TACTICAL TUESDAY: WW2 Knife Fighting, Centries, and Combat Movement on TGA

Welcome to the gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dandy. Well, it's up everybody. It's Danes from the gun Metal Armory. Decided to go live just to have a little bit of fun tonight. I don't have a ton of time, so forget i'd go live. Give you guys some information. I want to go over something real quick here though. Guys. Last week we went over some more war or not last week last week was Thanksgiving. Week before last, we went over some more World War two information and the various different things that you would do for night fighting, and some of the other interesting things that come out of the World War two resistance group training and the spy school training that they did back then. We're gonna go over some more of that today, but I wanted to talk real quick first about modern day cachets. Okay. Now, if you are a student of history like I am, you remember a book group or a publisher rather, I guess it is a better way to put a publisher that was called the Paladin Press. I don't know if y'all remember them, but it was called Paladin Press, okay, and they put out a lot of books. I believe they even had the anarchist cookbook out for a while as well, So that kind of gives you an idea of who these people are. They're not around anymore, sadly, but they had some manstrict information. They also had some very basic information. They had stuff on farming and building homes and retreats and all kinds of good stuff, you know. So some of my favorite books from them were from a guy named Ragnar Benson. Some of you guys out there may know exactly who I'm talking about. Some of you might not, but Ragnar Benson is one of those iconic writers. If you know who he is, okay. One of the quotes from his book says, a retreat is a place you go to live, not die. Setting up a retreat is, for the most part, practicing the art of the possible. It's a matter of wisely and shrewdly identifying what you have available and turning it into something usable. Fight if you must, but try your utmost to orchestrate events so that the confrontation is absolutely the remedy of last resort. Very very interesting. In other words, you know a lot of retreaters, and you know some preppers. Not all, but some preppers may have this, you know, quasi romantic notion of you know, their last stand at the Alamo, at the retreat. You know, we fall back to the retreat and we survive as long as we can, and then you know, it's all over from there. Bro No, that is not at all what we're trying to do, not even close. Right. So a retreat is a place you go to live, not to die. Right. So one of the things he talks about in here, and I think a lot of preppers forget about this stuff is cachets okay. But the thing I don't think that people forget about that. People don't forget about cachets. What they forget about is the reality of cachets okay. So in some of his books he talks about how retreaters can easily become targets of a hostile group, any kind of group, okay. But he when this guy with Ragnar Benson was rolling through Africa, he saw people that were prepared get targeted constantly. So what he would do to act actually make sure that that didn't happen to the people that he was around, is he would set up these cachets okay. Now, he would also set up retreats. And he said that their retreats were attacked a lot, and not because they were smart or they were comfortable shelters, not because they were well stocked with essential goods. But they were attacked because, if I remember correctly here, they were attacked because they were symbols of resistance. They were symbols of defiance that you know, of course, might have some stuff that people want in them as well. But in his time in Africa, these retreats, these sanctuaries, if you will, were symbols of the resistance. Okay, So keep in mind. You've got all these you know, red states out here, and you've got all these various different areas that might be looked at as a symbol of the quote unquote resistance. Okay, so keep that in mind. Okay. Number one. Number two, keep in mind about how cachets really work. Okay, so a lot of people also have a very romantic notion of cachet. It's my resupply on my way to kick some more butt, or my resupply on my way to get to my retreat where I can you know, have my almo, right or whatever, dude, But caches aren't at all what you think they are. Or maybe maybe you do have a good idea of them, but I do want to give a little bit of insight into at least what Ragnar Benson believes that they are and knows from experience. Now he talks about in his book, his book called Live off the Land, in the City or the Country, he actually explains his strategy for cashing items. Okay. He says that one the important elements of his cacheing strategy involves burying several twenty centimeter waterproof tubes containing basic supplies such as AMMO and guns, meds and food, right, so on and so forth. Okay, he's had a very basic, a simple basic stock of those items might prove to be invaluable if you lose your retreat to occupation or a disaster, or any number of a million other possibilities. Okay, So if all you have is those cachets, then you know, God love you man. At least you have something, because a lot of people won't. All right, So he says that the supplies that he's cashed in tubes around the country can only provide a makeshift existence. Okay, a lot of people think that these cachets are something way more than they are, but they're not all it does is give you a makeshift existence, And he says, unlike more than ninety percent of people playing to survive in an emergency, I