It's a good idea to take a look at and have reference because if you see that basic pattern, in the past they used to buy separate fleet contract vehicles. But back in the 90s there was a significant change for control because the money is coming from the Fed, not just for FEMA, but also for state police forces that have prostituted or hoored out to the Fed and are now basically part of Homeland Succi-Ridey. And Homeland Sucky Righty does that control. So one of the things that they've done is that they subcontract the fleet of vehicles. So when the vehicles are even damaged, they have to be retained, and they are surrendered back because they're basically under a lease program. And then they return into the bowels of the system for whatever purposes, probably to disappear underground or go overseas for some other arcane police force that they've got going on in whatever country that they're manipulating. Very likely because they're paid for. I mean, they are actually all sitting there for a reason. Pulling the old ones out. It used to be that most cities metropolitan areas had a two-year repurchase requirement per police union contract. Don't know how many still have that, but part of that was next when the Federal Fleet Program came into play and a lot of the big cities like Detroit, Lansing, etc. Although they have a choice to go either way, but if they do buy into the Fed fleet, then there are all kinds of special things they need to kowtow to. And so things have changed. It's been a roller coaster, depending on the department and what part of the country you're in. Ohio, like I said, has changed dramatically. They've broken away in many ways from the Fed pit. I'm sure they suck on some others, though, quite nicely. We're at the top. We're going to hear the music. And we've had power outage two or three times. That's OK. We didn't lose connection. We've had some hiccups I can hear in the line that have come down from some of the storming going on off to the west and to the east. So again, we should hear the music. Ah, hear it. God bless the republic. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. And by my World War I French bomber clock, which later was of course a U-boat clock, as you know, this little historical piece is kept perfect time. We will be back in a few minutes on regular schedule, I promise, provided we don't get disconnected. Right here, Liberty Tree Radio. It's Communications Tuesday. We'll be back. www.pokerface.com. A figure walked in through the mist with a flintlock in his hand. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution to secure our liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you, we hoped you'd always keep. The tyrants labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost. You're no more than a slave. In this, the land of the free and home of the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. Permits to start a business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money is spent, your children must attend a school that doesn't educate, and your Christian values can't be taught according to the state. You read about the current news in a regulated press, and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan's 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 will be- Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the Supreme Law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God given right, and pray to God, get the torch of freedom burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist for whence he came, his words were true, we are free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now his parents trampled each God-given right. We only watched him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside in a dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? Going to war in 24. Congratulations, you're here. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. This is the first hour of the Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Kornke. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories, southeast, north, northwest, and ladies and gentlemen, you're listening to us on... www.libertytreeradio.4mg.com and we're on satellite. We want to say hi to all our merchant marine operators out there. No matter what body of water you are operating on right now or resting, we appreciate the fact that you are rebroadcasting us and thank you for doing so. It's greatly appreciated. We're in a myriad of other communications technologies, both inside and outside these United States. And again, it is, well, this is the Friday. It has been a busy nonstop Friday, a good thing. Actually, a lot of good things happening. I can't really complain at all. Other things may not be so good, but we'll talk more about that in a minute. It is Cinco Di Amo day. Yes, señor, señorita, señora. Today is the day when you will go out and you will buy a muñizion for your pistola, for your shotgun, and for your rifle. It is also Quartermaster Friday and it is the 23rd of August. These days are ticking down, not too fast, but fast enough. And it is the 16th year of open obvious and in your face, also in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. 2024, old earth calendar, of Kivodorol, she's got captain. And 2024, Battle for the Republic, book one, The Dance of Swords. And it has, like I said, been a very busy week and we're now headed to the weekend. Want to say hi to Camp Emmerich, Camp Emerson, New Camp Stasa, Camp Wayland North, The Oghamor Rages, Naga Hitcham, Fox, Wolf, The Rustics, which are going to be renamed here pretty soon. And of course, for Benning, Michigan. Fort Benning has a bunch of signage, road signage that's going up to the facility that was finished by one of our locals here. He did a really great job. We did it in World War II graphic as far as trying to match up the classic Sand Hill slash old post motif, which is kind of neat and what's really interesting was steel signs. So they're gonna be there for a while. And in addition to that, we have more road development going on. So there's going to be some, if you're up there at the new Fort Benning site, Fort Benning, Michigan, guys, be prepared. They're going to probably have you parking in different locations this weekend. We can't help it. It's road improvement. We're going to be concealing what is a really strong base. because we're moving armored vehicles through that facility. So, number one, there's going to be a few of the culverts taken out that were original concrete. I can be wasted, trust me. But they're going to go to a double thick and reinforced bridge wall for two of the access roads so that if we have any of our medium heavy vehicles go through or any of our construction equipment, we're not going to have any problem with it. And since it's the construction crew doing it, they know what the specs are. The culverts were donated by a local Michigan company, the steel bridging culverts. And we want to say thank you. We appreciate the fact that that was something we didn't expect. Somebody said, hey, I understand your need. And we got a couple of what are basically they were rejects from another project because they weren't wide enough for county specifications with one of the counties. It was stuff that was on the shelf. Apparently they paid for it and they had to be recovered. They don't want to eat them. They don't care. They can write them off. So we got the write-offs. So thank you. We appreciate it. Every time we do that, guys, that's tens of thousands of dollars we can spend somewhere else or thousands of dollars we can spend somewhere else and we will. Other things real quick. One more time. Aim, surplus, aim, surplus, aim, surplus. The Glock parts, there's a bunch of other stuff. I think there's like two waves now of Glock stuff that they're listing. They have a lot of Glock parts anyway. Most everybody does nowadays. It's the AR-15 of the pistol world. It does make an difference. I love the 1911. You're going to probably see me carrying a I Will Beat You to Death with at 1911 most of the time. But as I said, if I was in aviation, I would carry a Glock. I'd carry three Glocks. Why? Well, the 45s reasonably have your weapon. But the Glocks are so lightweight and so throwaway as a throwaway gun, they're perfect. You don't cry if something happens to them. But you could carry one in a shoulder holster, carry one in a hip holster, so carry one in a dump bag or a jump bag or whatever you got or however you want to do it. And they'd all be carrying, they all use the same mags. You could have a little chubby stubby hideaway. You could have a standard for your basic issue carry survival and still have another gun on hand. Why so many? Because you never have enough ammo, you never have enough guns. And as Rudyard Kipling said years ago, no man ever has enough books, ammunition, and red wine. I don't know about carrying red wine if you're a pilot, but I do know that carrying guns and ammo is a really good idea. Besides, if you're on the ground and something happens, you can contribute to the fight. And even hand a gun over to somebody else. Nobody ever thinks about that. Oh, you know what? You're just standing there. Yeah? Where's your gun? It's over there where they are. Oh, okay, well here, take my pistol. There you go. Now, you and I are going to contribute to the firefight by pointing our weapons in that direction and putting bullets down range. What do you say about that? Okay! See how that works? Now two guns are blazing rather than one. Of course we're not going to just pray and pray, slow down and aim or at least make them nervous. Like one of the team members from my competition group, when we were shooting, I was shooting with the army teams in match, national match. was an old Sergeant Major and it was like he said, we were talking about 100 yard shots and some belly gunner said, well, what good is your 45 good deal against me at 100 yards? He said, well, I'll tell you what, I think I'm good enough I can make you real nervous. In other words, at 100 yards, he could keep it within a pie plate with a 45. Trust me, this is a man who was, I don't think he'd made the President's 100 at least once. With a 45 so kind of tells you something. Do you know what I mean top shooter? US match multiple times not not number one necessarily, but who cares if we if he can keep a 45 ACP round with a match pistol in a quarter-sized group And I'm saying a quarter literally bullets side by side by on top of each other of all crescent mooning each other I'm thinking of a problem reaching out a hundred yards because he's already doing that at 50 yards and So again, if I hit a pie plate, I don't think you have a problem hitting a person. No, he wasn't hitting a pie plate. He was a lot smaller. So anyway, the Glocks work and Ames got a bunch of Glock barrels for cheap. In fact, the least expensive is $49.95, we'll just say $50, but that's a pretty good price. Now there are a few companies that have some cheaper out there, a little less, and it's up and down a few dollars. So the basic barrel black. They do have them in other colors, especially the new Rotochrome, where they're like rainbow. They got a rainbow coloring to them. They look pretty. It's basically a traditional, what is it, grade three finish that was used originally was an expansion upon. We used to be a tack finish for high tensile slash high impact steel. And looks pretty it really does it's just I wouldn't want it on my gun But I mean I'll take it if that's what I had I had a pile of barrels and goes well This is we got left well They're kind of gaudy, but hell better no barrel besides I already used the barrel on somebody I shouldn't have now I gotta make sure I change barrels and the other barrel just needs to be turned into Slag with the welder with the torch with the torch welder. Yeah, I can't find a barrel the barrels nothing was flagged real quick You could also weld pen into something, that would be kind of cool, that'd be kind of poetic. Use it for like welding stock for some. The barrel you want to make disappear. Anyway, so a couple things. Now I have not heard, so maybe somebody could inform me. Has Mr. Kennedy made his announcement so far today? Everybody was on tinter hooks. Everybody's been chewing on their toenails, chewing on their fingernails. In the eyes of the communists, has the liberal Kennedy group made an unholy ally with the Trump devil? Because that's what they're sounding like. Of course, it was. You've done it officially. He did. And he put his weight behind Trump, yes? Took his name off the ballots in the swing states, too. So again, but interesting so because he has the ability to do that He is the person who would have to make the decision So again you hit now this is fascinating and most people don't realize just how though Twilight Zone this is so a Kennedy liberal Has decided that the Democratic Party which has been so sick perverted and wicked that they sued him I mean like I've said before guys traditionally the Kennedy Shriver click in Politics was a guaranteed win for decades. Do you guys all know that right? Notice I mentioned another name Shriver anybody remember Shriver? Well, the Shriver family was big Eastern Seaboard limousine liberals just like the Kennedys. Big Eastern Seaboard. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Yeah. Well, but yeah, here's what's fascinating. I haven't seen any Arnold discussion after he said the head with your freedom. Remember that one? You know, we're talking about getting the murder death kills with your freedom. Well, Arnold, I'll keep my freedom and I'm not too worried about your opinion. You can have yours. But what's interesting is guys, the situation is such that the hyper globalist communists, slice Fabian socialist too, are so far around the corner that they in no way shape or form could find a way to form an alliance with a traditionally Democrat family. Do you know how critical that is? It doesn't make any difference if you're a leftist. You gotta understand, for the longest time, it's like, oh, Kennedys, they're like left wing, okay? They're left, they're like Democrats. And that used to be about as left as everybody thought the country was gonna go. Teddy Kennedy being the worst of the bunch. But now here we are, a Kennedy, an actual bloodline Kennedy, was rejected and attacked. by the fruit loop, nutcase, queers, the $3 bills, the tannic petals that are in the loop right now. And it's so bad. Now, here's some people aren't gonna like what I'm gonna say, but I'm gonna remind you, well, I've said this many times. What has happened is that now the moderate leftist, the Kennedys, have formed an alliance with the liberal Trump group because Trump is a liberal New Yorker. Both of them now have seen the light and for whatever reason in these power faction moves. Now guys, don't think I've been, oh, I've been illusioned. No, I haven't. I've told you a million times there are different tiers to this thing. And what this just showed you is at a particular tier, The level of insult and the level of the level of insult and outright attacks which were unwarranted against Kennedy have been so severe that the Kennedy clan, because he represents the head of the operating element of the Kennedy family and the Shriver family in politics right now. They pissed them off so much. that they have completely jumped off the track with the usual fellow travelers that they bite the bullet and go along with. Guys, they couldn't even step in the same room with them. You want to know how serious this situation is? That explains just exactly how serious this situation is with regard to how close you are to an open war against the Soviets in America. They have made a very public and, well, insulted move against another faction that normally they would do everything in their power to cultivate favor, to curry favor. And they didn't. So again, organize, arm, equip, and train as militia. establish a 5-10 program in your area of operations, logistics, the key to victory. You want to win? Understand you need the material where you're going to fight. So to do that, it needs to be tactically dispersed. We don't need any centralization and no higher command centralization, especially with logistics. What we need is everybody to develop as individuals, fire teams of five men, Squads of 10, those are the basic bricks for any army. Now you perfect your skill within that fire team and that squad and you will become the critical dynamic that is so important to winning battles, well skirmishes, battles, and campaigns. Guys, the writing is on the wall. Do you think that your enemy is going to let go of power? Anybody? There ain't no way in hell that they're going to let go of power. They already tried the assassination card. They already had everything set for that. Again, they probably, everybody thought they had that gentleman's agreement. It didn't work out the way they expected. Now the writing's on the wall for everybody. So there's no confusion about what's, you know, what the attitude of both sides are. If the, if the ring knockers in the, let's just say the Soviet, uh, monarchical camp. Have had their way with the Jewish mafia ordering it the Jewish mafia ordered to hit on on Trump They're the ones who did it and I'm gonna tell you something. Let me repeat this again Who owns the building and everybody's avoiding this? I do want to know who the shooter is because they've done anything they could to conceal that but I want to know what religion you don't have to you just not hard to do this What religion is the family? What religion was he from? What background? Because that is critical in any societal situation and it's critical to understanding the individual's brain. But... who in terms of who was he attached to is what you want to know at that building. It's got an international at the end of it, which means what kind of international? Who were they attached to? When you use that in the title for your company, it means there's something really important that they wanted to make a statement about. And it implies that they're active or interactive with a lot of other people. I'd like to know who that interactive group was. But they're making a point, even the people that supposedly are giving you the wink and the nod that they know, well, they're not really making an effort to know too much. Or offer too much in the way of information, because again, it's straightforward. I mean, so what's the big deal? Who owns the property? Who pays the taxes? Somebody pays the taxes. I just like to know who. On that note, so that decision has created another fork in the road. And the other interesting thing is, now here's a question. Again, I didn't see any of this to you. People are ahead of me on this particular, I kept waiting for it. I just didn't have time to stare at a screen all day. I'm not gonna do that, I can't. I've got too many things going on. But was there any statement about actually cooperating with Trump? to promote Trump's campaign because not only acquiescing and saying you're putting your weight behind, but are you gonna help promote? See, that's gonna be the interesting. If that happens, if that has happened, if that announcement has been made, that is another part of the critical dynamic to tell you about how far around the corner we are headed towards war. Because the other side can't have this. You just understand, wrap your brain around that one. Your enemy can't have this. They're not going to quote-unquote allow it. No, in their mind, they think they can tell us what to do. And to a degree, they've always lied, cheated, and steeled their way towards more power. But right now, nobody's got any confidence in their sorry ass. Everybody understands that they're crooked as the day is long. And this in and of itself is very critical to understanding just exactly how far around the corner the bad guys really are because of that. At some point, frothing at the Mount Crate, Mount's crazy, is gonna come out of the box and everybody's gonna step back and go, oh, I didn't think they were like that. Yes, they're