Civilian Small Team Reconnaissance for SHTF
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- Опубліковано 25 лип 2024
- Some "game-theory" regarding need to practice recon skills for your preparedness plan
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time to sell my car to buy nods just to plant potatoes at 4am
When I become a warlord in the apocalypse, I'll hire you to train my royal guards. (And Hop can be part of my harem)
You make great movies, Tommy.
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There is no apocalypse, but people will continue to get worse because there’s nothing stopping them
I worked in marine intelligence (I know, oxymoron) and I can say he hit all the points home. Information and information gathering is imperative, for both offensive (try not to do that or you Will more likely die) and defensive operations. It helps to make the most informed timely decisions and prevents you from making deadly mistakes.
Oxymoron? You sure you served?
Cool breeze...you sure you cleared everything from your mom's basement to your new living space (grandma's garage)...lol
marines? intelligence? now im confused...
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GO ARMY!!!! 😆
We need a whole video just on how the heck you find other like minded skilled people who you can also trust!
actually, literally a work in progress
@@BrassFactsthank you, this is one of the biggest hurdles for me. It's hard to find like minded people. And there's always the concern that someone is a fed who's going to try and make everyone out to be extremists so they can justify their illegal activities.
@BLAYDZ99 you find them through like minded decisions that have been made remember great minds think alike
@@DevDog67 I'm an extremist
@@earlturner6023 Freddy Fed
This goes for all your content: your channel is easily one of the most legitimately useful and honest corners of UA-cam and I appreciate all the work and thought you put into your videos.
thanks man! means a lot
@@BrassFactsro. This was great. I was expecting a garand thumb style type "gear and glam" video but I was wrong. This was very infor.ative and on point. Keep rambling! Your best videos are commentaries 😊
I think hunting deer, elk, etc is a great way to build skills such as maneuvering or setting up in positions to either stay hidden or ambush. It also requires an emphasis on finding sign and being mindful of leaving sign along with practicing slls. I like hiking/rucking but it’s easy to get in that trailblazing mindset of getting from point A to B and you don’t pay attention to how noticeable you are or if you’re approaching other people or things you aren’t aware of. I’ve had hikers walk within 25 yards of me elk hunting on a trail while I was just off the path in camo with my bow in hand and pack on just because they were solely focused on the trail right in front of their face and not paying attention to their surroundings. Sometimes it’s good to remember don’t go faster than your ability to process your surroundings to an acceptable level.
Tracking (and hiding my tracks) is something I try to stay aware of when hiking. Reading accounts from the Rhodesian Bush War, some of the stories w/ tracking are simply insane. Sometimes they would even track a group for days before catching up/getting to a good spot to attack, all while very carefully hiding their own tracks since the guerillas tended to be pretty good trackers too
@@Gods_Favorite_Subcontractor right. And sometimes leaving sign by design, can be advantageous too. Sometimes if we find an exceptional area to hunt, me and my hunting crew will make an effort to get up or arrive earlier than usual, all drive our vehicles separate and park at the trail head or area so that it looks like the area is already overcrowded and will deter others from parking and coming in on us. So appear to be a larger “force” than you actually are. Likewise if we pull into a parking area or trail head and there’s several 4wd trucks different state/county tags with hunting stickers all over the glass we will usually move along vs if we come to a trailhead and there’s several Subarus/sedans and minivans with hiking and vegan stickers all over the glass we will “assume” they’re going to be sticking on the trails and not hunting lol but paying attention and noticing a certain level of detail is the main thing no matter what the “mission” is even if that means slowing down occasionally and appreciating where you’re at.
I had a SF guy walk right by me 10 yards away, he never saw me but his dog looked back at me, an to be fair, he was not in fight mode either
@@scottbashaw1761 dog ain’t a snitch 🤌😤
lol, deer don't carry weapons.
The philosophical discussion about PVP vs PVE in a real world setting featuring the loss of the monopoly on violence by the state, and the associated ramifications without being reductive (muh golden horde, here's a list of 10 things you need before the collapse) is something that's really been missing in this space for a while. The vid about .300BLK had me drag it out of the closet, clean it, and go shoot it for the first time in nearly a year. I need to spend more time out carrying my rucksack and just getting out in nature. I genuinely appreciate this kind of content, especially when it doesn't involve yelling through a traffic cone.
You commented this about 2 months ago, have you been out rucking in nature since?
@@alvindueck2104 Yea, spent a few days in Idaho, and a few days messing around in Utah. Was gorgeous, still a lot of snow on the ground even in June and into July in some of those higher mountain areas. Heat wave has been kicking my ass last few weeks, want to do the Mt Charleston north loop, but not sure I'm ready for that kinda altitude.
Having performed both defensive and offensive combat operations (to include raiding heavily defended taliban logistics stockpiles and killing ISIS infiltrators or "raiders" trying to crawl through our own wire in iraq) I can say, this guy hits most of the major points. All I gotta say is, real combat isn't fun and you should seek to avoid having to do it whenever possible.
Could you briefly mention the major points which he did not cover?
@@markhatfield5621 He hits all the basic points on how to conduct the recon patrols pretty well. The thing I will say is that I don't think people realize the logistics that go into conducting these kind of operations. It costs the US military something like $140,000 to get a regular average joe combat ready. The average soldier is running around in $20,000 worth of gear. It costs tens of thousands a week per head to have a US soldier engaged in combat operations.
