his clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed he took off his three cornered hat and speaking low to me he said we fought a revolution to secure our liberty we wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny for future generations this legacy we gave in this the land of the free and home of the brave the freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep 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 vie 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 and 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 number 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? 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, keep the torch of freedom burning bright. As I awoke, he'd 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 in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep What would be your answer if he called out from the grave? Look down Look down amongst the plants look amongst the foliage and you will see something looking back at you and We are hunting you. Afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the afternoon intelligence report. I'm our kirky. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. Southwest, east, north, west. Ladies and gentlemen, you are listening to us on... www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com LibertyTreeRadio.org and we are on satellite. Hi to all of our friends out there with the merchant marine, porting facilities, anchorages in inland. We're also on a myriad of other communications technologies both inside and outside these United States. And it is Tuesday already. Well, it's been kind of it's been a bright Tuesday. A little bit of sun poking out. Snow on the ground enough to make it winter. Good for snowmobiling. Just enough to pack things down. That's it. So if you got a sled, you should be out there. As soon as you get off work, just take an hour and free wheel and have some fun. Anyway, Communications Tuesday. It is the 31st of January. It is the 15th year of open obvious and truly in your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K 2023 old earth calendar 2023 battle for the Republic the dance of swords but the dance continue as we bungal in the jungle and Yeah, run through the jungle. That jungle word is popular. Of course, it was kind of a Vietnam era. That's why. And so jungles. But we don't have jungles here. We have temperate forests and woods. And the colors are so beautiful even in the winter. I mean, most people just don't think about it sometimes. But if you look at the variety of colors we have in a Michigan forest and a Michigan rolling countryside, We have both pine and hardwood. We have softwood and scrub and a whole lot of other neat organic plants here that are to Michigan and Michigan alone in some cases that are really kind of cool. Fruit bearing, etc. I want to talk about the ones that we grow in the orchards. I'm talking about stuff that's in the countryside. It's amazing how well you can actually eat if you know what you're looking at. in a Michigan woods and everything that you can imagine is out there that's necessary to keep you alive. But how many people have bothered to really put it between the brain pan and keep it where it needs to be so when you get out there you could stay alive. One of the big things is we are getting a little cooler. We're headed below freezing. Actually, I think we're about 22, 28 degrees. I think we're a little warmer with the sun today, but it is classic Michigan winter right now. And the farther north you go, the more Michigan winter it is. So if you want to come and enjoy the winter wonderland, we got all kinds of things going on. The big thing here is that with the last week's training exercises, the good thing, no casualties or let's just say environmental casualties because of lack of clothing and equipment. I think we've driven the point home and a lot of people that listen are participating as either trainers or they're members of the different militias. Everybody passes it down. We're in Michigan, we expect to live out the weather. I've got my 1964 But Megan the fourth, oh let's see, January, February, March, April, April, they're made April, 1964 by Mickey Mouse Boots, right, they're old. They're finally coming apart a little bit, which is inevitable with Mickey Mouse Boots where the seams are, but the cool thing is with all the new polymerd pieces we have, fixing even an old pair of Mickey Mouse Boots is much better than it used to be. Traditionally, he just broke out the duct tape and wrapped them. That was it. Used them until the duct tape wore off and carefully got rid of the old or even just wrapped up another. Because a lot of guys really wanted these Mickey Mouse boots if you're into Michigan construction because used to be, not anymore, everybody's gone limp, that limp biscuit. Everybody's cold weather, weenie-fied now. But it used to be the construction would work through a whole season nonstop year round, 12 months out of the year, didn't make any difference. Of course, we had more money than two, especially 60s and 70s. But it's rather fascinating. Again, the technology works. If you were looking for Mickey Mouse boots, because I mentioned this and I had a couple of, actually I had a 40 of where can I find some I've been looking. Well, if you just make a little bit of an effort, you can go to a number of different locations. Now, I don't know what the quantity for Mickey Mouse boots is over at Coleman's, but I do know that they've had them, and they do have them in sizes. They don't have to be white. The valve boots are designed for equalization of pressure in aircraft. Remember, our troops are supposed to, you know, jump onto a plane. And if they know they're going into a cold weather environment, they may be shipped to another part of the planet. They'll issue them if you're lucky and the military has any clue of how to manage itself half the time they go. And most of the time they betray the troops and they get screwed. But on occasion, they actually issue off the right gear. On occasion, very rare. And so you get on board the plane with the mouse boots, well guess what? You're going to go to altitude. So you open up the valves, they get to where you're going, as you land, everybody gives you orders, close the valves, equalize the pressure, you're all done. You don't look like Mickey Mouse sitting there by times 200 men or 300 men in a plane. If you're using one of the big transports and not a commercial transport, then it's still, eh, it's just to be safe. If you're gonna wear the mouse boots in, if you're in combat deployment mode like out of the ass, into the plane, you're going right into the field, you're gonna be properly kitted top to bottom. In theory, but I don't count on that too much with the poof to eyes, illegitimate and incompetent military that we have across the board right now. What they got left are the ones who were more than willing to just go ahead and get the murder death kill shot Which means that most of those people even if they were competent aren't gonna be with us much longer So again, we need to be prepared to understand how to make things work Well, Coleman's has got both the valve boots and the the regular infantry boot They also had but I don't know if they have They may still, they may have some of the French copies of the Mickey Mouse boot. They're a good boot. We've had hundreds, if not thousands of them. Many of you guys are listening and pick them up from me. You can attest to that. They wear well. They're newer in some cases because the French are still making the mouse boot. We are too, but only very limited quantities and I don't know where they're doing it anymore. But either case, they work and they're an excellent solution. They're tough. They're resilient. You get wet even if you immerse your feet in Mickey Mouse boots. If you got water in your boot, you keep moving, you move your toes, you move your feet, and the body heat will be retained. The water will be warmed up inside there with everything else. Now, if you're really soaked, you want to try to get into cover and drain the boot. You know, pull the boot off, dump the boot, put it right back on. Well, they're about changing socks. You may not have time to do that, but if you just evacuate the water, get your foot back in there. Don't worry those wool socks you're wearing. You should be wearing some kind of wool if you can. We'll push out the moisture away from your body and it will wick it and in the process you get warm fast. Okay, but you'll stay functional. So in extreme cold weather, we may drop down into the zero range. I think it's very likely in the next year or two here, if not sometime this next month. So expect that. And the Mickey Mouse boots can handle that and a whole lot more. Now, Sportsman's Guide also has them and they are definitely worthwhile. So you definitely, again, go through and peruse and see what they have in the deal section. They had some that were in the deal section over at Sportsman's Guide dot com. And that means as low as I think about $24 a pair, which you can't beat. Now, here's the thing. Even if they're just in the medium and smaller sizes, You got any kids that are growing up for, you can't buy a pair of any kind of boots for $20. Hell, you can't buy tennis shoes for hardly $20 anymore. So the idea here is you're getting a pair of decent boots. If you got a candlestick bunch of munchkins, like we had four children pretty close together every couple of years. Basically what it comes down to is when wild grows, if the other one grows into it. And Mickey Mouse boots don't fall down. They don't break up. So just a heads up on that one. They work and they keep working. So passing them down, kids aren't going to put that much use into them, but you are going to save somebody's toes. Now also for you ladies out there, I know that they're a little heavier, but Mickey Mouse boots are the optimal cold weather. If I got to stand outside, if I got to get on a snowmobile, if I got to sit on the tractor, Mickey Mouse boots are the perfect solution for vehicle operators. But anybody's got to be out there in the snow. Women have tends to have poorer circulation than men. Different parts of the body are prioritized and because of that, feet and hands, we got to protect on the women. So this is a good choice. And the technology is off the shelf and readily available. So make sure we take advantage of it. Okay. The only other thing that's just about as useful for you girls, if you got circulation issues are the Canadian or American mucklucks and there are a couple of the Chinese cold weather Arctic weather items that came in. Hell, they're almost knee-high boots, but these are an excellent solution for extended service or use in the field. We're not coming back in after eight hours. If you're having to evacuate or move through and move out of an area, exfiltrate out. cold weather equipment for long-term use in the field is a high priority and you Probably if you're in the city, you better be ready to DD of the AO Just a heads up on that one. So Mickey Mouse boots wherever you find them You might find them a number of other locations look to see who's got the best price but also make sure you have the right size They do not come in half sizes If you are a seven and a half you go to an eight if you're