TACTICAL TUESDAY - RESISTANCE CELLS: Night Movement TGA

Thank you for the type of broadcasting network we hap to hit the reset button to create a true culture preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Welcome to the gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dane d what's up. Everybody decided to go alive tonight just for fun, and I hit the wrong button when we first started, so that's okay. I am a human being and I mess up sometimes. So tonight we are going to be talking about World War two resistance cells once again because it's a lot of fun, and tonight we are actually going to be covering the instructions given to the spies that operated during World War Two for the SEE and the oss BCRA and the other entities that operated behind enemy lines, British commandos, marine raiders, so on and so forth. We are going to be talking about the instruction given to them on night movement movement at night. So we'll get into that real quickly here. But I have a couple of things I want to talk to you guys about briefly. First number one, my wife, the Mistress of Metal, is going to be doing a show on Prepper Broadcasting Network coming up here pretty quick she is putting together material. She is going to be having some pretty amazing stuff. I don't you know. I don't take giving praise lightly. You know, it is my wife, of course, but you know I give credit where credit's due, and so far from what I can see, it's going to be an amazing podcast. It may also be video as well. She may get on stream yard and do some of that stuff too, so we'll see how that ends up. The podcast is going to be on homesteading. I think that there is a lot of room to do homesteading on a podcast, so you know, and there's plenty of listeners for everybody out there, right, so she's going to be doing that. Stay tuned for that whenever you guys, just keep your ears out, and I'm sure you guys will see it very very soon. Moving on to the next thing. As far as podcasts go, yours truly was recently this last Sunday, I was on tool Man Tim Cook's podcast, the one where he streams live, and it was just just a stellar time, just so much fun. I had a blast on that on that podcast with him. I honestly, guys, he is just a really really nice guy. Can't say enough good things about him. Very smart, very knowledgeable. We talked about lock picking, covert entry, we talked about ways to secure your house. We answered multiple, just multiple questions in the chat. There were a lot of people in the chat. I've never seen that many people in the chat before, so it was really really cool. Man. It was very very fun, a lot of engagement, and seemed like a lot of really cool listeners for his podcast. So I was quite impressed. I had fun, and his podcast is amazing, So if you guys get a chance to go over and listen to it. Okay, all right, guys, And then the final thing that I want to talk about is actually some Second Amendment news that kind of, you know, kind of made my heart sink a little bit. Guys. I don't know if you guys pay much attention to Second Amendment news and stuff like that, but I was reading Armed American News, which is from the Armed American radio show, and there was an article in there by Leave gunwriter Williams that was put out just two days ago Armed Americannews dot org and the title of the article is Concealed Carrie illegally banned at upcoming DeSantis event. Why would Ron DeSantis or his campaign ban concealed Carrie at one of their events. This doesn't track. You know, he's supposed to be a Second Amendment supporter. You would think that those values would be important to this campaign as well. So, I mean a lot of questions get raised immediately by this article. Okay, So I'll read you a couple excerpts from it. It says donors attending the upcoming Ronald Reagan Black Tie and Blue Jeans Barbecue will have to decide for themselves whether hearing Florida Governor Ronda Santa speak is worth an infringement on their Second Amendment rights. The sixty dollars per plate fundraiser will be held Thursday in the Legacy Park Multi Purpose Center, a public building owned by the city of Alachua, Florida. I'm sure I butchered that, but you know I do my best, which is taxpayer funded and supported. The barbecue was organized by the Alachua County Republican Executive Committee. It's their annual fundraiser. It says once attendees purchase tickets online, they were warned in an email that their gun rights would be forfeit. Here's the actual screenshot of the email. Important notice. Be aware that all guests will be required to pass through a security checkpoint at entry, which will include scanning by metal detector. It says. The warning was signed by Anne Stone, Treasurer of the Elachal County Republican Executive Committee. So this I'm kind of at a loss of what to say here. I know not every Republican supports the right to keep the bare arms to the level that someone like me does, or to the level that you know a lot of people that understand the right and why it's there do. If you understand the right and why it's there, you believe that it is uncompromising. Every single law on the books regarding the Second Amendment is illegitimate and unconstitutional. The reason being is the language of the Second Amendment is very plain. Shall not be infringed, not one little bit. Okay. That's why the Brewined decision is so important. So the next part of the article says a Florida Carrey member who purchased four tickets for the event told Stone in an