a mark in a crime A silent reminder that all inside it must go We'll be lost to the rising, dead rivers flow Some folks took the money and started crying to gear While the rest of us held 20 odd years We watched our town Like a photograph of me As the company came To take it all away The Victoria and the church The dog up the graves The wheels of progress turned The God of duchy store It shattered us all Just came on and the ghosts of the village But it still has a family forever long Pawns in the valley, with all this sparkling shore Savage, did as early as she could Her house on the hill, towered over the flood It rose up a long, dark of night Its face on the water, moonlight I shake off the memories, on my lips of the thanks of the grace And the beauty down there And while the porch lights glow All over the state Nothing but darkness Under the lake The dusky waters Move cold and slow The families and friends will forever move On to the Valley Sparkling Shore They haunt the valley Sparkling Shore Thank you, Edward. And again, Slade Cleaves and Below. A little epic there, by the way. And for everybody, a whole lot of other American artists out there, if you start looking around, they really have a phenomenal repertoire. They are, again, it's Americana, it's ours. And it's one of those things that we need to really, really emphasize more. Of course, we're headed into a time when we're going to have to re-embrace our America and that includes the sword, the rifle, the pistol, the shotgun and the battlefield. So congratulations, you are living in what are epic times in a situation where we must earn our freedom. We have to earn our liberty and that means we're going to have to fight for it. So get over that, get on with the idea that you should have a plan. and organize, arm, equip, and train as militia. Establish a 510 program in your area of operation. Remember also that we need communications, medical support, and transportation units. I think I've got a peg on three more ambulances. We just looked at one here today. It's an excellent condition, which one thing, a reason I really like ambulances is because whoever has them because of codes and well, just pride and performance, the units usually do a pretty good job of constantly maintaining their rigs. Just like you see with fire departments, if you get a fire truck or fire equipment coming out of a department, other than the fact it probably is old, it hasn't been beat this not. It's not, it may be long on the tooth, but it's typically not tired. It's just they wanted another piece of equipment. It has been around for a while. But the good thing is, is that a steady line of maintenance typically has been done. They didn't do any ram riding in the back fields, you know, due to hazard, yee-haw. So there aren't going to be a whole lot of surprises. There might have been a few accidents that things have been in. Emergency vehicles get in accidents just like everybody else, but... Ambulances especially, it's just that it's time for them to trade out because there are things that are getting a little tired. Well, if it's cheaper, we can buy more of them. Instead of one brand new one, you buy 40, 50, 60 used ones and then we reconfigure them accordingly to our specifications, which is what we're doing. The biggest problem I have right now is, as I mentioned, I told you guys before, wow, you know, we need to be looking at these collapsible stretchers. You know, when we first got into Desert Dust Part 1 and then Desert Dust Part 2, the adventure continues, which we've just seen the closing end of the idiocy and fiasco of that affair with what just happened in Afghanistan, a lot of different equipment had popped out of surplus and medical supplies were one of them. There are all kinds of collapsible and folding stretchers. If when we do these ambulance packages, we usually put 10 on an ambulance. The ambulance is not a transporter. The ambulances when we buy them become forward area aid stations. They're going to be parked. People are coming in. If anybody has critical maintenance needs to be done, it's going to be done right there. once they're stabilized, and in fact we have extensions, there's all kinds of neat packages that we've come up with that work, but we're actually tweaking as we go and improving. And the idea is that in a matter of under a minute we can have a unit deployed with an extension, overhangs, external administrative support, We have one attached supply vehicle that goes with the ambulance as a forward area hospital unit. And then you can have a signed or attached other transportation like Jeeps, half ton pickup trucks, whatever it is you've got in soft skin vehicles to support and create pickets, supply movers, whatever. and if need be pressed into service as additional ambulances. Remember that everything can carry casualties. So right now the big thing is again I've noticed that unfortunately a whole bunch of other people have had interest in these stretchers and their actually getting purchased in a good number because I know having talked to some of the companies how many they actually had. So, you know, hundreds of these things have actually been sold and they've been the only reason you can go and think you can use them for them, they're the only reason you buy them is as stretchers. Now you could use them as game carriers, that's true in the field, and the good thing about these is yes they are collapsible. There's British, Swedish, French, American, four or five models American. And usually what we do is if I have a rig, we'll have one slightly more sophisticated stretcher like this. The others are all the compression type where you can stack them 10 deep and they don't take up much space. You can either rack them on the roof, although the problem with that is you don't want them exposed to