like that in Worcestershire, back there, crazy town. So again, organized arm equipment training is militia because you are going to need to have mutual defense. Now, before we go any further, I wanna touch on something. Now, you might hear it, you might not, I'm gonna wind it up a little bit. Can everybody hear that? Can you hear that clicking? I put it real close to the microphone. That's my French night bomber from World War I clock that later was captured by the Germans after the beginning of World War II and was on almost, these were on every submarine, every U-boat that was put into service. So it's unknown if this was both in World War I, it was in World War I, but in effect almost all these clocks had to be up in the air dropping bombs on the Germans in World War I. Then, they run to the water, so they went the other direction, and were being used as timing clocks for estimating and for paying attention to torpedo target mark, you know, launch and how long does it take? Estimated. The critical thing is that's a wind-up clock. Now, the other thing I'm holding, you aren't going to be able to hear it, but I'm going to do it anyway. I'm going to wind my little wristwatch up here. This is an old boulevard, and it is a self-winding, but also a wind-up wristwatch. Guys, find a wind-up wristwatch now. Go look for, in fact, there's some great ones on the market that are brand new. The Russian ones are fantastic, but they've been blockaded. I was actually going to buy a clutch of 10 of the Russian wind-up wristwatches up until just before they finally, you know, drove the nail in the coffin about cooperating or doing business with the Russians. Now, there are a number of other windup watches out there that are very high quality. By the way, the checks make a good watch. I'm not looking for a $20,000 or $40,000 watch. I'm looking for a windup watch that is as good as anything else I could probably run into for standard timekeeping. Guys, the windup watches are not going to be affected by EMP. The one critical thing about this is that in the event that a nuclear weapon of some kind is employed in your AO or an EMP type generator technology, then everything you've got out there, electric, is dead in the water. Well, we need to be ahead of the curve on this, and mechanical watches are at the top right now. In fact, I think the quality is the best it's ever been, with the exception of maybe the hand-built era. So, there are many really good watch solutions that you can run into for very reasonable prices. The China Sport, military ones that were out there 10 years ago, I haven't seen for a while. They make a copy of the Timex Vietnam era roll-up. The wind-up type that they made during that period usually had the nylon strapping with the tactical cover, Ranger watch, that kind of thing. or airborne watches, a couple different titles, but they're basically, it was a military-issue watch, it was generated, they made different models for different years. They're fantastic pieces, time pieces, but yeah, I don't see them laying around like we did several years ago, or 20 years ago, obviously. Well, time marches on. So we gotta work with what we got, but take the time and hunt for, make a decision, a personal decision, And you need to adopt a wind-up wristwatch for all of your people. At the very least for your team leaders and your squad leaders, your platoon leaders, your company commanders. And usually if you do a block purchase, this is why I was going to buy 10 of the Russian. Because if you get everybody together and you buy 10, the price is much nicer. And if you can do whatever their bulk lot is, oh that makes the guy selling it happy. He'd be like, pig and mud, pig and pig style, pig and mud. Real happy, especially if you give him a bowling ball. In this case, you buy a bunch of watches. But now the Boulevard, this one I've had for probably 40 some years, this particular one. I have my dad's Boulevard also. I've not taken that out in the field. But this particular watch I've had and it's been a few thousand feet above the ground and I don't know, but I've never been in a submarine. So I haven't taken it beneath the waves, but it's been on a lot of places and many thousands and tens of thousands of miles with me and still runs like a top. The face is kind of brown now. It's kind of gold. I'll say this kind of gold issue was originally a little whiter and lighter, but that's okay. But blends into the background better now. The big thing here again is accurate time keeping. I love these BS horror movies and action movies. When we got Walking Fred, what do you got that watch for? What good is that gonna do you? It's like, well, that's typical of everything that they're doing to create a loser mentality. So I don't have a problem with my enemy embracing whatever has been generated by stupid people who write stupid television shows. But the big thing here again is, well, I don't know if you get your act together and you coordinate a little better and you actually, let's just say, get a little more focused rather than burn down every location you ever show up at. You ever watch Walking Dead's been on for how long now? How many organizations that have been trying to rebuild society have they hockey-pucked over now? They're working on burning down another one. They just destroyed another one. It's the only one that had helicopters and everything else. And they're horrible because they have all this good stuff and they actually can scrub their arse and don't smell like walking dead threads. Oh my God. Oh, they're horrible. And plus, there's white guys. So you've got to destroy it because there's white guys in charge. There's white guys in charge. Can't have that, especially with the kosher mafia run television series. So, everything gets burned down and they're right back just scrounging for crumbs. And trying to find another place to wheedle their way into so they can get it all burned down and destroyed again. Which is the whole theme of the Walking Fred right from the get go. So anyway, watches. Why? Because we can coordinate. And as a team, if we can coordinate our actions without radio control, we can minimize our signature slash target acquisition by the enemy because we do not offer that particular venue for manipulation and surveillance. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Now we're at the bottom of the hour. It is Friday. It is Cinco de Amo Day and it is Quartermaster Friday. And by the way, AIM Surplus is also the ammunition dealer to go to for PPU, Preview Partisan. Don't forget that. So that covers Cinco de Amo Day to a degree. Okay, we're going to have some fun for all you tread heads out there. We have the 17th RCT with their motorized section up here last weekend. This weekend, We got the 18th RCT, but we also have elements of Michigan militia at large. They're mechanized group. They've got a Quite a clutch of equipment that they're gonna be pulling out and this weekend is going to be a big multi-county event We're also doing a county by county communications, you know signal jump It's a handshake. The idea is to do a pip. We're not talking about squawking and talking 9 o'clock everybody lights up their rigs and I'm just using a random time and everybody lights up their rigs and then we do a relay bounce all the way around through every county in the state. Now some will be closer than others because it depends on who's running a rig but the idea is that we're going to jump the bridge all the way across the UP and probably even hit some bits and pieces of Wisconsin because we've got lots of allies over there too in northern Wisconsin. Actually all over Wisconsin but northern Wisconsin definitely cool. So for all our tread heads out there number one Let's see, did it a little while back and I think we need to do it again. Let's go Don Felder and Heavy Metal Ed. Don Felder and Heavy Metal. That will be for the 18th and also for Mission Militia at Large. I think it's the, hold on here, let me double check the notes here. It is the 8th Mission Militia at Large. Those are the guys, yeah, there we go. So it's the 8th, 8th MEC, and you guys will be busy working with the 18th. And I think also we've got elements of, I'm buying time because Ed's probably trying to connect heavy metal. We'll see what happens. By the way, do we have a microphone open? Maybe we got a caller. I just don't want to leave anybody out. Let's check to see. Somebody might be there. There we go. I was hearing a little extra background noise. It's not a problem. If you're a radio operator, you're used to it. If you're on commercial radio, it's embarrassing. So for everybody, again, libertytreeradio.4mg.com, libertytreeradio.org. And of course, we are on satellite. And again, I want to say thank you to all of our virtual marine operators who are rebroadcasting us on satellite. And we will have a little more information on that this weekend. There's going to be some individuals linking up with the militia meetup over in Battle Creek. In fact, today we had over, it was a 2400 individuals over there in the Battle Creek area for the militia meetup that's going on right now, representatives from several different organizations are in the field. And we had a A couple of aviation assets that were over there pitching in between just on the edge of Battle Creek, west of Battle Creek, and headed towards Kalamazoo. So again, for you guys that are out there, it's warm. I don't know how warm it is. The farther west you go, the more you got lake effect in the activity in that. changes the weather very, very quickly. So, it can be pretty comfortable right now over there. And if it isn't, well, bite the bullet, pre-hydrate, and carry on with the mission. So we want to say hi to all our friends over there in the Battle Creek Kalamazoo and north of Kalamazoo. Also, I think all the way up to below Ionia, as a matter of fact. And so that FTX, which is also a meet and greet, It's going on right now. It's been going on all day, as a matter of fact. This morning they had two different elements, I believe 1100 over north of Battle Creek, and they had the difference over in the north of Kalamazoo. There's also an Urbandale group that was busy today. They did a pretty good job, I understand. It was a lot of experience there. And so they're going to continue obviously through the weekend and we'll let everybody know I was thinking I might have to cancel out the 8 o'clock. I'm not so far. But I may have to travel and they were asking if I could show up over there real quick tonight. I can wait till late. I can be there any hour I want as a matter of fact. And so it'll probably be after the 8 o'clock. We'll be over there in the Kalamazoo area. for a little get-together with the encampment. So I'll see what I can do to get there as fast as I can. I'll have somebody else drive. That way I can rest. Okay, now let me do this again. Let's see what happens. If we could, Edward, one more time. Don Felder and heavy metal. If we could pull that up, we'll see if we can get that onto the chalks. And I'm also fidgeting here because we've got a couple other questions. Oh, what do I think about 5.7? The 57 PS 90. I don't have a problem with the round. As a matter of fact, it's a hellacious little package to be able to pick up a firearm and have a 50 or 100 round stick magazine attached to it is interesting. Now, it is a goofy system for those people when they look at it because the rounds are laying perpendicular to the barrel. That's always been an issue for Or the question is, how long does it take before it becomes a problem? Something happens. However, for as long as they've been in service, the guns have actually served pretty well. And there's a bunch of handguns that would be great aircraft safety and security weapons for, you know, pilots down, that kind of thing. Kel-Tec makes a 5.7 pistol using the PS90 magazines. And it is very compact. It is very very useful. I wouldn't hesitate. It's one of those guns again to be kind of cool to carry. Like if you were a pilot, it would be giving you a lot of firepower. Spare stick bags wouldn't take up much room, but you got a lot of ammunition to carry, which is always a plus. Lots of ammo, lots of boom-boom. You know, or pew-pew, as everybody likes to say nowadays. The big thing here is that with a pistol like that, the 5.7, When the ammunition starts to run dry quick during the, you know, and the next next spurts gonna be no different from the last several we've seen. Five seven disappears very quickly kind of like eight millimeter or forgive me, 6.5 or 6.8 Creedmoor or and I don't know if 6.5 is even made now. But also say 300 blackout and we've had this issue for a while. Now there's a lot of 300 blackout out there now. which is good, but it won't last. And the moment somebody has an issue with, oh my God, they're gonna do it. What'll happen is that that ammunition will disappear like spit on a griddle. I can't emphasize that enough. So if you have a 5.7, you must put into your paycheck allotment, in other words, your budget, the purchasing of so much 5.7 every paycheck. That should be a policy for you because if you like the round Remember, there's nobody that's gonna probably have it in their bank As far as military, you know, you go over enemy corpses. You don't find any But it is a useful round to make enemy corpses. So again, you want to Invest in as much of it as you can if you like the round It's a good little short assault cartridge is what it is, a short strike cartridge. I liken the 5.7 to the discarding Sabo Dark cartridge that was built during the 60s, but they've made disappear. Now there's no reference to or anything. The round was a really great idea. It's argued that when they did a tissue test using a distarding disabled dart cartridge, that since it was a high cyclic rate weapon, it literally turned like a ham into fluffed cotton candy. Now the 5.7 isn't quite going to do that, and it doesn't have the cyclic rate, it's no matter how quick your trigger finger works. But the weapon itself as far as its performance on target, it's devastating. It actually is very effective round So if that's what you're going to go with really I can say is buy more ammo lots more ammo if you really love it It's the weapon of my jaw. It's my it's the weapon of my dreams. Okay. Well, then you better make sure it doesn't become a nightmare Purchase more of of whatever it is you can get I'm not even I've said this before Because of what happened with the 5.7 in the past, you'd be better off making sure that you purchase anything. Better be able to put bullets downrange than harsh language and throwing a plastic pistol if you get madrift. So again, we don't want to do that, do we? No, we don't. I won't because I'm going to be using that 45 and beating your death with it because not to be out of ammo, but I probably still beat your death with it anyway just because it makes me feel good and I vent anger and energy that way especially if I kind of save ammo. However, again, take the time, check these out, see if it's something that makes sense for you. But if you do have the 5.7, you've got to be purchasing more yourself. Next. Let's see here. Well, somebody's asking again about watches in particular, you know, what brands. Guys, there's a whole bunch of stuff, checks. The French are making a copy of the Russian watches. I believe the last one I picked up here recently from our source. One was a French wind-up watch, very nice quality, very high quality. It was supposed to be dive safe. I don't plan on diving like I used to, but again, as in getting too far underwater. But as a solution, these were definitely an excellent watch. There's a number of different companies that usually use Rolex as the litmus for comparable to. The design is, some of these designs are virtually Rolex. as far as the pattern of the watch. And comparable study with people testing the quality control like with the Russian watches argued that they're as good as any Rolex. They're not a $20,000 watch. Nobody's going to charge that much, so they're affordable, but the quality of the product is very good to excellence. Again, what you can find right now on the market, interestingly enough, there's more people snarfing these up than you would expect. It's because a lot of people are thinking through their experience in the military, or, you know, again, they passed away from, you know, using a manual watch, but they know the value of a manual watch, of a manual windup. And again, the self-winding feature is still out there. That's another thing. Self-winding, what a self-winding watch does is when your wrist moves, like when you swing your hand, whatever you do, there's a reciprocating armature inside the watch. It's all micro-tiny, but what it does is it actually helps to... it kind of thing, but like a ratchet. What it does is every time you move, it indexes and starts to tighten up the spring, the primary drive spring. And it also has a control actuator, so when it gets to a certain point, it can't overwind. Because that's the first question everybody has. Well, wait a minute. If it keeps doing this, what happens when it gets to the peak, you know, does the thing deactivate itself because it's overwhelmed? No, it doesn't. They have an, I think it's an offset tag or something. However, this thing indexes, because you know with watches, and I'll micro-find the arc if you've ever looked at them. Basically what it does is it's a block slash lock, a lockout. so that when it achieves perfect complete windup, then it's inset and until it backs off, the reciprocating system can't try to add more energy to the spring. So they're cool. I love them. I really don't even leave home without them here in the future. The big thing is put it with your military pack. At least put it with your Minuteman kit. Get the watch. Don't just beat it up every day, save hours on it in terms of wear and tear. You want to wear it for a while and use it. You want to understand how it works. They're simple and it's a straightforward mechanical mechanism. But beyond that, I wouldn't beat it up right now. I saved mine. Mine's attached to my Minuteman rig and it's up there on the left quarter up with the the compress pouch. And all I do is take flight, you know, when you're adding the equipment to your person, the watch is in that middle tier before you start throwing out all the rest of the junk. Go ahead, jump in there, caller. Yeah, I got a GPT Moo watch and it seems to be working very well. I put it through hell and I shot in the hood on accident and it's still working. Well, again, there are China Sport windups out there and I'd grab them. I wouldn't even think twice. We used to be able to get them at places like Big Lot, used to find them because it was a common, or hell, even at the Dollar Tree there were some cheap, cheap, cheap ones. However, what's funny, those actually work quite well. And needless to say, there's the electronic, little electronic watches. You don't see those around because, well, they make great timing devices for anti-personnel boom booms. the electronic watches. In fact, the Casio was the go-to watch for the longest time, and it was a bargain basement watch that you could buy for anywhere from originally, I think it was four or five dollars. But the Casio watch was the go-to spook and cooke timer for detonating devices, as using as a detonating device for improvised munitions. So just think about it. It's fasting, especially since you can buy some of this stuff, not the Casio, but a knockoff of it at the Dollar Tree for a whopping $1. I wish I had some of my old old watches. He had, my great uncle made one out of a Timex and he used sterling silver and he put turquoise stuff in it and it was really nice. My dad had some really old pocket watches. But after he died and we had that fire, like I said, he popped himself and stole a bunch of his stuff. So yeah, I wish I would have had him though. I bet they would still work right now. Well, again, any watch, I'm not trying to tell you to throw out whatever else you got. If you have, any watch you've got is a