have actually had some experience living this way, and it's miserable. It's a precarious existence. If I'm uncertain whether I can make it. What chance does the desk bound city dweller living off a hand to mouth existence out of limited supplies in his cachet have? Right? So what chance does a desk bound city dweller What chance do they have of living a hand to mouth existence? You know, that's the whole point, right, A guy like Ragnar Benson, or a guy with experienced special forces, you know, someone with survival experience, whatever the case may be. If these guys are going to have it tough, what chance does the average person have? Not a lot? Okay, He goes on to talk about the answer is basically that cacheing is only a stop gap measure. That's all it is, all right, Almost all of what it will take to survive has to be at your retreat. Okay. Basically, it's like a rocket ship hurtling through space. There's no way to go back and resupply. Everything required for life must be at your retreat, not necessarily in luxurious abundance, but it needs to be there, all right. You need to prioritize your needs for a post collapsed economy. So what do you think you're going to need? Right? Well, those things have to be prioritized by where you are, where you are located. Are you in Phoenix, Arizona? Are are you in Tyler, Texas? Are you in Miami, Florida? Are you in Fresno, California? Are you in Hellusville, Kentucky? I don't know. There's a million different cities and a lot of different environments that you have to think about when you're planning this stuff. Okay, So depending on the environment you're in, that is going to dictate a lot of what you need to cachet for your rocket ship, for your lifeboat. Okay, and everything again, like you said, everything you need to survive has to be there, okay. Water Ways to procure water, ways to store water, ways to pureify water, okay, food ways to freaking preserve food, you know, and especially ways to grow food. And that's not just rakes and shovels and seeds, dude, that's fertilizer. That's various types of soil additives. That's other types of seeds. Okay, there's so many little things that go into this, guys, little seed starting containers. Okay. I don't mean to overwhelm you. Please, don't take it that way. What I mean to do is tell you you need to start and you need to do it soon. Okay. Anyways, I just want to give you, guys a real quick rundown on that stuff, on casheing and how difficult it is for a season professional, let alone someone like an average person. Okay, all right, so let's get into the World War two stuff here, guys. Last time, when we left off, we were talking about various types of field craft and combat movement. Okay, we talked about night movement. We talked about the types of clothing you might want to wear and what works best at nighttime, night work, timing, defense, things of that nature when you're when you're doing anything at night. Okay. So, but when we left off, we were talking about crossing any large swaths of land. Okay. Now, we talked about the difference between crossing as a large bunch of people and crossing one at a time. We also talked about crossing a road. Okay, so crossing across a road of any sort, and how you want to cross that if you want the road to be covered by fire, if you're worried about the road being ambushed, and so on. Okay, Now, one thing that we didn't really go into was how to cross a wall. Okay, Now, crossing over a wall, you think, ok that's pretty simple. You just go over it, you know, or whatever. Right, Well, there are some ways that you know, during World War Two they talked about various different ways that you would want to cross these walls. Okay. Now, I'm sure a lot of this stuff you may have seen. Some of you may not have seen this. Okay, now they talk about there's a major major danger for skylining when you're crossing over various different walls. Okay. Skylining, for those of you guys that don't know, is when you can basically silhouette yourself against the sky. Okay, you've silhouetted yourself against the sky, making yourself very easy to see. Imagine yourself standing in front of a blue sky up on a mountain and I can see the outline of your body very very easily. Okay. That's skylining. Okay, works the same at night works the same during the day. Okay, you're very very easy to see, all right now. Crossing over walls, especially if the enemy is down below on the street or wherever they happen to be, there is a major danger of skylining, okay, And sitting or standing on the wall has to be avoided at all costs. Fitting or standing on the wall must be avoided, all right Now. For ordinary walls, they say to either throw one leg across the wall, lie on top of the wall flat, and then roll over, keeping as low as possible. Okay. I'm sure you guys can imagine that in your head. Okay, So you jump up, you grab it, you with your arms underneath your armpits. You throw one leg up onto the wall, pull yourself up, keeping yourself flat to the wall and flat to the top of it, up and over onto your midsection, you know, like in your midline, right, and then you just roll off to the other side. Okay. Now, make sure when you roll off, you're not rolling off backwards and fall down on your butt. No, you want to kind of roll to where your right leg if you throw your right leg over first, to where your right leg slides down and touches the ground first as you're coming off the other side. Okay. The other way they say is to quote dive onto the wall and just roll over it. Okay. That is something that is not as easy to explain, and I would definitely suggest you look that up online and find