a nine and a half you go to a ten If you're a, if you got to kick two cows and he has to make a pair of boots like me, you're wearing a 13 or a 14. In this case, when Mickey Mouse boots, I'll give you an example. Right now, I found that 14s fit me best with the way they're cutting boots right now. I don't know that those are true sizes, but actually it's the military. However, in a 12 wide, which is what I'm wearing right now, they are perfectly comfortable. They are absolutely exactly what I need. And they don't get compressed, even when your feet swell as you stand more, you're going to swell no matter what. Can't help that. Just the nature of gravity sucks as much as anything. So understand that you do have the boots in narrow, regular, wide, and yes, they do make them in extra wide. So if you got a little bit of a swimmer's foot, you know, if we go, oh, it's a duck foot. No, that's a swimmer's foot, dude. I'd like to have you as a courier. Anything water, water obstacles, you should be able to get right across. Quack, quack, quack. But anyway, whatever size you need, they've made them. Military has every size person you imagine. By the way, the narrows, because people, what do they need narrow for? All your kids are smaller. I just mentioned small sizes. So if you see a three, a four, a five, or a six, and it's a narrow, it'll probably fit pretty much any of your children. And in many cases, because the small, weird sizes, and that's what some people consider them, are cheaper, you're talking about, probably even getting those boots for as little as $12 or $14 a pair. This means you got something your children can't lose their toes with, if your frostbite or freeze, and they're durable. And if you have the oldest into the first pair, or at least let's put it this way, as they get bigger, they're gonna be going to adult sizes. These boots will pass down through, so you don't have to repurchase. And yes, you can find right all the way down to size one in Mickey Mouse boots. A little harder today than it used to be, but yes, they even have to build down to size one adult. So trust me, you can find the stuff laying around. Let's see, Allegheny Surplus may also have some Mickey Mouse boots, but they seem to run out pretty quick for whatever reason. They probably don't prioritize on probably trying to purchase them. They do a lot of government auction. But they may have some so Allegheny Surplus is another one to go to I know Swiss Surplus off the West Coast does have I don't know what sizes these companies have so you have to shop around to see what's still in inventory and Confirm accordingly that would make you mouse boots. They will see this when you fit them. Those are true sizes So if you go to a, maybe you've got a surplus shop nearby and they got a great deal on used Mickey Mouse boots, okay, if that's where you go, that's where you go. But you know what's cool about that is you actually can test. So you can experiment. So that'd be a good idea. Use it as a showroom for modeling the size you need for each of your individuals also. Keep that in mind. Anyway, next, a couple other things. You know, you need to reinforce. can't openers can openers can openers can openers. I'm not talking about the new Chinese port ones. So I pick those up too. But yard sales resale shops, especially Salvation Army shops and you know, church stores where they get lots and lots of stuff. Go in there and watch for the past say American made like I got my hand here. American made crank can can openers. Okay. Now, One of the things about these is they are American made and people overseas can't find them anymore because they're hardly any American. None of the companies are businesses that made these typically. In this case, let me point out this one here is, this one is Vaughan's Cano, Vaughan's Cano per company, I don't know. And the other one that I'm looking at here is Quick and easy. Okay, now quick and easy makes a couple of different types of can openers. Why am I saying we are mentioning this? What difference am I going to make? Can opener? Any can opener will do this. This is why I'm also buying the Chycom ones. But guys, if you're going to put caches of stuff all over the place and you have a lot of stuff and I have a lot of stuff dispersed all over the place. You're gonna need more can openers, you need more knives, you need more, you know, all of the implements you're gonna be dispersing. You hand stuff out to people, you're not probably getting it back. Or on the other hand, if they're in your service, if they're operating with your unit, then these are issued out or these are in the area of activity where they may be quartered. And also remember, blast shelters, bomb shelters, auxiliary sites, rally points that are permanent. In other words, fixed it on hand. Ranger recon points or Ranger Cash points which are another classic. Well guess what these little can openers and stuff like this you have extras They all get given a light coat of oil they get put in a plastic bag and Very light in other words just not to make sure there's you know prevents oxidation Don't have to grease them up or having dripping oil But put them in a ziplock bag put them in the cash with everything else in between a combination and the other tools If a person is one of your unit members and they have to use a transient site like a Ranger cache, you replenish what you use, like water storage that's on site, et cetera, from whatever's nearby. Once you've used it, then you refill, replenish, but you have all the tools you need and there is even a stock of food available. But you don't want... I'm going to remind you about packaging. What we basically know for sure is the Ziploc cans are not good for long, long-term storage. And that's not an accident. The way that they're sealed and preperforated, that's the weak point in those types of storage cans. The interesting thing is the rest of the can is actually stronger than most that have been made for a very long time because most of the Ziploc cans are a cup can. They're struck as one piece, kuchunk, They make the horn at the one end, the open end. The lid goes on, it gets rolled into place and sealed, and the rest is history. You come up, pull the tab, pull the beer can type tab, and it takes the whole lid off. Problem is that serration point is the weak point. So I recommend, although you may not be able to pick and choose, we got a bunch of free food yesterday, fill up a truck. And just now finally finished with some putting some of it to where it needs to be today. But if I was taking from the inventory and putting another cash together, I will prioritize the cans that have the permanent sealed lid that does require a can opener. Why? It's more durable. Okay, for long longer longer term storage. And we even talked about this when it comes to consumption. If I have, if let's say right now the switch hit. Immediately, management of your food reserve starts out with eating your perishables first, stuff that's in your fridge, you don't need anything else. We get nice cold weather, so your freezer stock isn't as big a trouble, and there's a number of ways you could preserve it and keep it safe for most rest of the winter. But you would prioritize eating from that before you eat canned goods, before you do not eat MREs, you don't eat canned goods or minimize use. immediately you start managing and also rationing your food. Well, if you do have to open cans and you're in station, then those rip top cans are going to be your priority in whatever item you use, of what little you use in your canned goods because they have the shortest shelf life because of environmental condition and survivability. Okay, we've already seen those compromised sooner than conventional cans that have been on the shelf for 12, 15, even 20 years. Now, it doesn't mean there aren't zip cans like that that don't work. I'll give you the best example, ham tins, exceptionally durable for storage. The canned ham tins, the small ones. Another one is the corn beef. Corn beef is exceptionally well. Those cans are exceptionally well put together. Now, whether or not they're probably degrading now, I would say they are because of the Chinese getting involved and the quality of the product is lowering. It's inevitable that's gonna happen. The communist Chinese and the Jewish mafia are taking over South America the rest of the way. And that means that the quality is gonna go down into the toilet, just the way it is. But for the time that we've had them, they have been a superior product. Now we're losing that, just like everything else, you're gonna have to, you know, roll up your sleeves and do for yourself and make your own. Build better. Build truly better. And not build back better. Just build. Because we're not building back for the other side. That ain't gonna happen. Anyway, can openers, this particular one is, we're not, any kind of you can find. Long, gripping handle type. This is one with the standard little flag lever. Has a regular wheel crank, a butterfly crank. It's only about two and a half, three inches long when it's folded up. Of course, the butterfly doesn't, so you got a little bit of a bulge there because that little turning piece with the drive knuckle on it, it's gonna stay right where it is. But these are very convenient for what they are and they're priceless down the road. Now I will point out the other one that I have here, in fact I'll hear, let's do this. The one is the wheel type, the other one is a church key. Now, can you open up a can with a church key? Well, hell yes you can. Just gonna be doing a lot more often like clicky, clicky, clicky. You know what church key is? It's for opening up the old beer cans. But it's also can be used for opening up, for instance, condensed milk. For that matter, you can open up any can to the point where you can get the product. You just have to stipple it, then go about another half inch over, do it again, another half inch, do it again. So the little church keys that are out there, which are just one piece of steel, Made in America, stamped steel, American steel, highest quality steel. Typically they're chromed, and a lot of times, I even grab the ones that are rusted. I don't care if they got a little rust on them. Those go off the wheel in the shop, and then they get painted. Okay, but one way or another they all get used or gonna get used down the road. You're gonna be issued anything I have you never know what you're gonna get. Go ahead color. If you get caught naked and you only have a can of food, turn it upside down and grind the heck out of it back and forth on the concrete till you wear through the seam and they could pry it off. Yeah, the rest of the... The little bit of tuna fish because all the liquid leaks happen. The cats will be coming. Yeah, meow. Well, you know, that is true. Now remember that what the lids, the traditional lids, in fact, even the pole type lids are basically there are two, the can itself is built. In other words, it's flared at the top. The lids are actually the same way, but we in reverse order, although they've got a flatter piece of stock involved. When they curl and seal the can, it bonds the two, it rolls them together. So in reality, again, you only don't have to go through all of the lid. You only have to go through the top sear of the lid and it