Annotated Table of Contents to The Atomic Trekker
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
How I got the name, “New Ordnance”
PROLOGUE
PASSING THE TORCH OF CIVILIZATION
Dedication to those who recognize the call
CHAPTER 1
DON'T LOOK AT THE LIGHT
CHAPTER 2
GET READY TO IMPROVISE
FOOD IN A POST EVENT ENVIRONMENT
THYROID BLOCKING AGENTS.
VITAMINS AND FOOD STORAGE.
“Good God-fearing people will often lose all moral values when their children are starving.”
“Be prudent and alert. Study, Think, Observe and Prepare.”
— Tacda.org
SHED EXCESS BAGGAGE
Of Fools and Cannibals – a cautionary tale.
CHAPTER 3
DETECT AND DEFEND AGAINST EMP EFFECTS
“The fact that the electric power grid began as a convenience, but has become a necessity for sustaining
life, is both one of the most beneficial, and one of the most dangerous, facts of 21st century existence.”
EMP AS AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
After immediate protection from direct nuclear effects what are the priorities for sustaining your life?
AIR – The First Priority
THE INNER GUIDE TO GRID - DOWN SURVIVAL AND THE LESSON OF GRATITUDE
CHAPTER 4
SECURE AND STORE CLEAN WATER
After the air you breathe, your first priority of life is water. Start your preparedness journey by securing and
storing clean water.
FATAL MISTAKE: YOU HAVE NO STORED WATER
WATER WARS – A CAUTIONARY STORY OF VIGILANTE JUSTICE
GRID DOWN! NO WATER!
What are you going to do?
Using Water Resources is a treasured gem from New Ordnance’s Nuclear Vault. Discover the proven, do-it-
yourself technologies used to successfully develop water supplies in third world countries. Sage council on
the off-grid life from the voice of experience.
WHEN WATER IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD
Water is life. Do not be held hostage for your life or your water.
CHAPTER 5
STORE FOOD AND THE NEW FOOD PRODUCTION PARADIGM
Avoid fatal mistakes going forward by making yourself antifragile. Profit from the uncertainties and stresses of life by limiting the downside and maximizing the upside of events that can make or break you.
If nuked you might as well be ready to give civilization a make-over. Start with the foundation—agriculture.
ANTIFRAGILE AGRICULTURE
Gabe Brown
Farm the Sun
It is not so much that we are going to harness the primordial forces of nature. Rather, we are going to align ourselves with those carbon cycles of life as we learn how to farm the sun.
Gabe has refined mob-grazing of live-stock, no-till practices and cover crops down to an art and science. His amazingly fertile self-renewing operation yields a diversified array of products requiring very few inputs other than seed, sunlight and water. His soil retains so much water that it is like a gigantic underground reservoir. Oh by the way, his operation is all dry-land – no irrigation with only 15 inches of annual precipitation. His yields are 25% above the county average and he is the most profitable producer in his county.
THE ANTIFRAGILE PARADIGM OF LIFE, NOT DEATH
Come what may - inflation, deflation, slow decline, war or collapse, be ready to profit by the demise of Big Ag and feed the vanguard of the new civilization.
Stand at the edge of chaos and bring coherence to the random perturbations of the universe. Be the doer of heroic deeds and the builder of civilization. Protect the seeds you have sown so that your progeny and worthy followers can reap the harvest of your legacy regardless of the future.
CHAPTER 6
PROTECT FOOD PRODUCTION
PROTECTING LAND AND CROPS
CHAPTER 7
DO YOUR HOMEWORK
I met Cresson several times back in the 1980’s. He was in his seventies then but he still had a certain toughness beneath his modest demeanor. During those cold war years I had arranged a civil defense speaking engagement for him in Washington, DC.
It was only later that I discovered the extent of his legendary career – as a courier to the Czechoslovakian underground smuggling anti-Nazis from the grasp of the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II and as a demolition Officer in the OSS (the precursor to what later became the CIA) in southern China ahead of the Japanese invasion....
In his 2003 New York Times obituary his daughter Stephanie commented, “Throughout his life he believed in being prepared for trouble.”
FATAL MISTAKE: NOT HAVING A RADIATION METER
CHAPTER 8
STOCK UP ON THYROID BLOCKERS
FATAL MISTAKE: NO THYROID BLOCKER
• Potassium Iodide (KI) and Potassium Iodate (KIO3) – merits and demerits
• Why I have switched over to KIO3?
• Recommended dosage for adults, children and pets
• Minimum daily dose
• Maximum days to take
• Recommended source
• How much to store
GET IT NOW BEFORE IT ALL DISAPPEARS.
• Possible substitutes in extremis and other ways to prevent thyroid damage
• Cannot depend on government to save you
CHAPTER 9
COME OUT TO FIGHT AND DEFEND
FATAL MISTAKE: NO SHELTER DEFENSE
Desperate circumstances can bring out the best and the worst in people. Are you prepared for both? These are the last words of the ignorant who did not know how to defend their shelter and who were clueless as to how trivial it is to defeat a buttoned-down shelter with all the occupants inside...
Beyond that you are going to have to develop a layered defense that will extend to your neighborhood and community.
You are headed for a new life, the training way of life.
Possessing the instruments of defense is essential. But, without proper training and mindset, you are a menace to yourself and those around you. Your ignorance and the fatal hubris of the armchair commando make you easy prey for those who are well trained.
Forget about the Lone Ranger. It’s not going to work. You need those neighbors for mutual defense. How could they be organized to help each other?
One book, an underground classic, is your best guide and companion to develop your Neighborhood Protection Plan (NPP) to avoid a failure of shelter defense. Matthew Bracken, former Navy Seal and author of the Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy had this to say about it...
Note that the original perfect binding has been removed and replaced by a ring binding that allows the pages to lie flat for use when you really need it.
How I got the name, “New Ordnance”
PROLOGUE
- Provenance of “The Atomic Trekker”
- How to read this book
- The New Darwinian Imperative for a Radioactive World
- Natural Selection and the Survival of the Anti-fragile
- Rules of Thumb for “ The Best of Times” and “The Worst of Times”
- Bogus nature of the Conventional Strategic Overview and Threat Analysis
- Disrespecting conventional book genres
PASSING THE TORCH OF CIVILIZATION
Dedication to those who recognize the call
CHAPTER 1
DON'T LOOK AT THE LIGHT
- Nuclear Weapons Effects Part I
- The Psychology of Disaster
- Training to overcome Normalcy Bias, the Mass Mind and your worst fears
- Nuclear Weapons Effects Part II
- Thermal Radiation Exposure
- Thermal Radiation Burns
- Evasive Actions to Limit Harm
- Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP)
- Blast Effect and Overpressure
- Do you Shelter in Place or Evacuate?
- Nuclear War Survival Skills Expedient Shelters
- Improvising when you are unprepared to deal with the chaos of false alarms and the real thing
- Cultivate the Inner Improvisation and the Outer Will Follow
CHAPTER 2
GET READY TO IMPROVISE
- Specific recommendations on finding safe shelter, air, water and food if you are unprepared
- TACDA ACADEMY- Civil Defense Basics
- WATER
- Water Storage
- Water Forage
- Water Clarification
- Settling
- Can Filters
- Earthen Filters
- Hose Siphoning
- Capillary Siphoning
- Coffee Filters
- Water Purification
- Boiling
- Chemical Sterilization
- Iodine
- Crystals
- Tinctures
- Tablets
- Chlorine
- Bleach
- Halazone tablets
FOOD IN A POST EVENT ENVIRONMENT
- Differentiating between foods that can and cannot be cleansed and decontaminated of alpha and beta particles.
- What fruits and vegetables are safe to eat and what fruits and vegetables are not safe to eat.
- Farming and Fallout
- Dairy Products when safe to eat and not eat.
- Animals and which parts are safe to eat and which parts are not safe to eat.
- Eggs
- Which fish are safe to eat and which are not.
THYROID BLOCKING AGENTS.
VITAMINS AND FOOD STORAGE.
“Good God-fearing people will often lose all moral values when their children are starving.”
