S2E8 Survival Readiness Training

Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
hello everybody and welcome to the eight episode of the season, and we're about to get this thing started. But first I to remind you of the live episode you have coming up. You got the date already, anytime. So look forward to seeing you then. Patrick's ready. My name is Chris Williams. You're listening to the Constitution Commandos.
If you ain't willing to dig in and take care of business, get away from me and I'm, I'm sorry I'm not shoot, moving. Communicate swift, silent, and deadly. That's all I know, man. That's how I was trained. I wasn't a big hunter growing up. Now I did like hunting fox squirrels. That's some fun game to hunt, in my opinion.
Plus got a lot of fucking meat on it. But I mean, well, so I mean, as when I was younger I did go hunting, but I'm not a hunter. But I can tell you right now, I, I understand enough of military tactics. I do understand enough of moving in the bush, you know, laying down, tracking everything. Yeah, I mean, I'm, I'm, last thing I'm worried about is, I mean, like I said, I'm, I'm not afraid to die.
That doesn't bother me. Uh, my house is in order, and that'll be a hill I will die on. I will die for this country. I won't die for this government, but I'll die for this country. Yeah. Well, um, 
I, I'm still all, I'm still all about red, white, and blue, but as far as this government goes, I mean, I disavowed my government.
Yeah, I did that a long time ago, man. Yeah, man, I ain't gonna make it very far. I hate that. Come on, I got two hours left on my damn clock. I'm not gonna make it very far. I'd be lucky if I'm gonna make it past Louisville. 
I know one thing's for certain. Those of us that do think the way we do, we're going have to rally up pretty soon because that day's coming, it's right around the corner.
Well, I'll have, you know, last week I weighed myself, my Lord ass. Weighed in at uh, 2 22 and I haven't even touched a beer in two weeks. But actually it was two weeks ago. I weighed myself. I'm weighed myself this weekend. I'm sure I've already lost about seven pounds. I mean, I can tell. I mean, I can already tell.
Yeah, I've already started getting physical again. Uh, I've got a stationary bike coming in because my knees are so fucked up from running all them miles. In the military that, uh, the stationary bike will get my endurance up. Yeah. And uh, I've actually, I'm, I'm going to get back to pre-deployment condition, you know, physical health and literally I'm, I'm getting ready and once you heal up from your surgery, you need to come over, we can throw the pack on and we'll start going through the bush.
We'll start working on bushcraft movements and shit like that. Cause Yeah, we never gonna do that. Spend a day out there. We gonna take some Mr. With us or one Mr. To split and, I don't know, man, I 
could chow down on some MREs. . 
Yeah. But I don't wanna get out there and get too full and then turn around and not be able to hike, pump it out of there.
Oh yeah. No, nothing like 
that. I, I, we split a M r E for a day outing what I mean? Yeah. There's enough, there's enough calories, there's enough there. 20,000 calories. 15. Yep. Yeah, but 
that's still, that's plenty. Yeah. What for a day? Yeah. 
That's more than, that's more than a daily required amount, man. But, uh, I used to eat two of them a day in the military and one hot, and, well, actually I never ate two of 'em a day.
I was issued Nah, you ed him. Yeah. I ate my peanut butter and crackers or my cheese and crackers. Oh man, I miss those things. . 
And then you gotta wait for that other slacking soldier to come crack. Hey man, you got anything left? ? Nope. . 
Yeah. But, but, uh, yeah, we, we need to do that because these are skills that, you know, they are perishable.
They're perishable. I need to brush, I need to brush up on mine because I'm very good at what I did, and I can be that good. Again, I just need to get out there and hone my skills, bring my knowledge back to the forefront and put it into practice. Because if shit does go south, I be the boogieman, not it, I mean, it's a win.
Yeah. Well, it's, I mean, there's, there's no question it's coming, but, well, I wanna be the boogieman. I don't wanna be the guy cowering at night scared. I wanna be the guy that's, you wanna be the guy behind me. Yeah. I wanna be the guy that everybody else is worried about. Hey, does that look like 
one, the guys from your 3, 2, 3 25 
unit looks like a lot
Oh, man. Yeah, that's, yeah. It's gonna be critical to get back to shape and break. Oh yeah. No, no, no. Some all tactical movements. I mean, I mean there's, there's a lot of stuff that, you know, that I didn't, I didn't have to learn. I mean, I was aviation, so I mean, 
you know, well, there's a lot of things. And, and I advise anyone listening, I don't care if you are never in the military, , if, if the collapse of the norms and the societies go like, I think they will.