For example, he brings up night vision, those absolutely chow through batteries like you wouldn't believe. Also, combat operations are incredibly physically strenuous. You need to consume a ton more food, primarily rich in carbs, fats, and protein, ie, the kind of food that will be hard to get in a SHTF scenario. You also need a ton of drinking water. Probably atleast 3 to 4 liters a day. Maybe potable water won't be very accessible in SHTF. If you can't meet calorie requirements, patrolling is just going to be wearing yourself down and decreasing your combat ability, physical exhaustion and loss of combat/survival capability will drop rapidly.
idk. Its a neat thought exercise to kind of learn tactical mindset (which, to give him credit, he freely admits) but the reality is if your survival strategy is to emulate GWOT style patrols, you are going to burn through your provisions and consumables like batteries real damned quick for a pretty questionable gain.
@@nonyabeeznuss304 Thank you.
Well said
@Mark Hatfield
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Any year really, but preferably after Viet Nam.
We all saw what was of the most value in the great panic of 2020… I’ve been prepping my mind body and soul to become a toilet paper warlord
In my best deep voice narrator impersonation: "Future Wars were waged over the most precious and dwindling resource on the planet - Toilet Paper "! 🙄
Stacking 124gr NATO ball and Charmin lol
Great video, I was army recon for two years, and can agree to most of these points. I think most people overlook is communication via radio over extended distances, and how to utilize surveillance sites and hide sites.
a big thing we're working on is deployable repeaters.
I don't want to use the currently existing repeaters because they're not encrypted. And prestaging them tends to have them found by random hikers (and show up on the news).
@@BrassFacts We've built a few and deployed them to hill/mountain tops for a few months at a time. one thing to consider if you're serious about it is actually setting up an actual repeater. P25/crypto, you'd need to be business band, but that's not difficult, it's maybe a little more complex if you're doing trunking.
@@highdesertdrew1844 yeah we've paid for a half dozen freqs. I'll be real. I'm not our groups comms guy. AFAIK we're not doing trunking because trunking sounds like hell
@@BrassFacts Meaning you can buy a frequency for personal radio use? I have just been using the FRS freqs that both my walkie and baofangs can connect to. It would be great to have a channel to communicate across a few acres of farm/woods.
Unencrypted comms is more dangerous than no comms at all. Ukraine war is proof.
I think roaming patrols are more dangerous than building a series of observation points that you can move to and from, like with a bicycle, and observe areas of significance. Parking something like an abandoned school bus on the edge of a road gives you a large shelter to observe from and keep things in that won’t look out of place.
But you NEED roaming patrols at some point. Ideally you want to control (or at least be able to project force & patrols) miles away from your actual house, so you have multiple layers & fallbacks. A single OP at your driveway won't be enough (although static sentries are good)
@@Gods_Favorite_Subcontractor but then you open up the chance for the roaming patrol to be ambushed. The they’ll be way more visible than a team at an op/lp that changes position late at night
@@Gods_Favorite_Subcontractor If you live in areas with very effective choke points like AZ, UT, CO mountains for example, then you can be just fine with a few OPs over the main infil/exfil routes. In those scenarios it would even be wise to probably obstruct or demolish some of them in order to keep security needs down. Obviously a major threat could still find its way in but realistically a major threat is just gonna steamroll through one of the major routes your OPs would have eyes on. As Brass Facts said, losing a few guys to them may be no big deal.
@@georgerafa5041 true, but you still may want some kind of patrolling over areas you can’t necessarily make a OP at. Maybe you have 20 POIs to watch but only 15 guys, etc
Overt patrolling only seems like a good idea when you know you can win the fight i.e. air/indirect fire support.
It makes much more sense for a small force to make observation points with QRF to stomp out any threat that pops up. This allows you to have a larger fighting force than distributing your forces over a wider area.
Front line forces only job is to delay and call for support while the responding force is responsible for winning the fight and repelling the threat.
In a civilian context this could be modified to have frontline forces not make contact at all and only act as recon and let a command unit coordinate an assault unit if applicable. They could assign a recon unit to shadow the threat if they're deemed not an immediate threat.
The whole goal is to not fight unless you have to.
This is all my armchair general take.
Here is a similar but different tactic that is used to defeat a larger force. This is known as defeat in detail. The defensive counterpart is defense in detail or elastic defense.
ua-cam.com/video/zz3JmXSEM4o/v-deo.html
My uncle was in the special forces in Vietnam, I learned a lot from him. One thing, if you are in a building get out you stand a better chance fighting outside and never be the hunted always be the hunter. Find the bad guy plan an attack and hit first, this is when recon is very important. I have never been in the military, but he showed me a lot of things, he's no longer with us that orange crap took his life with cancer. Good luck to everyone!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️
In a civilian context, avoiding contact should be your first priority.
@@dogevanzandt2889 copy that!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️
Avoid attracting attention to yourself. Use the terrain to your advantage. Avoid leaving tracks. Never use the same trail twice. Always keep a lookout for boobytraps.
