May 21, 2025 • 21 mins
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Decorated Combat VeteranCorporate; U.S. Marine Corps Urban Warfare Instrictor;
S.R.T. Commander Active Shooter Response Team
Law Enforcement Los Angeles Police (L.A.P.D.) Police Officer / Fugitive Recovery
F.B.I. Instructor N.R.A Instructor
Competition Shooter; Multi Time State Rifle Pistol Champion
Hunting; Life Long Hunter Proffessional Hunter and Guide
Private Security Contractor; Several Agencies, Current.
GOD Provides / JESUS Saves
Patreon
https://bit.ly/3jcLDuZ
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
What is going on? Alpha Males. Welcome to the Alpha
Male Podcast, the podcast where we talk about what it
means to be a man the right way, strong, made
in the image of God, and don't apologize making godly
men strong and making strong men godly. So today I
(00:27):
think we're going to forego the normal long bio because
by God's grace forgetting to the point where we, hopefully
I have a lot of repeat listeners and you've likely
heard it before and it's not Hopefully we'll come back
for a future episode and hear it. I will just
say that first and foremost, I am a servant of
God and a follower of Jesus Christ. That is number
(00:48):
one and everything that I do and this podcast should
be no different. Also served in the US Marine Corps,
did a couple of tours in Iraq. Also served in
the US Army, both full time and part time National Guard.
With that, I was thinking about this episode and hopefully
it's a fun one for you guys. You know, sometimes
(01:10):
if you listen for a while, we do some deep
thought philosophical episodes and sometimes we just have some fun
talk about cool manly stuff. Today, hopefully that is what
we're gonna do. How about some cool military inventions that
are good for everybody? You know, I sometimes I think
I get jaded. Maybe jade is not the right word,
but I get a biased into thinking that, you know,
(01:31):
everybody's a veteran because a lot of my friends and
stuff are veterans. But I do believe it's something like
less than one percent of the population serves in the military,
so it's not everybody, and likely many of you listeners
are not or have not been, in the military. That
doesn't mean we can't all reap the benefits of some
really cool military technology and developments that have come around
(01:54):
over the years. So today's episode fun military hardware that
has come about that everybody can really take advantage of.
I'm gonna start with the one that got me thinking
about this episode, by God's grace, the poncho Liner, or
it's affectionate name in the army the wooby because without
(02:17):
it you will be cold, so they call it a
wooby anyway, the poncho liner, if you don't know, it's
a super thin, super light weight and surprisingly warm for
as small in his light in as handy as it
is a blanket. It's really cool. It's just a really
cool multifunctional blanket. As its name suggests, it's designed to
(02:38):
be tied inside a poncho liner. You can make what's
called a ranger roll where you tie the poncho on
the outside and a poncho liner on the inside, and
it's waterproof, it's very warm, it's a wind proof so
it's designed specifically. It's got little ties on it to
tie into the gromets of the poncho and that's a
great way and a great thing for it to be
(02:58):
used for. However, you don't need the poncho to take
advantage of the poncho liner. It's great for just like
a travel blanket. It's great for just a go to blanket.
It's great for a bug out bag. It's great for
like making a picnic. I don't know, I'm trying to
think of any kind of uses, but pretty much anything
(03:19):
you want a light, handy, comfortable, warm blanket for the
wooby or the poncho liner is a great choice. It's
a really cool piece of hardware. As much as I
love the old wool blankets, and I do really like those,
they're nowhere near as light and as handy as the
woolby is. The next one I'm going to talk about
(03:42):
is MOLLY. And if you're into the tactical or the
outdoors world or anything like that, you've probably noticed this
and packs that aren't specifically made for the military. But
what MOLLY is is basically a system of interwoven straps
where you can make a pack or a vest or
body armor or pretty much anything like that that's made
(04:03):
out of that ballistic nylon or some similar material. You
can make it modular, so you can take a big
pack and take the outside pouches off to make it smaller,
or you could take a small pack and add pouches
to the side to make it larger, or you could say,
put a first aid kit on your body armor, which
for obvious reasons is really nice. You can customize where
(04:26):
you want your magazine pouches on different things on war belts,
and it's a really good system. And I assume that
it was designed by the military because that's where it
was first popular, but it's a really good system for modularity.