You don't have to have been a soldier or a veteran or man hook up with a hunter. A physical, physical fitness is gonna be one of the biggest things. Okay? Regardless in that type of an environment, if you don't have physical fitness, I don't care what you got in your head, you're not gonna survive. You're not gonna survive.
Physical fitness is first. Get yourself fit. I don't care what you call fit, but you need to get to where you can do probably, I mean, and I'm gonna use a basic general PT from regular army. Yeah, yeah. Get to where you can run two miles every morning or do the equivalent of two miles on a bike. Or swim or whatever you have access to get your car to your, get to where you can do, yeah, get to where you can knock out three, 400 pushups a day.
I'm not saying it one time. Yeah. Do so many cents of 25 or whatever due to where, get to where you can do, I'm not a strong proponent of sit ups, but I like crunches. Yeah. Just cause it's less pressure on your neck. But 
that's better for your back too. 
You can do things to get yourself physically fit. You don't wanna be big and bulky.
You want endurance muscles. If you have to run for 10 miles, big and bulky is working against you. Yeah. You wanna be like a marathon runner that is stronger than an ox. You wanna have endurance, you know, you, you wanna be able to run all day long and not have a problem with it. Because I guarantee you and, and 
not at, not at fast walking pace either.
You need to be able to run. 
Yeah. Because I can guarantee you this. Yeah. That's, if you are ever faced with a military enemy, every one of them will be able to do that at a minimum. Yeah. Without, 
without wearing out. That's what they're trying to do and they're trying to do it with weight. 
So Yeah. That's why I say get to where you can run two miles every day.
Do three to 400 pushups, broken down into 25 set reps. Get to where you can do your sit-ups, get yourself scheduled to do so many r marches a week, I mean by a r March 35 pounds and a good back. And I'm not talking 
about all the streets either. Get out in the woods, get an un, get an un uh, what do you call it?
Unleveled ground. Yeah. Broken 
ground. Get up there on broken ground. Yep. And keep moving. And that's how you build that shit up. Plus I even bought me some damn jump ropes. That's gonna be another big thing for my endurance and my calf muscles. That's gonna build my calves up big time. But I 
think I need to insert something in here too, because of the population that we're probably talking to, that the getting in shape for it is not getting on a treadmill.
And set yourself for walking a mile real fast and then say, oh, I'm tired at half a mile and quit. That's not the objective here. You're gonna have to work through the quit part. You got quiting needs to get outta the vocabulary. Can't needs to lead the vocabulary because I guarantee you, when the enemy comes, can't doesn't come in cans.
They're not gonna think can't. And if you do, You're gonna be the weak link. That's it. And you only get one shot at this. So think about it. Do something 
with it. And whenever you think, and this is one thing I did learn, a lot of it is the structure of military that taught me this. Another part of it is I had a good friend, he was a sniper for many years in the Army before I got in, he helped me get in and he had told me about this time and time again cuz he knew I was going Airborne Ranger and sf.
These schools are designed to be impossible on many different levels. We got an equipment layout. We're gonna give you one minute to have everything laid out and it's gotta be perfect. Now it's unattainable, right? The reason they do that is so they can smoke your ass and make you do pushups or they have a what seems to be an impossible ruck march.
I guarantee you if you get on a 20 K or 12.6 mile R March 35 pounds on your back, oh, it feels like 150 before you get halfway done. Oh yeah. And if you got four freaking hours to do it in, if you get to mile seven and you fall out, that's bad. I wouldn't much rather see a guy take four hours and 30 minutes, but keep digging.
Right. If they tell you to drop and do 500 pushups or a common thing, drop and gimme some pushups until I get tired. Yep. And then whoever puts you down there doing pushup is gonna run off into an office or go get chow. Go get us a 
coffee. Go talk to the captain for a minute. . 
Now, if you ain't trying. I don't care how tired you are, I don't care if you arms will not pick your full body up.