email that banning firearms from a public event on public property is illegal. He said in an email to her, just a quick note, since the facility is city owned on city property. Concealed carry cannot be banned during the event. That's the law. I hope everyone understands this. Stone responded by warning the member DeSantis might pull out if he raised the issue. It might be the law, she said, but Ron DeSantis is not speaking unless there are no guns or other weapons. I think you'd be mobbed if you caused him to leave without speaking. Delady Bomar, press secretary for Rondo Santis, did not respond to several requests seeking comment before this story very interesting. So we basically everybody's given it the roundabout, you know, like everybody, Oh no, no, no, they they said that we couldn't have guns in here. No no, no, no, We're not gonna respond. We're not gonna say anything. No no, no it was it was the law enforcement. No, it was the campaign. No it was the park Center. No, it was the governor. No it was you know, it's like they're they're just going round and round and round in circles. Let's see. Jared from Guns and Gadgets on YouTube also did a video on this. So Another part of the article says that reached by phone Monday afternoon, an Stone confirmed that it was the Electria County Republican Election Commission that organized the event. However, she said that the Desantish campaign and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement gave them a list of specific rules. All I know, she said, is that he will not appear if there are guns there. It's more his campaign. They're not organizing the event, but they gave us the rules for having him on board, and that's the rules they gave us. Uh huh. Stone said that the Electria County did not receive a written copy of these rules, adding that they were given vocally. So does that mean that if they were given in written form that they could eat more easily be sued or more easily you know, have to pay the five thousand dollars fine and the removal from all that goes with it. Oh yeah. By the way, I forgot to mention that this law, this Florida carry law, is preemption, okay, and it has teeth. The law states that if someone violates this this concealed care or that this this carried law on public property, taxpayer funded, that the person can be immediately removed from office and pay a five thousand dollars fine. I mean that right there, that's no joke, you know, I don't. I'm struggling to understand the thinking behind this and why the campaign would allow this. It's it's anyways, So she went on. This ann Stone Lady went on. She said that she possessed a valid Florida concealed carry weapon license, but was more than willing to be disarmed. She says, I'm a gun person, but what I see is that Rohnda Santis is an up and comer. He's important and he needs to be protected. So I have no problem going without my gun. Ah. She's also said that she does not see concealed carry licensees as a threat, but added that people bought tickets to begin with, and who knows who they could be. We didn't make the rules, she said, but we have to live with them. Huh okay, soing. Another interesting fact is that concealed carrie is perfectly fine in the Governor's office as well, So Rhonda Santis is fine, and the Governor's office is fine with having concealed carry in their offices, but apparently not out and about now. I think this is bullshit. I think this is terrible. I think this is absolutely a massive infringement on their rights, and many many people, I'm sure, or at least some are going to be protesting this thing even once about tickets. They may just be outside with picket signs unless these people fix this thing and fix it quick, because it's probably going on right now. So I don't know, guys, I don't know what's going to happen here, but it seems pretty messed up. I mean, I live in Arizona, you know, but I still care about Second Amendment rights, especially when you've got somebody who's acting like they're a big Second Amendment advocate in a Second Amendment state, but they're not actually protecting the rights of law abiding citizens no matter what. And that's the whole thing about the Second Amendment is either you're with us or you're against us. There is no half measures. We don't play that dude. So you're either with us or you're against us. And again, for those of you that understand why the Second Amendment was put in place, you understand why this is so important. Okay, it's not a second class right. I don't know why that has to continually be reiterated, but it is not a second class right. I don't recall needing to get a license to speak freely. I don't recall that. I don't recall needing to get a license to make sure no soldiers took of residence in my home. I don't recall that. Okay. So I just there's all these things that are just really really messed up about this. But I don't have all the information, and I'm going to reserve complete judgment until I do. Okay. That's one thing that my wife's the paralegal, has taught me, is wait for wait for all the facts before you make any kind of judgment. Call here. So but right now my heart sinks, you know, it feels bad. I guess we'll have to wait and see what happens. Guys. All right, so let's keep going here, and we are going to talk a little bit about World War two and how the soldiers of the SOE and the OSS and the spies that were sent behind enemy lines, how all these fellas and ladies, yes ladies, for those of you women