About Us.... Tell us about yourself
Male, mid thirties. Small family. Live in Western NC in the southern Appalachian blue ridge. Eagle Scout. Work outdoors and make a living by my wits. I’m here because I want to be part of an organization that actually does something about defending our families, communities, and country from the foreign and domestic enemies (who, from what I gather are working in tandem) from succeeding in their evil plans. Concept looks good. Got a good number of friends who were in the military (mostly US Army, a few were SF) and who I know would be interested in this.
Quote from stridertheranger on August 21, 2020, 3:33 PMMale, mid thirties. Small family. Live in Western NC in the southern Appalachian blue ridge. Eagle Scout. Work outdoors and make a living by my wits. I’m here because I want to be part of an organization that actually does something about defending our families, communities, and country from the foreign and domestic enemies (who, from what I gather are working in tandem) from succeeding in their evil plans. Concept looks good. Got a good number of friends who were in the military (mostly US Army, a few were SF) and who I know would be interested in this.
Welcome Aragorn! And bring those friends with you...as if they were the Army of Gondor reincarnated. This whole thing literally depends on the people we can recruit early and turn into beacons for the rest of America. The fact is that thirty, or three hundred, or even three thousand of us are not enough to be anything more than a speedbump for America's real enemies--but thirty thousand trained citizen soldiers suddenly gets people's attention, and three hundred thousand, scattered about the country and defending in garrisons of a hundred or two citizens every twenty miles--now the enemy is rethinking his plans entirely.
That's what we're after. But we need those first three hundred.
New to the group. In Bucks county PA. 30 year volunteer firefighter with most of my time as a chief level officer. Also Deputy EMC for my township for over 15 years. Strong supporter of the Second Amendment. Strong supporter of the Constitution and our American way of life. Want to protect the community in more than just fire, rescue and emergency management.
Hello.
My background is varied but has mostly involved some form of communications, my father was a mechanic for a local Ford dealership and my uncle was a broadcast engineer and between them I was constantly being given car parts and electronic things to play with, I got really good at taking things apart, but not so good at putting them back together, however it allowed to hone my mechanical skills and got me interested in communications.
Getting older and needing a job I went to work as a bench tech for a Motorola RSS, got really good at repairing and retuning handheld radios, however at the time I was dating a girl who's father ran a paging company and foolishly went to work for him, she didn't last long and neither did my employment.
But by then I had tested for and was granted a FCC First Class Radiotelephone License which combined with some skill got me a job at Jefferson Pilot Communications as a contract broadcast engineer, I was assigned to the AM side WNWS and maintained a rather troublesome 50 KW transmitter out in the East Everglades. It was a good job and paid well but it involved a lot of driving.
I was also doing some electrical work for the station and convinced the General manager to give a letter of reference which I used to qualify to test for a electrical contractors license, I passed the test and was granted a county license in 1981, in 1987 the State of Florida took over issuing contractors license and after taking another test I was grandfathered into a statewide license.
I rode that train for 16 years and decided to sell the company, while looking for a buyer a few of my guys got together and setup a loan which I cosigned for and they bought me out in 1996/97.
So I basically retired, but I was too young to be retired. my wife was too young to retire and I was restless and began opening beers and watching TV too early in the day, it had to stop.
Then a was informed BellSouth was hiring, I always thought it would be cool to be a Phoneman so I applied and was hired as an outside tech, I moved up a tad and became a Digital Technician which was a really good job with very good pay and benefits.
Then one day I was pulled into my Second Levels office, the door was closed and I was told I need to take a voluntary transfer to Wireless, I asked why and was told it cannot be talked about at that time.
I and a couple of other techs I trusted applied and we received the transfers, less than a year later a technological surplus was declared and guys with more seniority than I where scrambling to keep their jobs, had I stayed where I was I would have hit the street.
Somehow my Second knew about it long before the Union was informed, he saved my butt.
Well fast forward to 2015, my wife retired, I separated from Wireless we sold our home and escaped from Broward which was quickly turning into a forth world s-hole, I now live way out in the middle of nowhere have a decent amount of acreage and a backyard range.
While I am not military grade, I would probably collapse doing a good run, I do know how to design communications systems both wireline and wireless and last year I was granted a statewide Private Carriers license by the FCC, a Private Carrier can rent out or supply wireless communications equipment and the users operate under the carriers license versus everyone having to obtain their own license.
In closing I don't know everything, no one does, but I will do my best to answer any questions anyone may have and if I don't know the answer I will do my best to find the correct answer.
I appreciate being allowed in and hope I can help out.