tool. Always remember that. Any watches that we can acquire are going to be useful in the future and most people have not thought about this. The problem with battery watches is how do you make a replacement battery source when all the batteries are gone? Now just something to think about. Now again, does that mean I'm saying get rid of the electronic, the cheap electronic? No! I'm going to buy more. I get the Meard sales all the time. Again, like Tom just said, you can go to Teemu and you can buy some pretty decent, simple wristwatches and or pocketwatches that are more than suitable for what we're talking about doing. Are they chronometers from Switzerland? No, they're not. But a watch, especially if you all got the same cheap watch. Think about this. Well, they might be off a bit. Well, they'll probably all be off together. But they're close enough that they'll work especially for short term coordinating at you know, the short term process of coordinating activities. If you're jumping off from a location and you're all doing it within the next hour, everybody's going to their particular station for attack as designated on the map. Probably your clocks will hold time well enough for an hour and a half or two hours worth of travel and still serve you when you get to the other end for the jump off. Just something to think about. Remember the wristwatches, the clocks allow you to eradicate a lot of coordinating communication to try and move people to where they need to be. Everybody should be mastering the trade to the point where they do understand how to read a map. You do understand how to land navigate. You will get to the location that you're supposed to be at and blow and behold, it's 1430 hours and away we go. So again, Prior Pepper Plumbing prevents piss poor performance. Watches. They are a useful tool. Spares would be a real good idea. Well 14 I don't have it on my watch actually you do if you have an electronic because one of the features even on the cheapest clocks is to actually go to what either is called European time or In other words military time which is 24-hour clock So it's not difficult to do if you have the right electronic watch you can just reset the system and it will actually pop up with the regular Arabic numeral, you know chronograph And you can read it first person. You don't have to do the math that way. See 12 minus 12, that's like 230. Okay, we're going to attack it. 230 pm. Yeah, yeah, that's it. So again, when it comes to these also, yeah, when you're not using them, and if you're going to try to save everything, I Ziploc bag everything. Mr. Ziploc bag is your friend. We never had this before. We had cellophane, all kinds of other materials. None of them were ever, they were good, but usually they were very heavy and bulky. Mr. Ziploc bag is shaping a lot of weight off of your transport and wherever you can save that weight, you can carry more ammo, more medical supplies, you can do more things. And the neat thing about Ziploc bags is they're reusable. Now maybe not forever you can buy the more expensive Ziploc bags. You buy the cheaper Ziploc bags, but they all work Now before we go any farther a couple one more thing here and we're gonna have another subject I want to touch in the next hour tactically with regard tactical I'd be tactical support Over at oh was it forgive me over at apex gun parts. Yes. I know I harp about them all this week over at apex They have a bunch of bundle sets in their deals and clearance section the deals and steals whatever it is and One of the things that they have they're all I think $49 matter what it is or $48.99 or $48 $49 I'd have to look I think one or two were a little cheaper not much But a couple of them and again, this is for our guys that always put messages in the box here for me about Enfield parts. One of the things they have done with several of these is throw in a pile or a pile. Throw in a number, not a pile. A handful or one or two of the British Smelly magazines. Now some might be the number four, but most are the number one mark three. Those mags have always been expensive. Now I guarantee they're probably the drill mags. I don't know if they have the followers. I don't care. Because the magazine is the big part. Followers, springs, you can find. But the magazine, that's the toughie. Because it's already built to spec. And even if it needs to be adjusted a little bit, it's no big deal. The big thing is, clean off the grease, clean everything up, look to see if there's any oxidation, clean up the oxidation. I'd bead blast it, what I would do. and repaint it, because remember British rifles commonly were painted. Now what quality of paint you use is going to determine how long it lasts. So if you want to hard coat it, hard coat it. But after you do that, you can track down or even make another follower and you can make or you can improvise from say a number four, take a number four spring and use it in the number one, mark three. There's all kinds of solutions we've done in the past. The big thing is the bodies because those those magazine bodies for these much heavier built weapons are tougher to get right. It's just all there is to it. It's a little more Armstrong bending. Cool thing is if you do it right, they're usually good for life. But if you want spare mags for your British Enfields, go take a look at that. They certainly do have them for $10 apiece otherwise for the, you know, tired beat-up hulls. Which is okay, but that'll help you to calculate those deals that are there and don't forget apex also has a whole brand new inventory of Canik parts those Turkish pistols that have been coming in now for more than a few years The Canik has become very popular I've mentioned this to certain people they're really excited. They're like the god you want more parts. A figure walks in through the mist with a flintlock in his 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 home of the brave. The freedoms we secured for you we hoped you'd always keep. 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We've got a big turnout. I think there's going to be more people showing up tomorrow. So I don't know. We're not breaking any records because I don't know if there are any records that really could be met. But this is turning out to be a pretty good multi-county exercise. The radio signal part is going to cover the whole of the state. Heads up on that one real quick. It is the 23rd of August. It is the 16th year of open, obvious, and in your face, Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K. Twenty-twenty-four old earth calendar? Damn it, Jim. I'm a doctor, not a brick basin. and 2024 Battle for the Republic, the Dance of Swords. Let the dance continue. We're gonna make sure it happens. We are going to make sure the music is played. We're gonna be determining the tune across the board. So congratulations, the best workup I've seen in a long time across the state here. Real quick, before we go any farther, we're gonna do a music request right away, because I just never know. And what we need to do is, well, let's make sure I get this right again. If we could, come on Mark, I could do another one. Do we want to change our direction? No we don't. We want to do Heavy Metal. Don Felder, Heavy Metal studio piece, preferably again from the soundtrack, same movie, you know, the title is movie, Heavy Metal. And for all of our tread heads out there operating this weekend, I know we're going to have some fun teaching people how to work mechanized equipment. Here's what's really cool. The British equipment years ago, they decided that they needed to probably cycle a lot of people real quick. So they went with a steering wheel system for most of their vehicles. Amazingly enough, if you've ever seen a Bren gun carrier, go look it up. We have quite a few. I've resurrected the Tuna-mobiles from all over the place, especially across Michigan. And again, it's a steering wheel system. Now, it's still a double clutch, you know, you better have a strong leg because it's a manual clutch system. Sure, that's impressive. Again, heavy metal, that covers a whole bunch. Everybody heard that. Nobody hears it on the radio anymore, I guess. So we put it out there and you at least heard it again Don Felder original title track heavy metal off the movie which is from way back in the 60s for everybody who doesn't know and Now we're gonna do a follow-up of this and we will rock you Now this has always been a tread head song heavy metals the same way guys you ever been in tanks, you know when you when you Try to hit a piece of armor if it's real armor. There's no there's no echo. There's no bing or ting. There's thud. Okay, you're dealing with weight and We will rock you as a patrol song if you know heavy metals like a cruising song You're in team, you know formation you're moving cross-country or you're moving down the road. It's cruising song But we will rock you if you could picture a tank unit in motion in hunting mode with the turrets moving in proper station in their area of control in their quadrant and You think this is a big big tread heads working this weekend Everybody's gonna get a chance to drive something I don't know how they're gonna work out the scheduling on this but with the big meetups right now Between Battle Creek Kalamazoo all the way up to the south end of Ionia We've got a group here, of course, in the Jackson, Michigan. We've got a section here that will be working this weekend. The FTX is going on way up north over there towards Lansing. So again, communication is going to be the big thing also this weekend. I don't know exactly, well, I know I do, but I don't. In other words, I know that this is going to be a pretty busy weekend. I was actually looking at canceling out the 8 o'clock. We're not. We're going to stick around. But again, for everybody, if you're going to be on the road, pay attention. Watch out for the cell phone operators. I'm watching stupid people do stupid things all day. We just drove back and forth a third of the way across the state before we did the program here. And you know what? You can tell straightaways are really, straightaways are now the most dangerous part of the highway. with regard to driving. I cannot emphasize that enough. I used to be bad corners, that and that. Well, at least they kind of pull their head out of their fundamental orifice for corners. But then they get on a straightaway, head-ons, off in the ditch, semis. I've seen semis, it's been progressively worse. The Coronavirus shots, I'm sure, really did a lot to damage personal judgment. That's one of the things that did happen. We've had a lot of discussions about this. But I've seen semis literally go off the fog line with the left tire. The right tire is already in the dirt and the only thing it was saved was just one last jink and the rear end of the truck, the trailer was coming up off the ground, a foot and a half, literally a foot and a half, half the height of the tire. And then one last jink, you could see him hit the wheel and it pulled the tractor back up onto the road just by chance. But we've seen this so many times sometimes some of the wrecks we've seen looks like a cheese grater some of these especially in the Missouri and also in Oklahoma a couple of times and guys with the exceptional one which actually wasn't a quarter but of a bend in the road on the expressway on 55 Most of them are flat straightaways And the bad part is, later at night, they figured they can get away with more. And it's not just truck drivers, don't worry, everybody's guilty out there if they're crazy enough to decide that the cell phone's more important in their lives. But the problem is, they might take you with them, so pay attention. And again, we drive offensively, not defensively, drive offensively. Get around the obstacle, get on down the road, put it behind you and let it be somebody else's problem. Drive offensively always. I'm going to save yourself that way. I want you around for the fight. We got a war coming up. We need every last one of you out there in preparation for what's coming. Another thing here real quick. I want to touch on something, a conversation about uniforms and equipment real quick here. Number one, we're getting into the fall season. I'm going to highly recommend if you're in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, any of the northern states, we get the fall with a big fall leaf cover that lasts, and then we finally get a drop, and then we still have our greens and browns and grays. But during the transition and even afterwards, the Swiss, what everybody has been calling Alpine Flage pattern, is an excellent pattern. The problem is getting more of it or a good quantity of it anymore, but it is out there. Now, there are two cuts on these uniforms. One is the original Herringbone Twill, very heavy. The pants are a bib overall type. The jacket is a very heavy coat with lots of pockets. Well, that's because when the Swiss designed this kit, the coat is your field gear. That's the web gear. If you take a look at the system, it has multiple pockets all over the uniform, but inside the pockets there are sleeves. And so literally you distributed your magazines inside the coat pockets, the front pockets, the top pockets, the back pockets. There is a clip-on day backpack, which is the equivalent in volume to an M 1956 butt pack. The camouflage works, especially works. We actually have sumac, which is changing, and grape. And I don't know what's going on here, because on the one hand, we have solid green. So we're getting flecks of radiation from what they're doing with the overhead cover. And today, especially, it was obvious, we've got some sumac, which has gone into the same color range as the Swiss Elpen Flage. But we still have the green out there. Well, if you look at the alpine flush, it does too. And it especially works here in Michigan. It is through part of the, from the end of this season, summer, through the fall, it is a predator uniform. It is a disappear, people aren't thinking about the color combination. It's not in their brain. It's the only way to describe it. Plus, it has an extreme light dark contrast. And I've told you many times that's what's called a dazzle pattern. Now here's what's interesting. Some people have brought more history out on this uniform. Turns out that the Germans had it at the end of World War II. Chances are that the technology for making it the printer and the equipment, the machinery was sold on the market after the war booty era of the end of World War II. The Swiss liked the pattern and they bought it. Now here's another reason that it's red. It has a red range of color. For instance, red granite. But that's not the reason, but the Swiss liked it because the color range they went with served two purposes. During World War II, we didn't have green screen. Well, we didn't have any night vision at all initially. But the Germans developed night vision during the war. Red screen. Yes, red screen. Now, if you look at the Swiss alpine flash and you look at the U.S. woodland, And US Woodland is one of the superior patterns to void out night vision, to help camouflage you. But, I'm going to qualify that farther in a minute. During World War II, red screen was the norm. The Russians stole, or I should say acquired, because on the battlefield you pick up whatever you got. I think America basically through the back door screw America has support the communist operations technology shift that was taking place. I believe that we made the tubes. All indications are they slid the stuff over the Alaskan frontier and the Russians had a certain amount of copied red screen equivalent to the German night vision systems. Now, they got a chance to actually field it. So the Germans, knowing that this was happening, and because they themselves had night vision, they prioritized it for the Eastern Front. They wanted it to help overcome numbers by having superior technology against the Russians, against the Communists. So the uniforms were matched out, but the uniform didn't come in until 1945. And by this time, we obviously were headed very into 44, into 45. But there are examples of the uniform being caught on camera all over the Eastern Front. Now, there wasn't real good cooperation in getting camouflage in consistent numbers where it needed to be because, well, we're getting everything being bombed. However, the lessons learned from studying what the Germans had developed is why, progressively as we were fighting the Cold War, solutions because the Russians were catching up in thermal and they were catching up in night vision with us, or at least they were almost on par, not perfect, but once they had an example of the technology, they made their counterpart to it. Either that, or some trader in some industry slid it under the table to the Russians, mostly the Israelis. The Israelis were screwing us left and right during the Cold War. And many of our technical secrets, we give them to the Israelis. The Israelis are given to the Russians. The Russians would build them. The Israelis also did this with the communist Chinese and still are. Same traitorous activity slash belligerence against America, but they're making shekels, okay? Okay, we got a caller. Who do we have? infrared illuminator similar the big headlight on top of a rifle if anybody wants accurate that was to the Germans. I know I've seen a picture if it's been a while so but just just a reference since you're talking about that. I thought I'd mark. Thank you appreciate that. As a matter of fact well the reason they went from red screen to green remember Don covered this several times you know when he was you know while he was with us on the air. And remember that red shows up quite brightly in the collection systems, the scopes, even if they were red screen. But red light is on the upper end of the visible spectrum for infrared technology, for infrared slash night vision collection. So, it was discovered that green screen was a better choice for being less obvious. All light will be picked up by a night vision device. No matter what part of the spectrum it's on, it is going to show up to a degree, but it is least likely to be seen if it's green or blue lighting. So, for illuminating, for you being able to look at a screen and maybe still being moon-pied, what do we mean by that? Well, it used to be every once in a while a guy would do a cheat and do a quick look through the night vision device, but they wouldn't have sucked the thing up to their face. Well, when you do that, whatever light you have in that screen that you're reading is washing your face. Moon-pie. In fact, that's a lot of times that a sniper would be looking for, is somebody who is sloppy with their light discipline, with their night vision technology, be that the infrared, illuminator tech, or going into starlight Gen 1 or Gen 2 during Vietnam. And the Vietnam Gen 2, it's argued that it was already there in good strength, But again, restricted. They didn't want anybody else to capture it. And all it is just a cascading development from one generation to the next, adding more tubes and synthesizing the light. So what's interesting is that the red screen was still out there in some form. I mean, it was first of all a minority technology. It was in some tanks, certainly with mechanized infantry because they were priority. And it was used offensively. Initially, night vision was used offensively. The bell formation was developed, which, glad they're not through using it now, I don't know. I mean, who knows, everybody's got to have a change in flavor so they can claim they're doing something different because they're modern. But the bell formation for night assault, night attack with night vision was perfected to the end degree by the Germans and it was incredibly successful. Okay, however, then they changed it. They realized that well, this problem is that once both sides have night vision, the red actually is much more easily detected. So they shifted in color, which is why we now see the green screen systems that we have. White screen, not good because