out there that are listening to this, don't think for a moment that women were not recruited to the OSS, the SOOE and all these spy agencies it operated during World War Two. There were plenty of women that operated behind enemy lines during World War Two. Nancy Wake was one of them. Okay, so keep that in mind. If you want to read about some real, true heroic women, those are the ones you want to read about, all right. Those are the ones that you want to read to your daughters at night and tell them about what these amazing women did. Okay, So let's talk about this wonderful book that I'm going to be reading from. It is it's a book about how to become a spy, and it is the World War two SOE Training Manual. During World War Two, they sent out multiple training manuals into multiple areas for the instructors that are on the ground to be able to teach the same syllabus to all the students. So this manual, this syllabus, nothing like this had ever been done before. All of this information compiled into one area, basically one instruction manual. They had famous places where these soldiers were taught to be spies, or these everyday people were taught to be spies, okay, to operate behind enemy lines, to get things done that the average grunt could not. So the books included, you know, are the instruction manual included things such as demolitions, how to blow up bridges, things like that. They included how to conduct ambushes, which is something we've been talking about recently on a modern level and on a World War two level. They included things on various other types of spycraft. They included information on how to take out a century with a knife and with your bare hands. They included information on all sorts of very very interesting stuff. I things such as final arrangements, communications, secure purity, operational orders, so many things that you just cannot believe how much is there. They went into how to reconnoiter or recon various different areas and what you need to do to make sure those areas were safe, or to make sure that you could operate in those areas, or to make sure that you could have a successful ambush of the enemy in those areas. But one more thing that they talked about in the book. There's so so much more that we're going to go over. But one more thing they talked about in the book was movement at night. Okay, now I know what you're thinking. Why are we going to talk about moving at night? You know, I mean, obviously it's cool to talk about it from the World War two standpoint. But when it comes to modern stuff, we have night vision goggles, I mean, we have thermal we have all these various different toys that basically negate the ability to move at night or you know, unless you have those toys, and then of course you're among a very elite group of people that have things that you know, really high level people do as well. Right, So the reason I'm going into this is number one, it's historical. It's really cool, and I've been doing a lot of the World War II stuff. I think it's a very very interesting subject. But the other reason is this, if someday something terrible happens in America or all over the world. You know, let's say there's an EMP or something like that and ninety nine percent of all technology like night vision is gone. What are we going to do? Then? Well, you damn well better know how to operate at night without all your toys. Okay, number one. Number two, let's say the crap hits the fan, but it wasn't an EMP. What's gonna happen when you run out of batteries for all those toys. You're still going to need to know how to operate at night or have some general idea of how to do it. Okay, next, actually, after we talk about movement at night, we will talk about movement during the day as well, because they do go into that too. But first, before I start talking about movement at night, to get myself in the mood for World War II stuff, I have a nineteen eleven in one hand there it is wonderful, beautiful nineteen eleven. And in the other hand, I have a third pattern Fairbrine Sykes dagger. Just a beautiful knife here. You can hear it. Hear that. That's my fingernails going up against the blade of this beautiful knife. Anyways, it's a j newle and Sun's reproduction third pattern Febrin Sike's dagger. One of my favorite type of blades in the world, the dagger, actually, besides the carambit, the dagger is my favorite kind of blade in the world. Okay, let's get into this book and this training. Okay, all right, So they talk about the movement at night and how it applies to movement during the day as well. However, during the nighttime, their primary aim, especially while moving is silence. You know, there will be certain differences of course, with movement during the day and movement at night. But as far as formation goes, and how basically the layout of your soldiers, how you want them to be laid out, Like do you want them in a V formation? Do you want them in an X formation? Do you want them in a diamond formation? Okay? They say that there will be no difference in how they should move in which formation anyway, whether it's day or night. Okay. They recommend that your soldiers should move in a single file formation for use in all light conditions, doesn't matter if it's day or night, all light conditions, single file at night. That formation will, however, be closed up to whatever degree may be necessary to ensure control of the party by the leader, meaning that he may not be able to see everybody