@@roberthamm9304 Very true and copy and 🇺🇸🇺🇸⚔️
I’m 2nd Gen Army Ranger. So mad props to your late uncle. He saw the need to teach you everything he knew, because he knew that you’d need those skills to survive in the world that we’re currently living in. My dad did the same thing with me, and after I joined the Army, I went on and became a Ranger myself. I broke down and told him last year, after we hadn’t spoken to each other since 1989. His eyes lit up and got teary after I told him, and I knew right then that he was proud of me. I’m sorry as I digress. Anyways, the day is coming sooner than we all might think. BLM and ANTIFA are ramping up their movements. They’re going to make it about race. So start your situational awareness as you go about your business. Start making your preps and get everything in place. Get as much ammo as you can.
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"I'm not a prepper, I'll just take your stuff" is an argument I've heard from untrained chucklnuts since the zombie apocalypse craze. Don't brag about what you've got. Don't let acquaintances think they can mooch off your spam bunker.
“Lol I’ll just join you during the apocalypse” this nice bud, here’s an SKS, I need you to run out and get that sniper to reveal himself
@@Gods_Favorite_Subcontractor Good way to lose an SKS. "Here's a board cut and painted to look like a rifle, go draw fire."
@@finnberglander7816 now that’s creative
This scenario, this is why we need better local communities for this type of societal collapse. The parts that you bring up about how scavvers, vs society members will be skewed. And not in society's favor. We've become much more secluded in the past few years. This information is very important. And, very appreciated.
Spent a good chunk of time in a recce unit in the Army and as a baseline/launching point for civilian recon, this video is gold. A lot of solid points and a good understanding of the concept of r&s as a whole.
this was hands down the most easy to digest Civilian Recon youtube video I've seen. Great for opening the minds of the new to SHTF. Show your girlfriend.
what's a girlfriend?
@@BrassFacts They have five hands and are at the end of your arms.
@@anarchobacon THEY HAVE FIVE HANDS????
Oh you mean fingers
My justification for my preparedness is that either it may actually help me and those close to me at some point, or i just did what most people do and invested time and miney into a hobby i enjoy. Theres literally ni way to loose here
there's something to be said about the mental boon preparing smartly gives you, even if you never use it.
I think it's part of being a smart mature person to prepare, train etc.
@@BrassFacts also, it's what made me feel obligated to keep my fitness up. If it all it gives me is increased health that's already kinda worth it.
Very timely subject matter for me. I’ve been working on recon skills recently myself. I live in a heavily wooded rural area & have been doing 2-3 mile routes through the forest in kit with my trusty companion Remi (that’s her in my pfp.) I have multiple infil/exfil paths & wanted to bring up something you touched on; knowledge of your surrounding location. I know the woods on & (for about 2 miles) around my property extremely well. Deer trails, sink holes, old barbed wire fences that can barely be seen until you’re right on top of them; you need to know where all of that stuff is if you’re a forest dweller like myself. If I had to make a hasty exit I could disappear into the woods & be very difficult to find. My next step is supply caches in a few strategic locations.
You should put/build a shelter that won’t attract attention or even be spotted by anyone on the ground or even by air with a drone.
@@roberthamm9304YES!!!!
A little camouflaged hooch would be awesome!
The only problem with brassfacts is.... There's never enough videos in a week. He and hop need to go full forgotten weapons and do 5 Days a week! (I'm only joking. Once a week is just fine)
Well, one advantage of where i live is, that my house is infact build like a castle. I'm talking about 20-40 inch thick sandstone walls on all ground level walls. Not that I've shot at it, but I'm fairly confident that its not just concealment if i should ever have to defend it
Thanks for a another non-gear review video. I recently re-read One Second After for the first time in more than 10 years. It, of course, covers some of the same notions you speak of in this video. It was very very depressing, more than I remembered. I doubt that most, if not all groups (especially larger ones), would be as benevolent as the Black Mountain one. Note - I am not sure I would call subsistence farming an "administrative task"🤔
Love one second after great book and excellent points. I am afraid their is more evil than good in the world.
Those books sucked. Mary sue protagonist and the author has to reference pop culture movie scene to set the stage versus actually writing. Show don’t tell at its finest.
@@James_T_Kirk_1701 Says a guy that thinks the dropkick is the best combat move for most circumstances.
@@vicnighthorse just because I like Star Trek doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate small arms, hot rods, and apocalypse literature. I guess you’re one of those one dimensional people that let caricatures define you.
@@James_T_Kirk_1701 It was a friendly riposte to the fictional character James Kirk. It was also meant to be as oblique as you critiquing the literary quality of a survival fiction book. I was going to put a winky on it so you wouldn't get mad but thought I'd risk the playfulness not being being obvious enough.
No better friday than a video drop by brass facts while on the john
was it a good poop ?
@@BrassFacts Indubitably
What the heck I want brass facts to ask me about my bowel movements. Luckyyyyy
Excellent points made and questions raised that everyone concerned should be asking themselves as an individual and as a team. The reality of things is much more in depth and complex than just owning kit to flex with on Instagram. At the end of the day the most important question to any segment of preparedness should be "is the juice worth the squeeze".
It has been my experience in life that its not always the person giving all the answers that's the smartest dude in the room, but rather the dude with the right questions. Preparedness is synergistic and we are only as strong as our weakest link. Knowlege without practical application is useless in the real world.
