{"id":8196,"date":"2025-10-17T01:20:02","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/?p=8196"},"modified":"2025-10-17T01:22:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T01:22:34","slug":"another-early-night-and-various-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/another-early-night-and-various-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Early Night and Various Things"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Greetings and Salutations!<br>Took last night off&#8230; went to be early&#8230;  Needed the rest.  The comments and suggestions from you all have been fantastic, along with a bunch of DMs and whatnot.  I greatly appreciate the suggestions for observational devices.<br><br>Speaking of which I&#8217;m back up in my 360 coverage, to include the interior cams.  And to address the local Deputies&#8230;<br>I&#8217;ve had some official discussion with them in regards to serving warrants here at the Casa.  Essentially I told them to come politely, knock on the door, let me call my lawyer, and I&#8217;ll surrender peacefully.  That any &#8216;kinetic actions&#8217; would be responded to via reflexive training, and the responsibility for any and all casualties on his side were going to be on <strong>him<\/strong>.<br><br>Of course there was the obligatory stuff of &#8220;That&#8217;s not how things work!&#8221; and I asked him if <strong>he&#8217;d<\/strong> be on the stack when they kick the door and I hit them with 5 gallons of flaming napalm while I&#8217;m half asleep thinking it&#8217;s the Haj come to  play???<br><br>Yep&#8230; suddenly he had a different attitude.<br>Hence why a flammenwerfer is a <strong>gamechanger<\/strong> as far as kinetic action goes&#8230; Nomex is <strong>flash resistant<\/strong> NOT <strong>fire proof<\/strong> and I don&#8217;t think a SWAT Team would be very useful in bunker gear and full respirators&#8230; then add on some small arms fire with a 1-3 API mix makes THAT day suck even worse&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Now as far as the comments of &#8220;Why are you so special?&#8221; and &#8220;What makes you think they&#8217;d be interested in <strong>you?<\/strong>&#8220;<br><br>Well&#8230; first off&#8230; this is <strong>not<\/strong> a new phenomenon. As I stated in the comments, Time Magazine wrote about the secret Army Agency and on further looking, I was incorrect! It was <strong>Newsweek<\/strong> that had the Article, from 2021.<br><br>Specifically <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/exclusive-inside-militarys-secret-undercover-army-1591881\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Published May 17, 2021, it didn&#8217;t get so much as a bump in the news&#8230;  and the title?  <strong>Exclusive: Inside the Military\u2019s Secret Undercover Army<\/strong><br><br>It then goes on to discuss &#8220;signature reduction&#8221; and even goes into the day-to-day life of one of these undercover &#8216;spooks&#8217;.  It also had this tidbit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Befitting how secret this world is, there is no unclassified definition of signature reduction. The Defense Intelligence Agency\u2014which operates the Defense Clandestine Service and the Defense Cover Office\u2014says that signature reduction is a term of art, one that &#8220;individuals might use to &#8230; describe operational security (OPSEC) measures for a variety of activities and operations.&#8221; In response to&nbsp;<em>Newsweek<\/em>&nbsp;queries that point out that dozens of people have used the term to refer to this world, DIA suggests that perhaps the Pentagon can help. But the responsible person there, identified as a DOD spokesperson, says only that &#8220;as it relates to HUMINT operations&#8221;\u2014meaning human intelligence\u2014 signature reduction &#8220;is not an official term&#8221; and that it is used to describe &#8220;measures taken to protect operations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Mind you, the article <strong>does not rule out DOMESTIC USE of these fuckers<\/strong> And yeah, Fuckers. Embedding a modern American Stasi as Anonymous Conservative has dubbed them is heinous and goes against <strong>everything I ever took and oath to for this now-cesspool of a shithole of a country<\/strong>.<br><br>The country itself? Great.<br>The <strong>native born and assimilated<\/strong> People? Wonderful<br>Everyone else needs to get the fuck out or get the rope. <br><br>So are there elements of the intel and DotMil community out there &#8216;keeping and eye on things&#8217; Just from that article alone I <strong>know it<\/strong>.  So I&#8217;ll leave it that, I&#8217;m a wee bit melancholy tonight having heard this song for the first time in a loooong time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"REO Speedwagon - Time for Me to Fly [lyrics]\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/txzq7QyIp3g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Gets ya in the feelz man&#8230;<br>SO an early bed tonight (again) which I&#8217;m comfortable with.<br>More Later<br>Big Country<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"316\" height=\"298\" src=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h7.jpeg 316w, https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/h7-300x283.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 316px) 85vw, 316px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings and Salutations!Took last night off&#8230; went to be early&#8230; Needed the rest. The comments and suggestions from you all have been fantastic, along with a bunch of DMs and whatnot. I greatly appreciate the suggestions for observational devices. Speaking of which I&#8217;m back up in my 360 coverage, to include the interior cams. And &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/another-early-night-and-various-things\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Another Early Night and Various Things&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8196"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8200,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8196\/revisions\/8200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigcountryexpat.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}