Tuesday, March 7, 2023

Make The Most Of The Time















 

 "Unless you are actively attacking, retreating, or in movement to contact, you should be constantly seeking to improve your position. Dig, mine, wire, sandbag, and undertake continuous activities to make the enemy's job universally harder and costlier." - every army since Ever

In case you haven't noticed, things are relatively quiet lately (and I say that with an ER worker's loathing of what happens next). But overall, things aren't getting appreciably better, nor worse, unlike not-so-distant time past, and any minute in the future. And despite any huge amount of recockulous Chicken Littling from the Usual Suspects, Globull Warming isn't going to eat your children, COVID is less than a mousefart in a hurricane, and the Next Big Thing hasn't reared its ugly head. Yet.

It will show up soon, for any value of that item, in due course, especially with an activist regime of puppetmasters pulling on that IED and trying to pry it up, by the minute.

Keep digging, retards. FAFO.

So you should be working on everything you can during pauses like this, to better your own position. Because this won't last, and things will not be getting better any time this decade, and probably not in your lifetime, for more than a year or three, at best.

Location, location, location.

Logistics: bullion, beans, band-aids, bullets.

Intelligence: all sides. Yours, theirs, and third parties.

Personnel. Not just who and how many, but also including their medical, financial, legal, and spiritual issues.

Training.

Communication.

Survivability and Resilience of all of the above: P-A-C-E.

If you don't know what any of these things look like specifically for your situation, you're waaaaay behind the curve. If you don't have a list of things to do to improve the status of each, a plan for what to be doing, and are not actively increasing each and every one of them incrementally but notably, as your time, available resources, and opportunity presents itself, you're still doing it wrong.

Because when things start going off the cliff - and they're going to do that - you're going to deal with the landing with what you've prepared and secured, not with what you'd wished for.

Fly the OCD flag a little, look over your plans from top to bottom, make adjustments, and follow the ABC Rule: Always Be Checking. Plans change. Weather changes. Enemies change. Needs change. Supplies spoil.




8 comments:

Michael said...

Excellent article, thanks

Rocketguy said...

When that IED video first made the rounds, one of our safety guys turned it into a training opportunity - never expose more personnel to the potential FOOOM! than necessary; use the right tools; never, never *strike* the ‘splodey thing, especially with metal; follow established procedures; when in doubt, stop….and the best was avoid workplace distractions - some dude walks up and starts talking and one of the diggers turns and talks to him *while still swinging a tool at the device*.

Tucanae Services said...

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

Will Rogers

John Wilder said...

Always be working.

NightBreaker said...

always have enough leeway in your plans for unexpected and be able to adapt on the fly , PACE is the perfect example Primary Alternate Contingency and finally Emergency which could at the peak of Nastiness resemble a "War or the Rats " a personal Stalingrad or Sarajevo circa 1993 . In that situation Mobility is life ,100 lb packs are not going to be any good in a weakened state . assemble a pared down kit with only Useful stuff that has more than one use if possible. This kit would be highly dependent on your AO and Season to cover the basics water , shelter , provisions (and the means to obtain it) and personal defense , harden your mind and body. There are many items available today that can be exceptional and light (titanium field gear ) canteens that purify water , small biomass twig stoves , ponchos that convert to a small enclosed tent etc . sleeping bags that are efficient and pack small . get what you need while its still available AND TAKE IT OUT AND PRACTICE WITH IT! learn to use it its doing no good sitting in a closet . LEARN TO DO there are many Bushcraft ans Stealth camping sites on the web to learn from ,if you do not have any military training or experience . Time is short start your journey , if you cannot help yourself in trying times how can you help others?. We really are going to be all into this together.

Anonymous said...

your mind is your single most valuable tool. Not some trick race gun you've hardly ever shot, not some trick bullshit toy that you bought but never used. One of the best things I've read in a while was from a different reply to a part of this blog - a folded up used "CapriSun" pouch he kept in his wallet as a drinking cup. This is how you need to think. If you don't think like this, you'd best start right fucking now. Because we could be there tomorrow. Or tonight.
Original Grandpa

Anonymous said...

Noted!

Anonymous said...

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-belarus-guerillas-sabotage-2c5074209663a2403752bb0c6404b32e

Apparently we can also learn a thing or two from anti-Russian resistance in Belarus… which also has uniparty rule and rigged elections… hmm…