Boon and Sarah: Know Thy Enemy,...Because They're Here

Royce was highly honored to have Sarah "Superbad" Adams (CIA analyst) and David "Boon" Benton (Benghazi, 13Hours) on the program to give some timely warnings of imminent attacks in America on soft targets with groups of shooters, bomb vests, automatic weapons and other weapons, among other types of planned attacks that will be launched simultaneously across the nation.

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Got two great guests. They've been on this program before, back when they were
promoting the book they wrote on No Thy Enemy. And they have got some serious
warnings for this country. And they are very timely warnings.
And so I'd like to introduce you again to Sarah Superbad Adams and Boone Benton.
Welcome back to the program, guys. It's been a while. Thanks for having us. I know
we're going to talk about something serious, but before we do that, I have to say
that I love your intro and it describes you to a tee.
Hey, I resemble that.
All right, man. So we got some serious stuff to talk about, like you said, Boone.
And you guys, how long has that book been out now? Know Thy Enemy? Yeah.
So our book came out in 2022. And then it was late 2023 that we actually were
still continuing our investigation. And we came across this large scale upcoming
homeland plot. So we've been working that now for about a year and a half. Oh, my
word. So it's been a while, but then that's why you're here is to help people know
their enemy and the enemies that we may be facing here on the homeland soon. And I
pray to God we're wrong, but everything's pointing to the fact that we aren't. So
what do you, I don't know how you guys want to tag team this or what,
whichever one of you wants to jump in. I've got a few questions. I actually asked
few people at work today and if they had any questions for you guys. And so I
stole some of their stuff, but I tell you what, um, I, I, Sarah, I know you were
on Sean Ryan show recently and talking about these very things. And I know that,
uh, I, I don't want to, you know, have you have to belabor all that again and go
through all of that. But if you could summarize, uh, a little bit of what we,
the people are facing here in this country, and Ben, I'll probably lean on you
pretty heavy later on in the program for some advice on getting ready to meet these
threats for sure. But Sarah, if you could summarize what we the people are facing
in this country, go ahead. - Yeah, so it's a variety of threats. Of course,
over the last few days, you know, there's been a lot of discussion of these Iranian
sleeper cells, but really what's been muted is the fact that over the last four
years, when we had an open border, at least 8 ,000 terrorists came into this
country. Those aren't Iranian sleeper cells. The majority of them are ISIS, right,
the Islamic State. Then the next ring down is probably al -Qaeda.
And then the ring down after that is the Haqqani network, which are the Taliban,
right, which are military fought for 20 years in Afghanistan. And then farther,
farther down the scale, we have other groups, like some of the Pakistani terrorist
groups, some of the terrorist groups out of the, like, the old Soviet states,
like the Islamic movement of Uzbekistan. And then we have, obviously, what's all over
the press right now. Iran and its proxies, its proxies being, obviously, those linked
to Hamas. And then we're hearing a lot about a unit in Hezbollah called Unit 910.
That's really just their external operations unit but that unit has actually never
carried out an attack on U .S. soil. So the plot we're focused most on is what
we're calling kind of like 9 /11 /2 .0. It's the plot against the U .S. homeland by
the sons of bin Laden. When we say the sons, we're talking about four of them.
Their names are Hamza, Abdullah, Saad, and Uzman. So they're planning this attack
from Afghanistan and it's kind of a multi -layered there's like a tax kind of in
the communities where people live, work, and play and they're actually leveraging ISIS
for a number of that. So when you saw what happened in New Orleans, it's that type
of attack. And then AQAD is gonna do its big plot, like it did in 9 /11, it'll be
a huge aviation plot again, and then there's gonna be kind of just a big target on
DC, and they're gonna do some hostage -taking and some mass casualty attacks there,
right? So that's what they have planned. And we have not seen any efforts to
unfortunately thwart it. So we have seen some efforts against ISIS and the US
government did take out one of the key masterminds for the New Orleans attacks.
We're hoping it thwarted a piece of it. And as you know, they're now focused on
Iran but we have not seen any targeting, unfortunately, of the senior leadership of
Al Qaeda who are gonna lead large plot on the U .S. soil that they're hoping to
kill thousands again like the original 9 /11. Yeah, I believe that that's what
they're going to do also. You said mass casualty events and you did reference
airlines, but how are they going to perform these or attempt these mass casualty
events? What methods and techniques do you guys have Intel that they are going to
use?
you'll, you'll see multiple techniques to include mass shootings, side best and or
improvised explosive devices in multiple cities across the country simultaneously.