nearly as well as he would be able to if it was the daytime. Okay, So he's going to need to maintain control of that party or his assault team or whatever you want to call them. He's going to need to maintain control of that group. So that is why he's going to close up those ranks. He's going to keep everybody nice and close to him so he knows where everyone is Okay, hopefully that's making sense to you, guys. The differences will come down to the route, the type of ground that you're going to cover, the area you're going to move through, over, around, and on so the fact there are certain factors that are going to influence the route that you choose. They say that the best type of cover, just as you would during the day work, the best type of cover. The route should give cover in most directions. Okay, the best cover in the latter stages of the approach, but a different type of cover will be required. The keynote again is silence the key thing. Silence, silence, silence. Therefore, of course, the thickest cover will very rarely be the best. Hear that again, the very thickest cover will rarely be the best. Okay, why I think for a moment, why would the thickest cover not be the best thing for moving at night? Well, think about it. Ground that's silent to move over will then be the first consideration. Right. If you've got too much cover, too much, you know, let's say, bushes, leaves, trees, things like that. Number one, you could fall into one of them, you could bump into one of them, you could step right through one of them. You have a lot of leaf litter on the ground, all kinds of stuff making noise, sticks, et cetera. And of course moving through any kind of bushes makes a ton of noise. So nice open ground or at least ground that's silent to move over, will be a very important consideration. On a very dark night, nothing else should be thought of. Keep that in mind. Okay, on a very dark night, nothing else really matters. Open ground is the key component. I don't know if you guys know this or not, but there are websites out there that will show you which nights are going to be extremely dark and which nights are going to be very well lit with the moon. Now, if you are one that likes to use night vision, you happen to have yourself some gin one to two or three out there, maybe even four if you're really lucky and you understand how that stuff works. Well, you're going to need to know if the moon is going to be out ne Granted, of course you will have ir illuminators, but those can only take you so far, so keep that in mind. Well lit night or not a well lit night, that is a very important factor to consider, all right, sorry about that. If it's a little bit more light outside, if the moon is showing a little bit like half a moon, not a full moon, of course, but if there is a little bit of light they talk about, you would want to keep a dark background. Okay, if it is a very bright moonlit night, the consideration will be the same as for day operations. Okay, if there is a likelihood of search lights or any kind of lights being used, keep close to the cover that you can get behind quickly. Remember that the direct route is a bad one nine times out of ten. That goes back to sniper doctrine. Right. If you guys have ever seen the way the snipers operate, the direct route is always the bad one. It's always the worst one. If you listen to seals talk about how they move through environments, they never take the path that everyone else takes. They take the hardest freaking path possible, the one that no one's gonna think they're in or doing because it's too hard. Okay, we got a pathway going that way right through the valley, and we also got that mountain pathway there, and then we got that one that goes up over all those rocks and mountains yeah, we're going up over the rocks and mountains. What yep, we're doing that. Okay, that's the whole key. Okay, same thing with a sniper. When snipers are going out to cause trouble, you know, do their thing right. They need to be in the places that enemy soldiers would never go, for example, in a sewer pipe, right in a bog of mud, or around you know, a snake infested area, places where there's ants everywhere. They need to be places where no one will suspect them. Again, the direct route is a bad one nine times out of ten. So if you're looking at your route and where you're gonna move at night, and you go, now, that looks like the easiest route, or that looks like it should work, don't do it. Okay, there's another reason why you won't want to do it. Okay. Just imagine I'm your your instructor here and you know World War two spy school, you know, we're over at Camp X, and I'm like, don't take the direct route. There's another reason because German Nazis, you know, the German soldiers like to mine those pathways. Okay, And don't think for a second if the crap hits the fan that other people aren't going to recognize that that's the path of least resistance and start putting man traps there. All kinds of booby traps are going to be everywhere, so keep that in mind. The next thing we talk about is features that need to be avoided. These will be any features that may give you a way through noise, anything that can give you a way with noise, you got to avoid it. Any farmyard, in place where domestic animals are confined, that place is a death trap. Why would that be. Let's think about it critically for a moment. Why would that be that any places where there's animals, farm animals, anything like