I remember a teacher that I had. I went through the seventh grade. I went through the seventh grade. I left home when I was 10 years old because I was hungry. I used to be so busy. I used to do this. I work in the summer and I go to school in the winter. But I had this one teacher. He was the principal of the Harrison School in Vincennes, Indiana. To me, this was the greatest teacher, a real sage of my time anyhow. He had such wisdom. And we were all reciting the Pledge of Allegiance one day. And he walked over, this little old teacher, Mr. Laswell, what's his name? Mr. Laswell, he says, I've been listening to you boys and girls recite the Pledge of Allegiance all semester. And it seems as though it's becoming monotonous to you. If I may, may I recite it and try to explain to 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, O 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, my 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. 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've 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's 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'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 traded 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 beaters. 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 what you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? Oh, sons of the Republic, arise. Take a stand. Defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land. Preserve our great Republic and eat God-given right. And pray to God to keep the torture of freedom burning bright. As I awoke he'd vanished in the mist for once he came. His words were true. We are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each god-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, is to still the land of the free? hear the drums. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm Mark Hernky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, southwest, north, northeast, and east. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com, Liberty Tree Radio on satellite and a myriad of technologies both inside and outside the United States. It is Communications Tuesday. It is the 2nd of November. 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 And let the battle continue, for it's already begun And it is 5.08pm Eastern Standard Time and if my clock is up I would be surprised if I had to look at two different clocks and they both have different types Then it'll all reset or coordinate all of a sudden and And they'll be off again. But kind of weak, to say the least. Anyway, it is Tuesday. We've had snow showers. I got a raid down here too, so... Clock sounds about right. Before you move forward, if you've came into the conference line, you may have noticed that they're announcing that our number's going to change. This is a free service, so that's not something I can control. But on the 16th, the number will be changing. If you haven't heard it, I will get it posted on the website and in the Discord. And guys, if you could post it on the Discord every couple of, like say every 15 minutes or half hour just to be safe. That way it's in the scroll in multiple places. Just let everybody know. Dad, when I post it, I put a pin on it. All you got to do is click at the top and you can see everything that I've pinned. It will be right there. Very good. And again, that's with the conference line system. That is a free service, so the changes from the company end, probably whatever contract they've made or whatever software changes they might have made too, who knows. It is communications Tuesday, but before we go any farther, again, we did have a little, we've had snow showers. No way that it's going to stick. In fact, the florid came down, more like a rain than a snow, and thought. In fact, gone even as it hit the ground. But we have seen that, and so the beginning. We know what happens. We will see more white because we're in Michigan in a temperate environment where we have four full seasons and they are full. So again, we're getting ready for the fun time. Actually broke out all the other parkas. Got the seven new parkas up in where they're supposed to be hanging. ready to go and of course the Mickey Mouse boots are already out everything squared away and some of the other boots that we picked up that are well in between they're not the summer booth they're not the full winter booth they're just the utility boot with some insulation and some of those are the the after well aftermarket copies of some of the military or the military contracts that are out there And again, a reminder, a bunch of different locations have some really good buys on footwear as long as it's in your size. And there is quite a wide variety in terms of the type of boot, even though, for instance, there's a bunch of Belleville boots that are available at militaryuniformsupply.com. And those particular boots, as you go up the scale in size, the models change availability. In other words, some are black, some are tan, some are sage. So whichever you get, if it fits you, you'll be doing fine. This is something I would point out. The Belleville boots are typical for all the rest. They're truer to a military size than the average bear. but they're still a little on the downsize, so I recommend you going up a little bit in size if you're going to order the Belleville, if you can, if not, the actual size should give you your spacing, but it varies depending upon which of the boot cut. I've noticed that too. The Belleville fly weights, they're phenomenal. I'm buying more of those for myself. I've already got five pairs. At $10 a pair, I'm going to buy another four or five of them. and just keep them on the shelf, that's what you're gonna see me wearing a lot as things develop. They're a garrison boot, they're lightweight, like a Vietnam era jungle boot, but I've been putting them through hell. And the only thing I haven't dipped them in is cement. I've been working and everything else, got them soaking wet, really, I mean, I've been working on a lot of heavy stuff out here, steel, cement block, concrete, brick, armor, we've been doing ballistic armor. And I just moved a bunch of steel, kicking steel around today. And I'll tell you what, these things are holding up pretty good. I got one little ding in the sole of the side of the sole on one from a piece of steel, spoke steel that kind of tagged it, you know, bump-punched into it, didn't break it up or tear it apart. But, you know, the boots look good for what they are and for the price, can't beat them. So, again, I've been looking for something like this for a while, the old cheapie jungle boots as a pair better than tennis shoes to wear around, got more ankle support. You just can't find anything like that, and they're not cheap when they are available now. In fact, the only place, again, that has a variation on that, they have a woodland camo aftermarket boot. is right there at military, you know, military clothing supply. So, military uniforms, oh god, Mark, so I'm working the microphone, it's long week, it's only Tuesday. Anyway, what's neat about this is that there is a lot of really decent buys and boots there, you should check them out. Also, there are a few clothing items still, including the British Under Armour and the DPM Desert pattern. And again, I highly recommend that shirt. It comes with all the armor inserts. Everything's in place, the shoulder pads, elbow and forearm pads. That really is fantastic. If you're going to do any lifting or work, you know, where you got to be bouncing around stuff, you might be in near things and, you know, you're not paying attention to peripheral, you know, made it get a chance to something, you know, something's in the wrong place. That little bumper armor makes a big difference. I've been wearing that in conjunction with a junk, you know, like the coveralls, my overalls. regular Ford type blue overalls but these underneath it's under armor and it works just fine to keep all those little tags and snags and bumps and bruises from collecting and we're getting older takes longer for everything to heal so slow that down by using the technology that's available they make so much cool stuff for us I mean they did make it for us right No, it was made for the oppression armies of the globalists so they could go after us and beat us down But that's okay. We got their goodies and we're gonna get more once we start killing them This and all stuff you'd be stripping off their warm dead corpses when the time comes Yeah, you know, you gotta wash some of it, but it's still worth it. Trust me. It'll be worth it They spend top dollars to steal most of it but still spend a good chunk of money on the stuff they give to the Ones that they plan on using for door kickers and you know rape kill pillage and burn in America. We know that Anyway, other things, real quick here before I go too far. Over at Coleman's dot com. Coleman's dot com. They get a couple of electronic items in you might want to check out, including the checked tactical radios. They have those back in stock as far as I know. Maybe only got a few of them. Those things have been floating around in a couple of waves that came in from the stern. And they are a neat little radio that come with rechargeable batteries, standard batteries, headphones that come with the voice, our standard pickup mic, both wire and everything for a flexible antenna, but they also have a tacked, you know, whip antenna. So there's all kinds of cool stuff with the radio. It comes in the zones, Styrofoam, casing or packing, it goes into a box, it goes into the shoulder bag, it's really cool the way the thing is completely self-departmentalized. And the checks were pretty conscientious about operating your equipment and maintaining it. So, pretty much every one amount of the boxes work that we've used and I'm very satisfied with the way they perform. Not super fancy, but a solution radio. Just to put another grid up somewhere or you know again false fails money want for deception purposes remembers all kinds of stuff We're doing out there when the time comes we do need countermeasures units in place So just a heads up there Another thing over at Coleman's they do have a number of Mickey Mouse boots There are three places that always have Mickey Mouse boots it seems in stock in one country or another either sometimes Korean but not very often anymore, French or American. Now the first one is colmans.com. Colmans.com. Colmans.com. I just mentioned them. C-O-L-E. Colmans. M-A-N-S. Colmans.com. When you go there, there are mouse boots. You can pay whatever price you want depending upon, needless to say, what model you want. Remember that? You're going to pay for certain features. That's expected with Mickey Mouse boots. It's been that way for decades. Just wait. Major Surplus is another one. MajorSurplus.com. MajorSurplus and Sportsman's