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And also a myriad, a myriad of communications technologies inside and outside these United States. It is Monday, it is the 25th of July. It is the 14th year of open, obvious and Piss it in your face, Fabian Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K, 2022 Old Earth Calendar, 2022 Battle for the Republic, the Dance of Swords. And by the way, David Warner has passed away. He played the one prime minister in the Star Trek series. Remember he gets assassinated, Kirk gets blamed for it. But you recognize him as a heavy that did a lot of other movies. He always played an excellent sinister bad guy. But it was in the classic almost Victorian mode in many cases. Or you know, epic. Let's put it that way. He was perfect for any kind of being a meme where there was an epic bad guy. He was the guy that was one step away from the devil himself sometimes. Of course the devil sometimes comes up and gets him if you watch some of the movies. It's it for tat. Anyway, again David Warner has passed away. In fact, just a little bit ago while we were doing the other programs when that happened. Just a heads up. Anyway, couple things. Number one, if you could, before we go too far, the latest guns and gadgets. It is a defense video. And real quick, if we can, we'll play that. But you know, what are they calling it? The Dixon procedure or the Dixon. There's a couple of people who have come up with a name for the contact action that took place. with the 22 year old against the rifleman. Now everybody's got to go to the range and go out and show that they can do it. You know, the D Dixon maneuver or the, you know, it's a Dixon procedure. Anyway, it's funny because it's how we used to work at the range all the time. I mean, for me, it's like, I mean, yeah, go ahead. Dickson drill. Oh, Dixon drill. Thank you very much. Yeah, that's the drill. Well, again, it's 40 yards. That's not quite the 50 yard. Okay, guys, 25 inch and 50 yards are standard pistol target. At least they always have been for me. Right? Any of you granted, I know they dropped everything down 12 feet. It's like 12 feet. Well, that's true. You do shoot in a room, but I plan on fire maneuver and I'll probably be outside as often as I'm in a quote unquote. And if they're as close as me sitting in the car and having to shoot through the window, that won't be very hard. It's just, you know, I need to practice that more often. But 25, you know, the thousand inch, 25 yard target and a 50 yard target. And then actually years ago, it used to be even the 75. You don't realize that, but in World War I, they took the pistol out to its maximum range. Granted, the 1911 of World War I was, you know, let's just say sloppy tolerance intentional. Just kind of funny because, again, if you look at the standards for what they expected to try and get the people to pull out of their weapon in terms of accuracy, needless to say, there were a lot of different schools of thought. But what's fascinating is the, again, the Dixon drill. which is now in just many videos. You don't have to, I'm not gonna describe it. Go watch it. Everybody's doing the same thing. Well, how far is 40 yards? Well, okay, they're setting the cameras up, so you get a feel for that. And this gets back to years ago when we had the mall shooting where everybody saw the escorts for the shooter. And I pointed out again that if you had trained properly with that handgun, And by the way, Mr. Dixon did a comparable study. He showed a speak and train practical application. You pick off the escorts. The shooter may not know what to do. Well, obviously he's supposed to shoot. But if you take out the escorts, you get the guilty party stuck on the premises. And you can pop the shooter still. I mean, after all, he'll still be available. They won't be able to back him out and blow his brains out around the corner like they did that one. Instead, you've got bodies on the ground. So the important thing here is aim and it's not volume fire. It's aim. The important thing is aim. And then yes, you can put multiple targets, multiple bullets on the same target. But this is another issue is following up. If the target may have gone down, but he may not want to stay down, you don't want to dump all 15 or 16 or 17 rounds that you have all at once. A half pattern is a good idea at least, say eight rounds, and that was probably, again, I don't know if he was, well, okay, there's something I haven't looked at. Two things. The toxicology, and I know we won't see it, the toxicology of the shooter, because I'm more interested in that than anything. The other is, what was the pistol that was used by Dixon? Was it a service undercover casual firearm slash, you know, like a light carry gun? There's a lot of those out there. Chubby Stubbies or in line, you know, small magazine. It's not uncommon. So eight rounds might have been everything that he had. And then going to another magazine, that's possible. I don't have any idea. Okay. However, the average gun, even a lot of the DA guns out there carry 14 to 17 rounds. Go ahead, jump in there. I think it's Tex-Mex. Yes. From an island I've seen on reading the videos, it was a Glock, but they don't say which one. They just said a Glock. What? I don't know. I don't know. It was a 1517, 26. I have no idea. But that's all I know. Okay. Yeah. Oh, iron sights. Well, I doubt you. Yeah, again, for under carry, anything with any optics would be kind of, you know... Overbord and bulky. I mean unless you're a big guy. It looks like he's a good sized guy. He can make things disappear. But it's just the idea that again if it was a Glock, let's say it was a 17. So he's got a 15, 16 or 17, maybe a little bigger mag in it if he wanted to carry something a little more of an extension. So eight rounds means he was smart and only used half of the capacity of the first magazine. If he fired eight rounds, which is good. That's logical. And again, he probably couldn't eyeball hits for sure. So firing eight rounds and sustaining hits on target overlapping is a good thing. That's not a problem. I'm not critiquing him in any way, shape, or form as far as negative. The