I had a feeling that was probably in the worst. I'm going to go out on a second
amendment limb here. I'm going to go ahead and guess that the targeted areas are
all the gun -free states and such? Would that be a-- - Actually, that's not really
true. - No, okay. - No, they're really just focused on where they can hit a soft
target. When we're talking about a soft target, they train on things like schools,
churches, shopping centers, nightclubs, those type of things.
But in their mind, remember, even in the United States, if you think of law
enforcement with our gun. Our law enforcement shoots for one after shooter. They
trained in teams five to seven and eight to 10 man teams. So they're not actually
worried that they're going to go up against the force bigger than them because we're
not training in that way. One of the things that we've been getting reporting from
them is that they expect no response from law enforcement during these incidents.
Now, we're trying to figure out what exactly that means, but it sounds pretty
terrifying if there's no law enforcement response. And what we think they're going to
do is actually hit the law enforcement agencies, the police stations, the substations,
or hit them as they're en route responding to these emergencies,
kind of like they did on October 7th in Israel. Oh, wow. Yeah, I had a feeling
that they would try to take out law enforcement on this one. I don't know why it
was just something pegging in the back of my mind that they would try to neutralize
law enforcement officers if for nothing else, but for the terror aspect of it,
because once the protectors have been removed, well, the people that can't protect
themselves are going to be in quite a panic, and that's going to have an extra
benefit for them at that point, I would think. Yeah, and another psychological piece
of it besides them sideline the first responders is they want to be dressed as
first responders So you think someone's coming to your aid You think safety's in
front of you and then they go on and shoot you and kill you when you think you're
finally in a safe moment And oh good There's a cop here and that's unfortunately
what they also did in Israel at the end and got people especially children to come
out of Their homes and then they massacred them. - Oh, my word. So there's gonna be
a lot of subterfuge going on here and a lot of distraction, so to speak.
This sounds scary. This sounds very scary. What are the most likely targets did you
think besides the soft targets, the schools, the churches and things like that? I
guess I'm leaning more towards what states?
- Yeah, I mean, we've seen some certain states focused on, as you can imagine, since
the terrorists have felt the biggest impact came from the Washington, D .C.
area. We see a lot of targeting around D .C. and Virginia. We still see a focus on
New York, but we don't exactly believe it's a city. We've seen some focuses in New
Jersey, on Arizona. Obviously, we had Louisiana. Actually,
A lot of people don't know the terrorist from Louisiana first cased Tampa, Florida,
and he chose between New Orleans and Tampa to do that attack. And then also last
year, the U .S. government picked up an ISIS cell, and they were going to attack a
nightclub in Pennsylvania. So it's been a majority of states around the country, and
then they're using other states for logistics and supply chain routes, and that's
like California and Texas, as they bring supplies over the border to include fully
automatic weapons and then the suicide vests that Boone brought up. - Let's talk
about those suicide vests for just a moment because having talked to you about these
before, these aren't your average, you know,
suicide vests with, they look like TNT sticks strapped to it with a timer on it.
What are we talking about here? - Yeah, really these don't look like vests at all.
They're basically within clothing so you wouldn't know there's a vest. They can walk
through like a magnetometer. They have no metal components.
They do have shrapnel, but the shrapnel is like a hard shaped plastic. They actually
have chemicals. It's chemicals that initiate the vest and there's also a caustic
chemical that can come out and harm people in the vicinity. So we aren't just
talking about suicide bombings here. We also are talking potential has met situations
on my word you know something else I was suspicious of though do you think that
they might try a mass casualty event with some of this fentanyl that's coming across
the border yeah it's absolutely possible yeah the thing is we do believe on some of
those supplies came through fentanyl pipelines that originated in Afghanistan they're
mostly run by the Chinese government and the Hikani Network. And then they worked
with obviously some of the Mexican cartels. We do believe the Sinaloa cartel is
involved and they brought these into the United States. So there is a fentanyl
component, at least on the trafficking side. Also the terrorists have modified
fentanyl and the attackers will likely be on certain drugs like we saw during the
October 7th attack. And the fentanyl is interesting. the modified version, like
suppresses pain. It makes it so you can be in a prolonged fight, like I said, if
they want to do a long hostage situation, like we saw, you know, back in the day
in the Mumbai attacks, and then it makes them kind of overzealous, they can't
respond to commands, like there's a lot of things, you know, a law enforcement needs
to learn and understand about this modified fentanyl, even if the attackers are on
it, right, because they're not going to respond in a way you would facts. My
goodness. This is paying quite a frightening picture for us all, if I dare say.
Yeah. Boone says I'm doom and gloom. So maybe we should go to him for the next
question.