Guide. And these are all bigger guys. Well, Coleman's is an average surplus store. Major is typical for out west. Sportsman's Guide is just a general box store from stuff coming in from all the other wholesalers. The cool thing is they do actually have the boots on the shelf. Coleman's has almost every size available. Major surplus may or may not because they actually have been doing pretty good on the Mickey Mouse boots. They have the French and they do have a certain number of the American in the standard sizes including some whites. Okay? And with Sportsman's Guide, probably going to charge a little more but I would compare prices because again, unfortunately if you're doing this now, this is the time of year when everybody is starting to look at what you want. Whereas I try to buy this stuff during the summer, I bought another, I bought a bunch of the infantry French boots for $15 a pair for the French Mickey Mouse boots. Filled up a barrel with them, okay, one of our tactical barrels. The other one's got a whole pile of those Cabela mug boots that I told you about, but that major surplus also carries, okay? MajorSurplus.com, MajorSurplus.com. Now, Let's see a couple other things happening needless to say guns and gadgets keep an eye on guns and gadgets He's had a lot of new postings and he's got a bunch of other stuff coming in. I know he's been asking questions other people have about what was going on here in Hillsdale of course, it's Interesting that the epiphanies that are taking place are echoing through the whole of the state right now And it's got everybody sharpening bad ends, which is what we need again The mutual defense pact arrangement, it looks like we've just made a bunch. Well, the state and the Fed helped to make a bunch of converts with what they did in Hillsdale. It's the best, you know, the old story, best damn thing that could happen, kids. The enemy demonstrating their oppression and their criminal intent. So that's got everybody gunning up, got everybody squaring away their technology, but also organizing accordingly so that everybody is in mutual defense mode when this thing kicks off. The big thing is isolating and identifying who the players are that are going along with the criminal activity, and that list is, well, got filled in real quick in Hillsdale. You know everybody knows who's who in the zoo and who to blame and who to keep an eye on of course part of that's kind of been obvious for quite some time but overall the County is in very good a very good posture right now with the number of people that are interconnected I would also point out that the surrounding counties have been affected by this This is a rippling effect and it jumps to other counties where I mean come on guys modern 21st century communications what it is Everybody can talk to everybody So the process of advancement continues, it's a good thing, all preparing for war. Nobody believes that the election is going to settle anything. That this was what they just did and a few other actions that everybody already witnessed. The general attitude is that, well, they showed you that the election is being stolen. They steal it on a regular basis, so how can you have confidence in any part of whatever they do? The farther it is from your community, And even right in your community, if it's the county, the numbers could be messed with, lied about or whatever because of the unknown third parties that are tied in, which we've talked about for years. Okay, who is it that runs the election process or what should really be, have been called for quite some time, the election scam, because that's really not how everybody is seeing it now. So that has eliminated that process as a solution option. Which is a good thing everybody is on the same page doesn't mean we aren't going to work a third party and a whole bunch other stuff right now There's other things going on, but that's part of well. We would consider to be game board warfare kids Everybody can take a minute. We're just not going to take six months for an election, you know, like they do nowadays. Election Day is such and such a day, but you'll be able to vote right up until there. And it's only three months until Election Day, which you'll all be able to vote, which means you'll probably vote two or three times, maybe five, maybe seven. And who's going to argue with it? Because they're going to burn the books anyway. Ha, ha, ha. So anyway, we understand that. which means another thing, talking about communications. You know, one of the things that a lot of the people are doing is what I've talked about before, setting up their own phone grids, regular old style hard line phone grids. There's a lot of technology. In fact, all of the original phone technology is out there in force. And if we think the way originally the phone companies were set up, it's not hard to set up a local ground-line hard-wire telephone system in your area. Remember they run low voltage to begin with. DC is a matter of fact. So it's not like you really need all that much power to run the system. And what's really neat is solar, wind, hydro, or just for the moment sipping off of the standard power system but always having a battery, like a, for instance, Edison battery backup, pretty well guarantees that you're up all the time just like the phone system used to be. What's really good about this is no intercept. If we remember that, for instance, in Michigan alone, we had up to 600 phone companies in Michigan at one time. We still do have quite a few small independent phone pools. that are here and there, phone companies. I passed two or three of the service centers for which are the size of a garage. For a couple of the different small phone companies whenever we travel to the middle of the state, depending which route I take. And almost always I run into somebody, either at the general store or one of the other stores that actually is with the phone company, I've initially had a handful of people. But they're usually, you know, demi-retired now is what's happened, so they've taken a job like that for fill-in. And the phone system really runs itself. It's not as difficult as you might think. You could go to modern switching, or you can use an operator. And a lot of people like doing that. Of course, they're not going to watch out because, well, remember, the operator can listen in. Remember, Petticoat Junction, all the other old movies where the operator would sit there with a... White Christmas, remember White Christmas? The secretary desk person, you know, desk woman slash busy body was also the switchboard operator and just happened to listen in on phone conversations. Yeah, plenty of schmaltz, remember that? White Christmas? She heard part of the conversation, but not all of it. Anyway, the big thing here again, If you're gonna do this is to start collecting older technology and the older and heavier built the phone the longer longer lasting it's gonna be the long long long longer lasting it's gonna be So if you're what you know what I've done is collected all of the old bell phones and that we could find anybody wants to get rid of usually yard sales are either for free or you're gonna for a dollar or 50 cents station or industrial factory phones are fantastic because they're actually set up so that you can run an independent hub like an intercom system for small town. And if you only have a handful of people participating, maybe 10, 20, 30, you have your own separate phone and stand off system. You can go from one line to the next to the next and actually keep the lines hot, which is kind of cool. So you can actually have somebody on standby if you need to be. They're a neat little solution. It's basically what the University of Michigan did when they wanted their own phone system, which by the way, they could call exactly what I said, an intercom or internal communication system rather than calling it the phone company. And therefore, the Fed wasn't supposed to spy on it, which was a big lie. In reality, they wanted it as a private phone intersystem for almost half of Ann Arbor, Michigan. so that they could then tap the phones illegally but without any argument because it isn't a phone system, it's an intercom and they're letting the students and the teachers and all the research scientists and so the MESAD and the ATF and the FBI and everybody, they randomly, without any warrant or anything, they randomly monitor 150 to 300 phones a day at least. And they do that from three or four different pods, one out on North Campus, one right down there off of the Diag. And there are two others, including the Big Hub, which is held by now with the technology, are probably monitoring 100% of whatever's in the U of M phone system. But it works in reverse order. If you're not hooked up to anything and you're building your own phone grid, any conversations you have are all amongst yourselves. We're not talking about using the phone company's phone lines. We're talking about running our own, because we're not a phone system. We're just kind of like the inter-office communications network. You know, a microphone company. So the neat thing is, copper wires and options, some people, or one kid, has gone fiber optic. I really wouldn't do that, but he had all of this. He's got all the first generation fiber optic equipment that his dad retired, stuff that they got rid of. So, we know at least one person has put together a fiber optic network and in reality, I mean, one of those little fibers could cover the entire town if need be, but he's got little trunk system set up and he's able to splice the equipment, you know, he has the splicing, the older style splicing equipment, you know, upgraded and upgraded and upgraded since. But first generation works just fine. It built the fiber optic network they have now, so why worry about it? And for a small project, it's all that's necessary. So everybody is happy. And the neat thing is that they actually have a number of different even phone options he's been collecting. The one kid has collected phones. So he's kind of like marketing the phones that are out there that people have been getting rid of. And people love the idea that they have their own little phone to talk to their neighbors or whoever they want to with the local business. There's only one. It's actually just a gas station grocery store in town. But the neat thing is it's kind of novel in that, well, you guys have regular phones. Yes, yes we do, but we only talk locally. And everybody is in their own closed system. It shuts down more and more of the Internet activity so it's not in the free open air for wiretapping. And everything progressively goes black against the enemy. Which is the whole idea, you know, shut this system off negate that don't get involved in any of the social media garbage for you know the area of activity and You progressively peel back and take the real estate