it damages your natural collective night vision. Green isn't so harsh on your natural night vision. You don't lose it forever. It's just that the element purple gets burned off of your eyes over a period of time with repeat, repeat, repeat use. So the interesting thing is that when everybody was obviously on green screen, The US military looked at the threat and we went from fighting the five-year-old blind kid, you know, across the street like Vietnam. Deadly troops but not given that much technology. But we went back to focusing more extensively on World War III Cold War threat. And what happened is coming out of the Vietnam War, we get the new Woodland Camouflage Uniform System. has got armor system along with the complete and already perfected from Vietnam Alice gear and the whole combination is an integrated system. It is not obsolete by any stretch of the imagination. And most important is you got to understand something when they built the, this is where we go from the Swiss help and Plage, which was the first solution to deal with night vision threat. That's why it was built the way it was built, but it also complements seasonal conditions or environmental conditions because you got a lot of red granite in Europe. The countries that adopted it later on, Switzerland, used it because it served their purpose, okay, for the type of field situation. And you can change the colors when you're building camel. Now, real quick, woodland. When the woodland camel came out, it's not the woodland you can buy off the shelf now. And this is the most common mistake I explained to some people when we were up there at the surplus store in Lansing that was selling out of all the stuff they had in the wine vaults. A dollar an item for original woodland camel. And there were so many archeological dig-type versions that were in that collection that I could show somebody what I was talking about. The big thing is you'll never see the hats. Unless you find somebody who actually has some crate of hats that are from the late 70s into the early 80s, it is difficult to find a surviving, actual, original issue Woodland Patrol coffee can hat. I'm not talking Vietnam era cotton twill patrol hats. I'm talking an actual woodland camouflage 1970s to 1980s patrol cap. Why? Because it was part of the thermal reduction and infrared reduction system that the woodland camo uniform was also part of. Remember when they issued the woodland camo, if you find any that's brand new in the box, now the material may have have aired from it, but all Woodland Campbell uniforms were treated for anti-infrared detection. That's what they were set up for. The hats were made of a totally different material. You might recall this, I'm jogging your memory if you're old service. But the hats broke down in a weird way and everybody was pissed about it because the brims were made of a very different material And the material that covered the brim of these coffee can patrol hats was a much finer texture. Why? Well, here's why. Because it was part of the thermal reduction. Even the bill itself, the material that the bill was made out of, was designed to shade to a degree and block. The thermal image coming out of your eyes, everybody always sees thermal and they see, man, your eyes look like ray beams, like you got a couple of high beams there. Right, but if you use the brim the way you're supposed to, you're dropping that down to cover, okay, protect. The brim itself, the plastic, the material, the polymer, it's not regular plastic, was designed as part of the absorption deflection system. I don't know if they did a patrol, a bony hat in that. They probably did, but we never saw it. But the patrol hats also were a rayon and other materials mix and it's listed in the pack and the tag. If you've got an old patrol cap from that period, even though maybe you're stuck it away because the brim usually the brims fell apart. Why? Well, because unfortunately the plastic they chose was great for thermal reduction, but it was had a very short shelf life, so to speak in service. It was good for the period of time was supposed to be issued because they were supposed to reissue the uniform every two years. Yuck, that was going to happen. But in theory, with regular conventional, not aggressive washing, the thermal defense and anti-infrared protection was supposed to be good for two years. could be replaced more often, but typically they argued that they could be kept in service for about two years, and then you'd chuck everything to supply and they'd give you a whole new set. As you all know, if you've ever been in the military, the dumbass ring knockers always sell a system like this, but never follow through. Once they get the money, they steal it. They slide it sideways. So the system is still, parts of it are still out there. The hats are the rarest. The actual original desert night anti-infrared, anti-thermal suit, parka hat and pants, if you can find them. And actually during Desert Dust Part 1, hat that was supposed to go with that was a booney hat. Yes, there are copies, but they do not have the impregnated thermal protection that was soaked into and part of the process of building up that particular package. This is why if you can find actual, if you know somebody brought something back and they want to get rid of it, a lot of times now everybody's nostalgic. I've talked about this for years. Initially, I came home, I burned all my stuff. Then all of a sudden, if they're lucky, they just put in a footlocker and shut up and didn't let their wife talk him into destroying or selling everything. I want you to give it all your army stuff. I hate it. Well, I'm going to put it away where you can't see it. Then you'll forget about it. But most everybody did the woofy thing and got rid of their stuff. Well, then after about 10 years, I remember the good old days when I was in the military and they want the patrol hat or whatever hat was the style or pattern for the era that they served. Why do I know this? I have found stuff like this for veterans from every war back to World War I. Usually World War I guys are pretty smart, so they knew where to look for stuff. But after that, it's like a lot of guys didn't pay any attention, but then they got nostalgic. They wanted that real patrol hat like they had in the middle of Vietnam. The bucket hat, not the big brim hat. Well, if you looked around, you knew where surplus had the stuff piled up. The night vision protection, the anti-infrared, anti-thermal defense of the Woodland camel is also a combination of the treatment and the coloration. This is why there's black in the uniform, just as with the Swiss. The black is designed to create, as Don pointed out many times when you were talking about, holes in the night vision process. And the black is a deceiver. It creates a false shadow of false depth. So, what happens is you have this extreme light-dark contrast, guys. You could build this. You could make this with, the only problem is your paints. I don't know how much reflective material is added into the paints. We'd have to do more testing. I don't trust most of the new stuff. The ultra-flat paints, though, actually are quite useful for this purpose. And if need be taking, for instance, an OD green or a desert tan or a coyote brown uniform or a kit, and making the extreme light-dark contrast that is typical for what is called a dazzle pattern that will defeat being able to effectively focus on a target. That's what camouflage is supposed to do. It deceives the brain. The brain is looking for one color or the other color and it shifts. It goes back and forth and what happens mentally, subconsciously is you keep going back and forth between light, dark, light, dark and it literally is a deceptive process of fogging the brain, so to speak. It works. It works really well. The Woodland, in fact, as you know, a lot of guys that went over to Afghanistan over the last, what, 20 years? Yeah, they go over with that ACU uniform, but a lot of the, especially these more unique units, get over there. They would buy Woodland camel from the region and switch out to Woodland while they were there in service. Because the woodland appeared to work better plus what technology the Taliban or whatever Afghan forces or foreign forces they were facing had in the rustic conditions of the Afghan terrain was typically a step back from the American equipment. So using the American equipment for the offensive and defensive component for protection for observation, combined with a better concealment system and coloration. The woodland camel makes sense. Now here's what's interesting. Gotta remember, I always joke about the ACU. I just bought a ton of ACU. I bought hundreds and hundreds of ACU tops and bottoms for a dollar apiece. I told you guys, anybody who could make it, go and buy this stuff up. I should have put the money down and smacked down and bought the whole building is what I should have done. But Mark, the ACU, well, the ACU does work as a fatigue uniform. and it can be dyed and converted to other colorations which as I told you one of the experiments we've already done is with the walnut stain using natural walnut. Now we're almost in walnut season again. When we strip all the holes off of the walnuts before we beat, you know, crack them open, we're going to have first you strip the holes off. You then let the walnuts dry, then you crack them open to get to what's inside. Well, all those green hulls which are mushy, those go into five-gallon pails. They have lids put on them so the bugs don't breed too much in them, but you pack them solid. What is that? That's dye material. What color do you get? Well, you get actually kind of an earthen brown base gray-green, which is what I want, and in fact matches tree bark quite nicely. But when you apply the walnut in a boiling system, you end up with changing the coloration of each of the camouflage colors integrated into the uniform. So basically, what you get is a like an ATAC brown range, brown-green camouflage pattern. Looks very much like ATEX. Not quite because it's still got those digital blocks. But you know what? The uniforms are a dollar a piece. I don't care. I don't care about them that way. I can color them over and I've got a friendly uniform shoot no shoot that I can identify. Interestingly enough, the walnut will dye the velcro. It recolors the velcro. It's aggressive enough with whatever I'm sure it's probably tannic acid. There's a certain amount of tannic acid in almost every nut that's out there and the nut holes are no different. So that tannic acid helps to permeate the polymer, the plastic, and color it to the range, you know, changing the range of color for the basic components. Now, even if it didn't, I wouldn't care because the base green color, that loam or sage color that is in the ACU isn't a bad base color to have. So, again, heads up, we're looking to try and improve your survivability. Woodland, especially original Woodland. Now, all the remakes and God, everybody remakes it. There's China Sport, there's a whole bunch of American companies. They're not building it to the same spec as the original uniforms, which were a defensive system based on fighting an actual third world war against an A class military. Because of that, with regard to the Woodland BDO uniforms, they paid top dollar for specific processes to be involved. Now the new stuff that's copies they don't know anything about that or they don't care now somebody's asking me right now Well mark what about like say Italian woodland? I also don't know that much about their process But the Italian woodland was came into service about the same time and then overlaps and goes beyond the US woodland when it was issued the Italian woodland the Spanish woodland and the others may have used the anti-infrared or thermal reduction treatment processes. Because basically you're soaking the original stock material, the cloth, and then you're also doing a second treatment or a third treatment. There's three basic chemical processes that are used. And it takes, like I said, about two years of constant service and use to burn out those uniforms. What I mean by burnout is to wash out the material. Now, it doesn't mean uniforms can't be used. I mean, hell, I'm not gonna throw anything away. But the considerations can they be recharged? Well, if you go to any of the bow hunting supplies, they have infrared reduction of stock, material, chemicals to actually soak your hunting clothes in to help to reduce your thermal signature for hunting purposes. with Bambi and the other creatures which have a wider spectrum of collection and are more suited to night survival. And so their natural night vision affords them a little wider spectrum of evaluation with regard to thermal and or conventional infrared out there. That's why they originally offered this for bow hunters because bow hunters are expecting to be at closer ranges. They want to try and make it more difficult to be seen. And because in bow hunting you typically can use full camouflage even though some states like Michigan you have to have a certain amount of orange. But you can also treat the orange with the same materials. Still visible spectrum will be orange but the reduced, the using the material, the dye, well or the I should say the soak, What happens is it reduces its obvious flare to the animal's eye, which is what you're trying to do. In this case, well, we're the same kind of, we're the same thing. We're predators instead of preys looking for the other side. They're looking for us. These are solutions. Now, again, dazzle patterns. The last one I'm gonna cover real quick is the Czech airborne and two camouflage, which is also called a clown suit. This uniform again was designed to defeat green screen. It is out there. You can find it on eBay, but the prices are insane by comparison to others. But it's amazing how many of those uniforms were built. Again, it's in the extreme light, dark, dazzle camouflage. I'm going to tell you something. I fielded that uniform extensively with whole OpForGroups, both the Czech and other uniforms. And I'm going to tell you that of all the uniforms I've ever serviced and fielded with large numbers of personnel, the Czech airborne camouflage, what they call the clown suits, is an absolute predator uniform. This time of year now, it is invisible. Now, of course, it's good through the summer, but it's a heavier weight twill, a carrying bone twill weave uniform. And if you look for it, it's the check, in fact, you can run, you can go to eBay, run a search, check the Slovakian, put a bracket, clown suit, you know, brackets, put it in brackets, and you'll come up with many, many examples of what I'm trying to tell you about. Now, condition will vary, but brand new out of the box, and I was buying these by the hundreds. There was one source in the US, and he brought them in, and this is during the Cold War. But he got him as a source from one rent a revolution company or another. So I was able to actually field whole companies or platoons in this uniform and I saw it in action. And the most amazing thing about this uniform pattern was in motion, you still could not be easily focused on or seen. It's one thing to be standing somewhere, you become invisible. literally with this uniform pattern. But when you're in motion, it's much tougher because of reflection. And it's interesting that either exposed or in tree line or in extreme brush, I could put a platoon out there and people would actually, I watch reactions with individuals we were teaching and I'd have a class and they'd be trying to look, they'd be noticing emotion, but they couldn't figure out what they were looking at. Now the other reason is because these are not regular American patterns. One of the biggest things you have that most people don't realize until you get into a fighting situation where you know what your aggressor looks like is you're almost always relating to experience. And that means that you're thinking about your system. So when you're looking, you're actually, if a guy's in a woodland uniform, it's like, oh, he's right there. Or if he's in, you know, even with multi-cays, he's right there. When he was in ACU, didn't make any difference where the hell he was. He's right there. I could see him. He's right there. Well, it's supposed to be the universal uniform. Yeah, but he's right there. I can see him. Oops. Now that was one of the problems with the ACU, but it does work well as a winter uniform. So anyway, again, Woodland is a, that's why I talk about the Woodland units that are out here. We have quite a few of them that they're, that's the standard. That's what they're working with because they'll grab every piece of Woodland they can find. and they're taking advantage of the inventories that are coming out of the rent a revolution market with regard to surplus and are acting accordingly. But at the end of Vietnam, the woodland that you see in that period is not what you're buying now. Unless you find actual surplus and if you're really lucky, there's some really great shops down on the ridge down in Tennessee and Kentucky. I've seen a few that have crates of the stuff that they're opening up that they got from government sales, whatever window, maybe they've had them in warehouses like the stuff we bought up in Lansing here just a little bit ago. It's original equipment from that era, and it just hasn't seen the light of day. If that is the case, it's better quality, but the tough thing to find are the patrol hats. And the patrol hats are not of the same material. Here we go. Well, I've got a woodland patrol hat. I'm sure you do. I've got probably a hundred of them sitting right here in a box I'm looking at right now. They're standard production grade for this day. They're, I'm sure, China Sport. Got a hundred of them. Got them for a great price because I've been wheeling and dealing on stuff. They go with a woodland batch and a woodland system. And what's cute is they're not the hat I'm talking about. They are cut like the hat we're talking about, but they're not the same material. They're 55th cotton polyester blend or they're 6535 cotton polyester blend, depending on who made them. And they're not the hat we're talking about. It's a totally different era and they were 100% American made. The American looms to American standard. And that's not what you're getting now. So different world. Now I'm living with it. I'm not complaining. I'll grab what I can. Guys, we got legions of people to outfit. What's happening right now this weekend, everybody's finding out, oh my God, a whole bunch of people are showing up. Yes, everybody understands. Writing's on the wall. Everybody's had their epiphany. Because of that, you can now see some of the logistics issues that we are going to be dealing with as this thing escalates into a combat situation. You will not have enough of anything, no matter how hard you try. You will not have enough, not enough medical supplies, not enough equipment, not enough food, not enough spare parts. But what we can do is bring ourselves closest to the 100% mark, so to speak, where we are prepared and ready to deal with it. We have a bridging period we're gonna have to deal with. That's what I've been talking about for a very long time. Let's square our technology away, get ourselves in motion and be ready to fight. So again, almost to the top here for everybody out there want to say hi again to Camp Emerson, new camp stops at Camp Whalen North, the Ogham Aranges, Nagi Icham, Fox Wolf and also the Rustics and Fort Benning, Michigan. You guys are doing a great job. We want to thank the construction crews for showing up this weekend. Again, everybody else is going to be following the orders of the militia MPs to move around those construction sites when the time comes. They are doing that for a reason. They're not trying to be abusive. They're trying to make things move faster. Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance. Next, let's see. Oh, come on. Okay, I wanted to talk about the uniforms because there were a bunch of questions about the Swiss. this week and they came in different forms including one of the meetings everybody was at on Wednesday late night. Oh, again, hi to the 8th MEC, Michigan Militia at Large. You guys are out there right now. And if you guys haven't seen a Bren gun carrier, they're going to have probably four or five of them out there. This weekend they're going to have one section out there. So these are modified. They're quite, they're very automotive. They are again a really neat little pocket track vehicle. Years ago we actually started building tracks for these. We have had forged and cast tracks and made individual track pads. So we have a run ongoing contract for that. And so we actually have new track pads and new tracks for these vehicles. Most people couldn't say that. I'm not worried about supporting anybody else, which makes sure our people got them. But again, if you get a chance, get behind the wheel. There'll be somebody helping you. Not everybody's going to be able to work those because they are a clutch vehicle. They are a double clutch type system. There is no synchronizer. It's a Ford pickup truck motor, a flathead V8. that runs the vehicle. It's a standard Ford transmission. A little unique the way it's set up, but you guys will have fun. And then you can put something under your belt. Not everybody can say, oh, a Droga Bren gun carrier this weekend. Next, we're almost to the top, but not quite. Also, helmets. I had a question about helmets. Source, what are we doing right now? Well, actually, I have a ton of the M1 piss pots, and we use those. But I also have hundreds, if not now, thousands of bump helmets. My recommendation, there's a bunch of Level 3 PASGAT copies out there that are Level 3 commercial. They're the cheapest of the Kevlar helmets out there, and they actually offer more armor protection. And what was the mission? The operator helmets, piss on the operator helmets. You're looking at mostly being regular infantry, not a whole lot special about us. But we are going to be in the slugfest. Fragmentation is the issue. The original PASGAT was designed to bring down the protection around the ears and the back of the head. Why? Because we're covering more parts of your beaners so they don't get a chunk of, you know, nail shrapnel stuck in it. The original PASGAT system we mentioned had a high collar. They evaluated the casualties of Vietnam. Looking at the casualties of Vietnam, which were very quite similar to the casualties of Korea in World War II, they decided that the body armor systems, though they did work, they did not offer sufficient protection for the neck, and they were trying to get better protection around the head. And since you're supposed to be like a little armored turtle, the idea was that the helmet rolls down over the upper collar, in other words, how it sits on your head. It rolls down and overlaps with the collar, which was a higher throat protection and back of the neck protection panel. And personally, the PazGAT is the better way to go. I know everybody's going to have their attitude on that. Congratulations. You can buy what you want. We can pick up what we want. But the neat thing is that the standard PASGAT Level 3, they do make Level 4s, they're out there, are under about $100 apiece for brand new out of the box. Personally, considering the cost of helmet covers, I don't care what it is. It's cheaper for you to buy camouflage material and make your own. We're at that point. In fact, let me put it this way. I was buying those camouflage shirts for $1 apiece. camouflage covers are running five, seven, and ten dollars apiece. Well, it'd be cheaper for me to take a shirt that's already damaged but still in great shape and cut a helmet cover from a dollar shirt than to pay ten dollars for a helmet cover that's costing more than my shirt did. In fact, it costs more than the coat I'm wearing. See how that works? It's ridiculous. And helmet covers are stupid simple to make. So again, consideration, if you're trying to match up camouflage, look for the castaways or damaged clothing. Yo, that's damaged. I'll make off from a price. Yeah, give it to me for a quarter. Cool, okay. Now you got all that material. You got the buttons. You got pockets you can cut off and add to other uniforms. So you can add pockets to your gear and it matches up. It's all kinds of neat stuff you can do if you're in a sew a little bit. The most important is the helmet covers. If you make a deal with somebody, there are a few places that have some reasonably priced covers. And it's a personal flavor choice. You just want to go out and buy it, go out and buy it. It's your money, not mine. But again, the Pascat helmet, personally, if I was going to be acquiring more helmets in bigger quantities, I'd be going with the Pascat. I want the longer side shoulder, those side covers. I don't want the side for my head to go focused. Congress, July 4th, 1776. The unanimous declaration of the thirteen United States of America. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another. And to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. 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I'm out here in the middle of nowhere because my buddy Curtis VSO, you might know VSO Gun Channel. He's getting married and he invited us to come up here so can't wait to see my buddy get married. Proud of them, proud of them. But we've had this conversation for a very long time, for years, about how many people in our community would like to see Donald Trump change what he has said about the Second Amendment. And I showed you the video not too long ago. I'm going to post it above for you to watch if you haven't seen it. And that was right after he was shot. Shot in the face, right? And he changed his tune. And somebody asked him if You know because the shooter used an AR if that changed his viewpoint on people having access to those weapons And he said no people need those to protect themselves and it was the most pro-2a thing he's ever really said and well last weekend we were at the goals event in Knoxville, Tennessee and Donald Trump had an address for the crowd that he recorded for gun owners of America and This is the most Pro to a thing I've ever heard him say a few of us and many of us in the industry have been Attempting to get messages to him have him address some things change the way he says things to see if he's really Changed his tune But I want you and and and and all your friends if you get them to watch this I want their opinion on this Because he's never said anything quite like this Roll it. Kamala Harris has supported gun confiscation schemes throughout her career and she does it constantly and that's what she wants and she's looking for mandatory buybacks. We're not going to let that happen. But let's call it what it is, really. It is gun confiscation. That is a violation of your constitutional rights. I've been fighting this for years, and we've never given up the thing, and we're not going to give it up now. That's really putting her right alongside some of the most dangerous dictators anywhere in history. If you think about what she's doing, it's terrible. We can never let it happen in our country. We're not going to let it happen in our country. As California Attorney General, she opposed concealed carry permits for law-abiding citizens unless they could demonstrate an extraordinary need to carry a gun beyond concern for personal safety. The need was so strong that practically nobody was able to get one. That's really a radical position, but in contrast, I will always defend your constitutional right to protect yourself. When I'm president, I will always listen to gun owners of America. I want to congratulate all of you because you've really come a long way in a short period of time. You're strong on guns, and that's the way we want it. Right now I need every single gun owner to make a plan to go and vote. The one thing with gun owners that I don't know why, maybe they just have a certain way about them, maybe they're rebellious. But they don't vote. They got to get out and vote. If the gun owners of this country voted just a small percentage of them, we would have a victory like you've never seen. So I ask all of the gun owners to get out. We're going to win the election. We're going to win it for all of us. And I hope that You will be there to help me get it done because we really have to get out, we have to vote. Remember, governor is to vote. I don't know why, but this election you have to vote because this is the most important election in the history of our country. November 5th, the most important election. I think it will be, frankly, the most important day, perhaps, in the history of our country because our country is really a nation in decline. We're now a nation in decline. and we're not going to take it we're going to turn it around we're going to make america great again i want to thank all of you get out and vote please god bless you and god bless the great patriots that are listening and seeing this message thank you very much right so there you have it donald trump saying he will listen to gun owners of america when he's in office if he gets elected reelected um I've been telling you guys and gals, in fact, I've been traveling the country talking about it. There are almost 10 million gun owners who are not even registered to vote. The deadlines in many states are coming up. We, the gun owners of America, not the group, but us, we can absolutely change every single election that happens if we get involved. That's the we the people part. A lot of people say our votes don't matter, our votes don't count, but a personal friend of mine lost by 407 votes, Brandon Herrera. That's like 1.2 people per precinct in that district he ran for. So if one person in each precinct got off their ass and got to the polls, Brandon Herrera would be the next congressman. for Texas 23. People got scared of the weather and had a record low turnout. But you do matter. Your vote does matter. Your voice does matter. Let me know what you think down below about what Donald Trump said. Does it change things? I think that our rights are absolutely on this ballot this year. This election, we have somebody who has proven while she's been in every office she's held that she is looking to take the Second Amendment away from people. She did it in California. She's done it when she was in the Senate. She's done it as a Vice President. And she's promising to pass an assault weapon ban, red flag laws, universal background checks, and to force gun buybacks if... We allow her to be elected as president. So I'm hoping you all get involved. I'm hoping you guys and gals go register and vote. Especially down ballot. Because we can make changes. We've seen a lot of positive changes. And it comes down to us. We need to get back involved. Like Trump said, gun owners, for whatever reason, don't vote. But we like to bitch and complain. for what happens in the election. So, get out, register to vote, and let me know what you think about Donald Trump's video. Thank you to the Gun Owners of America for getting a message to Donald Trump and hopefully, hopefully he's changed his tune. I mean, he's saying the right things now. Let's see if he acts on it. I appreciate y'all. Have a great day. Take care. Duh. Here's the case. It is the United States of America versus Tamori Morgan in the U.S. District Court for Kansas. And what this, I'm not going to read the whole thing to you, I'm going to read you a couple things the judge said because it's phenomenal. Yes. The second amendment covers machine guns. Here's a little more about Mr. Morgan, the defendant. He was charged with two counts of possessing a machine gun in violation of 18 U.S.C. 922-0. Specifically, the defendant is charged with possessing an Anderson Manufacturing AM-15 300 caliber machine gun. I think they mean 300 Blackout. and a machine gun conversion device. It was established at the hearing that the conversion device is a so-called Glock switch which allows a Glock Model 33-357 SIG caliber firearm to fire as an automatic weapon. So he had an Anderson machine gun, an Anderson manufacturing AR that he converted into a machine gun and he had a Glock with a Glock switch. And you know the anti-gunners are targeting Glock switches across the country. Look, it's the criminals that do criminal things, but the Second Amendment covers machine guns, as you'll see here in a second. The judge said, under the Second Amendment, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The Second Amendment extends prima facie to all instruments that constitute bearable arms, even those that were not in existence at the time of the founding. Of course, that's the Heller decision. To keep arms means simply to possess arms. If the plain text of the Second Amendment applies to a defendant's conduct, the government has the burden to show that the regulation is consistent with this nation's historical firearm regulation tradition. And of course we know that's the Bruin decision. This standard requires a historical analog between the modern regulation and the historical regulations and not a historical twin that came out of the Rheemi decision. So the government did submit two analogs and they were not anything close to what Would what the judge would be able to say? Yeah, it's close enough that they should be banned so the government was unable to prove that their historical analog was similar to The founding like what it says right on the document. We all know this the Second Amendment covers everything whether they like it or not and the judge just kept Smashing them in the face He said when the Second Amendment's plain text covers an individual's conduct, the Constitution presumptively protects that conduct. This is from the Bruin decision. The government must then justify its regulation by demonstrating that it is consistent with the nation's historical tradition of firearm regulation. Only then may a court conclude that the individual's conduct falls outside the Second Amendment's unqualified command. In Heller, the Supreme Court concluded that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual right to possess and carry weapons in case of confrontation that does not depend on service in the militia. And here's the big part that the judge leaned on here. He said, moreover, to the extent that the Second Amendment would allow weapons to be prohibited solely on the basis that they are dangerous and unusual or highly unusual in society at large, as the government suggests, The government has not made that showing here. As the defendant points out, there are over 740,000 legally registered machine guns in the United States today, and that's from the ATF. Machine guns have been in existence for well over a century. While the federal government has regulated transfer and possession of such weapons, since the passage of the National Firearms Act in 1934, it did not outright prohibit possession of machine guns until Ronald Reagan signed the Firearm Owners Protection Act in 1986. Even then, the law did not prohibit the possession of all machine guns. Rather, Section 922-0 merely prohibits possession of machine guns that were not lawfully possessed as of the date that prohibition went into effect in 1986. And that's also unconstitutional. Thus, even today, it is perfectly legal for a person who has not been divested of his firearm rights under some other provision of law to acquire and possess a machine gun so long as it was lawfully possessed by someone before the relevant date in 1986, and so long as he complies with the National Firearms Act requirements. to obtain and possess the weapon. In that sense, machine guns are not unusual. The government fails to address these facts and thus fails to meet its burden to demonstrate that possession of these types of weapons at issue in this case are lawfully prohibited under the Second Amendment. So the judge dismissed these two charges on the Second Amendment claims that were brought by the defendant and it's good to see this judge, John W. Brooms, who is a Trump appointee, it's good to see him stand for the Second Amendment. We're winning. We're winning a lot. We all can go out and buy machine guns. Even Joe Biden seems to forget that. And he's been around since the machine gun was invented, probably. But guys, we have the Second Amendment right, and that right is under attack a lot, specifically in this election here. We have somebody who was placed into a presidential nomination who didn't receive a single vote in the presidential primary and she's looking to ban everything she can for spread flags, universal background checks which is a registration and to force you into a government buyback for something they didn't even own in the first place. So do what you gotta do, pass us around, until we see each other again, be safe, stay vigilant and carry a gun to keep you, your friends, your family, your community safe. I'll see you on the next one. Take care, y'all. sounds like a good decision, but again, I hear that prohibited by a person who had their rights taken away by some other legal entanglement that they're involved with. And that's not how our rights are supposed to work. If you've done the time for whatever crime that you did, and you're released into public, you're supposed to have every right as every other American that's out there. That's something that they've moved away from. And with that, that gives you an arbitrary way to attack people. We've seen it, you know? So they did leave that door open as a way to move in and attack firearms owners with that ruling. All I have to do is come up with some BS law to make you a felon, which is a BS term in the first place. your rights stripped away from you that are supposed to be God given that no man is supposed to be able to take away from you. You know, good news. Just pay attention to the word twisters. They did leave that little loophole in there for themselves as an excuse to go after people's firearms that they don't like. And who determines who's, you know, a prohibited person. Let's see. I want to go over here and see what you guys posted. Let's see. So it's from Wednesday from Grigor451, got a couple of them from him. Army of Darkness, best quotes, okay, I'm sure that's like probably funny but probably not something we're gonna use on the air right now. 20 inventions to survive a nuclear war. I'm getting a little feedback and echo there. I'm wondering if that's just my system doing that again, because it seems like It does this every time we come up on Friday like yeah, it's just me echoing back on myself I wish I knew I was doing that and I had a way to clean that up Yeah, we'll see what this is I I'm sure there's a lot of imagery that goes along with this 20 inventions survive a nuclear war We'll play this real quick Last year, the Doomsday Clock hit 90 seconds to midnight for the first time in history. This means that we've never been closer to a worldwide nuclear war. So, what's the plan in case nuclear missiles are launched? Let's dive in. First, there's X-Point. This huge shelter, about the size of a small town, is located in the United States. It covers 47 square kilometers and consists of 575 former military bunkers. It can hold over 5,000 people and is already set up for permanent living. There's enough food for at least a year, water wells are ready and ventilation systems are in place. Basically, it's prepped for the worst. Xpoint is also centrally located, with most places in the US being within a day's travel. To keep the area safe, there's a security service that detects anyone coming within 5km. You can apply for a spot in Xpoint now through their official website. But be aware that only the most suitable candidates will be chosen, those who can boost the long-term survival chances of the Great. But eventually, you'll have to leave the shelter. In that case, it might be a good idea to have something like the Mira Safety Mott 1 CBR-X suit ready or closeted. This protective suit is similar to what the US Army uses, and typically lasts at least 30 days. To make