We are not equal when it comes to health, financial capabilities, knowledge and skills. Its important to be honest with yourself about your strengths and weaknesses. Formulate plans that utilizes your strengths while constantly working on your weaknesses. At the end od the day the is what it is. God bless all of you right thinking citizens.
One thing that is important and not often talked about is human terrain mapping. If you want to know the context and potential of threats, you can't just sit around in your homestead and hope for the best. Additionally, you can't gather all of the reconnaissance you need by sitting on a hill with a spotting scope because many threats are more latent and less obvious due to people's nature to not try and expose themselves. So you have to either conduct reconnaissance in force by attempting to draw a response from the populace (things like presence patrols through an area) or, more advisably, conduct covert reconnaissance actions that still account for the HUMINT portion of your mission. Therefore opening yourself up to new potential threats by appearing like a soft target. It's all a fuckin give or take. We could talk about this pretty extensively, my time in recon definitely helped mold my view of it. I'd love to discuss it with you personally in the future to help expand this topic and learn from one another's standpoints.
I think what a lot of people don’t consider is that if we have a total society collapses, we have to think about other nations coming in and acting as peacekeeping forces. Think UN, NATO from Europe. We’re not going to be alone in this nation if our society collapses. Of course, if everyone in the world is in the same boat, then it’ll be different
If we’re in a collapse I highly doubt anyone would come to “help” the US. like it or not, the US has come to be such a major player in the world, a fuck up on our end fucks everyone else up.
Starting with Obama, a multitude of resolutions and EO's were passed, that in no certain terms hands full control of America over to the UN in about 100 different scenarios! 👀
Aside from the US, other countries have VERY little in the way of ability to project forces and sustain them outside of their own or adjacent countries. Many of the countries can barely send anything larger than a battalion and even then depended on the US for logistic support.
There will be no huge force of blue helmets patrolling all across America.
Recon is definitely a subject that is environment dependent when understanding what conclusion to come to. I'm in the absolute middle of the mid-west, flat farmland as far as the eye can see. Vertical land advantages are few and far between and road blocks are super easy to setup on two-lane highways. You mountain boys got it good.
Lol not really they all gonna die in the winter
@@yo9758 how’d that work in Afghanistan? Guys that use the mountains know how to survive in those same mountains. I’ve yet to meet someone in “our world” that doesn’t have some level of knowledge and at least one upper hand supplied by their respective environment.
@@gregkrueger331 do you have flock of sheep you’ll just gonna get Donner partied up there
@@yo9758 Never been in the mountains have you? Plenty of game, don't need sheep.
@@scherry9198 actually I’m an avid elk hunter i just live in the real world and know that when the first snow hits there nothing up there and your gonna burn 5000 calories a day just to survive and if you don’t got skis or snow shoes might as just lay down and die
I absolutely heard 50% discount code. And I got pumped
Same
It's good to see younger guys like you out there training and learning. You have a bit of a ways to go but you're off to a great start. Keep up the good work
The pretentious arrogance of boomers never ceases, eh? If only there were more effective "schools" to... "prep" people in the newer generations... see what I'm getting at, Mr. Prep School?
You're talking as if you have a message or offer training that's reaching more people than this video, let alone the others on the channel. The reality of your channel says the opposite. Even if you run a business on training people, that's only refining the demographic that is created by people like this. By no definition except refining existing skills, are you doing anything more significant than this channel. Less information, less overall people educated, less man-hours of education, less effort (you don't trek several times to retrieve long-range camerawork while in the field), but STILL you say they have a ways to go.
Yet you can't say how or why, so I stand by my initial accusation of that coming from a cope, wishing you had done more to create a generation who is interested in these things, and arrogantly speaking down on anyone who dares do anything that's proven more successful than you in every metric. If he's just starting and still has a ways to go, I fear what that means for yourself.
Appreciate you discussing topics such as this and, more recently, forming groups in such a practical manner. Any recce has to have a base of operations and people are needed to tend things there and provide security. Just to secure a modest household would seem to require 5-6 folks to allow for the chores to be done and people have to provide security while others rest/sleep. Perhaps another way to approach things is from a "fortified household/homestead" perspective. Keep up the good content.
“NO NO NO!! I was in a recon platoon when I was in the Army, and like Dakota Meyer says, y’all are LARPERS!!! you shouldn’t learn military tactics unless you’ll fight for oil like i did!!”
This easily could be a 3 or 4 video series...most of the points you covered are included in some chapters of a new Post-Apocalyptic fiction adventure series, for which i am scriptwriting currently,, in a story where our secondary protagonist, a mysterious gringo anti-hero with his small band of skills-diverse survival specialists, become the feared guerrilla warfare protectors of a peaceful rural area small town, against marauders, raiders, and rogue military/police units. It's set in Venezuela 8 months after a worldwide economic collapse SHTF event, with the US stricken by an EMP device detonation.
Sounds like a good read. What is the title of your book?
@@invisibletosociety8338 in the English language versión: "Sanctuary's Call" ... the "sanctuary" refers to a peaceful self-sufficient rural area community, that is coveted by the all the marauders and roving gangs, especially by a new rising power warlord.
Is the book out yet?
Nice! These are the types of videos that made me love your channel. Don’t ever stray too far from your roots.
I’m loving the channel! I really enjoy the real-life civilian take on these thought experiments.
