A thirsty soul so unsatisfied But there used like a river to the sea The one chance I have to change my life Like I'm trapped inside myself Up and down just like ever side We're going farther. Well let's make sure we've got a feed too here. Are we active? It's gonna do some confirming for us or probably you know right now checking out what we're talking about Okay, nice music classical music here. You're up have any classical music Okay, there we go. Thank you anyway One of the things about the, again, deployment of ammunition, as we pointed out, is disburs for tactical use. Go ahead, go ahead. Oh, we got it. Go ahead. Yeah, you got me. There was a problem. I got it reset again. If there's a problem again, let me know, because it didn't set off the alarm like it should have. And yes, there is classical music. There is all kinds of music, as you all know, Dad, it's made up from the library that we created while I was up there. So yeah, classical music will come in, Christian music will come in, a lot of Christian music will come in. Okay. So we have a good mix in the system, just expect to play accordingly. Okay, well anyway, we are hooked back up. For everybody out there, the feed should be good. But again, if we have any other glitch, Just give us a heads up because the system's not flagging itself, which while what a surprise I would never expected that in The 21st century of planet crap who whatever services we're getting from whoever You know, they're gonna be fiddle farted with it's just how it is notice. That's why we're not panicking It's more like yeah, okay, whatever On to the mission as they say a couple things here now want to go through top to bottom Especially for all you militia men. We've got a bunch of new people organized and we get a lot of new listeners Number one, let's go. We are gonna go top to bottom literally your head. Okay, spare head gear spare head gear and by the way spare head gear why you lose hats If you have a pattern of hat for your unit, you should have three or four per person It is the most common item other than the right hand glove the two most common clothing items You will lose in the field is a your right hand glove Everybody goes what? No, seriously, it's true. Your right hand glove. You have probably bought some pretty decent gloves. They might even be pretty articulate. You can actually pick up a dime with them most of the time. I love Nomex flight gloves. I have thousands of them. I have them stored away from 30 years worth of purchasing because I used to buy them by the ton. I used to get them by the bail. I've got them stuck away in barrels, okay? One of the finest articulating gloves you can wear to still cover your skin is their OD grain while their sage grain. Remember the pilot gloves. Then there's some that are tidy brown because of the latest wars we've been in. But ideally, they're perfect. However, there's still, you've got something you're messing with and it's just tactile feel, being able to control it with your fingertips. You take the glove off, you stick it under your armpit, you stick it somewhere, maybe you put it in a pocket. You're busy fiddle fart with whatever, but you're going to continue to move or you're operating, you're doing whatever you're doing. And you reach back to where you thought you put it and the glove is gone. How many times have you seen that? A hole between thousands and thousands of people that I've trained with, people I've trained, armies I've been with. Okay, there must be a There is an other world full of right hand gloves out there somewhere. I mean, there's a whole army with right hands. Both hands are right hands if they were smart. That way they can take advantage of all the stuff we've dropped. So hats are the same problem. Patrol hats get lost, they get fumbled with, you take something off, you sit it down. You may not have a choice, okay, depending on. They should be keeping track of your gear, but it's not a critical item if your life is in danger. You're probably not thinking, oh my god, I'm going to save my dollar hat, or my $2 hat. It's probably not first on your list of things to do. But headgear is something you want to have spare of simply because of weather. Rain, dust, snow, take your pick. Head cover is essential, so you need spares. Now another thing is, well, how about a little bit of armor up there? Now I don't care what you commit to and whatever guru you're listening to or whatever is the SOP for your unit, but I recommend you get a helmet now. The reason is there won't be that many out there initially. Now once there are more casualties produced, we can pull more stuff off of corpses, etc. But even there, there's a lot of units that go soft skin and may not necessarily have what you want, where you want it when you want to strip enemy dead. So for that reason, A decent piece of steel or Kevlar on your noggin is a good idea. The newest helmets aren't that great. Okay, a lot of the newest helmets don't offer as much protection and we should be looking for more, not less. Just because it's the latest cool movie prop. doesn't mean it's the best choice for our type of warfare for what we do. Especially since we know that the enemy has claimed they're gonna use F-15s and they're gonna use this and they're gonna use that. Okay, well that means that, as I've told you a million times, HE is gonna be very common out there. 40 millimeter grenade launcher, boop. Guys throwing anti-personnel, offensive and defensive grenades, offensive, remember heavy. Smaller burst radius, you call them flash bangs, that's an offensive grenade. So still get you killed or still put perforation on you and start treating you because if you get cuts, gacks, lacerations, they build up. It causes pain, it creates infection, it causes all kinds of other issues. Having your noggin covered is a really good idea. So whether it's the thicker Eastern European helmets that are out there that actually can stop some pistol rounds. or Kevlar helmets, whatever it is, a USM1 pisspot, which I wear as often as not. I wear a standard old US steel pisspot helmet, but I also have Kevlar. I've got all kinds of stuff I can choose to use. But the important thing is you need to get something now so you have it on the shelf and try to standardize within the unit for Fred and foe. Shoot, no shoot. The standard Fritz Kevlar helmets work just fine. It's not the latest. Yeah, I know it's not the latest big deal offers more side protection and back protection and in this battlefield Where medical is always going to be an issue? More covering vital parts is better. Less is not Hey Mark. The newer helmets don't offer as much side protection and don't offer that much front or rear if you take a look at the way they've sculpted them down. Well that's cute if you're quote unquote a Star Wars operator but you're not. Instead you're regular conventional light or you know medium infantry which means you're in a very different situation. Okay go ahead and call Jim in there please. Yeah I wanted to tell you that your freeline.com has been down for weeks. uh, this other dot org, I don't know if you were here yesterday, but it was, it was gone yesterday. And also Joe Obama, like yo mama, as I knew saying for these idiots. Well, we actually have done that before. Joe Obama. But yeah, that's true. That's added to the derogatory comment inventory because they hate it when we do that. We're supposed to take them very seriously. Well, I take seriously as, uh, yeah, Joe Obama. You know Joe, Bama man, you know well again because Joe Obama Joe, Bama Bama, not mama you can go mama though Joe mama or Joe, Bama That's what it usually is, Joe, Bama. All right, yo mama. Well again we got we got uh, Penno, Penno Joe We don't know which one he is or whether or not it's the third stand-in or CG or whatever anymore. It's becoming very obvious that if it's real, I do like Republic Rats. I do like Republic Rats. I do like Republic Rats. I never said I didn't like Republic Rats, but I hate Republic Rats. Did I say that? Oh, God, I forget. Go ahead. In the meantime, this ridiculous voting that's gonna happen to members is gonna be all Democrats, oh, they won everything. No, no. How did that happen? Yeah, you can see that coming, can't you? Cuz they're already playing this. Well, the Republicans don't know what to do. Well, it's true, there's a bunch of half ass Republicans that are worthless. But the bottom line is, is nobody wants to acknowledge what we've been saying. Guys, they didn't correct the fake election process. And they're already talking about the idea, oh, we need to have mail-in ballots again. And there's absolutely no excuse for it, none. All of this now is fakery, chicanery, and buffoonery. And so the ballot box is burned. But they keep doing that. What's gonna be the big wave? Oh, but maybe not so much now. Oh, maybe well, you know How is it? Republicans are failing. Well, it's really easy. They're cheating on the the the other side is cheating with the election processor If nothing else all they have to do is exactly what they did the last time, right? Exactly. And it's odd. Hey Dan. I'm sorry. I gotta come up and ask the caller a question here real quick You're having a problem with the dot org site or the dot 4 mg dot com site. I had a problem with the four mg dot com site for the last couple weeks and I never got it. So I went to the dot org site and I got it every day except for yesterday. I don't know if you guys played or not. We weren't up Monday, but we were up yesterday and the I'm on the Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 mg dot com site. It's functional. If anybody else has had a problem with that, let me know in Discord. But the page is up in the dot org site. It hasn't been updated, but it is functional. It's up there. It's working as a portal. It's supposed to be. Well, who knows? I've been a bad boy. We don't have Liberty Tree Radio dot com. Rockstar Games had that for a while and then it was bought by a Japanese company. But it Yeah, dot4ng.com. That should be it. Yeah. I've been listening to you for, you know, the longest time. I actually, I've been listening to Mark for over 20-something years. I've moved from Chicago to Idaho, and I actually found Mark on the web, and I'm like so grateful for that. That's cool. I'm just trying to make sure that if you're having a problem nobody else is having a problem too. Okay. So if anybody else is having a problem like that, report it to me and let me know. We have been blocked on a couple of services before that wouldn't let people go to our website. So just let me know in the Discord if you guys are having a problem. Okay? Like I said, I might be on a list or something. I don't know. I could not get the 4MG. The Liberty Tree radio dot form G dot com would not play for me that you know original player. All right I'll take a look at that it should be working fine but I need to check that I don't know the machine. All right thank you. No problem. Sorry for interrupting dad I'll hand it back to you. I just wanted to make sure we didn't have another issue I had to deal with. Do we have Mark? I don't know Mark. I'm here, I'm here. All right. I used another switch because I didn't want to get in the way while everybody was communicating. Number one is things are going to get worse communications wise. As I pointed out yesterday, communications Tuesday, we need to be ready for that point at which most everything is shut down and we're back to conventional relaying like we did decades ago. We have the ability to do it most everybody's ready. I'm sitting here with two pieces of equipment charged up right now In fact that big butt Dynacom is looking fantastic right now. I've been dental farting with it today. Just not an awful I pass it but Having all the radio equipment, you know tuned up top to bottom clean up all the contacts You dust everything off make sure everything has power where it needs to be in backup power. I have a really neat little I opened a power supply I got for this little battery pack. And it's funny because it was thrown out. And it was, guess what? It was a NIKAD size C batteries. But what's cool is that the particular charging unit, the batteries can either be left in the unit and plugged into something else, or they can be pulled because it's a charging unit and put into a piece of equipment. So, and that was free. I got those for free. I've got this unit pretty well stacked rack and ready to go with spare plugs cords Another antenna and it was I got three dollars into it. Not even that two dollars about two dollars into the whole thing And a few minutes worth of pitot farting with the q-tips and cleaning everything up and making her a part of it Looks just like it came out of the box in 1981 Wow, I almost lost my belt. I almost lost my bell and owl flashlight I had, it's one of those little three packs of AA, or AAA's in it, and they were NiCad rechargeables. And I never saw a NiCad rechargeable week before. I opened it up because it was looking a little dim, and I opened it up and oh, look at all the green. So about half an hour later with the toothbrush and the baking soda, I got it all purified, but, yeah, that was a gift. It was like a $40 flashlight, that was... little bit distressed when I saw that green in there. Of course the nikats went bye-bye. I wish I had known that they were nikats. It was a gift. Someone gave it to me. And I wish I had known that they were nikats. I wouldn't have thrown them in the charge or probably wouldn't have had an issue. Yeah, the sad part is, again, well, it depends on what year they were made. Some were marked differently. In fact, some of the ones that are the last ones I got look more like their commercial Chai-Kam battery as far as a paint of the 1980s modern style body on the outside artwork was unique. Then I look closer and I realize, wait a minute, these are not what I expected, but when I got them for free, I'm not going to complain anyway. But again, the idea is to identify and don't forget, thank you for bringing it up. Don't forget that if you do have other battery chargers, read the instructions. Remember, the ion batteries for the ion chargers. You have different systems out there that overlap. We got five different generations of batteries, and because of that, that's the only thing you do have to be careful of. One charger doesn't fit all, okay? So just keep that in mind, and always made up your equipment to the technology that it belongs to. That's just a precaution now because we are going to accumulate a lot of stuff. I do. I've got boxes and boxes and kitty litter buckets and all kinds of stuff in Ziploc bags. That's one of the first reasons I put stuff in isolated Ziploc bags for that very reason. Just in case something gets cross-mixed here or gets set side by side, everything is contained so that if something for whatever reason an unknown failure an Unbeknownst issue was something that got put into the bag The good thing is it won't bleed over and cause a problem with the other items that may be Completely intact or you know again serviceable, but could be messed up if they got cross-contaminated in some way So let's get moisture if nothing else guys remember water kills Electronics and water no-no bad mix anyway Real quick here, start out with the head. A helmet, why? Because your brain is worth something and chances are you got a skull there for a reason. It's not enough to stop a lot of other stuff that can be floating around. So a helmet, take your pick, even if you can do nothing but a bump helmet. A bump helmet does make a difference. What's a bump helmet? Like a bicycle helmet or a motorcycle helmet. Those are bump helmets. Not many of them are made out of kevlars or steel, so they're going to probably be just conventional polymers, but relatively well built, obviously. So whatever you can do immediately within your budget, fine. But if you look around, for instance, if you go to like Sportsman's Guide, you may go to, well, they even have some items over at gunpartscorp.com. There's all kinds of other surplus companies, major surplus, colmans.com, maybe they have some helmets, maybe they don't. That's been a roller coaster. Wars eat that kind of stuff up, which is why you're not seeing as much of it as surplus. All these countries are getting ready for war. So what's out there is out there. The next thing is body armor. Even though we're gonna get into weapons here in a second, it's Weapons Wednesday. Any kind of body armor is good body armor, but I recommend again, threat level two, threat level three, conventional undercover slash full body wraparound armor as your first and maybe your only priority. Not everybody is gonna either want or can carry plate carriers. But soft armor, once again, because of the crap that's flying around on the, not just the battlefield, but when