I had more than a few people ask me this week what rifle they should get. As this country falls apart, people are coming to retired and former military and trying to gain information about what they should do. Some one asked me what sling they should get. I asked when was the last time they went to a range to zero and they looked at me like I have a dick growing out of my head. Any rifle, any sling, learn the fundamentals, go zero and shoot. If you are zeroed, go zero again and shoot again. Just for practice. You know how many Iraqis and Afghans had slings I saw? Maybe ten percent. Yet they had the will to fight back. And that is the thing, in the end, it doesn’t matter. A few words of wisdom, “beware the man who has one weapon, for he knows how to use it.” Sling or not, the will is everything. It is the Riddle of Steel.
To be honest, I have been racking my mind the last few days trying to figure out what I can do beside write this blog. I am starting a group in my AO for men who love the wilderness. I am going to start a group for boys only as well. One like the Boy Scouts without all the pedo’s and gays. One which teaches building and defending. I think I will call them Pathfinders, maybe Rangers. Of course, there is never any money to fund this stuff on our side. It does not matter. I will figure it out. I am going to try to get rid of the weak and effeminate, so I guess I will be the only one who goes. Seriously though, I have been building this for the last year and I have not found one infantry vet to help me out. Where the fuck is everyone!!?? High on a starter pack of suicide pills from the VA? Seriously, I cannot find anyone. I really have no idea. It is tough right now. We might have to watch them burn down this entire country before people are motivated enough to stop it. I hope not.
But hope is a funny thing. I hope for a better future for my children. Because of this, I will never quit. I fought to hard for too damn long to give up because a bunch of weak men and women in congress want to give away what generations of hard men won.
Great idea about starting an independent scout troop! All I see out there is talk talk talk and little is really done, accept by a few, keep up the good work!
We’ve ran into the same problem in our knitting group. Where are all the combat arms vets? It’s crazy. I thought there were more of us
I love the picture of Robert Rogers, father of American Special Operations, CO of Rogers’ Rangers in the French and Indian War. Though one should note, Rogers is a Tory in the American Revolution, XO of the Queen’s Rangers, but one of his officers from the French and Indian War, John Stark, is a true forgotten hero of the American Revolution. Stark will serve the Patriot cause at the Siege of Boston, Breed’s Hill, Invasion of Canada, Trenton, Second Trenton, Princeton, and Bennington (Saratoga Campaign, present day Vermont). The Army Rangers do consider Robert Rogers as their forbearer.
Rogers’ Rangers Standing Orders:
1) Don’t forget nothing.
2) Have your musket clean as a whistle, hatchet scoured, sixty rounds powder and ball, and be ready to march at a minute’s warning.
3) When you’re on the march, act the way you would if you was sneaking up on a deer. See the enemy first.
4) Tell the truth about what you see and what you do. There is an army depending on us for correct information. You can lie all you please when you tell other folks about the Rangers, but don’t never lie to a Ranger or officer.
5) Don’t never take a chance you don’t have to.
6) When we’re on the march we march single file, far enough apart so one shot can’t go through two men.
7) If we strike swamps, or soft ground, we spread out abreast, so it’s hard to track us.
8) When we march, we keep moving till dark, so as to give the enemy the least possible chance at us.
9) When we camp, half the party stays awake while the other half sleeps.
10) If we take prisoners, we keep ’em separate till we have had time to examine them, so they can’t cook up a story between ’em.
11) Don’t ever march home the same way. Take a different route so you won’t be ambushed.
12) No matter whether we travel in big parties or little ones, each party has to keep a scout 20 yards ahead, 20 yards on each flank, and 20 yards in the rear so the main body can’t be surprised and wiped out.
13) Every night you’ll be told where to meet if surrounded by a superior force.
14) Don’t sit down to eat without posting sentries.
15) Don’t sleep beyond dawn. Dawn’s when the French and Indians attack.
16) Don’t cross a river by a regular ford.
17) If somebody’s trailing you, make a circle, come back onto your own tracks, and ambush the folks that aim to ambush you.
18) Don’t stand up when the enemy’s coming against you. Kneel down, lie down, hide behind a tree.
19) Let the enemy come till he’s almost close enough to touch, then let him have it and jump out and finish him up with your hatchet.
David,
For your Rangers/Pathfinders group, you might want to contact NC Scout of American Partisan. Y’all could possibly team up and work together. If I didn’t have bills, I would love to give up public school teaching and teach/serve in an organization as you are describing. Under the right circumstances I definitely would love to walk away from all the non-sense to a New World, a New America.
Also, I can share all my slides of US History to 1865 if you are interested in that.
I am not sure who wrote this article or where he is located. But I might know some guys that might be willing to help do a class. But it would be dependent on location and such.