make it yours and it's not part of the electronic electronic boondoggle that is dragging down the country So step by step by step and take back the real estate part of the war part of the war effort guys Oh, and by the way, well, how could we do that if we had 300 phone grids? Well, gee, how the state of Michigan, how did Michigan and Ohio and Indiana and Illinois, each one of these states had hundreds of phone companies and they seem to work just fine. I think we could do that again without a problem. It's the big companies telling you, you can't do it with the little guys. It's just too much work. Well, no, it's not. They just wanted a monopoly. And for the most part, they did get it. And then they cut off more and more services. So the monopoly, as usual, provides little of no service and basically tells you go get screwed because there's nothing you can do about it. Oh wait a minute, yes there is. Yes you can. We're talking about it right now. So anyway, the ideas vary depending upon how much you have and the way of motivation. And that's really the only barrier. And with all of the surplus technology out there, in fact even computers, You don't need, I'm going to emphasize this again, if you're running simple systems, you don't need terabytes. The terabyte technology is only so that you can placate the government spying system because all the spyware that you buy, that's part of whatever your processor system has been told to take. It's spyware, it's compounded spyware that you're paying for, not for any improvement in service or performance in any way, shape, or form. It all has to do with, well, we've got upgrades, read that, they've got more spyware. And the spyware tech is going to do nothing to get worse, while of course burning and slowing things down. But I have terabyte, I've quatro-quintabytes, I've got Yeah, well it's interesting the system isn't running any faster and you're getting more, you know, goo goo goo goo goo goo goo goo glitches, right? More of max headroom buffering and all kinds of fun stuff. So it doesn't look like any of the things that they've brought forward have done anything other than supported a larger, massive police state mechanism at your expense while getting less and less in the way of the real service that you wanted. showing again that it's time to step away pretty much all of these systems and build new. And or at least have fun doing it, have fun. Look it is a really fun hobby. And in fact, just even a part-time, not even a full-time hobby. It's one of those things where once you set it up, it's kind of sitting there and it's kind of novel and you go, wow, why don't I use this? Click, click, you know, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bloop, bl And you don't have to worry about fading in, fading out, bars or anything like that. Your phone works flawlessly. It's comfortable to operate. And it's also cool because it's just like the phone I grew up with. Or maybe it's that Star Wars phone that you always wanted. Or maybe it's the sci-fi or the classic antique. It doesn't make any difference. You actually have fun. It's something interesting again. Which I think is kind of cool. So anyway guys, you know prior prepper planning prevents before performance when they shut off everything We're not shutting down and we're not going back to the stone age. That's the other side not us We got the thinkers. They got the thinkers. Let's use it anyway a couple other things. Oh We're right at the bottom of the hour I'll tell you what I haven't played it in a long long long time And I like the song because they put kind of a Telstar flavor into it. Calling America. Calling America. Okay. Calling America. And you might recognize this. It's from the early 80s, right? Well, it's 70s actually. Very late 70s, early 80s. 80, 81, 80. Anyway, Calling America. And what's really kind of cool is again the way that they included as part of the you know the solo in the middle It's basically a tell star the original song tell star from the 60s Right, thank you Edward. And we are back. It is Communications Tuesday. Perfect song for Communications Tuesday, by the way, because I'm just talking to a satellite. 20,000 miles in synchronous orbit tonight. Yeah, well, in geosynchronous orbit, that would be best. Anyway, for everybody out there, it is a beautiful Communications Tuesday. We got a little snow flurries out there. breaking out the snow camo with the actually experimenting with some other of the Umbrellas to do the snow splotch. There's a pattern that I've seen that's been done in cloth I Swear to God it would probably be one of the best transition camouflages out there. It's about seven dollars a yard and It had it actually is a cross between the ATACs, which is a little too foggy in some ways But it does have some of the foggy effect of the ATACs with the more significant or detailed patterns of the Czech or German camouflage patterns of World War II, except they went with a smaller rumpled type camo, a print pattern for the alternate. So you have a major couple of splotches, but there's a base color. So this rolls over it. And it creates the variation between like dust or snow covered rock and or branches with the way the other smaller pattern rolls through everything and It looks good. I mean it's also random enough. That's the big thing. You don't need anything with a significant repetitive pattern if you can help it if you have larger splotches or larger areas and You want to make sure that you're regular enough that when they're turned one way or the other and they're re-clipped, cut or whatever when you're doing pockets, that it breaks up the overall pattern significantly but doesn't demonstrate another pattern that you might pick out. Nature doesn't really make a cookie cutter leaf side by side by side that is exactly the same. Nor will you find any color modules out there when you're looking across an area that are that consistent or uniform. There is a closeness to pattern, but you don't want it so uniform because it looks good. I mean, it really looks cool because everything is regimented. People like to regiment things. You want ad hoc random is what you want. That works best. And again, remember, you still got shading, color. You're not going to be, or you're not supposed to be out in the middle of a field. You're supposed to be using the branches, cover, tree lines, overhead cover in whatever way you can. And constantly, again, when you're moving, when you stop, you try to move towards something where you can blend in or you have something blocking your image. That way, what is seen is much more random. You take advantage of everything else out there that's already naturally in place. Take cover and concealment simultaneously. Cover can be concealment, but concealment will probably not be cover. Concealment being light. Think of it that way. Cover is something that stops bullets or at least slows a lot of stuff down. concealment blocks the image but may not physically block any aggressive, you know, projectile. So that's how you want to be thinking about it. You want both cover and concealment whenever possible. That's how they were working in Afghanistan. Why would all of the very sophisticated technology everybody asked about Remember, the Afghan forces very quickly adapted to the late 20th and 21st century warfare with helicopter and thermal and other technologies, which you're not supposed to know about when we talk about out of the air. Because of this, it's fascinating that, again, nope, they haven't changed much. There's a comeback here. Somebody keeps commenting about this. People have been showing pictures. How is it these people with Type M 1956 Chinese chest pouches and Standard AK-47s are defeating and are defeated an army with, well, pretty much everything, quote unquote, state of the art? Well, travel light, freeze at night, but also fire and maneuver. And remember, have confidence in using your brain to do what you're trying to get machines to do for you. Because the machines are trying to mimic the human mind, the most sophisticated battlefield computer on the planet. If you perfect the mind, it will defeat all other issues. It will defeat any threat. But you have to have it between the brain pan. You have to take it seriously what it is you're looking at. The military sciences, needless to say, the art of war, is like everything else out there. You need to embrace it, learn what you can, develop as you have to, and OJT compensates for the difference. And if you weren't paying attention to the first part of the program, As far as how to get it done, OJP might be very short in terminal. In other words, you don't get a whole lot of time in before your time is up. And we want to prevent that from happening. So again, prayer proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Cold weather operations. You can always improvise Snow camo and you can also improvise other technologies to help deal with, for instance, snow blindness. Don't forget that. Sunglasses, I don't wear them. I don't wear sunglasses for anything, but I have thousands of pairs. I mean, literally, I do. Everybody gets rid of their glasses every so often. I usually end up with box bowls, a Ziploc bag, every one of the pairs of glasses. So I have a certain number of glasses around. For instance, on my kit right now, I just switched over to a pair of actual Wilson aviators that are probably from Vietnam. They're a wire rim, but they have the neck hangers. You know, forgive me, the well, it's designed to be a neck hanger. So what happens, you can take the glass off and just drop them. Do I wear those all the time? Well, I have them on my kit because we get out in the field, And especially if you're out there nonstop, again, you want wind protection at some point, and regular goggles are also something I carry. But the sunglasses are kind of handy because of, again, white blindness, something you've got to watch out for. You need color contrast. You want to be able to develop and maintain color contrast when observing, especially at distance. And you don't have to have your prescription glasses to do that. What you need is to make sure you preserve your ability to discern colors and variations in shade by being able to take the sunglasses off. You don't use them for operations. You take them off and you observe with a sustained level of natural eye light collection performance. You want to be able to see with what you've got. The sunglasses allow you to run at a particular meter without stressing everything out and reduce stress obviously in general. But at a given point you want to be able to use your conventional ocular collectors unrestricted. Something I learned a long time ago. And again I don't even hardly use, there will be very limited conditions where I use a protective lens like that where it's a sunglass. Now otherwise goggles and such, oh hell yeah, same