the secret police come to terrorize your neighborhood, they're going to indiscriminately kill or wound everybody they can. Look what the Batfaggots did at Waco. How many grandpas, how many children, how many women were shot from above, from the sky, from the helicopters? One died literally sitting in his bed. Eating his breakfast bullets three bullets went right through him and killed him dead dead dead. Okay, I can't stop everything but Threat level to threat level three armor is cheap. It is out there floating around and used But new is good also and then you can go up to three or four level four and still get relatively comfortable, you know soft armor that's available The big thing is you want wraparound for the sides of the chest and gut You don't just want front and rear plates. You want some, even if you were going to get plates, I would still tell you the same thing. Get the soft armor first because that way you have full protection to some degree with more of the body covered. Now, you throw plates on top of that, you're in a little armadillo. But for the most part, the soft armor is also working everyday armor. You can live in it. I have. I've wore it for years, okay? And have, in fact, it becomes quite second nature after a while. You'll learn to live in it. However, again, now is the time to pick this stuff up, not waiting till the last minute. And again, make sure that each family, if you can, each family member should have something. Surplus, smaller sizes are readily available, so you might be lucky, and for like the kids and such, actually end up with some pretty decent armor without spending as much money, but ending up with even more protection. So spot check, look around, see what's there, and no older armor is obsolete. Don't let anybody bullshit you with that line. It's like ammunition, armor, magazines, It older, at least gives you something. Okay, now to what degree, varies on how the armor was abused, but it still offers protection, especially against fragmentation. Remember, a lot of grenades, light mortar rounds, 40 millimeter grenade launchers, there's all kinds of little stuff like that floating around. It's constantly dropping in random locations, and you may get tagged by something. All it takes is a few layers of Kevlar to slow or stop that stuff almost completely, but you've got to have it there to do it. Okay? Okay, now helmet and body armor. Next. With regard to your weapon system, 23 magazines should be your standard. I don't care if you have an FN FAL or an AR-15 or a 9mm AR-15 with a Glock magazine feed. 23 magazines should be your goal for each weapon right off the bat. It will not be enough. You will not have enough magazines. You'll be surprised at how quickly you realize I should have grabbed those mags off that corpse I passed while we weren't under fire. It is a big problem in the field. You will drop them. Magazines get broken. Magazines get shot. Everything on you can get shot without you getting hit once. You do understand that, right? fragmentation like we were just talking about. Anything that's between you and whatever is coming at you can stop stuff. And it probably will. Okay, magazines are like additional body armor. The problem is that they took the hit. So you may lose one or two mags. The magazine may work, but only to a certain degree because it's already got a glitch, a tag, chunk of metal stuck in it. Maybe a piece of copper wire or a piece of steel wire off of the grenade what wrapping. Okay, off of what makes the fragmentation on modern grenades, wire. All it takes is a gack attack or whatever and that magazine is out of service for the time being. Doesn't mean you can't shuck the ammo out of some of it maybe or if you get a chance you don't throw the magazine away for the time being you stow it or you know extow it and then work on it later. It may be the last mag you have or whatever mags you have left. So, the big thing here again, 23 magazines for each of your primary weapons. It's not hard to do, for instance, like if you're carrying a Glock 9mm magazine or .40 caliber or .45 Glock magazine AR-15 in the same calibers. Those mags don't take up much space. However, they still are a necessary slash useful tool. There can be 15 rounders, there can be 31 rounders, 32 rounders, whatever, 27, depending on what it is you've got, what caliber it is. More is always better. And don't forget, you can round this out by A, putting it in your combat gear, and the difference can be carried in whatever kind of bandoliers you want to improvise. For you AR-15, the standard 6-mag bandoliers are all over the place still. They've gone up in price, nothing's getting cheaper. It's all getting more expensive, isn't it? But for the magazine bandoliers, buy used. You don't need new. They're a throwaway item, if need be, anyway. So why not buy used and get twice as many or three times as many as opposed to brand new? There's nothing that's really a big deal about a six mag bandolier that's a carry tag along. When you use up the six mags, you try to use up your bandolier mags and then you either drop or stow the bandolier and you work your way towards your core, which is your tactical gear load as the last thing that you use, not the first. Now I'm gonna remind you again, a little trick, if you're in the field, When the enemy is farther away reach to the rear sides and pull the mags from the back off of your gear first off of your left far left or far right why Your enemy is three four hundred yards out You got plenty of time to be able to reach back a little bit grab that mag that's harder to reach pull it out of that tough mag pocket Stuff it in the magazine. Well now you can focus on pew pew pew pew pew Two, okay, bang, bang. Now when you drop that mag and you put it in your dump bag on your left, you reach for the next part of this back and you use that one. Why are we doing this? Because when the enemy gets closer, you really don't want to spend a whole lot of time fishing for a magazine and be found dead trying to reach around to the left rear of your body, do you? So what you want to remember is consume from back to front Because as the enemy closes, or even if you've killed that one you were looking at, he has friends. The friends are still moving towards you. You want to reduce the time from mag pocket to magazine well. So you want to save and reserve those short mag trips that are at the front. for when you need them the most. And what I mean by short mag trip is you're under fire, your sphincter is so tight you couldn't drive a needle up your hind end with a sledgehammer if your life depended on it. And meanwhile, magazines get really big, magazine well gets really small, you have a tendency still to fumble a little bit, well guess what? The shortest time between that magazine pocket and that magazine well, means the difference between life and death. You've cut half a second half a second couple of moments whatever off of the time it takes for you to oh god I used all the front bags up because I wasn't thinking I gotta reach back here while I'm reaching back here and the magazine hangs up on part of the flap and the guy shoots me in the chest three times and that's how they find me with my weapon gripped with my right hand and My hand stuck behind me at an angle with that damn magazine just hooked on the flap of the molly fest and Hi, uh, see how that works? Let's try to avoid those kinds of embarrassing moments. Pickle finger of fate may still get you anyway. But let's try and think things through. Prior prepper planning prevents piss poor performance. And by the way, the left side and the right side should be equally treated first. Get farthest back first, bring forward, you know, move forward accordingly. Uh, another thing is, now we're going to go to, let's keep the weapon going for a long, long time. If you have an AR-15, or for that matter any weapon, it can matter what weapon you're using, you need a firing pin extractor and ejector for each weapon. For each of the firearms you have, not one for three, okay, not one of each for three, that's not gonna do you. Your enemy counts on the idea that you're stupid and you don't understand logistics. The CIA, the FBI, the Batfaggots, the Donut of Destruction, feel that you do not understand logistics. I harp on it for a reason because it is the key to winning. The CIA has a formula for handing guns to irregular forces that they can't get spare parts for. They know that within two years, most of the weapons that they can hand over, which may also even be sabotaged, will eventually be dysfunctional for lack of a firing pin or extractors or extractor springs or ejectors or take your pick, whatever it is, it's the wear point on the gun. This is as old as betrayal by the CIA and betrayal by anybody who is supposedly your ally, a sponsor, as long as things have been going on. The idea is to get you set up with enough to get you killed, but not enough to allow you to win. So I'm telling you right now, replacement parts, spare parts, spare parts, spare parts, spare parts. they should at least be carried on your person on your combat kit. Now if you have an AR-15, the low end on that is firing pin extractor and ejector with all pits and springs and pins that you might need to go along with it. They're cheap. They're ridiculously cheap. There's no excuse of them being belligerent or going, well, very stupid. He didn't know what he's talking about. Well, but the enemy does, and they know exactly how they played this formula out. They've got a lot of Americans into weapons. They know that. But their logic is that nobody's thought spare parts. Well, the good thing about the AR-15 is we have such a massive number of American manufacturers that if everybody out there does what I'm talking about, we literally have sufficient arms to probably fight our way through this war. And we'd be able to deal with the logistic train issues that normally would halt a military operation, spare parts. Now, it doesn't mean you shouldn't have an armorer's box with all kinds of goodies in it. If you have AR-15s or AKs in your inventory, there's no reason not to go to like APACs or go to Gun Parts Corp or go to Bear Creek Arsenal or Palmetto State Armory. And for you to have everything you need to maintain 10 firearms, one after another after another, buffers, springs, tubes, Small pins, big pins, complete internal trigger groups, the whole nine yards. There's no reason not to have that. But at the very least, if you're an AR-15 operator and you're listening to me right now and you're kind of on your own with a handful of troops, what you do is either make up a little kit that you can put. I'll tell you what's really great are little medicine bottles, well, medium-sized medicine bottles or vitamin bottles. They're airtight. You can put whatever you want in them, along with some little oil rags. Oil, grease everything up, put everything inside so you've got lots of extra, and even a little bit of oil rolling around in the bottom. Everybody goes, what? Hey, that might be the only lubricant you've got because you forgot about everything else or you lost everything else. So even a little bit of lubricant laying around down there in the bottom of that tube with a, you know, with whatever you use to improvise to get it out gives you something to put on those parts you just installed so that they're lubricated. Wouldn't be a bad idea, would it? Okay. So ideally, if you're going to do a little kit for the long haul as a dragoon, three firing pins, three extractors, three ejectors, all of the related pins, springs and plungers accordingly. And if you want to, say it's one of the three, it's a complete bolt for your AR, a 556 bolt. Why not? They're cheap. And I mean, they're cheap. I'm talking about a bolt carrier. I'm just talking about the bolt. Put all that into one of those little containers, add the cloth in there to dampen it so that they know the sound. We'll take cotton, cotton, cleaning cloth, cleaning rags, cut up little rolls or little patches, put a bunch of them in there. Make sure that you seal it tight. It's airtight, watertight. It's not going to go bad. And stow it on your tactical rig, not in your house load. You can put it in your house load if you want. It's your SOP, not mine. Standard operating procedure. But since I'm looking at being a fighting man, an infantryman, I'd probably want my small spare parts with me. Now, ideally, I'd go one step farther and you've got little, for instance, pistol grip traps. If you've got the standard M16A1 or A2 buttstock, you have a trap in the butt. Well, your firing pin, your spare bolt, all that can go into a little tube and go inside there where the stowage point is, and you still got room for other junk. That's better still because it's right on the rifle where you can't lose it. Where it's always where it needs to be if something happens. And it should be SOP so that maybe you fall, but somebody else picks up the weapon and they know full well that the SOP for the unit is to have the spare parts in the set locations built on the gun, which is a good idea. However, this is really going to muck with the enemy's head. It's why they do not want you to hear this and why they don't want anybody to embrace this. You want to fight a war for six, seven, eight years? Yeah, we're going to end up having to fight that long. Well, guess what? We need to make sure that we have as much of the parts inventory to keep every one of our weapons running as we can now. Not scrounging later, although we will scrounge. Every weapon that's been destroyed in the field, we're going to disassemble it for every usable part that goes into the armory's box, and whatever slag steel comes off after that, we shoot that back towards the arsenals, and the arsenals figure out what to do with the steel, and the aluminum, and whatever else. Okay, so spare parts spare parts spare parts you want to win the war spare parts Needless to say magazines ammo. I think we already covered that right now the next thing is socks underpants t-shirts boots and If it was the in pecking order get more footwear more boots What a way what you just mentioned socks underpants and t-shirts. Well short clothes are gonna be kind of handy to have because in the long haul, if we want to keep your physical condition in decent shape, I know you can change your pair of underpants four times. Front, back, turn them inside out, front, back. Wow, that's kind of sticky. Yeah, but that's what you do in the field if you're really desperate. And in fact, you also take some soap with you and figure out how to scrub what you can, including your hind end when the time comes. But Right now, we can afford to find, for instance, they get resale shops here. We get t-shirts for 25 cents, 50 cents a piece. And there are many cases brand new. Oh, and they're in big sizes. Oh, and they're tactical colors. Socks the same way. Go to the distress stores. Go to the resale shops. You can find socks for pennies, a nickel a pair for decent winter socks or decent boot socks of any kind. stack them and rack them. I mean fill a five gallon pail up with them. And I'm dead cold shears. You're never going to go wrong with socks. You're going to use them. One way or another they will be used. In fact, if you figure, oh, I got a five gallon pail, I don't need to get any more. Well, start using them. Again, rotate out, use a certain amount of your equipment. If you've got brand new though, bag that up, make sure your Ziploc bag everything and isolate it. And then when the time comes, make sure you pack that in to give yourself two or three or four extra pairs between your tactical gear, your backpack, and all the pockets and all of your equipment, your pants, your shirt, your battle blouse, your field jacket, whatever. How many pockets have you got between those? Well, make sure you got a pair of socks and a pair of glove liners or another pair of gloves. stuck in the pockets of the pants, one each. Then on your coat, one set each, one set of socks, another pair of glove liners. And in your field jacket, do it again. You're distributing your weight. If you lose equipment, you still don't lose everything you need to cover the flesh and to keep yourself relatively clean, but also relatively warm. Cold weather's coming atop everything else. Now, another thing here real quick is with regard to the boots, any boots are good boots right now. There's no great buys out there that I've seen on anything. So if you run into a deal at Botash or if you run into a deal with military clothing supply or Coleman's or whatever, take advantage of it. If you see anything for a 20, $20, $30, and it's a more modern boot, in good condition. Most important in your size? Yeah, pick up another couple pairs. We're not going to get any more footwear from China. And as it is, we're almost