I applaud your commitment brother! Readyman sent out a info sheet about the total inability to survive in cities of more than 30 thousand with SHTF. This person was ex SEAL. He taught that making friends with people in small towns by trading supplies for a place to dwell. Food for Cover. Instead of food for thought, maybe both.
SEALs are trained as assaulters. They're more likely to resort to banditry, because raiding structures under cover of night is second-nature to them. They can clean out multiple houses in one night, like locusts...
Great vid! Outstanding information! really enjoy the SHTF sandbox/brain storming! Hard to find good and realistic content on how to deal with different SHTF events. Thank you
By far the best video I have seen on this kind of stuff yet, and I have seen many, the information is succinct, relevant, reinforced by sound logic, and / or facts. I couldn't agree more with just about everything said in this video. I am very happy to see content like this on UA-cam because it brings hope that not all information being spread in todays world is misinformation.
No one really knows how they’ll react in any of these situations, until the situation presents itself. However, if placed in the situation where I use my firearm in a defensive manner, and it fails me by jamming, I hope I can scream ‘c0ck-suck3r’ with as much speed and confidence as our man Brass
People who thinking "I'm just gonna go after a prepper and take their stuff :D teehee" are the types of people that shouldn't own firearms.
People need to start taking into account just how devastating the loss of even 1 person can be in a small or even a large group because of bad planning. How easy do people really think it is to replace a medic or a surgeon (especially), or someone who can make effective medicine from items in the field? How difficult will it be to replace someone who knows the ins and outs of hydroponic farming? Or a herbalist who knows what's edible, what isn't, how it should be prepared, etc. How often are you going to find someone who can setup and run computer networks from scratch by gathering up computers, servers, network devices, and so forth?
Survival isn't all about fighting and approaching it as such is doomed to fail. There are people that have sets of skills that are borderline required for modern society to function and they need to be protected at all costs and the first step to that is proper recon and planning. Without it ... well, your time will come.
You forgot the entire moral side. It is wrong to kill someone because they are prepared and you are too lazy to be prepared. Overall, I agree with your message. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It depends on the prepper.
If it's some schitzed-out lardass sitting on pallets of rations, harem of junkie concubines, taking potshots at passers-by and filling the airwaves with nonsense? Smoke the bastard!
Family just trying to live their lives? Move on or embed with them.
You played way too much SOD 🤣 🤣. It's really depends on what types of people you encounter whether their hostile or not to your own group and how they enter action on other people. Letting someone inside your inner group can potentially eliminate your group from the inside without you even knowing. It's not about what's this person utilities can do to your groups, its about survival and keep your group safe.
Unfortunately, you don't get to decide whether or not they should own firearms. They exist, they are armed and they don't give a damn about what you think about them. Not trying to be a dick, I'm just sayin'.
Just another thing g to prepare for lol
I was never in the military, signed up twice, but because of heart issues I had, I wasn't able to. But I have plenty of family who were military. And I've learned a lot. When it comes to what they are talking about in this video, I will only go as far as to patrol and protect my home and the boarders our our property.
Outstanding broad brush of the majors. Just found your channel a week ago and your definitely on my regular viewing list. Good work
Me: Mom, can we have Nutnfancy?
Mom: No, we have Nutnfancy at home.
(Nutnfancy at home)
I say that with love, of course. This non-gear-review stuff (philosophy?) is awesome.
@Brass Facts i think a walkthrough of a notional RECCE scenario could make for a good discussion but also give you a good long term series of episodes just by changing the variables and how you would accomplish different tasks. ex) A Minecraft walgreens raid for critical meds needed for a wife or kids in the group with medical issues like asthma or whaterve... in minecraft of course
Another great video with entertaining commentary ( love the SOTD reference) & that scenery!!! 😍
Your takes are well thought out, spoken, and appreciated
Here's a BIG consideration that never gets discussed in prep videos:
Small children. How you gonna deal with you or your team's children? They can't contribute to RECCE missions (except maybe observation), they need to use up a lot of supplies without providing any reconstitution of said supplies , they don't move quickly, they can't respond to critical threats in emergencies (at least not like an adult).
Very easy to consider scenarios when you have only fully grown, able-bodied team mates. Becomes significantly more difficult when you have dependents that need to constantly consume your resources. Food for thought.
yep, for sure.
Most "teams" with spouses and such included at going to be "lucky' if they have a 1:1 ratio of abled bodied men to women/childern
Most will be 1:2 or worse.
@@BrassFacts Incidentally, I didn't make that comment out of criticism to your video. I merely mention it because it's often not generally considered . Of course, those of us with kids will likely go down in the first wave of crisis anyway - for obvious reasons. Nonetheless, no matter how much we prep ourselves, or amongst or able-bodied peers, the children become the single biggest vulnerability to SHTF planning. I sometimes wonder if folks make the mistake of overlooking such a critical factor in their plan.