You drop to your knees. You do what they call girl pushups. I don't care if girl pushups get to where you can't do them. Then you lay on the ground and you try with all of your might to lift your ass off the ground if you keep, but give up is an option. Yeah. Mm-hmm. , you keep trying. You might not can do it as long as they want you to do it.
That's is in their mind. What is in their mind? Is this guy going to quit? You don't quit. So when you go run two miles, if you think, oh, I, I got, I'm out of, I'm hurting. I can't do anymore, this, that, and the other. Well then you know what curves you need to find an extra block, a half a block. You need to find.
That extra distance when you think you're about to collapse, your body will do more than your mind will allow it to do. Yeah. So you need to turn your brain off. Your body can go through more shit than anybody thinks that it can go through. That's, I did more than three days straight with 175 pounds on my back.
Going out with the scouts. We had a large exercise coming up, training, exercise, a joint training exercise. Well, the scouts, the infantry, they do a mock up exercise. So they'll load up on an airplane, they'll jump, they'll go through the exercise in a, uh, somewhat of a compressed timeframe. Then they'll load an aircraft and they'll jump again.
Then they'll go back to the barracks. So you'll get two jumps plus a mockup exercise. That way when you go into the exercise, you've already rehearsed it. Yep. Well, I went out with the scouts. I did like three and a half days with them, jumped twice. Then I turned around, I got brought back to my unit. I had to meet them at Green Ramp.
We were doing a ramp side load, got my parachute, got rigged up, went through J M P. I laid down. I was, I've been up probably, I had to have been up 80 hours. Easy. And I'm not talking 80 hours of just up. Yeah. I'm talking 80 hours. Humping it. Yeah, humping it. That's all we were doing was marching, moving through the thick bush.
Well, I'm laying at Green ramp. I'm dead tired. I actually would be more than grateful. Two minutes of sleep would've rejuvenated me. I'm getting ready to jo off. I'm, I'm smelling j p eight like crazy. All the damn C seventeens and oh, C one 30 s and all this shit's off, man. I'm behind the jets. I mean, it's just burning my eyes, but I don't care.
I'm getting ready to go to sleep for two minutes. Well, the hand reaches down to help me up. It was time to load the aircraft. Boy, I swatted that hand away. . I mean, I was irritated. I've been up for almost 80 hours straight. Busted my ass right? Stinking like a goat hurt her's ass. And uh, boy, I swatted that hand.
I said I can get up on my own. I finally got up on my feet with that 175 in my Alice Pack. Plus my parachute and reserve all my gear. I looked up and it's my company Commander . I was like, oh, sir. Sorry about that, sir. I didn't know who he, you, you good? I was tired. But yeah, I, I know that your body can do more than what your brain would let you think you can do.
Yeah. I think I told you a story about this from, um, Bud's training. One that, uh, I had heard about it was an exercise during in hell wheat. This is when they do their drown proofing, right? Yeah. One of the evolutions they had to complete was they had to go down to the bottom of this, of the pool, which is, uh, if I remember it's 15, 15 foot depth 
was Olympic pool.
Yeah. Yeah. And 
they're wearing the old diver gear, you know, the big. 
Metal helmet. Yeah. Spun brass helmet with the hairline to it. Right? 
Well, part of their, part of their evolution was they had to, they had to go to the bottom of the pool and as they're traveling across the bottom of the pool, they'd come across five different knots that they had to untie and then 
properly.
Yeah. 
And one of the guys he ended up needed, he, he needed resuscitation. And this was like his second time through. So if he blocked out this time, he was done. And he was on his fifth knot and went out. So it brought him up on the side of the pole. And one of the instructors, you know, started performing C P R and mouth to mouth, and he finally started coughing up water and came back.
And of course his instructors about in panic mode now, right. , his instructor like, oh man, that was close, you know, And they said the guy woke up and the only thing he could say is, did I pass? His instructor said, yeah, you passed. He said, so I got the fifth knot. And he said, hell no. You didn't get the fifth knot.
You just killed yourself. Trying. 
And that's it. That's why he passed . Yeah. You don't give up. 
Mm-hmm. No, give up is not an option. That, that was one thing I did, I did like about the military because they, you know, like you said, they give you a lot of either seemingly or definitely impossible tasks to do.