thing, I've got thousands of them. I've got East German, I've got West German, I've got President German, I've got Norwegian, I've got Swedish, I've got Swiss, I've got American, English, Dutch, don't forget there's even some Belgian. My favorite for just being pocket models, I have two of them on every combat set, are the Swiss Alpine fold-up pocket goggles, those were fantastic. Those are a neat little idea. The Germans made a copy and so did Swedes. Italian just got a bunch of those why there was a big deal with one one of the companies I think I bought up 18 pairs of their snow goggles that paid dollar fifty apiece for They're modern. They're nice. They were they work. They've got the yellow lens and they have a smoke lens Let's see what else and of course, don't like to mention the American Oh Canadian I've got some of the Canadian ones truly are just a knockoff of ours or well from the Vietnam War era the older ones. The newer ones are another company altogether. They all find ski company. I got tons of those. I get those all the time. When the winter ends, all of the ski aficionados have to get rid of all of their ski gear so that they can buy the latest next year. And so at every yard sale, I end up with three, five, six pairs of not every yard sale, but especially around places where they have more money than brains. We end up with a whole bucket of these, you know, conventional ski goggles, which by the way are also the invoked, you know, combat goggle that Johnny Chetjock and the latest special warfare group has to have. And there's every kind of logo you can imagine, which to me I really wouldn't want in my combat goggles, but I've noticed that everybody's just got to show that they've got the Chic Designer goggle. Oh my God. Well, I have all those Chic Designer goggles. There's one that I haven't seen yet that I don't own. I think it's rather comical as far as like the commercial ones and you know knowing what they pay it's like oh no I wouldn't pay that for it, but I'll take them for free like I did Well, they're not as they're not the latest model their last year's model. Oh my god. I won't my eyes won't live with that But yeah, they will and my so am I psyche oh my god. Oh, I guess I have last year's after all I'll suffer with that for somebody just hand them off to one of you because I've got another pair of like more But what the hell so anyway Go ahead, Paul, jump in there. Yes, hello, Mark. You were talking just a second ago about sunglasses and stuff. And every place everybody's got different conditions. But out here in the southwest desert, sunglasses are very important. It doesn't necessarily affect you in the day, but your little hair-like receivers in your eyes, your rods, and your cones, they're very detrimental to real bright light. Like if you got the sun coming down and it's reflecting on the ground and it can fry your rods and cones and they recover fairly quickly because they're just nerve endings. They'll recover in about eight hours. But what really happens is if people don't wear sunglasses during the day and they fry their eyes, it really affects their ability to use their eyes to see at night very effectively. And, are you still there? Oh yeah, I'm here. Sorry about that. Well, I had the mute on so that I didn't want to make any noise in the back of my finger. Go ahead. No, I'm sorry. I just like went real quiet and I thought, I don't know. Oh, anyway, kind of. Well, that's where people can hear what you're saying. Very good, very good. Well, you know, I have some disturbing news from out of Arizona. You know, we've got some issues south of the border and this happened on Saturday afternoon. There was a 16 year old from Mesa, Arizona. He's at the little city outside of the Phoenix proper area. His last name is Mendez and he was down by Tombstone, Arizona, which is out kind of north easterly from Fort Huachuca. And he was being stopped by a sheriff's deputy, but he didn't stop. He was driving a Dodge Charger and the deputy was pursuing him. The Border Patrol joined the chase, but after they got up to 100 miles an hour, the deputy and the Border Patrol broke contact and he was making his way through some of these back roads and stuff, highways, paved roads, not dirt roads or anything. And he came upon State Route 90, that was the route that runs from Interstate 10 down to Fort Huachuca. He ran a red light and basically sheared a car in two. It killed a 65 year old woman. She was going to her birthday party to see her son for dinner. It turned out they had two illegals in the back. A lot of this story is from the Arizona Daily Independent. I went in two different directions to look up this story. I just typed in vague terms of about transporting illegals, running traffic lights and things like that. When I put in vague terms, all I got was, oh, George is considering putting in, you know, laws to give illegals a right to have a driver's license, or what's the punishment for illegals not having driver's license. So the only place that I can see that this is actually being reported is the Arizona Daily Independent. Now, It's also been pointed out, the person Terry Joneth that was reporting this today, is that number one, all the drivers are from Maricopa County. And back in January, there was a van that had 14 illegals in it that had flipped over, rolled, and a number of the people died, and the driver is facing multiple felony charges. There was another driver from a city called Summerton and he's facing seven felony charges for transporting illegal aliens. There was an ASU student, she's a 19-year-old female that caught down along the border transporting illegal aliens. And it appears that there's about three contributing factors that are going into this. Number one, it's the Biden disastrous border policy that's basically leaving the border wide open. There is absolutely no media coverage of these stories at all other than the initial oh so and so got arrested in southern Arizona vague terminology. And then there is the social media that's recruiting the drivers or using social media like WhatsApp and Facebook. to get these. Now there seems to be some question if the cartels are involved in the arranging these pickups and deliveries, but are they, is it just the groups of illegals are going on to Facebook and saying, hey, I need a ride from Tucson to Phoenix or something like that. And the other question is, and I'm I'm not sure what the answers are, but it's like this guy was Mendez, his last name, he was 16 years old. I don't know how much a Dodge Charger costs, but I think it's about $50,000. So what was a 16-year-old doing with a very expensive sports car? And Mesa, Arizona by the Phoenix area, Fort Huachuca, we're talking several hundred miles away, didn't his My parents know where little Jose was doing several hundred miles away from his home. And when he, you know, I don't know, maybe when I was 16 I was riding a bicycle. I certainly didn't have a Dodge Charger. You know, I'm wondering what the fallout for this is. So if you misuse a firearm, the people want to come along and sue the firearms manufacturer like Smith & Wesson, Cole, or something like that. But now since somebody has misused a motor vehicle, so now is this open season to sue Dodge on these issues because now that their product has been misused. And I've got a quite a stack of News items, I see we've only got just like five minutes left before the top, but if you'd like to comment on that news article of about a lady going to her own birthday party didn't make it, I'm open. Well, okay, question. Did the car that cut the other car in two, did everybody survive? The driver, Mendez, the 16-year-old, had minor injuries. The two illegals were transported by ambulance to a local hospital and the lady driving the other car died. Well, she was plowed, yeah. It just basically, depending on how they hit, the car went right through the crew compartment. And there's not a whole lot there to slow you down anymore really. I mean there's one, if it's a four door, if it's a four door, you still from the side, especially at higher velocities, it'd be like a torpedo just going through a couple pieces of sheet metal. That's what it would be like. And you get dragged through it. Needless to say, if you're the driver, that was a full force torpedo. To me, the biggest problem we've got here across the board is the bottom line. We've been talking about it for decades. We know the problem with the border. They've lied about ever stepping up to the plate and actually dealing with it. If they put their foot down hard, it would settle the whole problem, but nobody is willing to get in or they have the guts. What really needs to happen with the problem we're seeing towards Texas is small arms fire. gas, I don't care. You know, throw smoke, throw big feces, you know, do what the Hungarians did. The Hungarians, they patrol with pigs because they have a puzzle. They did, you know, they're in no way, shape, or form, you know, they want you to get through, so they've, you know, they've acted accordingly. We're in a situation now where we have the internationalists, we've warned everybody about forever, doing exactly what we told you they would do. These are all these stinking pigs, globalists, that little 19 year old panty waste piece of trash down there, Antifa, I'll guarantee it, slash social justice warrior, never worked a day in his pitiful life. And it would have been nice if they had an act, if they had been an action, and hopefully that would have been the one to die. Because none of these useless tools are going to ever be worth anything to any of us. None of them will be worth anything to the country. In fact, they all claim they hate the country. So what the hell are you doing here? Think about it every aspect of this is every one of these twitch idiots and competence and fools all telling you about how they hate everything and blah blah blah blah blah and then the Trump But they're trying to drag people in because we well, obviously What are they bringing more people in for it to hate the country more? Oh while it's demanding more free stuff You know, the free stuff is only gonna go so far and it'll there will be free stuff But the free stuff is gonna be crappoo It's not going to be the buckets of handout digits and anything to buy once they're done. There's something to think about there. We're at a point where Marshall Force is the only thing that's going to work to secure the border and Marshall Arms and Force are what's going to be necessary to clear out the country of the problem we've got because they're not listening and they don't care. They're issuing live ammo to the National Guard on the border. I hope that's more than three rounds. We'll talk about that in a bit. Anyway, we are at the top. Suppose with me, God bless the Republic. Death to the New World Order. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen, the Empire. We are on the march, both day and night. We're gonna lock down the border. There's gonna be a whole lot coming north and we don't really need it We do that for a year. Well, everybody will get the idea maybe be better controlled without the Mexican side They don't come and play on the American side Mexico is where they get first They got a whole big police force there and all kinds of police state operations. But they don't seem to apply them to the illegal aliens. They're illegal aliens at first. Anyway, we're gonna go to break. We'll be back here a second here coming up. Go grab a cup of coffee, go use the bathroom, whatever you're gonna do, and then we'll be back for the Halloween teleporter. 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've 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. But 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'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. You've traded 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? Oh, 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, keep the torture freedom burning bright, as Iowoki vanished in the mist from whence he came. His words were true, we are not free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trampled each God-given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? And good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the second hour of the afternoon intelligence report I'm our current date. one day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters both on and behind the lines in occupied territories southwest east northeast and south ladies and gentlemen you were listening to us on LibertyTreeRadio.4MG.com Liberty Tree Radio on satellite and we're on M&FM micro station, CB base stations and UltraNet hallmark and Golden Spike technologies east and west of the Mississippi along with Alaska and it is a beautiful Tuesday that little snow squalls they do nothing I mean the fact this stuff melts the moment it hits either the building the wall the window the floor the green all the dirt doesn't make any difference it's like gone. But we have had what are medium or high altitude snow squalls come in and pass on. Then we got blue sky with sunshine. It gets warm. And then another snow squall. So roller coaster, classic, end of fall, headed towards winter. It really wants to head towards winter. We knew that was coming. Not only just to win. But it is the sign of November. Duh. It is the 13th year of Opentavian, Socialist, and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K, 2021 Older Calendar, 2021 Battle for the Republic, The Dance of Swords. Get a caller. Oh, I heard a voice. I thought I heard a voice. Yeah, Mark. This is why I ran across a few things some people might be interested in in my email from a board called BattleHawkArmory.com. That's BattleHawkArmory.com BattleHawkArmory.com has some magazines some people might need. They got 7.62x51. That's 30 weight. That's the, what would that be? The AR-10 magazines. They got 10 round needle for... Right. Go ahead. What? Okay, well, they got a 10 round Magpul mag for $12.87, a 20 round magpul for $13.65, and I got a 25 rounder with a window in it. So you can see your round, I guess, for $16.11. AR10 and 308. That's about the cheapest 308 AR mags I've seen in a while. The other mag that I think some people might need and this is the best price I've seen on it. It's a mag pull mag for the 7.62 but 39. I'm reading it now and it says AK or AKM. I thought it was for the AR but it's $13.25. It's a mag pull mag. I just thought I'd let people know it seems like a good price. I'm out. Very good. On the AR-10, that is a pretty decent price and there are no surplus AR-10 mags, guys. You have to either go one manufacturer or another. Magpul makes good product. I don't have anything bad about their mags or AR-10 mags. The 10 rounders are obviously for restrictions. The 20s are still what I would stick with. I know a lot of everybody wants a, they think they want a bigger mag. But the 20 round slab mag for most of the guns works just fine. There's a couple companies are making 25 rounders for a lot of the other rifles. What is it? Does the SCAR take an AR-10 and .308? It might. It might. So those were carrying a 25 rounder. Probably why it's probably placating that customer base, which is understandable. There aren't that many SCARs out there in circulation, but they're out there. That probably is where that would be headed. But either way, whatever floats your boat, as long as you're happy with it, run with it. The 20-rounders, again, are the optimal because most all your carry systems are there. But they usually have a versatile Velcro flat for the AR-10 aftermarket or contract moly mags, you know, moly mag pouches. So they can handle a 25-pounder without any problems. They're going to usually have more than enough material. for the flap to cover or the lock down to hold it in place, whatever the strap is. So that is still a decent solution. Appreciate it, Fluffy. And again, under $20 for AR-10 mags is a good price. And Magpul is a pretty reliable manufacturer. The big thing here, again, if you're looking at .308, .30 Out-6 or whatever, there is a bunch of the Turkish surplus coming in, in both. Again, Turkey can do no wrong. Everybody else, you're all, everybody else is an enemy of America, an enemy of the state, banned from almost doing anything, unless they're kosher-run. And Turkey is so far up, Israel's are saying, might as well be just, you know, they're just a sub-bird, what do we call them? Turkey bird servant of the east. You know, turkey. And for that reason, Turkey, since the kosher mafia is running the US across the board into the ground, guess what? Turkey is allowed to dump anything and everything. So right now, other than, you know, again, paying attention and testing maybe some of them, you know, what's out there, see if it works for you, there's 30-06 in-declips, in-bandoliers coming in from Turkey right now. I don't know if the civilian marksmanship program has bought any of that. You might want to go there and see if they have a review suggestion. Go over to civilian marksmanship program. They have their own warehouse factory and remanufacturing for rifles they're bringing in. and they should, usually they have like a grand group there and they probably give you an evaluation of this ammunition that's coming in. That'd be the fastest way to find out more about it. But anything like that, anybody who's operating garands, immediately they're going to be scarfing up and you get de-clips and the de-clips are in bandoliers with the Turkish ammo. At least so far. There'll probably be other junk coming in. And then the 760 by 51 NATO, that's been coming in three different ways. Loose, which means somebody probably took them out of the box and stole the stripper clips. Or it's coming in limited belts that they've taken the, again, they've stolen the tracer round and they've left the ball rounds and they're in like little four round lengths. I've seen two batches of those now. And this is all Turkish ammo. It's probably been stolen not by the Turks, but more likely from whoever's bringing the ammo in. And then there's something that the tracers off to the side rather than keeping all the links together. The links are standard NATO type, so they work where the hog should work with the MAG58. I don't think there was a change here, but if I, again, I'd have to double check and confirm. But the, because it depends on which of them the NATO Alliance country mag 58s is being used. There's a number of different countries that use the mag 58. But otherwise, the other thing coming in at this point from Turkey is another wave of 45s. So you might want to check that out. And again, who knows, maybe we'll see some air 10 mags from one of their factories. I really don't care if you're looking for dumpers. It's a good way. Now remember, if you can find some aftermarket that are droppers, kind of hard. Again, the AR-10, it's either by good, by top end, or nothing. I heard a voice. Go ahead, call it. Yeah, it starts back on that same site that Fluffy just gave us, the Battlehawk Armory. They have a Toulamno 223, the 556 NATO for 340,000 rounds. steel case, zinc-coated lead projectiles, boxer prime, non-corrosive, says non-reloadable like most steel is considered to be non-reloadable. But, 40 per thousand, that's pretty cheap. That's about seven or eight cents cheaper than I've seen other places right now. That's a zinc jacket case. That's, you know, it's funny, it's basically their war production ammunition from World War II. Steel case. Zinc bullets, lead core, yeah. And again in 5.56 but that is an excellent price if you're looking for more bulk ammo. A lot of guys are trying to find something right now to train with. Again personally I'd focus on boxer primed ammo but if you're looking for a reasonably priced or cheap ammunition because it's just you know what you need it's where you have to go you don't necessarily reload. then that would be a good option for training ammunition, familiarization. You don't burn any more ammo right now than you absolutely have to because you're going to need the rest of the war effort. So every round counts. In fact, I was discussing that yesterday after we had the regular programming, there was a whole conversation on the whole issue of focused fire to put the targets down with volume from multiple shooters, not one person exchanging with one. In other words, every time we pull the trigger as a group, one of the enemies should go down. The best way to do that, focus all fires. In other words, whoever you pick, they're going to die. Well, they're going to be horribly wounded, or they're going to die, because everybody shoots them. You know, and again, you work with sustained semi-automatic fire, not automatic fire. In a contact situation, the idea is longevity and endurance over short, you know, quick, horrible bursts, so to speak. It's terrible, terrible firepower, all of them are so tremendous. Well, if they only carry so many rounds of ammunition, all of a sudden they're using harsh language and fixing bayonets, if they have one. because they're in trouble. On the other hand, sustained, accurate, engagement, non-stop, repetition, repetition, repetition, is critical to success in defeating an aggressor on the battlefield. And right now, needless to say, people first of all do need to know how to use their weapons. Trading ammunition is becoming a big problem for a lot of people simply because they're afraid to pull the trigger because it kind of eats at the wallet real fast. So we appreciate that, Dersik. That's one of those that really helps. Anything else there, an ammo? Go ahead. Hey, this is Rob on the East Coast. When I called in tonight, this may be something you've covered ad nauseam and I just didn't pick up on it, but when I called