See on a lot of packs now that were never
designed for the military Initially. A lot of companies have
(04:47):
picked up that MALI system and or say MALI compatible.
Ali may be a proprietary name, but I'll say it's
like Malli compatible or something like that. Anyway, it's a
great system. It's a great sturdy, robust way to make
something modular. So that's a pretty cool invention. So let's
talk camouflage. Now. Camouflage obviously is a natural thing. The
(05:12):
whole point of camouflage is to blend in with a
natural environment, and obviously animals do this rather well, as
you'll know if you're a deer hunter or look at
a moth landing on a piece of bark or something
like that. But as far as humans using camouflage in
the military, as far as camouflage patterns go, now, like
(05:33):
American long hunters and American riflemen and snipers of the
Revolutionary War would obviously wear drab uniforms and things like that.
But as far as patterned camouflage, the credit for that
may have to go to the French, but I'm not
one hundred percent sure on that research or camouflage. Obviously,
if you look at the word etymology of that, it
certainly looks like a French word. Camouflage. Anyway, one of
(05:55):
the coolest, perhaps the best, quintessential woods camouflage pattern. The
pattern that I was issued when I joined the military,
that classic US Woodland camouflage pattern. There's a lot of
good camera patterns, but I don't know that anything is
better at Woodland pattern. I went through the whole digit
(06:18):
CAMO phase. I will mention it. Of all the digital camouflages, Marpat,
Marine Corps kind of digital Woodland is probably the best.
But when I was in the Army, I was issued
the new version of whatever they decided to call it
Woodland or multi caam. If you look at that, it's
basically just a smaller version of the old Woodland pattern.
(06:39):
It's both of those are really good. I've worn many uniforms.
I was issued maybe somewhere between five and seven different
camouflage patterns or bought them at my time in the
Marine Corps and the Army. Perhaps the worst was that
Army digital camouflage. The ACU still kind of does a job.
(07:01):
It'll break up your outline, but it really doesn't blend
in with anything but that old Woodland camouflage pattern I
grew up hunting with, and that's what I was still
issued because it was in service so long. When I
joined the Marine Corps was this the old black boots
you had to polish, and the old woodland camis that
you had to iron. A great camouflage pattern and the
common use of broken up camouflage patterns. Although there's plenty
(07:24):
of civilian ones now, real tree or mossy oak or
any of those. Common use of that I think became
common with hunters because of the surplus of military uniform.
So I'm gonna list some cool cameo patterns there. I've
talked about a few, but the Woodland's gotta be up there,
if not the pre eminent classic camouflage. Like if you
(07:46):
just say camouflage uniform to somebody, they're probably thinking of woodland.
The multiicam is the next generation of that. It is
really good as well far as the entire uniform design.
The scorpion or multicam I wore in the army before
I got out was probably the best designed uniform as
a whole. Both of those are great. Of all the
digital ones, marpat is a really good pattern. It's a
(08:09):
digital camo where the colors actually blend into a woodland environment.
I'm really cool did camouflage patterns. I really like Rhodesian
brushstroke camo it's a good classic. Let's call it retro camo.
Why would I have this, well, because I have a
Rhodesian ridgeback and I don't know if you can truly
(08:30):
be tactical. You and your Rhodesian ridgeback, we're out in
the wilderness wearing matching Rhodesian brushstroke net gators. You have
achieved a level of tactical perfection rarely seen. You also
got to give a head nod to Vietnam tiger stripe,
(08:55):
the tarns, the flecktarn, the trope and tarn. If you
look at those, those are kinds a digital camo, like
seventy five years ahead of their time. One of the
really cool camos the Alpinflage the Swiss. Leave it to
the Swiss to put bright blue and red in camouflage
and still make it blend into an environment. It works
really good. It's not common, which you might want. One
(09:16):
of the kind of SOPs that I had before I
was living nomadically and I had a group of like
minded preppers would give out an outer garment in Alpinflage
if I was scanning a crowd. It stands out that's
probably not a camera pattern. Other people are going to
have right, like not many people are walking around an alpinflage,
(09:37):
whereas woodland there may be a bunch of people wearing woodland.
It's kind of an easy identifier of a friendly still
blends into a natural environment and it doesn't like scream
tactical like maybe like multiicam blackwood or something like that.
Feel free to take that idea and run with it anyway.
Some really cool camera patterns and perhaps talking about garment.
