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Potash Rd. Moab. There's hieroglyphs on the cliffs.
 
There is an excellent book on SOG and Phoenix… but the title escapes me.

Also “We Few” by Nick Brockhausen is an absolutely incredible book. The sequel will explain what happened to the Half track. It is an even better story over beers.

Also “Across the wire” by John Stryker-Meyer is amazing book. Ignore the typos.

Cheers.

Sirhr
This one was pretty good:
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I have another somewhere in my library but can't recall the title or author.
 
This one was pretty good:
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I have another somewhere in my library but can't recall the title or author.

This is the book I was referencing. By a Marine Colonel who really does a great job of showing the Phoenix was a highly-successful special operations and psychological campaign. Despite the fact that the lefties have 'accused' Phoenix of being everything from genocide to a CIA cover for smuggling everything from heroin to diamonds.

Even the Ken Burns series Vietnam (which had his commie assistant Lynn Novak's commie leftist POS fingerprints all over it) jumped all over it in true sycophantic socialist "Oh but the Church Committee" fashion.

If Vietnam had started as a Phoenix program in 1962... instead of turning into a 'boots on the ground' heavy footprint war, it would have been over in no time. The lessons from Phoenix should have been that targeting your enemy surgically, never letting them sleep for fear of assasination in their beds or at any moment, and NOT subjecting the population to division after division of kinetically-trained soldiers is the way you fight a counter-insurgency.

Well, try telling that to ring knockers and congressmen who get their campaign funds and retirement packages from Lockheed and Dow Chemicals. How DID Cocaine Mitch amass a fortune of $170 million in personal wealth on a $175K a year salary, anyway.

And they're investigating Trump's finances...

If America comes apart at the seams like the left wants, I can tell you that the whole nasty business will look exactly like the Phoenix Program. So better learn it.

Great book!

Sirhr
 
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This is absolutely amazing and utterly terrifying at the same time. Imagine what is out there when hobbyists are building something like this.



Yeah I knew when I watched it. Getting so you have to really look close at things tho. Like above, imagine what tech is really out there when anyone can create stuff like this…

Hobbyists aren't constrained by wanting to get paid for R&D. They aren't constrained by what the lawyers at the Defense Mega-contractor wants. They aren't constrained by giant group-think of engineering departments that are risk-averse.

And in this case, there is no doubt that Red Bull footed the bill for that drone. A. Because the viral publicity is priceless. And B. Because they just created a prototype drone that will totally change how Formula 1 is viewed. They mention that in the video.

So I am not saying these are hobbyists for sure. But they also aren't necessarily constrained by having no budget and having to work in their garage with a shoestring budget.

If Red Bull gave them $100K - 500K and a few weeks to work... that was one of the most amazing marketing ROI's ever.

Or they could have tossed out, what $31M for one minute of Superbowl ghey-assed PC ads...

As for what else is out there.... don't for a second think that the Pentagon or DARPA is ahead of this. China? Maybe. India... their hypersonics program was decades ahead of ours... in 1993! So don't for a second think that "Better stuff out there" is in our inventory!

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Well, given the average male height is something like 5’8”, setting a minimum weight requirement of 225 lbs (in a org as loathed as the ATF) would pretty much insure that you are perpetually understaffed, or hiring obese candidates.
I just saw that...

That has to be a typo... Must be the Maximium weight for a candidate. Because that's obese unless you are about 7 feet tall!

Unless you are a massive bodybuilder... that's just hiring tubbos!

Sirhr

Oh and I am 5'11 and 220 and I could definitely stand to lose 20!!! Or more! I wouldn't hire me for any LE job at this point!
 
I just saw that...

That has to be a typo... Must be the Maximium weight for a candidate. Because that's obese unless you are about 7 feet tall!

Unless you are a massive bodybuilder... that's just hiring tubbos!

Sirhr

Oh and I am 5'11 and 220 and I could definitely stand to lose 20!!! Or more! I wouldn't hire me for any LE job at this point!
would you want one at this point?

I'll send wade by to talk you out of it.
 
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Didn't know these existed.


I'm extremely skeptical that this would do any good under "real life" EMP conditions. The problem is the conductor spacing on the various vehicle computer's PC Boards. High levels of EMP voltage will cause arcing between conductors, which will lead to component/CPU failure. You can put these devices local to each computer and that "might" work, but I seriously doubt it.

Probably better in the long run to just bend over and kiss yer ass goodbye.
 
I'm extremely skeptical that this would do any good under "real life" EMP conditions. The problem is the conductor spacing on the various vehicle computer's PC Boards. High levels of EMP voltage will cause arcing between conductors, which will lead to component/CPU failure. You can put these devices local to each computer and that "might" work, but I seriously doubt it.

Probably better in the long run to just bend over and kiss yer ass goodbye.
^^^ This.

Those little devices might work for some of the 'Vehicle tasers' that some LE are experimenting with.

But a full-fledged EMP event.... not a chance.

Best bet is a 1970's or earlier car and learn to live like the Amish.

Cheers,

Sirhr