Advice for the future?
The "Dirty Dozen" rules for successful militia organizations:
1. We are not `the infantry'! NEVER fight like the infantry! It is OK to think like the infantry ONLY when looking for a way to defeat them! Remember, infantry battles require lots of collateral support (artillery, mortars, and large supply ammo/people to shoot it, etc.) and we don't have that. If you fight a `standup fight' with the infantry you (most likely) will die in large numbers.
2. Everyone's a guerrilla. Fight to win. Do the unexpected. Think of Sun Tzu!
3. Everyone is a rifleman first (or "rifleperson" for all you PC types) and will be armed, and fight, as the mission requires.
4. Everyone has a part in the success of the mission! If you are in a support or defense role and not `on the line' you still are in the game and your performance counts.
5. The highest survivability in `front line' combat is within small, well-trained units that know and execute the assigned mission. Seek to break down your units to their smallest components. Learn to use these smaller teams as `force multipliers' when the action gets hot, and teach them to communicate effectively in the field for survivability.
6. Assure that each team understands the assigned mission. Assure that each team has the training and equipment to accomplish that mission. Help each team get up to speed and squared away. Each member of the team should know their role and at least the role of another on that team. Cross train as needed to accomplish this.
7. Speak the `other' local languages. Lets face it, not everybody speaks English in this country. Time to learn at least one of the `other' predominate languages in your area of operation. It could save your butt some day and at the least you will get the right food at the drive through.
8. Foster `esprit de corps' by forming special teams (only as needed). Remember, this is not accomplished by giving out `cool hats' to everyone in the unit! Also keep in mind; if everybody could have gotten in to the unit then we would have been called "Normal Forces" not Special Forces! Make them earn it and make it a mission you need done.
9. Every organization needs leadership that is compatible with that organizations mission. There are crisis leaders and non-crisis leaders! Don't put a person who is a great fire team leader in a support role and expect them to excel right away! Set expectations and help them understand/accomplish the mission.
10. The militia is a voluntary organization like no other! In the Army you only volunteer once (when you enlist) and they you have to show up for training or go to jail. In the militia you must make YOURSELF do the job as needed. Recognize this and reward it!
11. Plan to train a lot of folks who `see the light' AFTER the SHTF! If we turn them away they will go some ware and it may be to the other side! View you current staff/members as the `seed corn' for Americas future units. They will be the `squared away ones' who will do the teaching and lead the masses.
12. Be creative in your training. Make it as fun but realistic as possible. Talk about the `what ifs' with you team AND their families. No one will want to fight if they think their families are in jeopardy when they are in the field! Make an action plan to involve and protect your entire militia family.
Something to ponder .....
1. We are not `the infantry'! NEVER fight like the infantry! It is OK to think like the infantry ONLY when looking for a way to defeat them! Remember, infantry battles require lots of collateral support (artillery, mortars, and large supply ammo/people to shoot it, etc.) and we don't have that. If you fight a `standup fight' with the infantry you (most likely) will die in large numbers.
2. Everyone's a guerrilla. Fight to win. Do the unexpected. Think of Sun Tzu!
3. Everyone is a rifleman first (or "rifleperson" for all you PC types) and will be armed, and fight, as the mission requires.
4. Everyone has a part in the success of the mission! If you are in a support or defense role and not `on the line' you still are in the game and your performance counts.
5. The highest survivability in `front line' combat is within small, well-trained units that know and execute the assigned mission. Seek to break down your units to their smallest components. Learn to use these smaller teams as `force multipliers' when the action gets hot, and teach them to communicate effectively in the field for survivability.
6. Assure that each team understands the assigned mission. Assure that each team has the training and equipment to accomplish that mission. Help each team get up to speed and squared away. Each member of the team should know their role and at least the role of another on that team. Cross train as needed to accomplish this.
7. Speak the `other' local languages. Lets face it, not everybody speaks English in this country. Time to learn at least one of the `other' predominate languages in your area of operation. It could save your butt some day and at the least you will get the right food at the drive through.
8. Foster `esprit de corps' by forming special teams (only as needed). Remember, this is not accomplished by giving out `cool hats' to everyone in the unit! Also keep in mind; if everybody could have gotten in to the unit then we would have been called "Normal Forces" not Special Forces! Make them earn it and make it a mission you need done.
9. Every organization needs leadership that is compatible with that organizations mission. There are crisis leaders and non-crisis leaders! Don't put a person who is a great fire team leader in a support role and expect them to excel right away! Set expectations and help them understand/accomplish the mission.
10. The militia is a voluntary organization like no other! In the Army you only volunteer once (when you enlist) and they you have to show up for training or go to jail. In the militia you must make YOURSELF do the job as needed. Recognize this and reward it!
11. Plan to train a lot of folks who `see the light' AFTER the SHTF! If we turn them away they will go some ware and it may be to the other side! View you current staff/members as the `seed corn' for Americas future units. They will be the `squared away ones' who will do the teaching and lead the masses.
12. Be creative in your training. Make it as fun but realistic as possible. Talk about the `what ifs' with you team AND their families. No one will want to fight if they think their families are in jeopardy when they are in the field! Make an action plan to involve and protect your entire militia family.
Something to ponder .....
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Those rules are good BUT if you are out of shape give it up now. You will be a target. Get in shape first. All the guns, practice and ammo in the world will nto save a couch potato. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by Highball
That being said..allowing an enemy information about tactics, abilities, manpower, and equipment will cost you dearly.