that, Why would those places be considered a death trap? Well, one reason would be that those animals are going to smell you or hear you. The owner of the farm might not, or they may you never know, but oh they're not gonna smell you. Well maybe they might. Anyways, the animals will give you away every time. Okay, there's a reason during Vietnam that the Navy seals had something called a hushpuppy. If you want to know more about a hushpuppy, look it up online. And then after you look that up online, No, it's not a little ball of corn meal. After you look up the hushpuppy online, do yourself a favor and look up the glock hushpuppy pistol. Okay, Now, just as an aside, glock didn't make their own hushpuppy. Someone copied the concept of the hushpuppy using a glock. Okay, just so we understand each other there, all right. So any place where domestic candles are can find is a death trap where there are known to be dogs. The direction of the wind must be remembered. Dogs will smell you on the wind. Keep this in mind, people, It is very very important. Even now, it doesn't matter anytime that you're operating in any environment, the dog smelling you is a big deal, okay, and in modern in a modern sense. Okay, let's say, for example, you're so far away that the dogs can't hear you. They can't hear you, but they can certainly smell you. If you've ever been out hunting and you see deer, look up and their ears are moving around, and they just take off running, and you're looking at them through a scope, and you've got to be at least four hundred yards away. They smelled you, dude, they didn't hear shit. They smelled you or something else spooked them. But these the animals are tuned for survival. And if you have an area that is known to have dogs and you're gonna be moving through that area, I mean, it's gonna be hard enough to move through the area. It's not like you're gonna go through it first and take out all the dogs there. No, you've got to be I get to make sure that you're up wind the whole time. Okay, you don't want to be down wind, so those the dogs can smell you. So having it to where the dog cannot alert the guard, they can't alert its owner when it smells you instead of hears you is a big important factor. Okay, ground that's noisy to move over, it needs to be noted on the recon and avoided on the operation love Water. When you are recaunting the area you're going to move through, you might do that. When you're out on a hunt. You might do that. When you are surveying your own property. You might do that. From satellite photos. You might do that from I don't know, I guess thattllics didn't really exspect then, but you might do that on a picture taken by a B fifty two flying fortress. You know, there's a million different reasons why you might be able to wreck the area or look around in the area, but note the areas where the ground will be quite noisy, and keep that in mind. Try to plane your route away from that area. Avoid all water and avoid all skylines. Water, of course, makes a lot of noise when you're moving through it. Okay, also water, when you get into it, you're going to maybe make a little bit of a mess. You know, there'll be some mud maybe, and then when you come back out of the water, it's going to be wet footprints. There's going to be all kinds of sign that you went through that area. So keep that in mind. The other thing skylines, Oh my gosh, skylines. If you've ever seen any kind of war movies or anything like that where dudes are walking on the ridges and you know it's got the moon behind them and they're looking around for bad guys, that is bullshit. No operator does that. They do not move where they have skylined themselves, because what if there's a sniper out there, someone out there with a rifle whatever, they're like freaking idiots are right there. I can see them. You know, that's not the way to move, Okay, so keep that in mind. That is something you do not want to do. Stay out of the water, if you can, stay off the skylines, if you can, all right, it's less easy to tell when no one is silhouetted at night. Oh, it's less easy to tell when one is silhouetted at night than in the daylight. But you are even more obvious to the enemy. So if you're backlit at night or even during the day, it's still troublesome and needs to be considered. Now, if you have a team that's moved along the side of a piece of water, they're down, they're they're bound to be silhouetted from some angle. They're bound to be able to be seen from some sort of angle, unless that water is down in a valley. But your approach or your egress might be able to be silhouetted as well. The water can reflect your you know, obviously it's reflective. It can it can send your reflection out too. So uh, this this even applies to the sea. If you're if you're on a beach something like that. That all applies to the same type of stuff. Again, avoid the most obvious route or approach. This is where the defense will be the strongest. Just like we were talking about, the enemy is going to know that area that you're going to approach from is absolutely vulnerable. So let's let's make sure that we plan around that. Always find out the times of the rising and the setting of the moon. Do not rely upon visibility being good while the moon is up. Remember that the slightest change in light conditions at night will have a much greater effect on seeing than in the daylight. They can change very quickly. Approach by a route that gets the moon behind the bad guys, just