“Be prudent and alert. Study, Think, Observe and Prepare.”
— Tacda.org
SHED EXCESS BAGGAGE
Of Fools and Cannibals – a cautionary tale.
CHAPTER 3
DETECT AND DEFEND AGAINST EMP EFFECTS
- For the prepared person, you can get beyond “nuke-proof” and become antifragile. Follow the Boy Scout Motto. “Be Prepared!”
“The fact that the electric power grid began as a convenience, but has become a necessity for sustaining
life, is both one of the most beneficial, and one of the most dangerous, facts of 21st century existence.”
EMP AS AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM
- Only initial warning may be an EMP attack. Terrorist countries and their organizations understand
- our vulnerability and could use relatively unsophisticated missiles armed with nuclear weapons to
- produce a high altitude EMP (HEMP).
- Consequences of HEMP
- EMP Detection
- Protection of Equipment
- Faraday Cages and Pseudo Faraday Cages – Best Practices and Strategies. Ignorantly using wire mesh and metal foil can enhance EMP effects.
- Best EMP Proof Vehicles
- Grid-Down Consequences. The power grid is a fragile construct of post-modern civilization.
After immediate protection from direct nuclear effects what are the priorities for sustaining your life?
- How long can you live without air?
- How long can you live without shelter?
- How long can you live without water?
- How long can you live without food?
AIR – The First Priority
- Protection from ingesting radioactive particles
- Smoke Inhalation and Nerve Gas
THE INNER GUIDE TO GRID - DOWN SURVIVAL AND THE LESSON OF GRATITUDE
CHAPTER 4
SECURE AND STORE CLEAN WATER
After the air you breathe, your first priority of life is water. Start your preparedness journey by securing and
storing clean water.
FATAL MISTAKE: YOU HAVE NO STORED WATER
- You could have lived quite a while without food—but you ran out of water. The more water you have stored, the less ditch water you will have to drink.
- Removing Fallout Particles and Dissolved Radioactive Material from Water
WATER WARS – A CAUTIONARY STORY OF VIGILANTE JUSTICE
- Develop your own water system and store salt
- The necessity of trace elements in the diet and how to get them from the natural world
- Pearls of Wisdom from the mouth of Neptune himself
- Why I would never drill a well without having it dowsed
- How to choose a well driller and more secrets of the dowser’s art
GRID DOWN! NO WATER!
What are you going to do?
Using Water Resources is a treasured gem from New Ordnance’s Nuclear Vault. Discover the proven, do-it-
yourself technologies used to successfully develop water supplies in third world countries. Sage council on
the off-grid life from the voice of experience.
WHEN WATER IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD
Water is life. Do not be held hostage for your life or your water.
- Recommended hand pumps
- Recommended water hardware from 30,000 gallon cisterns to ultra-light backpacking filters and everything in between – systems that fit in the back of your pick-up truck and systems that sit on your kitchen counter. New Ordnance has used them all.
- A new understanding of normalcy bias.
CHAPTER 5
STORE FOOD AND THE NEW FOOD PRODUCTION PARADIGM
- Men die first
- Do women inherit the earth? Women have more body fat and last longer when starved.
- Reliving The Cuban Missile Crisis
- Built-in normalcy bias and resistance to change
- From the Pax Romana to FEMA camps
- The dilution of cultural memory
- Of dead Ukrainians and kulaks
- Stack and Stock. Eat what you store and store what you eat. With nuclear events there could be several years of adverse conditions for growing food so keep stocking and putting up non-hybrid seed.
- Transitioning from surviving to thriving under adverse conditions
Avoid fatal mistakes going forward by making yourself antifragile. Profit from the uncertainties and stresses of life by limiting the downside and maximizing the upside of events that can make or break you.
If nuked you might as well be ready to give civilization a make-over. Start with the foundation—agriculture.
ANTIFRAGILE AGRICULTURE
Gabe Brown
Farm the Sun
It is not so much that we are going to harness the primordial forces of nature. Rather, we are going to align ourselves with those carbon cycles of life as we learn how to farm the sun.
- The 5 Universal Principles of Success
- Debt free, banker free, chemical free, GMO free and government program free
- Agriculture poised to replace Big Ag
- Easily scales up or down
- Naturally diverse poly-crops
Gabe has refined mob-grazing of live-stock, no-till practices and cover crops down to an art and science. His amazingly fertile self-renewing operation yields a diversified array of products requiring very few inputs other than seed, sunlight and water. His soil retains so much water that it is like a gigantic underground reservoir. Oh by the way, his operation is all dry-land – no irrigation with only 15 inches of annual precipitation. His yields are 25% above the county average and he is the most profitable producer in his county.
THE ANTIFRAGILE PARADIGM OF LIFE, NOT DEATH
Come what may - inflation, deflation, slow decline, war or collapse, be ready to profit by the demise of Big Ag and feed the vanguard of the new civilization.
Stand at the edge of chaos and bring coherence to the random perturbations of the universe. Be the doer of heroic deeds and the builder of civilization. Protect the seeds you have sown so that your progeny and worthy followers can reap the harvest of your legacy regardless of the future.
CHAPTER 6
PROTECT FOOD PRODUCTION
- Defense Against Radioactive Fallout on the Farm
- Protecting Livestock
- What water can I give livestock after fallout?
- What feed can I give livestock after fallout?
- What measures should be taken to protect poultry?
- What animal food products are safe to market after fallout?
- What do I do if animals die from fallout radiation?
- Is it possible to decontaminate livestock and farm buildings that have been exposed to fallout?
PROTECTING LAND AND CROPS
- What are the main consequences of heavy concentration of fallout on crop and pasture lands?
- How long would fallout affect cultivated and non-cultivated lands?
- Are there soil treatments for reducing the fallout hazard on land?
- Would fallout permanently affect pasture grass and forage crops?
- Would fallout affect my system of farming?
- Would fallout reduce economic productivity of crop and pasture lands?
- What are the effects of fallout on growing vegetables?
- What are the effects of fallout on fruits?
- Would fallout limit use of plants for human food?
- What special precautions should be taken for workers in the fields?
- Radiological Monitoring
- Organize your own local EMERGENCY DEFENSE SERVICES
CHAPTER 7
DO YOUR HOMEWORK
- No need to think about it. Just get a hard copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills by Cresson H. Kearny and get on with acquiring the recommended radiation meters already!
- If you don’t have a radiation meter in a crisis you won’t know whether to defecate or go blind. Then you will default to dependence on the government to tell you when it’s safe to come or go and governments always lie—more so in a crisis. I will recommend meters to purchase and show you how to make your own.
- Never be a refugee.
I met Cresson several times back in the 1980’s. He was in his seventies then but he still had a certain toughness beneath his modest demeanor. During those cold war years I had arranged a civil defense speaking engagement for him in Washington, DC.
It was only later that I discovered the extent of his legendary career – as a courier to the Czechoslovakian underground smuggling anti-Nazis from the grasp of the Third Reich in the run-up to World War II and as a demolition Officer in the OSS (the precursor to what later became the CIA) in southern China ahead of the Japanese invasion....
In his 2003 New York Times obituary his daughter Stephanie commented, “Throughout his life he believed in being prepared for trouble.”
- Download a free copy of Nuclear War Survival Skills.
FATAL MISTAKE: NOT HAVING A RADIATION METER
- The Kearny Fallout Meter (KFM) requires no batteries
- Building the Kearny Fallout Meter (KFM) from everyday materials
- Other Recommended Radiation Meters
- From the Old School
- Dosimeter
- Dosimeter Charger
- From the New School
- Recommended meters for alpha, beta and gamma detection and discussion of pros and cons
- Protection from alpha and beta emitters
- Connecting to radiationnetwork.com for independent non-government real time verification of radiation levels in the U.S. and Asia
- Meters to avoid
- Using surplus Civil Defense Meters
- Testing and recalibration of meters
- Radiation Safety in Shelters
- The Big Caveat and Final Take-away on Radiation Meters
- 6 Steps to Radiation Freedom
- Use solar, wind and human powered generators to charge batteries. Do not depend solely on fossil-fueled generators which are much more prone to failure.