(10:01):
One of the best things the military gave us silkies
running shorts, short comfortable running shorts. If you don't know
what silkies are, you might want to do yourself a
favor and get yourself a pair of silkies. The next one,
the canteen cup, is so awesome. It's so multifunctional. It
(10:25):
is great. It is probably one of the If you
do like the mental thought experiment, you can only have
three items for I don't know, wilderness survival or whatever,
the canteen cup will probably be on there for me.
Canteen cups are awesome. They're awesome for what they're intended
for a canteen cup, it fits as a name suggests
on the bottom of a canteen. For all you non
(10:48):
military folks. You get an issue generally in a pouch
with the canteen and the metal canteen cup, and sometimes
the little canteen cup stove, which is cool in and
of itself, but that whole system works together pretty nicely.
The canteen cup is really nice for eating your meals
out of, for cooking in, for boiling water in, just
(11:08):
for in general, for drinking your coffee out of. It's
just a great, all around utilitarian metal cup. It's a
decent size. You can throw it right in a fire
and not have to worry about it. You can use
it to shave in all that stuff. It's great. It's
just a good, you know, metal container that's so multifunctional.
(11:31):
You don't have that as part of your kit. You
probably should have a canteen with canteen cup. I would
be a bad capitalist if I did not tell you
guys that. At Good Shepherd Training dot com there's a
gear shop and I don't sell canteen cups, but I
sell metal enamel coated cups. With the Alpha Male podcast
(11:52):
on there have really good cups. I use them all
the time. They're really cool, really cool for like drinking
coffee out of shaving out of I use mine for
all those things. If you don't know, I kind of
live semi nomadically, so it's a good multifunctional piece of kit,
that Alpha male cup, but obviously kind of all around
(12:15):
metal utilitarian piece of kit as that metal canteen cup.
And those are awesome. The next one is one that
I don't even have anymore, and I don't know what
happened to mine. I haven't seen it in forever, but
I gotta get another one, and that's the Wooly Pulley.
The real ones one hundred percent wool pull over sweater.
They're super warm. Don't know if they still issued them.
(12:35):
I got issued one. They are awesome. They are super warm.
They are really handy to have part of your uniform anyway,
the Wooly Pulley, it's like a good, robust, super thick
wool sweater. The ones I was issued were Odi green,
that's my favorite. Make them in different colors. A lot
of other countries use them as well, the European countries.
(12:58):
I find one. If you don't want an ode green
when they like, different militaries made different colors of them.
You could probably get a black one or a Navy
blue one. The branches of service may even have used those,
but anyway, it's a really good, really warm I think
that you don't have to be in the military to use.
They're great for going hunting. They're wolf so if you
get what you take a spill in a creek something
like that, you're still gonna be warm. Probably don't want
(13:18):
to wear it as a bass layer. You probably want
to wear something a little less itchy as a bass layer.
But putting that on top of a shirt or a
Marina wolf shirt or something like that, they're just fantastic,
just really cool. And I didn't start off with military guns.
There's a whole list of military guns that are great
for civilian use, so I'm probably gonna leave those off.
(13:38):
One thing I will mention is going to be the
nine millimeter, ubiquitous nine millimeters that we all know when
love the nine by nineteen the nine millimeter para for
a parabellum, which means for war. It's the nine millimeter
for war, which in and of itself is a pretty
cool name, but it has become like the most common
(14:00):
center fire round probably in the world. Originally designed for
the German military and know not the Nazi German military,
but the old Imperial for the Kaiser German military. This
REALND was developed way back in the nineteen oughts. I
figure forget if it was like nineteen oh two or
nineteen oh eight, but somewhere in there this ROALNM was
(14:21):
developed and it's still with us. And not only is
it still with us, it's probably more popular today than
it ever has been. It is a phenomenal round. It
doesn't look like it's gonna get usurped on the throne
anytime soon for the world's most popular handgun round. It
is a fantastic round. And again we have the German
military this time to thank for that. Next, I'm going
(14:44):
to go down a rabbit hole and a fun fact.
Well fact is maybe not the right word because I
wasn't there, But I do believe a rifle that most
Americans own, if you own a rifle, is probably the
AR fifteen. I think of this are a lot of
people think of this as some military weapon that civilian zones.
But it should be noted for many reasons, mostly for
(15:07):
the truth that this weapon was designed by a civilian.