only interesting thing I'm curious about is what was the weapon. And if it's a Glock, there we go. That's one of the most common handguns in the world now. And even the smallest are Staggered Magazine and have the ability to carry more than just their standard magazine because if it's a smaller one, it can carry all the bigger mags. So you can carry one of those little chubby stubbies, like a little parroordinates Warthog. I love those guns, they're just neater in hell. And the neat thing is, you can take the biggest mag that they make for the parroordinates, stuff it into that little chubby stubby fist full of fury, and you've got the same firepower as the bigger gun. But not so much space-wise so you can carry a couple of sticks into like a vest or a jacket You know a leather leather vest would be your best choice with a couple of slip pockets and that way it's rigid And the advantage is you can be carrying other mags and boom boom boom boom boom away you go and wailing away and barking like a big dog But whatever whatever it was it did work go ahead call her jump in there. My wife's got a baby Glock and nine millimeter I stuck one of those 33 round 9mm bags in it. It's challenging. Exactly. Yeah, the mags have... Well you know what the trick to that is? It's like when they did those in full auto, only it's obviously if it's a chubby stubby, is you can drop your hand down onto the magazine and basically it's like one below the other instead of wrapping the fist that controls the gun. You come down below and extend that a little bit just to get more control so there's less forward and backward level. You know, lateral motion. And it works. It actually does work. But the big thing is, again, think about it. You know, any of these solutions, this obviously worked, but the most important thing is to stay focused on the target and at the same time, you know, pay attention to peripheral. You don't know who else might be joining in the party with the person you shot. Which is one of the reasons again if Ed's there right now Guns and gadgets the latest video which is also a defense video if we can we'll play that a little bit here The other thing about the that shooting incident is the toxicology of the shooter There's there are a number of other drugs out there right now that have got me curious and it's the fact that the government's Sounds like we might be closed right now That was like a record skipping which is kind of cool anyway Today's video is brought to us by Nautilus Ammunition. They have cheap, high-quality ammunition that is often $3 to $5 cheaper per box than retailers for small orders. They also offer subscription services where they have discounts associated with that. They have fast shipping, no order limits, no minimums, and that includes the subscription service as well. They're made in America with top quality components and low prices. Nautilus is not a retailer, they are the manufacturer and they don't scale prices. 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The injured attacker stumbled his way into the vehicle, stole it, and took off. Police found him a few blocks away in the vehicle where he had crashed. and they transported him to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. Now I am trying to use this platform to show more and more people that there are a ton of defensive gun uses where good guys and gals with their firearms that are owned and carried lawfully and legally save their own lives or others by utilizing their constitutionally protected rights. Now, the investigation is still going. Police aren't sure if he was carrying under the constitutional carry law in Texas or if he had a permit. I haven't seen any updates on that. But, guys and gals, keep your head on a swivel. And do not let politicians make you feel like you can't even protect yourself from your attacker. Remember, when seconds count... Police are often minutes away and that is far too long for you to fight for your life That's why I always say be safe stay vigilant and carry a gun to keep you yourself your friends your family your community safe Only you can be your own first responder because when you need to take action in the immediate You can't depend on people who are on their way from some unknown distance. So I hope I hope this is starting to wake people up. I hope this is also starting to make people realize that this happens a lot more than people want to admit, and this absolutely destroys the anti-gun narrative. If y'all could do me a favor, please like this video and share it. And also subscribe to the channel if you want to hear more of these defensive gun uses. If you are subscribed already, please check your subscriptions. It's coming to that time of the month where they do the purgy-wurgy in YouTube. And if you're new here, I have seen a couple videos still thinking about it. I would love to earn your subscription and grow this growing freedom family to see just how much we can push back and keep the truth about the Second Amendment flowing here on this platform. With that said, guys and gals, I hope you have a fantastic start to your Monday. I'll see you on the next one. Take care. that apparently defended himself and then drove away with the car and stole it, right? Only to be found a couple blocks down the road. Now, this is more representative of something we've tried to explain to people that movies do to you constantly. When you get stabbed in movies, everybody just very nicely drops down. When people get shot, they very politely die for you or drop down and die for you almost instantly, okay? The reality is this guy this is an example right here is the guy got shot Had enough wherewithal to actually move himself back into you know an active form Got behind the steering wheel of a vehicle was able to put it in a drive Obviously had enough focus to be able to get the car down the road granted He was dead two blocks down the road But that's a lot of energy and available time to do all kinds of hurt to somebody Now this can be at either end of the formula, and this is the most common mistake made, which is like I said, when you put a target down, if they fall away from