out exactly what they're talking about. That's a little bit more difficult to explain. However, they say for high walls some of the methods taught in physical training are best used or use a ladder, right, duh, Use a ladder or a rope with a grappling hook. Okay, now, yes, there were ladders with grappling hooks. I was like, wait, really there were no, I'm just kidding. I'm well aware of it. Okay, back then, of course they had grappling hooks. They had rope, no problem. They had ladders with grapples on, they had, you know, all kinds of different stuff. Back in the day. They even had ropes that were tied to grappling hook setups that could be fired. You know, some people might think of that as a fairly new thing that's used by the Coastguard or swift water rescue or something like that. It is very old. In fact, the Rangers in World War Two that were on the various different beaches in France, you know, like Normandy and so on and so forth. They use grappling hook launching boats, you know, these boats that could fire the grappling hook up onto the cliff that they needed to climb up. Okay, so this was not uncommon back then at all. Okay, so there are other methods. Now, Before I go into that, keep in mind that even in modern times, okay, we have various different types of systems like this, We still have grappling hooks. I myself have a few of them. I think they're really cool, and I love the engineering behind them. Okay, Various different types of rope can be used. We know a lot more about repelling and static lines and various different types of climbing, as well as repelling a scent decent, so on and so forth. Okay, that's come a long, long long way. Now. If you want to know more about that, my first suggestion to you would be to go to a wall climbing gym. Okay, you're going to get a very good primer on all that stuff to begin with. They're at that wall climbing gym because you're just gonna learn a lot about it there. Okay, so check that out first, in my opinion, if you want to learn more about that stuff. But special forces groups, coast guard you know, boat raiding teams, bortac groups like that, they don't use generally, don't use a grappling hook and a rope anymore. They don't you know, swing it in a circle and sling it up onto the boat anymore, okay, or under the cliff or whatever. A lot of them nowadays use basically like a long extendable pole with either full down ladder steps or some kind of a hook with a you know, expandable or breakdownable telescoping ladder. That not the kind of ladder you would think where it looks like a bunch of t's connected together, that the letter T connected together. It looks more like a bunch of letter h's connected together. Okay. But they're very very small, Okay. These things can break down and put into a backpack without a problem, depending on the length. So in fact, I've even seen multiple different ways to make them yourself. Okay, if you want to know what these things look like, or if you want to get one for yourself, look tactical boarding ladder okay, boarding meaning like boarding a ship. Okay, tactical boarding ladder, tactical ladders, things of that nature, you will find them, okay. The other thing you might want to look up is like a firefighter's room escape system. Okay. They have escape systems that firefighters use to escape from a two story building, three story building, and so on. It basically consists of a rope system that attaches to your riggers belt. I don't know if you guys have seen any of the rope rigging systems rope riggers, but they have these belts that have a buckle, you know, the buckle part that attaches to the belt in the front. They have a D loop on those, or a kind of an a loop right that you can clip right into and they're very very useful that. Or they have a separate loop that's off to the side that you can use in an emergency. I myself have used the various different ones that I have multiple times and they are amazing. Trust me on that. Okay. But the firefighters escape system, there's also a tactical escape system that pretty much the same thing. Okay. It consists of a small hook that you would put into the corner of a window. Okay, again, look this up online. You'll understand it much much better. But it consists of a hook that goes into the corner of a window. You basically clip in to that rope that's inside this little bag. I should have said that the whole system comes in a small bag okay, that you could clip to your leg or clip to your belt or whatever. Keep it with you. Okay. Anyways, so the hook comes out, you hook into the corner of a window, the window frame. Okay, you hook right into there, and then you let that line out, clip in, and bam, you go out that window. Dude. It's pretty much that simple. Okay, a little bit more to it, but if you look it up online, you'll see exactly what I'm talking about. Okay, Firefighters escape system tactical escape systems. One of the best companies for making these tactical ladders and these tactical escape systems is a company called Yates. Okay, y a Tees Yates. Okay, so look up Yates, Yates Systems. They have some of the best ones out there. Okay, don't get me wrong, they're front expensive, but they're really cool to have if you need them. But you know, if there's something you're not gonna use, don't waste your money. Get more food, get more water, get more ammunition, or whatever you think you're gonna need to use. Okay, all right, So back to the methods of crossing over walls. Took a little bit of a thing, a little detour there to explain some of this stuff to you guys in modern day systems. Okay, So other methods of crossing walls. They talk about