- Recommended folding solar panels that fit in a backpack as a mobile option in keeping small batteries charged for your meters, radios and flash lights.
CHAPTER 8
STOCK UP ON THYROID BLOCKERS
FATAL MISTAKE: NO THYROID BLOCKER
• Potassium Iodide (KI) and Potassium Iodate (KIO3) – merits and demerits
• Why I have switched over to KIO3?
• Recommended dosage for adults, children and pets
• Minimum daily dose
• Maximum days to take
• Recommended source
• How much to store
GET IT NOW BEFORE IT ALL DISAPPEARS.
• Possible substitutes in extremis and other ways to prevent thyroid damage
• Cannot depend on government to save you
CHAPTER 9
COME OUT TO FIGHT AND DEFEND
FATAL MISTAKE: NO SHELTER DEFENSE
Desperate circumstances can bring out the best and the worst in people. Are you prepared for both? These are the last words of the ignorant who did not know how to defend their shelter and who were clueless as to how trivial it is to defeat a buttoned-down shelter with all the occupants inside...
- You must go outside the shelter to defend it
- The first premise of shelter defense is operational security (OPSEC). This means absolute secrecy with everything having to do with the shelter—its location and very existence—from all people except for the shelter team on a strict need to know basis. Use camouflage, concealment, subterfuge and disguise to hide the shelter.
Beyond that you are going to have to develop a layered defense that will extend to your neighborhood and community.
You are headed for a new life, the training way of life.
Possessing the instruments of defense is essential. But, without proper training and mindset, you are a menace to yourself and those around you. Your ignorance and the fatal hubris of the armchair commando make you easy prey for those who are well trained.
- Discover how to defend your shelter
Forget about the Lone Ranger. It’s not going to work. You need those neighbors for mutual defense. How could they be organized to help each other?
One book, an underground classic, is your best guide and companion to develop your Neighborhood Protection Plan (NPP) to avoid a failure of shelter defense. Matthew Bracken, former Navy Seal and author of the Enemies Foreign and Domestic trilogy had this to say about it...
Note that the original perfect binding has been removed and replaced by a ring binding that allows the pages to lie flat for use when you really need it.
- The twin pillars of your Nuked survival canon
You are a menace to your-self and everyone around you if you are untrained or worse yet, half-trained or self-taught.
It is easier and quicker to teach a complete novice with the right mindset and attitude because they have fewer bad habits to unlearn in reaching a high standard of proficiency.
STILL HUNT
I learned early.
As a young boy I spent interminable hours silent in the deep primeval woods with my dad...
Jeff Cooper put it this way. “...the overwhelming priority in the individual book of tactics is the first principle of personal defense – and that is alertness... awareness, the by-product of alertness is the first principle of any sort of fighting and especially so in the case of the man alone.”
The most important means of surviving a lethal confrontation, according to Cooper, is neither the weapon nor the martial skills. The primary tool is the combat mindset, set forth in his book, Principles of Personal Defense.
Burn Cooper’s four basic rules of gun safety into your mind, and practice them to the end of your life. You will never be accepted into higher training if you violate these basic rules...
PROJECT APPLESEED
Project Appleseed isn’t a gun club or a militia, nor is it a historical society. Instead, we are a non-partisan group of men and women (known as the Revolutionary War Veterans Association) who are committed to upholding the values and principles of America’s founding fathers. We use rifle marksmanship instruction as a gateway to help bring our nation’s history to life and to show that many of the values that our forefathers relied on to win our independence are still very much in demand today.
APPLE SEED REDUX
After a hiatus from the Apple Seed Program for a number of years we had the occasion to attend a class in the Spring of 2018 with two new shooters that we had been working with over the winter. We equipped them with Ruger 10/22 Trainers configured with G.I. slings and scopes for the event.
The After Action Report (AAR) details the direct and rather spectacular interventions we had to make to maintain safety on the firing line.
The Lessons Learned section of the AAR contains our recommendations for the Appleseed Program.
Despite the episodes depicted above, I am not a misogynistic old codger. If capable and of sound mind, I say do what the Swiss have been doing for over 400 years and “arm them all”.
WYBERSCHIESSET
The historic "Amts- und Wyberschiesset" takes place every three years, either in Schüpfheim, Entlebuch or Eschholzmatt (close to Lucerne). As the name implies, the event is dedicated to women shooters which make up about half of the participants (a bit over 1000 shooters). Documents give evidence that women and girls partake actively in this unique shooting event since 1579.
Accelerated Training Recommendations
CHAPTER 10
GET STRONG
Now that you have basic rifle and handgun skills your real training in small unit tactics (SUT) can proceed. Shelter defense is dependent on effective SUT. Training in SUT requires a higher standard of physical fitness. You will run more. You will carry more weight with full combat loads. More strength and more endurance is required.
GET STRONG!
SOLVITUR AMBULANDO! “It is resolved by walking!” Diogenes retorted to speculations on the illusory nature of
motion by his fellow Greeks. On the virtue of walking.
STRONGER
On the use of kettlebells – Kettlebell Simple & Sinister by Pavel
Now, you are well versed in the basics of running your rifle and hand-gun. You have learned from my “old
boot” mistakes. You have been introduced to ultralight gear and philosophy and where it is appropriate.
You have discovered that heroes are developed by training and mastery. You have subsequently boosted
your level of physical training. If you are motivated to pick yourself up after you fall on your face and still
have a teachable attitude, you may be a candidate for Small Unit Tactics (SUT).
CHAPTER 11
TRAIN IN SMALL UNIT TACTICS (SUT)
The Lone Ranger is not going to make it. You have to learn how to safely move, shoot and communicate in
concert with other people at the most basic level—the team of two to twelve people. You will need
qualified help as you graduate to this level of training.
RECOMMENDED TRAINING
MAX VELOCITY
WEST VIRGINIA
Max is a tactical trainer and author, a lifelong professional soldier with extensive military experience. He
served with British Special Operations Forces, both enlisted and as a commissioned officer; a graduate of
the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Max served on numerous operational deployments, and also
served as a recruit instructor. Max spent five years serving as a paramilitary contractor in both Iraq and
Afghanistan. Max operates Max Velocity Tactical, a tactical training company with a facility in West
Virginia.
Reviews of books by Max Velocity:
JOHN MOSBY
MOUNTAIN GUERRILLA
Former Special Forces soldier, John Mosby is one of a kind. His perspective is informed by special operations military experience and doctrine adjusted to fit the needs of the partisan/patriot/survivor from a Norse tribal point of view. He holds a Masters degree in history and has a long-term view of the rise and fall of civilizations and their cyclical nature. He lives on an off-grid homestead with his family somewhere in the southern mountains.
He is big on training to objective standards and offers training on demand at venues across the U.S.
Reviews of books by John Mosby:
PAX VIGILANTICUS – VIGILANTE PEACE
Time-honored vigilante justice was so effective across Montana Territory that it eventually led to the Pax
Vigilanticus due to the reputation of summary executions which mounted into the hundreds.
MASON-DIXON TACTICAL, J.C. Dodge
OHIO, US
“Go through the manual and review the tasks, conditions, and standards for each task. A few of us will be reviewing some of the skills mentioned here and here over the next few months to give insight into the “Why” and “How” of these skills as they relate to Survivalists and preppers.” — JCD
MOTIVATION
One way I stay motivated to train is by keeping up with the works of Matthew Bracken, former Navy Seal and provocative writer. The fall of Europe and western civilization is in progress and coming our way. Matt has nailed what is in store for us with his prescient novels written over the past two decades.
His latest work The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun motivates me to work harder, do more PT, exhibit greater mastery over the spiritual, mental and material elements within my immediate control, and to recognize and let go of those things that are not.
Before you set out to take a Small Unit Tactics (SUT) course, learn how to train-in-place using the materials at hand for daily exercises that will enhance your experience and performance when you arrive at a class in the field.
MASTER YOUR PERSONAL KIT, A story from long ago in a different age.