literally will pop right off because there's nothing holding it. Exactly. It'll actually still say kind of sealed if you... It can still press back on because it's got the inner part where it's sealed. It's just the top part, the crown, it's just you're wearing off that crown. It's not that thin or it's not that thick. So it wears down pretty quickly. I tried it a couple of times. Now, the other thing about this is the cutter, the can opener, as I'm talking about our top type perforation can openers. There are a couple of models that you probably some of you may own because you're saying, Mark, I don't use that type. The other type actually are conducive to reusing the cans. They actually cut and rebell automatically because they cut the lid off the top. And this is why we talked about recanning. Every time you recan, you lose overall about a little under a quarter of an inch of the can because A, there was a little bit of that roll, that bell curled up into the lid. When you cut it from the side with the side cut can openers, it takes the lid completely off. It doesn't leave the rim, but what it also does when it cuts like that the way they cut it rebells the can so in reality if you buy new lids in the proper size those cans could be reused and in fact the biggest problem we had years ago there was an American company back before the little In the 90s actually was in the early 90s. There was a gentleman who invented a recurler And it was everything you needed so that you could actually reuse the lids and reuse the can because it rebelled everything. And eventually people said, well, I don't trust the lids. So I'll buy another lid for a nickel because that's what a number 10 can lid used to cost. So for a nickel with 15 cents, depending on where you bought them from or how many you bought, if you bought great sub-member pallets, they were really cheap. But you could actually reuse those number 10 cans over again. Now eventually you'd be shortening them. And what happens is you see if you look at a number 10 can or any of your cans, they have expansion ribs in the middle. You ever notice that? Those are expansion ribs so that the can will not necessarily compromise. It strengthens the can for storage. Pressure is outbound when they're canning, when they're prepping the material that's in the can. But it's also an expansion rib in the event there's freezing. So the can lid at bottom and top don't necessarily be compromised. And with the new cans, which are struck from the top as a bell, okay, so the bottom is solid. It's all one piece. There's no seam to the can. It's a seamless can. which I told you many times, that's a perfect tool for grenades, anti-personnel mines. You can make, if you can get relids and you have a canter, I have two canning, I have two metal canters, two tin recapping canters. One has a number 10 head, the other one has a number 10 and two other heads that I haven't even checked to see what the size is. I assume one is basically for what you would call a peach can, the bigger peach cans. and the other is for a standard vegetable can. Those two, they're, those are tired. They were not stored properly. Got them at a yard sale or a guy in town had a whole building full of this stuff. Never even knew it. But they all work. Okay, so you can buy lids in any size and if you are looking ahead because we're not just gonna have to get through the cycle of what we eat and storage guys, we know that we're having to prepare for replenishment and however long we can make everything last that's man-made that buys us more time so that we can actually build manufacturing to do more cans, canned lids, all the other items we're talking about. Of course, first we have to make sure we got the metals, then we have to have metal to do that, which means we have to have steel and sheet metal production, and that's going to have to be a priority. It's not that it isn't out there, but a lot of it's going to be banged up, damaged, or destroyed, or just flat out stolen by the globalists against America when the time comes. That's always a priority target for your enemies. So we need to be prepared to deal with that. But for time being, we'll just pull stuff off the shelf. And again, these can openers are priceless. Overseas people love American can openers because they always work. Most of you when I said, well, I'll save the Chinese ones. Mark, they don't work half the time. Yeah, but they work sometime. And you might be fighting with them a little bit, but better something that does almost something and you got it for free. I usually get those for free like in the grab boxes. Do they work? Well, I've tried them. Every one of them I've got, I've tried. It's like we said, half the time they work, half the time you gotta stop and restart and go back a little bit, and keep going. Accept that. We're gonna give those two. People who don't have one. I'm not giving you my good one. See how that works? And you're going to need more, especially if you have people you're going to be supporting. You've got more hooves under the table. You're going to be cooking more. You're going to need more than one location where you're feeding people. So all these things need to be thought out in advance. But there's plenty and plenty and plenty of containers out there. But most people don't think about having the openers where the containers are. Making for messes, accidents, a lot of people will all use my knife. You ever seen a person when they make a mistake and slip with that K bar opening up the can? I have. I'm gonna do it the old school way. I'm gonna use my K bar. Oh God! Yeah, it slips along the hand, takes a chunk out of the forehand there when you're holding the can, it slides sideways, goes right across the top of the hand behind the index finger. Oh yeah, I've seen that. So you can do with K, you can do with a knife. You really can. Most of the time it's good, but you see here's the problem. We don't have the medical support. So you're taking a chance where we don't need to. We'll do it if we have to. I think I'm going to stop somebody. Oh yeah, we're going to get those cans. Well, you think you don't have to do that? Yeah, I've done it before. Okay, good. Congratulations. We're going to use a knife. But I'm going to try to avoid that by having the right tools in the toolbox. Plus, if I have so many, I could leave them where I need them. I don't have to go find one. And I don't have to improvise right away. Biggest problem is people are going to pilfer stuff. I mean, we already expect that. If you don't expect pilferage, if you have a group of people, if you don't expect pilferage, you don't understand people. What was the biggest complaint in the American War for Independence? Well, some people would show up and they would get into, they would sign up amongst the ranks of the regulars, the continentals or the militia, and they'd be issued out a weapon. And after a week or a few weeks, they'd just sneak off back to the back 40 because they got themselves a free rifle. You didn't know that? Yeah. So don't worry, it ain't nothing new. There's scurrilous people out there all the time where people aren't thinking about the team. If you are joining a team, then you better be thinking about the team. And so everybody works together on this. To make sure that we don't have to worry about somebody snicking something from somebody else, how about we make sure we have plenty of spares? Now I will remind you again because I know immediately somebody's going, P38, P38, yes, P38 can openers, but there are not as many out there as there used to be in there. There were billions of them made. I do have hundreds of those in storage, but I plan on issuing those out. That's an issue item for me. I mean, it's not that I don't have them glued to everything. Hell, I got it. My dog tags have my original P38 from what, 45 years ago? I saw the same one I first got. I don't know how it survived that long. Kind of sloppy now because it's been used a lot. But it is the original pizza, first pizza I ever saw. Kind of cool. So more than 45 years. What am I talking about? Oh God, Marc Yannole. 47 years ago. 47. I'm 65. Wow. 47, 45. Yeah, maybe I was right. 45, 20. No, I'm right. I'm right. God, that's horrible. But anyway, yeah, 47. So anyway, the P-38s work forever. There's a Canadian version. It's a little bigger. It's got a little more leverage. Canadians do that with a lot of stuff. They make it, then they make it the same quality we do. Harder than hell to find anyone that's original, but there are some out there. Usually in 100 count or 500 count containers. If they're original, there'll be 500 count boxes. And again, they're layered, they're packaged, they're in their own little oil paper, et cetera, et cetera, depending upon what year they were made for Vietnam or before that for Korea. And through the 50s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, everybody knows who the P-38 is. So, if you can grab those and you run into them, oh, scarf up every one of those you can, especially the yard sale or something, or so you pay attention to looking little toolboxes. I got a lunchbox over this last weekend. It's full of little tiny tools, you know, like micro screwdrivers and all kinds of what are almost surgical tools for doing watches or electronic. That's the way to look at tiny stuff. slightly larger tools. Well, in amongst that, there were three P-38 can openers. One was on the rusty end, but the other two looked like they were not long out of the package, not long since they came out of the C-RAT box. So that's what you're looking for. If you go over to P-38, it looks like I can't show you on the radio, so you're going to have to go look for one. Go look for a P-38 can opener. And then if you can, search around, because we are looking for other sources. Sportsman's Guide had original P38s in 100 count bags and they had reproductions in 100 count bags for a pretty good price. I don't know if they do right now. And if one of you wants to jump on the Sportsman's Guide page and see if they have them. P38 can openers in volume in quantity, then those are worth picking a bag up and putting everywhere. Well, when I go back, go ahead, caller. There's also the P-51 which is a larger version. Right, the spoon type, the or the... It's the same thing, it's just bigger. Right. Typically the same as you get the other one was just maybe 50% larger. Right, that's typically the Canadian one. Okay. Yeah. Designated as P-51 as long as I've known about them. You can buy mixed sets of those on eBay. They will give you, you know, 20 of one and 20 of the other, 100 to 100. You can get them on eBay pretty cheaply. I did see them recently. I don't remember where, because I've got plenty. I did see them recently in like large quantities, like 100 lot somewhere. And they were pretty cheap. I think the older ones, the military ones that I had were Shelby manufacturing. The newer ones are marked something else, but they still look like they're, I mean, obviously they don't. I don't know if they would do mil-spec on them anymore because they really don't have any cans, do they? Well, the thing is, the newer ones... The older ones were tough enough steel, you could use them as a thumb screwdriver. I mean, the other end of the little can opener will easily... I mean, it will take all the energy and