And, but the idea is, is not to fail the evolution, it's to not give up period. Yeah. And you know, just like, um, I forget that book that I read by one of the found, you know, one of the original Green Berets, but you know, their cue course, they were told that they had. You know they had certain miles to cover.
Huh? 
I got, somebody can't see behind me. I'm gonna have to help him out a little bit.  . He high beam my ass. So he getting ready to get it back, huh? 
Well, they said that they had, I forget what it was, it's so many miles that they had to cover and it's mountains to rain, obviously. And they were told what to do and then they'd say, have a good one.
Which basically meant get to it. And you didn't know what kind of obstacles you were going to come across. You didn't know how much time you had to complete this evolution. Nothing. They just gave you your, gave you your opt and told you have a good one. And so here he is doing this. He's trying to go through this e.
He's like, how much time do I have? The whole time? He like, how much time do I have? And then he running across another one of the soldiers that's going through Q course, he's trying to get there before this guy. So they end up wrestling to see who's going to get there first. Slow the other one down. 
And, but the whole, the 
whole idea behind this is there is a timeframe you have to complete.
You just don't know what it is. Yeah. And if you're not, if, if you're not mindset to complete that evolution, no matter how long it takes you, you're never gonna pass. You just give up before you ever get started. And you know that, that's a serious problem in this country right now. It's too many people, I can't do this or I don't know how to do, I mean, that, that doesn't fly.
Yeah. They took tail and about face when it gets a little hard. Mm-hmm.  not even when it gets hard. When it gets a little hard. And I, people like it. Yeah. I got, I got people like last week. I'm down in Louisiana and I got a tarp, you know, I'm hauling some wood down there. Well, I got two tarps that I, I gotta fold up and you, you know, I mean, they're about 150 pounds a piece.
Well, I approach my job like a physical fitness training, you know, every time I have to do it. Right. Well, one of the guys that worked for his company, you know, I got a phone call actually from the office and uh, I had to get off and I was out of breath. The guy I'm working with, he's like, man, you sound I'm winded.
I said, yeah, I'm winded. . I'm sucking wind over here. Yeah, . He's like, I said, well, for one, I've let myself go. I said, I'm working on that. Right. I said, but being winded is no reason for me not to give it my all. Right. I said I have to get this done in order to get on the road to make money. Right. I said, so I'm going to work harder than I can possibly.
I'm not lying. I was wi, I was so winded, I could barely talk. Yep. And a lot of people in that situation wouldn't have even allowed themselves to get that winded. They would've been like, oh, I need water. Yeah. It, it's, it's not an option. You know, the reasons that I've gotten outta shape is because of bad choices and lack of discipline.
Right. You know? Well, the way things are going and the way I got, cause I started getting uncomfortable. 2 22 for me is way overweight. I'm supposed to be 180. I ain't never in my life been 2 22. And uh, so to me it was very uncomfortable. I knew I had to make a change, not just because of where the country is, but for my physical health.
I'm getting older and the way the country is going. Yeah. Well cuz I can't be a good father or pro, I mean a husband or provider. I can't work all week and then come home and take care of the house if I'm outta shape. Right. So I refuse and I'm not rich. I don't make a lot of money, so I can't pay people to do this shit.
Yeah. So, but for me, I know in order for me to get back to pre-deployment health and conditioning, I have to push myself and I have to live in the world of uncomfortable mm-hmm. . And when I start living in a world of comfort again, I need somebody to kick me in the ass because that world makes me fat and lazy.
Right. And I ain't never been fat and lazy . Well, 
you know, over over recent years I had had been in positions where I haven't had that place to go or way to get around and people have offered me places to stay and things like that and I got a couch you're sleeping on. Nah, I can't do it. Well, it gets you out of the cold.
Yeah. But if I get out of the cold and I get on your couch for a couple days, I'm gonna get comfortable. And then what am I gonna do? You know, if I stay right where I'm at, I keep motivated to get off of the situation I'm in and you know, I course I get the funny looks out the side of the eyes, but I don't, you know, that's not, you know, like you said, com being comfortable is not a place for me to be anyway, because that's when I started losing.
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