“I spent so much time with a shotgun as a boy that I became very fast. I didn’t have to think about it. After
school when dove season opened, I would put my shotgun over the handlebars of my bicycle and head out
to the edge of town...”
Those were the habits from my youth in a bygone era that inform my everyday carry habits today. I like zippered pockets and dummy cords to keep from losing essential items in the truck and in the back country. I like immediate and quick access to gun, knife and bear spray with eyes on the potential threat and hands clear and not fumbling around.
Thou shall distinguish the good from the bad and thou shalt not wobble or fumble in the breach. Know thy everyday carry as fond tools that fall easily and readily to hand and train with them. Of course you will never know your true mettle until tested by man or beast, at which time you will default to the level of your training as the old saying goes.
EVERY DAY CARRY (EDC)
My EDC revealed. From Glocks to Buffalo Bore to mini Blowout Kits.
THE DOG CHRONICLES – Of dogs and yuppies
GRID-DOWN KILLER PACKS
TECHNICAL MANUALS
I always have technical service manuals for every firearm I own and the most common recommended spare parts. I recommend three books from my reference library as EDC guides.
CHAPTER 12
COMMUNICATE SECURELY IN GRID-DOWN ENVIRONMENTS
With no communication you are a dumb sheep totally at the mercy of wolves and Big Brother. You need to be able to monitor what is going on in your area of operation and the world at large. You need to be able to communicate securely with the members of your family, tribe and shelter group. Any broadcast signature needs to be as small as possible to avoid revealing your location. Your equipment should be protected from EMP and have multiple redundancies.
Review of classic equipment:
COMMUNICATE IN COMPROMISED ENVIRONMENTS
The story of how Jim Bridger did it up Deep Creek.
Take communications classes now from recommended experts:
SPARKS31, the Patriot’s comms guru. Wyoming, USA
NCSCOUT North Carolina
“I am a former Infantry Scout in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units, a former NCO, serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I seek to share what I’ve learned to help folks build a skill set that may be needed in the near future. I am an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian social activist.
“...As anyone that has trained with me can attest, the RTO course (and the others) are unlike anything offered to the Prepper community, at any cost. You will walk away from this course knowing how to properly employ (and build) bare-bones or improvised equipment for creating local and regional infrastructure and how to maximize what equipment you may already have. You might even pick up some patrolling pointers or field tips and tricks while you’re at it. But in any case, my lone goal is to make you better today than you were yesterday. Because as I learned the hard way long ago, if you can master what’s basic, you’re 90% there.
“Most courses are in North Carolina. In 2018, in response to popular demand, some courses were taught in Montana.”
THE AMERICAN REDOUBT RADIO OPERATORS NETWORK (AmRRON)
THE AMERICAN PREPAREDNESS RADIO NETWORK (TAPRN)
“We are committed to maintaining a continental network of radio operators for disaster response and civil defense, always ready to serve our communities, our states, our nation and our fellow countrymen with unconventional communications in times of need. Founded in 2011, AmRRON was originally created as a communications network to keep communities and states within the American Redoubt connected in the event of a major disaster situation, or socioeconomic collapse. Within a year, over half the members consisted of those living outside the American Redoubt. AmRRON has now grown to nearly four thousand radio operators, with members in every state, plus Puerto Rico and Canada. In January, 2014, AmRRON merged with TAPRN, making it the largest conservative mostly-Christian radio network outside of a faith-based organizational structure (such as Salvation Army and LDS).”
Stay tuned to new developments that enhance your COMSEC and new sources of valuable information that appear even as old sources are compromised. Check out AmericanPartisan.org and particularly relevant to our discussion, the NCscout review of the One Time Pad Generator developed by AmRRON Dark Labs.
OF CRYSTAL RADIOS AND GERMAN PICKELHAUBEN
Another tale from the time when America was a free country. Get yours today. Crystal radios work when all else fails and you don’t know where your next watt will come from.
SCOUT OATH
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep
myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
SCOUT LAW
A Scout is: Trustworthy. Loyal. Helpful. Friendly. Courteous. Kind.
Obedient. Cheerful. Thrifty. Brave. Clean. And Reverent.
I had taken the Boy Scout Motto to heart and strove to live up to it better every day. “Be Prepared!”
Such were events that informed my boyhood, a boyhood in many respects not too distant from Huck Finn and something out of William Faulkner.
Now that you have learned to move, shoot and communicate in defending your shelter, it is time to learn how to treat the sick and wounded while staying healthy.
CHAPTER 13
TREAT THE SICK AND WOUNDED WHILE STAYING HEALTHY
You die from a minor cut or infection because you did not practice basic hygiene and have no antibiotics. Western medicine and western civilization deal effectively with the acute health issues that killed off other populations and kept the death rate high. In western societies you can get along with occasional lapses in personal hygienic practices because of the higher public health standards, particularly in regard to water purification and waste disposal. Taking these standards for granted in a post nuclear-event future has fatal consequences.
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED
A mega-cautionary tale of getting caught up in the India/Pakistan war of 1971.
Preventative Life Extensive Measures.
I engage in potentially dangerous activities like running a chainsaw, felling trees, long alpine excursions in prime Grizzly habitat, and using trail heads where miscreant fugitives and druggies hang out hoping to score on some dumb tourist. I accept those risks because they come with the territory. On the other hand, I don’t ride motorcycles period or even bicycles in the city. I speak with some experience in surviving dumb mistakes.
Once upon a time, in the follies of my youth, I persuaded Ruthli, my stewardess friend from Pan Am, to take a bicycle tour of Europe...
USEFUL MEDICAL BOOKS I HAVE ACCUMULATED
Surviving the WW II Hamburg, Germany firestorm.
Herbal Radiation Remedies.
Mini Blowout Kit – Contents
THE BEAUTY OF THE BOMB: Embracing Radiation & The Quest for Just the Right Amount of Radioactivity
The cohesive kith and kin, tribe and clan who emerge stronger into the post-nuked future will be the nuclei of the new community bound together by blood and brotherhood, a spiritual order both new and ancient.
OBEY YOUR INNER GUIDE TO LIVE LONGER AND AVOID ACCIDENTS
True story going down the road. Why she hit the horse with her car and I did not.
“Officer, I see that the EMTs are about to take the lady away. That’s my down
jacket I wrapped her in and I see they have plenty of blankets on hand. If
you can retrieve my jacket for me we will be on our way if there is nothing
else we can do here.”
THE LESSON:
...You might even start to wonder how to extract yourself from the Matrix and live a life of freedom. You will discover that it’s not like the movie with an instant blue pill or red pill. Instead, it’s a journey. There will be dragons to slay and tests to pass with no politically-correct guarantee of success. There is the distinct possibility of ignominious failure. You need a map, a guide and tools for the trek...
Use your tools and realizations wisely and contemplate what part of yourself you are willing to give up in order to traverse into the next stage. You might have to operate on yourself without anesthetics both metaphorically and literally. Understand that the complete journey is not possible without inner strength and self-sacrifice, the preconditions for the trek beyond pleasure and pain.
CHAPTER 14
DITCH BIG BROTHER AND SHELTER HUCKSTERS
Remember! Depending on the government, or any outside agency, to take care of you is the prime
mistake upon which all other fatal mistakes are based.
DAS WESENTLICHE IST DIE TAT, "The essential thing is the deed” from Thoughts of a Soldier (Gedanken Eines Soldaten) by Hans von Seeckt.
“The essential thing is the deed or action. It has three stages—born first from the idea of resolve or determination, then the preparation to execute the deed (or the command), then the execution itself—and in all three stages the Will drives the action. The Will springs from Character and is, for the doer, more decisive than Spirit. Spirit without Will is worthless, however Will without Spirit is dangerous.”
Von Seeckt rebuilt the German army after WW I. He is studied in the military academies and war colleges of the world as one of the fathers of maneuver warfare or Blitzkrieg as it came to be called in World War II. He built the premier military force of his era despite the severe restrictions of the Versailles Treaty imposed on Germany.