it easier to wear, the design is kept to weight down to 2.5 kg. Plus, the suit can handle 10 decontamination washes at 40 degrees Celsius after use. The suit protects against biological, chemical and nuclear threats and outperforms many military models. The best part is that it's available for civilians for $900. The M15 drinking system is a great add-on to the suit. It connects right to the gas mask and holds two litres of water. The M15 is designed to be multi-purpose. Why not use it for a camping trip, a long bike ride or a hike? It fits well in many backpacks, and if not, you can hang it from a carabiner. The designers even made a comfortable and strong handle for this exact purpose. Zendure systems serve two purposes. They help gather, store, and use solar energy, and you can take them with you in an emergency. The Superbase Pro 2000 Portable Generator, for instance, has 12 output ports and an impressive 2096 Wh capacity. It's designed like a suitcase with wheels and two handles, one of which can be retracted. The Generator costs $2,856, but if it keeps you informed and connected to loved ones, it's worth it. Want something more robust? Zendure offers larger systems that provide up to 23,000 watt-hours of energy reserve. This could be useful for those building their own shelter. Who's sorted out the power for our equipment? But what about food? In a post-nuclear war world, something like the Nucleus Farm could be a lifesaver. It was initially designed to feed astronauts on long space missions. Think 120 to 250 days to reach Mars, or setting up bases on the moon. But even in dire situations here on Earth, nucleus would be a game changer. Its modules create a self-contained system, perfect for growing not just plants, but also insects. The original plan was to support a crew of four for a three-year space mission. However, people who are building shelters will surely appreciate the ability to get additional food without the need for massive food stockpiles. Since we're discussing food, let's look at Turbo Design Coldroops. With these, you can create a food stockpile almost anywhere. Fruits, vegetables, meat, you can store anything. Even the compact, small cold room keeps temperatures between zero and four degrees Celsius. Larger versions like the jumbo can go as low as minus 23 degrees Celsius. These units are powered by solar panels and are a great solution for storing food properly and transporting it easily. Food sorted. Now, what about air? The British filter system UK1 has got us covered. It's designed for all types of shelters and is ideal for those setting up a nuclear safe haven in their basements. The filter combo includes a pre-filter, a HEPA-13 filter that removes 99.97% of particles down to 0.3 microns, and a Tedda charcoal filter with triathlonodium in to trap radioactive iodine. One UK1 unit can theoretically provide air filtration for 13 people, but the makers suggest using it for four. It weighs 16 kilograms and can run on 12-volt power sources like handheld generators or car batteries. The UK1 costs $2,747. Next, let's talk about water filtration. That's when Nano Scene X comes in. These special membranes are made from advanced nanomaterials and can send seawater into fresh water by removing 99.9% of salt while also cleaning out harmful impurities. Surprisingly, they're quite affordable, making a 60-centimeter membrane cost about 50 cents. Plus, they're eco-friendly and biodegradable. They're already incredibly useful. Imagine going to the sea, scooping up water, purifying it and quenching your thirst. In a post-apocalyptic scenario, these membranes would be invaluable. And they can make more of them. You can also get fresh water straight from the air using an AWG, or Atmospheric Water Generator. The version in the video uses silica gel to pull water from the air at night. During the day, it uses solar energy to heat and humidify the air. Cool this hot, wet air and you get drinking water. The key here is that this AWG focuses on heating, making it more efficient than others that mainly cool the air. Getting a litre of water from an AWG costs less than five cents. Overall, this generator can help drought-stricken areas and is great for equipping shelters. Check these water-related technologies that'll be useful in a global nuclear conflict. $399 is the price of four Patriot's portable filters with nano-mesh technology. This tech removes over 200 harmful substances from water, from pesticides and lead to PFAs. Nanomesh also kills microorganisms as small as 0.001 microns, which is 200 times smaller than a grain of salt. It's no surprise that Nanomesh is used on military bases and NASA spacecraft. It's great that this advanced filtration is available to everyone. Why not give it a try? Even your coffee will taste better with such clean water. $254. That's the price of two Mission Darkness Titan RF curtains. But why are we talking about curtains? Don't skip ahead, there is a reason. These curtains are more special than you might think. Apart from blocking light and noise, they also block radiation. All thanks to the Mission Darkness Titan RF Faraday fabric, made of polyester fiber, metallic copper and metallic nickel. The same stuff they use in Faraday cages. This fabric can be cut, sewn and glued just like regular fabric. It's also widely used by law enforcement and the military. In the video, these curtains protect against electromagnetic pulses. Plus, they block Wi-Fi, cell signals, Bluetooth, RFID and NFC. By the way, the same company made a cover for the Tesla Cybertruck using this special fabric. They sell it with the tagline, Military Grade Protection for Everyday People. It comes with a carbon frame for easy setup. No surprise, it costs $15,220. About a quarter of the car's price. Big deal! But happy customers aren't worried about EMP threats. They know their money was well spent. At least because the fabric passed lab tests and meets shielding standards, MIL-STD-188125 and IEEE-299-2006. The tech world has led us back to shelters. This time, Atlas Survival Shelter is trying to make a splash. They're ready to build shelters against almost anything, from riots and pandemics to nuclear weapons. They once built a 149 square meter super bunker with four bedrooms and bathrooms, a hair salon and even a hidden shooting range. Want something like that? Be ready to spend a million dollars. There are also simpler options that can fit under a private home. For better protection, a 71cm thick concrete slab will be placed over the shelter, and an air purification system will handle biological, chemical and radiation threats. Why not add a heavy duty blast door to your newly built bunker? It meets NATO standards and protects against blast waves. On the screen is a 16 ton motorized model, tested to ASTM F292712 and UFC 401001 standards. It's used by the military for ammunition storage and aircraft shelters. The makers of blast prefer steel, but they also use aluminium and even wood. These doors are so reliable that even the smaller ones, like those found in malls, can withstand a 100kg TNT explosion from 25 metres away. Once you're inside the bunker and have gone through those heavy duty doors, take a look at the Climate Plus tunnel. This system might seem simple, but it's quite effective at quickly measuring body temperature without any contact and spraying a disinfectant mist. It's full of surprises too. First off, it can be set up in just 10 minutes. Second, it takes only 4 seconds to check and spray each person. It uses lights and sounds to alert you if someone has a high temperature. This can be really handy when filling up shelters as it helps you quickly spot anyone who might be sick and need further medical attention. One of these tunnels will set you back $3,000. In times of global crisis, staying connected is crucial. Even Nathan Rothschild knew this. Some small pieces of information can greatly impact many lives. One standout solution for reliable communication comes from Tampa Microwave. Their portable satellite terminals are designed to be incredibly versatile. Components like mode ends, power supplies and receiver transmitter modules can be easily swapped between different models. Setting up a terminal takes just about 10 minutes and a single battery provides two hours of use. One of the cool features is their online designer tool, where customers can customize their terminal by choosing the modem, power settings and other options. The TM130 standard terminal comes with an elevation range from 5 to 90 degrees. It also promises strong performance across different frequency bands. X-Band 48.5 decibel watts, Q-Band 54.3 decibel watts, and CarBands 56.5 decibel watts. Introducing the Mobile Connectivity Trailer by Pelsave, a compact, powerful solution for staying connected on the go. This easy-to-toe trailer transforms into a full communication hub in under an hour, keeping up to 128 people connected to 4G LTE at once. The MCT is designed to work anywhere, using a combination of Wi-Fi and VoIP technology for phone calls. Your information is safe, thanks to a secure VPN featuring strong enterprise-grade encryption. The trailer's satellite dish operates on the CarBant, which offers a signal that's 5 to 10 decibels stronger than the Cubant. This means that you'll enjoy better reception and faster transmission speeds, even with a smaller dish. Even though the doomsday clock hasn't struck midnight yet, radiation is all around us. The background radiation levels can vary depending on many factors, and sometimes you don't have to be in a nuclear area to be affected. For example, there was once a very unpleasant incident in the USSR. The capsule containing Cesium-137 was found in the wall of a residential building in the city of Kramathorsk. and the radiation affected 17 people. Have you ever measured the level of radiation in your own home? If not, you might consider this sensor from Aronet. It's color coded, so you can tell at a glance if there's a problem with gamma, beta, or x-ray radiation. The data collected by the sensor is sent to the Aronet home mobile app. The sensor can measure radiation levels up to a thousand microsieverts per hour. It's also fairly compact so it can fit nicely into a bag or backpack if you want to take measurements elsewhere. Plus, the e-ink display is so energy efficient that two AA batteries will last for four years. Aranet's sensor is priced at $105. We wanted to end this selection by reminding you that if a nuclear war happens, the whole planet could cool down to arctic temperatures. It would get really cold. Do you think these heaters would help? They use methanol and produce up to 200 kilowatts of power. The most advanced model, the HM200, pushes out about 13,000 cubic metres of hot air per hour. It has a thermostat that goes up to 100 degrees Celsius and a digital timer. The HM200 is heavy at 450 kilograms, but it has wheels so that you can move it by hand. Plus, it doesn't produce any such particles. If you want to go there and check that, it is supposed to be on Wednesday of this week. So just go to the YouTube video links, go back a little bit, check that out. I'm going to have to do a little research. The little portable satellite system that I showed in the middle there is interesting. I'm sure it's expensive. But I'd be curious as to what connectivity plan they have with the satellites that they're aiming to, or if they are open source satellites, something that you can tag and mount all the time. The Verizon communications trailer, I've seen that before. That's something that they usually do in an emergency area, like down in Houston when they have a hurricane that knocks out communications, they'll bring in trailers like that, set them up and try to cover an area. Of course, they're much more limited than regular communications tower, but it still gives you something to work off of. These things you might want to look at to you know, they are how they work of course the virtual private networks thing there through Verizon I Find that a little questionable with those trailers. I don't remember that being a feature of them, but how whatever let's see we are at 51 p.m. It is Friday. It's 23rd Intelligence report is gonna be coming up after us. We're still live If you want to start some of each stuff, come on up and join us on air, then you're more than welcome to. If you want to say hi or if you want to let people know you're okay. If you want to let us know about a rally, a protest, training exercise, operation that's going on this weekend, a rally, a protest, or anything that's coming up, ours or theirs, and it's helpful to know when they're doing stuff too because as we know, their training operations have a tendency to turn into quote-unquote live events. It's amazing how that seems like happened on a weekly basis. Anyway, let's see. Yeah, Kennedy's put his support behind Trump officially, changed the scope of the political landscape of the thing that's going on out there. We've got the gun owners of America backing Trump and Trump's to be supporting GOA, I say seems to be. Keep in mind the NRA is actually backing Tampon Tim. The National Rifle Association has, I don't know if they're still doing, but in the past, Tampon Tim, because he was a veteran, they supported him running for office. I don't know if they're, I'd be surprised if they're still backing him, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they're still backing him. Anyway, Oh, let's see. Ooh, doo doo doo. Well, as we got over here, I want to take a look at music requests you guys have been posting. See if there is anything that we can use. I don't know if we can do it. Full cover. Last part, Eminem rap guy. Eminem's lyrics, I don't know if we can do it with play in that. I don't know if the covers clean them up or not. Um, Devo went down to Georgia. Uh, we can definitely play that for Gregor. Um, 4-5-1. And this is a metal cover. A metal cover of The Devil Went Down to Georgia by Leo... Oh, I'm gonna butcher that name if I try to say it. It's in the, uh... It's in the guild under the music request from Tuesday. We'll play this real quick. We'll see, uh... Oh, it's like different renditions of The Devil Went Down to Georgia. I've got a few of them in our archives here, so... See what this one is. We're torn and dirty as you stiff hear by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat, speaking low to me, he said, We've fought a revolution, Liberty. We wrote the Constitution as a shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave. In this, the land 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. Brave you buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun Permits to start a business or to build a place for one on land that you believe you own you pay a yearly rent Although you have no voice in saying how the money spent your children must attend a school that doesn't educate and your Christian values can't be taught According to this you read about the current news in a regulated press and you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor of gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and you trade it in your name. You've given government control to those who do you harm so they could burn down churches and seasonally farm and keep our country But men of God in jail, harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters, so their children will be. Your leaders send artillery and guns to foreign shores, and send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Can you regain the freedoms for which we fought and died? Or don't you have the courage or the faith to stand with pride? And are there no more values for which you will fight to save? Or do you wish your children to live in fear and be a slave? O sons of the Republic, arise, take a stand, defend the Constitution, the supreme law of the land, preserve our great Republic and each God-given right, and pray to God to torture freedom burning bright. As Iowoki vanished in the mist for whence he came, his words were true. We are free to But we have ourselves to blame. For even now as tyrants trample each god given right, we only watch him tremble, too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he'd fought to keep, what would be your answer if he called out from the grave, dill the land of the free? Second and third squadrons of the 18th are... ...heath, regimental combat team, clone and marine militia, and I was just dealing with those guys. Some of them anyway, coming and packing stuff up and putting it down the road for what we've got going the way of an FTX here in the bottom of the state. Couple of them. And gentlemen, this is of the Intelligence Report. In other words, the Evening Intelligence Report. I'm Mark Courtney. One day closer to victory for all of our brothers and sisters, both on and behind the lines in occupied territories. South, southwest, southeast, and Central. channels, river channels, creeks, harboring facilities, anchorages, and or just on dry land. Thank you. Anyway, we're also the myriad of other communications technologies both inside and outside these United States. It is Friday. It is Cinco di Amo Day. Señor, señorita, señora. Today is Cinco di Amo Day. Today is the day when you will buy a magician, a priestola, or your rifle, or for your shotgun. But whatever you do, remember, today we will celebrate, or today is Cinco Di Amo Day. It's also Quartermaster Friday. And it is, well, it is the 18th year of open obvious and in your face Fabian socialist and Soviet socialist occupation of America with a K and even the leftists are realizing the risk, the threat. It is the 23rd of August. It is Friday, as I said, it is the well year 2024 old earth calendar. Give it all she is got captain and 2024 battle for the Republic. Book one, the dance of swords, how things began and you know what? Everything is clocking out. It's kind of an I told you so, which is great. The only issue is not knowing the exact names of certain characters which obviously match up in the book because summer. behind the scenes. But the step-by-step action, there's nothing surprising any of you here, I am sure. If you're a thinking human being, you can see what's going on. And again, it is the end of the work week, but it is just another work weekend. I want to say hi to all of our Colonial Marine, Michigan militia at large, Wolverine militia corps, and independent militias that are deployed this weekend here in Michigan, also in the top of Indiana. And I think there's some stuff going on. I don't know how always stuff going on Ohio. Can I say but again? We've got a fantastic meetup a little under Well several formations are meeting and are joined right now and some of them were listening right now Over in the Battle Creek, Kalamazoo and then northbound from about a little below that area to Ionia And the FTX started the beginning of the day and is carrying on through to Sunday afternoon. There's going to be a lot of people on the road. It's going to be a lot of fun. It's a lot of work. Congratulations. If you're out there, stay focused. Make sure you got the bugs break, as you know, as well as I do, what's going to happen with the mosquitoes. They've got their last gasps, which means their gasps is going to be with their stinger. I should say they're hypodermic collector, preferably in you, because, well, they've got to make more mosquitoes. That's what those girl mosquitoes are doing. They need your blood. Vampires. Vampira. So anyway, pay attention. Also, don't forget mosquito bars and mosquito netting. We have lots of that. In fact, we've kind of pointed everybody towards that for years. So hopefully you're squared away. Well, again, I would point out... Go ahead, call her. She's been there, please. Yeah. I don't understand something about why are they trying to take our cigarettes away. I know they don't care about our health. You know, they don't care about our health, but all of the old money industries have been attacked for a long time anyway, number one. And of course the fakery with the oil. Oil has to be around no matter what. The idea, we're going to get