you, follow up with three shots to the groin, especially black uniform armored, you know, secret police operations. If they fall back, especially when they start doing this gun grabbing crap, remember, you don't want the, you know, whatever comes out, we don't want anything but a rumor of their destruction to return. So when you're attacked, the rule is keep it down. They're going to do this to you. If you are not familiar with most of the order of battle situations that we've seen, well, the one with the couple in Houston, for instance, is a good example. where they fired them up and then they backed off and they didn't expose themselves anymore but of course they never received any fire in the first place. The bad cops were in a wrong location. They attacked an innocent couple. First of all, they hid. They hurt them badly. And then they let them bleed to death while the husband called out for his, you know, for help for his wife because he, you know, because initially she was still alive too and they bled out over a period of time and all those fine cops sat there on their hands just like you've all been thinking and watched everybody bleed to death so that way there's only one story. Okay, this is not new. However. This demonstrates also, either on your side with a friendly side taking hits and or the bad guys taking hits, is that you've got to understand it's not lights out, shut down and gone. You have a specific amount of time to operate where physically the body has been protected by shock. If it's extreme injury, you typically don't feel it. That's how you know how bad it is, okay? If you're feeling pain, it's probably not that bad. It doesn't mean there aren't a whole lot of places you can get shot where it hurts and you're dying, or it could be dying if you don't take action. But mostly if you don't feel it, it's bad. That's a good thing. It's a blessing that basically, fight or flight, the shock cycle is in place and it's doing its job. And the idea behind that is in nature, if you can't feel it, you'll automatically, when you've seen this, when you've hunted deer, a deer will get up with a busted leg and do another 150 yards and won't think twice about it. It's continuing on. It's trying to survive. In the situation we have here with the offender, had plenty of energy to either A, do what he did, which is get up. Take the opportunity and follow through on what he intended. He got what he wanted out of the deal. He wanted to steal the car, right? So he got the car and then he died. On the other hand, he could be a lot more vindictive or aggressive or pumped up on whatever and you put him down and he gets back up and he still has a weapon. The problem is you let him get back up. At this point in time, everybody is going to be a little more civil, so to speak, which is why you see the scenario that was just played out in this video that was just played. But the fact of the matter is you can't afford to let an enemy get back up Does everybody understand that that if you are in a fight for your life and not only that but it might be multiple targets Understand that you've already put hurt on something it could be pumped up with drugs It could be any number of things that have motivated the creature and they can be just plain mean ass bastards. Okay And if it's a mean ass bugger or an attitude person like me, they're gonna pick themselves back up and get back in the fight. If nothing else, and again, remember, there's a difference between kind of like the bar brawl scenario of present civilization, which is what you run into with street fighting like this, as opposed to combat contact where you know you're in a fight. Your job is to exterminate the enemy. The enemy feels their job that they're gonna, while they're chuckling at the cop bar later after they've murdered everybody and confiscated their guns or done whatever, that their planet's murdering all of you and that it's gonna be a cakewalk. You need to already have it set in your mind you're gonna fight, number one. Number two is you have to have a policy of engagement to keep the target down. Now you can do this in two methods. If you have a team system worked out, then you understand the forward shooter can engage the target and the second shooter, the second part of the team, can engage the target that's down with a follow-up shot while you're concentrating as point man on specific threats that are occurring even as you speak, even if I observe. You know, you shoot the first, you knock the first target down. Hutt, hutt, hutt. There's the next knuckle-dragging black uniform, broidered up, bald-headed, where's the $3 bill, fruit loop with a shoe-sized IQ that's, you know, planning on taking your goodies today. They thought they were going to take the whole neighborhood, steal every gun in the neighborhood, steal jewelry, take cash, rape some women, whatever they were going to do. Okay? That's what black uniform thugs are about. So again, if they fall forward, remember, they're probably armored, no matter who it is. Everybody armors out there all over the place, so we accept that. So again, I'll remind you that your follow-up shot, be it the primary team forward member, the leader, is going to follow up with a couple of two rounds, three rounds. You gotta come up with an SOP. Personally, I like the idea of a three-round tap because... It's like the traditional burst situation. It's been going on for 400 years from muscle loaders to present day conventional arms. But it's the idea that you put kinetic energy, 125 grain or 115 grain, 9 millimeter, 220 grain, 45, 165, 185 grain, 40 caliber, take a break, whatever it is. You run right along the neck. You aim to either side of the head. The head's exposed, sure you can do one right there on the big pumpkin. But chances are, as you've seen, lots of helmets out there too. So what you want to do is aim along the side of the head and put it right at the top of the shoulder blade right there where it's close to the neck. Even with the armor that's there, chances are it's going to scud in. And once that happens, it's going to go lateral. It's going to go from the top of the respiratory and heart area right