Von Seeckt cut through military bureaucracy and built a mobile, decentralized fighting force with small units empowered to make quick independent decisions to address and exploit local developments with a minimum of centralized command and control.
CUTTING THROUGH THE BUREAUCRACY OF THE MIND
Fortunately or unfortunately, I have a foot in both worlds and can speak both languages. Having learned by making all the mistakes, my B.S. detector is well developed... it can detect a slick-talking sales spieler from miles away... I have seen families and communities shattered as the social dynamics of shared and communal shelter projects played out through the years.
Unfortunately, I think Jim Rawles over at SurvivalBlog.com got it right.
The Mythical Group Retreat: Survival Preparations are Not Like Car Detailing.
Perhaps we can also learn from Switzerland. The Swiss certainly understand human nature as well as the social dynamics of shelter populations based on their vast experience from the Second World War to the present time. They have shelters for all Swiss at home and at work – sheltering their entire population from blast and CBR attack.
CHAPTER 15
EMULATE THE SWISS
Taking responsibility for your personal capability to shelter in place is a key component of your personal antifragility.
THE SWISS CONNECTION
Build your own home 15 psi blast and radiation shelter from these Swiss pre-engineered plans that have been translated into English from the original Schweizerdeutsch. By pre-engineered, I mean that if you faithfully execute the plans and specifications you will end up with a good shelter that will perform to the original design criteria and not some home-brewed death trap.
DO NOT BE SWEPT UP IN A MASS EVACUATION
This betrayal of the American people by their leaders is thoroughly documented in the recent book, Raven Rock: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While the Rest of Us Die. Raven Rock, the secret continuity of government facility accessible from DC and Camp David was previously immortalized by Matthew Bracken in his 2009 novel, Foreign Enemies and Traitors.
FATAL MISTAKE: Your Shelter Ventilation System Cannot be Operated by Hand.
All shelters large or small must have manual back-up for ventilation systems. No exceptions.
FATAL MISTAKE : You Have a Fossil-Fuel Generator in Your Shelter.
DIE IN PLACE
How do you ‘Die in Place”? You die in place by listening to FEMA.
SHELTER SAVVY
Punch-list of 12 “rules of thumb” to guide your self-education in what to look for and what to avoid to have a good blast and radiation shelter.
REVIEW FROM OLYMPUS
The success of the old Soviet strategy in founding the “peace movement” and the story of how Dr. Edward
Teller, popularly known as “the father of the H Bomb” came to review my shelter plans.
CHAPTER 16
RETURN HOME WITH STRATEGIC VISION & ANTIFRAGILITY
The limits of conventional threat analysis.
You can use Objective, Strategy, Tactics (OST) to approach what you want to accomplish but this linear
process ignores non-linear forces and their knock-on effects.
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
THREAT ANALYSIS
THE PROBABILITY OF ASYMMETRIC AND SPORADIC NUCLEAR EVENTS VERSUS TOTAL WAR
At the beginning of this exposition I thought I had a handle on the answer using the methodologies of risk and probability analysis that I had been trained in. Now, I’m not so sure. Perhaps it doesn’t matter. As I am learning from Taleb, certain sociopolitical, economic, religious, and cultural trends and trajectories of civilization can be identified but attempts to quantify them are very shaky constructs with little bearing in reality.
I am interested in building successful family, tribe and community that will weather the approaching vicissitudes and emerge stronger on the other side to seed the next civilization. This is very much a work in progress—becoming “antifragile”, in Taleb’s parlance, to the winds of change and uncertainty.
No more statistical folly!
Let the hucksters be exposed.
SEEDS OF CIVILIZATION
You are the seed pods of the next civilization designed to survive the systolic and diastolic agonies of the
passing age.
The twin threats of communism and mohammedanism exposed from their roots.
The Soviet Story.
THE DEATH CODE
Where Marx meets mohammad.
This is the present milieu. Throw in nuclear weapons and Russia painted in as the bogeyman by the US.
METAMORPHOSIS
My story. How I dropped out of the high-tech corporate world, stopped serving the beast and discovered life outside the matrix.
THE TRAIL OF DREAMS
GOODBYE DOPPLEGANGER
THE ATOMIC TREKKER
Deductive, inductive logic and direct cognition.
The immutable Way.
I used to think there were shortcuts, that I could cut across the switchbacks, that I could blaze my own trail. Again, I had to learn the hard way. Sometimes I could scramble to the top only to discover a false summit with the way back beyond my skills and lightning threatening to blast me off the ridge. Often my life was hanging by a foolish thread but I never gave up and survived to walk another day, another month, another year. I was driven and compelled to keep walking. Now, almost half a century later, by virtue of skin and soul in the game of life, I have learned a few things. I have a torch, a baton to pass to the next generations who might prove worthy of receiving it.
UNDER THE MATTERHORN
Now we were on holiday back home visiting her family and looking to hone our skiing skills. A family friend had introduced us to one of the coterie of legendary Zermatt ski instructors. Well fortified with Raclette and Kirschwasser we were out on the slopes overshadowed by the Matterhorn after formal classes had ended. The instructor casually looked us over and with perfectly accented British English said, “Follow me.”
He pushed off-piste down the mountain as the shadows were lengthening with the last run of the day.
THE LIMITS OF THREAT ANALYSIS & THE DOMAIN OF ANTI-FRAGILITY
PROBABILITIES, BLACK SWANS AND FAT TAILS
Is “antifragile” better than “resilient”?
In his book, Taleb stresses the differences between antifragile and robust/resilient. "Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."
NEW HOPE
Look at your personal blast and fallout shelters as sanctuaries of new hope and repositories where the arts of civilization are preserved for succeeding generations...
What did you come here to do? Has it been accomplished? How about passing the torch? What footprints in the sand have you left for others to follow? Let timely reflections on these existential questions goad you to keep moving and never give up for there is not a minute to lose as long as we are in the bounds of time and space...
I can still see her shining smile lighting up the world. It reminds me that amidst the cynicism of the passing age, there are still affairs of the heart that transcend time and space.
This is why we fight. This is why we prepare.
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI
It is easier and quicker to teach a complete novice with the right mindset and attitude because they have fewer bad habits to unlearn in reaching a high standard of proficiency.
STILL HUNT
I learned early.
As a young boy I spent interminable hours silent in the deep primeval woods with my dad...
- How I learned the silent lessons as a young lad through forest meditations and a Winchester Model 12
Jeff Cooper put it this way. “...the overwhelming priority in the individual book of tactics is the first principle of personal defense – and that is alertness... awareness, the by-product of alertness is the first principle of any sort of fighting and especially so in the case of the man alone.”
- Combat Mindset and the Cooper Color Code
The most important means of surviving a lethal confrontation, according to Cooper, is neither the weapon nor the martial skills. The primary tool is the combat mindset, set forth in his book, Principles of Personal Defense.
Burn Cooper’s four basic rules of gun safety into your mind, and practice them to the end of your life. You will never be accepted into higher training if you violate these basic rules...
PROJECT APPLESEED
Project Appleseed isn’t a gun club or a militia, nor is it a historical society. Instead, we are a non-partisan group of men and women (known as the Revolutionary War Veterans Association) who are committed to upholding the values and principles of America’s founding fathers. We use rifle marksmanship instruction as a gateway to help bring our nation’s history to life and to show that many of the values that our forefathers relied on to win our independence are still very much in demand today.
- Appleseed “Trainer”—Note the aftermarket slip-on stock pad adjusted for optimum cheek weld and scope eye relief. Off-the-shelf stock swivels are installed with a vintage M1 Garand sling.
- Not just for men
- Young shooter learning basics the correct way—acquiring natural point of aim on the firing line. Note the military sling, open bolt with chamber flag, indexed trigger finger, proper eye and ear protection.
- Girl friendly
- Our families’ experience with the Appleseed Program through the years
APPLE SEED REDUX
After a hiatus from the Apple Seed Program for a number of years we had the occasion to attend a class in the Spring of 2018 with two new shooters that we had been working with over the winter. We equipped them with Ruger 10/22 Trainers configured with G.I. slings and scopes for the event.