Children are great at pulling weeds, picking beans, gathering dug up potatoes, cleaning canning jars, feeding the chickens and gathering their eggs. Kids can definitely participate but yes, they are definitely a vulnerability as well. This is why community is important. In the late 1700's in the american frontier there were (at times) persistent dangers of raid by natives, even with that threat life had to go on but precautions were taking, homesteads would double or triple up to make attack by raiding parties more difficult, people carried a long gun at ALL times when outside the walls of their homes, they didnt go into the fields alone cause thats how people got "dissapeared". In addition to that there were scouts, hunters, trappers, skilled stalkers, often with no family commitment who would keep tabs on happenings, who would track raiding parties or gather news from surrounding regions about who was getting attacked or if raids were imminent. The other thing is the idea of block houses, one fortified house in a community with supplies and suhc which could hypothetically hold of an attack long enough for reinforcements from another town or the nearest town to arrive if they were able to get a runner out. Some of these ideas with the implementation of more modern technologies (especially comms) could be adapted very very well for life in a grid down scenario. The single biggest one would be a comms network that could connect smaller communities and homesteads with everyone else (something like CB or HAM is perfect for this).
@@charlesm.2756 for sure, I was agreeing with you.
@@PracticalReformation Agreed - community is vital to survival. I think those that live in/around big city suburbs (like me) are poorly prepared. We may last a few days, but that's about it. Resources evaporate quickly in such areas (2nd only to cities). The real challenge is that it's difficult to form a prepared community (ironically) in these areas. Most folks do their own thing (though we are generally communicative and friendly with each other). The notion of emergency preparedness is often viewed as paranoia and/or silliness. It's hard to find others that are willing to cooperate/plan for SHTF events. It's also very hard to convince neighbors to invest time/money in a coordinated manner.
For me, the hardest part was phisical fitness for this kind of tasks. It's been half a year since I started working on my body and I still suck ass. I feel like the mundane fundamentals don't get the attention they deserve in online discussion on survival, tactics, etc.
Keep at it brother. Rucking and running and just overall physical work will get you shape. I come from a powerlifting and bodybuilding background, but have recently started doing CrossFit to get me functionality fit. Stick to it, eat clean, and try to increase your aerobic endurance. We’re all gonna make it ❤
I was a pretty fit guy before I started driving truck. Now I'm lazier than I'd like to admit.
I still go for walks and oc a hike, but not as much as I know I should.
@@alvindueck2104 just keep grinding brother.
It's great to see such well reasoned content 😊
I watch all your new vids on my lunch break. By far my favorite UA-cam channel
Great talking points! Personally i’ve been going back and forth with building out a longer range SPR with like a 3-18 but honestly think i should prioritize elsewhere first. I feel like me and other folks would realistically benefit more by training more with their GPR and investing in a nice spotting scope, rangefinder, sustainment gear, and any other gear and more importantly SKILLS for reconnaissance than heavily focusing on just the stick that goes boom.
Shifting your focus to skills/training, sustainment, and force multipliers is a sign of maturation. It doesn't matter how cool your rifle is if you don't have the skills to survive in the field and work productively with your group.
Personally I think just a general hunting bolt gun for substitute for an SPR. Given the work invovled and the niche role it is. I think it's resonable to just stick with a .270 bolt gun instead of dropping 2 grand on a long range AR.
@@uncreativename9936 Your average bolt is very underrated. The only reason a SPR is still a slightly better choice is simply that it is still a fighting rifle up close if needed. I couldn’t imagine fighting an up close near peer threat with a bolt gun lol
@@protectpersevere2030 Depending on the scenario having two rifles could be an option. Your general purpose AR in your hand on the way there and the bolt gun on your back. It's what military snipers do. Obviously not ideal, but could certainly be feasible depending on the situation.
@@uncreativename9936 Lowkey thought of a small suppressed 300blk gun and bolt gun would be a interesting concept.
One advantage to using AA batteries for your system is that you can buy those batteries anywhere and they are much less expensive. Maybe that is not a very valuable trait for people who are just going to stay put, but if you are traveling to a foreign country as a news media correspondent, having the ability to get replacement batteries in the event your Supply runs out before you have to leave the country is helpful.
One can also get those rechargeable AA batteries and a folding solar panel
@@kerbalairforce8802 rechargable batteries and night vision don’t mix that well due to voltage requirements for the tööb(s).
@@mw2277 I think that depends on exactly which rechargeable batteries we are talking about. Some rechargeable batteries will be better than others.
@@FinalLugiaGuardian i’m mostly referring to the fairly constant power curve of all rechargeable batteries, as opposed to lithiums. plus the off chance they leak and fuck up your battery housing. why risk a $3000+ piece of equipment to *maybe* save like 50 bucks over a few years.
@@mw2277 Some of the higher-end rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries largely mitigate that risk though and are every bit as reliable as a non-rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Although at that point, you're spending more money then you would have spent on non-rechargeable Lithium-ion batteries. So perhaps it is something that you could have in addition to a few bulk packs of non-rechargeable lithium ion batteries. Because of the supply does get completely cut off, you can at least stretch your night-vision use out a few more years while you wait for non-rechargeable lithium ion battery production to come back.
We the people of the assfaction love the philosophical style of videos. Keep them coming
This channel is amazing. Thanks man. I know what its like, and I sincerely appreciate the quality content. You are my favorite youtuber
At least you have a dog decoy now.
ATF idiots treat dogs like Osama
If you spend the first months of the collapse hunkered down while the raiders are out looting, you will be way behind the curve when you start moving out. Even if you are going to bug in, you need to patrol. Learn your skills now and put them to use early so you aren’t a noob when the raiders who win the Hunger Games come to your neighborhood.
