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So they're opening up barrels and they're throwing stuff on the ground and stuff's flying in all directions because they were not prepared for the operation that came upon them in a matter of minutes or hours. This happened to different mobilizations in the 90's. I watched this and several people watched it personally when all of a sudden it looked like something was going to happen. I got to dig all my stuff out. Then they had to find bits of this and look for pieces of that. It should have all been together. Now I'm going to tell you the same thing. My favorite example of this guy is Rangers. Aren't Rangers one of the elite forces? Oh yes. Now, everybody was getting a little on the, shall we say, the complacent side. This happens every once in a while anyway. But Ranger units that were on the ready up units, they were the first to go if something happens. And they designate these units every so often to redesignate so that people aren't just sitting here waiting to jump on the tarmac. They're not the same group over and over again. Well, a couple of the guys that we trained when Granada took place. They all knew that they were supposed to be mobilization units. And they had their basic stuff. But what they did is they started pairing things off because some other goof to convince them to do it. Oh, you don't need to carry that. We're just going to be trained. You don't need to carry that. Why? What do you need that for? You'll be able to get it when the time comes. So you'll be able to pull it out of your wall walker. Just leave that in there. Just leave that. And by the time they were done, they were, not bare bones, but there's a lot of stuff that should have been on their gear because it would normally be used in a combat situation that they had stowed away. So lo and behold they load up the C-130s, the guys are all set up for an operational jump. And they're all figuring they're all going to get on board, the whole routine, they're going to hear the beep beep, and then they're going to all clear and everybody get back off the plane. Well everybody goes in and gets on the plane and all of a sudden they hear the beep beep beep beep as that back door closes. And you know what they do? I only got one canteen. Yeah, what about my what about my ran fighting knife? What about my other k bar? What about my what about my what about my and that's exactly what went through everybody's head on the list because the plane started moving down the tarmac and lo and behold here comes a sergeant and Another ordinance man issuing out live everything Hey extra panel ears extra ammo air, you know, you name it. It was there and they're handing it out and And everybody realized that, nope, they weren't going to get that chance to go back to the wall locker, go back to the foot locker and pick up anything. That wasn't going to happen, not from so many thousand feet in the air. Why? Because they listened to that dummy that said, you don't need this. And you might as well leave that at home today. And oh, by the way, we aren't going to be needing those because we're going to be back before dark. How familiar? Exactly. Again, the guys hit the ground. It was a combat jump. They hit the ground. A lot of you have seen a lot of the writings on the subject. The Granada invasion. A lot of these guys, the only good thing is they had lots of spare ammo to hand out when they were on board. As usual, they had mortar rounds, so many grenades, so many laws at the time, so many fill in the blank of whatever, and so many bandoliers of ammo. They hit the ground heavy as expected. But there's a lot of stuff that they could have used or that they would have used if they had kept it on their person. Well, when you think about Granada, Mark, you think about the Clint Eastwood movie. What was it? Pork Chop Hill or something like that? Hymn of Break Ridge. Remember the battle scene in there where they made contact with Washington, D.C. on somebody's cell phone? And then requested incoming fire, artillery, from the fleet out there in the ocean instead of going directly to. Because, well, gee, did somebody bring a radio? Who's got a cell phone? Yeah, a cell phone. Highly required equipment in a combat area. Well, here again, the whole point is that improvised adaptive overcomer. Oh, it worked. It was a, actually, remember it was a telephone line, remember? Okay. That was a telephone line because they had to go up and find the line. They got cut and they had to reconnect. They had to find out where the line was cut. Fortunately for them, the line was cut on the roof, I guess, because I think if a lot of the places where the line would probably be cut, like at the telephone pole. You know what I mean? Yep, away from the building. Away from the building. They were very lucky. They were able to maintain cover and still, you know, and concealment and, yeah, hook the phone up. So anyway, the interesting thing is again, the technology or using the technology in different ways, knowing how to use it, is the other half of the battle. Understanding how to improvise, adapt and overcome with your personal gear. But, you shouldn't have to do that if it's all ready in your hands. And the only reason it ain't there is because you listen to somebody else who is lazy. See, I haven't used that word very often, but it's one of those I would attach to that to the people who are lazy because I don't want to carry that. It's a whole one and a half pounds. I'm already carrying 14 