No, that's okay. We need to hear this. This is a program that wants to do nothing
but propagate the truth and the facts. And if those are hard to swallow, well, dog
on and give us a double helping and we gotta have it. Something we try to tell
people though, it's like we just have a duty to warn. We're not trying to put
people into a state of fear. We're not fear -mongering. We're just reporting things
that we've collected and giving people the opportunity to train now and prepare where
we have the opportunity and the time, unlike Israel on October 7th, where they
didn't have the opportunity to train and prepare. - Well, what kind of training are
you suggesting? And let's just, instead of aiming this towards what do you suggest
for law enforcement? What do you suggest for we the people, us common people who
are armed and we do train? What kind of suggestions have you got for us?
How we can, you know, band together or whatever? - Well, it is a multi -proach,
that will have to be able to respond to this problem from the bottom up,
not the top down, to include law enforcement, you know, on the local, state,
and federal level, but it's really going to come down to the community. The
community is going to be affected first, the community will be in a position to
respond first, or to even detect it first. So, there's a huge burden on the
community, especially on the individual. The same type of preparedness you would do
for a hurricane is the same type of preparedness you should use to prepare for this
coming threat. Individually when it comes to protecting yourself from physical harm,
obviously, exercising your second Amendment, sharing a firearm and actually being able
to use a firearm is a big step, but we really put an emphasis on medical skills
and being a force multiplier to where you can save lives by stopping massive
hemorrhage. Yes. So, obviously, we encourage sharing a CCW, having the ability to use
that effectively, but we really, really put an emphasis on the stop -to -bleed
classes, even basic CPR classes. And then the soft skills of just awareness,
the situational spatial and environmental awareness. Well, give us some pointers on
situational awareness for the average layman. What do we need to how do we need to
train our minds on this, I should So, um, we talk about situational awareness,
but it's really awareness in general, um, and that starts with situational awareness.
And that's just two questions you should always ask yourself. Anywhere you go, who's
in my environment and what are they doing? After you answer those two questions,
there's three follow -on questions you should ask yourself. What happened before I got
there? What's currently happened in the present? And based off that and what could
happen in the future. And then just understanding your environmental awareness.
Where's cover, what is cover, how far am I from it? Understand standing places of
ingress and egress, things like that. And then also your spatial awareness proximity,
how close, how far. Well, all good advice for sure. I know that after training with
guys like you that I learned those things. It's not something that you are born
with. It's not something that you inherently know. And you have to train with people
like yourself to even know this stuff. But after I started hanging around you guys
and training with you, it all became pretty natural. So now even when I go into a
restaurant, I start looking, where's the best cover? Just in case, You know, just in
case someone comes to the door and starts doing something very terrible, well, what
in here is going to stop a bullet? So a matter of fact, real quick, just for
those that may not know, Boone, go ahead and give us, if you would, the difference
between cover and concealment. So, um, cover is relative,
but cover is anything that will stop a bullet. Concealment is anything that will
hide you. Preferably you always want cover. Cover can also be concealment but
concealment can never be cover. It's best to not be seen and have a barrier that
you can't shoot through in lieu of just not being seen. But it's important to
understand that cover is relative to the projectile being shot at you. Something that
might stop say a pistol bullet like a 9mm may not not stop like a 50 cal you
think they're gonna have 50 cows or you think they'll be wielding a case and such
so they'll probably have a mix of weapons systems from M4 type weapons to you know
that don't kill it and cost type weapons system but there have been reports of 50
caliber ammunition being transported across the border and around the Arizona border.
We don't know if that's just for the cartels or if that has something to do with
the homeland plot. So it's definitely possible. It's just something we should prepare
for. Well, I'm just wondering if maybe they're bringing 50 -cal ammo across the
border to use that against aircraft too. I can't help but wonder that. That would
be a very easy target for them, especially with a lot of our mistable ports that
have a lot of standoff, but they have clear line of sight, and that'd be very easy
to do for a decent train shooter to destroy aircraft or disable aircraft on the
tarmac. Or while it's flying in to get maximum results, unfortunately, huh? Yes.
Oh boy.