using creeper vines okay, overhanging trees, fruit tree wires, right staples, outletted ricks, crevices. They also talk about making a pile of logs or boxes until your hands can reach the top of the fence or the wall. Okay. They also talk about improvising ladders, using garden seats, trelliswork, old bedsteads, maybe gates, doors, anything that you can do to be able to get over top of that wall or that fence. Okay. But at the very end, they say that one of the best things to do is just to avoid high walls altogether. Stay away from them if you can, because of the danger of silhouetting yourself in the first place. Okay. So the other thing I would recommend if you're going to use a chair, or if you're going to use a bunch of logs stacked up or anything of that nature, ideally if you carry some paracord with you, or any kind of cordage or maybe some tubular nylon or something like that, something that you might carry with you for various tasks and purposes. Because if you have a bug out bag, or you have any kind of bag or backpack or anything like that with you, or a bunch of bunch of gear, you know, plate carrier or anything like that, it is not super comfortable to try to jump over a wall wearing all that stuff. Okay, So what you'd want to use is some kind of small carabineer or hook. Attach that to some paracord or tubular nylon, and you know, ideally clip that to your stuff, take off, you know, your backpack, clip that to it, and then you go over the wall. And then you pull your gear over the wall with you, okay, or you get up on top of the wall, pull your gear up to yourself and then throw it down the other side. But again that will silhouette you like a mug. Okay, Again, best to avoid the wall if you can't. Now. The other consideration there is, if you use logs or chairs or anything like that to get over the wall, it's going to be very obvious to any kind of enemy force that is pursuing you. So what you might want to consider doing is setting up something that will make it where it's not so obvious that that's the wall you went over, such as putting some of your pair acord, not wrapping it around the logs or the chair or something like that, but maybe putting it under it. So once you jump over the wall, you pull that para cord and it knocks down all those logs. Granted it's not perfect, not by any means, but it will still throw things off for a little bit, like well maybe that way, maybe that way, I don't know for sure, you know, Or if you really wanted to get crazy, you can leave a note that says I definitely didn't go that way and arrow pointing upward. But you know, you never know, you never know, you never know who you're going to be up against. Right, all right, so water? What about water? How are we crossing wattah right rivers? Now? When the stream is deep and it's slow moving, they say to try to find a fjord. Okay, A good point to cross is generally going to be at a bend. There's often gravel at the bottom and firm ground on both banks. Also, they say it's difficult for people to see you around a bend, okay, when you're in that kind of an area. They also talk about the things that we've seen in movies before, using driftwood or floating vegetation to camouflage your head as you move across that river or that body of water. Right, so, if you swim, try to land amongst rushes or cattails or anything else, maybe beneath an overhanging tree, something that will camel flodge the fact that you've gotten to the other side of that body of water, okay. Ensure that the bank is not too steep to climb. That's another thing that people often forget about, or they you know, they kind of cross and they get up to the bank and it's too high up to get to or some you know, something like that. So definitely, definitely, definitely need to be thinking about those things, all right. You need to observe your area for this, okay. For they say, for a swiftly flowing stream. They say to cross in the shallows where the water flows over pebbles, rocks, et cetera, a small rapid, but never above a waterfall. Okay, you never want to cross above a waterfall. Okay, so avoid large boulders. Never jump onto rocks over which water is flowing. That's gonna take your feet right out from under you. Okay, we talked about this before, Right, So a rope is a great advantage and a good safety precaution if you can get a hold of one, or if you have one with you, if someone's took it across whatever, If you can swim, start higher up than the point at which you aim the land, and swim diagonally across, allowing the current to carry you down. This is going to minimize the amount of energy you use and also make it a little bit easier on you because you're not gonna be making nearly as much noise. This is a good thing, especially if you're trying to operate at night and move slowly and quietly. Right, all right, So the final thing I think we'll talk about today is going to be crossing barbed Why right, barbed wire? Everybody loves barb wire or concertina wire or whatever, I don't know, whatever you want to call it. Okay, there are a couple of different types, so don't think that they're the same thing, because they're definitely not. All right, Okay, so you talk about double apron type barbed wire. Okay, when you're crossing barbed wire, when you're crossing a razor wire, or when you're trying to get around it or through it, keep in mind that the way that those the spikes and the times that they stick out in the modern day and age, they're going to take DNA from those spikes. Okay, they're they're they're gonna leave your if you jag yourself, you scratch yourself or puncture yourself with one, that's gonna leave DNA behind. Okay, do