Was designed by a civilian. It was a civilian weapon
that got adopted by the military. Should be noted that
when he originally designed it as a civilian, it was
in three to eight seven sixty two NATO, which is
far more powerful than the Air fifteen that the military
(15:28):
went to or the M sixteen that it became. So
if you know, somebody says that a military weapon and
super high power, well then that's just not true on
its face. Number one, it's at least the Air fifteen
and five five sixty two two three is quite a
bit less powerful than most other traditional hunting rounds. It
was designed by a civilian and adopted by the military,
(15:50):
so it's a civilian arm first and foremost. Although the
M sixteen is certainly a military weapon or the M
four the Air fifteen came direct lineage from the AR ten,
which was developed as a civilian or by a civilian
rather anyway, I just thought that was worth throwing in
there and going down that rabbit hole to mention that.
(16:13):
My wife also pointed out to me that the jet
engine is a military invention that gets used all the time.
Whether you fly on a plane every day, you get
stuff shipped from Amazon or whatever, likely a jet engine
had something to do with it, and although I think
we can hopefully all agree that they're listening to this.
The Nazis did horrible atrocities and horrible, horrible things. The
(16:38):
Germans also far ahead of their time in World War
Two as far as development of new technology goes. Much
of that was funded by the military, the jet engine
being one of those things. Anyway, that's pretty cool and
I thought it was worth mentioning those different inventions. Anyway,
just a short episode today, kind of tying into that
(17:04):
with the tactical tip of the Day, Deep, the chemical
like it or don't like it, that's used in a
lot of bug repellant, was partially funded by the USDA
and partially funded by the DoD, the Department of Defense,
So that makes it kind of a quasi military or paramilitary.
(17:24):
I guess you could call it invention, and Deep works well,
but it's a pretty harsh chemical. Tactical tip of the
day is stuff that I found and it's repel brand,
and it is plant based lemon eucalyptus insect repellant. And
you may think it's some kind of hippie dippy thing,
(17:46):
but especially in like the rainforest of Oregon, I like
to go out and be out in the woods in
the wilderness, and I generally spray the deep and stuff
on my clothes and all my boots. When it comes
to my face and my hands and things like that,
I try not to an environment like that. You need something.
Are wild plants that I can pick, and they do
work fairly well. But this stuff works really well. And
(18:06):
it's the repel lemon eucalyptus. It's not expensive, it lasts
a super long time. In fact, the first bottle I had,
I've misplaced it and I can't find it, so I
bought another one. They're like six bucks, and there's a
lot of bug repellant in there. And one of the
other side effects of it is it doesn't smell bad.
Smells a lot, so you probably don't want to use
it if you're spot in style hunting on game, although
(18:29):
it may be a covercent. I don't know whether or
not deer associate eucalyptus with danger or not, because it's
pretty foreign to the environment anyway. It's a lemon eucalypses.
It smells pretty potent, but it doesn't smell bad. It's
not like one of those universal bad sense like sulfur
or rotten meat or something, and it certainly smells better
(18:50):
than off or any other kind of deep repellent that
I've ever smelled. It smells like eucalyptus, which a lot
of people use in candles and stuff to make stuff
smell better. It works really well to repel bugs. Not
one of those people that's like, oh, essential oils is
gonna cure your cancer and make your teeth whiter and
fixed male pattern baldness or any of that stuff. This
(19:12):
eucalyptus lemon oil or whatever it is, it seems to
work really well for its intended purpose of repelling mosquitos.
So if you don't want that harsh deep going out
in the woods all the time, and you don't want
to continually spray your face in your hands and stuff
with deep, you might want to give this a shot.
It says deep for your right on the bottle. It's
eucalyptus oil and it works really well. So that's your
(19:35):
tactical tip of the day. Tactical verse of the day.
The Lord is a man of war. Exodus fifteen. The
Lord is a man of war. It's important that we
have a right view of God if we intend to
serve God and please God. We must know God and
love God. And how can you love someone if you
(19:57):
don't know who they are and you don't understand them.