down through all the bowels. And that kind of an injury is just massive damage, trauma, shock, tear, shred, whatever. And all you're using is ball ammo. But you're talking about hitting every critical component. Now, if they fall backward, aim for the crotch. Right between the legs. Or left of the leg, left inside of the legs, right inside of the legs. If you want to do that, that's fine. You're tearing up arteries, you blow the gonads out, you do damage to the hip. and the bullet proceeds on through and goes through the bowels up through the the the heart sac area along with the lungs, something's going to get messed up. That's going to keep that target down. That's just all there is to it. And again, why? Well, you can't afford to have that zombie jumping up behind you. And by the time they're hit that hard, let's say you hit them hard the first time. If the zombie jumps up, the zombie's probably also gonna have a good feeling about it, you know, great animosity, and they might even just have an understanding, yeah, this is it, they're dying, they're gonna take you with them. I know that my attitude will be the same way. If I know that I'm hit hard, but I have any energy left, am I just gonna lay there and do the Weezer Hollywood diatribe thing? I'll piss on that crafter in a firefight. If I can do anything to help in any way to assist in distracting or engaging a target, I have the obligation. I'm supposed to have the wherewithal and the attitude to do that. And you all need to be deciding on that. Now, remember, if you're hit, the only way that we can probably do first aid is win. Does everybody understand that? Remember when we go to talks about it, you can throw movies out the window. Until you have in completely vanquished the enemy shot their lead behinds kill the bastard That's over there in the tree line that's supposed to wait until you're moving around there's a machine gun you in the back or Snipey in the back whatever any of those black uniform punks like that by the way you hang upside down using for machete pinatas Any lead behinds those are highly motivated troops you make sure you do go you you kill them with reckless abandon If there's a lead behind or tag along like what the Batfaggots did with the Branch Davidians, when the Batfaggots retreated, they left people in the outlying buildings. And remember, it was one of those asshats that because the Branch Davidians didn't know about this, this idea. But when the men were coming back across the back fields and out one of the fences, it was the lead behind and one of the other characters that fired on them, killed one, wounded others, and then everybody was swarmed on them. Okay? When you engage, you also do a complete tactical sweep either by fire, or foot and fire. What do I mean by that? Guys, if you've got half-inch guns and if you have three awaits and you have a shed that looks to be a suspicious issue, Then you scissor it from left and right and you make sure you dump a 20-round mag from each man into the area. Let's remember, like with defensive operations, you're on your power base. How many tens or hundreds of thousands of ammunition do you have available? If you've had to fight at that location, you're not going to be able to carry that away. So use it or lose it. And that means that unlike your enemy who is carrying whatever their fighting combat load is, however many magazines loaded and how much extra ammunition they might have in the trunk of their vehicles, in the back of their SUVs or whatever, or our light armored vehicles, that's all they got. So if you have an objective, you can do what is called reconnaissance by fire. Now you've seen this. Actually, to see one of the simplest versions of this is in we were soldiers. This is actually how we were taught. is you know, you could what's called a mad minute or what you do is reconnaissance by fire. Everybody either dumped three rounds or everybody dumped a magazine to your front at about a hundred yards or whatever. And when I, you know, we get, when we, on my mark, when I fire, everybody fires. The whole company fires. They did that. What does that do? That's called reconnaissance by fire. What do you get? What do you get in the way of a return interest? Well, you saw what happened, actually exposed what was an encroaching enemy, trying to take and close the distance for a more effective charge. Okay? In this case, with what we're talking about with lead beehives, again, the idea is to put rounds on the target areas that are most likely vantage points that have some potential for cover. You should have surveyed your area, right? We always have the idiot sticks set up right across from the house. Our guns sit right to the left and right of them. They always drop into the same idiot position, which means it would be their death. Okay, but it's cool because we want them to keep doing that, and they will. Okay, well, when you pull the trigger, well, there's more of ours doing more of them when the time comes. However... Again, if you are injured, the best example of this is there was a lot of energy left in the individual who from beyond the shadow of a doubt got shot. Why do we know this? Got shot hard. How do we know this? He's dead. But he still had enough energy, material, wherewithal left in him to actually get into the vehicle, take it down the road and go far enough that they had to go find him. Okay, now if that energy had been translated into point of contact right there where the fight had taken place, it wouldn't have ended the way that it did. Well, it would if the shooter, the defender, was ready with immediate follow-up, and that's what you have to be prepared to do. Again, this is the bar brawl scenario. This is the situation we're in with the Communists presently allowed to do whatever they want to do. Once we get into an American war for independence and a war, I know, ground land warfare here, then you have to understand that different rules apply. And you're going to have to continue to constantly follow up and engage. And nothing's perfect, you'll never get everything right, don't worry about that. But have this idea already planted in your lumber yard, and