May 20, 2024
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Summary
Mark Koernke discussed emergency food storage strategies, including freeze-dried government surplus foods, rice and beans as affordable staples, and mackerel as a protein source for long-term preparedness. A caller reported observing a FEMA command trailer deployment at an Oklahoma City hotel (NBC Suites at 1815 South Meridian) with support vehicles, satellite communications equipment, and generators, noting the location seemed disconnected from recent tornado disaster areas. Koernke analyzed the deployment structure as a standard pod formation with core command elements and assigned support vehicles for local operations.
- food storage
- freeze-dried foods
- rice and beans
- preparedness
- fema deployment
- oklahoma city
- command trailer
- satellite communications
- emergency supplies
- government surplus
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very carriers for all of the bizarre and exotic freeze-dried foods that are for submarine service and They're fantastic. I mean the menu is insane The stuff that's in there in freeze-dried purchase for the government. You've got lobster tails. You got Philly magnet, you know for them in y'all Oh, man, dude, I'm going to be a I'm going to be a French cook what I'm into field
Wait a minute, give me that mark one piss pot. Yeah, I got to have a big pot, big can for this one. But there's a lot of stuff like that out there. However, I would point out you're paying government surplus prices in the 21st century planet Krapu, so the prices are not what they used to be. They are much crazier. That's all there is to it. So this is where we're looking for alternate solutions. And yes, if all else fails, rice and beans, people.
rice and beans in a can of something. I'll tell you what, rice and beans in a can of sardines. Well, it's not very exciting. Nope, but it fills the gut. It provides the combination of proteins, carbohydrates, and amino acids that you need. And by the way, you get some fish oil with the sardines. And you can get them in mustard, you can get them in tomato sauce, you can get them in oil, you can get them in water. Take your pick. Mix it up that way you have a little bit of change up in menu. That's a good thing.
But if all else fails, buy a pallet of cheapest mackerel, buy a pallet of rice and a pallet of beans. And you know what? You're eating pretty stinking good, better than most of the planet. I said pallet. I know guys that that's what they did for their two-year supply. They walk out, had sources, a pallet of mackerel, pallet of beans, pallet of rice. And the rice was Asian rice.
So very different from the dry land flat rice that you know we have. Well we have both, but mostly we have dry land rice. So just heads up on that one. We are 15 minutes out from the top. It is Communications Tuesday. We've been talking about everything else, but if we don't keep you alive and we don't keep you eating, you're not going to be talking to anybody in any radios.
Go ahead, jump in there, caller. I'll go over it again, like I did in the last hour. So I spotted this 419 Central time here in Oklahoma City. This is at the NBC Suites. The address is going to be 1815 South Meridian here in Oklahoma City. It's just about two miles north of the World Airport, Will Rogers Airport.
about 50 hotels over in this area, so hotel area. But it's on the intersection of Southwest 15th and Meridian. It's going to be on the southwest corner of that intersection. I saw a FEMA command trailer set up in the parking lot on the north side of the hotel, which faces 15th Street. It had the two
Expansion sides that expand out to give more room on the inside were expanded out. It had the communications satellite dish set up on top along with their dish network PV set up. There's a generator that is parked trailer parked behind the RV. It is set up with the wires attached and hooked up to the trailer.
Of course the RV, the command RV says FEMA on the side in big letters so you can't miss it. There was three white work trucks. They're Ford super duty trucks. I'll have to look at my pictures a little bit more closely. But two of them had heavy duty bumpers with the winches on the front and the other one did not. But they have the box trailer.
or boxed in a work trailer where they have the access panels on the side and it's one enclosed truck bed, all one package with the open two doors on the back to store stuff in the middle with the, like I said, the access boxes on either side. Also Mark, I did drive through the park lot. There was a forced vehicle. There was a white GMC four-door, I'm not sure, Yukon, similar SUV.
parked right across right over there by it that I didn't see earlier. It had the little round white box I believe was either some sort of satellite communication like smaller type communication or tracking along with a smaller antenna or whatever for you know mobile radio or whatever that they have. It wasn't a dome type thing. It was more of a rectangle square box. Probably about two inches high, probably about six inches.
6 inches diameter some type of communications antenna and I closed box on top of the white SUV Next to the generator that had the wires up it for the trailer was just another medium small box trailer parked right next to it and Let's say in place that I've mentioned before the only disaster sites that are
going on we had some tornadoes two weeks ago and then one a week ago. But all these locations are over an hour's drive. One is over two hours drive from Oklahoma City metro area. Like I said, the two hour one is up more towards Tulsa. So all these areas that have some tornado damage that possibly FEMA would go to are way over an hour, almost two hours away in different directions.
Doesn't really make sense that they would set up here in Oklahoma City. So just just a heads up for anybody who lives in Oklahoma City surrounding area. Like so this was in Oklahoma City the NBC Suites Address was 1815 South Meridian Look at the intersection of Southwest 15th and Meridian It's gonna be on the southwest corner of that intersection and you can see the trailer and the three pickup trucks if you just drive down 15th Street without even driving through the parking lot
And like I said, they have their command trailer with the three pickup trucks set up and deployed. And like I said, I saw this an hour ago when I first saw it. And I like that about 20 minutes ago, I drove back through there and got some video. And I'll post some pictures on the gilded page under the news section since the general chat doesn't have pictures access. So I'll post it under the news section with the pictures and whatnot. Unless you have any questions.
Very good. And again, thank you for the follow-up too. Basically what I've described before, remember, is you have a core element and you have assigned support vehicles that are either, in this case, if they're the truck's maintenance or, you know, deployment for material support. And then you have another courier vehicle, which is what the Yukon is, slash once you plop your arse down wherever you're located, you don't move the whole command post.
You know, debark if it's a trailer or you park the CP if it's a mobile home type construction and then use the support vehicles for all your local duty work, whatever you're doing. So this is a pod deployment of some kind.
And there may be more vehicles attached than just the one Yukon, it's as likely as not, but usually you see a small little fleet support detail. This is kind of like what I've talked about with building a hospital unit. You know, you have three trucks, three trailers, or in this case, forgive me, three ambulances.
Three trailers and then you still have a an actual ambulance transport which are trucks or vans separate from the ambulance which is pressed into service as a Aid station, but you also want a handful of other support vehicles because all the rest of this equipment is specialized So you need something to assign and and and attach to those formations. That's what they're doing here Do we have another caller?
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