Posted on 08/22/2012 4:49:46 PM PDT by dynachrome
So how do you become a self-taught deadly warrior of the night? You begin in the daytime. Lay out a walking path through your neighborhood Area of Operations, a path with plenty of transitions across all types of urban, suburban and rural terrain. Culverts, gullies, overgrown chain link fences, woods, meadows, railroad tracks, bridges, power line right-of-ways, abandoned commercial properties and fallow fields will be your classroom.
To begin, mark your route every twenty or thirty yards. Small torn rags stuck on fences and tree branches look fairly natural, and wont be noticed. Walk and crawl through thickets, under fences, over walls, through the doors and windows of closed factories or falling-down barns. Travel your path in daylight both ways, several times. If its summer where you are located, dress for bugs, thorns and mud, but stay inconspicuous.
Then come back after dark on a moonlit night. Your mind and memory will already know the route very well, but the darkness will swallow up much that was plainly visible by day, while revealing new folds and textures of light and shadow. Your rag markers will help you to stay on course. You can also blaze a temporary trail with a small bag of baking flour, leaving a white pile at intervals.
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I’d like to see some testing done of various “field expedient” anti IR methods. One thing I know is the govt doesn’t want to peasants to know what would work.
Yep, I go for the 3” brim, adn the old ripstop material. Everything is a tradeoff, but I prefer light weight and fast drying.
Those shields people use behind the windshield on sunny days to protect the interior may be handy to have around.
Yeah, get a couple, and stitch them together to fold up in one unit. Might even do double duty as part of a ground pad for sleeping. Very interesting concept.
One night around age 10 or 11-years old I pissed off a couple of the neighborhood teen bullies who chased me for a block. I had about 5 seconds on the closest one and ditched between two houses and into the shrubs along a garage wall. It was pitch black and I was sprawled up against the garage wall when the teen came around the corner and started poking the shrubs. I was 3’ from him and he never noticed me.
FLIR is always trying to gget people into training classes so you will buy ther products. Some or most are free.
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