the weather, or there are a certain number attached to the ambulance as a center point for supply. and the rest are carried by the supply truck. You know, you use two, three, four of those auxiliaries, stretchers, and they're immediately available to the team that would be working. You know, the doctor, nurses, you know, and aid station personnel who are going to be the epicenter of the activity around the, what was an ambulance, and now is a theater. So there's a pretty simple package here, but everything, with all the storage and everything on board these things, They're perfect for adapting and bulking out as a forward aid station, a mobile forward aid station. And the latest one, it's red and white. It can't be red and white for much longer. It's going to be tactified real quick. So that's, again, if we decide to pick up the three that we just looked at here, they will go into a medical support detachment and then we still have to have support vehicles. that we're going to have to accumulate to attach to those, you know, slave to those vehicles so that they're part of an organic organization. They're an organic transportation support unit. Anyway, ideas, planting seeds, then you can be done fast. You need to do it now. As far as other medical items, again, ShopMedVet.com, ShopMedVet.com, ShopMedVet.com. They have been busy and they have been, people have been hitting them hard for materials right now to the point where they're actually out of a few items and I don't necessarily believe that they can replace them. We'll find out what happens and it'd be great if they do but like everything guys, all industries have massive holes in their supply system right now. So, prior proper planning prevents PISP4 performance. This means you need to know how to improvise and where to go for the materials that would be needed to improvise. Start thinking ahead. But as it is, ShopMedVet.com, if you can't get one model or something, go to the next 4x4, 2x4, 2x2, or whatever it is, compression, suction units, scalpels, etc., etc., etc. There's plenty of options. You may have to go up to the next cost in item, but you'll have the item and it's still cheaper than anywhere else. Shopmedbet.com. Shopmedbet.com. Okay, now as a sidebar, and it is Communications Tuesday, and we only have this hour and then we're going to have a break. As it stands right now, again, if you're going to be getting hold of the handheld radios, remember that even in that category now, the bundles, I don't know. Somebody asked me if they would be seeing any interruption in delivery with that kind of stuff. I don't have any feedback on that. I'd like to if anybody else has had any issues with ordering stuff from any of the radio companies because there are quite a few that do you know, Motorola, Kenwood, you know, BaoFiang and many, many others. And of course there's eBay. That's where a lot of people are going because eBay is, and I hate Amazon. I have to tell you something. This is true. This is like Wally World. Okay. Walmart. I have now not been in Walmart in probably six months, seven. And before that I can count my hands and toes. up to that point within a couple of years before this, that we've actually ever been to Walmart. Before I went to Walmart down in Florida about five years ago, because I was down there with my parents, my mom was in the hospital, we had to stop and get something. First time I'd ever been to Walmart, where I actually went into Walmart and bought something. First time, five years ago. And since then, like I said, I don't go to them, but I went to Walmart, then the second time, then the third time, and I can still count on all fingers and toes how many times I've been at Walmart. And I have probably had a few more fingers. But with Amazon, I've never ordered anything from Amazon. Nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing from Amazon, period. Now, I know some people go like, eBay's got a lot of problems too. Well, I know eBay's unique. And we don't do really that much with eBay, but we do some things. And as we pointed out, there are some interesting buys, especially when you go in there and start looking at their bundle arrangements for radios. Now, this is where I'd like some feedback if anybody has had any delay. because I don't know whether or not that's going to be the case considering how some of those companies are attached to the container system or if they're using air. Now, here's the interesting thing is most of them do have free shipping. And to me, I mean freight surface that would make sense, but is freight surface being interrupted because of the folder all where they're not letting the ships dock because apparently they claim they don't have the manpower to unload them, etc. This is the same game they played back in the 70s. They're creating the shortages as part of the way in preparation for economic warfare, just like they did with the gas shortage and they waged economic warfare against the American people. the ring knockers. And that's the ring knockers you're doing right now. Blame the right people. If you want to go execute someone, there's only a handful of people you've got to get rid of in this country and this crap would all end. There's only a very, very small list of people that you just walk out and everybody hunts and gets rid of. And it doesn't mean it was what they had in the way of security or what they thought might say it wouldn't make any difference. And no, it's not necessarily the idiot sticks in Washington, D.C. They're just meat puppets. They're not even worth the time to think about. In reality, the only thing they're doing is rubber stamping what it is that's the real problem behind the curtain. It's like, you know, oh, there's that guy that's in China, you know, first place I'd shoot behind the curtain. I'd bother with