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Mexican Militias Take War to Drug Dealers

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In Old Mexico, there has been a very long and bloody war on drugs. This campaign has spilled over the US border in recent years and the US has replied by sending arms and assistance to the Mexican government. Well the fact is that most of this effort is spent in Mexico City and along the US border, with little left for other parts of the country. The citizens of several of these forgotten states have taken matters into their own hands.

Certain parts of the Republic have always had a tenuous relationship with the central government in Mexico City. To say that Michoacan is one of them is an understatement. With the exception of the Yucatan and Chihuahua, Michoacan has always been the most anti-Federal part of the country. The state and several of its residents played a major role in the Mexican War of Independence. Then twice in the 20th Century, during the Mexican Revolution (1911-1918) and the anti-Catholic Cristero War (1926-29), the state was a battleground.

The thing is, Michoacan, on Mexico’s Pacific Coast and far from the US border, has a beautiful port at Lzaro Crdenas. While trade of all sorts should make the state rich, its trade in illegal drugs from South America, just to the south, that has the narco-trafficers fighting for control. This had led to a turf battle between numerous large drug gangs for control of the region. Currently, the Caballeros Templarios (Knights Templars), formed in 2011 from remnants of the defunct La Familia Michoacana drug cartel, is the big hitter in the state. But they are being pushed out by the local…

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Into Infamy…

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Back in 2011 the Scout Sniper Platoon of 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, out of Camp Lejeune, N.C. was lead not by an officer but by a career Senior NCO, SSG (E6) Joseph Chamblin.

Scout/sniper 3/2 did a lot of revolutionary stuff on their Afghan deployment that year. They had more than 223 confirmed kills including high value targets. They did a lot of doctrinally different things, like being a main force engager rather than a supporting arm. They were the evolution of ten years of marine sniper in the war on terror lessons learned.

By January 2012, Chamblin was up for promotion to gunnery sergeant and set to re-deploy to Afghanistan. Within weeks, however, his career was in ruins after a video surfaced, showing him and three other scout snipers urinating on Taliban corpses they were ordered to recover during a patrol in Helmand’s Musa Qala district on July 27, 2011.

Then the fit hit the shan.

From a very enlightening interview in Marine Corps Times

Q. Do you think this video hurt the Marine Corps’ reputation?

A. Well, it depends on what your idea is of what a Marine should be. If your idea of a Marine is a real fancy-looking guy in
uniform that does snap and pop with a rifle and looks real pretty, then yeah, it probably hurt. But if your idea of what a Marine should be is the enemy’s worst f—ing nightmare, then I don’t think it did. But you can’t have both.

Your thoughts?

Two New Zombie Books Out ! Just in time for Halloween

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Ok LSOZI fans, those of you that follow the blog for odd survivalism/zombie apocalypse type stuff will be pleased  to know that there are a couple of new books out there this week that *coincidentally* we have a part in!

The first is an anthology of short stories “Zombies?! Zombies!!: An Anthology” edited by Lowell R Torres and published by iUniverse. Inside we have two short stories, “Hokahey” and “The 20th Round“. (link here! )

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The second is a collection of excerpts from previously published works by numerous popular authors who share their own visions of how the zombie apocalypse will unfold. It’s an appetizing sampler platter and introduction to the horrific worlds described in their books. Their combined visions offer a compelling, fast paced, ride through apocalyptic possibilities. All profits go to the highly respected medical charity Direct Relief International (www.directrelief.org).

Entitled “Outbreak: Visions of the Apocalypse“, it has a chapter pulled from the second Last Stand on Zombie Island novel. We are thrilled to be mixed in with the likes of Shawn Chesser and David Forsyth in this book from Permuted Press.

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Its available in kindle and paperback at this link for as little as $2  and remember, its for charity guys.

Italian Frogmen, Submarine by Germany, Arms by the US

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A team of four Italian Gruppo Operativo Incurson (Operational Raider Group) combat swimmers emerging from a Salvatore Todaro (S526)-class diesel attack submarine. The Salvatore Todaro (S526) is a German Type 212 class 1800-ton advanced SSK. These boats are able to transit up to two weeks without surfacing or snorkeling, which is huge for a non-nuclear boat. Manned by just a 27 man crew, one of these boats can float in 20-feet of water and carry up to 13 DM2A4, A184 Mod.3, Black Shark Torpedo, or IDAS missiles and 24 external naval mines. Oh yeah, and naval swimmers.  Note the ease of leaving the sub by the front door. Their weapons of choice are M4-type rifles with the swimmer on the far right carrying one possibly in 7.62x51mm NATO (judging from the straight box mag and longer barrel) which could make it a Mk110 type.

The Operational Raider Group is a unit of just 150-200 hardcore operators inside the more well-known COMSUBIN that are comparable to the US Navy Seals, Royal Marine SBS, or Danish Frogmen corps. They trace their lineage back to the MAS units and X MAS units of World War One and Two, meaning they have more sunken battleships to their record than any other combat swimmers on the market.