in tonight, the nice lady said that the phone number is changing. on the 16th of this month? Oh yes, as a matter of fact, thank you, we didn't mention it this hour, but we do need to. So I appreciate your question. Number one, it's a free service, so when they chose to change it, which by the way, it's been with us for a long time, that poor little lady's voice. I'm afraid to cut her off because You know, we've heard her for so long and it's like, you know, she probably even if she's long gone and dead at least we're remembering her this way. This will be, this will actually be the third time that the number has changed and usually when it changes it's because they've changed locations of the company. So that's probably what's happening since the first three digits have changed again. You know, there's no doubt the new number for those of you who don't who don't know it yet because I don't have a post in the discord or on the website yet because I just got this information today myself is 667-770-1524 and the conference room number will remain the same but the call-in number that we use to connect will be 667-770-1524. Now that may have, it might, it is a change in number but it might also have to do something with this thing that they're doing with the FCC Forcing everybody to go over to a long 10-digit number. I don't know if you're hearing about it in Michigan. They've been covering it on the news down here It it Boy, you're there the access code will be the same Yeah, the access code will be the same that won't change. It's just the connection number is going to change Okay, and I'm gonna read it back six six seven seven two zero one five six six seven 7 7 0 1 5 2 4 Okay, and I will have it posted on the website and I'll have it posted in the discord and it should take It's on the 16th. Yeah, the change should take place on the 16th Okay. All right. Great. Thank you. No, and thank you for reminding us because I actually should have touched on at the very beginning of the program and again for all of our friends listening if you can pass it on to people that may not know yet. Every time you punch in though now, they seem to be reliably telling us. So if you, when you dial up, the voice is going to let you know, oh, by the way, there's going to be a change. And grab your pen and be ready and make sure you've got it written down properly because it will be repeated. And it's one of those things where, like I said, the companies Either they may shift hands, they change addresses because of location. 667, at least it wasn't 666, but 667, I'm not familiar with the area, but there again, it may be an international and overseas. So it should be an American prefix, but that doesn't mean much anymore because of some of the ways that they can jump from one technology to the other. Whatever it is that works, apparently our service is not going to be interrupted. At least it's not going out of business yet, which, you know, heaven forbid, but you know, who knows what the situation is right now. And if that happens, we'd have to be looking for another service, which we would very, very quickly. In fact, we probably should have an overlap already. Let's assume that this year is going to be really roller coaster as we go through it into the winter. with all of the other problems that they're already demonstrating with communications, supply train, employment. Go right down the shopping list of, hey, this is the 21st century, total cluster screw. I could use the other term, but that's close enough. A total cluster screw. And it ain't looking any better. So let's just assume the worst, we won't be disappointed, we'll keep doing our part to come up with other solutions to the problems. Before I forget, we're talking about three services. www.colonialmarinemilitia.4mg.com If you can, take the time. If you've got people who are interested in organizing CMM. Again, the information on the history of the Colonial Marine militias over there at www.colonialmarinemalicia.4mg.com. Once you're in the membership and everything has been acknowledged and you've gotten the handshake, which by the way, it's, you know, you should be known to someone. That's how it works. You have to verify who you are and where you've been. And preferably it's going to, somebody's going to be approaching you after you take an interest. But what's most important here again is that you'll be over into the CMM alternate site and you have to have a pin number as a whole process. But by the time you're done, you're into a very different world. And for those who are former Marines, this is where we direct that energy and that way everybody is copacetic, like mine, know what they're doing. And you find a little bit more about the long haul operations that make up the CMM. and the history that now is getting up there guys. We've actually built up more than a few generations of Colonial Marine militia personnel and the new groups coming in, the new guys coming in, hard chargers, especially where they're all pissed and they are getting things done. So I can't complain. www.dott. colonialmarinemalicia.4mg.com and we are headed towards Bob. We're not there yet but a couple of the things I mentioned surplus batteries and there are brand new they're not really surplus but they are bulk battery packages much like the batteries for the radios You guys can have to shop around a little bit. You might not recognize some of the battery companies. Most of them are obviously Chinese and some of them look almost like they're anion products. Yeah, there's some really interesting art that they put on some of these batteries. We never see in the United States, by the way. And they're not from Japan, they're from China. But the flower blossoms and other stuff that are showing up with little fritters or whatever, it's the style based on the market and the interest of the customer. So the interesting thing though is that there are some D-cell blocks available if you do search from China for 1,000 or 1,200 count cases of D-cell batteries. These are not rechargeable, but there are rechargeable available. Of course, god-awful price if you thought you were going to buy a thousand of them, which you probably are. But for some people, they are interested in bulk. When you're looking at that quantity, they're going, you probably end up at a freight dock, but it depends. How packaging, how they market, you know, when they market these, needless to say, it's a block. The double A's I've had come in in commercial block boxes. of a thousand and those are delivered directly by UPS. But double the batteries are a lot lighter than D-cell and less space. So I don't know any more so far than just touch base and found that they're out there. If you're looking for C-cell, I've had a lot of people asking about that. C-cell is right now, although it's not obsolete, I'm looking at five units right within arm's reach. 5 pieces of equipment all made recently with C-cell batteries. So obviously they are still in use, but C-cell is becoming the 380 auto ammo of the battery world right now. So if you have C-cell batteries, take care of them and don't let them get, you know, gimmick inked or, you know, messed up because even in rechargeables, It's interesting that while they're still used in popular to a degree, like 380 auto ammunition, unfortunately if everybody goes after them or buys enough of them and there's not enough more made, all of a sudden there's that tumbleweed that goes by on the shelf where the T-cell batteries were. And this is true for even the import slash import export and internet orders right now. NiCads, I mentioned the other day also, NiCads are not obsolete batteries. NiCad is still out there in force, but the new NiCads are much more efficient than the original NiCads that came out, you know, what, 40, 50 years ago. NICAD battery packs though were the norm when you were carrying us, you know, like for instance, TV cameras or whatever. They actually had, you're not, you haven't seen this in quite a while, but they had bat belts with battery banks of B cell or C cell batteries, needless to say, and NICADs, nickel cadmium. But that particular configuration was changed out with the more efficient versions of the NiCAD being made. And they probably, I think, almost halved the weight as far as number of batteries needed. It wasn't that they changed the weight of the battery that much, but the efficiency of the battery came up with material changes. So NiCADs are still going to be something you're going to run into. They do require, they do do require against, you know, specific charging capabilities. And there's something that you want to make sure that you again, take care. I highly recommend investing in battery carriers and or making battery carriers for your, you know, equipment, especially with rechargeables. You're, you've got a significant investment. I'd almost treat and nest them like grenades. There's a couple of different pouches that allow you to make a plastic cutouts so that you could nest them like a little row of shotgun shells. But I would shield them and I would also canister them if I were in the field and I was going to be in the field for long periods of time, especially with moisture issues. So just something to think about there. You want to make sure that you protect the electronics. You're only going to get, you know, so much time out of each battery, no matter how hard you try. And as we get into the cold, that cold sucks energy. Okay, it pulls. In fact, the only thing that is good about some of what we're going to run into, good and bad, is with some of the equipment, The cool air is going to obviously help to bring your running time up in terms of your performance with the equipment itself, but unfortunately the cold, if with regard to affecting the physical battery itself, will bring down your power supply. So this is where there's an up and down roller coaster. Don't get frustrated just carry more batteries. In fact, obviously many of you don't even like rechargeables and don't use them that often. So it's just a matter of having whatever number of repacks you're going to put in. Typically in one night most all of the equipment that we've run nowadays will with the battery that's on board if you use the conventional disposable battery it will operate for the entire period of daytime or nighttime use. that would be required. Usually it's not an overlap in the boat. Handheld radios, as I've said, most of your energy sippers that are AA and AAA right now are very, very good for 22 to 28 hours off a throwaway battery. So they're not inefficient in that respect if you want to minimize. If you're trying to shave weight, remember, every one of those batteries cost you a cartridge, a rifle round. There's a way to think about it, weight wise. So if or a couple of nine millimeter rounds weight wise So if you can shed that if you can minimize in one area