cut off right now. Availability is way down. They've intentionally pulled as much production as they can. Europe is in the toilet. They're going to be, I guess we're in competition to see which one crashes first right now, based on the betrayal of the Jewish international bankers. So the Jewish international bankers are trying to figure out which part of the planet that, you know, either Europe or America get fragged first because of their backstabbing betrayal. Well, frontstabbing stabbing betrayal, side stabbing betrayal. But the filthy excrement that make up the kosher international bankers, they're on the list of things to do because they've done this to us. You are not going to just walk out and buy something because first you have to have it on the shelf. Now a couple of things are going on here as we were pointing out yesterday. You've got a possible truck strike and a railroad strike coming up here in the middle of the month as of the 16th. I'm gonna tell you, panic and run and go out and buy 50 million socks. Mark said buy 50 million socks. No, I said go to the resale shops and when you run into the socks for a nickel a pair, Grab all of them that fit you and preferably those that are tactical, but even if they're not, you know, the socks go under stuff. So it really won't make that much difference. Don't forget, socks are also an emergency mitten slash glove in the field. My feet are okay, but my fingers are freezing. Got another pair of socks. Oh yeah. Okay. Well, pull them out, put them on. But my feet aren't freezing. Take the socks out of your pocket. Take them out of the Ziploc bag. Cover your hands so your fingers don't freeze or get so cold they start taking the rest of your body down. They're inexpensive as in already paid for. Okay? A couple of other things here real quick too is again having more than one combat kit set up and more than one backpack set up. As you upgrade, a lot of people, I've done this for years. When I upgrade and find something really cool that I always wanted but I would never spend the money on, I take that and put it in my A category backpack. Well, the A category backpack has the other item that I felt was good, but I'd like to find that other certain widget. That goes into the other backpack to start loading up another one. A second, a third, a fifth, whatever. Time comes, you're able to throw a backpack at somebody and everything that I know I carry is in every one of those backpacks that I've loaded. I didn't spend any extra money. I watch for people throwing away backpacks constantly. I've got an uncounted number. I have no true idea how many backpacks I have in storage. There's no way to tell until we start opening barrels and or sealed containers. But the idea is that the ones that I've loaded up, I can walk over to one, confidently pick it up, turn around, start leaving and point myself in whatever direction of the compass, cross country, and I know everything's in that backpack I need. Everything from paracord to a cutting device to a universal tool, to food rations, vitamins, medical items, iFAC kit, water supply, et cetera, water filter, you know, socks. T-shirt, underpants, complete over like one complete over cold weather item like either a woolly pulley or like I've told you a million times, a field jacket liner. In addition to that, I have one complete clothing item and more recently what I've been picking up are those coveralls because it's a good choice, one item, it covers top and bottom, pants, uniforms used to be cheap, Fatigue uniforms are outrageously priced now to the point where they're ludicrous. Amazingly enough, because we're coming out of Desert Dust Part 1, 2, and the Afghanistan fiasco, there is still a quantity of equipment that's coming out in surplus. Mostly it's in the coveralls. So a pair of coveralls for $13 that have 11, 12, 14 pockets. They adjust at the waist. They cover everything on the body all at once. That is a very useful tactical uniform item to be able to shell over real quick everything you're wearing no matter what it is cover everything up boom now all of a sudden I'm tactical. That's what's in those backpacks. One, just one not ten not you know two not three at one. Also again the headgear we talked about earlier spare stocking cap a patrol cap usually a booney. But it can also be a baseball cap depending on what year I packed it. And because some of the baseball caps I got for free or tactical hats I got for free. Some of you guys know you've got the bubble pattern, the fleck tarn. I have had millions of those. I have bought wholesalers out of those items. And so it was pennies, a nickel, an item. So I guess we get stuck in there. Two of those. Why? Because it cost me 10 cents. Again, it doesn't have to be the most expensive. The biggest thing is we have the ability to keep ourselves dry, keep ourselves functional, continue to operate effectively, and as we can accumulate more, we will. But at the very least, we start out at zero point at 100% ready to fight. At zero point jump off, we are better than our enemy. You must have the ability to not only fight, but in a superior fashion, defeat the aggressor. Strip the enemy dead hunt down whoever to whoever sent them repeat the process until we finish off whatever is in front of us and then get ready for the second wave which will be integrated with the first one which is the foreign troops run by Homeland Security the foreign troops run by the parasites that are in the Fed The globalists which is what we've been fighting this whole time and who declared war on us in 1933 with the War Powers Act Okay, another thing attitude We're not going out find a place to die. That's what we're gonna give the enemy But we are planning on winning this conflict, which means all of you have to express yourself accordingly lead Follow or get the hell out of the way if you're going to all wanna leave Well, then you don't do the weezer routine You have to stay focused, you have to stay, you know, again, you have to stay ahead of the problem. And it means that if you really want to be in command, then what happens is you end up with a whole lot of responsibility and you can't shuffle it off on other people. You can't blame somebody else. You are responsible. You want command. You can delegate authority, but you cannot delegate responsibility. Congratulations. Hoorah. Now get it right. The bad guys are demonstrating their stupidity and showing the level of betrayal that they have committed to. They are planning on waging war to what degree or when they plan on jumping off. Do we, you know, obviously we'll be ready for it. Do we care what their schedule is? Yeah, we're going to have an idea. We should be paying attention. But once this kicks off, our schedule kicks in, not dancing to their tune. You do understand that, right? Once this kicks off, it's 24-7 combat. That means you get to choose when you go after the enemy. You can pick any time at a 24-hour clock. They don't get to check out. They may think they're going to walk away from whatever they're doing, but 24-7, they're now in the crosshairs. They are the target. Every last one of them. And they'll be dying alone and by themselves because they think that's what they're going to do to you. They're going to be dying alone and by themselves. because 24-7 you go hunt them the way they've already been messing with your homes. Only we do it in space because we grossly outnumbered them. So again, pry for planting prevents piss poor performers. We are at the top for everybody out there again from head to toe. Footwear if you were coming up on winter. Okay, by the way, I got a pair of I told you this before I'm Mickey Mouse boots if I saw them while I was driving by at 55 miles an hour They were in a table and he arts in a little yard sale on a corner and you know, lo and behold swung around and the Fortunately, the guy was still there the next day hadn't sold him. I got a pair of Mickey Mouse boots fit me for $2 Okay Don't tell me this stuff isn't out there if I can find it you can find it and I guarantee there's a whole lot of it people are passing by because they're not being observant they're not paying attention they need to actually you know shape themselves once a while you need to be on the hunt for what it is that you need to become a better warrior to be better better prepared we need the logistics in our hands well I'm gonna get this down the road no that's not how it works get what you need to get you on the table now even if it's not exactly what you wanted like I said Get what you can to get you on at the table with all the components that are necessary Upgrade as you can take the what you started out with and build another person you know pass it on to another man or woman or Build up another complete set for yourself by continuing to accumulate and upgrade The original equipment you purchased was more than sufficient to get the job done But if you find something that works better or you perceive it works better, you don't get rid of the others the other equipment You take that equipment and force multiply. Force multiply. Force multiply. That's how we do it. Okay, anyway, we're the tops. We're gonna do this. We're gonna take a break here because it is Weapons Wednesday. And for everybody out there, libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org, please take the time, check them out. And if you can, there we go. If you can share, that's something that we did today a couple of times. And if you're talking to people, remind them they're, in fact, I know I got some two new listeners here today for sure. But for all of you that are out there, organize, arm, equip, and train as militia. Establish a 5-10 program in your area of operation. Logistics, the key to victory. Understand a deep larder. everything that you can put on the shelf, it's either A, you're gonna use it, or B, you're gonna trade it with somebody who is going to need it because they may not have thought about it. Or even if they did, they just didn't have the time to finish what they started. Well, that's where you guys all come in as a team working together. Anyway, we should be hearing the music. We are at the top. In fact, a little past, it is 602, 603, and I'm waiting. Hopefully I'm not disconnected. Wouldn't be the first time. There we go. Anyway, hold on here. So real quick, I mentioned Sportsman's Guide. I will remind you again, go to the clearance and deals section. There's a bunch of stuff right now. We're at the Labor Day window. They are trying to get ready for the big fall push. You got to remember now the hunting season stuff is coming in. Now some of the stuff will overlap from before, but they're volume movers. So they got to get stuff cleared out. A lot of items that would be very useful. One of the things I did notice, they have the tactical, I think they're Swedish military life jackets. If you're putting together any tactical RVs, rubber boats, than these are kind of handy to have because they're the right color. They're also the full wraparound. Traditional ones, basically it's the same model we've used, or at least we used to use 40 years ago, 45 years ago, during the Vietnam era. You didn't always wear a life jacket, but a percentage did, depending upon regulation coming in off of a big boat like a Coast Guard cutter or a destroyer. When they drop guys in the water, a percentage are going to be using the life buoyancy tool. That way if somebody runs into trouble, a percentage would always have some form of flotation. to assist others. And again, that was precautionary. It varied depending upon the era. But these are brand new or look to be brand new and issued, the ones that we picked up. So they are definitely worthwhile. I think they got them down to $11 or $9 apiece. They're on sale, probably marked down a little more if you get more than one, they usually do. So take the time on that. Anyway, we should be hearing the music. We are past the top of the hour. I'm giving him a break here. Okay. Tick tock, I'll pull him. The figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land 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 taken a number and 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 won't be born. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores, and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowocke 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 fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? 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Occupation of America with a K, 2022, old earth calendar, 2022, battle for the republic. The Dance of Swords. Let the dance continue. and it will. Last hour was top to bottom. The idea is things that you need to take care of simply because they won't be as readily available or there won't be available to share. Most of the marshal arms that we talked about or marshal components are out there because you can see them. Okay, it's a shallow wide pool that dries up real quick the moment everybody's focused on the same thing. Gas masks are the same way, I don't need to say that, and I will add as a benchmark from the last hour, get a gas mask, get a gas mask, get a gas mask. The moment that they want to stir the pot, and start to escalate that particular problem. The masks go from being a 15 or 20 or even just a $30 item to being a three, four, and $500 item for the exact same mask. Okay, so let's not be on the panic side. Let's be on the common sense. You can look around, shop, find what you need. Get something on the shelf. You can always buy another mask later. Get something that matches your needs and your unit, but also important is what fits your wallet. And then when you upgrade, guess what? Buy another mask. What would I do with the other one? You've got two masks. Congratulations. You can't share a gas mask. It's kind of nice to have another one stashed somewhere else in a vehicle. It's nice to have two, three, or four in a vehicle. I do. And the idea behind it is that we have the ability as needed to actually protect ourselves from the many different threats that government notoriously poses with chemical agents, because it's government that will be doing that. It's government that will be bombing America. The Mossad, the ATF, and FBI have bomb factories in the United States right now, probably three. At the very least one, and I doubt it's just one. And right now the Batfaggots, the FBI, and their Israeli counterparts are trying to figure out who they can bomb as part of a government-sponsored terrorist act and then try to blame somebody else for it. But it'll be the US government combined with the Israelis and their little Chinese butt buddies. But the Israelis will be the ones stirring the pot on this and the agencies have got their heads so far up the massage bung hole They couldn't be pulled out with a crowbar. We already know what's going on there And then they'll try to blame somebody else. We're looking straight at them and we're hunting very hard In fact, we're systematically in what is a grid program right now state by state in multiple states Because somewhere there's a camp Gruber Right now in the United States again Okay now Couple of before we do farther well, let's do this first of all I mentioned a surplus got a couple other items in holiday weekend Because of the look, you know Labor Day weekend Whatever you want to call it before day extended weekend for everybody to sit more on their hind end than they already have from not going to work for the last two years It's kind of funny because most everybody now hates labor, so what's the big deal with Labor Day? Yeah, think about that one. They ridicule and hate you if you actually work for a living. They'll take all the free time. It's like anything else with parasites, what can I say? So anyway, real quick here, aimsurplus.com, aimsurplus.com, aimsurplus.com. Preview Partisan, PPU Ammunition, but that's not the only thing AIM has. I will remind you, I had a couple emails here last week about SKS Parts. Again, for a lot of you guys that have the SKS, let's go over to AIM Surplus. When you get over to AIM Surplus, punch in SKS Parts. They have SKS Parts on the shelf cheap. Oh, really? Yeah, over at AIMsurplus.com. AIMsurplus.com. They also have PPU ammo and they did get a little bit more in. It's only coming in in trickles. But there is a mix and there are a couple of the commercial calibers. I believe they have some 300 wind mag right now. And it's the cheapest 300 wind mag you will buy in the country. It's a PPU. Preview part is on. The blue and white box. It's again over at AIM Surplus. It's not the only thing they got, but go check it out. Also, I've had a lot of questions about this. 38 special and 357 Magnum basically 135 grain FMJ is mostly what seems to be popping out now Fiocchi has done some of this It's also I think there is some app Aim surplus right now. Okay, there is some of the 357 Magnum It's brass jacketed or copper jacketed 135 grain 357 Magnum Basically, it's a full house load. In addition to that, though, they also have same bullet and a full metal jacket, mil-spec round. It's not a 9mm Parabellum bullet. These are definitely a unique conical. They're different from most everything. I assume that they're Turkish bullets or whoever does this make them. They're all making them for everybody. The same bullet is popping up in the five different manufacturers and it's got the same metallurgy, the color of the metal, the taper of the bullet is odd. It really is, if you're familiar with typically what's out there in a 357 or 38 in an FMJ. So I think it's probably Turkish bullet production. They're taking advantage of the fact that the Turks are cranking out in mass and they've been given a green light to do anything they want. So it's probably where those bullets came from. And the fact that some of them are brass washed, that's something we've seen coming out of Turkey here not that long ago. So a brass washed jacketed case, probably still copper or steel, within a copper wash and a brass wash. We don't know. But it is good ammunition, as far as I know. Let's put it this way. Are you short? 