Retain a hole card.
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quote:Originally posted by The Dutchman
Those rules are good BUT if you are out of shape give it up now. You will be a target. Get in shape first. All the guns, practice and ammo in the world will nto save a couch potato.
I disagree. You CAN get in shape WHILE accomplishing other goals.
The first place to start IS diet,next is exercise.
We gotta stop stuffing twinkies in the piehole BEFORE we can get healthy.
But least we remember that FAT and ABLE is better than just plain FAT.0 -
quote:Originally posted by The Dutchman
Those rules are good BUT if you are out of shape give it up now. You will be a target. Get in shape first. All the guns, practice and ammo in the world will nto save a couch potato.
On the other hand, you can win a triathlon,
but if you can't hit what your aiming at..........0 -
quote:On the other hand, you can win a triathlon,
but if you can't hit what your aiming at
Ahhh...YESSS.
7 MILLION riflemen...firing ONE shot...and hiting what they aim at.
The war is over. Most of them won't even have a target.0 -
I've posted this before with the reference but here we go again:
Anyone who is so naive as to believe the most powerful government on earth will not crush any who pose a real threat to that power, should not be active, but rather, at home studying political history.
It is potential the federals fear most. Whether that potential exists in an individual or group is incidental. The federals measure potential threat in terms of what might happen given a situation conducive to action on the part of a restive organization or individual.
The Justice (sic) Department promised in 1987 that there would never be another group that opposed them that they did not have at least one informer in. These federal "friends of government" are intelligence agents.
Now there will, no doubt, be mentally handicapped people out there who, while standing at a podium with an American flag draped in the background, and a lone eagle soaring in the sky above, will state emphatically in their best sounding red, white, and blue voice, "So what if the government is spying? We are not violating any laws." Such crippled thinking by any serious person is the best example that there is a need for special education classes.
America is quickly moving into a long dark night of police state tyranny, where the rights now accepted by most as being inalienable will disappear.0 -
quote:Such crippled thinking by any serious person is the best example that there is a need for special education classes.
Take it easy,Wagon Wheel..please.
Those are good men. Perhaps naive..perhaps unwilling to believe the savagery of those in power...tho Waco and Ruby Ridge SHOULD have dispelled that notion many years ago.
Those of us vocal and visable serve a very real..and very vital..function. Canaries in the mine.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Wagon Wheel
I've posted this before with the reference but here we go again:
Anyone who is so naive as to believe the most powerful government on earth will not crush any who pose a real threat to that power, should not be active, but rather, at home studying political history.
It is potential the federals fear most. Whether that potential exists in an individual or group is incidental. The federals measure potential threat in terms of what might happen given a situation conducive to action on the part of a restive organization or individual.
The Justice (sic) Department promised in 1987 that there would never be another group that opposed them that they did not have at least one informer in. These federal "friends of government" are intelligence agents.
Now there will, no doubt, be mentally handicapped people out there who, while standing at a podium with an American flag draped in the background, and a lone eagle soaring in the sky above, will state emphatically in their best sounding red, white, and blue voice, "So what if the government is spying? We are not violating any laws." Such crippled thinking by any serious person is the best example that there is a need for special education classes.
America is quickly moving into a long dark night of police state tyranny, where the rights now accepted by most as being inalienable will disappear.
Makes sense BUT they thought that in 1775 too.0 -
Dutchman:
It was also true in biblical times, not that I want to discuss that, but; does that make it any less relevant today? The greedy and power hungry will stop at nothing and destroy anything that stands in their way. Then, and even more so now. So, what's your point?0 -
quote:Originally posted by Wagon Wheel
Dutchman:
It was also true in biblical times, not that I want to discuss that, but; does that make it any less relevant today? The greedy and power hungry will stop at nothing and destroy anything that stands in their way. Then, and even more so now. So, what's your point?
Hold on there a second. What is your point?0 -
Rockatansky:
Damm I hate chewin' my cabbage twice. Imade my point but here it is again:
Anyone who is so naive as to believe the most powerful government on earth will not crush any who pose a real threat to that power, should not be active, but rather, at home studying political history.
It is potential the federals fear most. Whether that potential exists in an individual or group is incidental. The federals measure potential threat in terms of what might happen given a situation conducive to action on the part of a restive organization or individual.
Next time go to a few earlier posts in the thread a get a feel the topic before butting in with stupid questions; unless of course, your trying to make a point??0 -
I don't see any point, WW, except that you're suggesting that any sort of active resistance to federal government is futile. 0 -
My point is nothing lasts forever. Rome fell too. Decayed form the inside out. The colonists in 1775 went up against the most powerful government in the world too. If there is support and effort it can happen. Our war of independance was a close call. Could have gone against us as well. 0 -
Highball, need your educated input on something. I tried to email you but it was bounced. Would really like to get your opinion. Thanks 0 -
Freemind
Great post except for #7
I am not going to speak any Mexican.
I will starve first.
"Carry A BIG STICK !"0 -
quote:Originally posted by nyforester
Freemind
Great post except for #7
I am not going to speak any Mexican.
I will starve first.
"Carry A BIG STICK !"
NY, I agree with you . I personally refuse to speak Spanish, although I do know some.
I prefer however to carry a big "Firestick", as I have found them to be more effective than you usual, run of the mill stick. [:D]0
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