it'll be there when you need it. Now the technique number one for yourself if you're by yourself then you still do a follow-up You know single or double tap, you know, whatever it is. It depends on ammunition available I know I said three rounds and for me that's how I'd be but you know uncle mark is like a magazine a holic So I'm not running out right away. Okay, but a lot of people Oh, you know, I should only carry three mags one in the weapon and two spares Well, then at least put a bullet up as I enter oil on Todd is meter Just to make sure that you keep him down as you pass now if you can acquire more weapons This is another thing I would point out change difference between the two situations in the bar brawl scenario It's well. You know you you you've done what you were supposed to do the targets been damaged He's not returning fire you feel that it's you know you need to be civil So you let him steal your stuff, and he ruins it takes it down the road and wrecks it and he kills himself, okay? Well he dies okay? In a battlefield situation, the idea is that even as you overrun, if you're stuck with just a handgun, if you just knock down an enemy aggressor and he's got a better weapon, then you immediately secure your weapon in holster, transfer over to the weapon that's carried, preferably again making sure that it's functional, obviously. And then carrying on with better, you know, more firepower, more ammunition, and the ability to fight better, you know, as you move away from the objective, or as you move through the objective. It depends on the kind of scenario. And again, are you caught on a wares? If you're carrying a handgun, you're probably in a defensive mode because you weren't in a tactical deployment. You're probably, you could be in a secure area. You could be in a number of situations. It can be a rear area support. You're working as a truck driver. You have a certain number of weapons. You carry a personal handgun. You might have a rifle right behind you over your shoulder and tucked right into the corner of the cab. Maybe right in your lap. But which one are you going to get to first? Well, most likely the pistol will be able to maneuver inside that little tight area over that rifle every day. So that's why, again, limited the way you might be, you want to advance, especially if, again, all you had was that handgun. Now constantly observing remember use this is another thing look and observe your area while you're taking from your enemy what you need Remember we've talked about this you observe quickly and then continue to observe around you targets of opportunity can arise at any moment Chances are if you shot an invader the buddy invaders are nearby Now hopefully friends and allies are engaged in whatever the problem is But you may be the only one aware you may be the watchman on the wall who got stuck being the first point of contact Okay, you're it you made noise. You're pistol bark like a dog you put a target down Oh, there's more shadows moving around the corner or off into the woods headed this way Now everybody else is starting to move because they've heard gunfire. So you've sound the alarm Now the idea is to be able to is to be able to continue to blunt the attack and extract yourself and save yourself in the process to continue the fight. So this is where accumulating firepower, accumulating weapons, whatever you can, is a priority. At the very least, you pick the enemy's weapon up, you turn it on, that area of contact, you burn out the magazines in it, that's in it, and throw it down, whatever, but you don't waste, you know, waste an opportunity. Again, you should have other ammunition or mags, sure that he's tactically cool, you know, he's a tactically cool guy, he's got all the goodies. You see any pyrotechnics or whatever? You know, pop the corpse over and make sure it's dead. But pop the corpse over as quick as you can. There's got to be grenades. You start throwing their junk on them. Which really creates a confusing situation because remember, any enemy has been told you're a very uncouth, you're not sophisticated, you don't have a clue about how to fight. You don't have good weapons. What's all the scam? What's all the yap? Even though you may have the... You may have better weapons, typically, than your enemy because they got the government contract junk and you've got whatever connoisseur rifle is the latest in vogue firearm of the day. But they'll be told that you're inferior and your weapons are inferior and it's fiddle and resist and they're the Borg and you're supposed to be the fleeing peasant that doesn't have a clue. So the moment you start giving them not only a bloody nose, but you start to cut body parts off, in other words fighting component, then it makes a very different, it really slaps the psyche of the aggressor, no matter who you are, no matter what BS they come up with or try to pull out of their hours. When a whole element of a fighting force is annihilated, period, it affects that unit, period. Period, there's no other way around it. We're trying to, yeah, whatever you say. For the movies it sounds great. In reality, when they were, you know, again, you got to remember, they got to pump themselves up to come out and do a murder death kill in America. They got to pump themselves up for this police state gun grab. They got to pump themselves up listening to the dribble of these communists that they're following the orders of. So again, you have to make decisions. You have to think this through. Start thinking through different issues that you have to deal with and what you think you're going to have to deal with. Remember, most important, you have if you are in any way, shape, or form, if you're hit. Use whatever ever ever energy energy you have which for instance can be a partial magazine to continue to engage while your allies are continuing to fight but You're the first person that's gonna have to do the I fact work remember we've talked about that That's been a big thing nowadays, although it's not new by any stretch of the imagination Okay, there's none of the stuff is new. It's just cyclic. Okay, so you're gonna have to do something about dealing with whatever is it happened to you? Okay And again, the sooner that the fight is finished, or at least the contact is finished, the sooner your friends can do something to help you. We will do first aid for you. We aren't doing first aid for them. They'll stand there and watch you bleed to death. They'll stand outside a door completely armed with all the troops they need and let women and kids bleed to death. That's the spiffy cat in the black uniform there. So trust me, they'll look at you as nothing but somebody to watch for entertainment and they can laugh about it down at the secret police bar later on. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. So get an attitude and make sure that doesn't happen. Them first and in spades. Okay? Couple other things. I mentioned pyrotechnics. And this by the way, flashbangs, I don't care what it is, flashbangs, they got smoke, throw smoke. They got grenade, throw a grenade. They got flashbangs slash offensive grenades instead of defensive grenades, throw them. Remember that the idea for blunting or breaking contact, okay? Two grenades and three magazines can do a really good job of making somebody think it wouldn't be a good idea to proceed any farther forward. Now this doesn't make any difference if it's you trying to break contact in a counter ambush situation or a situation like we're talking about where you are in the defensive and you're the first point of contact Everything that you can throw out there changes the dynamic of what was in their mind going to be the action and grenades especially Totally especially at night God a grenade at night is as good as land mine You have no idea for sure where it might be When the first one goes off, you don't know where the other one's coming from. You don't know. In fact, what's safe? What direction is safe? Or what, let's put it this way. What just happened? One of the other things, one of the things to remember when a grenade goes off, when pyrotechnics go off at night, the first thing that happens is everybody has about 10 things going through their brain pan as far as, you know, memory and idea. Why? Well, If you didn't see the device move through the air and fall, and the front of the element makes contact and all of a sudden took a hit, a landmine is just as likely as not what you ran into. And if you do follow up with immediate fire, you can create the impression of even a prepared ambush, even though it might be a blunting action. And that in and of itself messes with your enemy's head because they were told that they're going to safe avenue and their electronics and overhead technology has told them that everything is safe and there's only a limited capacity element forward and they only have so many personnel. Of course, we know how to thermally screen and protect just like, you know, the other side. Well, actually we know better, I think, to be quite honest. We've worked more at it. They don't have to. Or typically they believe they don't have to. That's going to change too on the battlefield. Their whole attitude and posture and demeanor about how they think they can operate is going to change. But until it does, you need to take advantage of the arrogance level. But understand, a grenade going off or any pyrotechnic going off, especially if it can do a casualty of some kind, even if it's just nothing but take a foot or a toe or a hand off. Guys, that's... somebody's hurtin', okay? No matter how hard they try, that's just done some major van damage that makes everybody change their brain. And first they go into brain fart. Period. There's so many moments. But you do have to, now here's the other thing, they understand that you better remember, lead follower and get the hell out of the way, right? But make a decision might seem to be the wrong decision, but make a decision So that's the other thing that the special warfare units or whatever supposed to have as an edge over you Because they understand is make a decision no matter what and key estate on keep stay in motion to keep moving There's still the effect of was that a grenade was that a mine? What was that? Now, if something else follows up and then small arms, fire follows up better still because again, that creates the issue, what direction is safe? First of all, you'd have to figure out what direction is safe. This in and of itself is why this is called a blunting action because it forces the aggressor to actually have to stop and rethink, well, move forward or change direction. And what you're doing, if you're a picket, a forward defensive grid, you know, element like say a two-man fighting station observing an area because you're spread thin or whatever, remember that your reaction units are in motion the moment that you've made contact. We call reaction sticks or we call response sticks. So what you're now doing is with every minute that you can keep them active in an area, you're extending not just your life, but you're probably going to save it because other components of your team are already in moving to deal with the problem intelligently based upon plans. Now again, the other thing here, and this is this big problem, you may have to lose ground with personnel on the ground. Casualties may not be accessible initially. However, remember something, and again, we're mostly covering darkness. Daylight may be the same. Once you've been, once you're down, you're not that observable unless you decided to stand out in the middle of a freshly mowed wheat field. So understand that if you have to regroup, fall back and regroup, or you have already planned that you're an extended combat element, when you pull back, The idea is that you're simply reinforcing. By falling back, you're reinforcing what is now your primary element moving forward. You would think that maybe holding a position would be logical, but it may not because your position may have already been queued out. They already know where you were supposed to be. They know what's happened. You actually had a first, second, and third fighting location. Somewhere your other your buddy got hit you're not able to recover him The biggest thing is that he needs to do or she needs