357 Magnum or 38? Well, that's what you gotta buy. And so take advantage of getting more bullets on the shelf if you've got any of your revolvers in service Which you should there's no reason not to point and click is really good point and click and disaster shooting is really good Revolvers are very double plus good for that. Okay Don't don't poop who a revolver. Give me yours if you don't want it. Okay, it's that simple. Just give me yours. I'll take it Fact of the matter is they all work and they work just as well as when they were built Okay, but that is a the standard it looks like it's what we're seeing everywhere I've noticed everybody's got the same little clutch of 338 or 357 loads So it's you know now it's find the best price and aim seems to have the best price for the stuff Including the fact that the one batch of stuff is Turkish 357 Magnum Okay, go look at it. See if it floats your boat and if that's what you need run with it. Okay? another thing speed loaders Do you have grandpa's revolver? Is it a K frame or an H? You know, is it a J? Is it a, you know, there's a number of different, you know, end frames. Ruger, Colt, Rossi, Smith and Wesson, take your pick, whatever it is. If you go over to JGSales.com, they have the HSK, they have speed loaders, they have a couple different ones, and they do have some times, they might have some right now. Surplus police speed loaders, but you do need to make sure they match up with the revolver that you're using. The Ruger Speed 6 and Security 6 were K-frames. Those use the standard K-frame speed loaders that are available. If you're looking at the Sierras, there's a bunch of Sierra push type, which are a little bulkier. I like the model that is dominant over at JG sales because it's smaller in the pocket. But the Sierra type speed loaders which are almost like a, what they remind me of is a battery cleaner, battery terminal cleaner. Remember the old ones where you had the little spin wheel on the inside? That's what they kind of look like. But they're really efficient because if you're really energetic and most people are when the adrenaline rushes up, the neat thing is that the Sierra are a palm type push. So you basically line up the bullets, shove and twist, and then drop the speed loader, close the cylinder, and bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang. Okay? So, jgsales.com, jgsales.com, jgsales.com, and then go look at their speed loaders and both look in their surplus. police trade-ins and the new stuff that they have. Probably most of it will be new. Everybody's been buying up to use stuff because it's way to buy more for less. Okay. Another thing is yes, there are speed loader carriers, but they're not as critical. Most important is having a system to carry your speed loaders. And if you're going to be doing this as a casual combat carry, then there's a number of different sources. You can go over, actually go over to JG Sales. He does have some surplus leather or nylon hanging around. Right now over at Botash.com, Botash, B-O-T-A-C-H.com. Go over to their use section. They got tons of used black nylon. So if you're looking for some speed loader carriers for those speed loaders for your revolver, that's the place to go. But they have a lot more. There's all kinds of stuff over there. Go look in their use section. Go slow, pick it apart, find the best price. That simple. Go ahead, caller. Jump in there. Yeah, I was just going to mention, let's not forget canteens and canteen holders. We've got to be hydrated when we're out there. That's for sure. Right, water, water and more water. Yeah, that might be the most important thing actually. Especially for a solar guy. Water has won and lost battles and wars. It's that simple. Guys, in every battle that ever became any kind of knuckle dragon punchdown, Water became the pivoting factor that determined how long someone could fight, period. It's that simple. In the Pacific, the one canteen idea, that got thrown out real quick. Everybody learned that more water, you're at 100 plus degree weather, extreme humidity. But anywhere, it doesn't matter where you are, even in your house. Right now, in your house, and thank you for bringing this up, let me point this out. Fill up, or if you want to, just go buy a couple of flats of water, put a half flat in each room of your house somewhere. If you really want to do it the cheap way, which is what I do, take the juice containers and wash them out. And once you're done using them, fill it up with water and put a couple of those in each room of the house. There we go. Each room of the house. Yeah, well, if you end up with the goose steppers be bopping around outside, you running to get something isn't going to happen. Staying low, staying clear of, you know, any direct, you know, direct contact water just in place is going to be make all the difference in the world, whether it's winter or summer. It doesn't make any difference. Don't worry. If you empty the container out, you also have a place to pee when you're done. Right? Oh, that's right. Yeah, it's whatever goes in also to a degree comes out, depending on how badly you're in need of water. You'd be amazed at how little you're going to piss. Yeah. Remember, your body's spitting it out every other way you can think of. Perspiration, which also takes something else we were talking about yesterday, minerals and vitamins. So you want to make sure that you are, again, if at all possible, a couple of Gatorade packs. Don't have to mix it up right away. Have the stuff dry sitting there in a little package. But the water is the key. So yes, also again, go ahead. I find that I was training this summer, but I also trained last winter an awful lot. And I found that I drank much more water. in that snow, lifting my leg up. I mean, it was so hard to travel through that snow. And I was finding myself parched and very weak. So I drink much more water this winter than I did this summer in all the heat. It's easy to move in the heat. It's easy. And maybe I can monitor my water loss that are in the summer. So I carry two canteen on my web gear behind me and then four of those Walmart 16 ounce plastic in my lower PDUs. And those are the, like you were saying about the mags, the ones in the back go first, but the water on your PDU lower legs, they go first and they go quick. You know, right. We're an older guy, another guy, you know, I'll drink it and I'll go 50 feet. I got a pee. But that's just me. But yeah, but that's just it. It's kind of funny, but that's the way it is. But yeah, it goes very quick. All that water will go real quick. Well, that's another thing to remember is we are headed into the winter too, is when you're in winter operations, ventilating is especially critical. And what you're going to do is push moisture. Guys, in extreme cold weather operations, well, example, I've talked about how they cheat during these Arctic expeditions. When they were doing the last, what was it, an expedition to the South Pole, What they did is they had these basically the extreme cold weather Arctic suits that are like spacesuits. And unlike what happened with the teams before, they used leather, they had fur, they used wool. Well, what happens is all of what you're exuding out of your pores goes into your clothing. And so all those minerals we talk about get pushed out and load. Have you ever had a t-shirt in the summer where you put the t-shirt on in the morning and you put your work outside all day and you sweat, you're hind and off? When you get done at the end of the day, that t-shirt is heavy. But it's not heavy with moisture, it's damp. What it is is all the salts and minerals that you've pushed out of your pores and by the way waste product because remember that's what all those those minerals are doing is helping to process and eject waste. So imagine if you're in a cold environment what these guys were doing what they've been I want to say cheating is they wear these suits until they load them and then they call in for a helicopter drop they actually had them scheduled. And they come in with a plane and they drop brand new over-suits. I mean, literally it's everything. They pitch up a bubble tent real quick and one man goes inside, they take off the suits, and they put brand new ones on and they just chuck the other ones. They just leave them where they took them off. Now, you and I, first of all, you wouldn't do that, I guess, if this is what you're doing because you're obviously being financed by somebody with a chunk of change. But the fact is that when they shed these, all of that extra moisture that's built up, which is a lot, along with all the other dead weight, gets thrown off to the side and they got a brand new change. Now, I don't see you doing that. You're not gonna be able to. So you have to be managing better and you don't have the option to fudge it because what happens is you start going down, you're going south real fast, you start to break down quick. The big thing here again, as you said, is if you're a team leader in your infantry, especially, or cold weather operations or warm, this is where the fire team leader and the squad leader's job is to make sure everybody's hydrating also. And as I've said before, if you're familiar with how you keep people moving, you watch also for response. You're literally mom and dad in the field, okay? You're watching for lack of response. Individuals start to go into their, you know, into, not hibernation, but they go into tunnel mode. And they have a tendency not to respond as well. They, in fact, you can even get slurring of words, et cetera. There's all kinds of little tells you're looking for. The big thing is before that gets that far is A, You want to make sure you get the people to ventilate wherever we can as needed. And also water rehydration cycles. Where when you stop, half your team takes water, the other half observes. You get used to the idea of tactical deployment. When the first half is rehydrated and they take up their tactical position, then the other half consumes their moisture. You check to make sure everything is secured, then you proceed, you move. But you make sure that everything is secured. People get sloppy. They want to cut corners. They will lose things. And the things that they lose are things they need. You're not carrying any more than you absolutely have to so what you are carrying is critical to the operation Always remember that so yeah, especially stowing canteens or stowing water supply I've told you before in the last hour. What's the most common thing missing for most troops right hand glove right hand mitten? Where is it? Well, they thought they had it under their armpit. They were fiddle farting with something on their weapon. They were fixing their gear. What they didn't notice is that they dropped it two miles back. And everybody else was kind of tired, you know, as it is, putting one foot in front of the other. They stepped on it in the snow. Somebody else buried it that much more. Nobody even realizes it's gone. This is why you need spares. Always remember that. You know, spares. Now, I carry lots of extra spares. I learned this a long time ago being Papa Bear, slash being either a fire team leader, squad leader, platoon leader. Even when you're a company commander, when you've got 120 some people that you're dealing with, you carry extras because it's still your responsibility. You wanted to be in charge. You got to remember that people, no matter how hard you try to emphasize health and welfare, all people will ignore you completely. People will ignore you completely. You don't think so? I have plenty of experience. And this is, I don't care if it's regular army, I don't care if it's reserve, national guard, militia, doesn't make any difference. Seriously. It's amazing what people, the only good thing, I'll let them hurt until they realize that maybe they hockey-pucked up. You know what I mean? And then it's like, oh, by the way, where's your, where are your gloves? What? Well, yeah, trust me. Oh, they're back in the mess hall. They're sitting on the rack just inside the door with your name stitched in them. They're 20 miles to the rear somewhere else because we're in a road march. I've done, I have seen this. I've been, I've been on a 20 mile winter road march in the regular military and had two, three people who when they came out of the mess, I knew wherever they left them, I could picture where they left them. I assumed, you know, assumed the worst you won't be disappointed, but sometimes assumed, you know, you know what assume is. Yeah. So again, this is why you carry spares because you can't afford to have a man down or a man injured because they're part of your integrated weapons system. Okay. The same is true with water. This is why you have to constantly be monitoring your supply. And this is why you also check people's equipment. This is why you tap the canteens. Did everybody fill up their canteens? Oh yeah, sure. Oh yeah. Tunk, tunk, tunk, tunk. Why did they not fill all the canteens up? Well, they didn't want to carry the weight. But about four miles down the road in 90 degree weather, all of a sudden, anybody got any spare water? You know how many times I've heard that? Oh, and not with militia. I'm talking with the army. Seriously. Well, I didn't put water in my kit so I could carry it for your sorry ass because you're a lazy SOB. But you know how many times I've seen that? Oh, God. So again, this is where we need to drive it home. We are better than that. Okay? We are much better than that. Ignore any buffoon who tells you you don't need it. That's a character that'll help to get you to suffer down the road and why didn't know I didn't know I Thought it would be fill in the blank always love that one. Well, okay. How about we just stick to SOP standard operating procedure? But you got some dumbass who's gonna tell you need to listen to them That'll be the SOB that also expects to take half of your water Because they have the bastard didn't do his job, you know didn't do what he was supposed to do didn't do his job Always remember that We're going to prevent that from happening. We have better discipline. Now, we're just past the bottom of the hour and I got to do this again today. By God, we have been busy and in Michigan, it's not just Michigan. I saw some of the other notices that you guys sent out to us. But here in Michigan, first of all, we have a bunch of new company strength units that are militia units that have been organized as part of the different structured militia corps that are out there. Michigan militia at large is one, Colonial Marine militia, which is national, they're all over the place. And in addition to that, of course, Michigan Wolverine Corps slash reconstructed. Right off the bat, first of all, congratulations. I'll go down the list here again. Detachment 663, this is Dan Burrows, who is now the CO, Commanding Officer, for the 329th Company, Michigan militia at large, congratulations. Detachment 662, Jim Cornills, the headquarters detachment, he's now in command, 330th Company, which is a new, all three of these are new organizations, by the way. The 330th Company is completely fleshed out. And also, Detachment 475, Don Newstead. And this is a supply and support detachment and supply and support company, 331st, which is still infantry, but they're specifically geared as a mess kit company. their job, supply and support, and logistics, including transportation, which is what they're building right now, deuce and a half. They got a deuce and a half