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1. To make a vehicle tactical, one should only have to remove the fuses for backup and brake lights.

2. Sounds like alot of death on both sides. Many of your people if losing a love one in a confrontation will not be combat effective for quite awhile after seeing the spouse, son, daughter, brother, sister, or parent with gunshot wounds, most won’t cope anymore in that environment. The romantic notions of mad max will be short lived.

3. Lessons learned in the sandbox:
   1. Up-Armor whenever you can, but don’t become an obvious target.
   2. Don’t announce your intentions. If the enemy knows where you are going to be and when, you’ve made their job real easy.
   3. Suppression fire is usually a lot more effective when mobile than called shots. If you have to stay and engage, you must have and use overwhelming force.
   4. A drone with NV can keep you out of really hairy situations.
   5. Sometimes you just have to rolls the dice and takes your chances (IEDs, Ambushes, tank traps). If you roll snake eyes, you don’t get to sit and think what to do next, you must act, now.
   6. Having a means to jam radio frequencies can save your life.
   7. Practice like you’re a pit crew at the Indy 500 on changing tires. Sometimes you can beat the clock that way.

4. Like many, the wise man in Proverbs sees trouble coming and prepares, the fool doesn’t and pays the price; my paraphrase. We’ve all seen this trouble coming, the Bible tells us this trouble is coming; we should be where we need to be now. Putting it off until the last minute, may be the last thing you do. I’m enjoying this authors article, but, you may have to bug out from your retreat, what’s plan B or C or D. So the information is valid. Please, for plan A, don’t wait until your hand is forced, that’s when bad decisions are made.

5. This should emphasize the importance of leaving before a WROL event takes place if time permits. The casualty count will increase as the WROL event time factor increases. Good intelligence and tracking of developments will make a big difference in an earlier departure time.

   1. That you must be able and willing to do?

6. This series is thorough. I can’t help but think (and hope) that it will inspire people to live full-time at their retreat and invest in building self-sufficiency (food, water, fuel etc.) and most of all relationships with their neighbors.

   1. There is your answer again. If you are serious about this sort of stuff you’d already be where you’re supposed to be. By waiting until disaster strikes you are putting your entire family at extreme risk.

7. Having a means to jam radio frequencies can save your life. Is that for IED’s or voice communications?

   How about tear gas, I don’t think anybody is ready for that. Is anything available on the market for delivery to target?

   The last vehicle could release Tear gas if another rig is coming up on the group.

   Laying down oil on the road could also stop a following vehicle.

8. Assuming night vision or thermal scopes will give you an upper hand is foolish. Best case scenario think of it as leveling the playing field. There are many other groups out there that are waiting for the next SHTF event and they are just as prepared or more so except their intention is to separate as many folks as possible from anything of value . This notion that the “bad guys” are all going to be Ill prepared, undisciplined buffoons with no plan or training is a recipe for disaster.
   In every training evolution you should believe your enemy is is training as hard as you and prepare yourself for the fact that he may be better at it than you. If he is, you had better be adaptable. You’ll never be the best at every thing so you better be really good at a lot of things.

9. re:
   Driving on roads / walking on trails

   Traveling into the places the government agents and other bushwackers expect me? I think that is a particularly bad idea.

   Speaking of particularly bad, SNAKES ON A PLANE, a 2006 movieprogramming out of Hollywood. Why potentially trap your loved ones along a linear two-dimensional playing field controllable by the opposition?

   (And that is probably the reason I despise train disaster movieprogramming.) (And televisionprogramming scenes with confrontational people moving toward each other along hallways instead of one group poking through walls.)

   Why be predictable?

10. Quick note – the problem/inconvenience with thermal scopes is they don’t work through glass. So you might need to put them outside the “cab”

11. think that after reading the above and digesting it, if you are not where you want to be when it all goes down, you are not going to make it. Less than half of your group will survive and most likely none.
    CM Dutch

12. You never really mention what sort of an environment you would be leaving from. For anyone living in a non-urban environment, meaning in a town or city with a population of 500,000 or less, what you discuss might work, although it might not.
    If in an urban area, as others have mentioned previously you would be up a fecal tributary without a method of locomtion.
    Trying to get out of any heavily populated area will be at best very difficult. The commute traffic you may normally expereice would be like a Sunday drive in the country. Consider how crazy people drive when making a regular commute. Now, consider that same commute with people in fear of their lives and at best are boderline hysterical. It would be a Freddie Kruger commute with traffic quickly going nowhere…at a standstill.
    If any kind of a major event happened that would cause you to head for the hills, at least 50% of the people living around you will be doing the same thing, though they may not be as prepared as you are, so you are dealing with nothing but chaos. Trying to plan anything would be in a state of constant flux depending on what was happening in your area. You might actually have to wait days or longer before there was enough calm to make a move.
    As some others have stated previously, if you are not already living in a safe environment, where you don’t have to worry about getting to someplace else, then you are in a heap of trouble.
    If you are not within one tank of gas of where you are trying to get to, you probably won’t get there.
    If you don’t live in a major metro area (including suburbs), then your chances of survival go up.
    No one gets much notice of major events, natural, man-made, or otherwise. So, the best made plans may not ne much to depend on.
    If in an urban/metro area, you best bet would be to be on the outskirts so that you might have a better chance of getting out, especially if you are close to a freeway or a State Highway.
    You have made a lot of plans, I just don’t know how well they will serve you when something unexpected happens. To some extent, we all have to deal with that unexpected scenario, simply because no one knows what will happen or when.

13. Psalm 144 King James Version (KJV)

    144 Blessed be the Lord my strength which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

    2 My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.

    3 Lord, what is man, that thou takest knowledge of him! or the son of man, that thou makest account of him!

    4 Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.

    5 Bow thy heavens, O Lord, and come down: touch the mountains, and they shall smoke.

14. The article is on travel safety in a WROL event. It’s not a question of whether an action is right or wrong, it is to act that is necessary. Before or after the ball drops. How many years did Abraham Lincoln struggle to finally get a general that would engage. And then he got two.

    We all know when we need to act, it is to do it morally.

15. The article is on travel safety in a WROL event. It’s not a question of whether an action is right or wrong, it is to act that is necessary. Before or after the balloon drops. How many years did Abraham Lincoln struggle to finally get a general that would engage. And then he got two. We all know when we need to act, it is to do it morally.

16. I think if you live in a big city, getting out to where? may be difficult. I would say, find out of all your friends, the best house to turn into a fort. When things go bad all head to a central location, with food guns etc: Be prepared to tough it out for a few months. I figure after a week with no food people will be shooting and killing each other try to be invisible, after a month at least half or more would be dead or very weak, after three months only those that had prepared would still be alive. The danger would be the gangs that spring up in such an event, a 223 would likely injure not kill, this takes more people off the battlefield, of course all preppers have multiple weapons, and lots of ammo. More people in your fort more people can take turns on watch at night. Good luck people, lets hope it never happens.

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