to or you need to do if you're the one hit do everything for yourself that you can a to secure your person and Needless to say then that's what the IFAK is for start doing something to deal with whatever the injury is it puts you down To what it to the best of your ability understand that as long as all of us stay in the fight longer, we can re-engage the enemy. We will then envelop the enemy, and then we will destroy the enemy. But nothing but a rumor of their destruction returned to where they came from. And needless to say, like I said again, we're gonna follow up on you. Doc's here for a reason. Sooner we can do preventive maintenance on you and get you back into the rear, we will. Other things, real quick here, again, I know this one from the, you know, the Dixon drill to what we're talking about now. But it still comes down to demonstrated actions where energy is available. Now, I've seen wicked things with people hurt, okay, what they do, as far as what they don't know they've done, because they're so badly injured, it's not even in their mind that they're hurt. That's something you also have to be watching for and you need to be able to deal with as quickly as possible. Of course, in many cases, it's very traumatic. The biggest problem we've got is, there's no way you can do it other than just face it yourself. When the time comes, remember burns, blasts, shredded injuries, secondary impact or secondary projectile injuries are very common. everything you can imagine can happen because it's not planned and it's not a movie so it's not a respectable injury it can be anything that you're a lot of not too respectable not not too coot for you know they said well how would you get shots on I got shot in the buttocks right I don't mind actually lots of meat there being shot in the buttocks is not a problem just you know you can be sitting down a whole lot real quick but that wouldn't be a bad place to get hit as long as it chipped the chipped the hip bone okay Anyway, the fact of the matter is you need to be prepared to gird yourself. And this is where we've talked about breathing. Let me point something out. Breathing is everything in almost anything that you do that's physical. If you have somebody in front of you and they are horribly hurt, the first thing you need to do is breathe. Seriously, people will hold their breath, everybody, even on exhale, because you get into that moment, that stunned moment psychologically. What you have to do is immediately recover. So breathing is just as critical, controlling it. Of course, you've got a sucking chest wound. But if you're the responder, again, I can recommend one of the things to do is three breaths just like you would for shooting, just like you would for swimming, just like you do for anything else where you have physical exertion. Oxygen is a benefit. If you have a bunch of people in front of you and they're hurt, remember, stop. Contain yourself. Breathe. While you're moving even, you can still do this, but you need to take oxygen in. It gets the body moving, gets the brain moving, does everything it's supposed to do, keeps you functioning. Breathing is everything. So that's another issue again, especially when you're dealing with what it is it's going to be coming. Everybody's been talking about World War III, okay? Okay, well again, if you're dealing with World War, it's going to be in mega color, okay? From the people who brought you World War I and II presenting World War III with a cast of billions coming to a neighborhood near you in mega color. Yeah, okay. Preparation. Other thing here real quick. I talked about body armor earlier. I've been looking around. There are some police trade-ins and bowtash. Everybody is picking the stuff up. Hard plate armor is good. you're going to find that you're not going to like it that much in the long haul because it's not useful for all of the tasks that we're going to be involved in. But body armor should be something that you get used to wearing. It's kind of like the knights used to never take their armor off. That was just basic rule. Of course, it was a hell of a lot of work to get it on is why. But let's understand that with soft armor, you can live in it. Now it doesn't mean you don't have to take it off. You do need to take it off, let it breathe, air it out, but you have to be secure. And this is where, remember, if you're going to be fighting in the field and you have units, you're going to be able to bring units back. It's not easy to do, but you're going to have to also work on physical management. And body armor, body salts, oils, all that, yes, those work on plastic. So body armor is something that needs to have some maintenance done on it too. A little bit, not much, but a little bit. The big thing here again is if you're responsible for keeping yourself alive, I recommend first of all that you get the soft armor. That the soft undercover with the full shoulder wrap around the gut, conventional level two, level three armor. It's gonna be a little cheaper. You can find police trade-ins. Take your pick. There's some military stuff out there, not much. But there's some out there if you look around. When you see it, grab it if it fits. And then look at the plate armor as the next purchase. I'm not saying not to do it, but if you're going to do it, that would be your best bet. Now, you know why I've talked about this. We've seen a lot of these shooting incidents, which are going to be representative of the kind of battlefield condition you're dealing with down the road. You're going to be in exchanges. where you don't know how, the enemy's not gonna be trying to be a pop-up target for you. I hope you're not gonna be following some kind of movie edict and try to be a pop-up target for your enemy. Okay? So with that being the case, remember that both sides are in the dance of swords. Both sides are trying to outmaneuver the other. Everybody is trying to get over on each other. This is why oblique angles need to be protected. It is good to have that front plate because the steel plates are basically oversized chicken plates right now. Their core protection for the heart, et cetera, needless to say, all