The greatest of all the commandments here Israel. The Lord
are God. The Lord is one. And you shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
To love him, we should better understand him. And the
Lord is many things, And it says in Exodus fifteen,
the Lord is a man of war. And since I
(20:19):
have been acquainted with war since my youth, I identify
with that. I respect that, and hopefully that helps me
understand God better. The Lord is a man of war
Exodus fifteen. God has both wrath and grace. Nothing can
(20:40):
destroy like God. Nothing can pour out awesome wrath like
our God. Likewise, there's no savior like our God, who
is like my God unto me, who pardons my iniquity.
He became sin for us who knew no sin, that
(21:00):
we might become the righteousness of God in him. For
with God lies the power to save and to destroy.
The Lord is a man of war. With that, thanks
and have a blessed day.
What is going on? Alpha Males. Welcome to the Alpha
Male Podcast, the podcast where we talk about what it
means to be a man the right way, strong, made
in the image of God, and don't apologize making godly
men strong and making strong men godly. So today I
(00:27):
think we're going to forego the normal long bio because
by God's grace forgetting to the point where we, hopefully
I have a lot of repeat listeners and you've likely
heard it before and it's not Hopefully we'll come back
for a future episode and hear it. I will just
say that first and foremost, I am a servant of
God and a follower of Jesus Christ. That is number
(00:48):
one and everything that I do and this podcast should
be no different. Also served in the US Marine Corps,
did a couple of tours in Iraq. Also served in
the US Army, both full time and part time National Guard.
With that, I was thinking about this episode and hopefully
it's a fun one for you guys. You know, sometimes
(01:10):
if you listen for a while, we do some deep
thought philosophical episodes and sometimes we just have some fun
talk about cool manly stuff. Today, hopefully that is what
we're gonna do. How about some cool military inventions that
are good for everybody? You know, I sometimes I think
I get jaded. Maybe jade is not the right word,
but I get a biased into thinking that, you know,
(01:31):
everybody's a veteran because a lot of my friends and
stuff are veterans. But I do believe it's something like
less than one percent of the population serves in the military,
so it's not everybody, and likely many of you listeners
are not or have not been, in the military. That
doesn't mean we can't all reap the benefits of some
really cool military technology and developments that have come around
(01:54):
over the years. So today's episode fun military hardware that
has come about that everybody can really take advantage of.
I'm gonna start with the one that got me thinking
about this episode, by God's grace, the poncho Liner, or
it's affectionate name in the army the wooby because without
(02:17):
it you will be cold, so they call it a
wooby anyway, the poncho liner, if you don't know, it's
a super thin, super light weight and surprisingly warm for
as small in his light in as handy as it
is a blanket. It's really cool. It's just a really
cool multifunctional blanket. As its name suggests, it's designed to
(02:38):
be tied inside a poncho liner. You can make what's
called a ranger roll where you tie the poncho on
the outside and a poncho liner on the inside, and
it's waterproof, it's very warm, it's a wind proof so
it's designed specifically. It's got little ties on it to
tie into the gromets of the poncho and that's a
great way and a great thing for it to be
(02:58):
used for. However, you don't need the poncho to take
advantage of the poncho liner. It's great for just like
a travel blanket. It's great for just a go to blanket.
It's great for a bug out bag. It's great for
like making a picnic. I don't know, I'm trying to
think of any kind of uses, but pretty much anything
(03:19):
you want a light, handy, comfortable, warm blanket for the
wooby or the poncho liner is a great choice. It's
a really cool piece of hardware. As much as I
love the old wool blankets, and I do really like those,
they're nowhere near as light and as handy as the
woolby is. The next one I'm going to talk about
(03:42):
is MOLLY. And if you're into the tactical or the
outdoors world or anything like that, you've probably noticed this
and packs that aren't specifically made for the military. But
what MOLLY is is basically a system of interwoven straps
where you can make a pack or a vest or
body armor or pretty much anything like that that's made
(04:03):
out of that ballistic nylon or some similar material. You
can make it modular, so you can take a big
pack and take the outside pouches off to make it smaller,
or you could take a small pack and add pouches
to the side to make it larger, or you could say,
put a first aid kit on your body armor, which
for obvious reasons is really nice. You can customize where
(04:26):
you want your magazine pouches on different things on war belts,
and it's a really good system. And I assume that
it was designed by the military because that's where it
was first popular, but it's a really good system for modularity.
See on a lot of packs now that were never
designed for the military Initially. A lot of companies have
(04:47):
picked up that MALI system and or say MALI compatible.