the reverse of the route you would choose with the sun in daylight. Right, Why would you choose to have the sun behind you during daylight approach? Well, for a few reasons, but mostly because it will blind the enemy and make you harder to see. That is the main reason. Now, let's talk about clothing for work at night. Clothing. What kind of clothing would you wear to operate at night? Oh, Dane, I already know what I'm going to wear. I've got a ninja outfit that I'm going to wear because I'm super cool and my ninja outfit is all black and it has a super cool ninja mask and some really cool tabby boots and I'm just amazing. You don't have to tell me what clothes to wear. I'm cool. Sorry, I make myself laugh. Anyways, the color of the clothing is not necessarily as important if the tone is kind of a darker tone or more neutral, if you will, it doesn't matter how dark it is. The tone being neutral is a little bit more important, so it kind of more blends in. Okay, very very dark clothes are bad. Okay, when you see a man at night, it's because he's even blacker than his surroundings. Where nothing that is very dark or very light. Okay, so think about that for a second. Next time, when it gets dark tonight, take one of your black shirts, go into or go outside, I don't know, go outside if you can, and wait for your eyes to adjust, and throw that black shirt into a shadow. You're gonna see it, okay, or at not, you know, in your house, look for a shadow and throw a black shirt or black pear of pants, whatever, your shoes, anything that's solid black, throw it into a shadow, you're gonna see it, because black is too dark to be in a shadow. Okay. That's why I was making fun of the whole ninja thing, because it's bull craft, all right. Oh. Also, anything that's shiny, it's gotta go. Okay, either it's gotta go or it's gotta be taped over. Stial teams work, you know, very very fond of using hundred mile per hour tape, especially S six, you know, they were fond of using a hundred mile per hour tape the military one, not actual a duct tape that we use. The hundred mile per hour tape that the military used was all of drab or very dark brown, okay. That stuff did not reflect. And they would tape over anything that might reflect, or have like a velcrow strap to go over it, something of that nature. And anything that might rattle they would cover up as well, tape down as well. They called it battle rattle, okay. And what they would do before they would go on a mission is they'd get all their gear on, and they would each check each other's gear, and then they would jump up and down a few times to see if anything was making noise. Okay, there's gonna be a little bit of noise from you know, like the lb E and your backpack and stuff moving up and down, you know. But generally when you're moving, when you're walking, or you're stepping, or you're you're moving through an environment, walking quietly with your rifle, there shouldn't be much noise, if any. Okay, maybe the sound of your feet just barely touching the ground. But that's another reason why it takes extremely strong muscles, extremely strong legs, feet, ankles, hips, all that stuff back. It all has to be ridiculously strong to move quietly and smoothly. Okay, that's the best word I can come about. Smooth move in a smooth way. Okay, that is the key to all this stuff. All right, So next thing, let's talk about the next thing. Oh right, I love talking about this stuff. So the next thing to consider here is going to be we talked about the shiny stuff, but also let's talk about stuff that shines when it gets wet. Right, that's something to consider. What about when things get wet, They're going to have a specific type of shine. They're going to have a specific amount of shine when they get wet. Give yourself a favor, grab some of your fatigues or the stuff that you shoot in, or the stuff that you think would be your SHTF gear. Right, I want you to grab some of that stuff, and I want you to take it, and I want you to get it wet, all right, and then I want you to look at it at night and see sorry, and see how shiny it is. I want you to see exactly what you're dealing with there, because a lot of people have absolutely no idea just how much or how different all this stuff looks at night. People have no clue, you know, So definitely get it wet, take a look, see what you think. See if it's gonna cause you any trouble. I know I do, It's just me. I also use my night vision. Take your night vision goggles and or night vision scope or whatever you happen to have this night vision. Maybe you have a camera on your phone that does night vision, or maybe you have a ring camera that has a night camera on it. Whatever you need to do to find out, but take any kind of clothing you feel like you're going to use an SATF or anything like that, and get it in front of a night vision camera or night vision scope goggles whatever, excuse me, get a little on there and check out exactly what that clothing looks like. I know, the other day, I have a certain camera that I wear when me and my wife go out hunting. I happened to walk out and one of the ring cameras that we have around our house, or one of the other one of the cameras we have, one of the other cameras we have around our house. It picked up me walking and I had on one of my hunting jackets. And that jacket is a really cool camera pattern on it. I'm not going to call out the camera pattern, it doesn't really matter, but it has a really cool camera pattern on