Welcome Wayne
Hello, Iam in east Texas, age 56 Army vet. I have worked construction, retail and food service, and now press brake operator.
Whoa .. .reading all the bio's of people already registered makes me a bit reluctant to post my own, since it's not very impressive in comparison, at least with respect to those important technical skills that keeps modern society running.
But what the hell. I'm a boring old heterosexual white male, born and raised in Texas, now 76 years old, married to an Englishwoman and living in her country. Relatives in South Texas and Washington State/Idaho. A serious hard Leftist in the first half of my life ... into the mid-80s (Don't be shocked. Half the founding editors of the conservative flagship journal National Review were ex-Marxists.) .
Still really a JFK liberal today, but that makes me on the Right now. (Back in the 60s, we fought for the right of Black people to use 'white' public restrooms. Now the Left fights for the 'right' of boys to use the girls' restrooms. Have they gone insane? ) I read most conservative journals and am probably closest to American Conservative. I like the ideas of Francis Buckley, especially those expressed in his two most recent books. (Look him up!)
Skills: 11B10 (but not a combat vet); BA in History, PhD in Computer Science, specializing in Database. Done long ago; earned my living as university lecturer in the subject since 1980; now also tutor kids in math and science (mainly). So I know my way around a computer a bit, but ... don't ask me how to paste an Instagram into a Tweet and make a YouTube video out of it -- if you do, I'll ask my grandchildren. But if you want to know how to write a recursive program to do a pre-order traversal of a binary tree, or how Boyce-Codd Normal Form differs from Third Normal Form, I'm your man.
While I was a communist I got a lot of training and experience in how small groups can recruit and grow; how to do 'campaigns' and generate publicity and more generally how to do 'public relations'. The Left run rings around us in this area and I would love to be able to pass on what I know to patriot groups.
I also know a fair amount about the Left today, which not at all a centrally-directed monolithic bloc. There are seething mutual hatreds in there, which our side ought to be able to exploit.
I read a lot ... just half way through John Keegan's History of Warfare which I started while in hospital last week. I would like to submit book reviews of good books (and books which are not worth it) to this site. Over the last four or five months I've read about 20 books on the American militia movement -- they need a collective review.
Anything else? ... I was active in the Civil Rights movement in the South right from the beginning, and spent the summer of 1964 doing voter registration in Fayette County, Tennessee (Google 'Tent City'). Did six months in military prison (for political reasons). Raised money for the Black armed self-defense group, the Deacons for Defense and Justice, and delivered it personally to that group's leader in Bogalusa Louisiana.
Lived for a few months in the Soviet Union in 1984, accompanying my then-wife who was a Fulbright Exchange Scholar teaching economics at the Economics-Engineering Institute in Kharkov, Ukraine. I did two short lecture tours there, speaking about 'Microcomputers and Education', and 'Computational Linguistics'. I know more than average about the history of Russia/the USSR.
Big believer in reason -- I try to practice, for anything I believe, the test of asking myself "What evidence would make me change my mind?" (Karl Popper, for anyone interested in philosophy. I also try to practice Alfred Korzybski's avoidance of the 'to be' verb, in political analysis. Debates about 'was Hitler a socialist' are meaningless.)
A huge fan of civilization, especially the 'Western' version, which is now under sustained attack. I think our species is right on the cusp of a huge leap forward during this century, if we can just avoid a big war. CRISPR (and similar developments) is going to change the world. And if we can ever get fusion power to work .... if we can make it into the 22nd Century, we're on our way to the stars.
Not a fan of Mr Trump, but ... you go to war with the army you've got. Anyone who supported the Allies against the Nazis, knowing that a major Ally was Joseph Stalin, ought to understand this. You play the hand you're dealt.
I think this website has exactly the right approach for patriots who want to prepare for what's coming, and I want to help it in every way I can.
I don't believe that patriots will ever be a voting majority in the present US again, and believe that peaceful separation into 'Red' and 'Blue' components is the best solution. But no one knows the future, and, whatever happens, well-prepared Civilian Defense Forces are going to be a necessity.
Welcome and based on your experience I am sure you will be a major asset within this forum.
Wayne
Quote from Leonard Sleeper on August 27, 2020, 9:00 PMHello, Iam in east Texas, age 56 Army vet. I have worked construction, retail and food service, and now press brake operator.
48, -removed- Oil field, wireline (working with explosives)<-- probably just had my profile flagged
6'1" 175lbs -attempting to get back in shape for the fight they want so badly...
East Texas here as well. Near Tyler.
Edit: also, I have a HAM license with portable transceiver in the truck.
Hows the weather holding up out there?