rid of the oil industry. No, they're just trying to shift it over so it's completely under the control of the Jewish mob. With tobacco, they're not really going to get rid of it. They're just going to drive the price up higher. They can produce less and make more. Here's what's cute. Overseas, nobody's cut back. America is, you know, it's like everything else. America, because we're suckered into it, We pay more than anybody for tobacco. Not that it's cheap for tobacco overseas. It's always been a commodity. And it's a, again, it's an addition, but it's a popular one. And, you know, example, we're not the only ones producing tobacco. Turkish blend tobacco is, in fact, if you recall, you know, a camel, a camel, no filters. Or if you take a look at old Paul Malls, read all the old information. a fine blend of American tobaccos and, you know, Turkish rough cut, blah, blah, blah, depending on what year it was way back in the day. Other countries produce tobacco. There are number one competitors obviously. So there's two things happening. They're gouging us for the people who do smoke. I don't smoke, but the people, Americans who do smoke, they're getting gouged more. I'm sure there'll be some political correctness coming along with this anyway that if you smoke, they're gonna deny you medical treatment. Remember that's coming down the road. That's not an if, that's just when. I've even paid attention to doing that in England. Yeah, it's the next thing they'll propose. But the big thing is, again, it's just manipulation to drive price up. Not only that, but let's understand that eventually, as the communists take charge, they're gonna, what they do is they help to promote black markets. And what do you think's gonna happen with things like alcohol and tobacco as progressively they become more expensive, but also more difficult to get? Because as you have monopoly with government, these things all start to disappear. And one of the reasons they aren't worried is they don't really want alcohol around the way that they've had alcohol down the road. They've got government drugs now. In the past, like in George Erville's 1984, they always made sure that the gin was available because that was one of the ways to keep everybody staring at their glass. at their beer bottle or at their glass, whatever it is they had in front of them. And it gave them some place to, you know, for tears in their beers about how bad things were, but never to do anything about it. Well, now you've got Dopko. Between Prozac and Halcyon and Ritalin and all of the other variants and all the psychotropics that they could possibly produce, so many names you can't even remember them all now. Nor do you want to, you don't need to, but they've got that to replace what originally alcohol and other types of vices would do for them. That doesn't mean it won't be gone, or that it will be gone, it won't be. It's just that it will be one of those things that becomes one of the many, the long list of really illicit under the table, but well, they used to be legal, but just now you can't get them. I'm gonna tell you coffee is gonna be no different here after a while if they do the communist thing here We don't produce coffee The only reason that Venezuela and these South American countries can't really be hit by that as easily is that they are coffee producers But even their prices on everything went right through the roof or became inaccessible even if they made them So guys, I've told you a million times, one of the things you want to keep putting on the shelf are these beautiful bricks, these vacuum-packed bricks of coffee. Another thing, most of your tobaccos are foil-packed now. I don't smoke, but I buy tobacco. Are you buying tobacco? Sure I do. When we've been on our trips, example, Iowa passed some goofy law. Or not Iowa, wait hold on, which was it? Missouri, Missouri passed some goofy law about tobaccos in the state and we were moving, you know, when you're going cross country you stop at the truck stop. So we pulled in this truck stop at 11 o'clock at night and they had baskets of swisher suites and other stuff in the foil packs, you know, the vacuum pack like a retort pouch, like an MRE meal, okay, heavy gauge, and they're marking everything down to like a dollar or 50 cents. Now guys, this stuff is packed so it kind of lasts until hell freezes over. We don't know what the shelf life on something like that would be yet. But I'm going to tell you something right now. In the 70s, we were eating early 60s sea rats and all the 60s and early 70s sea rats had tobacco, had cigarettes in them, remember? And I didn't smoke, but I kept every pack and kept them all together and I would trade them in the field because after you carry stuff for so long, people start to run out of smokes first. And so you could trade the cigarettes for something else you might want. You don't want to starve anybody because you don't want to carry anybody around. But guess what? People would trade a whole lot of stuff for a pack, a little stinking, little sea ration pack of cigarettes. Today, the idea is, number one, these things are, like I said, I ran into them. I got maybe $20, $30 worth of those tobacco products. They're in the heavy foil pouches. Like I said, Swisher Sweet was where most of the products were Swisher Sweet products. a little cigar, little cigarillos, you know, those little kind of cigarette type cigars. 50 cents for a big pack of those, big bundle of those in a foil pack. And they go right into a number 10 can. I put them right in a gallon can, put a metal lid on that, and they're in storage, but they're already packed for time. Now if an MRE, let's put it this way, if a C ration pack of cigarettes can last as long as it did, just sealed in a little stupid, you know, plasti pouch, a foily plasti pouch, if you remember the cigarettes came in the condiment package, which is that brown color on the outside, dark brown chocolate brown on the outside with a mylar type interior reflective surface, and those cigarettes were fine. After 10, 12 years, we were still getting 60s MOC rations in the late, or no, for early 80s, 8182. Even way after Vietnam, and of course some of the stuff the guy said they were getting World War II or Korean rations back in the early days of Vietnam and not feeding them the fresh stuff. So I wouldn't be surprised. But the cigarettes, they got all used. And right now, especially a good quality tobacco, You look at the go to the tobacco shops and look for the best packaging systems and even if it is pillow packed I still put everything in a big-ass ziplock bag in addition to what it's already in I do what the military does is the triple protection system There's always three layers in anything the army or the any government military force packs in the US has three layers of protection So I take those stick them in a can fill the can up every once in a while I'll go buy some more put it in a can date it And make sure everybody I know exactly what's in the can I also label the cans I label boxes everything I don't have to search for anything I know exactly what's in that can even have a list on the outside But down the road I wonder what somebody will trade and this is a peaceful trade because we're bartering and What can you get for a vacuum packed five cigar or a cigarillo pack of Swisher sweets? Nobody can get any tobacco. Not only that, it's not going to be like a pack of cigarettes that's been sitting out that was open and been sitting around for two years and somebody found it in the back of a kitchen cabinet because they finally searched that house for the fourth time and they found that last pack of Marlboro's. But when they found them, they lit them up and they went, oh, that was a quick drag. Little cigar, a cigarillo. Yeah, a little cigar, well actually the reason... That's what I'm talking about. Right, the reason for those is they're cheaper. And this is just like I've said, okay, this is a good subject to agree on. Well, the reason, no, they are. They're a lot cheaper than cigarettes. A lot, okay? Okay. The tax, okay, you're not paying for a pack of cigarettes, which you used to pay for a cart in the cigarettes. In fact, I'm old enough that when I was in the military, we used to get cigarettes when I was in where they were $1.27 a carton and they went to $2 and I think $0.35. And that's when everything outside was, you know, what $8, $6 to $8 a carton because there's no tax for the military person. You were an IRA and weren't you? No, no, no. I ran with him. Actually, I know a whole bunch of guys that served in Iran before anybody knew where Iran was. Okay. But what's interesting is, again, with the stuff like this, my point, is just like tobacco, I'm telling everybody coffee and tea because caffeine is even more of an addiction than cigarettes are right now. And what you have to remember with bartering is you need something that people have confidence in the trade. So you want something that's sealed or already pre-measured so they can't fight with you about what they're getting. In other words, I guess gave you, caller, three packs of, three tea bags for one rifle cartridge. You gave me a 308 round, I gave you three tea bags or five tea bags or five tea bags and a shot of coffee. Okay, the coffee, instant coffee, you can break that down. But the tea bags are cool and coffee and smaller containers are great because everybody's happy. The steel's there, they know what it is, they recognize it. And that's the most important part about bartering and exchanging is having confidence in the product. And this is true with the cigarettes and everything too because roll your own. Pillows of roll your own tobacco are still a hell of a lot cheaper than a cigarette. way cheaper, even with any price that's gone up. So the point is, right, but you want to go the absolute cheapest. Why? Nobody's going to care when they can't get any. Everybody hear what I'm saying? In fact, if you do have a, oh, Marlboro's would be like bringing out, who's okay? The case of fine wine. I got 20 Marlboro's in the hard pack here, the seal is still complete and they've been in vacuum storage for, well, eight years or five years or four years. Marlboro's, that's my cigarette, that's my brand. So it's one of those things where it depends on what it is we're trying to trade. any product is better than no product and most people will accept any product because they haven't had anything but they're still jonesing for it in whatever way. And by the way it doesn't have to be like smoking or caffeine. Sugar's gonna be the same way. Our country has become a very sweet place, okay? Traditionally if you look at recipes from 100 years ago or 150 years ago, you don't see the sugar in everything like you do now. It was the flavor range and the taste factor had more to do with the natural products and like nuts, dried fruits and or flavors were more important than hypersweetness. But we've been hypersweetified. So sugar initially is another thing people are absolutely going to be jonesing for. Now the military knew this and so did the government. And that's why, and I'll remind everybody, maybe you've seen these, back when all the Civil Defense Surplus used to come out, or if you know somebody who had like a facility that could get government stuff for free, every once in a while somebody would go, oh, look at that. And they grabbed these, they were 40 pound cans of candy, of hard candy. carbohydrate supplement type 2. Of course, I never did see what carbohydrate supplement type 1 looked like. It's just like coffee in the military instant, coffee type 2. Well, did anybody ever have type 1? Because I never did. But the idea is, what were these cans? They looked like a big old foot powder can made out of metal. They were a storage can. They had a circular screw-on lid in the middle about a foot now 10 inches in diameter. You pop the seal, you open up this, you open it up, you peel off the other foil, a real foil seal, the cap. And then inside it could be lime hard candies about the size of a lemon head, a little bigger. They had cherry, they had lime, they had orange, and they had lemon. And by God, they smelled it. These were phenomenal candy, very high quality candy. But what were they for? Well, everybody's in the bomb shelter. It's time for dinner. Okay, here's your ration. You're gonna get one of these. You get one of these. Oh, and everybody gets two candies out of the candy jar. Why? It's a pick me up. It's a treat. It's sugar. So, just a heads up. And that goes back to the 50s, guys. That's the 50s and the 60s. And they already figured out that sugar was an addiction. So, again, things that you're gonna peel off. I've got a cup of coffee right here. It's black. I drink coffee any way and every way I can imagine. When I was on third shift, you throw everything, you can't end because what did you get on third shift? You got the leftovers first and second shift pots that had been boiled down all day. So it was like having a really dirty espresso. I mean really bad flavored like somebody put a coffee butt out in it. So what do you do? Throw all the sugar and cream around you can't why? Because they needed to keep me awake because I'm working three, you know, two full-time jobs. And you know what? That worked. Yeah, you're awake for a little while until that starts to wear off and then you go find another one. So again, we are we're gonna be weaning off a lot of stuff or backing off use of a lot of stuff. But if you are wise, This is stuff that you would be putting on the shelf because it's a way to, again, in the exchange process, be able to recoup material that you don't have because you have stuff other people didn't think about because it was always going to be there, okay? It's always going to be there. And again, what do I do? I pick all the markdowns I can. Like those like I said those were on the I were on the road. They were 50 cents at a dollar a pouch I got a big bundle of this stuff couple I filled up two little grocery plastic grocery bags Now my smoking those dump their storage. Yep. Some people will give it to them as an award Okay, it's kind of like a prize thing. There's all kinds of things you can creatively do with this stuff Remember that so the big thing is to have it in hand so that you can use it when you need it It's just like alcohol Little containers, okay, here, that's a third one. We talked about coffee. We talked about tobacco first. Then we talked about coffee and caffeine. We talked about sugar, so this is number four. Contrary to what you might think, I want you to go do some math at your local alcohol store. Take a look at what a pint, well, I guess it's what, 500 milliliters? No, less smaller than that. Anyway, the little pocket type, containers of schnapps or any of the brandies, etc., which are relatively cheap, but for being a high-octane, you know, alcohol, alcohol drink. It is cheaper to buy your liquor, to get more for less. You wouldn't think that this is the case, but people don't do the math. The smaller containers, for the price, you get more alcohol for less dollars spent than if you buy a half gallon of the same thing. or whatever the largest container it is. The larger containers, because they're in volume, they think, oh, they're giving me a better price. No, they're not. The half pints or pints, depending on which company, actually you get about 500 milliliters or 400 milliliters more alcohol by buying the smaller containers. And you know what's really great about that? If you're going to trade in fire water, you want something like I said earlier, you want a container that's smaller, you want it to be sealed, you want the product to be recognizable, you don't want to give away the house, and you can actually up the ante, let's say that he wants to come up in price but he wants more. So you actually don't throw a half gallon out there, you throw another half pint out there. See how that works? Just like gambling. You don't throw your money into the cash. You're playing the game. And bartering is a game. Where everybody's supposed to come out happy. You pay your, you know, good trade. You got what you want, I got what I want. Go ahead. You ever tried chewing back up? I can. Yeah, I'll tell you what. Yeah, I actually have some of that on hand always. You ever tried? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't like it. I have no interest in it, but I also try to keep at least 10 bricks of the traditional plug. Real shoe. You know, it looks like a brownie. Oh, yeah. You know, you're... Yeah, that's real shoe, son. Well, actually, I know a lot of guys. Yeah, that's the stuff that I grew up with with my uncles. They were still chewing when I was little everybody stopped. But you know, I had a couple uncles from the Ridge one from Tennessee, you know, my uncle-in-law I guess, but it was uncle to me. Anyway, he chewed pretty much since he was about nine. And he always did traditional, you know, black stick, you know, like, you know, just like real cut. You know, you got a plug there, you got a full plug there, you take a cut off that, chew on that, when it gets a little thin, you'll find some new. But that is something that also has medical purpose. If you're talking, you know, if you can get regular chew, old traditional cut, it is, and that's one of those things you want on the shelf because there are certain medical applications. So, just a heads up on that one. And again, a lot of homeopathic solutions. It's just like medical healing aid. Yes. Well, in fact, one of the techniques is to make up a polterous for burns. And traditional rock cut, one of the formulas that I've seen used. years ago back in the 90s. Where he said, no, he didn't have to go to the hospital, hold on there. And one of our herbologists over on the other side of the state, back over where the guys are training this weekend over in Kalamazoo. That woman actually reattached a finger. I watched her do it. Reattached a finger using all of the poltresses and homeopathic solutions and everybody's like, you're not going to go to the doctor. And it wasn't me. I didn't lose a finger. But what's fascinating is that this is the same person also helped us to treat bullet wounds. And one of the cayenne polkresses that she came up with, one of them, she said, well, we can go two ways. We can go with a cayenne, with comfrey weed, et cetera. She went down to the shopping list. The other one uses a tobacco cut. You use high octane Kyan, high BTU. And what was funny is I helped with the application on this casualty. And I watched a full through and through bullet wound. This went right straight through the body, right through the leg. And applying the bull terris that she came up with, I watched it. I've never seen this with an injury, any of these kinds of injuries, especially on a bullet wound. But as you applied it, the cayenne and the comfrey along with all of the other, the other, there's a long list. Anyway, excuse me, I didn't use a cuff button. We applied it every three hours and we made a mistake on the formula because she gave us the pulturist and she said apply it and because we roll. Focusing on what she was showing we didn't listen to the fact that before we apply it we were supposed to thin thin out the formula Okay, we didn't we applied it full strength it hurt But you know what I watched it as the desiccated tissue plug from the middle of the of the wound in the middle of the leg It came out like toothpaste Progressively, it just came out being pulled by the by the pulturist and at the end of the sixth going on the seventh day the wound self-sealed without having to worry about irrigating it. And we had baby pink tissue skin by the end of day seven with a through and through bullet wound that in fact all the material came out through the extraction side where you applied the pulturist. The tobacco pulturist would have been even more aggressive and the argument is to use it with tobacco. Tobacco is used like I said rough cut like rough cut chew. Because it's best concentration, it's stable for transport, and it works really well with certain bad bullet