fleet. They got a number of pickup truck with, you know, transporters, the whole nine yards, and they're going to add a medical detachment too. So that is the, again, detachment 475. That's under Don Newstead. Congratulations, and that's the 331st company. Colonial Marine militia, the 65th, I mentioned them the other day. If you guys have the copy, some of you do, many of you do if you're around long enough, where I addressed the first national official, national conference of the Colonial Marine militia back in 93, 94, where they had the confirmation of the new constitution. The 65th, a bunch of the guys, if you look at that video, to my left, which would be to the front right of the cameras in the one video, that's the 65th RCT and that was the third brigade. That was the entire third brigade command group that's sitting there. And these guys have been around for a very long time. Well, anyway, they've been busy this last month. And with the idiot sticks opening their face and doing what they're doing, it has done nothing but benefit us. So first of all, again, Bill Nighthammer, who is now the CO for the, if it's the first brigade, 65th Regimental Combat Team Colonial Marines. This is new organized and by the way, it's not fleshed out all the way. They still have room for expansion and they are going to add a weapons section. Also 65th regimental combat team second brigade, which is under now Chuck Ritter and Chuck has been with us for a very long time. He's sliding sideways from another detachment, another unit. And the 65th is expanding dramatically. Then we jump over to 65th regimental combat team, 4th brigade under Merv Miller. Merv Miller is a longtime colonial marine NCO. Everybody voted him in as the commanding officer. I believe it was last Saturday. And last but not least, Warren Matthews. I'm not familiar with him. Warren Matthews, 65th regimental combat team, colonial marine 5th brigade. But Warren is a younger guy, actually, but what I understand. So anyway, the 65th RCT, which has been in skeletal mode with the core unit completely fleshed out, is now a complete RCT. This is a full regimental combat team, full strength. All these are former Marines that are, of course, joining up. And there are some other individuals that they know how they recruit and it's one-on-one. It's a one-on-one patient recruitment program. But with what's been going on, they've had no problem with people finally making a decision and saying, oh, piss on it. So good. And again, well done for everybody out there. For Michigan militia at large, oh and last but not least, the flag and blade ceremonies are not scheduled yet for the 65th. When that happens, the unit flags will have been built by the wives, girlfriends, moms or grandmas, depending on representative for each family member, they hand stitch the unit flag. Then they, of course, are still having to have the blades serial numbered because the unit has the, the CMM has a standard blade that they issue. And these, they're serial numbered to the person. That number will never be issued to anybody else. It is a one-time ceremony thing. If you never get a chance to be with a CMM unit, it's pretty cool. Okay. So anyway. They're going to schedule the, probably the ceremony so that one unit after another, after another, after another will be present with the parent unit and the parent command group, of course, presenting also the unit guide on. So this is going to be pretty cool. Anyway, that's coming up. Bad guys keep doing what they're doing. I hope they keep pissing in their pool. That's what we need. For everybody out there, we're going to be waging war. The idea is we wage war to win. and the people that are getting the job done now are flushing it out where it needs to be with the manpower we need to take care of whatever weapons systems we acquire. We have a lot of experience coming up with this group and others. So again, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Squared away now, make sure it's done. Oh, by the way, the 475th detachment. Let's see, hold on, there was a note here. That's Don Neustad's group. They're looking for They're looking for medical stretchers. I'll see what I can find. I've got a couple sources right now. I just had some notices sent from one of the wholesalers. Coleman's has some pretty good deals right now. So anyway, we'll see what we can do about that one. Okay, enough on that. Now, next, it is Weapons Wednesday. We saw an article on the hybrid AR-15 AK-47 combo that was being pushed here about three years ago. The project has been completed, but I've not seen anything jumping off the wall. It's the MK47 or whatever it is. Basically, it's an AR15, AK47 combination. In a way, when I saw it, it was very reminiscent of the same idea that the PTR rifle company came up with when they did the HK 223's size rifle with the AK47 slash 7.62x39 chainring. In this case, needless to say, the AK mag is the foundation, so it uses a regular 7.62x39 magazine. So it has the pivoting magazine well station. However, lighter in some ways, the design itself looks like it's It's let itself in the right direction. It's got a pretty sturdy design. Nobody that I've seen so far that has one is complaining about the system not working, but it is a unique design. Okay, critical components are AR-15 though, which this is kind of like with the Daewoo solution. The 7.62x39 Stool, slightly cheaper ammunition-wise for the time being. For that reason, which is one of the reasons that everybody was looking at this as a good solution. Of course, in the meantime, we've had the Ukrainian war breakout, a lot of 760 by 39, a lot of 545 by 39 is being consumed in that conflict. So it's like a vacuum sweeper. Because of that, also with the quote unquote restrictions, we've seen less available, but the price has also gone up on what is in the inventory. Still cheaper than most. 7.62x39 is still the most affordable round. You know, if you count every penny, you can get more bang for the buck with 7.62x39 at this point in time. Okay? We got you. You did that on the call on her. Go ahead. Oh, okay. Yeah, this text mix. Yeah. Is that right? What you're talking about? Is that the C M M G mutant? Yeah, they're calling it a mute. One person called it a mutant. I, but I don't know if that was actually part of the, uh, it was The original idea started out in the garage as is always the case, but the guys were serious about the project. It is completed as far as I can see. The rifles available, it's just not gotten a whole lot of fanfare because there's a lot of the stuff that's caught up beyond it. Go ahead, jump in there. Yeah, yeah. The one I saw a video on too was, it was the CMMG mutant with their big A.R. company and they've kind of beefed it up. Even the bolt is a little bit beefier and a little bit more meat around the head of the bolt. So that's one of the weaknesses of the A.R. platform for the 760 by 39. But yeah, if I understand it's a real, it's a real a real winner. I mean, I think it's a little pricey, but if you look at the price of the A-case today, I mean, it's really probably right in line. Yeah, well, the big thing is if they've settled the issue with regard to the bolt face and they've chubbed it out, which is what you're going to do. You're going to strengthen it by chubbing it out. That's not hard to do with the AR-15 design. It means that you will have a unique bolt I can't see that they wouldn't be using the standard bolt carrier. Even if they had to open up the interior of the bolt carrier to accommodate a chubbier bolt, because remember that front bolt assembly is one little module. It wouldn't be that extreme. And the big advantage is just the ammunition use. The 7.62x39, I can still pile up more if I were to start putting pallets of ammunition together. I can still buy more 7.62x39 than I can 5.56, which makes the caliber itself a good choice if your logic is that, well, I'm financing my own war, so I mean, I'm financing what's coming, and I need a lot. I need more for less, and I want to keep spending it. In some cases, there's groups, like I said, we've got different groups here. They just buy pallets at a time anyway. They go in together. If that's the situation, the rifle itself, AK mags are still relatively cheap. In fact, there's those bulk AK mags still over at Centerfire. It's basically what, $4 a magazine? You get five mags for $20? No, they're not nothing fancy. They're Turkish plastic mags. But if you're looking at big bulk battle packs of stuff, then this rifle combined with lots and lots of magazines and less expensive ammo makes a big difference. And again, it doesn't mark like a dog. I like the, you know, the advantage of the weapon itself, the key parts are affordable. Magazines, ammunition. And for some people, because especially if they like the other thing you pointed out, Guys, we were buying AKs a lot cheaper years ago, which is why no matter what, we are not going to exhaust our AK inventory in the US for many decades. I've lost track of how many AKs we built. I was thinking about that the other day, but back when we were buying AK kits for $65 and $75, let me remind you, we were buying East German AK 74 kits. with everything except the receiver for $37 apiece wholesale. And that's brand new last generation East German AK-74s for $37 a kit. We can't even remember how many of those we bought because we just bought them by the piles. I mean, everybody got as many as they could. I got as many people too, because I had the connection with the wholesaler. And magazines were pennies, not dollars, pennies. 27 cents, 35 cents. Okay, a dollar a magazine when they got more expensive. Okay, so we're not going to run out of the AK inventory anytime soon. And there's a massive amount of reserve AKs that are just waiting for what's coming. And they're not out of the picture. And on top of that, let's not forget, there's a whole lot of people who got created to start building their own, and then American parts started to show up, which everybody has a plus or minus attitude about those. But the fact is that there is a massive amount of 7.62 by 39 that will be in this conflict and will be carried by our people. And we don't have to worry about waiting for the ships to show up on the dock. We already bought it all. Hey Mark. It's that simple. Go ahead, jump in there. Two things. First was we're having a conversation here. When did the Mini-14 stop production? Speaking of 7.62x39. As far as I know, the range rate... Well, I think it's still in production right now because I was just looking at something on that. I'm thinking they're making the... 7.62x39 Ranch Rifle. I don't think it's out of production yet because it's just too popular. A lot of guys in fact use it for a hog rifle. You can imagine that. But it's a toss as far as which is obviously more popular. The Mini 14 and 5.56 is traditional. But there's, for what? Probably every eight that are 223, there's probably one that's in 7.62 by 39. So I would say that I'll have to look. That's a good question. We'll have to find out. I don't believe they discontinued it. The Ruger became more liberal. They finally start selling us stuff like we want. Okay. That's the one thing Ruger wouldn't do in the past. But they would sell us a 7.62x39 rifle because it was a bastard. That's why Ruger thought that was okay. Because he didn't want to sell Ruger when he was still alive. The peasants shouldn't have his 7.62 or forgive me, his 5.56. mini-14 military model. He'd sell it to any tin-pan third-rate dictator, but he wouldn't sell it to the American people. But then when the 7.62x39 idea came out, pretty well they let that hit the market in force. Under the logic, it was a, you know, all the leftist gun producers don't mind giving us bastard items that they figure we won't think to get spare parts, we won't have spare mags. and they can cut off ammunition. Always remember that. That's the biggest problem with these characters and how they played the how they've been playing the game for a very long time. They were like a horse on the military like that 6.8, which is yeah. Well, and again, that's where you can see the politics of this, the writing on the wall. The only good thing is. We've taken advantage of every wave of less expensive, but unlike the average shallow hell that they think everybody is, Americans have a tendency when they can find something cheap to accumulate it and then do something unique to build it up. And that's what's happened with almost every parts inventory, which is again, why they stopped letting you have the barrels with the kits. because they realized, oh no, everybody was taking very seriously the idea of putting those things together. Sent me rifle kits used to be $65 to $69 apiece and that was with a barrel and a magazine. HKG3 kits came from Sturm and guys when they first came in, $35 a kit. for a complete GHG 3 HK 91 rifle including the hex may the Forgive me the hex barrel and that was everything complete All you had to do is figure out where to get a receiver and at that time remember There wasn't anybody offering well there were two one was Greek, but they were outrageous I mean they were like $200 a receiver, but you could buy a receiver flat for as little as you know $15 and bend it yourself. And guess what? A lot of people did. They made a semi-auto. Some of them bought five or six because they bent them and bent them and bent them. Yes, exactly. Then they kept doing it because they got good at it. Remember, the more you do it, the better you get at it. Plus, once you build the mandrel, once you build everything, there's no reason not to. And that's where, like I said, we built so many set-me rifles. I've lost track of those. I have no idea for sure how many we built when we first started. But that's, you know, we would do a building session in a night. It would be nothing to put together 15 to 20 set knees. You know, because one second issues, we're getting close. Um, the camping survival, they lied. That stuff is still on sale. You can get the travelers to eight pack. Um, it says eight pack of four servings. It makes three cups per batch. I'm, I'm calling that two servings. Um, 12 95. for a case of eight. Mine showed up today, but I'm not there so I don't get to look and see what they look like or anything. And it's $12.95 normally $34.95. They also have number 10 cans of freeze dried strawberries. $12.95 normally $24.95. That's at campingsurvival.com campingsurvival.com. There's a bunch of other food stuff and then other non-food items if anybody's interested. Some of them are good price. Some of them I don't know. A couple of things look like they were a little pricey. So obviously they just go in the bin. Over. And again, they can't beat the price. The number 10 can of freeze dried strawberries for $12.95. Food packs. If you're looking at cashing stuff, this is another way to go. Needless to say, like with the eight pack, that might be just what you throw in your backpack. You unbox it. Stuff it into all of your carry points and add whatever cheeses crackers and whatever else you can find for a good price and congratulations you can keep the calories fill the void keep the calories coming. So yeah, this is like a dollar 56 a pouch so even if you want to eat three cups of food by yourself, which I wouldn't have no problem doing that. But I'm figuring in the skin scarcity situation we're going to split that. I was just I was going over with somebody last night. and it looks like there's rice and lentils, so you got a complete protein there, and macaroni, so you got additional carbs, as well as the celery and carrots and XYZ. And it does have chicken base in it, so there's actually some little chicken broth base in it, and also chicken fat. And so the whole thing is, it's free stride, so it's good to go. You know, 25 year and all that thing. But I just wanted to let people know, last week they said three days only. It's all over in three days. And when we showed somebody last time, I said, let's see what their cost is. And they were still on sale. Campingsubrival.com. Over. So again, take the time guys, if you can. These are two items. I don't always do that, but when we see especially the freeze dried, the submarine rations aren't out there anymore. Whatever you find freeze dried, usually more expensive, but that's because what it costs to actually put the machinery together and set everything up. However, the big advantage period is lifespan on the shelf. You don't use the freeze dried up first. You use it if you're, and if you are going to use it like the number 10 cans of strawberries, you schedule it so that you break it down and mix it in with all the other foodstuffs that need to be used as a priority. It's an enhancer. Strawberries are a goody, a big pick-me-up item. Let's say, wow, we got strawberries, and with freeze dried, when you rehydrate them, pretty much they're gonna look like when they went into the pouch. Now, as far as before they were freeze dried. The fantastic thing about freeze dried is most people can't tell the difference between that and fresh. And we've done this many times, and we've opened up a can, prepped the stuff right there. Hey, try this, what do you think? This is true of the meats, but also all the vegetables. The Navy with their submarine operations lightweight, they can always produce water. They got water all around them and they've got the ability to desalinate. So all you do is add moisture and congratulations. You're eating like a king. That makes all the difference in the world, but psychologically it's a pick me up item. Obviously, the other one is to fill the void item. Remember, keep the gut stuffed, which is especially critical making sure you got calories going in because if you're in the field, you're going to be burning everything. And again, more minerals, more vitamins, more calories, and fats, which is something, oh, I've got to avoid fats, not in this thing coming up. especially in cold weather. Go ahead. It just occurred to me because I got one in my email because I was looking at it on eBay. Of course, they hound you down if you go search anything and you've got an account with them. Humanitarian daily meals. Case of, I want to say 12, I could be wrong, it might be case of 10. 