Ali may be a proprietary name, but I'll say it's
like Malli compatible or something like that. Anyway, it's a
great system. It's a great sturdy, robust way to make
something modular. So that's a pretty cool invention. So let's
talk camouflage. Now. Camouflage obviously is a natural thing. The
(05:12):
whole point of camouflage is to blend in with a
natural environment, and obviously animals do this rather well, as
you'll know if you're a deer hunter or look at
a moth landing on a piece of bark or something
like that. But as far as humans using camouflage in
the military, as far as camouflage patterns go, now, like
(05:33):
American long hunters and American riflemen and snipers of the
Revolutionary War would obviously wear drab uniforms and things like that.
But as far as patterned camouflage, the credit for that
may have to go to the French, but I'm not
one hundred percent sure on that research or camouflage. Obviously,
if you look at the word etymology of that, it
certainly looks like a French word. Camouflage. Anyway, one of
(05:55):
the coolest, perhaps the best, quintessential woods camouflage pattern. The
pattern that I was issued when I joined the military,
that classic US Woodland camouflage pattern. There's a lot of
good camera patterns, but I don't know that anything is
better at Woodland pattern. I went through the whole digit
(06:18):
CAMO phase. I will mention it. Of all the digital camouflages, Marpat,
Marine Corps kind of digital Woodland is probably the best.
But when I was in the Army, I was issued
the new version of whatever they decided to call it
Woodland or multi caam. If you look at that, it's
basically just a smaller version of the old Woodland pattern.
(06:39):
It's both of those are really good. I've worn many uniforms.
I was issued maybe somewhere between five and seven different
camouflage patterns or bought them at my time in the
Marine Corps and the Army. Perhaps the worst was that
Army digital camouflage. The ACU still kind of does a job.
(07:01):
It'll break up your outline, but it really doesn't blend
in with anything but that old Woodland camouflage pattern I
grew up hunting with, and that's what I was still
issued because it was in service so long. When I
joined the Marine Corps was this the old black boots
you had to polish, and the old woodland camis that
you had to iron. A great camouflage pattern and the
common use of broken up camouflage patterns. Although there's plenty
(07:24):
of civilian ones now, real tree or mossy oak or
any of those. Common use of that I think became
common with hunters because of the surplus of military uniform.
So I'm gonna list some cool cameo patterns there. I've
talked about a few, but the Woodland's gotta be up there,
if not the pre eminent classic camouflage. Like if you
(07:46):
just say camouflage uniform to somebody, they're probably thinking of woodland.
The multiicam is the next generation of that. It is
really good as well far as the entire uniform design.
The scorpion or multicam I wore in the army before
I got out was probably the best designed uniform as
a whole. Both of those are great. Of all the
digital ones, marpat is a really good pattern. It's a
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digital camo where the colors actually blend into a woodland environment.
I'm really cool did camouflage patterns. I really like Rhodesian
brushstroke camo it's a good classic. Let's call it retro camo.
Why would I have this, well, because I have a
Rhodesian ridgeback and I don't know if you can truly
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be tactical. You and your Rhodesian ridgeback, we're out in
the wilderness wearing matching Rhodesian brushstroke net gators. You have
achieved a level of tactical perfection rarely seen. You also
got to give a head nod to Vietnam tiger stripe,
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the tarns, the flecktarn, the trope and tarn. If you
look at those, those are kinds a digital camo, like
seventy five years ahead of their time. One of the
really cool camos the Alpinflage the Swiss. Leave it to
the Swiss to put bright blue and red in camouflage
and still make it blend into an environment. It works
really good. It's not common, which you might want. One
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of the kind of SOPs that I had before I
was living nomadically and I had a group of like
minded preppers would give out an outer garment in Alpinflage
if I was scanning a crowd. It stands out that's
probably not a camera pattern. Other people are going to
have right, like not many people are walking around an alpinflage,
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whereas woodland there may be a bunch of people wearing woodland.
It's kind of an easy identifier of a friendly still
blends into a natural environment and it doesn't like scream
tactical like maybe like multiicam blackwood or something like that.
Feel free to take that idea and run with it anyway.
Some really cool camera patterns and perhaps talking about garment.