torque, but I've never met one using it as a screwdriver. The reproduction ones... When I was printing, when I was doing screen printing, I used to use them to open cans. I had one like keyring, it was like you said, probably 20 years, the little blade after a while wouldn't stick open and close, it would just flap open and close on its own, but I think it started to develop this nice dark gray patina on it. And I had that until I lost that keyring. And the thing about remembering, we're talking about using the flapper end to open up cans of paint. That's how tough they were. But the reproductions are good, but not quite the same steel. Originally, remember, this was the age of the stamping machine, the forage type, and funk, funk. When they cranked one, they cranked the main panel out. That was a wrong piece of steel. That's the only way to describe it. That was a fully... properly driven piece of metal. Those machines are gone mostly now from the United States. There's some China Sport copies that they've been trying to replace our American stuff with. But we spent 100 years building the tools that made those items. Then we let the Chinese have, and now we're buying the Chinese crap. It doesn't do as well to make something similar, but basically the same thing the Chinese were making before they got our stuff. So the thing is that the reproductions will still be good enough. And again, think about it this way. If you're issuing it out to somebody, they're a good item. Test it, see if you're happy with it. I have been so far with the replacements, the copies. But remember that for somebody who is showing up that you're issuing equipment out to, beggars can't be choosers. So it's good enough for what it is. It gets you started. Again, I recommend, like I said, going through and finding any of them. Any kind of can opener gets picked up just like tools. If I go to a sale and the guy's got a ton of tools for nothing, I got to... I don't know how many toolboxes I've gotten this summer for $10 with every socket. drivers, handles, wrenches, odd wrenches, and of course the usual sundry of cutters and even a little bolt cutter half the time for $10. And in there are all the other things that always end up in a toolbox. Well, what does always end up in a toolbox? Can openers, small knives. I've gotten several Gerber knives this year. Nothing fancy, so I don't brag. I mean, it's just a nice. So again, The P-38 can opener or the P-51 is a good choice. The Canadian one, like I said, a little bigger, but also, yeah, there are the knockoffs even have little fake, you know, the little nut fake. It's a little spoon. It was another idea. Those typically are made by a third party, Taiwanese, sometimes Japanese. It could be made by the Chinese now. But they do work. It's just they don't work as long sometimes and don't torque on them too much because that poor little spoon will give. Okay, it's got a little spoon cup in it. The good thing is that though that does offer a good place for your thumb to rest when you're trying to get a little leverage to cut that can open. And so there's something to think about. They all work to a degree and it's better than harsh language and trying to be the caveman getting into the semi-space age container. Unka, unka, unka, ooh. The other thing here real quick also with these is, as I mentioned, the P-38s change color because of the finish, the type of oxidant finish they used, which looks almost like it's a It's not a phosphate finish, but it's not in the traditional park rising. It's a flake park rising was done. It doesn't have the sandy look, but it does have what is considered grade one, which is kind of a slate gray, silver gray color. That's how they originally come out. Now all that was mil-spec. Now there's a regulation somewhere in the National Archives, so anybody can find out about what they actually did. But the regulation is established by the Donut of Destruction, the DOD, and they were cranked out by any company. They had to maintain that standard. So they did, which means if you run into any surplus ones, they're well worth the money. It's a small item, but it's a big tool. And it saves time. The big thing is, yeah, I can cut it open with all kinds of other things. But if I have the right tool in my little pocket toolbox, then it takes a lot less time to get the job done. I did it right and I can get out with doing other things sooner or get along with resting because everything takes labor. I was listening to one thing about, there's a bunch of really great videos out there on YouTube with a guy that does colonial war equipping and outfitting, but it's basically colonial cuisine. And one of the things he did on salted pork. And the idea that the guys were so tired that they had the salted pork as a ration, but the guys were exhausted. You find this in the Civil War, you find this in the Mexican-American War, you find this in the War of 1812, and you'll find it in the American War for Independence. Same scenario each time. The guys were so exhausted from the days march, the days flight, and having been up for two days or three days, they didn't even cook the food, they just ate it as is. Well, that's just give you an idea how exhausted you can be. And remember, it's tough to think when you are tired. So rather than making that mistake, like I said, don't have the right tool in the toolbox, gotta use the knife, slip with the knife, become a casualty that wasn't even part of the fighting, that might even become a lethal issue depending upon the quality of medical support you have. That's why a stupid little thing like a P-38 can opener is so priceless. But it's a real simple process. Repeat, repeat, repeat. You're exhausted. You've been up three days. The moment you open up that can, you could smell what was inside. Have you ever been that hungry? And you're like, oh, and some people just get it open so far and just drink the juice off just to get something in their mouth because they're already salivating. And then crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, crinkle, and then, you know, the big thing here, I think a good thing I did this because I'm gonna go to another subject. Slow down. What? Not on the can opening part. Get the can opener open as fast as you can. But if you are, if you have not been eating, if you don't have rations in good quantity, one of the most important things that you need to do is nibble. And that is tougher than hell if you are starving. But if you scarf food down, you might see the food come back up. And that's a waste of whatever little you had. So one of the most important things, in fact, if you know the POW method, is you literally take a pinch of food if you haven't eaten for a period of time. You have to really be careful on this anyway. Take a pinch of food, put it in your mouth, and let it dissolve. Slow down. What little food you have, you need to let your salivary glands and everything else do its job. In the coming out of the ice, if you read the book, read the book, read the book. This is a person that was in the entire communist gulag system. The only thing they didn't do is they didn't kill him. But in coming out of the ice, unlike Solzhenitsyn, who was brought back to his area of activity, the character in coming out of the ice was sent into remote exile. By himself Okay, but before that he went through the whole process. He went through La Bianca and the interrogations He wasn't executed there, but he came pretty damn close When he was done there They shot him out to the first level of the gulags then when he did he did you all you do is anything wrong? And it got you to the next level and the next level by the time he's done He was almost in the Arctic Circle. He wasn't there yet And then having worked just at the worst of the camps, but not the very worst where people who were sent never came back, never came back. He ended up being released. Well, then later on he got re-arrested again, and then they sent him out into what was basically remote exile. They gave him an area out in the middle of BFE and told him you live there and you cut wood for the train because the trains pass through here so you have to cut so much wood. If you don't cut so much wood, we'll come out and find you and they'll execute you. That's what the communist did. On the other hand, and eventually he did, he was very patient. He eventually took advantage of that and that's how he left. Needless to say, you'd probably think of the same thing. Well, hell, if I'm out in the middle of nowhere and there's wolves and there's bears, And there's a harsh winter. How would they know that it didn't get killed or at somewhere? Well, that's the advantage of that. But the problem is you had to be prepared to be able to exfiltrate, to be able to get away. You had to have something, you better have something to eat, you better have all the tools you need in the toolbox. But the pinch is the technique. And this is something that if you read enough, War of 1812, all the different campaigns of 1812. When you get hundreds of thousands of men into an area, Napoleon's winter campaign, the English campaigns, they all ended up in the same boat, never enough food. And so immediately the first rule is slow down. Whatever food you do have, use the pinch technique or take the tip of the spoon, whatever you got, put a little in your mouth, let it work. When it's almost gone, take another, repeat. slow down. What happens is all of the different elements of your celebratory gland do their job to dissolve the material and prep it for introduction into the gut. What happens though is that you get one no waste material, no food product goes through. You don't know bits of corn. Let's put it away coming out the other end. No Hershey bars with corn or peanuts. Okay. It's that simple. Everything gets literally the term nibbled to death is the only way to describe it Because you need for the body the body needs every calorie every everything and everything and anything that's in that food product Your body is going to completely absorb Another thing about going out the other end you're starved enough your body your whole metabolism slows down completely You don't you know what you don't go to the bathroom Not for when Africa not the cycle of regular regimen that you're used to So you don't have to worry as much about toilet paper or something because what little waste is coming out the other end is Bare minimum because what the body does its whole your whole digestive tract is a survival machine Once you remember that your whole digestive tract Given you by you know by God's creation has a method to its madness and each element takes more and more out of the system of whatever's available and processes it with this incredible nuclear furnace you call your body. By the time you get to the lower end of the G-track, it even still is trying to find anything and everything that, well, we missed that and absorb it accordingly. In fact, it's why. Well, not popular on radio, but that's why the rear end of your bottom end of your intestinal tract is highly absorbent. It's not just getting rid of waste. It's not just pushing stuff out. It will identify any usable non-waste nutrients that can be put back into your body or grabbed before it leaves your body. It's just that simple. Again, I would also recommend if you