49.50 free shipping. The humanitarian meals are packed in the same cardboard. As far as I can tell, it's got that little black crescent moon. It's got the same military script on the side. It's 25 pounds of humanitarian meals. It's basically an MRE. But according to the description, and this is on eBay, you can just look up humanitarian meals on eBay. They have two entrees per meal. So, $49.50 for two entrees. It's supposed to be a whole day's worth of food. Divide that, you know, it's less, that's like $4 and change per pouch, which is about as cheap as I was getting. I'm already 10 years ago when I was buying them singly by the pouch. $49.50 free shipping and I think if you... by four cases, still free shipping, but they knock like $2 off a case or something. Just go and check. There's a couple of different people that are listening. Um, one of them is the best that I saw, but, uh, it's not the SOPACO cardboard boxes, which are cheap as normal cardboard that you get. Um, obviously it's not bad Chinese race paper bad, but you know, they won't stack up to five to six high and, um, take job swing and hanging and you know they'll collapse and everything but the military ones like the MREs come in pretty stiff cardboard it's a good quality cardboard so just for the fact that they're storable in that I think they're 2019 pack so they're you know three years old at this point I just want to give people's heads up there humanitarian daily meals on eBay. Okay, very good. We are at the top. We should have Craig coming up behind us here, guys. Craig with forbidden knowledge. Don't forget Craig does have gas masks. I don't know what he's got left. He can find out. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, we fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this the land 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 taken 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 harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevailed Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths. They've sworn and your daughters visit doctors So their children won't be born 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? Both 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 to keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke he 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 trample each God given right we only watch and 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? Dill the land of the intelligence report am our party closer to victory for all of our brothers anders both on territories Southwest Northeast We're listening to us on the Liberty Tree radio dot 4m.com Liberty Tree radio dot org And we are on satellite. Let's say hi to all of our friends out there across each of the oceans on the planet. We are You know every one of them were there and you guys are making it happen Thank you also a myriad of other communications technologies Both inside and outside these United States to include a but FM micro stations and many more it is Weapons Wednesday. It is the 7th of September. It is the 14th year of open. And in your face, Fabian the Socialist and Soviet Socialist Occupation of America with a K. Come on, man. 2022, old earth calendar. 2022, battle for the Republic. The Dance of Swords. And we are going to dance well. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance plan ahead make sure that you have deep logistics support across the board Don't forget blades and all the other implements of destruction necessary for close quarter combat But also for tool work things that need to be done. You got to have equipment on hand more on that in a minute but a reminder There are a number of different blade companies out there. Of course, we do have here in Michigan a couple of really fine militia knife manufacturers, guys that have been doing work for nigh on 30 years. In fact, in two cases, the sons have now picked up what dad started way back in the early 90s. And they've all grown into the trade, which is probably why I'm going to end up with a new fighting knife here pretty soon. Sounds like one of the sons. I actually remember when he was born. We were there just before he was born. And he and I think his his oldest son, so it's going to be three generations, his dad built the fighting knife that's personally on my combat rig, and he's building a new knife. Thank you. So I guess I'm going to be surprised with another new blade. Again, it's probably going to be a little smaller than the one that dad built, but it's something that will go right under the combat kit. I greatly appreciate the work. Carbon steel, though, not stainless or anything like that. good but a good American carbon blade and a craftsman behind the work. So keep it up guys. We appreciate that from Dan and the crew. Also again it is weapons Wednesday. So let's not forget again buy more ammunition. Reloading supplies. We are looking for additional powders. So again the search is on for best deal most is for the least as they say. There's not much squeak or leeway in that though right now with regard to powder. But 223 and also for medium pistol. The search is on now. So we're going to see what we can dig up. Again, one pound, eight pound. We'll see what happens. We do have a quantity of arsenal powders. presently on hand. I mean a big quantity, but we're still looking to supplement the inventory for the builds that are coming up right now. Again, save all your brass. I don't care what it is. It may not be something when you go to the range, somebody else is, you know, crazy enough to leave brass behind, pick it all up. Remember, it's like milk bottles or pop bottles that you pick up, take into the store. All brass is worth money. And even if it's something you don't shoot, guess what? Chances are somebody else does, and the guys that reload like us, we will trade you. You know, it's a barter trade exchange system. You'd be amazed what we can put together for you. So all brass, pistol, rifle, shotgun shells. It doesn't make any difference. All of it needs to be saved. One of the best ways to actually be able to bulk store the stuff. The kitty litter, three gallon, going on four gallon, large mouth containers. The kitty litter buckets are okay, but we use those for too many other things. But the large mouth containers, they're at a milk jug plastic. A couple different brands use them. Some are actually, some are milky, you know, semi-clear. Others are solid white. Doesn't make any difference. Those are perfect for sorting brass. They're got a large large mouth so you can pour stuff out easily too But you put nine millimeter or put all your pistol in one put all rifle in another Then you can sort it out later as needed or better still collect more containers nine millimeter goes in one 40 caliber goes in another 45 ACP goes in yet another one and Progressively as you accumulate more of the stuff that you need Then we accomplish more get more done and get on with the mission When the time comes to reload, you've got everything already kind of pre-sorted. Same with shotgun shells. 20 gauge, 16 gauge, 12 gauge, 410, whatever you've got, separate it, keep it clean, and the advantage of this is you screw that lid out and keep everything clean and dry. It is Weapons Wednesday, so one thing I am going to point out is brass medium. Now this is something for doing jigglers or if you're doing barrel type roll polishing for your brass. Walnut medium is obviously top end, which you want to save. It doesn't mean you don't use walnut medium, but let me recommend something. A lot of you guys are doing what I just talked about, picking up brass at the range. Now, kitty litter is a little aggressive, and the other problem is, kitty litter is not really as on hand as it used to be, but it does work. If you have some really tired brass that was sitting out a little bit, be it either just regular brass or steel case, taking and using, in fact, you don't want any of the non-clumping or anything like that, or the clumping type, forgive me, reverse. You want just basic, you know, throw down on the ground kitty litter. Same thing you use for soaking up oil in the shop. Now this stuff will break down, but it takes a long time and no matter what, it is an aggressive grit. If you're going to use, for instance, a polishing machine for it for tired equipment, like steel cases that may have been on a little bit or brass that's discolored. Then my recommendation is build yourself a secondary machine or watch for something used. Use that for the aggressive work because it's already got some wear and tear on it. You know, prioritize things. But for finish, well, walnut medium is top end. And for some of your better brass or more unique weapons, that are finicky with regard to loading. Needless to say, we want to do the best quality job that we can. Some aren't so finicky, like the AK. But Corn Cop Medium is a first choice. If you have not seen this, they use it for hamster cages. It's used for small rodents as bedding. It is about the size of the diameter, typically of a pencil lead. And the stuff is absorbent, so if you do have some tackiness or materials on board, one of the things about the corn cob bedding is that it does a good job of sucking up any of the other junk that's in there. Typically what we do is we use it for polishing and cleaning like that. You can put it in the fireplace if you want, but take it over to the burn barrel, toss it in with everything else. Just put it in a paper bag or cardboard box and it'll all burn away when you want to get rid of it. But the big thing is that it's a lot cheaper for the corn cob medium that's been chipped to the point where, like I said, it's in bead form. It does a really good job with pretty much all the brass you're gonna run into Yeah, we even tumble shotgun shells I like to keep the lower case as clean as possible there a lot of times you end up with shotgun shells You got a sort we don't throw away stuff though if we've collected it more on that in a minute No matter how rough it is I mean long as it's not rusted and got chunks and holes in the side of stuff that that's crap however The nice thing about the Corncop medium is it will give you a preliminary clean. You can rate what you got there, but if you want to go with a finer, more aggressive buff, then last tumble is with the walnut medium. And of course, needless to say, using a little rouge, there's a couple of other different polishing compounds that are out there that are available specifically for brass work. that have been developed, but the old school was walnut medium and a little bit of jewelers' rouge. And you're looking at a very, very high finish, gloss finish for final buff on a lot of the brass. Now, not always necessary, but it does help with regard to exciting the brass and making it perform better. So if you're looking at accuracy and competition, or should say accuracy and reliability in a pistol exchange, then factory is not necessary if you know what you're doing with reloading. Now the other thing about the aggressive element is what we do is we rate brass for different work. And if you have stuff that's discolored, that's not a problem. But the big thing is to make sure you don't have oxidation, pock marks and things of that nature, which you need to inspect your brass. You need to take a few moments and actually go over what it is you're working with. One thing about doing basically either a coarse buff with kitty litter, which again is coarse, now trust me that's the lowest end, or with the corn cob medium is that it will help to accent because it has tendency to build bleed material up or the buffed material anchors into cracks or fractures. Now this doesn't happen all the time, but it's kind of nice to be able to quickly identify a flaw that you're going to, you know, that means you're going to exclude that piece of brass. Throat breaks are pretty obvious, but every once in a while they get to be, they can be very fine, fine hairline fractures. Now, in this case, if you're, if they're easily identified, which again, with a little discoloration where the dust has a tendency to settle in the trench, It's easy to spot a lateral throat break, a shoulder failure, which is not as common as you might think. That's actually the least common. One of the things that you especially want to watch for with your brass is base failure. Okay, typically again, a base case rupture or at the very least perhaps a mild fracture, which will fail with the next load if you use it. Now, this hole sounds really horrible. It's actually part of the ongoing process of quality control. You are smart enough to handle this. We can do a better job. And the big advantage here again is that you are taking advantage of second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, tenth generation reloading with the brass provided you use common sense when you load. Most important is first step is quality control to do a complete inspection on the brass to get the baseline where it's supposed to be. Everything's on the same page. Now, even if you have brass that has failed in some way, throat fractures can be eradicated by cutting the brass down and using it for something else. If you have a split along the throat where the cantaloure line is, up there, then guess what? You can cut the brass down, reshape it to something else in some cases, or make a straight case for an existing standard commercial load that's already out there. Most rifle rounds, the base of most standard military rifle rounds, and a lot of the civilian, are all of the same base dimension as .45 ACP. Doesn't mean that's what you cut down first because typically if you have a straight full rifle case, provided the dimensions are correct, remember there are variants and quite a few because there's always new cartridges that have been coming out. But if you use the base 30 out of 6, 8 millimeter Mauser, 30 out of 6, 7.62x51 NATO, anything in that spec, those are all baseline of the same dimension as the 1911 45 ACP case. So in theory you could chop down to that point right away, but there's a lot of 44 and 45 auto bags. You've also got the new Bushmaster rounds. If you go look at the specifications, you'll see that they didn't really invent any big new wheel. They just took existing off-the-shelf cases. and did a minimal, an absolute minimal amount of modification and created a new rifle or pistol round. So the new Bushmaster round is very straightforward. Now remember when you cut down brass cases, you have more material internally for the thickness of the wall of the case than you need for the base line, for the canner line, for the bullet seating area. This is why they make case trimmers and they make reamers. The reaming tools are designed for you to be able to, usually they're specced out so you can gauge them to a particular type of case. You stick the reamer in, you turn it one, two, or three times, pull it back out, and everything's where it's supposed to be. In the process, you also have RCBS Lee and everybody else making little case trimmers. for case length, which by the way in many cases also do the internal trim and clean on the inside of the throat of the case, depending upon how much money you spent and who built it. Dylan, RCBS, Lee, Herters, everybody makes something like that. The big thing here again is if the cases are actually rejected, remember that for demolitions and anti-personnel work, the