The After Action Report (AAR) details the direct and rather spectacular interventions we had to make to maintain safety on the firing line.
The Lessons Learned section of the AAR contains our recommendations for the Appleseed Program.
Despite the episodes depicted above, I am not a misogynistic old codger. If capable and of sound mind, I say do what the Swiss have been doing for over 400 years and “arm them all”.
WYBERSCHIESSET
The historic "Amts- und Wyberschiesset" takes place every three years, either in Schüpfheim, Entlebuch or Eschholzmatt (close to Lucerne). As the name implies, the event is dedicated to women shooters which make up about half of the participants (a bit over 1000 shooters). Documents give evidence that women and girls partake actively in this unique shooting event since 1579.
Accelerated Training Recommendations
- GUN SITE ACADEMY, ARIZONA
- THUNDER RANCH, OREGON
- PAT GOODALE PRACTICAL FIREARMS TRAINING (PGPFT), WEST VIRGINIA & MONTANA. Defensive Handgun 1, Spring, 2018 Redux, New Review and AAR of class first taken over ten years ago.
CHAPTER 10
GET STRONG
Now that you have basic rifle and handgun skills your real training in small unit tactics (SUT) can proceed. Shelter defense is dependent on effective SUT. Training in SUT requires a higher standard of physical fitness. You will run more. You will carry more weight with full combat loads. More strength and more endurance is required.
GET STRONG!
- The painful story of my high-boot comeuppance and conversion to ultralight trail runners and ultralight backpacking which gave me the freedom of the mountains and a new lease on life.
- Gear reviews on ultralight trail runners, gore-tex socks, crampons, trekking poles, and ultralight over-boots for snowshoeing.
- Use of mules and other assorted animals for mountain transport by elite mountain troops in Austria and Germany, U.S. Special Forces and hunters in Montana.
- Review of Natural Born Heroes by Christopher McDougall.
SOLVITUR AMBULANDO! “It is resolved by walking!” Diogenes retorted to speculations on the illusory nature of
motion by his fellow Greeks. On the virtue of walking.
STRONGER
On the use of kettlebells – Kettlebell Simple & Sinister by Pavel
Now, you are well versed in the basics of running your rifle and hand-gun. You have learned from my “old
boot” mistakes. You have been introduced to ultralight gear and philosophy and where it is appropriate.
You have discovered that heroes are developed by training and mastery. You have subsequently boosted
your level of physical training. If you are motivated to pick yourself up after you fall on your face and still
have a teachable attitude, you may be a candidate for Small Unit Tactics (SUT).
CHAPTER 11
TRAIN IN SMALL UNIT TACTICS (SUT)
The Lone Ranger is not going to make it. You have to learn how to safely move, shoot and communicate in
concert with other people at the most basic level—the team of two to twelve people. You will need
qualified help as you graduate to this level of training.
RECOMMENDED TRAINING
MAX VELOCITY
WEST VIRGINIA
Max is a tactical trainer and author, a lifelong professional soldier with extensive military experience. He
served with British Special Operations Forces, both enlisted and as a commissioned officer; a graduate of
the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Max served on numerous operational deployments, and also
served as a recruit instructor. Max spent five years serving as a paramilitary contractor in both Iraq and
Afghanistan. Max operates Max Velocity Tactical, a tactical training company with a facility in West
Virginia.
Reviews of books by Max Velocity:
- Patriot Dawn
- Patriot Rising
- Contact
- Tactical Manual Small Unit Tactics
JOHN MOSBY
MOUNTAIN GUERRILLA
Former Special Forces soldier, John Mosby is one of a kind. His perspective is informed by special operations military experience and doctrine adjusted to fit the needs of the partisan/patriot/survivor from a Norse tribal point of view. He holds a Masters degree in history and has a long-term view of the rise and fall of civilizations and their cyclical nature. He lives on an off-grid homestead with his family somewhere in the southern mountains.
He is big on training to objective standards and offers training on demand at venues across the U.S.
Reviews of books by John Mosby:
- Forging The Hero: Who does More is Worth More, A Tribal Strategy for Building Resilient Communities and Surviving the Decline of Empire.
- The Reluctant Partisan - Volume One: The Guerrilla - A Comprehensive Training and Evaluation Program for Tribal, Community and Family Security Preparedness
- The Reluctant Partisan - Volume Two: The Underground - An Unconventional Approach to Surviving the Collapse of Society
- The Guerrilla Gunfighter - Clandestine Carry Pistol - Core Principles, Skills, and Drills for Practical Pistol Use at the Decline of Civility
PAX VIGILANTICUS – VIGILANTE PEACE
Time-honored vigilante justice was so effective across Montana Territory that it eventually led to the Pax
Vigilanticus due to the reputation of summary executions which mounted into the hundreds.
MASON-DIXON TACTICAL, J.C. Dodge
OHIO, US
- Former U.S. Army NCO offers classes in Eastern U.S.
- Common Infantry Tasks Testing — The Basic Requirements Applied To Survivalists. J.C. Dodge: “Are there Infantry skills that you should master? Hell Yes!This is the lowest and most basic level of requirements the Infantry expects from it’s Soldiers. As with the CTT post, I have selected what I believe are the realistic tasks that a Survivalist who means to go into harms way should have a basic understanding of, if not proficiency in.”
- SOLDIER’S MANUAL and TRAINER’S GUIDE - MOS 11B - INFANTRY - SKILL LEVEL I. Excerpts: Conduct a Point Ambush, Conduct Operation of a Patrol Base, Supervise Operational Decontamination, Conduct a Raid – Understand it for Retreat Defense, Conduct a Disengagement of a Platoon While Under Enemy Pressure.
“Go through the manual and review the tasks, conditions, and standards for each task. A few of us will be reviewing some of the skills mentioned here and here over the next few months to give insight into the “Why” and “How” of these skills as they relate to Survivalists and preppers.” — JCD
MOTIVATION
One way I stay motivated to train is by keeping up with the works of Matthew Bracken, former Navy Seal and provocative writer. The fall of Europe and western civilization is in progress and coming our way. Matt has nailed what is in store for us with his prescient novels written over the past two decades.
His latest work The Red Cliffs of Zerhoun motivates me to work harder, do more PT, exhibit greater mastery over the spiritual, mental and material elements within my immediate control, and to recognize and let go of those things that are not.
Before you set out to take a Small Unit Tactics (SUT) course, learn how to train-in-place using the materials at hand for daily exercises that will enhance your experience and performance when you arrive at a class in the field.
MASTER YOUR PERSONAL KIT, A story from long ago in a different age.
“I spent so much time with a shotgun as a boy that I became very fast. I didn’t have to think about it. After
school when dove season opened, I would put my shotgun over the handlebars of my bicycle and head out
to the edge of town...”
Those were the habits from my youth in a bygone era that inform my everyday carry habits today. I like zippered pockets and dummy cords to keep from losing essential items in the truck and in the back country. I like immediate and quick access to gun, knife and bear spray with eyes on the potential threat and hands clear and not fumbling around.
- More tales about the bears of Montana.
Thou shall distinguish the good from the bad and thou shalt not wobble or fumble in the breach. Know thy everyday carry as fond tools that fall easily and readily to hand and train with them. Of course you will never know your true mettle until tested by man or beast, at which time you will default to the level of your training as the old saying goes.
EVERY DAY CARRY (EDC)
My EDC revealed. From Glocks to Buffalo Bore to mini Blowout Kits.
THE DOG CHRONICLES – Of dogs and yuppies
GRID-DOWN KILLER PACKS
TECHNICAL MANUALS
I always have technical service manuals for every firearm I own and the most common recommended spare parts. I recommend three books from my reference library as EDC guides.
CHAPTER 12
COMMUNICATE SECURELY IN GRID-DOWN ENVIRONMENTS
With no communication you are a dumb sheep totally at the mercy of wolves and Big Brother. You need to be able to monitor what is going on in your area of operation and the world at large. You need to be able to communicate securely with the members of your family, tribe and shelter group. Any broadcast signature needs to be as small as possible to avoid revealing your location. Your equipment should be protected from EMP and have multiple redundancies.