read the three books that you'll recognize mutiny on the bounty. You need to read all three books from the other part of the mutiny on the bounty series. They're actually one book. But if you when you do, the most important is when Bly was put into that boat, the doctor, one of the doctors was on board and contrary to where they try to depict him in the movies, he wasn't an idiot. He might have been happy about being put in the boat, but he went along with Bly, but he documented the physiology of everybody on board progressively as they went across the Pacific in a lifeboat, a captain's gift. So for everybody out there, there's a lot of examples, but slow down. Another thing is when you do field rations, when you're doing what we call, you know, light patrol constant patrol rations, chocolate, cheese, and crackers. Chocolate, cheese, and crackers. That is the most traditional chunk of whatever best quality chocolates you can get. Military chocolates during the Vietnam War were designed to survive extreme heat. I wish we could find them, can't, that they know of. I don't think anybody's making them. They didn't even resurrect that idea when they got into Desert Dust Part 1, the adventure begins, or the adventure continues Part 2. Never did they reintroduce the quality of products that we had for the Vietnam War for the exposed extreme conditions. Because they were chinsing out, they were cheaping out on everything. So, one of the things taken into consideration here, chocolate, regulatory, does a number of different things. Needless to say, there's all kinds of good minerals, vitamins, and also a few things just make you feel good, okay, if you're familiar with what chocolate does to the physiology of a human. But one of the most important things is it also helps with circulation. as a sidebar. And again, that's something that when you're in the field and you're exerting yourself, opening up and getting proper oxygen and all the materials moved to where they need to be, circulatory system becomes pretty critical. Not actually all of your body is. We want to keep it alive. The cheese and the crackers balance everything out and needless to say also slow the system down too. The military used to have five, six different flavors of cheese. People wouldn't care that much, but yeah, a lot of guys like the caraway cheese that used to come with the sea ration packs. Sea ration little cans, the tiny cans, if you remember. Pretty decent little product, but there were many, many others. You can simulate that. There's all kinds of shelf-stable cheeses. As a matter of fact, It's a little late, but if you look around those shelf-stable cheeses, their little rectangles and wedges and stuff that they made for making up Christmas baskets are pretty close to what you'd get in the way of the shelf-stable storage cheese, you know, as a military ration. If not, in fact, they are the same thing. So one of the things to consider is that those are typically in smaller bundles. You only open what you're going to eat and you make sure you eat it all. Don't leave anything out and about for something to sniff because that brings critters and it also makes you trackable. So wherever possible, you'll eat it all. Make sure that you clean out the wrappers. Make sure that you bundle everything up. Make sure you dig a little cat hole and bury everything to the best of your ability. and get out with the mission. But chocolate cracker cheese. You're eating like a king if you're out there especially in the middle of nowhere it all tastes like steak after a while. It's food F-O-O-D you don't care. That's why we laugh about these dingleberries you're talking about food fatigue there in the military. Well they really weren't didn't, maybe they shouldn't have been the military anyway. Was it ever a surprise that they were gonna feed you the same thing day after day after day after day in the field? Of course, the other thing is they try to change MRE ration or C rations up to the field. You were getting something different, at least it looked different. It might all probably be made pretty much the same. The SpaghettiOs can only be made so many ways. Rings, lines, circles, I should say tubes. Okay, that's macaroni, spaghetti, whatever. Still all the same for the same stuff. It's just designed to look a little different to make you feel better about it. Same is true with a protoplasm meat. Okay, wasn't spam. In fact, my still turkey loaf is what everybody loved Well, not everybody but really easy to trade So again, the same is true in the future when you're in the field if you're in large groups If you're issued food and it's like what you're gonna see with me if you were standing there You don't get to pick what you're gonna. Oh, I want that over that. Nope. Here's how it works Get in line whoever gets a line first. Well, whatever's on top. You see there's what you get But you just like you did in any other military operation, I'll give it to you. I don't care what you do it after I give it to you. So when it's issued out, you can trade and exchange between yourselves. But for the sake of getting the food out to where you guys can garborate it, it's, you know, here's your box, here's your main course, here's your box, here's your main course, or here's your bag, here's your main course. What's in the bag? A good selection of whatever we could so we could keep you from starving. While still allowing you to enjoy the meal a little bit because for a little while we might be relatively creative Now it isn't gonna be long before it's gonna get a lot less dull. I should say less dull more dull Okay, it's gonna be a lot less. Let's just say imaginative because Reserves and material are gonna be consumed by who by you So you need to be taking that into consideration. This is why we're trying to do a deep, larger now. Tactically dispersed, reserve, foodstuffs, material support, equipment, tools in the toolbox, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Now, last but not least, and just I'm gonna jump lower to medical. There are a couple of companies right now that are offering the different penicillins or fillins of different types, not just penicillin. And they are out there available. You're going to want to kind of peruse what's being posted with the different sites. I will remind you though that Echinacea, silver, ginger, and calcium, calcium tabs of any kind, calcium is a high priority for healing and for knitting, bonding, and healing. All of these items are readily off the shelf. Echinacea is something that again, it's not super potent, but there are different grades. And if we don't have the penicillins, Echinacea is one of those that will help with infections. There are many, many other solutions. I can't do that in the next few minutes that we had before we go to break here. But I will remind you to go through the alternate medical inventory and put it in your inventory. Make it part of what you have on the shelf. No matter what scenario we play out, you're on the short end of the stick. 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Also, again into the second hour, land navigation, not so hard, actually a little easier in some ways when you are traveling with regard to winter operations because there is far less obstructing your vision for greater range. are some other issues that need to be addressed. Needless to say, you do kind of leave footprints in the snow. Oh yeah, that's right. So land navigation, whenever possible, should try to integrate even more so than obviously any other season. Utilizing the tree lines, rolling terrain, and again, with overhead cover, secondary, true tracks, trails, and roads that will help to leave less telltale signatures. Now the bigger your formation, the bigger your footprint, literally, in terms of wear, tear on the ground. But this is true in any season. It's one thing for 10 of you guys to go walking through an area and infiltrating past a perimeter or a control point or whatever. It's another thing to have 120 wildebeest going through the woods, trying not to be heard and not to be seen. And the larger the group, even harder it is. Also, remember, material equipment and technology support may also be encumbrance, via an encumbrance, will cause other issues and problems, some to take into consideration. This time of year, sledges, sledding, you know, and again, toboggans, things of that nature become very, very handy, minimizing, again, the amount of energy necessary to move weight across an area, not the least of white meat casualties. I grabbed during the summer, all of the snow sleds that everybody wants to get rid of, especially the plastic ones. I don't care if they're pink, blue, they're very seldom purple. Well, but they are. There I have one, but they're not white. They're usually not black. Now, these are those colors. White would be better, obviously, with snow. There are some model green, gray, or brown that show up. It depends on what chip was available for the guy who was making the Sleds that particular window. Remember a few years ago, standard coyote brown or tan was everywhere. That's because of all the plastic chip for all the other junk being made for the government and pigments and colors. Same thing. Mostly what? Earth Browns, tans, or coyote brown, etc. So that was a good thing, but that didn't last unless you specifically for quote unquote, tactified nowadays in the, you know, this part of the century, uh, it's a little different story. So now that we're past 2020, so to speak, it's 2023. Uh, a couple of things here on that note too is remember cordage. This is something I hang onto every piece of rope or cordage. I can, I just got a general utility bucket for stuff like that, but what I'll do is roll it up, make sure it's not tangled. and secure it in the container. I might need it for just tying off stuff, but I also may need pull lines or whatever. And this is where any of the old ski type, ski line type rope, you don't throw it away if you run into it. If you have stuff that's tied off from something that you buy from one of the box stores like Maynard's or whatever, save that cordage. You never know how you're going to use it, especially if you got to hand it out to someone. You don't want to hand out your Cadillac. technology if you have something that's serviceable enough and it's going one way. In other words, I can give it to you. I know it works, but I'm not out anything. I'm not going to cry about it because I don't have mine now. Now this is my handout tech. And so again, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance with regard to that. One of the big things here again with cross country operations is rotating your Pathfinder groups in a snow or cold weather environment. It's a lot of work to cut a trail or cut a pathway, period. You're the first one trudging through the snow. It's a lot of resistance. You might have snowshoes. You might have skis. Probably you're just going to have footwear, you know, footwear, boots. So what you do is about every patrol stop, if you're going to run for about an hour at a time, depends on your land navigator. If your point men, your compass man and your pace man are doing their job, You can determine this by next point of reference for stop. And what you do is when you do stop, your second in line unit becomes the heads up. They go past