to maximize and bring up your combat load in another You always do that. You always have to you actually treat yourself like like a crew master on a cargo master on a military transport where you bring the weight up in one direction, you knock weight down in another to try and balance out everything. And that's what you're trying to do when you're committing with a combat kit. You've got to try and pair things down where you can and also re-engineer as needed based upon the environment or the situation, the mission, etc. There are situations where you'll change up. And communications is one where you have flexibility or illumination or whatever. In some cases you may or may not want it. What I mean by illumination could also include collection. Okay, let's not just say brightening up the night with flares or lights, but being able to see what's going on out there, night vision, thermal, whatever it is you're committed to. Okay? batteries batteries and more batteries you're never gonna have too many batteries in fact it's like ammunition I got plenty of ammo yeah until the time comes you really start pulling the trigger and then you'll wish you bought more batteries in the same way if you're gonna use all these widgets that are out there that you got then you have to be prepared to provide them with the power they need to serve you well okay another thing Well, we're at the bottom of the hour. Let's do this. Edward should be there. I'll tell you what. Oh, it's long and I don't, there's a couple of other things I wanted to touch on. Let's see. I had two requests, two music requests. Guys, be patient. We'll get into the music requests again. It is Communications Tuesday. Do me a favor because I did have a couple people in a conversation about this and I know I've got a couple of requests from Let's see, Julie and a couple other people I don't know off the top of my head. I'd have to go back through the emails. Harvest of Sorrow by Blind Guardian. Acoustic, if we can, would be great. But Harvest of Sorrow by Blind Guardian. It's a metal band. It's a multilingual metal band. These guys are very capable, by the way. But... if we can and I'm sure Ed be able to grab that real quick blind guardian and Harvest of sorrow and of a cool piece And it is Communications Tuesday. We do have a number change for the chat slash listening line coming up. You will hear that when you connect at this time because it automatically included into the notification before you go to hook up with the regular program. Your... Oh, I'll tell you, we're gonna be quiet. Here we go. And hopefully everybody, there we go, that satisfies three requests at once. Blind Guardian, by the way, the band itself is considered a metal band. But as is typically the case with many of these artists, guys, they have phenomenal skills. It's just most of the time they don't really employ them in the more classic sense. And that really is where that song fits. An excellent piece. Especially if you listen to the different variations and instrumentation. And there's both the conventional electric and acoustic. And multilingual. Don't forget that. I've mentioned that many times. These guys produce their albums in different languages and the entire album is translated out. It's amazing. So with the work that they do. And of course, that way they actually, remember they've got a wider market that way. They know how to, well, present their music. It's cool. Anyway, sidebar on that. A couple of the things here very quickly with regard to headsets. I know, you know, somebody goes, well, you know, the earbuds and stuff are cheap. You know, you're talking about buying those. Yeah, they are. to try and get everybody into what you need. Step one, get them all on the table with the basic equipment and you're going to have to pay attention and not abuse your equipment. I think the biggest problem we've got with 99% of what's going on with damage is just the idea that people are notoriously abusive because it's something that I can just get more. I'm going to remind you that that world is going to change very, very quickly. Well, it really already has. Let me give you an example. Yesterday we were looking for one thing. What do you think of, what's one of the goofy items you would think, ah, you can get that anywhere you want? How about eyedroppers? Now I know this because, actually, eyedroppers, I knew this would happen. Eyedroppers are actually traditionally a medical item, and not only a medical item, but have you ever seen how eyedroppers are actually made? We used to make them in chemistry. Like a tradesman in, I know if you want to be a machinist. When you were a machinist, you know you built all your tools as an apprentice and by the time you were done as a trade, you know, building to a tradesman, not only did you know the tools, but you knew to the moment the tool was built. You might change out and eventually spend more money on more, you know, conventional or more, you know, a more unique commercial tool built by somebody. But most of it was, you know, stuff you made by hand. When we originally were in chemistry shop, almost all of the little work tools that were used, we made. And using glass tubing and actually what you do is heat up the tube, stretch it out, you know, actually score the end and make the progressive tapered tip. And if you'll notice, they have a little round bevel on them. You know how you do that? After you've extended and cut the glass, you actually roll it by pressing it down onto a mildly hot metal surface. And that curls and creates that safety edge rather than a sharp edge on the the glass surface at the end where it's going to make contact with something, whatever you're going to use it for. You don't want somebody jabbing somebody in the eye and necessarily cold poking their eye out. It's designed to be for like tear drops or dropping so many drops of material into a cup, whatever. Oh, hetmalk, eh? No, not hemlock, but other stuff. Anyway, So we went all, I mean literally one place after the other, went to Meyers. Oh, they gotta have them in Meyers. Nope, they're completely out. Dollar Tree? Nope, don't have a single one there. Pharmacy, after all, last was, well wait a minute, why don't we just stop at the pharmacy? They're gonna have here, they're gonna have droppers there. Guess what? Not A1. Well, assume that it's just going to be there like America, the wealthy America, America because we're the superpower, America because we always had everything. It's something as simple as an eyedropper, a simple, you know, fluid pulling dropper. Not plastic, not, you know, the only thing they, the one thing they did that was syringes, but then again with the addiction problem. Of course they're going to have syringes. But as far as trying to find a simple dropper like that, nope. nobody had them in stock. And it's interesting I read a lot of a few that say, well Meyer, not at all. Well, no, they didn't. Pharmacy, well they should have them. And probably some pharmacy around here does, maybe, but a Rite Aid and another conventional, like more traditional pharmacy that's, you know, been in the place, neither one had them. So there's an item right there that's just kind of goofy. The good thing is I did buy extra. They're in the medical supplies and I do have some that are in another inventory having to do with, for instance, metal testing and the tubes are brand new. I mean, literally, they haven't cross-contaminated by anything. So there's an item right there that you just can't get. Now the same is going to be true with a lot of the other technology out there. And yes, as I mentioned the other day, there are some phenomenal headphones that are made for military application and there's even copies now that are knockoffs made by aftermarket companies. They're obviously not going to be as well made. But they're designed to deal with integrating with the helmets and all the other technologies that are out there that go on your head because they've got to try to be able to stay on your head and conform to the difficulties of fitting between your ear and whatever head protection you have. So you've seen a myriad of them that are out there probably. If not, look around. You'll see what I'm talking about. The throat mics I mentioned, you can get less expensive or fairly cheap throat mics and yes, you can spend top dollar on something that supposedly is the best name brand widget. Made in China though still, sadly enough. Of course, well, those items, even if you do buy them, it's like you better be babying them as it is because again, what's the likelihood of being able to replace them when you need to? Now, if you're serious, as I've said many, many times, I don't care what it is, buy two, you know, for every one you use, buy two others as backups. And if you're in communications, you should do that anyway. If you have a radio pack that you're carrying and you have committed to it, you need to make sure you have the spares that are the perishable items that are going to be the first thing to go bad. in the long haul. What would be the first things to go out? Well, strangely enough, headsets, because you flex, you move around a lot. You're going to see certain pockets and pouches wear harder and faster. Be ready to either repair or replace, and that's why supplemental units. Optics, I've mentioned many times, the most sensitive item out there that you're carrying on all of your gear. The optics on your head, if you're wearing night vision, despite the fact that, well, they have ruggedized them. That's a matter of... How do I explain that? It's like it sounds impressive. I ruggedized it. Well guys, it just means that they might have put nothing but our big rubber baby buggy bumper seal around certain parts. And it does make a difference to reduce shock transfer. But it doesn't mean that the device was built better, okay? As far as did they beef up everything else that might break? So this is where, again, I've seen this example with radio equipment, like we were just talking about, which we're supposed to be on because it's Communications Tuesday, headsets. I don't care who makes them. They always muck up on the place or the point where the wire leaves the headset. Now granted, there's all kinds of different great solutions that have been out there. and either grommets or extended wraparound with a grommet that's built right into it that protects the end of the wire so that it isn't torn up and eaten by motion. Just simple head motion back, forth, back, forth. Looking up, looking down, turn your head left, into the right, to the left, and to the right, and left. What happens is every time you move, That stupid little lightweight wire or medium weight wire is which is wrapped in a China sport plastic You know the wire the wire insulation If there's a little bit of a sharp edge and they're almost always is to the casting on those little headsets or those little micro buds I don't care what it is You've seen this happen a hundred times That's where they're going to break. That's where the wear is going to be and eventually there's going to be a corruption of the insulation and then you're going to start to have breakup or you're going to have, you know, you have to move a certain way to get or move the wire to get it to work right. Now you got to remember they've also went absolute chintziest and no matter who they are that's out there on the number of strands of actual copper wire that are in a wire. And that, especially with the Chinese, trust me, their bean counter's caught on to that a long time ago. So, couple things to do. Number one, once you get that $80 or $180 piece of great, wonderful earbud technology, or ear muff technology, go get yourself some rubberized tool cover, tool handle cover. There's brush on type or there's dipable, whatever, you still could brush it on. And what you do is get a tactical color if at all possible. And where the line comes out of the fixture for whatever it is that you've got that requires a power line. I'm not talking where it plugs into something. I'm talking if it's fixed and permanent and it comes out of a unit, you know, wherever it does, take that goop and goop that area up. and go down the line just maybe oh half an inch past the body of it and give the wire and the fixture a little extra reinforcing. Remember that the company that made your junk no matter what it is, would like to minimize. So what you have to do is go through and ruggedize. But you're ruggedizing beyond their minimal standard which they basically is that's what they keep. This is true, for instance, with your clothing. I've mentioned this many times. What are the first points that always break free on your clothing? Well, if you wear six pocket pants or if you've got anything where you have the fly and you have buttons, if you have buttons, add a couple more loops of better quality military grade cloth thread to each of the buttons to secure them. But if you have corners on pockets like the flaps, get out, break out your sewing kit, find your OD green or your loam or whatever color thread you need, and restitch a couple of little angled triangles at the top of each corner of the flap or it's hooked up to your pants or your shirt. You'll do yourself a world of good. And by the way, do the same with the pocket fly, the pocket itself at the top and at the bottom. Well, it's a lot of extra work. Yeah, but in the long haul it's not a lot of extra work. Sit down in front of the TV tonight and do it. If you know what I'm talking about. It doesn't take long to do, but once it's done, it's taken care of. These little things are things that I've seen and I've got boxes of items for my earlier years where we learned and went, huh, this is stuff we need to fix before it breaks so we don't have it break and then we don't have to fix it. It's just that simple. So again with the radio headsets, it's where the wire comes out or and I'll tell you what here's another thing you may have a bridging wire I should have mentioned that if you have a headset and The headset goes on it's got a boom mic attached to it where the wires do come out to go bridge to the other earpiece and If there's a wire coming out of one of the earbuds or ear ear muffs, forgive me For the boom mic same thing Reinforce that by gooping it up with that, again, the Plastine handle covering. Now there's a number of different things you can do there too. You can wrap the wrap a little more if you want with electrical tape or, you know, a note. It's not recommended you use friction tape, but friction tape works better with the goop we're talking about. And again, you do a really tight wrap, you bring it right up to the fixture point itself where the wire passes through. overlap that a little bit and then goop it up. Now it's going to make that area a little more rigid so you don't want to make it three inches long worth of junk you know you brush down to the wire. You only want it right at the base where the fixture itself is and this creates a more efficient or long-term seal and then maybe you know more than half an inch down from the wire. That's it. Basically you're maybe coating nothing but what is already a rubber baby buggy bumper fixture that holds the wire in place. But these are things that wear out and they wear out in a stupid way and they create a whole lot of work you really don't need to fix. You know, intricate drivel work that you don't need to waste time on. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. That doesn't mean we won't fix it, we will. But if we can prevent that and avoid wearing out our first model piece of equipment, we're not going to have to improvise, adapt, and overcome down the road right away, are we now? And that's really where our concern is, is time saving time. Spend a little time now, save a lot of time later, especially downtime when it means life or death. We don't need that. You also really can't afford to replace it. You just spent $95 or $110 on some of these headsets. It's like, dude, I'd better go over the whole thing and look to see what might be still something of an issue. Another thing is plugs and both receivers and the actual plug itself, the mail component. With fixtures, you want to make sure that you, if you can, break out that bathtub caulk I've talked about before for other work. and you want to seal around the fixture itself. Usually it's like a metal lock down, like either the threaded stock or whatever. Once it's properly set, take that little tube of bathtub cloth and clear, or you can use earth brown, even have some dark, like dirt brown, and seal the area around that little screw or that little screw and fixture. surface area right around it. Just don't goop it up real heavy. Just get it so you can seal everything up between the receptacle itself and the body of what it's, you know, plugged into, what it's seeded to. Reason, that's another weak point for moisture and it's another weak point of tugging and pulling. And also sideways being hit, can't do anything to stop that, but you can reduce it a little bit. And that's where the shock material comes in handy like this. Mark. Okay, now the other thing, let's see what's last. Most all of these units also have an issue with the headsets themselves as far as the head basket that fastens through your head. These things are... Well, it's like a helmet liner retainer without the helmet. And one of the things you gotta watch is, you know, people are tempted to cut all the excess off where you have strapping because I adjusted. If you adjust with your head and you figure, well, I'm really never gonna probably do anything more with it with me. And I'm not gonna be having to concern myself with other types of headgear. That's fine, but if you are going to use it and you can take in some of the slack, so to speak, when you adjust the headset, don't cut off the extra that was part of the roll-up. Once again, break out into your electrical tape. There's actually this really nice medical tape out there. It's tactical colored now. A little bit of medical cloth tape and wrap it around, flatten that area out. to the outside of your head. You want to minimize any roly-poly or excess or anything that's going to scuff to your head on the inboard side of that little basket. They're flexible, they're elastic is what they are. What you want to do then is secure those pieces and rather than roll them up and bunch them, lay them flat along the other material, break out some of the medical tape and the tactical colors, or you can use electrical tape, it's not necessarily everybody's first choice. But it works and it works well. The big thing is that what you do is save and retain the material because you never know. You might have to pass this off to somebody else who's going to need that extra material to be able to fit the equipment. If you cut it down small and then all of a sudden Bob has got like a size 7 and 3 quarter head, Fred had a seven inch head and you knocked everything down and trimmed it all to him so that everything would be perfect. Well, then it's useful for one person. But if you want to hand me down equipment, remember we're going to be doing this for force multiplication. Guys, you want to preserve as much of the original material as you can to be able to adjust for size. So always keep that in mind. Never cut off the excess, roll it and tape it or flatten it to the body of whatever else is there. It's like you have your adjustments are at one end, but you have a nice long strap there. Roll it back, lay it back flat along that line and tape it into place so that it stays snug with the side of the body of the basket, slash the headset you have. These are little tricks that will save in the long run because we're going to hand this stuff down. We can't afford to throw anything away, especially in the early stages of the conflict. If it's useful, if it works, it'll be useful in some way. The only way to describe that. Another thing real quick, last but not least, is camo stuff up if all else fails. Cryo-lon spray paint. If you have something that's just not quite the right color, change the color up. It's not a big deal. Again, I would point out that the medium-loam green or even that The sage green that the government came up with for the base color with ACU, that color itself is basically the standard or was the standard aviation color for the longest time. And there was a reason that they chose that because it really was the most universal color for pilots dropping into an area other than using an actual area or theater camouflage which they typically didn't do if you'll notice. The pilots with that sage green had a pattern that really worked well mostly for night activities, night operations, but still blended in with the foliage to it to the degree that it wasn't a big pink shoot me outfit. Those colors are actually good base colors for a lot of the little trim and touch up you're going to do if you're trying to blend things in, you know, through the tactical gear. I know you can go other more dynamic or interesting or maybe you know colors that are you know fluid with some of the other present patterns that are out there, but Remember again this helps to create yet another change up and if you're already established on those color ranges with the equipment you might you match it up for the sake of you know copacetic impression If nothing else well, it looks cool so We are at the top again a lot of the radio gears out there and ain't it ain't cheap If you want to armor those up in protection so that you don't serve these for a longer period. Republic, the new world order we shall prevail with. In the end, the Empire is better on the world of Mars. If we get on the way for now, we'll be back at the L. Meanwhile, we will take over for IPR China.