Review of classic equipment:
- SONY ICF 2010
- ICOM 2 meter hand-helds and base station
- Modified Mil-Spec Motorola i355 cell phone transformed into a frequency-hopping digital radio for local line of sight secure communication
- Kaito Voyager AM/FM/SW Radio With Built-in Solar Panel and Hand-Cranked Generator
COMMUNICATE IN COMPROMISED ENVIRONMENTS
The story of how Jim Bridger did it up Deep Creek.
Take communications classes now from recommended experts:
SPARKS31, the Patriot’s comms guru. Wyoming, USA
- It’s all about self-reliance
- Get Sparks31’s book, Commo
- Basic Down-Grid Communications Class
NCSCOUT North Carolina
“I am a former Infantry Scout in one of the Army’s best Reconnaissance Units, a former NCO, serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan. I seek to share what I’ve learned to help folks build a skill set that may be needed in the near future. I am an avid hunter, bushcrafter, writer, long range shooter, prepper, amateur radio operator and Libertarian social activist.
“...As anyone that has trained with me can attest, the RTO course (and the others) are unlike anything offered to the Prepper community, at any cost. You will walk away from this course knowing how to properly employ (and build) bare-bones or improvised equipment for creating local and regional infrastructure and how to maximize what equipment you may already have. You might even pick up some patrolling pointers or field tips and tricks while you’re at it. But in any case, my lone goal is to make you better today than you were yesterday. Because as I learned the hard way long ago, if you can master what’s basic, you’re 90% there.
“Most courses are in North Carolina. In 2018, in response to popular demand, some courses were taught in Montana.”
THE AMERICAN REDOUBT RADIO OPERATORS NETWORK (AmRRON)
THE AMERICAN PREPAREDNESS RADIO NETWORK (TAPRN)
“We are committed to maintaining a continental network of radio operators for disaster response and civil defense, always ready to serve our communities, our states, our nation and our fellow countrymen with unconventional communications in times of need. Founded in 2011, AmRRON was originally created as a communications network to keep communities and states within the American Redoubt connected in the event of a major disaster situation, or socioeconomic collapse. Within a year, over half the members consisted of those living outside the American Redoubt. AmRRON has now grown to nearly four thousand radio operators, with members in every state, plus Puerto Rico and Canada. In January, 2014, AmRRON merged with TAPRN, making it the largest conservative mostly-Christian radio network outside of a faith-based organizational structure (such as Salvation Army and LDS).”
Stay tuned to new developments that enhance your COMSEC and new sources of valuable information that appear even as old sources are compromised. Check out AmericanPartisan.org and particularly relevant to our discussion, the NCscout review of the One Time Pad Generator developed by AmRRON Dark Labs.
OF CRYSTAL RADIOS AND GERMAN PICKELHAUBEN
Another tale from the time when America was a free country. Get yours today. Crystal radios work when all else fails and you don’t know where your next watt will come from.
SCOUT OATH
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country
and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times; to keep
myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
SCOUT LAW
A Scout is: Trustworthy. Loyal. Helpful. Friendly. Courteous. Kind.
Obedient. Cheerful. Thrifty. Brave. Clean. And Reverent.
I had taken the Boy Scout Motto to heart and strove to live up to it better every day. “Be Prepared!”
Such were events that informed my boyhood, a boyhood in many respects not too distant from Huck Finn and something out of William Faulkner.
Now that you have learned to move, shoot and communicate in defending your shelter, it is time to learn how to treat the sick and wounded while staying healthy.
CHAPTER 13
TREAT THE SICK AND WOUNDED WHILE STAYING HEALTHY
- Fatal Mistake: No Meds
You die from a minor cut or infection because you did not practice basic hygiene and have no antibiotics. Western medicine and western civilization deal effectively with the acute health issues that killed off other populations and kept the death rate high. In western societies you can get along with occasional lapses in personal hygienic practices because of the higher public health standards, particularly in regard to water purification and waste disposal. Taking these standards for granted in a post nuclear-event future has fatal consequences.
THOU SHALT NOT TAKE FOR GRANTED
A mega-cautionary tale of getting caught up in the India/Pakistan war of 1971.
Preventative Life Extensive Measures.
- Get rid of the things that are killing you
- Adopt a healthy diet and lifestyle
- Avoiding trips to the emergency room
I engage in potentially dangerous activities like running a chainsaw, felling trees, long alpine excursions in prime Grizzly habitat, and using trail heads where miscreant fugitives and druggies hang out hoping to score on some dumb tourist. I accept those risks because they come with the territory. On the other hand, I don’t ride motorcycles period or even bicycles in the city. I speak with some experience in surviving dumb mistakes.
Once upon a time, in the follies of my youth, I persuaded Ruthli, my stewardess friend from Pan Am, to take a bicycle tour of Europe...
USEFUL MEDICAL BOOKS I HAVE ACCUMULATED
- Triage Emergency Care Handbook by Max Klinghoffer, M.D.
Surviving the WW II Hamburg, Germany firestorm.
- Antibiotics - Aquarium supplies
- Pharmaceutical Reference Books - The PDR Pocket Guide to Prescription Drugs - The Pill Book
- Medicinal Herbs - Health Through God’s Pharmacy by Maria Treben - Back to Eden by Jethro Kloss
- Collecting Herbs - The good and the deadly - Stinging Nettle and Mullein drying in the room as I write
Herbal Radiation Remedies.
- Dr. Joel Wallach
Let’s Play Doctor by Dr. Joel Wallach and Dr. Ma Lan
Rare Earths Forbidden Cures by Dr. Joel Wallach and Dr. Ma Lan
EPIGENETICS The Death of the Genetic Theory of Disease by Wallach, Ma Lan and Schrauzer - DITCH Medicine Advanced Field Procedures for Emergencies by Hugh Coffee
- ST 31-91B US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES MEDICAL HANDBOOK
- Where There is No Doctor: a Village Care Handbook by David Werner
- Where There is No Dentist by Murray Dickson
Mini Blowout Kit – Contents
THE BEAUTY OF THE BOMB: Embracing Radiation & The Quest for Just the Right Amount of Radioactivity
- Medical Definition of hormesis
- Sunshine Radon Mine. Boulder, Montana
- Unique subcultures in the quest for health
- Merry Widow Mine. Basin, Montana
- El Santuario de Chimayo prayer room with discarded crutches and testimonials
The cohesive kith and kin, tribe and clan who emerge stronger into the post-nuked future will be the nuclei of the new community bound together by blood and brotherhood, a spiritual order both new and ancient.
OBEY YOUR INNER GUIDE TO LIVE LONGER AND AVOID ACCIDENTS
True story going down the road. Why she hit the horse with her car and I did not.
“Officer, I see that the EMTs are about to take the lady away. That’s my down
jacket I wrapped her in and I see they have plenty of blankets on hand. If
you can retrieve my jacket for me we will be on our way if there is nothing
else we can do here.”
THE LESSON:
...You might even start to wonder how to extract yourself from the Matrix and live a life of freedom. You will discover that it’s not like the movie with an instant blue pill or red pill. Instead, it’s a journey. There will be dragons to slay and tests to pass with no politically-correct guarantee of success. There is the distinct possibility of ignominious failure. You need a map, a guide and tools for the trek...
Use your tools and realizations wisely and contemplate what part of yourself you are willing to give up in order to traverse into the next stage. You might have to operate on yourself without anesthetics both metaphorically and literally. Understand that the complete journey is not possible without inner strength and self-sacrifice, the preconditions for the trek beyond pleasure and pain.
CHAPTER 14
DITCH BIG BROTHER AND SHELTER HUCKSTERS
Remember! Depending on the government, or any outside agency, to take care of you is the prime
mistake upon which all other fatal mistakes are based.
DAS WESENTLICHE IST DIE TAT, "The essential thing is the deed” from Thoughts of a Soldier (Gedanken Eines Soldaten) by Hans von Seeckt.