the fixed first formation and everybody jiggles forward with the front man being the lab, the tail unit that everybody passes. At a given point when individuals are taking compass bearings or confirmation, it'll be usually determined by the team leader, platoon leader. It depends on the unit formation and your experience. But whoever is doing it in many cases the team leader the platoon leader or the company commander might have confidence in the individuals that make up the tri-team the paceman the compass man and Needless to say the visual point guy is actually paying attention. He's given the order to go in a certain direction Well, he's point man for a reason. He's pretty competent typically or it's his job. It's what he likes a lot of people like being up front That's just where it's their niche So you take advantage of that, but you don't want them to be worn out, guys. We're trying to get to the objective with everybody pretty well on the same plane and with a comparable amount of fighting ability when the time comes. If we're exfiltrating, we've got to go the distance. Infiltration may be to attack. Exfiltration is to evacuate in most cases. Not always. You might be providing firepower and manpower for another conflict taking place. along the rambling forward edge of the battlefield, but most likely if it's exfiltration, you need all the energy you can to get out of the situation you're in. You call it, if terbmeter used the term breakout or whatever, if it's a breakout, you're fighting your way out initially. Remember, you still got to go the, get out of the area of control and to an area with friendly resources and friendly under control in the area that you're moving to, if at all possible, or your exfil training to disperse. Your exfil training and then breaking up in even smaller elements and exfil training as a fog across an area of activity to ensure that some part of the unit may survive or enhance. unit survivability. One of the reasons is the very problem we have in winter months with the tell tales and this again, yeah, I'm gonna repeat this a million times always on here. If you're in the middle of a field, you're not where you're supposed to be. I don't know where the hell you always see this in movies. It's like no. Doesn't work that way. You can make time, okay? You can make time, but it typically is going to be, like I said earlier, taking advantage of secondary two tracks, road nets, deer trails, whatever. The road net's not your first choice because it's most likely to be technically monitored. Now it doesn't mean there isn't all kinds of ways to monitor from above and around. We've warned you about that before. But if you can minimize the signature, it is less likely you will be identified during travels this time of year or any time of year. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. So you constantly have to be thinking. And so I'll tell you what, we got to get a few more out there. And still my favorite, CCR, Queens Clearwater Revival. Run through the jungle, Ed, if you could bring that up. Run through the jungle. Of course, in this case, it's run through the pine forest right now, and the ash grove, and the thicket, and the snow drift. Yeah, that kind of thing. So again, CCR. Run through the jungle. We can put that up as a little bit of a music break. It's 15 minute plus mark here. That would be great. And you are listening to us on Liberty Tree Radio dot 4 M G water revival. Say that three times fast. CCR for everybody out there again, run through the jungle. Well, don't go out there where we are right now, but it's Michigan Temperate Woods. And for everybody out there, it was a good work for everybody this last weekend. No winter casualties. We have been very blessed with everybody doing the right thing, doing the job, getting it done right. So for all the training sites out there, just keep up the good work. Most important is that your junior NCOs, senior NCOs, and junior officers do their job to pay attention to their people, okay? If you're building a militia and you think you want responsibility, well, it means that you're the last to eat, you're also the last to rest if you want to be in charge. That's just how it works. And again, this is something everybody needs to remember when you're a participant in operations because you're, well, you want that command position. You get that responsibility that goes with it. Let's see now again before we get to the bottom of the op... We're going to do another bottom of the hour music piece too, but not yet. And I'll tell you what it's going to be. Edward, if you could, I know this is an odd man out, but I actually have this on the request list for three months. And well, now it's winter, so it's kind of cool. Not yet, though. We're going to play this right at the bottom of the hour at 730. Jeff Rotol, cold winds from Valhalla. Okay, cold wind from Valhalla, Jeff Rotel. But we got about seven, eight minutes. I want to touch on something here. It's communications Tuesday. That cold weather out there, it's going to kill your batteries. If you have chargeable batteries, your life's going down by about a third. It depends on the equipment, sometimes half. Again, with some of the newer batteries, cold is absolutely your enemy. to the point where something else to take into consideration here. This is a neat trick that we've used in the past. You don't always have to do it, but in fact, with regular conventional alkaline batteries, you're going to lose some power, but they will keep running. But the newer batteries are extremely cold sensitive. So much so that they're very unreliable past the first third of would be the normal charge life for recycling or reprocessing. You know, if you run them, you work them out. We're not talking about sitting in your car and using your radio equipment. We're talking about picking up your gear, pointing yourself across country and expecting to stay in the environment. You don't get to check out after eight hours. You're going to be out there for 12, 14, 20, two days, three days, five days, seven days, who knows? This war kicks off you're gonna be out there indefinitely Now one of the things to remember we've mentioned these pouches. There's a lot of them and they're for electronics especially with the MOLLE gear. One of them is a Coyote Brown electronic case. It's perfect for doing or it works well. It's not perfect. It could be better, but it's good enough for doing two M14 or HK magpout mags and using it as a mag pouch. But that's not what it was built for. It's an electronic pocket. And what's interesting about this is those are padded. Now, what's the advantage in the padding? Well, obviously rubber baby buggy bumpers. We know that. But that's not the only purpose, it's also insulation. So one of the considerations if you're going to do a, if you're going to carry a lot of electronics and you have a whole family of electronics in the field, in cold weather everything is like spacesuit operations. In fact, once you get down into sub-zero it's just like operating in space. You don't just pull your gloves off and touch metal, you're going to freeze burn yourself. You don't just, you know, without thinking, perform. So one of the things to consider is that these armored bags, which are typically using a diver suit kind of flex, high impact rubber is basically what it is. High impact plastic is not really rubber. It's not organic. It's synthetic. So anyway, those are really a good choice because even the flaps are armored. The bottom of the bag, the bottom of the pouch is armored. Now, if you get the radio bags, they're also the same way. What can you do with this if you're just transporting batteries and you've charged them but you're going into the field? Well, you know those little foot pack and hand warmer pouches they make that are, you know, you break and you shake and then you put them in their sand? Cheap way to heat up your battery pocket without burning anything, okay? The advantage here is that you're gonna be able to keep the battery packs warmer so that when you're done running out the battery you've got in your thermal or in your night vision, depending on the unit you have. You can turn around, pop those batteries out. I would still put them into the thermal pocket, but I would probably put them in my pocket inside my jacket first, like inside my shirt. Go let my body heat, my 98.6, heat that battery back up a little bit. Then I'd transfer it over to my pocket pouch where I've got my little foot warmer. It's only gonna be good for so long. Those things don't last that long. But as long as it's sealed, you've brought up the internal temperature and maintained the equivalent to a kind of a little tiny room temperature environment. And this is a big advantage when it comes to maintaining some of these new battery packs. Now they still will recharge. The cold is just going to hamper their performance level. They discharge faster, they don't retain. However, if they were in extreme cold long enough, yeah, someone probably would be damaged, but it would be physical. It would not be a memory issue with regard to the materials on board. Except that the materials themselves might freeze up completely and crack, you know, snap, break, whatever. Reticating the ability for, you know, any kind of continuity to take place. The capacitance of the device diminishes very, very quickly because the internal physical structure has been broken. It's built that way for a reason, okay? So this is a little trick that would work. If you've been in extreme cold weather, our troops are going over into crazy town land because the Jewish mafia wants to get a bunch of Goyem murdered on our side, get a bunch of Christians murdered on the other side. So they're going to throw a bunch of our guys into these extreme cold weather environments with all this tech toy that everybody thinks is just going to work nonstop, but it won't. Now, prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. I don't care if the military corrects to whatever direction they're going in there, it's not my problem. But for all of our people, we can be ahead of the curve. Look outside, it's winter. You should be prepared to fight in the winter. So those pouches, if nothing else, work well for, again, maintaining control over and maintaining the full or closer to the full performance of whatever batteries you have available. that you are going to be using. And the pouch that we're talking about, which runs about, I've seen it as little as $5, a little over $5 to $6 a piece. You get two of them for 12, I think, raw two for 10.95. And that price varies over at Sportsman's Guide. But there are also other radio pouches. One of them is a little longer. It actually is a double pocket system. One's larger, the other pocket's smaller. And they are built for a couple of the other handhelds out there. The neat thing is that once again, that radio pouch, which is in sage green, it's in that same color you basically find your boots or that odd green color that's in the ACU pattern, kind of an off sage green. Typically what you found in the aviation uniforms. Okay, if you remember the before camouflage when they were just different colors, flat colors. Those pouches will work too for some of your more oddball pieces of equipment. In fact, for optics, most people will think about using those for radio. If you want to spare the whole optics, as we've said, from being beat on, some of these radio pouches are exceptionally well-designed, armored, and they are insulated because they're armored. And those would make good transport pouches for your optics while they're not in use. In other words, like digital, I can use my digital night vision during the day. Yeah, why am I gonna wear that out? If I can shut it down, walk it up, put it on a side, if I don't need it, don't beat it up like you typically will in the field when you're constantly in the field. It's gonna make a big difference when I need it. I have more time on the machine, okay? Mark. Go ahead, jump in there, Shelby. I think that's who that is. Yes, it is Mark Shelley from Oklahoma. Several things you're talking about the batteries. This could be an idea for several people out there that have drill battery technology, whether it be DeWalt, Ryobi. There's numerous adapters online that one of the adapters you can look for is a power wheels adapter for your specific battery brand. and it slides over the battery and it has a positive and negative wires coming off. So you can use that to power whatever your radio, you'll have to go from there. Also, if you have a 3D printer, you can look up files. There's people that have built an adapter that builds onto it and they have the USB. built in, obviously you ought to do some soldering and stuff like that, build it, buy the extra electronic parts, but have USB adapters and stuff, and build your own little power bank box for your specific battery type. I know that you have for our IOB, because that's what I have. I don't know about the other stuff, but I'm sure some of the big popular brands, you can find that. And you were talking about keeping the batteries warm, Mark. There is a... I'm not sure if this is what you were talking about. You were talking about like a pouch. There is the hand warmers. They are a type of hand warmer that is reusable. You'll have, I don't know the name of them, maybe just reusable hand warmer. They're kind of like a jelly like bag and it has this little nickel calcium little button inside that you, you snap it and it'll solidify the material and it will heat up very hot for several hours. You're missing and it's reusable. You just put it in a boiling water and it will resolidify or turn it to the back to liquid. You have to be careful obviously not like to touch the bottom of hand but you can use that to as a reusable pouch heater if you're out in the field. Just like I said you have to be careful rejuvenating it again. And thirdly Mark you were talking about pouches radio pouches. If you go to venture surplus, that's venture, B-E-N-T-U-R-E surplus dot com, that's venture surplus dot com. And you type in radio bag, they have a Harris Falcon 2 Ranger radio bag, OD green. And they have several different options. They have defective, new, and used. And price starts used, it's like about 70, 80 dollars. I guess defective. It starts out at 50 bucks, but from 50 to $129 price range for this bag. And it has the padded pockets, also has a bag at the bottom, sorry, the pouches inside to accommodate a radio from getting bumped around and stuff. Thank you. I can't, I'll read it reusable. Thank you for reminding me about that because those are out there. And they work really well, but like you said, you got to make sure you don't compromise the pouch. You don't want to direct flame them or anything. So you got to have a little bit of a standoff grid. In the field, you could use a mess kit and just make up a little bit of a standoff using your utensils, just so you can heat it up, re-liquify it, and then when you reactivate it by flexuring it. Then you'd have so many hours worth of heat, but remember the nice thing about being an insulated pouch is going to retain a lot of that heat. You don't want to overheat anything, but most of the little radio pouches actually have a sub divider inside. There's a sub divider panel. It's not insulated like everything else. It's not bumper. So you have the two pocket internal, which by the way is also why the mags fit the way that they do like with the M14. But it'll also serve to keep that heater unit and the standoff away from the material, allow it to air a little bit to circulate, which is what you want, and so that you can again maintain the temperature inside the pouch. Now those other larger radio pouches are also very popular. I'll tell you what they're more used for. They were more used for, the bigger ones especially, are used as medical bags. In fact, they're usually procured. A lot of SF units have a mix of stuff that they use, but we used to use, and I was trained to use, the old rubberized radio bags, which I have a lot of our medical gear already pre-packed in the way we used to use it. And again, they're perfect for that because the new ones are bumper. So that it does protect a few things that might be in, you know, cellophil and be vacuum sealed that need to be stayed sealed as long as we can. And so it's not a bad bag in general to have. I don't want the defective ones are, but it might be a snap, slap or a piece of Velcro. So again, I'd check those out because for a lot less you buy more. Don't need to be pretty on the outside just needs to work on the inside and do what they're supposed to do in general So that helps a great deal. I'll tell you what we're gonna do Ed should have our bottom of the our music a little past Jeff roto cold winds from Valhalla Valhalla we are coming and for everybody who's been watching Perfect with the Viking series out there right now, right? Although it's not quite the music you'd expect and again for Randall Made the request. Hey, may take a few months, but we caught up with you. So be patient. Actually, it's a matter of whether or not I'm paying attention when I look at the big long list of requests. And I am trying to catch up. So, just row tow, cold winds from Valhalla. See if we're at the bottom of the hour here. And of course, meet them. There we go. I hear the music. We're completely fissure on the level of the world. But in the meantime, we learned to roll with the punches and fight in this weather. Remember, in climate weather is our friend as unconventional or periconventional forces. And even in the conventional sense, utilizing the elements whenever possible. This includes the timing of the moon, the tide in climate weather. Weather is your friend. Weather is always your friend. That's when you move. So for everybody out there, make a bullet, be ready to do what you need to do. Another thing here real quick, again, communications. I cannot stress enough picking up a couple things. Spare microphones, number one. Spare mics and spare ear sets, ear buds, ear muffs. I don't care what you pick up. I do recommend that you go to Dollar Tree, and this is something that I'm noticing is gonna be a problem down the road, is if you can, take about $12. and pick up the regular USB, well, the different type, there's a number of different types of head buds available with different fixtures right now. Usually there are three basic ones that are out there. The one is an Apple type, the rest are standard phone company. I recommend you get two of each and put them into your general radio slash audio repair kit for equipment. Pick the most tactified colors you can, but do pick out if you can different colors. So you can keep track if nothing else just by color, which one you've used. And you know, in other words, if you have one that's a problem, at the very least, if you don't get a chance, you're tired. We've talked about fatigue earlier. This affects every aspect of what you're doing in life, but especially on the battlefield. So things that can help you to recall or recollect. Sometimes, they're as simple as just change of a color. Also, allows you to determine when you hand something out to somebody, you know that Bob got that one, Fred got the other. Fred takes Bob's. Bob, you know who yours is, don't give it back. Come on, Bob, give it back. There you go. Everybody's happy again, aren't they? I know it sounds childish, but you'll see it with grown people all the time. So, again, we need to be prepared for that. But more important is... At a given point, what's going to happen step by step is that the equipment will change and these types of devices will not be available because most people don't think to, you know, hang on to the castaway part. They might hang on to a recorder, a phone, a radio, even if it's an old one or a piece of equipment. But that doesn't mean they maintain all the accoutrements. The two things most commonly lost first are A, extraneous components like mics and earbuds or headphones. And the other is the power supply, a separate independent recharging power supply. They may have the radio, it's got batteries in it, may not need recharging or rechargeable system if it is a fixed battery system where you just keep chucking out the double A's or triple A's or whatever. However, wherever you can maintain all of it, well, this is what Mr. Ziploc bag is for. So I can't impress enough that if you've got a piece of equipment, then you're going to set it off as secondary. Take and use the smaller bags to individually bag up the components, put a little slip of paper in each pouch. of what that particular earbud or mic or combination set goes to. Well, Mark, you're going to put it in the same bigger bag. Yes, I am. I'm going to put it in the bigger bag with all with the radio or the cassette player or this DVD player or whatever. But I'm going to mark it wherever I can because some units are going to require special fixtures. Let me give you an example of something. You know, I talk about grabbing Walkman radios. Well, how many of you had a Sony Walkman? Everybody else made one. Craig made them. Everybody else made those. But what's the difference between the two? Oh, that's right. The Sony's be at the Walkman cassette or the CD have a different male, female plug for the earbuds, didn't they? They had a, it was system specific. Okay. That was not an accident. You needed to buy Sony's earbuds or Sony's, you know, earmuffs or Sony's whatever. Now, eventually everybody made copies, but it also creates heartburn. So whenever I pick up the Sony Walkman and they fortunately have everything laying there in the throwaway box, I grab it all. Even if the headset doesn't look pretty, it still goes into a bag. Why? Well, because the wire is still attached to the jack and the jack is intact that goes gets plugged into the radio or into the cassette player or into the CD player But that's all I need to I need that to make that adapter station work unless I buy or find an adapter and you're not gonna see any stores out there down the road Offering anything like this. There won't be any stores So again, going back to the earlier point, I've noticed that for Dollar Tree, their electronic area with regard to personal electronic support has been halved in size in almost every location. Now that's an indicator. We've seen a lot of little electronic dollar items that used to be a dollar tree that were really cool disappear. Well, guess what? This means that we're on the edge and all that cheap China Sport stuff you all thought or assumed to be there forever, it's not going to be. The other consideration is this. You find a piece of equipment that you can integrate, but you don't have all the things you need because guess what? It takes the other jack system for the headset or for the, again, earbuds for you to quietly listen rather than have, okay, okay, double A three, four, four, nine, or this is K double A three, five, nine, or you copy, over. Oh, God, I forgot to tune it. I forgot the volume control. Damn. What's that sound over there? There's lights. There's people moving. They're hunting for me. Wow, I was supposed to be really stealthy, sneak, secret, scroll, silent, and I screwed up, bang, bang, bang, bang. Yep, might be terminal. Okay. Prior to proper planning prevents piss poor performance. So whenever we do find something, we want to be able to integrate it. Another thing, pick up any of those items that you see. Put them in the little, if you go to the Dollar Tree, they have these snack bags, snack, Ziploc bags. They're half the size of everything else. They are perfect. The new ones even have a little white face area for taking notes. You can use them for doing seeds or anything else, but they're really great for doing exactly what we're talking about doing. Take those little head butt set, roll them up, make sure you put them on something so they don't tangle, put them in the pouch. You got the little power plug there, put it in the same pouch if you want to. So it's all together. Take your little Sharpie, mark it on the outside. Look at that. No mistake because you know exactly what it was meant for. Again, a simple, stupid solution only costs a few pennies and a few moments worth of time, but it creates, eliminates a whole lot of heartburn in the future, but also may save your life in the future because you got the right tools in the toolbox. Okay. I love the Ziploc bag. One of the most phenomenal tools. I would say everybody goes Velcro and the other. No, Ziploc bag is the most phenomenal utility tool invented probably in the last hundred years. because of what you can do with it and what it can do to preserve what is already costing man hours. I don't care what's food. You can store water in them. I mean, my God, they're so efficient. You can actually, how many of you have done that? You take a Ziploc bag, put some water in it, put it in the microwave, heat it up and use it under a blanket for kittens that need to be heated up or you're using it for a temporary water, like a hot water bag. That's just how versatile they are. So think about that. But again, it keeps moisture in, it also keeps moisture out. And as far as for an efficient, reusable, multi-layered defense system for storage, it's perfect. Okay. So, another thing. I'll tell you what, let's do. We got it. We're gonna get three of them in here. Ed, if you could, next piece up here real quick is, oh, serenade. Let's see if we can get that in there serenade And they should be able to find it easily enough serenade another classic rock piece by the way guys and again We've had a number of people over quests. So serenade from the 70s for any of you remember it and Again, if you do want to do a music request Here we go, we'll talk about the repertoire highway in the morning. I remember you. About 80 miles an hour. It's where you go. I mean, again, down the road and you get like, you know, keep you awake, but also, you know, keep you entertained. Keep your mind functioning while you're busy. Still not going into road zombie mode. Okay. So again, for Dan out there in the upper peninsula, at least I know Dan, I believe there was one other request. There we go. Two more out of the way. And we're almost to the top of the earth. Communications Tuesday. That's a cool thing. Music communicates. Hopefully it's communicating to you. Another thing here real quick is again, if I haven't mentioned before, because I said, hey, buy that stuff, make up a patch kit. You can use any number of different utility bags, whatever works for you, at least start out. Just grab a, you know, you can get a hundred different throwaway bags from a resale shop. Something about the size of a couple of shoe boxes would be best. And what you want to do is have put them by. What I do is you take a pack of Ziploc bags and put it right inside. Get yourself over to the Dollar Tree, get yourself a pack of the snack bag size Ziploc bags. Get another box, the cheapest for the mostest in a simple Ziploc bag. Usually the sandwich are a little bigger than the sandwich size. If you get a deal sometimes, pay attention and read. Look at the count. We had a deal at, what was it? We were over at, oh, I can't remember which one of the Dollar Trees. I think it was the Dollar Tree down in Adrian, Michigan, because they're weird. They're like on the border between supply and they had these 150-count Ziploc bags for a dollar, you know, before they went to a dollar 25. And you didn't have them at the other Dollar Trees. They just were there for one time, went back again, never there again. Well, if you see something like that, that kind of a deal, that's perfect for what we're talking about. What you're doing is eliminating tangling of cords. You're securing them from moisture in an environment. Remember, once you get into a battlefield, you're in a fighting situation, you got to remember this stuff is going to be stored somewhere other than a nice warm house. It's going to be in a back of a vehicle could be in a you know secondary location might get abandoned for a period of time left with other equipment as part of a base of operations in the field where you just pick a Lonesome hill with a couple of places where you can tuck stuff underneath and out of cover Depending on what you got and then you're out and about you come back. So you want to be prepared so One of the nice thing about a lot of the pouches, I can allow the athletic pouches out there that are waterproof on the outside, many cases armored, but it doesn't mean you're just pick something and start. You can always change out because that's the wonderful thing about people being wasteful in this country. You can take advantage of their ignorance and you benefit the process. So once you do start this up, again, spare plugs, power supplies, universal power supplies. Thank you, Mark, I keep talking. There are a bunch of the older power supplies. They always pop up at yard sales with usually one or two more common plugs missing. But if you're patient, you'll find more and even find the ones that are missing with another kit that only has the ones that were taken off. It doesn't have the holder for the other replacement heads. Now these power supplies were a lot of them are made by Arrow, but they're not. That's not the only company realistic made them also. They have a sliding output. control and it goes low voltage to higher voltage and guess what you also have multiple heads available which covered just about any other off-the-wall European, Asian or American wall work type plug that you needed for a piece of equipment. Even the micro barrel pins which typically unfortunately also broke off a lot. At the very least they're very weak. They work really well. They're a micro version of a standard plug. for a stereo headset, but they were tiny, tiny, tiny. Well, all that stuff is hard to find down the road if you think you're just gonna look for it. But if you run into it, what you do is you, again, straighten out the cord, roll them back up, put it on something so it doesn't tangle. Put the power supply inside the Ziploc bag, put the little gangle of heads that clip onto the other end in the bag too, and mark it for what it is. And the same is true with other wall warts and such that are very common supplies. Also, I would recommend ashtray slash ashtray plug mail fixtures for putting USB plugs into of different types. There's all kinds of different ones out there. I run into them constantly again at the yard sales and resale shop, but also a Dollar Tree. They pop in once in a while in odd forms. So what you do is keep an IPO for that and then take the time and collect. Put them into bags. I do this in each of the vehicles so that we have a combination of a number of different plugs and also a number of different cords, not necessarily for the stuff that I use, but what we may use for different pieces of equipment. Again, you never know. The stuff that's used for the phone plugs for each of the different companies is usually rolled over and adapted into other equipment. So, for instance, I've got a little capacitor battery supply, power supply for going out and jumping the vehicles. It used the same plug as one of the cell phones. That same smaller format plug works in two or three other small electrical recharging items. So, again, I have bought multiples. I see somebody throwing them away. I grab every one of them. and I've got them laying everywhere. I've got them just laying out and about, but I have them laying everywhere in bags, ready to go, in little kits, so that if I'm somewhere else, I don't have to go, oh my God, we gotta go buy one. No, no, you open up the pouch. Look, in the Ziploc bag, you see through it. Look, in the little Ziploc bag, there are smaller bags, and all those bags are pretty easy to see. So again, it's a simple solution without spending a whole lot of money right now. Down the road, if you don't have it, you simply won't have it. And not many people with all this micro crap are really wanting to do a whole lot of adapting. Okay, and it's not as easy just because you see them even Star Trek. Oh, a miracle deal Star Trek engineer. He's going to re engineer some micro micro micro. Yeah, right. That's not how it works. Remember what Spock said in the old series. I have attempting to make it inter dimensional communication device from bear skins and sticks. I'm paraphrasing. Remember he was being facetious. Well, that's kind of really how the world works. So, again, look out there. Do you see an electronics tree out in your back 40 anywhere? Kind of like, you know, with food. Do you see a can tree back there anywhere? I don't. Maybe you do have one. And if you do, share. You know, why are you just hogging that and keeping it all to yourself? The other thing here before we go to is also remember test your equipment in cold weather if you haven't Your combat loadout especially you got to remember something and you put all your cold weather gear on and then put your tactical gear on oh You got a few inches of extra layer there. You might have to open up your web gear a little bit Yeah, it's the only problem when you deal with different seasons So you might want to check to make sure that although again, if you're smart, you have a summer rig and have that squared away, spend the money, put another kit together and have another rig all completely separate for winter operations, even in different colors, by the way. The neat thing, always have an spare set of web gear. Somebody else shows up or you lose something, you've got another one laying around. So it's a double plus good thing. It works for all of the problems or at least a multiple number of problems that may be on the horizon, not the least of which is Lack of supply something gets lost something gets burned broken folded spindled or mutilated you want to be ready for that Anyway, we're at the top redundancy is the key remember logistics understand logistics, and you will win the war