The recent actions the U .S. is taking against Iran. Is that going to exacerbate
this? In my opinion, I don't think so. I think what happened in Iran put Iran in
a position to where they understand that they have to come back and negotiate with
the United States. They will show they'll try to save face by showing retaliation,
which they've already done, like shooting missiles at a base in Cutter, which, you
know, we already knew was coming. So we took procedures and evacuated non -essential
personnel, and they'll be able to tell the rest of that region, look, we responded
to the US, we struck them with missiles, even though it's very ineffective. They may
put some blocking positions in the canal. Other than that, no, I don't think that
this is going to get drawn on and I don't think anything else will come of it. I
think they'll actually come back to the table and start making some type of deal
with our administration. Yeah, I mean for the homeland, I know they've been saying a
lot about sleepers. Really the thing they're focused a lot on is they can do some
successful cyber operations and there is a long -standing plot,
you know, by Iran's IRGC against President Trump. And of course that's still in
play, but it was in play prior and will be in play, you know, for the rest of
his life. Because remember, that's the plot for the retaliation for the death of
Qasem Soleimani, who is the head of the Iranian Quds Force, right? So we think a
lot of things still are kind of on the same plane, even though obviously the
Western press is like going crazy with Iranian sleeper cells, right? These who are
already here, they already have intentions of what they're going to do. There's
already plans and plots in place. It did not become a larger threat because of just
what happened. Just the press now are calling it because they've been ignoring the
terrorism threat in the country, covering for the fact that the last administration
led all these terrorists and unfortunately did not vet them and they don't know who
they are and they don't know where they are. Isn't that just comforting? My
goodness, when I first heard you talking about this months and months ago, my blood
was boiling that the, I don't know if we call that incompetence and my not -so
-humble opinion, I'm calling it treason,
but that's just me. - Yeah, you don't let all our enemies in and don't track them
and pretend it didn't happen, right? I mean, it's insanity and it's not just
terrorists. I mean, they let in, obviously, as we know, human traffickers, drug
cartels, Chinese males, you know, military age, Russians.
I mean, you name it, if we have an enemy and a bad actor, they rushed over our
border and it's very scary. Well, that is part of the constitutional definition of
treason is giving aid and comfort to the enemy. But I can't help but think that's
going on. Boone, you were about to say something. Yeah, just putting politics aside
when it comes to the border, whether you're for it or against it, I don't
understand why anyone would leave their door unlocked in their neighborhood and then
be upset when someone comes into their house and robs them or does them harm. Our
border being open is kind of the same way. I think it's naive to allow people to
come in here that don't.
Britain and France at times. - Okay, okay. I forgot about those too. - This is the
dumbest country in the world. So at least we're not at the top, thankfully. But for
the most part, yeah, I think there's just a handful. - Well, 'cause recently there
was like 145 people stabbed with syringes in France. - I know.
Wouldn't you leave that festival the first time you saw someone stick a syringe into
another person? That's just insanity. That people stay in that situation and become
victims, like that's a huge problem. It's bad enough that they're required by their
country's laws to be defenseless victims and waiting in the face of this. But then
that, what a victim mentality, you're going to stick around and wait for them to
stab you with a needle, God knows what was in the syringes, who knows, I mean, it
could have been anything at that point, But it's this man. It's crazy.
Go ahead, but no, I just said, it's horrible. Yeah, it is horrible. So I don't
like Nichols anyway. I don't either. I don't need them. Not a big fan of them.
I've had my share of them. I know you have to be in the service and all. So, but
you were talking about earlier about soft targets and everything. And even over here
in Florida, we've got one of our sheriff's greedy Judd who is urging churches to
boost up their security and the church I attend we are definitely serious about
security. I mean once the service starts the doors are locked and we have all of
the doors are monitored with with video and we have comms and everything like that
but the average church doesn't have that and I've tried to talk to some of the
other churches around here and tell them flat out you guys are all just waiting for
someone to come in and do something terrible and they just were totally
his children in the Old Testament certainly took up swords and took care of business
when they had to take care of business. So let's be realistic about this too. So
we actually do some training in the faith -based realm and we've helped train
everything from missionaries to church safety teams. And it's a tough fight and
something we try to tell them is God gives you wisdom yes the wisdom to seek
training and prepare yes and that's him protecting you yep well none of that even
king david wrote in the Psalms he said blessed be god my rock and fortress who
teaches by hands to war and my fingers to fight uh he did that for a reason go
ahead sarah yeah and you know we've had a lot of contact over the last 18 18
months with there's been a huge uptick in surveillance incidents at churches and
there's a lot of similar modus operandi Adam in a lot of cases it's two to four
men show up they're not of a Christian background and they have this kind of fake
story that says hey my religious leader they usually say they're Muslim or Hindu
told me to come and explore this church to learn about it ask questions about it
but obviously as you can
propaganda, for example. Now, we think there's multiple things going on. We do think
there's a terrorist threat to the churches. Like I told you, we have seen the
Homeland Attackers train to attack churches and schools attached to churches. But we
also think there's crime rings, especially we've seen this a lot like California and
the crime rings case the churches, right? And then they come back and try to rob
the churches after. So you have to remember that multiple threat things going on and
preparing for one helps you counter the other, like we don't want to tell everyone
just like go all crazy and be prepared for a terrorist attack like Boone said,
prepare for a natural disaster, prepare to not be able to communicate, you know,
have the phones down for a week, right, prepare your flying from California home and
there's a ground stop and now you're in the middle of the country. What was the
plan for your family when it takes you three days to get back, right? We all
learned that on 9 /11. So start working through those scenarios, and then if you're
stuck in a different kind of scenario, I mean, look what just happened up in
Michigan, right? Yes, absolutely. Right? Like, that was amazing. They hit the attacker
with a, you know, F -150, and then someone came in and shot him, right? Like, they
were prepared. Now, if they were to train that way for a terrorist, it was the
same way you'd handle it for that local attacker. And so That was such a success
to see. - Yes, and I think Ford will probably sell out a 150's real soon,
the F -150. After that deacon. - It was already a good truck. - Yeah, that deacon,
that was a deacon that ran the dude over and stopped him. So yeah, vehicles make a
good defensive weapon too, much less an offensive one. So, all right. - Yeah, F -150,
the high looks of America. (laughing)
And then the other church attendee took him out with his handgun. So yeah.