Such a beautiful landscape ! Really informative video. I live in small village about 300 people, It is located in the woods, we already formad something like community of 30-40 people for when SHTF. The only thing that represents danger is that, right next to us is a main corrider between Germany and the Czech Republic.
Good stuff on baseline, realistic considerations. Well done!
Have you thought about leading a (paid) outing into the mountains for a couple days if enough (or few enough?) people could commit?
Woah when did u watch this?
Sounds kinda susceptible to Mickey Mousery.
To add to your 'game theory'.
1)One year into SHTF- the never-ending supply train has long since dried up. NODS, weaponlights, illuminators, and any optic with zoom capabilities, etc.- are beginning to degrade, break, and de-power with no armorer, warranty or supply officer in sight. By year two- every rifle is back to iron sights- and all the other attachments have fallen the F off. Year three: Every cart fired is a re-load made in Bubba's shed.
2)Without sewing skills- watch how fast the Ranger harnesses, backpacks, slings, and combat uniforms fray and fall apart.
3)If you cannot increase the size of your tribe- your tribe will fail. Instead of just psychologically quitting due to losses- expand & carry on or become the slave they want of us.
4)Recon, cache defense, hideout defense, bug-out, and close assault are all facets of the same defense. Survive to fight another day by maintaining the discipline to wheel thru your facets faster than your enemy can adapt.
5) There is never a Kobayashi Maru scenario.
Apologies for the run-on sentences in advance.
I think you have the right theory.
But practically speaking we actually put a lot more wear on our gear in training than we would in SHTF.
Nods, wml, illuminators, rifles etc. are far more durable than you imagine. They will not degrade after 1 year of use.
Ammo wise. I have more ammo than I would realistically be able to shoot before having a bad day.
The premise that all ammo gets used up among the prepared group is highly unlikely.
What a great video! Love this, more of these please!
"DON'T HONK AT ME" lol I absolutely died 🤣
Ass Facts!
Enough with the SHTF scenarios. How about teaching these people how to do civilian recon during an occupation (e.g. IRA in Northern Ireland).
Much more likely and has repeated throughout history. 👍
There are other channels for that. I personally do not believe that the US would ever get occupied.
I think a soft SHTF with local power structures is far more likely.
Lot of good concepts to keep in mind for the every man. Thanks for disseminating the information.
When brass screamed "don't honk at me!!!"..... I felt that💯😂😂😂
Wow amazing video , earned a sub, definitely need more of these and different situations
Another solid take. Civilian here as well, keep up the great work. 🤘🏼
Your videos keep getting better!
These longer theory-based videos are my favorite.
Love this genre of video!
A lot of good points. Very realistic thoughts on a terrible situation. Build your network now so you will already have established a community if shtf.
crazy seeing my hometown flatrange @ 14:20. caught me off guard for a moment. took a pistol course in there not too long ago!
Thanks for the intel!
Great video as always!
I have been binging your theory videos...probably the best and most realistic concepts out there. Can you do a video on let's say a "area protection force". Defensive team concepts and TTPs?
Interesting to watch something I haven’t thought too much about
Love this kind of content.
I am next level jelly of your shooting locations. There's no wide open spaces you can just hike into and shoot around here.
Greetings from Hungary! I've found your channel a couple months back, subscribed instantly - down to earth, when it comes to preparedness, valuable infos and interesting ways to look at certain problems...contents mostly for the average citizen ,wich i certainly appreciate😊 My only request would be about making more of those videos about shtf tactics, communication, etc. Risky does these stuff too, i also follow him, great dude with good, useable knowledge. I do love your reviews as well, but living in eastern europe kinda narrows my options to purchase tactical equipment - 90% of these stuff is not available around here, and if it is, multiply the price with 3 😅 But hey, skills over gear i guess! Anyway, thanks for the great content, keep up the good work my man!
As someone who survived the serbs and croats in Bosnia and Herzegovina, you hit a lot of good points but i do wanna say a lot of these scenarios are more larping than real. Not minimizing them, but the sheer logistics often feel missed in these analysis. Who and what will be your front line logistics line, exfill, green zone etc. There is a lot to it. What saved us ultimately was people with courage and banding together. Remember, we were under embargo, no real weapons to speak of, and surrounded. We literally picked weapons off dead enemies fight after fight and armed able bodied people as the fighting occurred for years. It's much easier when you can identify the evildoers. But in a scenario where multiple groups wage resource and territorial warfare, a lot factors change. You will need larger groups, and you will need neighborhoods for safety and support.
thanks for the input.
It's worth considering though, it's unlikely a bosnia type situation can occur in the US simply due to size. As for weapons. There's a lot of them here. We have a sort of a tragedy of riches in that regard in the US.
Feels like I learn something in every video! This time it's that I definitely need to get back innawoods
Thanks BF.