rejected cases are good enough for what they're designed to do, to be, which is a capping tool. The best example of an example of this that you may have run into, how many of you are former military? How many of you have fired the training paint marker round for the 40 millimeter grenade launcher for the M203 or if you're really old the M79? You remember that? It's a paint round with a fiberglass body. Have you ever looked closely at that? Well, let me give an example of some really intelligent economic process here. Flip that case over or go take a look at some pictures. You might be able to find something, a video on YouTube. The base of that round is actually the body of that 40mm case was cast so that it receives a cut rifle case as the primer carrier. If you were to do an autopsy and cut it in half with a saw, okay. take it apart, you'll see that, wow, that's actually what they've done. They've inserted, basically what they did is they inserted reject brass, the very thing we're talking about traditionally, the government used to actually try to, you know, save you money. Of course, that's all out the window now with the asshats we have now in the worthless turds that are working for the communist Chinese and spending us to death. But... The advantage of this is that you can use the existing large rifle primer. You can use whatever primers are available. By the way, the 45 ACP 1911 case will insert into the same channel for the same reason I just mentioned. And what you have is a larger bore 40 millimeter projector round utilizing off-the-shelf castaway components or minimal non-strategic components like fiberglass for the training round for the case for the hull. The advantage is to give you an example of how you can take an existing reject piece that you have and you might have, you can't eventually start collecting them, 556, you're going to get some that are crushed, you're going to get some that are too short, something that's not quite right, maybe it has a split in it. For doing improvised munitions and IEDs of any kind, Making a capping system and using a standard rifle primer or pistol primer to activate fusing or a primary charge is a very cost efficient solution. Now remember when you're making this, you're basically making like a little striker system that the round would nest in and then it's sitting in a fugue ass can, a tube full of all kinds of wicked shrapnel or whatever. But you make a little spring striker system so that literally you just pull a little counter pin out of place. The striker hits the base of the primer the way it's supposed to because it's a throw away poor man's firing pin. Okay. And that in turn activates the powder charge is stuffed into the case itself which then activates the primary charge and it's cat boom boom. I just slowed it down a lot. CAP is the primer CAP going off. POAP is the initial squib charge activating what is the primary propellant explosive whatever. And so, boom, boom, is what you get. So brass cases are not wasted or thrown away. Shotgun shells are phenomenally good for doing indirect fire projection systems, much in the same way as a 40 millimeter grenade launcher. utilizing a combination of pipe and the spigot launcher, you can build a Calliope type multiple grenade launching unit that can project 600, 800, 1000 yards utilizing a shotgun shell case with a projecting charge black powder. in front of the primer, whereas the whole thing is inserted into the tube slash and then activated by a striker system like we were talking about a minute ago. And the striker systems can be made many different ways. There are a number of different solutions, all super cheap, super easy to build, all of it's totally cast away. Example, you want to do what it would be, harassing fire on an objective. You create a small spigot launching, calliope launcher, utilizing whatever type of HE you want to develop for your primary charge. And with a little bit of a fusible timing system, it could even be simply black powder fuse. But you could activate it electronically and... You could launch 6, 10, 14 off of one of these spigot launchers, which are just nothing but... fancy way of saying a half inch or three quarter inch pipe with a mortar round that's basically seated onto it like a rifle grenade round. The advantage of this is it can be left in place, it can be set up with a timer or electronically activated and it creates an indirect fire harassment barrage. Now, counter battery radar is immediately going to identify that, so you want a quick launch, fast launch on whatever you're doing, but what's going to happen is your counter battery operations at a base or facility or whatever are going to return fire. The advantage? You're returning fire on irrelevant slash cast away equipment. It's especially desirable if you're going to be engaging with multiple launchers or multiple harassment attacks designed to expend fire mission time Meanwhile your more sophisticated weapons They start their delivery There's all kinds of really really simple tricks and remember the important thing is not to be there when things launch Always remember that the bad guys already do this all over the place all over the planet You need to remember how they operate remember back at them in spades when the time comes so again rifle cases shell casings of any kind. None of that gets thrown away. If it's category C, okay, in other words, beat up, squished, whatever, it goes over into another container and gets dumped off to the side. And yes, you separate it by pistol, by rifle, by shotgun, down the road when you need to improvise, that's what you improvise with. You don't use the rifle and pistol cases or shotgun shells that can be used to actually keep your weapons running. You try to use castaways. Always remember, prioritize your industrial base no matter how big or how small. Most important. Anyway, ideas, not just whining about the problems. They don't like us. Well, of course, the idiot stick, a petal sniffer meat puppet that's got Obama's tentacle up his bum hole and moving his mouth. Well, today he said it, tomorrow he didn't say it. The next day he says it again, only as even more vicious and vindictive. The usual crazy town, repeat, not repeat, deny, and then brag. It's Twilight Zone Obama. Okay, Obama's the problem, Obama's the problem, Obama's the problem. But they don't like you. They don't like themselves, so it's like it's always comical in a way when you listen to some of the dribble that spews from their face. But fact is, we need to be prepared for what they have planned. So again, reloading is a high priority. Bullet production can be done in a number of different ways. All metals need to be saved. Now, real quick, somebody goes, well, we may not have lead. First of all, I will point something out. There is so much lead to be mined. across this country. I know of 100 different impact areas where I can randomly go and a couple of them are actually old government sites. In the Ann Arbor area of Washtenaw County, there were at least a dozen different test sites and training sites for M250 caliber and Browning 1919 air-cooled machine gun automatic fire. Not a small amount, but we're talking a vast quantity because these were the test sites for new production guns coming out of specific factories. The guns would be put into a test rack. The impact area was so many hundred yards down range and the racks were there every day. The guns were assembled. They'd be put into station and they had to have a cyclic test done with live fire. Now, the one factory was built around 1941, actually 39, 40, 41, and built Browning Machine guns for the duration of World War II to a year after the war ended. Every day, so many hundreds of Browning Machine guns were put in those racks, fired so many hundreds of rounds per gun for test, including what they call, actually it's an overpressure round, they had to fire five of those, per gun, actually. Those bullets all went down race in the exact same spot, year after year, well, day after hour, after week, after month, after year after year after year. They're all still sitting there and we know right where they are. Tonnage in lead and copper jacket, tonnage. We've already pulled five gallon pails out of the place. And because they've been sitting there, they have that nice lead oxide coating on the outside to keep them from corroding completely into dust. That's right, they're already sealed. Well, and the thing too is also M2 50 caliber, guys, how big is a 50 caliber projectile times how many tens of thousands? Tens and tens and tens and tens of thousands. But there's more than one site like this. I didn't know until my dad pointed out to me where another one was years ago. He goes, yeah, you know, this whole rage Ridge right here. It was, it's nothing but lead. I mean, everybody during World War II, the militia from the factories came out to certain sites and with those 30, 40 Craig's that they were issued later on, they did get some spring fields and their Gatling guns, which they were using 30 out six Gatling guns. They fired virtually millions of rounds. Familiarization with all the weapons, mandatory six month live fire, and even though they were short ammo, which is rather interesting. But the fact is that these sites are still out there, plus all the civilian locations. How many places do you know where people have gotten together out in the boondocks and actually been firing into an impact area for maybe as long as you've been alive? And maybe they stopped a few years back because the encroachment of the city slicker coming out into the countryside. But fact is, you can go to a hundred different locations and mine lead at no cost and end up with as good a quality product as anything that would be produced today. However, lead's not the only way to make bullets. But I can lead... The superiority to that is it's also got the animony in the pen in it. Yep, it's already mixed and by the way on that note when you are sorting bullets, thank you reinforce this What we always do is we take the pistol bullets and separate them with the pistol bullets we take the rifle bullets military especially and Separate those and keep them in another container another series of containers and when we smelt them We're going to smelt them separately. Why? Well, because there are different lots and mixes of the tin and antimony which go in with the lead for military spec ammunition. Well, it's not real important. Yes, it is. As a matter of fact, if you would like to produce a more accurate round, then you try to maintain consistent weights, measures, and scale and dimension. So understand that wherever you can make a batch, this is what government does. This is why you hear about, you know, you look at a box of ammo you just bought, it's lot number so and so. Well, why don't they put a lot number on that, guys? Why do you need to put a lot number on a half a million rounds of ammunition you're going to build? Well, so if something happens you got an idea what lots maybe to recall but you're again, this is also Consistency if something all of a sudden is haywire this happened years ago with Winchester building a bunch of 22 Ammunition for the Department of Defense and I was a competition shooter We had a whole bunch of flinch Chester that came to the national matches It was supposed to be government spec match grade We had a hundred percent alibi with the first volley of shooters in 22. Why? Because somebody at the factory had mucked something up and every one of those rounds either was oversized or failed to cap. So we had, everybody had to scramble because this was, this was part of the national competition. You know, we're in the dog and pony show traveling around the country. You know, we're out. In fact, we were out at Fort Ord. Okay. So everybody had to leave the range. They knew that the ammunition was faulty. They actually had the lots. Then they were scouring the arsenal to see if they could find any other .22 ammo that was not of that lot. Meanwhile, we went out to all the gun shops locally for 20 miles in every direction and bought every box of Eli and Winchester and Remington .22 ammo we could find because otherwise we had nothing to shoot for the competition. But once they knew what to look for then yep by the time everybody got back on the range Well, they did scrounge up a few several thousand rounds of other 22. It was a Winchester batch It was an earlier batch had been sitting in the warehouse probably over in the left-hand corner So we had a little bit to supplement what we had already what we purchased in between the two We had enough to actually get the job done however, there are a number of other reasons for that lot control because It allows you to, for instance, know that you have a certain number of batches that were built to a certain spec and the point of impact will be at this point. Remember that the military, in both experiments and also has cyclically changed the bullet weights or the metal composition. There are a number of things that can be done which do change point of impact. And this is something that they'll, you know, they will identify depending upon, you know, where you are in a conflict or a war or whatever. So the big thing here again is to try and maintain. The greater the consistency. You have a big bunch of that 30 caliber, those 30 caliber bullets, you smelt them all together. You pull your slag and scrap off and you get your dirt, you know, pulled out of the mix. And what you've got for that batch is a relatively consistent tin, antimony, and lead spec projectile. Now you're not doing jacketed rounds, you're casting, you know, a lead bullet of some kind. With the rifle, we would stick to casting rifle bullets. With the pistol, we'll stick to casting pistol bullets. Can we make jacketed rounds? Yes. As a matter of fact, if I was casting rifle, I would use 22 long rifle cases, as we've pointed out many times. You can use a standard bullet swage. and make a 55 grain spitzer jacket out of a 22 caliber rimfire spent case. Oh, so even those are worth something, aren't they? Yes, they are. And as a matter of fact, you can either use basically what is solder lead, a solder lead stick and insert and cut what you need or you can use the hot cast method with the bullet lead that we're talking about, in this case rifle, so that it matches more closely the spec that would be normally found in a military grade ball round. It's exactly where it came from. However, you're going to be using a brass jacket, you're going to have a little variant in uniformity of spin because remember you're going to be thrusting a 22 caliber case that has slight variant in thickness because of the rimfire when you shove it into that mold. and you press down the swage, what's going to happen is it's going to press everything to proper dimension, but you will get a little variance. So it's more than accurate enough for ball or military spec. But it will have variance with regard to round to round point of impact consistency, but it's still service acceptable. The only other thing you have to worry about when you're using 22 rimfire cases is that you do also have to trim the end of the bullet, and that's what you can use, again, a case trimmer for. There's a couple other tricks. The techniques have already been perfected. And so there's no reason for your 50 for your standard 556 not to be eating 55 grain brass jacket, lead core ball ammunition, but it will be a spitzer, not a Sierra boat tail. All of this from junk. Everybody else got rid of it. You were smart enough to pick it up. You're going to keep shooting when other people can't figure out what went wrong. Okay, I don't know why I ran out. I kept pulling the trigger and it finally just went, no tiki, no washi. Well, we're gonna make sure that doesn't happen. Again, be creative, but the most important thing is right now bulk. Collect the junk, sort it in a minimal, in a words, minimize to maximize. I'm not telling you to be a rocket scientist here. I'm telling you right now that if we have the raw materials times however many millions of you there are, and there's tens and tens and tens of millions of you, But if everybody did this, there ain't no way in hell we're gonna run out of anything. But we have to be religious. We have to find the religiosity of the cartridge box. And we need to be focusing on the religiosity of the cartridge box. And we need to get this done now. Everybody needs to be on the same page. We're going to war. It's not an if. It's just a when stupid down the road there thinks that they can get away with it. And when those idiots dicks in the regime try, we've got to put them down hard. Go ahead, Goh, jump in there. Just an update on those daily humanitarian rations. I took a closer look. They are made by SIPACO. They do have the military nomenclature