Well I tell you what, let's take a brief commercial time out and pay some bills
and we'll come back and I got a few more other questions for you guys if you
don't mind hanging on. Perfect. All right, good deal. Be right back with more Boone
Benton and Sarah Adams as we're talking about knowing our enemy and We are going to
be facing some things here soon, I believe, because I trust their word and I trust
their intel, and so stick around, we've got a lot more Boone and Sarah here on the
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Radio podcast. We have the honor of having Boone Benton and Sarah Superbad Adams on
the program. And we're discussing the threats that are for all intents and purposes
imminent here in the United States. And we've been talking about what we are facing.
And during the break there, Boone and Sarah and I, we're talking about the medical
aspect of our preparation. And so we're gonna talk about that now. Sarah, take it
away. Tell us what we should be getting, why we should be getting it,
and how it's gonna relate to these issues. - Yeah, I'll talk a little bit about
like something to do on a community level, and Boone would be a really great
resource to say, what you should have on you, right? Like when we say have medical
supplies on you, what exactly does that mean? So the one piece I want to touch on
is we all belong to some sort of organization, right? Be it a church, be it I
don't like a VFW, be it a Qantas club, et cetera. Like in those clubs, you can
host things like stop the bleed. You can also put together blood drives, right? make
sure your blood drive levels are high. We saw that a huge problem in Las Vegas
when that shooting happened. Wow. I didn't think about that aspect of it. Yeah. And
you know, the majority of people who survived that event survived because such a
large percentage of the crowd had first aid training because there's a high
percentage of veterans and military officers in the audience.
So think about that, right? Like if you have that skill, you can save someone's
life. Another thing we've been wanting to make clear to people, when we say
sidelining first responders, they also might attack the hospital. Well, if they attack
the hospital, where are you going to go for aid? Where are supplies going to be?
So if you have a business, if you are a school, like stockpile some of these first
aid supplies, so people know, Hey, they're also at this location if needed in a
crisis, and that's super important, but I'll let Boone actually talk to what you
should have on your person. - Okay, go for it, Boone. - Yeah, when it comes to like
medical, their minimum on your person, or what we would call first line gear, would
be a tourniquet or two, and then two chest seals, and then minimum One combat God's
preferably two or three and I know that sounds like a lot of gear to carry It's
not really but there are trade of ways where you can carry concealed on your body
It just takes a little commitment. Yes. Well, I also wear cargo pants religiously
now because I can carry more stuff in them Now I can carry my tourniquets my chest
seals my Sterile gauze and other things like that another thing I'd like to bring
out for our audience is is a lot of the deaths that happen in these mass shooting
events are exsanguinations or bleedouts. And I think that having these things on hand
are absolutely critical. I know there's a lot of people that say, "Well, you can
just make a tourniquet out of your belt." That's bull fertilizer. I know y 'all know
this, but I'm saying it for the audience's sake. That's a bunch of crap. I mean,
you can with like cloths, things like shirts and stuff like that, but they're
nowhere near as effective or safe.
something that's actually made for that medical purpose. - That you get the job done.
- You're like a needle. No, I'm kidding. - What's that? - Like a needle? (laughs)
- Yeah. And when it comes to belts, you usually can't get a belt tight enough.
- Right. - To actually get blood stoppage. So you should definitely carry a tourniquet
at a bare minimum. - Well, let's go ahead and educate everybody on how to put turn
it on. Let's say I've got a wound at, let's say on my forearm.