pounds. Yeah, my rifle. Wait a minute. The one time that I have it, it's worth the calories to carry the extra 1.5 pounds of fill in the blank because it might keep me alive. Have you ever heard the phrase, you guys, it's better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it? That's right. Now, I will say this. Marcus had to play I was taught carry extra. It doesn't look good. It doesn't look good, but wait. They're cargo pockets there. Yeah, they're cargo pockets. You ever think that through? Well aren't they supposed to be used? Wouldn't common sense dictate they are? Yup. I ain't trying to look pretty. I'm trying to be functional. And they were supposed to be a functional feature. So my rule was, if you give me a pocket, there's going to be a whole bunch of junk in each one of them. Lo and behold, somebody goes up, it's freezing rain or it's cold. I ain't got no glob liners. Okay, well you pull one set out, you got him a Ziploc bag, you throw him in and get him on now. Why? Because you need to have his fingers functional so he can continue to fight. Because he's supposed to be helping to keep you alive and vice versa. But you only don't do it every time. Okay, goof, last time, didn't you get, you know, in other words, what you do is tell me, I'll give it to you this time. But you better be carrying extras on your own. Didn't you get issued this stuff? Well, yeah. Okay, or didn't you buy it, which is the most common? Yeah. Well, why don't you have in your pocket? You knew where we were going to be this weekend or this weekend or whatever. Well, no. See, that's not acceptable. You've got to keep thinking ahead and you have to be prepared. Here's the other thing. Our basic rule is this. If we were in the field and we made contact, we were ready to fight. It was that simple. That's a basic policy. You didn't leave the door and that's how I trained every person out there that's listening. When you left the door, you had to be ready to fight. Op 4 forces were ready to fight. They weren't just training units. They were ready to fight. Top to bottom. Full kit, all the water, all the web gear, all the attachments, night vision in place, all the spare goodies you needed in every pocket, better be full. All of your equipment was known from top to bottom. And because of that, there were no surprises. Now there could be accidents, and there can be mistakes that are made. But there were no surprises as far as performance of the equipment. We even knew what would happen if it fails. We always watch the gear to see what is the most common wear point on whatever it is we're using. OK, now that we know that, we know that watch for this. If you're using this particular piece of equipment, check here first. If it looks like it's weakening up, we're going to fix it or reinforce it beforehand so that it doesn't become a problem. Now let me give you an example of that. How many of you have been buying B2U uniforms? On occasion. A lot of guys out there buying brand new B2U uniforms. Is your wife so? I'll tell you what, some little tricks real quick. As long as she's good with a sewing machine, the crotch, there's what's called a crotch. Everything is reinforced like in the crotch area, the knees. If she can, break out the OD green thread and have her restitch that a couple times on all the corners. and make sure that they are double or triple stitched. Why? Because we know that with the single stitching that is used, typically that stuff snags and then the thread wears through and all of a sudden you have this floppy piece of cloth hanging off you and eventually it is going to rip up the rest of the uniform in that area. The crotch pads do the same thing. What about your popcorn pockets? How many of you have been wearing B2U pants and had the top flap come away from the pants? Okay, well that would be obvious then that a good idea is take that sewing machine run two or three more lines across top of that flap and on the corners where it's attached to the uniform so that it isn't going to come free that easily. It's better to do that now than have to spend another $29 on a messed up, you know, another uniform because you messed one up. It's only a few minutes worth of work. Another little trick real quick here. One of the things that we learned a long time ago, and we've got enough time to cover it, the top of your popcorn pockets on your pants and the lower pockets on your BDU blouses. Elasti-sized them. Why? Well, here's a little trick. Let's say you can't afford to drop mags because we all know we don't have any massive logistics trained behind us, right? But we're in a hurry. In other words, we're in a big hurry because somebody is trying to kill you. You're using the 45. You have to drop the mag. Now, instead of dropping the mag, although you may do that if it's life or death, but as long as you can continue to control or you're controlling the situation along with your team, the mags should not be dropped because you can't make them out of sand. You might step on it. That's right. Anything can happen. So here's the thing. You elasticize the top of your popcorn pocket where it's overlapped with the flap. and you unbutton it and leave it unbuttoned. Now what happens is the top pocket is fintered so that it actually is held close and tight. What you do is you bop bop bop bop bop chink. Okay, drop the mag, the mag goes right, you just shove your fingers, you take your fingers, you hold on the mag with your thumb, you take your fingers right along the side of your pant leg, go right into that