“The essential thing is the deed or action. It has three stages—born first from the idea of resolve or determination, then the preparation to execute the deed (or the command), then the execution itself—and in all three stages the Will drives the action. The Will springs from Character and is, for the doer, more decisive than Spirit. Spirit without Will is worthless, however Will without Spirit is dangerous.”
Von Seeckt rebuilt the German army after WW I. He is studied in the military academies and war colleges of the world as one of the fathers of maneuver warfare or Blitzkrieg as it came to be called in World War II. He built the premier military force of his era despite the severe restrictions of the Versailles Treaty imposed on Germany.
Von Seeckt cut through military bureaucracy and built a mobile, decentralized fighting force with small units empowered to make quick independent decisions to address and exploit local developments with a minimum of centralized command and control.
CUTTING THROUGH THE BUREAUCRACY OF THE MIND
- Before attempting to cut through institutional bureaucracy, better to know yourself first, enlighten your own mind and act.
- Take command and others will follow. Trusting the government to take care of you in a crisis will lead to your untimely demise.
- To rely on “big brother” is death going forward.
- To rely on smooth-talking huckster shelter sellers and builders is fraught with peril.
Fortunately or unfortunately, I have a foot in both worlds and can speak both languages. Having learned by making all the mistakes, my B.S. detector is well developed... it can detect a slick-talking sales spieler from miles away... I have seen families and communities shattered as the social dynamics of shared and communal shelter projects played out through the years.
Unfortunately, I think Jim Rawles over at SurvivalBlog.com got it right.
The Mythical Group Retreat: Survival Preparations are Not Like Car Detailing.
Perhaps we can also learn from Switzerland. The Swiss certainly understand human nature as well as the social dynamics of shelter populations based on their vast experience from the Second World War to the present time. They have shelters for all Swiss at home and at work – sheltering their entire population from blast and CBR attack.
CHAPTER 15
EMULATE THE SWISS
Taking responsibility for your personal capability to shelter in place is a key component of your personal antifragility.
THE SWISS CONNECTION
Build your own home 15 psi blast and radiation shelter from these Swiss pre-engineered plans that have been translated into English from the original Schweizerdeutsch. By pre-engineered, I mean that if you faithfully execute the plans and specifications you will end up with a good shelter that will perform to the original design criteria and not some home-brewed death trap.
DO NOT BE SWEPT UP IN A MASS EVACUATION
This betrayal of the American people by their leaders is thoroughly documented in the recent book, Raven Rock: The Story of the US Government’s Secret Plan to Save Itself – While the Rest of Us Die. Raven Rock, the secret continuity of government facility accessible from DC and Camp David was previously immortalized by Matthew Bracken in his 2009 novel, Foreign Enemies and Traitors.
- Technical Directives for the Construction of Private Air Raid Shelters and 1971 Conception of the Swiss Civil Defense (excerpts)
- Swiss shelter CBR ventilation systems and equipment
- Shelter Planning and Design
- Steel tank Civil Defense shelter
FATAL MISTAKE: Your Shelter Ventilation System Cannot be Operated by Hand.
All shelters large or small must have manual back-up for ventilation systems. No exceptions.
FATAL MISTAKE : You Have a Fossil-Fuel Generator in Your Shelter.
DIE IN PLACE
How do you ‘Die in Place”? You die in place by listening to FEMA.
SHELTER SAVVY
Punch-list of 12 “rules of thumb” to guide your self-education in what to look for and what to avoid to have a good blast and radiation shelter.
REVIEW FROM OLYMPUS
The success of the old Soviet strategy in founding the “peace movement” and the story of how Dr. Edward
Teller, popularly known as “the father of the H Bomb” came to review my shelter plans.
CHAPTER 16
RETURN HOME WITH STRATEGIC VISION & ANTIFRAGILITY
The limits of conventional threat analysis.
You can use Objective, Strategy, Tactics (OST) to approach what you want to accomplish but this linear
process ignores non-linear forces and their knock-on effects.
STRATEGIC OVERVIEW
THREAT ANALYSIS
THE PROBABILITY OF ASYMMETRIC AND SPORADIC NUCLEAR EVENTS VERSUS TOTAL WAR
At the beginning of this exposition I thought I had a handle on the answer using the methodologies of risk and probability analysis that I had been trained in. Now, I’m not so sure. Perhaps it doesn’t matter. As I am learning from Taleb, certain sociopolitical, economic, religious, and cultural trends and trajectories of civilization can be identified but attempts to quantify them are very shaky constructs with little bearing in reality.
I am interested in building successful family, tribe and community that will weather the approaching vicissitudes and emerge stronger on the other side to seed the next civilization. This is very much a work in progress—becoming “antifragile”, in Taleb’s parlance, to the winds of change and uncertainty.
No more statistical folly!
Let the hucksters be exposed.
SEEDS OF CIVILIZATION
You are the seed pods of the next civilization designed to survive the systolic and diastolic agonies of the
passing age.
The twin threats of communism and mohammedanism exposed from their roots.
The Soviet Story.
THE DEATH CODE
Where Marx meets mohammad.
This is the present milieu. Throw in nuclear weapons and Russia painted in as the bogeyman by the US.
METAMORPHOSIS
My story. How I dropped out of the high-tech corporate world, stopped serving the beast and discovered life outside the matrix.
- The Money Game by Adam Smith
- My Austin-Healey Gateway to the Beach
- On the Beach
- L.A. Earthquake, Ocean Tragedy, and 100 foot tsunami
- 7 years to the bottom of terror
- Escape to Montana
THE TRAIL OF DREAMS
GOODBYE DOPPLEGANGER
THE ATOMIC TREKKER
Deductive, inductive logic and direct cognition.
The immutable Way.
I used to think there were shortcuts, that I could cut across the switchbacks, that I could blaze my own trail. Again, I had to learn the hard way. Sometimes I could scramble to the top only to discover a false summit with the way back beyond my skills and lightning threatening to blast me off the ridge. Often my life was hanging by a foolish thread but I never gave up and survived to walk another day, another month, another year. I was driven and compelled to keep walking. Now, almost half a century later, by virtue of skin and soul in the game of life, I have learned a few things. I have a torch, a baton to pass to the next generations who might prove worthy of receiving it.
UNDER THE MATTERHORN
Now we were on holiday back home visiting her family and looking to hone our skiing skills. A family friend had introduced us to one of the coterie of legendary Zermatt ski instructors. Well fortified with Raclette and Kirschwasser we were out on the slopes overshadowed by the Matterhorn after formal classes had ended. The instructor casually looked us over and with perfectly accented British English said, “Follow me.”
He pushed off-piste down the mountain as the shadows were lengthening with the last run of the day.
- Consider this exposition as an ad libitum prescription for your use going forward in the eternal quest for the lost golden age...
- Hence, I write of nuclear survival matters lest our progeny wait another 10,000 years to return to the point where we are today in our spiritual and material evolution as a people...
- Without predicting specific events, I see the following possibilities for our future, extending forward on timelines that change according to our free-will choices as individuals and as communities, states and nations...
- The 103 aging commercial nuclear reactors in the United States are prime candidates to go full-Fukushima if the power grid drops out for longer than two weeks... etc.
THE LIMITS OF THREAT ANALYSIS & THE DOMAIN OF ANTI-FRAGILITY
PROBABILITIES, BLACK SWANS AND FAT TAILS
Is “antifragile” better than “resilient”?
In his book, Taleb stresses the differences between antifragile and robust/resilient. "Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better."
NEW HOPE
Look at your personal blast and fallout shelters as sanctuaries of new hope and repositories where the arts of civilization are preserved for succeeding generations...
What did you come here to do? Has it been accomplished? How about passing the torch? What footprints in the sand have you left for others to follow? Let timely reflections on these existential questions goad you to keep moving and never give up for there is not a minute to lose as long as we are in the bounds of time and space...
I can still see her shining smile lighting up the world. It reminds me that amidst the cynicism of the passing age, there are still affairs of the heart that transcend time and space.
This is why we fight. This is why we prepare.
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI