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All very good points

We’ll stores were sold out of most things, supply chain was slowed, and a lot of business closed, hospitals were at capacity. That’s not shtf to you? How’s patrolling by yourself increasing there safety? If you guys critically think for a minute and stop watching risky chrisky it would benefit you. But yeah all you guys go “patrol” alone for hours in the woods doing nothing, then when a 18 year old private in the guard sees you walking around like a insurgent he’ll kill you haha.

I didn’t experience any of the store issues you did. Other than shit paper. Loner patrolling isn’t ideal. I get it. But knowing what is occurring on the boundaries isn’t better than learning the diet bags are in your neighborhood when they kick your door in? There will be tons of risks indeed; including some 18year old guard kid. I think assessing what the worst risk is and mitigate for that is critical thinking. Are you advocating for no patrol? Just hard pointing your house/tent/camper or whatever? What is your solution?

@@CheddarActual yeah so if you think about it, a structure is one of the most easily defendable things in the world right, or seals and green berets wouldn’t practice raiding mud huts for two weeks before they actually go hit a target. Then add three rifles that’s a pretty hard target, if you have active security which doesn’t take much. My solution would be a security patrol around my immediate property like my cleared yard, having the family looking through Binos and scanning acting as designated marksman essentially, then also flying a drone periodically. During a actual shtf situation wearing full kit and walking around the woods either by yourself or in a group is only going to invite gun fights or a injury. To me going in the woods serves no purpose, there isn’t going to be that many people coming to your house trying to take stuff especially if you don’t walk around in full kit all the time. I like to take the gray man approach, concealable armor with a rifle and pistol go a long way at deterring people. Besides during a shtf situation there will always be some type of military presence either ours or a nato allied country, so I’m not walking around looking like a insurgent to give them something to shoot at.

@@RedForman22now we are getting somewhere. I would rather hard point with a few rifles as well. But that isn’t always an option. Even stick frame houses are poor cover. So unless you have brick construction or sandbags interior to the house; you may not want to “hole up”. If you’re displaced, a low profile patrol may let you know it’s time to cut bait and find a new place. Or perhaps get ahead of the curve with a plan? I agree that patrolling for contact is a bad idea unless you have medivac and go fast schools under your belt. It’s sketchy at best even then. Drones are a good option if you can keep them powered. Thanks for engaging in the conversation.

@@CheddarActual that’s my plan, I’m not going in the woods, I’m the only one in my family that has enough small unit training to be lethal, and I don’t trust people to have a group. And yeah I’ll agree with you most homes don’t provide much cover, but with the reality of people that will try to come to my home during shtf I think it will be fine, most people don’t know how to react when being shot at or what to do when they see there friend take a dirt nap. And solar panels will keep most of my small electronics powered to make it through a shtf situation I think. It’s seems a lot of people fantasize about fighting in the woods during shtf, and for the average dude that doesn’t make any sense.

Based on this and other comments you have a very narrow view of "SHTF." It's like you have a carefully designed piece of computer code which only works if other programs behave as expected and stay on the rails. You don't seem to be aware of the broad array of possible scenarios or problems which could show up. You get a camp of drug dealers just a little ways away from your home. Then they decide your home looks fantastic, stage supplies and execute a raid. They take your home and kill everyone. If you would have patrolled another 100 yards beyond your yard you would have found them in their early states of setting up a camp. Drug dealers set up all sorts of camps in the woods. To grow drugs or refine them. That is just 1 example. In my response to The Modern MinuteMan I talk about how one needs to stay in touch with neighbors who are still alive. Your "don't patrol past my yard boundaries" means you won't have a clue what is going on with your neighbors. Patrolling is about getting information on what is BEYOND your line of sight. And wearing concealed body armor and carrying a concealed pistol with a broken down rifle in the backpack is NOT "deterrence." It's the opposite of deterrence. It screams "here is a clueless guy walking down the street with no protection." Deterrence comes from being overt with armor and weapons. And usually it helps if you have friends along. Especially if your friends are also overt. You talk about National Guard and NATO. Whether they shoot at you or not depending entirely on the ROE. Have you noticed how many people walk around armed and UN Peacekeepers can't do anything? How much violence and crime happens without Peacekeepers lifting a finger? Entire GENOCIDES have happened without ANY protest from Peacekeepers. And the presence or absence of military or police forces depends entirely on what is going on. I live 30 minutes from a town. Law enforcement takes 40 minutes to show up. A friend lives 60 minutes from any town. The fire department is not showing up if called. You actually think any National Guard or Peacekeeper is going to show up here? Why? Maybe on their own monthly or weekly patrol? For 5 minutes? What about the other 43,195 minutes they are NOT around that month? I suspect you have an urban/suburban context and can't think outside your narrow context.

I suspect we live in very different places. I saw little change during the pandemic; certainly not SHTF. However, I have seen the impact of civil unrest and major weather-disaster events. Those lasted a couple-few days at a time and had dramatic impacts on basic services; supply chain, utilities, emergency response, and banking....so forth. The scenario is 3 months of that level of dysfunction. Yes, there are flaws with the very premise, but we clearly aren't looking at an urban or suburban space, nor was the intent to look for a fight. No, unless there's a hot war, there won't be military presence in rural America. They'll be standing around city hall and utility infrastructure.

@@dustinhilton8743 right I mean I live in a rural place with a corn field next to me, still not going to go “patrol” and “observe” things. Dressing in bdus and kit and going to go walk around the woods is going to get you shot by a dude hunting during shtf. And the national guard is literally trained to impose martial law and control American citizens during shtf, and every state has a nato allied country that they would send troops to help also. But if you guys feel the need to play dress up in kit and sneak around the woods in shtf go for it, once again at least there will be less of you.

@@dustinhilton8743 you guys all Have this fantasy that your going to be defending against raids everyday and in some fight constantly, you think that many people are going to try to come to your place and risk being killed? Look at Africa lol one armed militia can starve out 100s of people. you think all these people are going to try to attack somebody who’s armed or when they see there friend die you think there going to keep coming?

@@RedForman22 , then I'm glad you understand the scale and distances involved. That's why the Nat Guard won't bother with rural property; regardless of their training. I'd be the guy out hunting, btw. Roaming around the woods is a different scenario than patrolling private rural property. I do wonder though, why would you prefer there would be "less of you"? Why do you want fewer armed prepared patriotic citizens?

Thanks. I would love to attend. I have also been looking at the Scout Course from Brushbeater/NC Scout. I have a full time job and two part time jobs right now. Between those, the farm and two kids still competing in sports….my time is pretty scheduled. So maybe 24/25 when I’m an empty nester!!

Thank you.

Thanks. Your idea of smokes and a camera were nice touches. I looked up the link you provided for the ring pull smokes. White is in stock as of last night!!!

@@CheddarActual nice! Last time I looked they were out. I want to say again that you did awesome on your entry.

Right back at ya! The Ohio crew reppin. Maybe for his 1mil contest we can make a joint submission 🤘🏻

@@CheddarActual Hell Yes!

Good luck to you as well. It was a good exercise for sure.

Thanks John. I’ll gladly take any comments from the judges if you have the time.

Looking forward to the new SERE challenge videos. If you care to share any improvements, I would love to hear them. Thanks

Thanks Brent. I would love to hear some constructive criticism from the panel