the idiot stick up front. The meat puppet isn't, you know, doesn't it the brains God gave geese. Who cares about that turd? Pissed on it. You know what the ones behind the curtain? Oh, I hammered them first that bump all of a sudden quivers and Drops and you see blood kind of oozing from under the bottom of the curtain there. Oh Those are the bastards you want to shoot those the ones you want to hunt down a club like a baby seal Those are the ones you want to hang from telephone pole off here You get rid of them you get rid of the real problem Find find the ones giving them the orders to better still That's how everybody is thinking right now, by the way. I'm running anybody who doesn't know it's like no those fools in DC are actually running Jack or squat. Obama is, you know, got his tentacle up the arse of the meat puppet and the others. But the fact of the matter is that, yeah, there's somebody with a tentacle up his arse. So it's in tears. That's why you always want to make sure you find out where the rest of the pyramid is and pay attention, okay? But because of this that that's the only question somebody was asking because they wanted to buy 100 radios This week and I the only thing I couldn't answer was Well, how are they how are they actually getting shipped in because they do give you a short window for delivery and This is the problem with Having to look at perhaps other lesser solutions. One of the things I ran into here the other day is Neat little radios good enough for just carrying around for squawking within about a mile or two World's smallest radio. That's kind of like you know the world's tastiest hamburger. Who's gonna prove you wrong? But it is a small little handheld radio. It's a repeat of something that was built back in the late 80s early 90s I Don't know how significant the changes in the model. It's clean. They're a little clear transceiver and They're about the size of a silver dollar in terms of the basic fixture itself is a little rectangle underneath. It's maybe about a half inch long. They use a longer conventional wire antenna, although it's not bare wire, it's actually armored. And what's nice about them is that they actually have pretty good clarity. There's not a whole lot of squawk. So for their size and for what they are and the fact that they ran about $12 for two of these units. They're small, out of the way, and useful enough for a lot of other activities. Now, the reason I bring this up is because we were just talking about medical. Depending on what these radios work at, some of them work on just conventional FM and the FM-5 frequencies that were designated years ago. There are other models that work on AM or FM, VHF, UHF, and depending on what what contract they ran under, but these little units are really not a bad radio. They're nothing fancy about them. They have no bells or whistles. They are one step away probably from a kitty radio in many ways, but by today's standards, considering what we're seeing most of the other equipment do, to try and get a lot of radios into somebody's hands quick, this would be a solution. And especially if you're doing medical support or field hospitals and such, where you needed to have a clutch of radios for rotation of personnel. You're going to have three shifts or you're going to have one 24-hour shift on and two days off and the next person is coming in. There's a number of different ways they can do the personnel management, but they're going to need communications. And I already picked up, oh, probably about a, I think in the containers, it was about a box about the size, well, not a box about the size. A four gallon milk carton, you know, milk crate. I filled up one of those already because I made a deal on one of the sales here that we had all about a week ago. And I got a bunch of them for $4 a piece. Pile up, big pile. I bought every one as a matter of fact. Now, where are these going? Immediately going right over into the seal. First of all, they're going to the Ziploc bags. Then they're going into a standard transport container and they're going to be divided up. along with other pieces of equipment including spare batteries, a couple of other containers to be able to keep them weatherized when they are deployed so they're not just hanging around on a table or sitting around. You want things out of the environment as much as possible and assume that you're not going to have overhead cover. This is like when we pack ammo, okay? A lot of you guys helped with the big project we did two weeks ago. We had a ton of the SKS chess piece, chess pouches. I think we had two bales of them. We got them from one of the suppliers. Everybody pitched in and bought their ammunition. Everybody pitched in and bought however many of the battlers they needed. They got 20 millimeter cams. I've packed, I don't know, I forgot how many of these we've packed now, but this last two weeks ago, two weeks ago, what we did was have everybody sit down, screw up all the ammo up. put the ammunition into the 10 pocket SKS carbine chest pouches and then we put those, fold them up and put them into the 20 millimeter cans and lay them in the way that you do the ammo bandoliers for say the 556 or 762x51 NATO ammunition. and only it's the SKS chest band lures. Yeah, they work great as band lures when you get them cheap. One model that we did use up, I don't think we've even exhausted them yet, but over at CenterfireSystems.com. They have the camouflage copies, woodland camo of the Chinese chest pouches. They are nylon. They work really well. I've been buying them for years now and they still haven't run out of those which is really fascinating. They ran out of the OD green ones but they still have the woodland ones and this is at CenterFireSystems.com. Anyway, we loaded up every last round into stripper clips and