the circulatory right there in the air sacs. But even there, most of them don't cover the air sacs that well. Now if you have threat level two, or mostly there's not a whole lot of two laying out there, it's gonna be mostly 3A or whatever. with a 3A under vest and then the armor plate over top of that. You're a nice, you're a good little armadilla package and a lot of the secondary crap that can take you out is going to be dealt with. Military armor of the type like you see, the Polish stuff, the Czech stuff, or even the American who was out there, still makes more sense for most of what you're gonna be doing. Over even say the steel plate. For a lot of you, you're not going to be assault infantry. Your plan isn't probably going to be the point man up front. After a while, what you're probably going to see, and you will find this out because of what it costs in calories to get from point A to point B, is what used to be done in the military. The heaviest armor went to the point man and the number two man. Sometimes if they wanted to, they'd also deck out the third guy in line the same way. Point man almost always was allowed to go through anything. This is why being a point man wasn't as bad as you might think it was bad It was a threat you still had yesterday right up there where they shoot you first in the ad to But it's the number two man that usually got tagged The idea is to let the patrol the group the unit get into the prepared kill zone So the point man and the number two men are the farthest men to the edge actually of what is the outer part of the kill zone for an ambush because you want the whole unit in the ambush. However, if there's some random point of contact, patrol meaning patrol, whatever, it's the point man and number two man that are going to take hits. So here's what you're going to see happening a lot after a while. Okay, Bob, your point man, trade out the armor. What? Yeah, you're gonna trade out the shock armor and you're gonna put it on the guy up front. Bob, he doesn't mind being point man anyway, so Bob, you know, you take a minute. Bob trades out the plate, puts it on front and back. Might even have a steel ballistic helmet that they trade out too. May not fit everybody's head, but it fit most. You know, one size fits most. And that way the guy up front is that much better protected because he's going to be trying to push through the pathway, the side of the road, the cross country to take your pick, whatever the scenario is. He's most likely the first guy to find out that there is somebody 15 yards in front of him by accident. Number two man is going to know it because Bob's going to try to get out of the way. And the number two guy is going to be the next target of opportunity. So the two point team members typically are the ones that will be carrying the heavier armor. You did the same thing with RO's. Radio operators did not carry the radio non-stop. Typically to give them a bit of a break, you rotated RO's between one, two, or even three men. And the whole team should know proper radio etiquette. an operation. And for that reason, again, if you had casualties, because maybe sometimes they shot, maybe they're looking for the radio operator. Okay, he's dead. Well, now what do you do? Would you let him be the only technician that knows what's going? No. So again, the RO, usually when you would trade out point men, you also trade out the radio operator. The RO, the radio goes to the number two man. The number two man gets a bit of a break, gets a limber up a little bit, doesn't have that extra 30 maybe 40 pounds of junk that he's got to carry. Sometimes, depending on which rig you had, depending on what era it was, things got lighter but not much. So this is where you'll probably, how eventually everybody will figure out this really good armor but it only has specific application where it's going to constantly be useful. Most of the time in other activities, your lights, your soft armor, you're more, you're willing to wear that more. I've lived in that stuff. I mean, for years on end, slept in that stuff. Depending on what it is we were doing, just drop right where you are, stay right where you are. I'm talking with all the dagger war. I mean, that's where, again, I still recommend get the threat level 2 or threat level 3. Higher is better, but not rifle for the soft armor unless you really want to spend some money. And if you can do it, go ahead. I'm not telling you not to. I just don't think you'll be able to afford it. But the soft armor is the all-around utility work armor fragmentation, which is one of the most common ways, more so than rifle, that you're going to get taken out. fragmentation all over the body in different spots. The torso is the critical core element. Your brain pan is the other. So please invest in the helmet. Okay, I've said that a million times. I'm not gonna micromanage you. Figure out what it is that makes sense and what your local guru believes in because if I say something, it'll be totally wrong for certain people and some of the people will nod their head. So whatever your local guru in your unit has agreed to and you've all agreed to as a standard, make sure everybody meets that standard. That's the most important aspect of preparing for what's going on. Anyway, too much stuff, not enough time to get it all done. Before we go, before we don't let the music come up yet, again, congratulations to Senior Sergeant Locker who has taken charge of the 43rd Regimental Combat Team CSM post within the headquarters, headquarters detachment. He's taken charge as of the 24th of July and has already initiated a new for anybody wishes to participate. Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, take your pick, whatever. But the initial project is now in motion for an extension of the the NBF War College and the CO Academy. And so that will be it. Naga hitcha. We'll find out more as things progress, but again congratulations to senior sergeant Locker and to his staff. I want to say thank you for the work that you've done. All right, we're at the top. We're gonna get out of here because I got more plants to put in the buckets before we lose light.