on the side, but looks like the boxes do have the ones that some people picked up a couple years ago for a good price. They do have the bands around them. But they're not the MRE-style stiff cardboard. Anyway, it's not $2 off. If you buy four cases and get free shipping at $49, call it $50, it's $49.55 or something. $50 free shipping for the 10 pouches with two entrees in each. If you get four or more. They dropped down to $44.50. So they knocked $4.95 off, you know, $5 off a case with free shipping is pretty darn good. But I did get the name of the seller on eBay is Ozark Outdoors. Ozark Outdoors. And the doors is D-O-R. D-O-O-R. Z. It's Z, not F. the Ozark outdoors and it's all self-explanatory there. Over. Excellent. Very good. Well, again, right now, if you're looking for MREs, and these are double main core slash double entree, what they've done is reinforced them. There's a couple of different ways, remember, that they were doing that. I believe Craig was talking about this a couple of years ago, that one of the big things was that they went with PopTarts. to boost the calories and bring the calorie count up. So you're ending up with more of the, you know, hollow sugars. If they may have switched that out, which is why you're getting two of the main entries per meal pouch, you know, per meal bag, which would work out better. Again, there's a lot of stuff out there. Because we're calling it a daily humanitarian ration? I think it's supposed to be one pouch is good for you for a day. That's why they would put two in there. You know, lunch and dinner. Right. Yeah, that's more in line with what the Europeans do just with their a lot of their regular field rations is we're not going to give you a meal every meal every six hours. Instead, here's your pouch. You figure out how much you're going to eat. If you're smart, you'll spread it out. If you don't. Oh, well, I ain't giving you a second one. You know what I mean guys think about it. It's your job to manage it Also again typically in a more in the battlefields that we're seeing right now. You are pretty well on your own so yeah, probably would be a good idea to be you know muscling up on the rations that way simply because you probably can't get them to the troops and Again, we always pack up extra anyway when we used to be in the field I mean every pocket had food in it ever, you know something in it One way or another every all the popcorn pockets in your pants were stuffed full You made sure that your blouse was you know, those pockets were used you made sure that your field jacket was used None of those pockets set empty. They had something, you know, may not made it all be food But every pocket was used if you're smart After all my argument was it's like well, they built them for a reason Of course when you're in Garrison the idiot sticks always will you got stuff in your pockets? Yeah, it's a field jacket. Those are pockets. That's what it's for Duh, but seriously, I mean guys you you can't have pocket or stuff in your popcorn pockets in your pants Well, why not? Well, it doesn't look right. I don't think it looks right to me What's your point? You're kind of stupid here. I'm not trying to. I mean, the whole idea was it was the garrison thing. It's all they look better when there's nothing in your pockets. But then they serve no purpose. Give me another uniform. Looks like survival. Yeah, exactly. The difference between the people you want to listen to versus those people you don't listen to. But on the other hand my enemy I want them to listen to those people. Oh, yeah, the purple-haired army Yeah, those pockets are stupid. You don't need to carry that government will be there for you when the time comes hold on I Hope they keep thinking that way Anyway, proper planning prevents piss poor performance and assume the worst and we won't be disappointed. The system never gets to where it's supposed to be and in our case, well, guys, we don't have the big government sugar daddy that the other side is feeding off from, which includes your wallet, by the way. So, a couple of things here real quick. And as it stands, again, somebody's asking here about reloading. When we get reloading stuff, Actually, everybody, well, Palmetto State Armory does reloading tech. Natchez shooting supply is really good for that. Atlantic. Most of the companies have some reloading capability. I believe even the center fire is still offering some lead presses and may have some RCBS stuff laid on the shelf. You have to go check each one of these companies out. Now, Natchez shooting supply speaks for itself. So you should be able to figure, yeah, they probably got what you need. But everybody has some. In fact, even gunpartscorp.com does have some reloading hardware in stocks. You want to go through their odds and ends. Their search engine is not great for the page, so it's more that you really just want to... peruse the the page, you know, the machine a page at a time, go through each of the sections and see what's there. I found a lot of unique stuff including some flash hiders I didn't expect to see because when you search for them they didn't pop up but when I went page by page the very thing I was looking for but also some I didn't expect to find were there and we needed some flash hiders for M60, you know, machine gun barrels, okay, and a lot of them. And behold, we found not the one I was expecting, but I did find one that was one of the in-between flash hiders, which I think is rather fascinating that they had what they had. So again, gunpartscorp.com, Natchez shooting supply, Atlantic. Also, strangely enough, you will find a few of the places, well, JG Sales. Forgive me, I should mention them because they've been around forever. JGSales.com. Another thing here real quick is also with regard to heading into the winter is don't forget guys, cold weather, moisture, it's going to continue to be a problem. We have had a very wet August. So for training operations, we have more bugaboos. Normally we lose the bugaboos to a degree in August because it's just so dry. Now as soon as we get moisture, oh there's this last bloom of mosquitoes and everything else. Well, we didn't have a bloom, it just stayed with us non-stop. But moisture is going to continue to build up and progressives are going to get the frozen cold stuff from above. I will remind you again, gun covers and other items like that need to be thought out in advance. You can make little ghillie covers on top of everything else, which are pretty cool. utilizing canvas or you can use nylon. I prefer the canvas simply because it's quieter, doesn't do so much scratchy noise or crinkle noise, but doesn't make any difference either way. Covering the optics and the actions and also camouflaging the system and the process is a good idea. You can do a little mini ghillie arrangement if you want. You can home build the stuff or you can buy a commercial. I've been finding both for nothing for free. So I just keep building up bags full of stuff to use when the time comes. And also for patching up the ghillie suits we have built. The big thing here again is start thinking in advance. It's obvious that if They feel the roads and the rhetoric isn't changing. The stupid is continuing to get worse. Obama is chomping at the bit to become dictator. Obama is chomping at the bit to become dictator. Obama is chomping at the bit. No, it's not the bite. That idiot stick, you know, either the fake, the lookalike, the CG character, the ticky pick, whatever we want to call it. Here's the bottom line. That fool doesn't have a clue, nor does it really care. because the tentacle of Obama is up that meat puppets bung hole. Obama is the problem. Obama is the problem. Obama is the problem. Now, we all got that in our sights, and everybody will have a much better time of dealing with the issues at hand. Okay? A couple things here real quick. Tactifying trucks. It's Weapons Wednesday. Tactifying trucks. At least two tires, spare tires on rims per vehicle at all times. If you don't have spare rims, start watching for wrecks, etc. You know how to do that. The other thing is, again, better a little fleet of used trucks than one $60,000 brand new truck that they can hit a switch and it shuts down the electrical. And you're done. That's it. Plus either A, you're into debt for it, which really won't make any difference if we go to war. Debt means nothing, then it's finished, it's gone. These banks are screwed. We go to a conflict in South American soil, banks are going to be one of the things people will be hunting. So that in and of itself will eradicate that problem. But it's the amount of digits that you had to use to get that new truck that aren't worth that kind, they're not worth what you're spending. You're better off with five fleet trucks that are utility grade the farther south you are the less rust there is Five trucks five trailers Congratulations, you've got everything you need to move a basically a platoon You with other support items attached other equipment We have a light mech element that's able to go wherever it needs to go and can tactically disperse as needed One big $60,000 truck. Well once it gets the hit it's finished But what does a rat pack care if one rat fails? If one rat goes down. See how that works? That's why a rat pack of equipment is a better choice. And again, one way or another, something's going to get down the road. That's how it works. The other thing is try to do commonality of parts and manufacturers, if at all possible. I recommend the Chevy's for a number of different reasons, but with Ford having some of the engine problems that it has right now just with spark plugs, which is unheard of, but my God, I'll tell you, we know this. I've always had, I've had Fords, Chrysler's, and Chevy's at one point or another, and I've bought, God knows how many from the government back when we could buy things cheap. But right now, you figure it out yourself. I'm not even going to try to micro-engineer that because that's not relevant. The most important thing is that whatever you commit to, you need the tools to be able to maintain. You have certain problems with the vehicles. Forge, you've got to have a couple of the different spark plug scallop tools to get the stinking spark plug out of the block. That's insane, but you shouldn't even have to say that. But the fact of the matter is that's the rule with Ford, okay, and it shouldn't be that way. However, there's a lot of good stuff out there that's reasonably priced. A couple thousand dollars a unit times five is better than 20,000 or 30,000 initially down and then still having to spend another 20,000 to pay off the truck. No, that's not working for you. Remember also it's the idea that we can afford to put trailers together. Again, also tactical dump gear. Don't forget sapper slash engineering tools. That's for instance, shovels, picks, crowbar, sledgehammer, drive chains, extraction chains, et cetera. A lot of the stuff you can find secondhand. And I recommend that that be the direction that you go. simply because, again, you're not gonna cry when the time comes, you have to, you know, leave one behind. Oh my god, my $600,000 pickup truck? Oh, my $2,000 pickup truck. Well, it's too bad. Let's pull it off the side of the road, maybe we can come back and get it. Oh, wait a minute. Oh, I guess not. See how that works? Oh, wow. But I'm not gonna cry. And I'm not necessarily gonna sacrifice over it either, if you know what I mean. That's the other important thing. Am I willing to and able to abandon in place? Okay, prioritize on other technologies and those you don't abandon so much for obvious reasons. But in this case, again, tactical transports. If you're going to do a truck, make sure you got research, everything ready to go and make sure you get a trailer to match up. One of the things about the trailers, everybody has asked, well, what do we need a trailer for every truck for? It's real easy. Transport material to the forward areas. or whatever area of operation, I'm not going to worry about whether or not it's my trailer when the time comes. Load the trailer up, move it forward, drop it off, hook the empty trailer back up, whatever discards are in it or casualties, go back to the rear or to wherever area of, wherever the area of activity is for medical support. And we constantly, constantly can rotate or move as needed whatever we have at no significant loss to anyone. No, no significant cost to anyone. No, I've been pretty lucky here last couple of, you know, this last year. I got one location where I keep finding another trailer in the backyard. Okay. Keep moving stuff around. I got another trailer sitting back there. I can put some wheels on. Didn't cost me anything. Gonna have to fix a few things on it. Make a box for it. I've got everything for that. But it's the idea that it was no cost. Okay, I've got the rims, I've got all the basics that I need, I've just got to make the effort to get it up to where I can finish doing what needs to be done. We've got another transport trailer. I think it's just going to get parked somewhere else. Another thing here real quick is fuel, and with everything that they're talking about with the combination, we've got the rail strike window, which is around the 16th of September. that they're yapping about right now. Also, again, trucker strike, another thing that they're making noise about. If they hit simultaneously, you're looking at pretty much the lion's share of the system not moving anything. Now, most important, as I said before, you got to get it from the ships or whatever production facility to a hub. And that's what the rails do. The rails get the big bulk junk moved most efficiently. And I don't care if it's all these lows, Walmart, take your pick. They're all in the same boat if this hits simultaneously which it's supposed to all over the country. So we really, really, really can't afford to get hit with that. For them to be caught flat-footed. Well, we're not going to be. So make sure you square your check away. Yep, I'm going to remind you one more time. Everybody else can joke about it. Get more toilet paper. So keep adding to your toilet paper inventory. Well, I've got toilet paper. I think I've still got some left over from the last wave. I'm sure I do. But I've also got it barreled up and stuck in other places. Paper products, hand sanitizers. All kinds of fun stuff. Of course, hand sanitizers you get for free just about now with the way things have been going, as you and I both know, as we all know. Again, take advantage of the material like that that's out there. Again, stack it and rack it. Make sure that you itemize it. When I do the storage systems, I have a label on the outside of the barrel or the bucket. I also have a laden inventory. Everything is bagged on the inside with larger 55 gallon industrial plastic bags. That's sealed, but just inside that, when you open up that bag, which has everything else in it, is a list, an inventory of what's in that particular cargo barrel. Same is true with the kitty litter buckets, where you use the kitty litter buckets for utility tactical items or utility communications items. Just take a simple piece of 8.5 x 11 paper and write down, print what's in there and quantity. That way when somebody looks at it, nope, that's not the one we're looking for. Now ideally you also want to make sure it's marked obviously on the outside for its basic purpose. Logistics, the key to victory. Save time. Now remember, The bad guys aren't stupid on this. Remember that the Bay of Pigs, the CIA betrayed the Cubans left, right, up and down. One of the things that happened with the Bay of Pigs is when they landed, they had 30 caliber carbine, they had Browning machine guns, they had BARs, they had M1 Garants. Well, when the ammunition was sent forward, it turns out that the ammo cans that were supposed to be 30 carbine were 30-06. And the ammunition that was supposed to be 30-06 was all labeled 30 carbine. And so all of the ammunition was routed to the wrong place on the battlefield, and it created a fatigue situation. It delayed the ability to continue to keep up the contact and the fight. and it gave the Cuban communists the ability to reorganize, attack where they needed to, and insufficient force being where it needed to be to stop the counter offensive. I think these ideas, this is why again, you wanna make sure you know what you've got and you know, again, come up with a system for storage, but a system for identification, and you still want to verify. Don't just assume this is where you have to have supply personnel who actually got have you know some gray matter between your ears Because it's a life-and-death scenario and again, there's plenty of opportunity Where the skanks have betrayed one way or another you will have infiltrators you're gonna have