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Mark Koernke and callers discussed light, fast-attack vehicle tactics and preparedness strategies, focusing on motorcycles, four-wheelers, and improvised military vehicles as alternatives to heavy armor. They covered noise discipline, fuel efficiency, spare parts sourcing from scrap yards, and referenced a 1980s Department of Defense exercise where a fast-attack unit equipped with dune buggies and pickup trucks defeated heavily armored Abrams and Marine Corps units. The discussion emphasized cost-effectiveness, mobility, and tactical deployment of small, decentralized vehicle units, with practical advice on mounting weapons, carrying supplies, and maintaining operational security through quiet vehicle modifications.
- fast attack vehicles
- motorcycles
- four-wheelers
- noise discipline
- dune buggies
- light cavalry
- preparedness
- opfor training
- abrams tanks
- marine corps
- scrap yards
- spare parts
- tactical mobility
- sniper tactics
- anti-tank weapons
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Live 365. What's neat about that is the more the mid-range, the average person, she understands. And one thing he promoted at this one website is the idea of motorcycles. Like motorcycles have a high mobility out in the country. Regular motorcycle, but maybe they can do more like an enduro or off-work. And I'm... Right, just reverse it. Exactly. They say, all out pipe five, now it's can you be seen or not. It's rid of the truth, lights, reflective material. Cycle is not a bad idea. You can maneuver and in a motorcycle entry without sniper, knock out your target and keep on... The guy that's a pretty... For somebody that wants to shoot a little long distance or medium distance, medium range, an AK can shoot pretty good websites to command and use these cards. I heard about him, he's actually on the website. Actually, he's a corporate and he turned me on to it. He's actually on the website here. For training, the other guy's got CDs for more long distance stuff and all that. You learn how to do the holdover and he agrees like that. If it gets much less than 200 yards 10 part scope and you have an RPG closer engagement for the 200 yard shot to be designed for. Exactly as a matter of fact for real quick here first of all motorcycles four-wheelers and even old trike bikes guys come on that's cavalry. that is an excellent tool but the one thing I would recommend as you pointed out you know the again on the highway to keep yourself from being run over you want it noisy however have the mufflers on hand if you've got a especially bikes are easy guys come on you can put stainless on everything nowadays so that it's easy to go on and even faster to come off there you go and you slide in that nice quiet pack I want the quietest machine I can possibly make. There we go. There, that's done. Now, you aren't going to be able to stand there and track your sound as you're moving as easily. A case in point on this, you know the ferret armored car, most people don't understand that the feature of the ferret that made it so useful was its quietness. the fact that there were no clanky clanky track parts, which are okay, we got tracked vehicles, we have wheeled vehicles, but the ferret had an incredibly quiet sound signature, which means you could slink in and also get out without being tracked or followed simply by earshot, which is a plus plus. So keep in mind fast attack and fast assault vehicles in the smaller range are a big plus because hey those big 40 pounder, I'm sorry, correction, 14 toners or 10 toners and the eight wheels, oh they look really cool. But guys we've been making bigger and bigger and bigger and all you gotta do is put more and more obstructions in place and they don't go through. They go right into kill zones and they don't come out like Cockroach Hotel. Whereas on the other hand, motorcycle, four wheelers, they can fit in small places. One of the things about the four wheelers that's cool is you can also use them as tactical supply. Let's say I'm moving a cavalry scout unit forward. Oh, we've got a lot of background noise coming in here. Got a lot of crackle on the line. There we go. I don't know, that's just technical here. We have things happen all the time. It's okay. But anyway, the thing is that, think about this way, you're moving a unit forward of 10 men, cavalry scout configuration or sniper units, or an infantry unit that's mounted on four-wheelers. Each one has a trailer mount. The trailer mount allows for each person to move supplies forward during any action and drop them with other support units. They then go on to carry on their mission. The trailers aren't there as the trailers are hooked up and moved forward automatically. Recovery equipment or evacuation equipment can be hooked up in the same way, but in the meantime, once in the field, the four-wheeler Especially if you bought it as a second-hand vehicle. You use it until it breaks and when it breaks you shoot the motor and you leave it if you want to. Or you recover it and drag it back with one of the other units if there's a need. But being able to deploy and move that much faster and to do it quietly is priceless because you pick your points of contact. That's what we're really interested in is being able to set up and then move as quick as you got in. And mechanize. Mark, I make a suggestion about doing that movement too for gas mileage. Yes I do, stay right there for the moment. We're gonna come right back on this subject. We're gonna have a break here. Right now on Liberty Tree Radio. Who are you? I'm part of the neighborhood crime watch. What this works is, you watch, I commit the crime. Oh my god. No, no. No, no. There's no talking. You just give me your watch and wallet. Now. Here's my problem. You're black. Mr. Crane! What? I'm not a