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One of the best things the military gave us silkies
running shorts, short comfortable running shorts. If you don't know
what silkies are, you might want to do yourself a
favor and get yourself a pair of silkies. The next one,
the canteen cup, is so awesome. It's so multifunctional. It
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is great. It is probably one of the If you
do like the mental thought experiment, you can only have
three items for I don't know, wilderness survival or whatever,
the canteen cup will probably be on there for me.
Canteen cups are awesome. They're awesome for what they're intended
for a canteen cup, it fits as a name suggests
on the bottom of a canteen. For all you non
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military folks. You get an issue generally in a pouch
with the canteen and the metal canteen cup, and sometimes
the little canteen cup stove, which is cool in and
of itself, but that whole system works together pretty nicely.
The canteen cup is really nice for eating your meals
out of, for cooking in, for boiling water in, just
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for in general, for drinking your coffee out of. It's
just a great, all around utilitarian metal cup. It's a
decent size. You can throw it right in a fire
and not have to worry about it. You can use
it to shave in all that stuff. It's great. It's
just a good, you know, metal container that's so multifunctional.
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You don't have that as part of your kit. You
probably should have a canteen with canteen cup. I would
be a bad capitalist if I did not tell you
guys that. At Good Shepherd Training dot com there's a
gear shop and I don't sell canteen cups, but I
sell metal enamel coated cups. With the Alpha Male podcast
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on there have really good cups. I use them all
the time. They're really cool, really cool for like drinking
coffee out of shaving out of I use mine for
all those things. If you don't know, I kind of
live semi nomadically, so it's a good multifunctional piece of kit,
that Alpha male cup, but obviously kind of all around
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metal utilitarian piece of kit as that metal canteen cup.
And those are awesome. The next one is one that
I don't even have anymore, and I don't know what
happened to mine. I haven't seen it in forever, but
I gotta get another one, and that's the Wooly Pulley.
The real ones one hundred percent wool pull over sweater.
They're super warm. Don't know if they still issued them.
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I got issued one. They are awesome. They are super warm.
They are really handy to have part of your uniform anyway,
the Wooly Pulley, it's like a good, robust, super thick
wool sweater. The ones I was issued were Odi green,
that's my favorite. Make them in different colors. A lot
of other countries use them as well, the European countries.
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I find one. If you don't want an ode green
when they like, different militaries made different colors of them.
You could probably get a black one or a Navy
blue one. The branches of service may even have used those,
but anyway, it's a really good, really warm I think
that you don't have to be in the military to use.
They're great for going hunting. They're wolf so if you
get what you take a spill in a creek something
like that, you're still gonna be warm. Probably don't want
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to wear it as a bass layer. You probably want
to wear something a little less itchy as a bass layer.
But putting that on top of a shirt or a
Marina wolf shirt or something like that, they're just fantastic,
just really cool. And I didn't start off with military guns.
There's a whole list of military guns that are great
for civilian use, so I'm probably gonna leave those off.
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One thing I will mention is going to be the
nine millimeter, ubiquitous nine millimeters that we all know when
love the nine by nineteen the nine millimeter para for
a parabellum, which means for war. It's the nine millimeter
for war, which in and of itself is a pretty
cool name, but it has become like the most common
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center fire round probably in the world. Originally designed for
the German military and know not the Nazi German military,
but the old Imperial for the Kaiser German military. This
REALND was developed way back in the nineteen oughts. I
figure forget if it was like nineteen oh two or
nineteen oh eight, but somewhere in there this ROALNM was
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developed and it's still with us. And not only is
it still with us, it's probably more popular today than
it ever has been. It is a phenomenal round. It
doesn't look like it's gonna get usurped on the throne
anytime soon for the world's most popular handgun round. It
is a fantastic round. And again we have the German
military this time to thank for that. Next, I'm going
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to go down a rabbit hole and a fun fact.
Well fact is maybe not the right word because I
wasn't there, But I do believe a rifle that most
Americans own, if you own a rifle, is probably the
AR fifteen. I think of this are a lot of
people think of this as some military weapon that civilian zones.
But it should be noted for many reasons, mostly for
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the truth that this weapon was designed by a civilian.