pocket which has the elastic over it. Let go of the mag, pull the hand back out. Grab your other mag, chink, slide forward, bop bop bop bop bop bop bop chink, repeat the process. Now, think about it. Which is easier to do? Take that magazine and try to fit in that little hole that it belongs in or stuff it in the pocket until you can reorganize. Put it in the pocket. No question about it. See how easy that is? And it's the same with your 20 round or 30 round mags. Rather than dropping them and losing them, it's pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump Your hand comes up to the first workstation farthest to the rear. You extract the magazine from the mag pouch. You insert it in the magazine well, hit the release. Your M4 is in this case your AR15, M16, A2, A1, A2, whatever. Preferably not an M4. We know the problems there. It's a Car 15 otherwise, but you bring it back up and pop, pop, pop, pop, pop. Little tricks you can do that are very simple. Again, we don't have a massive logistics system behind us. We got to save the mags. We'll even pick up the brass when we can, obviously. But we at least save the mags and secure them. Now somebody's going to say, well, they make noise that way. They're going to make noise either way. In the middle of a combat situation, do you think a dinky little rattle of a magazine in your pocket is going to cost you your life when guns are going off all around you? That's right. Give me a break. Yeah, instead, now again, what you do is you don't leave them there anyway. As soon as you have a chance to reorganize, you take the mags out of the pocket because you only have more mags and you have mag space in that pocket. And you pull them out and you put them into the farthest points that you've emptied. Now you'll notice I brought this up the beginning of this half hour. You reach back so you know how far you can reach. That's where your farthest pocket is. When the targets are farther out, do not reach into your front mag pouches. reach into your back mag pouches because it's harder to get to them. Yep, you need that reflex. That's right, by getting into this process, remember as things get tighter and the bad guys get closer, your front mag pouches will still be accessible and it takes less time to access them. You're shaving off, somebody would say, well you're only shaving off seconds. Yeah, your life depends on it. You tell me if the seconds count. See how that works? So those are little tricks in the trade. Back to front, back to front as far as how you use up the mags and the mag pouches. Remember again, the elasticized pockets make a big difference when you are running. How many of you had an unbuttoned B2U pocket and had stuff in it and run along and then when you stop you realize all the stuff that was in the pockets hanging back over the last 20 yards? That's great for the guy that is following you. Yeah, in fact I used to do that all the time. I'm going to tell you I used to follow behind company and battalion formations just for that reason because guys would either be shucking ammunition, machine gun belts. Thousands of rounds. The biggest problem was finding places to carry all the stuff that they'd shed because they were getting old and they were tired and they didn't want to carry as much weight before they went to chow. So guess what? You know what? We collected it all and we put it into our inventory. That's how we operated guys. And because of that we had a lot more and we had neat toys to play with. So again, the little idea is to keep you from losing your gear, also so you don't have to replace the stuff as often. Another thing is just again, remember, carry spare, set up a sewing kit. You're going to need it. I'm telling you right now, you look at this one guy that put this list together of the 50 to, you know, Larry Lawson brought this up, the 50 items first to disappear in Yugoslavia when the war started there. And that's just a modern version of what we will be seeing in general. And one of the things that disappeared real quick, needles. Well when you start talking about sewing you guys because I do the sewing around the house I don't run a machine I do it by hand I look at it just like tying something to something else. I don't look at it like well Betsy Ross You know what I mean? I'm just tying this to that with a piece of thread if you start talking about sewing Get yourself an awl. I think it's a WL and awl Now it's it's like a what one might call a our hand needle It'll have a big wooden knob on the back of it so you can put a lot of force on that needle. Like example, repair shoes. It'd be really, really good to repair shoes when the Buster Brown factory has been overrun by the commies. Guys, how long do your tennis shoes last without maintenance? Nope. It won't be any different with boots. You gotta have tailors. You gotta have, we gotta have boots missed in place too. Just keep that in mind. You gotta have cobblers. Oh, we're the top of the hour. Again, little ideas. Don't forget, help to support the network. Go to our PayPal site, check that out. God bless the Republic. We ask that the new world orders be reached. We shall prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The M.I.M. is on run. I am glad to be the Lord, Mike Drake, who will be here to give my hands to the Lord and my fingers to Mike. Thus, we shall retain our liberties and remain in victory. And I shall march for the sake of Mike. Mike! Down it floats the peak And the sun will always shine On the old Liberty Tree, it's a tall