crane. I'm a big shot. So am I. If you kill me, the headline is gonna be, Black Guy Kills White Big Shot. And that's the last thing we need when we're trying to elect an African-Americans president. You're... God! What about if I just blow your brains out right now? That doesn't work for me. Work for you? Please, please. Hey. Alright. Alright. Right foot. Left foot. Thank God for guns, huh Jerry? Do you think you got a bit of a hot foot or is that what we call a lead foot guys? Anyway real quick here just a reminder that by the way that was yes, that was William Shatner that was Captain Kirk in this latest series that he's doing and it's a little excerpt it's on YouTube right now if you want to spot check that thing and make a copy or get a link to it go to Liberty Tree Radio on YouTube scroll down to our favorites and you'll find it's the first one up on favorites right now guys but it's a lot of fun and it is it does have a video to go along with the audio so pay attention and oh oh and whoo the head hurt oh oh oh oh You've got to wear a bigger shoe once they do something like that. You know what I mean? Anyway, I'll tell you what, go right ahead Marcus, you had one to follow up, please. Yeah, one thing guys, about when it comes to motorcycles, a lot of us have really big bikes. And like I said, I kept mine quiet, I kept the original pipes on it. It's not a Harley Davidson, although it sounds anti-American, but I run a bike, a jet bike, because I wanted something that wasn't really loud. But you can attack, like if you go to Bass Pro Show, you can find these things, rod holders for fishing rods. You can put those on where your rails are, go around your saddlebags, the hardbags, the trim rails, and you can mount so you can put tools in there. You can carry fishing poles, all kinds of stuff, and you set your bike up just one thing, other than just fly. You can use your large bike to carry it. There's nothing wrong in buying Suzuki 500 or Suzuki 750s to the gallon. You know, shooting a sku bike, and I'm a pretty heavy person, and it moves me. And it's only a street bike, got enough power to move a big permission out, but it gets fit. So it doesn't take a lot of fuel and go, you know, put two gallons in it. That means 150 miles out, 50 miles back, and go to your recon and come back and do what you gotta do. You can get that nose up to some of these small motorcycles. You know, you might look like a Shriner. riding this thing. No, actually you can look around or even four-wheelers or trike bikes. The reason I said trike bikes, you can go to recycling yards right now and you can grab trike bikes for the weight of, you know, for their weight in metal. Now, you know, Mark, it was like Georgia. Yep, exactly. The price of scrap has really come down. They don't mind selling it back to you if you're willing to pay for it. That's right, and they'll you still get it for a good price. The other thing I would bring up is that very subject. I noticed this where we are. Of course now their yards cleaned up a little bit because they they're not getting as much. But guys, how many times have you gone to the yard and there's a whole bunch of trike bikes or quad bikes or motorcycles laying there and they've got good rubber and good wheels on them. Good rims. You know what? You know what, I got four or five spare tires for the bike for the cost of scrap metal and I don't care if they're the best or not because you know what, if I got them, I wouldn't go out and buy it. I couldn't go out and buy brand new but if I can afford to go out and buy four or five used ones like that and have them on the shelf, that's just a guaranteed insurance policy. Think about it, for a few pennies worth of scrap weight. The same is also true for other parts, pieces, and assemblies. I was looking at even the lawn mowers for that too because spare gas tanks, spare wheels, spare tires, spare steering gears, anything you can think of, especially for all the steam engine work we're doing right now with steam cars, same thing, but it would work especially for doing maintenance and having spare parts for your light cavalry vehicles. Now on this note, and I know we're running out of time here, guys, Back in the early 80s, the Department of Defense put a fast attack formation into place and took it out to the OPFOR training site. This unit was organized by a young hard-charging lieutenant colonel and a major. It was all dune buggies and all light equipment mounting every variation in pin-and-mounted anti-tank and anti-personnel weapon. You can think of 40 millimeter bloopers, M60s, mag 58s, Ma Deuces, tow anti-tank weapons, but everything was fast vehicles. No light armor, I mean all it was was dune buggies, pickup trucks, and cars. Now they went up at the op foresight which is heavily computerized guys. Everything is shoot no shoot, kill miss, you know, etc. Everything's recorded. They brought in a Class A US Army unit outfitted with Abrams and this fast attack unit cut that Abrams unit to ribbons. Now then they brought in a Marine Corps unit Same situation but with M60, you know, A3s upgraded, the whole nine yards, all the latest stuff. The Marine Corps unit came in and this fast attack unit cut them to ribbons. All with motorcycles, four wheelers, dune buggies, pickup trucks, everything improvised. What they were told is, hey, use what's off the shelf and build this unit up. Now, the reward for their success is that the unit was immediately disbanded and the information was not effectively disseminated because it kind of ruins everybody's day when a lightfast attack force made up of vehicles that cost no more than between $2,000 and $6,000 apiece with the cost of the armaments being more than the price of the vehicle that moved it We're knocking out multi-million dollar armored vehicles and going up against air assets and actually