it. Well, in the night vision camera, it might as well have been bright white. I mean it was really easy to see. Okay, So just because you think your camouflage doesn't necessarily mean you are. That's something to keep in mind. Okay, So moving on from there, there must be nothing that will be noisy while you're moving. No squeaking shoes, no creaking leather braces, nothing of the sort. Anything that makes noise must be removed. Any material that rustles has to be removed as well. Rubber or rope sold shoes are the best. When this is not possible, carry a shoe cover as described in the last lecture. Okay, we'll talk about that soon. Shoe covers are another thing that we can look into and talk about later on. The face and the hands need to be darkened or veiled. Darkened or veiled. Even on a very dark night when this would seem unimportant, there is the danger of a sudden light. Unless the face and hands are darkened, this will show you up immediately. Okay, So you always see soldiers, you know, those dudes putting on face paint and you're like, oh, man, look at him, he's got the face paint on, right. Well, it's a very good reason for this, and there are specific niques to how that paint is put on. I'm sure there are a couple other guys on Prepper broadcasts and you can tell you exactly how this stuff is done, and maybe at some point we'll cover it as well. But having your face painted and camouflaged is very very important, as is your hands. Or if you don't want to paint it up using grease paint or any of the other stuff that's out there, camel compacts, anything like that, you can use gloves for your hands, okay, depending on the weather, depending on what you want to wear, you can use gloves for your hands, and you can use some kind of a handkerchief or a balaclava or a whole bunch of any other type of thing for your face. So keep all that stuff in mind and don't forget it, Okay, in my bugout bag and my gear that I would use in a bad situation. I've planned for all of this, you guys need to as well. Next thing, personal equipment. In addition to the personal equipment mentioned for day work, the following should be carried a stick. You need a stick. This enables the ground to be felt very carefully in front of you, which is very necessary on a really dark night. This must not have a metal tip, which is noisy. If an old bicycle tube is available, the whole stick could be encased in it and tightly bound. This prevents sharp noises when the stick knocks against anything. The stick may also have a lead loaded head as a weapon of silent offense. So what they're saying is you can basically have some kind of like a walking stick almost you know, just like a blind person might, or you know, like a gentleman of leisure. Might you know you've got your little cane or you're walking stick, right, and you've got a lead loaded head on there, just like a blackjack, right, a sap you've got it lead loaded, or even a fishing weight on the tip of your walking stick. And you've taken a bicycle inner tube or even shrink tubing. Put a bicycle inner tube on it and then shrink wrap around that, right, shrink tubing around that with a heat gun and blamo, man, you've got a nice little feeler stick there, right. Make sure that the tip of it is not metal, so you're not going clack clack claque on a rock or something like that. You just tap tap taperoo. You know, I would even suggest a rubber tip on the very end of it, Okay, the end that you're going to be probing with rubber tip, the lead loaded end. That may be something I will talk to you guys about another time. There were multiple different types available. There was also something that William Fairburn made and had a few manufactured of, called a swagger stick. Swagger swagger Man. That dude's got swagger. He had swagger sticks, right. Those things were used for self defense, they were used as weapons, they were used for all kinds of different stuff, so that's something to keep in mind. But they basically give us the outline for how you would want to make one of these sticks. Now, if you want to put something like this together for yourself, I would suggest you use a really tough type of wood, okay, a hardwood of some sort, you know, oak, something like that, something really really hard, okay. The other thing, the lead loaded end. If you can find a blackjack, take that thing apart and attach it to the end of that stick. There are multiple ways to do this, okay. If you cannot find that, take a let's say, a leather pouch. If you could make yourself a leather pouch, not difficult to do if you don't know how to do it. Take a wallet, a leather wallet, cut that up and then sew one side of it. Right, it's already gonna have like three sides of it sewed because it's a wallet, okay, So take the side that's open. Insert a whole bunch of lead shot from a shotgun shell okay, or lead fishing weights in there. Insert a whole bunch of those, and then use some nylon thread preferably a really thick nylon thread and sew that thing up. Okay, and then if possible, you can attach that to the end of the head using any one of multiple different attachment possibilities. Okay, you can. If there's a couple of holes in the end of the leather, you can take a drill a few holes in the end of the stick and attach it to the stick that way by tying it on there. You can cord wrap it onto the end to the head, just like you what a knife like quard wrapping the handle of a knife. You can do that. There are just a bunch of different