I know the old rule of thumb was place it right above the wound. What's the real
deal on that? So there's two answers and it really depends on your medical knowledge
and the conditions you're in because it might be low light conditions as well. If
you don't know where that massive hemorrhage is coming thumb or how extensive the
damage is then in layman terms you go as high as you possibly can never on a
joint. If you have some type of medical training and you do know where the damage
is then you go approximately two to three inches above the wound but for most
people are on the side of caution go as high as you possibly can. We always say
what high and tight so if you get if it's a leg wound go where the leg meets the
trunk and cinch it down, is that correct? - That would be correct. - Right, and
those chest seals, let's talk about the chest seals. A lot of people don't know
what those are. Tell us about the chest seals. - So the chest seal,
I would call an inclusive dressing. All it does, it stops air from getting in and
it stops air from going out. Again, at a very, very basic level, when there's
pedant training trauma up in the upper thoracic, we want to feel that. - Right.
- And then we want to get them to a higher level of cares fast as we possibly
can, because we're going to have other conditions that are going to come up later
on, which is beyond our scope of dealing with those things in that environment.
- Right. Other things like secondary infections, things like that. - Well, like
attention pneumothorax, and then obviously, because trauma is so deep in the upper
chest cavity, where to stop massive hemorrhage, you need surgery.
- All right, well, so we got chest seals, we got tourniquets, we got gauze.
Tell us why we need gauze. - So anything you can put a tourniquet on,
you can also pack what we call wound packing and you're just packing that cavity
with gauze to get it to clot to stop the bleeding. Some things you can't put a
tourniquet on. Generally we have a little saying is feel the box and that just
means you put an occlusive on anything from the belly button up to like the juggler
notch and then you put a tourniquet on the limbs and then a junctional you would
pack. A junctional would be like underneath the arm pits, between the growing,
anywhere you can't put a tourniquet. You would pack that with gauze. Okay. Well,
that makes good sense. It's good to have all those things. I know I've got all
those things and I've, because I've fortunately had some training, but the average
person out there doesn't have this kind of training. And I wish more people would,
you know, step up and take it. I really do believe we need to have that more and
more.
Let's see what else medical do you think we need to discuss here when dealing with
this situation that we might be facing? It's not exactly medical, but it's kind of
a little bit about the situational awareness if something happened. I don't know if
you heard, but like in Pulse nightclub, you know, of course a lot of people
crouched down and got really small, but then nobody helped and kind of like laid
them out and some of them suffocated, you know, being in those situations, they say
seven of the 49, right? That's a huge number. So, you know, that's something to
really keep in mind that you wouldn't think through. Yeah, positional affixiation,
things like that might be an issue, especially if there's a crowd of people pressing
up against you. So normally, once we treat someone, we put them in what we call
the rescue position, which is kind of like a modified beetle position, which kind of
opens the airway and keeps it clear. - Okay. Yeah, I actually know the guy that was
one of the people that took out that shooter, his name's Raul. I've had him on the
program before. And I remember him speaking about when they went in there looking
for that bad dude, and they said one thing that took him out of his UDA
momentarily was this vibrating and vibrating over here and vibrating over there and
these and these he said this this light would come on over here this light would
come on over there he realized that was the phones of those dead people their loved
ones were repeatedly calling him and calling him and calling him trying to see if
they were okay and I said man that's that is a hideous scene. But I said that to
make a point here. That might be what we're going to have to deal with. Some
horrible, tragic scene that probably will shock the senses of the average person.
Me, I've been in the death care industries. I've seen probably just about the worst
thing that ever happened to a body. So it might not bother someone like me. But,
and people like yourself, you've been in combat. But the average person has never
seen that. Is there any way that you could give them something to prepare their
mind for that if they get in that situation?
Sure. If you're not in that type of industry, EMS,
law enforcement, military, like you said, where you're just not used to seeing
trauma. And even if you are, It's still not normal, you just kind of become
accustomed to it. But we really stress, stress management training.
And stress management training is just like force on force scenarios that will help
you manage the stress. You never really get inoculated to it, you're just able to
better manage it and deal with what's actually happening. Right. Got Right, gotcha.
All right.
Let's talk tactics for us. I've already been in contact with multiple neighbors in
my neighborhood and we are all on the same page fortunately and we know what we're
going to do if things go south. We're going to, we know how we're going to
communicate and everything like that. What could you give to the other people who
don't have the luxury of having those kind of people in their neighborhood, what
kind of weapons should they buy, what kind of, how much ammo,
how could they team up with other people in the neighborhood, how to present that
so to speak, try to harden this target as much as we can.