defeating them. Now this is with all the state, everybody goes, well they'd have this and they'd have that. They had everything. This gets back to the same issue we talked about before with what happened in southern Lebanon with Hezbollah facing off against a double-A combined arms army with everything from satellite technology to a mountain of supplies to the rear. The smaller, fast attack, dedicated forces that are highly motivated and mobile were able to run circles around, pick their points of contact, move in, bite and run, and they had the same ability to knock out anything and everything on the battlefield that the big boys did. Now there's an old one. Mark? Go ahead, please, Marcus, go ahead. To talk about what you just said, and the only parts of the units, I'm glad you brought that up because I was there, were we guys that were the shooters? who are not attached to the armor, the ones that were up in the hills and spotting, we could actually fire on those units and knock them out or damage them only when they deployed. The Marine Corps started trying to deploy us, but was not effective because they weren't one enough of us. It took a whole lot of spotters to come in because they come in so fast that even with a bolt gun, and even our National Matching 14 was hard enough to track these guys when they're running 60 miles an hour on these little zoom buggy things, they've got a 50-kilometer Mark 19 on them. Over. Exactly. And the whole point is that, you know, we've got, we've, there's a picture, if you look in our snapshot area, a snapshot video that was done on YouTube, take a look at the light armored vehicles that we have and the light mech that's out there. You know, we got every one of those prototypes. You know, back in the day, FMC made a special fast attack vehicle. Do you know that we bought every one of those prototypes and carried them away? We have those in a militia unit here that's completely outfitted a company strength unit. They got what 36 I think two of them are not running now, so they got 34 vehicles. They got two for spare parts And those things are outfitted with everything from 20mm Lottie guns, Lottie 20mm anti-tank guns, one of the biggest shell 20mm ever made, shoulder fired, all the way down to RPKs, you know, and whatever else you can think of. If all else fails, a pickup truck with a couple RPKs with 75 round drums and a few other bloopers and a couple of shoulder fired anti-tank weapons moving fast and then deploying quickly can do a hell of a lot of damage. And if you lose it, here's the basic rule about fast mechanized guys. What does a rat pack care if one rat is taken out? When you have a swarm, and your swarm example is standard cuck-vee and the old M880 Dodge Ram military trucks, the M880 slash M890 series, cost us $1,770 plus or minus per truck. as opposed to $52,000 for one Hummer, one what we call the Humby at the time. Now how many Humbies can you buy and how many pickup trucks can you buy and outfit in what way? Let's see, $54,000 I can buy almost 20 of those M880 Dodge Ram trucks or those CUCVs, armor them and outfit them however I want. And you know what, if I lose one, I can strip them bare, throw it on the other trucks and use all the spare parts for something else. I take the battery, I'll take the tires, I'll rip the weapons and arm them off, I'll take the mounts off and the ammo, you leave the hull core it is and you keep right on moving. On the other hand, at $54,000 a piece just for the Humvee, it was a weapons platform. I know what it was meant to do, but it was being misapplied the way that they progressively tried to push it as a pickup truck or a jeep. It's a weapons platform, which is perfect for that. Now, that vehicle even could be applied properly, but back in the day with this exercise, these exercises, they were using all improvised equipment. So don't say it can't be done for everybody out there listening we're giving you ideas but the big thing is noise discipline. The quieter that motorcycle is, the quieter that four-wheeler, and man you can make a four-wheeler you can't even hear it coming down the road. Same with those bikes. It's to the point where unless you're really paying attention if there's a lot of other battle chatter or background noise you're not even going to know where those vehicles are let alone where they went. So this is what you do is you stash it you can jump on it and haul ass it where you're going to be shooting problems from a lob mortars or artillery, your mobile transportation is not taken out. Mr. Dolby is a classic American veteran. Been around for quite a few years. He's not fast, but when he shoots, he makes everything count. And then, of course, he figures he's already put his miles in and he's already put his years in. He's just getting icing on the cake now. OK? But Mr. Dolby, pay attention to the books when you're reading them and you'll know what I'm talking about. Guys, we're right at the top of the hour. And real quick, Mark, like I said, guys, look up the sniper flash cards. It's SniperFlashcards.com and go through the tactics and read some of that. What the guy's saying makes common sense. If you guys that aren't real snipers, you look at this stuff and it will help you a whole bunch on the purpose of your bolt gun or your some automatic that shoots more than a .223 or an AK round. God bless you Mark. Get the new world order. Thank you Marcus. Well I'll tell you what Darrell, we are at the top of the hour. As always, God bless the Republic. Death to the new world order. We shall prevail ladies and gentlemen. The Empire is on the run. We're on the march. Ura, fix. You're right. That's right. Make sure you got your weapon maintained squared away people. We're going into it, but we're going in to win. Thank you, Daryl. 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