your best not to leave any DNA behind. Okay, when you're moving through any area, and start practicing this now. Okay, when you move through any area, you need to be practicing l n T, which means leave no trace, Leave no trace. Okay, when you're camping, leave no trace. When you eat out at a restaurant, leave no trace. I mean, you know, obviously you need to leave some money or maybe a tip, but you know you understand what I'm trying to say here, Wherever you go, try your hardest to get in the habit of not leaving anything behind. Don't leave trash wherever you go, throw it away, don't leave your DNA out there. Okay, It's just something to keep in mind. Also, with barbed wire, it will catch every single freaking bit of clothing possible. So please do your best not to leave your clothing really really loose where it can get caught on something like that. That's a biggie, especially when it comes to that kind of stuff. It is a big, big biggie to not get your clothing caught on that, because then it's like, you know, oh crap, where the heck did half of my shirt go? Well, who knows. I think it's probably back there somewhere, all right, So let's move on to the next part here. Barbed wire. Barbed wire, they say to cut lower strands with wire cutters and crawl through. Okay, cut lower strands of the wire and crawl through. Why on earth would you want to cut the lower strands and call through. Well, one really good reason is most centuries, most soldiers are going to be looking at eye level. Okay, unless something draws their eye lower. If the upper strands of barbed wire are not cut, they may see it, they may not. But the upper strands, if those are cut, they will definitely see that because it's at their eye level, right, But if the lower ones are cut, maybe maybe not. Okay. Now, granted they are going to come across it eventually, but buying yourself time is a big, big important thing, especially if you're operating behind enemy lines. Okay, Now, if you're alone, they say, cut the barbed wire near pickets, the like the the pieces of wood that they attached to the barbed wire, the pickets, right, cut the wire near those pickets, and hold the long strands of wire in the other hand. If there are two of you, one man grasps the wire and the other cuts between his hands. Okay, so you've got both your hands on the barbed wire and your partner cuts right in between your hands. So the wire then go, you know, go flying one way or the other. Because a lot of times this wire is under tension. So that's why they say, if you're by yourself, you grab it with one hand near a picket, that fence post, because that fence post is the part that's gonna secure the other side. You're gonna hold the other side of the wire with your other hand as you cut, so there's no danger of that wire flipping back and hitting you or something worse. Okay. Now they also say to cut close to the pickets to avoid noise. You want to cut closer to the fence to avoid making more noise. Now they say, is it possible to climb carefully through the wire, or it is possible to climb carefully through the wire, but avoid touching the upper wire with your pack or with your clothing. That again can leave stuff behind and tear off a piece of clothing or something else. Okay, they say to throw your coat or your gunnysack or something else across, or use some netting and climb over. They say, one man to lie across while others crawl over him is another option. But I personally think that's a pretty crappy option. I don't think that's cool, dude, You know what do I know? Then they talk about Dannert wire. They say, be careful manipulation. By careful manipulation, it is possible to crawl through by separating the coils. If it's not, if it is not necessary to be silent. Any of the methods of vaulting the wire that you're taught in physical training will do. And finally, be keenly aware of the possibility of the fence being what electrified? That's right. You do not want to get your butt shocked by an electric fence. That would not be cool, man, not cool at all. So how do you know if it's an electric fence. Well, I can tell you just by looking at my own electric fence. You'll want to look for something like an insulator. You'll want to look for something that tells you, oh, that's an electric fence. Why because the electric fence has to be insulated. So check the pickets, check the posts, and see if there's anything that is touching that wire that looks like an insulator. Okay, plastic pieces and so on. All right, all right, guys, that is going to pretty much do it for me tonight. I will see you guys again, world, we'll talk again on Saturday. I'll be on with the Mistress of Metal on her podcast draven Rock Homestead named after raven Rock Mountain complex. We have the draven Rock Homestead. She is setting up all kinds of cool stuff for that right now. Guys, I'm seeing rumble channels, I'm seeing you, I'm seeing all kinds of services, I'm seeing video systems being set up, I'm seeing all kinds of stuff. Guys. I am blown away by what's happening, so stay tuned, guys. Is I've never seen her do anything like this before, so I am very interested in what she's about to do here. So all right, guys, I hope each and everyone even are doing great tonight. And ye'all all take care of yourselves. Okay, we'll see you next time as we go deeper inside the gun Metal Armory. Good night, everybody. Thank you for joining us. We'll see you next time on the gun Metal Armory. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network, where we promote self reliance and independence. Tune in tomorrow for another great show, and visit us at Prepperbroadcasting dot com