So there's multiple answers for that and it's going to depend on each individual
situation. There's a really good book by Lieutenant Colonel Scott Mann called The
Gathering Storm. You can get it on pineappleexpress .org, I believe.
That book will present ideas and problems for a community or an individual to answer
to help come up with solutions for some of those things. One thing you can do is
if you're not already in some type of group, whether it be an IDPA group, USPSA
group, or just a group of like -minded individuals, go find your tribe.
Go find the people that are like you, like -minded, and who think like that and
start networking with them now. That's one way to do it. And they might not be in
your neighborhood, but you can still get ahold of them, even if they're not directly
nearby. Oh, absolutely. Yeah, they're somewhere in the community the county Maybe the
next city, but they're somewhere in your area as you know guys who like dude USPSA
They'll travel three four hours just to shoot it back. I'll travel three or four
hours. It's a ticket class
Exactly, so your tribe is out there. You just have to find them and link up with
them as far as weapons go Just starting with a decent pistol that you can conceal
and shoot accurately is a good start. Now if you want to progress and get into
rifles and things like that I absolutely encourage it as long as you have the
proper training but I think at the very basic level just a good service pistol that
you can accurately shoot and manage well is the place to start. As far as like how
much ammo I don't think you can ever have enough ammo, especially if you're training
with it. - Amen. - But bare minimum on your person, and this is the very bare
minimum, obviously a fully loaded magazine in the pistol, and then at least one
spare magazine on your body, and then having second and third lines of gear that
has extra ammunition and things like that, that you can use if you needed to.
but their minimum at least one magazine on your body. - Yeah, I think I'm an
overachiever then. I've usually got three spare magazines and one of my pistol holds
17 also. So I'm usually pretty loaded up, but plus there's always a carbine in my
truck too, plus body armor and attack vest. So I wish everybody else did the same
thing. It'd be dealing with this issue coming our way, probably be a lot easier.
But What else would you guys like to throw out here at the audience here by way
of preparation for these imminent threats? I mean you discussed one element and it
was really successful in Israel is having these neighborhood chat groups Some people
do it in apps. They're really just like one of those phone group chats, right? So
you can share stuff immediately because lots of times when a crisis goes on as you
know So much misinformation is being is being spread. And so if you have reliable
people share information and you at least know, hey, our neighborhood's safe, our
neighborhood's locked down. It takes a huge trust off people as they, as things
unfold. So I really do think you should, you know, reliant who's in your area and
take advantage of it and know who's in your area and have those discussions and
have those relationships. A lot of people don't even know their neighbors, Right? So
it's really important to take advantage of that now because we don't know if it'll
be on the level like it was October 7th neighborhood to neighborhood, but boy, it's
good to be prepared for it in case it is. So we don't aren't surprised, right?
Amen to that. Amen to that. Because it doesn't make sense to assemble the army or
assemble an army after you've been attacked by another army. The best thing to do
is make prep now. And that's, That's the main reason that I was hoping to have you
guys on the program, and I really appreciate you being here, bringing your expertise
to this. I'm sure there's a whole lot more that we could probably go into. Abun,
you got anything left you want to throw out at us? No, I think Sarah and yourself
covered it pretty good. There obviously are layers to preparedness, and it depends on
how dedicated you are. So we covered most of it on a very, very basic level,
but obviously you can take it much further. Like you said, you carry a carbine.
I also carry a concealed carbine, but you can even take it further and get into
like ham radios and things like that. Right. So it just depends on your level of
dedication and how far you want to take it. Yes. For us, it's ham rodeo too. Other
thing that we were thinking about is They could easily attack supply lines of
grocery stores and stuff like that. You get a bunch of people hungry after about
three days. They will kill you for what's in your refrigerator. So that could be
another, what should I say, a threat that you didn't anticipate,
so to speak. So we've been, we've been, we always stay stocked up on canned meats,
canned goods, canned vegetables and things like that. But the average person doesn't
do that. Do you think that they could go after supply lines? Yeah, they absolutely
could. Even if they don't, like you said it perfectly, like after 9 /11,
nothing flew in the air and services were basically shut down. After these attacks,
we're going to have like institutional paralysis to where the country will shut down.
It'll be very much like COVID, but worse. Most grocery stores only have enough food
for, like you said, three days and they need to be resupplied. If trucks aren't
driving, grocery stores aren't being resupplied. So that's why we kind of say,
"Prepare like you're preparing for a hurricane and then you'll be prepared for at
least a week or two weeks of not being able to get to the grocery store or not
having electricity or not having basic services. - Yeah, well, fortunately here in
Florida, we live on a peninsula and there's fish all around us. So we do have some
food supplies and that is for people that actually know how to fish. Plus we are
overrun with wild boar here so we can eat them and rabbits and everything else. And
I know how to go get the food. But my problem is while I'm out getting the who's
going to be going after my house?" You know? So things like that that I think
about. I'm always trying to ask the "what if" questions and I think that helps me
stay prepared. Go ahead. And that's a good thing to do is play the "what if" game.