Keep a Tactical Mindset

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An open letter to those who walk the earth: Wake up! As you shuffle through life like a zombie, there are those out there who would do you harm, and there are some among us who would never look up from their cell phone long enough to notice.

On a crowded commuter train in San Francisco last month, a gunman, in a packed car, calmly drew a handgun out and pointed it several times at the occupants before reholstering. The thing is, although the man did nothing to hide it, no one noticed a thing. It wasn’t until the suspect, believed to be 30-year old Nikhom Thephakaysone, shot and killed a passenger that he had never seen before that morning that the occupants of the train car noticed anything was amiss.
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Army only had two capable brigades right now

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“Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno said Monday that his greatest fear is to receive an order to deploy thousands of troops, because the service only has two combat-ready brigades right now.”

 

You can expect that he will be allowed to retire soon. We cant have anyone talking about the emperors clothes or lack thereof.

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Zombies Dont Exist But Survival tips do…

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Niko Sanders, left, of Davenport and Jordan Walker, right, with the Imaginarium test out a pair of Lifestraws during a zombie survival demonstration at the Bluedorn Science Imaginarium in Waterloo, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013.

Niko Sanders, left, of Davenport and Jordan Walker, right, with the Imaginarium test out a pair of Lifestraws during a zombie survival demonstration at the Bluedorn Science Imaginarium in Waterloo, Iowa, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2013.

Do zombies really exist?

Well the answer, according to what a Grout Museum told youngsters Saturday, is yes, no or maybe.

Jordan Walker, a science educator with the Grout, told more than 20 people who attended a Saturday education that zombies are not real, but left the door open to zombie-like conditions that may produce walking dead-type creatures that fall short of the stereotypical brain-eating version.

The Grout Museum hosted a weekend of activities titled “Cedar Valley of the Zombies,” which included a book signing, concert and zombie makeup clinic in addition to the science show Saturday at the Bluedorn Science Imaginarium. Walker cited the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2012 statement that they know of nothing that could create zombies. Of course, that statement was given after the infamous cannibalistic attack by Rudy Eugene on a homeless man in Miami that year. It was found that Eugene was not a zombie, but instead gnawed on the man even after being shot several times because he was on drugs.

However, Walker gave two examples where some form of zombies may exist — all the better to lead in to an apocalypse survival talk.
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Georgia School District Adding ARs

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Approaching the first anniversary of the Newtown School Shooting tragedy, one school in the Southeast is trying to be proactive by putting modern rifles in the arsenals of those who would be tasked with protecting the school.

School shootings are, despicably, not new to the country. In fact they date back as far as 1764. What the anti-gunners would have you believe though is that these unspeakable crimes are more prevalent now that so-called assault rifles are available. Well, not to nitpick, but the firearm that the Newtown shooter used was a semi-automatic sporting rifle that was illegally acquired.

In Gainesville, Georgia, the local school district is considering adding patrol carbines to the school resource officer’s (SROs) tool kit. SRO’s are certified law enforcement officers who are stationed at the school to meet both local campus security issues and enforce local and state laws. In Gainesville, they are already armed with pistols and intermediate (less lethal) weapons, but not carbines.

Under a program submitted by the police department, they are seeking $6,000 and a political mandate to place a 5.56mm rifle in a safe in each of the three protected schools in the district. The police department and the school district would split the cost evenly. The rifle would only be accessible to the resource officer through fingerprint recognition. To prevent the threat of theft, it would not be left on school grounds when the officer is not on duty.
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SEAL Droppings Claimed in Somalia

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After a recent series of raids along the coastline of the Horn of Africa, local jihadist rebels have been spouting about lost equipment supposedly captured from Navy Seals. We give our take on this.

Along the Eastern coast of Africa, where the ‘horn’ of the continent reaches out towards the Indian Ocean, lays the confusing country that is Somalia. Divided and mired in a civil war that has been raging off and on over the past quarter century, American involvement has been off and on in the area. Blackhawk Down was twenty years ago this week, pirates are often blown out of the water there with the help of the US Navy, and a combined task force, Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of Africa is based at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti– just a stone’s throw away.

Its CJTF-HOA’s mission to combat terrorists in the area. Namely against Al-Shabaab, a fundamentalist group with Al-Qaeda ties. That’s where the raid comes in.

In of Barawe, a coastal town in Somalia on October 5, 2013, a group of commandos crept in during the dark of night. These frogmen were looking for one Somali ideas man who worked for al-Shabab. After making contact with the shibabist terrorist foot soldiers, the small group of allied troops broke contact and withdrew….and apparently left some stuff behind.

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Tracking Point Looking to Military Sales

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Their version of the Future of War…..

 

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