Was designed by a civilian. It was a civilian weapon
that got adopted by the military. Should be noted that
when he originally designed it as a civilian, it was
in three to eight seven sixty two NATO, which is
far more powerful than the Air fifteen that the military
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went to or the M sixteen that it became. So
if you know, somebody says that a military weapon and
super high power, well then that's just not true on
its face. Number one, it's at least the Air fifteen
and five five sixty two two three is quite a
bit less powerful than most other traditional hunting rounds. It
was designed by a civilian and adopted by the military,
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so it's a civilian arm first and foremost. Although the
M sixteen is certainly a military weapon or the M
four the Air fifteen came direct lineage from the AR ten,
which was developed as a civilian or by a civilian
rather anyway, I just thought that was worth throwing in
there and going down that rabbit hole to mention that.
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My wife also pointed out to me that the jet
engine is a military invention that gets used all the time.
Whether you fly on a plane every day, you get
stuff shipped from Amazon or whatever, likely a jet engine
had something to do with it, and although I think
we can hopefully all agree that they're listening to this.
The Nazis did horrible atrocities and horrible, horrible things. The
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Germans also far ahead of their time in World War
Two as far as development of new technology goes. Much
of that was funded by the military, the jet engine
being one of those things. Anyway, that's pretty cool and
I thought it was worth mentioning those different inventions. Anyway,
just a short episode today, kind of tying into that
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with the tactical tip of the Day, Deep, the chemical
like it or don't like it, that's used in a
lot of bug repellant, was partially funded by the USDA
and partially funded by the DoD, the Department of Defense,
So that makes it kind of a quasi military or paramilitary.
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I guess you could call it invention, and Deep works well,
but it's a pretty harsh chemical. Tactical tip of the
day is stuff that I found and it's repel brand,
and it is plant based lemon eucalyptus insect repellant. And
you may think it's some kind of hippie dippy thing,
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but especially in like the rainforest of Oregon, I like
to go out and be out in the woods in
the wilderness, and I generally spray the deep and stuff
on my clothes and all my boots. When it comes
to my face and my hands and things like that,
I try not to an environment like that. You need something.
Are wild plants that I can pick, and they do
work fairly well. But this stuff works really well. And
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it's the repel lemon eucalyptus. It's not expensive, it lasts
a super long time. In fact, the first bottle I had,
I've misplaced it and I can't find it, so I
bought another one. They're like six bucks, and there's a
lot of bug repellant in there. And one of the
other side effects of it is it doesn't smell bad.
Smells a lot, so you probably don't want to use
it if you're spot in style hunting on game, although
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it may be a covercent. I don't know whether or
not deer associate eucalyptus with danger or not, because it's
pretty foreign to the environment anyway. It's a lemon eucalypses.
It smells pretty potent, but it doesn't smell bad. It's
not like one of those universal bad sense like sulfur
or rotten meat or something, and it certainly smells better
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than off or any other kind of deep repellent that
I've ever smelled. It smells like eucalyptus, which a lot
of people use in candles and stuff to make stuff
smell better. It works really well to repel bugs. Not
one of those people that's like, oh, essential oils is
gonna cure your cancer and make your teeth whiter and
fixed male pattern baldness or any of that stuff. This
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eucalyptus lemon oil or whatever it is, it seems to
work really well for its intended purpose of repelling mosquitos.
So if you don't want that harsh deep going out
in the woods all the time, and you don't want
to continually spray your face in your hands and stuff
with deep, you might want to give this a shot.
It says deep for your right on the bottle. It's
eucalyptus oil and it works really well. So that's your
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tactical tip of the day. Tactical verse of the day.
The Lord is a man of war. Exodus fifteen. The
Lord is a man of war. It's important that we
have a right view of God if we intend to
serve God and please God. We must know God and
love God. And how can you love someone if you
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don't know who they are and you don't understand them.
The greatest of all the commandments here Israel. The Lord
are God. The Lord is one. And you shall love
the Lord your God with all your heart, with all
your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.
To love him, we should better understand him. And the
Lord is many things, And it says in Exodus fifteen,
the Lord is a man of war. And since I
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have been acquainted with war since my youth, I identify
with that. I respect that, and hopefully that helps me
understand God better. The Lord is a man of war
Exodus fifteen. God has both wrath and grace. Nothing can
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destroy like God. Nothing can pour out awesome wrath like
our God. Likewise, there's no savior like our God, who
is like my God unto me, who pardons my iniquity.
He became sin for us who knew no sin, that
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we might become the righteousness of God in him. For
with God lies the power to save and to destroy.
The Lord is a man of war. With that, thanks
and have a blessed day.
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