You know, where am I, who am I with? If this happens, what am I going to do? And
you brought up a good point. If you're out trying to get food, what's the plan for
your family. Right. You always have to have a plan, but then that plan should
always include if you're not there. Right. Absolutely. Well, that plan is definitely
included by both my wife and our younger son who's still here at the house with
us. He knows how to handle shotgun, pistol, carbine,
everything and he does very well with himself. So I wouldn't be as worried, but I
don't care who you are. If you think your family is under attack, you don't want
to do this. Oh, they got it. You know, I want to be there and then helping them
fight the bad guys. So I think I think that the word you used there, that term
you used, institutional paralysis. I think that is going to be a major issue for
all of us to deal with.
Yeah. And I mean, Israel dealt with that too. Just simple things like think about
it, the phone networks are likely going to go down, not one's going to crash. As
we talk, we really don't even want you going out and getting supplies and food.
Like have that week at all time, right? Make sure you have a week of supplies at
all time. Cause if you go out and get in the way of people responding, that's not
good either. A lot of people go out and panic. They abandon their vehicles. We'll
know. Well, Well, first responders are stuck because the roads are full of people
who ran away from their vehicles. You have to think through and not go out and
make it more difficult for others as well, right? That's a good point. It's hard
for people. Everyone gets nosy and they want to go be a part of things and, you
know, this is one of the situations you really shouldn't, your place is to be
protecting your family. Amen to that. Well, do you suppose that cyber attacks might
be part of this.
It's definitely possible. What we're tracking is more of a kinetic attack.
That doesn't mean that there won't be a cyber attack component. But also,
we're under threat. United States is under threat daily of cyber attacks from a lot
of our near peer enemies, China, Russia, etc. Right. So that's on,
on the, uh, the parisial. Yeah. And there's always going to be, as you saw in the
threat bulletin today, like the hacktivists, right? There's always going to be someone
who does not like an action the U .S. government's taking, um, and might do some
sort of cyber thing and think about if some big scale attack is going on, those
people might step up too and just do some of their, um, hacktivist activities or
protesters will try to go and get involved and get in the way. So there's always
gonna be those agitators, unfortunately, and you just have to prepare for them.
- Well, not only that, we are not in short supply of people who live in this
country, our citizens of this country who hate this country. They've been talked into
hating their country. I don't understand that, but it seemed effortless how they did
it. But we had those people could also, you never know, side with our own enemies
for that, you know, for that matter. I think that's another aspect of this that we
need to consider. Yeah. And if you want them to cheer them on, like they're going
off of, you know, bring down the evil empire, the colonialism of America, et cetera.
And there's very large percentage of our population who have been brainwashed. You
kind of believe that this is the way forward. for this is what needs to happen.
This is the change America needs. And it's very, very dangerous 'cause it only
really aids our enemies. - Yeah, that's for sure. Well, listen,
I really appreciate both of you being on the program today and feel free.
And listen, if you ever feel that there's something that this audience needs to
hear, which is, by the way, this audience is getting massive, you simply invite
yourself of this program. I mean, you've got Cart Block, either one of you. Boone,
give me a call. Sarah, give me a call and say, Hey, here's some information that
your people need to hear and just we'll make it happen. Okay. Thank you.
Sounds good. Thank you both. If you wouldn't mind hanging on the line while I sign
off, I'll be right back. All right. And that's going to do it for this episode of
the shooting straight radio podcast. I hope you were listening and listening closely
and taking notes. And matter of fact, the nice thing about a podcast is you can
stop it and put it on pause long enough to take notes and start making preparation
for this. Both Boone and Sarah know good and stinkin' well what they're talkin'
about. They've been in the Intel game for a while and when they tell you that this
is an issue, you had better take it to heart. Now For me, yep, you've heard me
say I prepare and you should prepare too. Don't let the word "prepper" or the title
of "prepper" be given to you derogatorily and let it, you know, keep you and
strengthen it, keep you from doing what you need to do. Don't let it make you
shrink back from your responsibility that you have not only to your family but to
yourself because you are a very integral part of your family. So defending yourself
is defending your family. Keep that in mind. If you need trauma supplies, North
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them, all right? All right, well you stay locked and loaded, stay trained up, stay
in contact with your reps and never forget, incoming rounds always have the right of
way. Royce, Boone and Sarah are out of here.