ways that you can pull this off. You really want to have some fun, get yourself a I don't know, let's say a half inch diameter steel ball bearing and look up how to braid a monkey fist monkey fist and or look that up online on like YouTube and stuff, and attach that to the end of the head of your walking stick. That'll give you something nice to play with there. Okay, so multiple options I just threw out you there. If you don't understand how that's done, or you're not sure, or you're like, man, how did you say to do that? Just email me Gunmetal Armory at gmail dot com. Okay, just email me, I'll tell you how. Or if you can't seem to email me, or you're sending it and you're not getting a response, go onto my website gun Metal l LC dot com and email me on there. Okay, the contact form on there, you can contact me that way. Okay, all right, So that's the stick that they recommend using and keeping with you when you're operating at night. The next thing, they say, you want a small flashlight, small pocket flashlights, some kind of a flashlight you can use that's small enough to fit in your pocket, and they say to definitely have spare batteries. It can be en case in a section of bicycle tube as well, the same way as your feeler stick might be. Okay, the small flashlight. Of course, the same reason applies for the flashlight as it does for the walking stick, because you bump into anything with it, or jingles or anything like that. You don't want that to make any noise. Okay. It could also be bound up with cleaning supplies for your gun. It could be bound up with a handkerchief. A million different options are there, okay. So also keep in mind you will want to have a light with a red filter or there are a few companies that make flashlights that have both a red light and a white light. There's bunches of them out there, dude. There's some made by Surefire, there's some made by First Light, there's some made by Photon. There's all kinds of them out there, guys. But you definitely need a red light and a white light. Okay. The red light is so you can read the map at night and not lose your night vision, in other words, your own eyesight. That will allow you to see better at night. That red light is extremely important for that. Okay, keep that in mind. Next thing, a watch or and a compass with glowing the dark dials, whether it be tritium or just something that is going in the dark luminous. You know that has to be charged by a flashlight something like that. Either way, it definitely needs to be done. Okay, you'll want to wear the watch on the wrist with the face against the skin instead of facing outwards. You're going, wait, what, I'm not talking about having the watch face inward towards your body. Okay, you guys are seeing people wear their watch on the bottom of their wrist over and over again. Okay, that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about taking the watch and facing it inward, so it's basically inside out on your wrist. That way, of course, it doesn't reflect something very interesting and important to think about. The compass is going to be the same type that you would normally want to carry, something like a lens adic compass, and on top of the lens aatic compass. I always recommend and Seal Team recommend this in their line gear to have a wrist watch compass, one that would fit on your wristwatch with luminous styles. And of course you can hide that with a watch band or something like that if you don't want to turn it towards your towards your skin. And a tritium kamenga lensatic compass. Okay, and finally, very very interesting, you guys might find this very interesting. Some cough drops or sweets to suck on while you're operating. It actually prevents coughing. They firmly believe that this was very very important, otherwise it wouldn't have been in the spy manual. You need to have some candy with you or cough drops or something to wet your whistle so you don't cough when you're out there operating, very very important. You also in modern times very very important as well. But in modern times you might also look into some allergy medication things like that, right, because if you're making noise, it's not gonna be a good time. Right again, same thing as day work. Nothing needs to be carried which is unnecessary. Care has to be taken that there are no noisy objects in your pockets. And the leader of your group, it's his duty to make sure of all that stuff himself. Okay. The leader of the party needs to check each and every guy to make sure that they don't have any battle rattle or anything that's going to gleam or shine or anything like that. Okay, he'll probably you know, if you're the leader. Make your guys jump up and down on the floor, see if there's any noise other than that of your feet. Okay, keep that in mind, guys. All right, I hope you guys enjoyed this. I'm gonna stop here. It's been freaking amazing. Keep your eyes out for the podcast coming up with the Mistress of Metal. It is going to be called draven Rock Homestead, named for the famous underground complex called raven Rock. All right, if you don't know what raven Rock is, look it up. R A V E N R O C E R O c K. Check it out raven Rock. Okay, and our the podcast that Carol is doing is called draven Rock. Check it out, everybody. I think you will definitely enjoy it. Until next time. I appreciate each and every one of you. We'll see you later as we go deeper inside the gun Metal Armory. 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