First off, great information. Liked and subscribed. Second, I think I might have something useful to add. I am NOT some Rambo wannabe. But a few years ago I started buying weapons, ammo, food, etc. I’m under no false pretense that I alone can hold back the hordes, but having weapons, ammo and supplies is a good place to start, and maybe have a better chance than those who don’t have them. But I digress. What I have to add is about drones. I’m a recreational drone flier. Got into it last year while recovering from knee surgery. It’s true, most drones on the market for average people don’t have a very long time loiter capability. For the average hobbyist drone flyer like myself, or even people who use them for commercial use (Roofing inspectors, realtors, etc.), we get somewhere around 25 - 30 minutes flight time per battery. Some models go longer of course, maybe around 40 minutes in the air. So admittedly, that would not be a real long time for recon over a wide area. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be used for short term observation. I’m in a small subdivision, with lightly populated rural areas all around. I have horses and cattle in large pastures back behind my neighborhood, with large fields (sugarcane, I’m in south Louisiana) and small areas of woods out there too. Every once in a while I hear a tractor running while I’m out flying. So I think to myself, that might be “trouble” of some kind. So I use my drone to get eyes on it. I have a tall wood privacy fence, so it’s not always possible to see things directly. This is just a small example of course, but it’s the mindset that counts. Every once in a while I’ll “spy” on one of the horses or cows. Safely of course, not close or low enough to spook or harm them. They may see it buzzing and hovering, but they don’t mind. Lol. Now I understand it’s a far cry trying to locate a running tractor or following around horses and cattle compared to observing hungry, dangerous bad guys, but practicing doing that can be an additional tool if things really go sideways. Another very useful tool they can provide is getting details of the terrain that your average satellite maps won’t show in detail. Even from lots of “B roll” video, you can see things from the air that might be useful. Just saying. And yes, I haven’t looked yet but a separate video on drone usage would be a cool idea if you don’t have that already.
>if we keep it, this stuff is gonna be needed for real.
Like a prophet in our time
Good thought exploration sir. I found your channel through Hop and your gear reviews, but have stayed and subscribed due to 1. You and Hop's ability to seemingly hate everything that you review; which leads to you pointing out legitimate downfalls of products. 2. Your thought experiments that try to realistically apply scenarios with truly civilian considerations. I think the more we try to be honest about our needs and capabilities, the closer we can get to more achievable emergency preparedness.
The late Colonel Copper developed the Scout Rifle as a tool of the lone scout. The concept of a lone Scout is an alternative to a recon team when manpower. Ammo, and resources are at a premium
Thank you for this video super glad I found it
thanks for everything homie
Great video, more please!
I think it’s much more important to have supplies, ammunition and a place to hide. I haven’t watched the whole video, but my sense is that doing recon is more for identifying threats and staying safe and hidden. Staying away from people is always the best strategy in think.
Hooking your natural gas line up to your sprinkler system is always a great deterrent for marauders.
thank you sean strickland
I like the shoulder dog approach , my doggie definitely approves .
Great video and tips thanks
Thank you for this video
Very good video. Though I caught a couple things. It's geared more for the short term. The initial days. I don't care how well prepped you think you are. That stored food will go really fast. You'll need a clean source of water both for your people but also for your crops, herds, sanitation and industrial uses. Until you are growing your own feed for your animals you are also keeping them safe against predators, theft, accidents and you need somebody out there keeping the shepherds safe from raiders and other dangers. Recon and patrols will be necessary to do that. Grazing animals need a lot of space to get enough food. Especially since you want to expand the herds as quickly as possible.
Until you are not only self sufficient food wise by producing enough surplus to cover for droughts, disease, fires, etc and producing enough to feed your animals, and for industrial use as well as medical plants. Until then you are treading water looking for the nearest limb to grab onto. Somebody who has built that kind of resources.
Recon is critical in protecting that infrastructure. Your power source may well be located a 1/2 mile from your main camp. Best to have that large amount of smoke somewhere other than where you live. Or it might be a water wheel and living right on the bank is unwise. Too much traffic plus risk of flooding. Your herds will need to roam acres to eat. You need to create a buffer between yourself and curious people who'll hear your chickens, goats, cows, etc.
Food production needs to start day one, or if your smart you are already growing food and placing livestock in your tribe's expected gathering point, or at least raising them on your own or friend's property and have a plan on how to get it to your gathering spot Remember it takes at least 6 months to start harvesting crops and your herds will probably be needed for reproduction primarily the first year or two. So your stockpiles have to last that long and you have to guard your territory and resources to keep grazing land for YOUR herds. To keep people from getting close enough to discover what you have and thus be tempted to come for it.
You also need redundancy as there will be attrition. Disease killing most. So if you start with 20 people, you've already probably shot yourself in the foot. Expect to lose at least 5 to disease. More if your idea of sanitation is outhouses and no running water for months on end. Especially if you do not have a doctor. Things happen. So even healthy people will be lost to animal attacks, accidents, or maybe just pull up stakes and walk out or die in a fight. If you have 3 people assigned to recon, 2 to shepherding, 10 to farming and you lose 5 you just lost as many as you possibly can and still be functional and that doesn't count harvesting, processing, food preservation, construction, fortification, digging, processing food, cooking, etc.
Good stuff as usual BF
Just a note on drones... Say you're in a shack or something near the top of a hill and you see a threat coming your way, that's when you throw up the drone way up directly overhead so you can watch the movement of the individual threats closing in on your position. That way you can determine which entries are getting pushed without wasting your man power by guarding everything at the same time while not knowing where anyone is.
So now they know where you are by looking at where your drone takes off and lands from LOL
Just watched you guys for the first time. Damn, wish I had the geography you guys do for training w/o the PO-PO copter coming in. Nice video!
Wow that multi cam works amazing in the rocks
You know you've become a big-time production entity when your dog is a stunt double👍