then loaded every last stripper clip into a chest pouch then again spaghetti piled everything, folded them up neat, accordion piled them. and put them in the 20 millimeter cans, make sure that the chest rig straps are up and woven around even when you put a second layer in. You make sure the straps are woven to the side when you lay the new chest, the second layer of chest pouches in, then you fold everything over. And that way when you grab a set of those, of those suspenders, the ones on top come out, there's a complete loaded chest band layer. That's how you issue stuff out. So you can accumulate, you can still do this right now, we were able to. As far as the ammunition, everybody had to obviously buy what they thought they wanted a can, and you also had to go out and find the 20 millimeter cans. And that's a can that's still available, but it's not all everywhere the way it used to be for whatever reason. So you had only deals with certain companies. Coleman has, Coleman's.com has them in stock. Excuse me. Anyway, everything again is, everything should be packed for the environment. Everything's gonna be set up. so that in the event that you do open something up, if you do leave some moisture in there, you're not going to frag everything. Forgive me, one of the things I left out, why did I mention those bandoliers? Each one of the stripper clip sets that goes into the pocket is put into a Ziploc bag, forgive me, and that's really the most tedious part of this task. Obviously loading is not fun, loading the stripper clips. But then what we do is we actually use the Ziploc bags inside each of the pockets and then the bandolier goes into the can the way it's supposed to. The advantage of this is that even if we open them up, the ammunition is not compromised if the can is closed. Ammo cans will retain, you know, just like they keep out air and moisture, they retain air and moisture. If you open that up in a rainstorm and you shut that lid, Well, that H2O is stuck in there with your ammunition. Now, if you just had raw ammunition laying in there like so many people do, which I understand, when you open it back up, there ain't no guarantee it's going to look like when you closed it by any stretch of the imagination. Trust me on that. Like a little tropical rainforest inside there. While everything else got drier, inside the ammo can because you didn't open it up and air it out, it stayed wet. And that H2O, keyword is the O, Oxygen creates oxidation, especially where it's combined into that moist version. So anyway, just again, prior proper planning prevents this poor performance, but the Ziploc bag is one of the most useful tools built, I think, in the last 50 years. Especially for any of you thinking about prepping in any way, the Ziploc bag or the seal and meal bag, take your pick whichever way you want to go. offers another quick, fast issue layer of protection and not only that, but it can be reused out in the field. Ziploc bags are quite convenient for a lot of things, okay? So just a heads up, it's part of the toolbox. It's not just something you should take for granted. It's part of the toolbox. And again, last but not least here real quick, well of course I did mention the music request. Guys, I didn't forget you. So just forgive me, we'll probably pick up a few more of those tomorrow. I don't think we'll be able to do it at 8 o'clock because, well, we'll see what happens here. Because again, I've only got one hour to prepare for the 8 o'clock and I've got a whole list of things that have to be done quick, quick, quick the moment I get off the air here. Also, and again, don't forget watch it for the Turkish reversible rain gear the rain poncho with gators and arm covers armed gators The colors are coming into their own right now if you haven't seen these before Needles to say I don't know if turkeys stop bringing mint because they realize maybe we like them. I don't know they aren't where they were surplus, but again It's something that has very unique applications. The cool thing is the two colors, the one, works of course for the summer fall season and really works better for fall than it does. Summer it works okay, but fall is where it comes into its own. And the reversible side with the winter pattern actually is an excellent mixed condition snow camo. So between the two you got a pretty decent combination. You may call it the desert pattern, but no, no, it's actually to me it's obviously snow paddle, like snow pitter, you know, a little bit of, you know, layers of snow here and there, other terrain and material exposed. That's the norm in most of the conditions, not stark, stark white. Doesn't mean I don't use white snow camouflage, we've got tons of it. and or other patterns and I but this is interesting because it's another breakup type and in some parts of the country will work better than others look at the terrain of Turkey and look at the terrain of the United States where do they cross where are there similar conditions especially with regard to rock and foundational colors you know sand and soil so anyway we are at the top And for everybody out there again, it is Communications Tuesday. Most important check your batteries. Two pieces of equipment I picked up from somebody and it's a good thing I did because the Duracell batteries were both kind of... If you're not using the equipment that's going to be on standby, here's a little trick. Grab some of those snack size sandwich bags, take the batteries that go in the unit, take them off, put them in one of those little snack size batteries, and tape them right to the side of whatever it is or stick them in the pouch. If it's not directly in use, have it sitting on standby where the battery is completely out of the unit. When the unit is valuable, the battery is prepared to go replaceable. Republic.