wounds. Okay, as he said, this isn't that bad. We don't have it torn up. If we wanted to heal or mend more of the tissue to bring more of the muscle together, we would do this. Because it was a through and through like a 9 millimeter ice pick, the good thing is that it didn't take as much to bring it back to norm. But I applied the polterus half the time and had another person who did it the other half of the time for six days. While we were doing other things, by the way, we didn't stop all the other activities we were involved in. We were at war in America, on American soil. Again, don't let me get me done. Talking about bullets. Speaking of bullets, have you ever reloaded a 22 rim fire? I have. Well, you can. I just haven't that's one I've never had to do a lot of our allies have Well, no, it's but again and you don't if you don't have any it's worth the time Okay, think about it. Okay. Here's the basic rule with everything is well, it's time-consuming It's time-consuming when you're thinking about the idea you can walk out to the store Buy a box of ammo and leave the store If you buy the reloading technology for the purpose of future events, then here's the basic rule. The one rifle you had, you figured you're gonna stick with a .22 bolt action with little magazine. It was gonna be your everything gun. Well, it's been a while since the stores have been open. And guess what? You shot all your .22. This is why you bought the reloading technology so you can keep that little bird and rabbit and squirrel getter going. That's what it's for and Everything with reloading has to do with a combination of time and distance and economy and time and distance dictates economy Always remember that 38 38 special very easy. I found 38 special would be the easiest and got cartridge to reload Seems to be anyway. Well any equal any straight case for like I said before with two seven for number one Any straight cases preferred for reloading purposes, it's obvious. Gonna get the job done. It's simple, straightforward, not difficult to understand. And again, you can improvise. Remember, you can load any standard revolver pistol could be loaded with black powder, number one. Number two, you can fabricate caps, okay? You can refabricate your caps, your primers. And you can make bullets on almost anything. As you can melt it, you can... No, if you can melt... Oh, I'm sorry, go ahead. No, no, repeat. You're talking about... Well, the different... Okay, hold on. The material that's used for the primers, the prime filament that you're using for the 22s, okay, it's probably a picric, depending on which one, which kit you've got. could be used for the primers. There's many different ways to load primers. One of the biggest things about the present primer design that we have was obviously cheaper for the industry. Number one, that's always most important for them because they make more money if they can sell you more for less cost. But the other thing is also shelf stability and the idea that everybody moved away from corrosion, you know, corrosive materials. But there are about nine or ten different primer formulas that easily can be put together that are just as sensitive that can be used for your primer filament to make your tap your primer work. It doesn't have to be the off the factory shelf pattern materials. In this case the activating, come on what they call that. Well, anyway, it's activating powder, okay, but there's another term for it too. Yeah, because it's a very fine, fine chemical compound is what it comes down to. It's refined for the end-to-end. Well, mercury fulminate is one of the solutions, but here's the problem with mercury fulminate, like several of the solutions, is you have to be very, very careful with the handling of the product and not very much of the product should ever be on hand. And whenever you do operate with it, you have to again watch out for unintentional contact with other materials because it's reactive. And number one, number two is also concussive response. You got to watch out handling the material. You always have to be cautious. This is why you don't want the material if you're going to use it to be in large containers, very small quantities, and I mean small quantities as in a vial or a small, say, little glass, like shot glass, that would be too much. But you don't need that much for the kind of work we're doing with reactivating primers, which you'd have to be cautious of. It's safe enough to use if you had to improvise it for primer use because once it's in the case, there's not much that can happen until you drop the hammer on that primer. But it's the loading process where people make mistakes with the improvised or alternative solutions. And this is another reason that they change from those products, even though they went to them at one time, and then move very quickly away from them. is that they work, but they require other handling issues. And most important is that you don't have a lot of volume. Why? Because if it all goes off and it's next to you, it's Mr. Grenade is not your friend. Always remember that, people. The same is true when handling powders. The powder issue, especially with all modern powders, is static electricity. In fact, most fireworks accidents you hear about with all these firework sites, 99% of the time what's happened is somebody, although they knew about it, they were taught about it, they were told it was a religious philosophy, they forget to maintain their discipline with regard to discharge of static electricity. And usually what happens, they're in a big area where, oh, the thing that goes off initially isn't that big, but it's in a room with a bunch of other things that are the same size, and there's a chain reaction, just like a line of firecrackers. Now, if it's a bulk production area, a single eruption or discharge of any kind is enough to activate, you know, progressively the whole that, the whole load, depending on what it is you're doing, how it's being handled at that moment. That's why there are a whole bunch of other safety precautions when it comes to bolt production with materials like this. And if we were doing it, we wouldn't be doing it in the volume that typically powder companies would be doing if we were building it ourselves. When we're making smokeless powder or if we're making any of the pre-smokeless powder formulas that are corrosive, The big thing here again is doing small batch and even small batch the operators should be armored up my attitude static guard is your friend and again go slow. Everybody usually what happens is people make mistakes. I don't care if they're carpenters plumbers, electricians or chemists. They're out on the end of a job and only got a little ways to go and they try to cut a corner and it's the last corner they cut. They try to speed things up or they just figure they'll go with what they got and that's what gets them killed. Harpenders lose fingers that way. Electricians, they don't sound too good when they're getting toasted. And plumbers, well, they just drought. Not always, but they get hurt. Anyway, and with chemists, well they blow themselves up a lot of times, they just aren't around anymore. There are pieces over here, over there, and other places too. So, prior to planning prevents piss poor performance. Go ahead, color. What do you got? I reactivated my 22 rim fires with the stuff in the chemical and paper roll caps, and it worked real well. Right, that's in fact another good choice in that category are the paper roll caps but also when they were more generous those plasti caps that showed up, you know, they're all like a speed loader, those were really when they first came out those were very generous with the material but people get cheap. And so you actually could scavenge a good amount of material off of each one of those caps and do actually about two primers or you could do, well, three primers, or you could do one 22 or one and a half 22s depending on how you load it. A unique powder, 1.7 grains and it was like a high velocity. It was powerful. Full power, high velocity with a reload. Right. The big thing there again, it's not... Right, you're not going to damage the weapon. There's really no way you can overpower a 22 case, but what you have to watch is gas blowback. Not that it'd be that significant with any 22 you can produce. But the only consideration is if you, you know, eye protection, I know everybody always says that, but there's a reason because if you do have gas blowback around the case, you know, and then around the bolt, your face is right there where it's at. So just as a precaution. And only because there are other powders. Remember that the most important thing with smaller cases like that is going when you have to go with a granular, a micro granular powder. Typically, again, it's also the cheapest powder made, which is why 22s used to be so cheap. They're not anymore, and they should be, but they're not. They're jacking the price. We can charge you what the market will bear. I understand that. One of the things again is if you're producing that you're using you you can use other powders Here's what you do you very carefully? compress the bead or the donut or whatever don't grind it because think about how do you activate powders energy which of course creates heat and pressure that's Well, that's what creates the energy that get usually sets thing off, but things off get it, right? But the big thing is you can take other powders for anything in like a 22 you could actually descale and Pulverize or you know, I should say debond the powders and You've converted them so that they've burned differently You also won't need as much of the powder in that transition you've changed the burn regulation for the powder by granularly, you know, just destroy whatever type of geometric form it was cast in like donuts or rods or flakes, whatever. You're trying to bring it down to a micro powder. And that's something that's also, it can be done, it's easy enough, but you have to be cautious about the load. Again, it's not gonna probably blow your head off, it's a 22. But you can be hurt by booboos made because of lack of forethought. So, prior to planning prevents piss poor performance. Let me give something else here real quick before we get started because we only got 15 minutes. Number one, I want to say hi to our friends at Camp Emerson, New Camp Stasa, Camp Wayland North. The Ogham arranges Nagahitcham, Fox Wolf, and the Rustics, and Fort Benning, Michigan. Yay! Fort Benning. And a reminder for all of our DJs out there, guys, have fun with the equipment. I know that we got a lot of people tonight that are new to the board. One of the things we're doing this weekend, we are not just asking for volunteers. We are trying to get as many people into several categories of technology as quickly as possible. Don't feel bad. Everybody gets a chance to listen. You'll find out it's fun. So, be a DJ. If you're listening and you're one of those operators for this hour, you're going to have to listen to us. But the next hour, you obviously can go to whatever you want to. Guys, to the left of your rigs are all those music collections I put at each one of those radio facilities. Every one of those little DJ stations. Those are all hand-me-down CDs from dozens of different collections. Go through there, find some stuff, make a music mix, play DJ, talk. Do the job. One of the things that we are prioritized on, we are preparing to go to war. Now, that means we need as many cross-trained individuals as possible. Communications is critical, but a lot of communications, it's not going to be necessarily military. It's hearts and minds and local rebroadcasting and also information transfer when the time comes. One of the things we're working on this weekend with the 18th regimental combat team and also the 8th MEC, Michigan Militia at Large. We're going to put as many people behind the steering wheels of these vehicles as we can. You're not going to be able to tool down the road for 15 minutes even. What you're going to get, everybody's going to get the same instruction. Then we're going to take each person, put them behind the steering wheel with a coach instructor. Everybody's going to see how they work. You throw as many people in the vehicle, they all watch the operator. Then you're going to come back to the zero station around the track, or I should say around the designated course. It's all in the middle of nowhere. And what you do is each person is going to put a team together. One guy is going to be watching or girl. The other person is driving. When that person is done, the person that was driving is going to leave the vehicle. The next person who was watching is going to get behind the steering wheel. And we're going to do this nonstop until everybody in each class group is done. The goal is to get as many of you as militia. as cross trained as humanly possible because all of this equipment, any of these pieces of equipment, we may point at you and go, can you start it? Do you know it? Have you tested out on it? That's what's gonna probably be asked. Yeah, know how to driver. And then what's gonna happen is vroom vroom, congratulations, you're gone. You're going with that piece of equipment. But we also may have to recover equipment. People are dead. People are wounded. We cannot leave the piece of equipment behind. We need all of you to know how they run. This is the same with our mortar and artillery sections. This is also true with regard to a lot of our other specialized technology. And everybody to this weekend is going to be one of the most course intense, I think, of any that we've done in not just this year, but in quite a few years. And the response was much bigger than expected. There's a couple thousand plus, actually probably closer to 3,000 individuals at a handful of different locations and they're all rotating because there's different classes going on. We have over towards Battle Creek, we have a full scale night orienteering and night vision course that's taking place. One of the companies that's here in Michigan that's allied provided a whole bunch of, you know, it's used secondhand. In other words, it's been in service. Night vision for training purposes for this group. So we're going to cycle everybody in and everybody we can. We only have so many hours. And you only have so many night hours. So again, however long it takes, we'll keep operating, but we're going to get to the point where you hit the wall. That means that the next scheduled event, if you didn't, we'd get everything done that you wanted to, or if you wanted to participate, you'd better make the next one. Also, the NBF War College Airborne Course. Guys, I should have done this earlier in the day too, forgive me. We have four individuals who have stepped away from taking the airborne course. This means that some of you listening are the next four people or some of you may be the next one of the next four people in line. You have to report as soon as possible and confirm that you can step into the class schedule. Why did the four people step out? Well, in reality, they actually turns out they were airborne qualified before. They wanted to go through the course with the nbf war college They figured to do a situation right now that there's no reason they've already done this before so we're prioritizing and they thank you I appreciate the guys who step sideways. It's not that they're stepping out They're staying with the groups that they're with but they made room for four other people who can get into the cycle They're gonna make their jumps Somebody sent me some really cool video. Thank you with some of the helmet cams with the jumps that they made two weeks ago The jumps that they made two weeks ago. I want to say thank you. I appreciate that. It's kind of cool, especially the screaming part They weren't screaming because they're scared. They're having fun. I think anyway So again, the important thing here is if you're training this weekend, remember we're trying to master the trade. Every one of you that's listening can improve your experience. You can add to your base of knowledge because we have to be totally balanced. One person is going to have to possibly take over for another. At the very least, you may be helping another. The individual, as I said, might be hurt. the vehicle can be recovered, the equipment can be recovered. We're going to put it still into service. We're going to dump rounds down range. We're going to do something. Remember, there's a basic axiom. Lead, follow, or get the hell out of the way. We're going to make sure that everybody is able to lead, end, or follow as needed. The Robert Heinlein School of, you know, human beings and how they should function. The every man should be able to fill in the blank. Another thing here real quick, and I mentioned this before, but I'm going to do it again, AIMSurplus.com. AIMSurplus, you got a bunch of Glock parts in. If you got Glocks, you want to go to AIMSurplus. Check it out because too numerous to mention. They got more stuff in this progressive over the last five days. They made an announcement, then they put another notice up. And I put another one up, I didn't get a chance to read it all today with all the pictures, but there's a lot of Glock stuff over at AIMSUR plus. Plus they have PPU and munition, best price in the country for most types of ammo as far as especially old military and standard civilian chambering slash calibers. Next is Apex Gun Parts has a ton of canic parts. ApexGunParts.com. Apex, A-P-E-X. ApexGunParts.com. If you got a Canic 55, I think they have every slide they made. And other slides that were made by somebody else. But there is a ton of parts. So there's no excuse for you not to get firing pins, extractors, ejectors, all your spare springs, get the plunger pins, whatever you need there. And then make a point, hell, might as well get a spare trigger, why not. And again, a striker and hammer. Take your pick, whatever it is, which system. And again, there's a wide number of other parts, so you actually can build a gun with what's there. I didn't notice that they had any frames. Somebody's asking, did they have any frames? Now, a couple other companies are offering training guns that have not been demilitarized. The barrels have been demilitarized, but the frames are functional. And if you go over to centerfiresystems.com, go look at those pistols they have laying there. One is a SIG knockoff. They're Turkish pistols. You can tell that by the names. But if you have a source or if you already have examples of these guns, They're looking at $75 for a frame with a lot of parts and they tell you if there's parts missing. My attitude, go with the ones that have all the parts or most of the parts and you've got a lot of spare parts for your gun. Why? Well, firing pin, extractor, ejector, plus you're getting the frame and if you wanted to start building another one, if you were patient, I'd be willing to bet you could. And that's over at CenterFireSystems.com. Centerfiresystems.com. Another way to get spare parts and almost a complete gun. Well, almost. Last but not least, over at Sportsman's Guide. There's going to be a bunch of sales this weekend as they always do on the weekend. We know that. But if you've never done the Sportsman's Guide, get on their email list right away. They always have constant additional discounts that they offer. Between the base price, the clearance price, and then the additional discount plus free shipping, the cost for a lot of the clearance and sales items are actually pretty decent. And there are a number of items right now, especially that you should go through that and look at, especially in the medical support items. They just knocked down the price on that Czechoslovakian surgical kit we talked about a month ago. It was brought up by Shelby that it's available, but they dropped the price. It's definitely worth the money. Count the number of instruments you're getting. Understand these are not Chinese instruments. These are made by the Czechs or the Germans. Anyway, worth a shot.