World War II Furley-type USGI stretchers.
Back in May of 2011 I wrote a praxis piece on "Litter Evacuation. No conflict comes without casualties." It has lots of handy links in it, as well.
Talon II 90C tactical combat stretcher
Here in the Vanderboegh household we have two of the old Furley-type rigid wooden and canvas stretchers, circa 1970s production, stashed up in the garage where the mice can't get 'em, as well as a North American Rescue Talon II 90C tactical combat stretcher that I picked up for a song of a trade at a gun show a while back. The problem with these types is their weight and bulk.
Talon II 90C folded up in backpack carrier.
The Furley-types cannot be folded lengthwise, are about 90 inches long and weigh about 15 pounds. The Talon folds up nicely but weighs about 16.5 pounds.
One solution is to go to pole-less litters. Above is a a Blackhawk Rapid Flex Medical Litter Here are the specs:
• Heavy-duty, impermeable PVC tarpaulin material
• Six durable 2” nylon web loop handles (two carry handles on each side and one drag handle at each end)
• Combined strength of all four handles exceeds 1700 lbs.
• Drag weight exceeds 1600 lbs.
• Stabilizing torso strap is constructed of 2” nylon webbing and adjusts to 76” with side-release buckle
Specifications:
• Dimensions (rolled): 4”D x 20”W
• Dimensions (open): 20”W x 44”L
• Weight (empty): 2.25 lbs.
MSRP: $48.99
Another is the Stingray Poleless Litter from North American Rescue.
Specs:
1. Constructed of non-skid, flame-retardant monofilament polypropylene fabric
2. Resistant to mildew, acids, alkalis and penetration liquids
3. Tested by Federal & private labs using live warfare agents
4. 6 heavy-duty carrying handles
5. 2 casualty securing straps
6. Made for decontamination rollers
Constructed with a non-skid, flame-retardant monofilament polypropylene material, the Stingray® Poleless Litter features two web straps to secure the litter around the body and six heavy-duty handles make it easy to carry. This design allows rescuers to insert a 2 in. pole, such as pike poles, through the litter cover or to use debris through the outer handles. The Stingray® is ideal for decontamination roller systems and moving wet patients.
The Stingray® is tested and approved by both Federal and private laboratories using live warfare agents.
MSRP: $83.01
The Stingray weighs five pounds.
These are two lightweight solutions to the casualty evacuation problem. And do remember that no conflict comes without casualties. Think through and prepare now for what we pray never happens.
There is an interesting quote by David Axelrod in the PowerLineBlog article, Obama, Axelrod, and Gun Control in a Second Term?
David Axelrod called on citizens to “put pressure” on lawmakers and demagogued the recent shooting of a Chicagoan over the Christmas holiday. In an article titled simply,
“Gun Control,” Axelrod prophesized there might come a time when guns could be restricted, writing on January 2, 1974:
“Thus far, that pressure [to pass gun control laws] has not been forthcoming. But maybe someday there will be one too many blood murders, one too many homicides entered into the police files, and that “pressure from the people” will come.”
So, is this where the Gunwalker Conspiracy came from? The logic is the same.
David Codrea brings to our attention the fact that the concept of The Window War has picked up another advocate -- Englishman John Derbyshire.
Democratic government’s plodding regularities are certainly superior to despotism or prolonged anarchy. But one can’t help feeling it would be character-building for our political classes if a mob were to come around and break their windows now and then. . .
The perspicacious reader may detect here some continuity with last week’s column, in which I told you that white people are pussies, but absence of turbulence is not the same as pussiness. Once they had calmed down after the Reform Riots, the later-Victorian English were unprecedentedly nonturbulent, but they were not pussies.
My forefathers went on in that admirable spirit of unpussified nonturbulence for a century and more until the 1960s, when everything went wrong.
You can thus have an absence of turbulence without pussification. The converse, however, is not true. Pussies are never turbulent. Pussitude and nonturbulence are not independent variables, but so far as there is any arrow of causation in play, it points from the first to the second.
We should expect no turbulence among white people in the near future. Window-breaking there may be, but outside of a few remaining pockets of vitality such as Belfast, it won’t be whites lobbing the stones. Fattened by prosperity, soothed by the welfare state, and cowed by the missionaries of guilt, whites will limit their protests to voting for Tweedledum rather than Tweedledee, to genteel gatherings in rented halls, to comment threads on the dwindling number of news websites that still allow them.
Derbyshire must not watch Rachel Madcow. I don't have his email or I would send him some links from two years ago.
Remember this?
When I ran the story about the Obama campaign's flag desecration last Thursday, I made this prediction:
Personally, I find such a bloody-handed flag to be refreshingly, if unintentionally, honest on the part of collectivists and would suggest that if you want one you'd better get it now because I'm sure the offer will be pulled down shortly on order of Obamanoid Central Command in Chicago.
Well, that didn't take long. As Thomas Lifson reports in the American Thinker: Obama campaign send desecrated flag down the memory hole.
Chinese Christian Converts Flee Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.
Is China Burning?
(T)he damage to Japan’s business interests in China was substantial. More than a dozen Japanese companies halted operations in the country as fire bombings, sabotage, and looting took their toll. Manufacturers Honda, Nissan, Toyota, Mazda, Mitsubishi, Yamaha, Komatsu, Hitachi, and Canon shuttered plants. Panasonic locked the doors of a factory after employees broke windows, ruined equipment, and set fires. Retailers Aeon, Fast Retailing, Ryohin Keikaku, and Seven & I closed stores.
Japanese tourists are canceling trips to China, and hard-hit Panasonic is, not surprisingly, reducing business trips from Japan to the country. As a result, Japan Airlines reduced flights to and from Chinese destinations. It halved Tokyo-Beijing and Osaka-Shanghai flights, for example. All Nippon Airways reported an increase in cancellations on its flights from China to Japan. And it is not only Japanese carriers that have been hurt. China Eastern, China’s second-biggest airline, is delaying the October 18 start of its Shanghai-Sendai route due to insufficient bookings. .
And Tokyo is beginning to realize there is no appeasing Chinese leaders. On the 14th, the official China Daily, by making a reference to Kume in the Ryukyus, laid the historical groundwork for raising a claim on that Japanese island chain, which is near the Senkakus. Said Hissho Yanai, a Japanese activist, to the New York Times, “If we let them have the Senkaku Islands, they’ll come after all of Okinawa next.”
In fact, Beijing officials have talked about taking the Ryukyus after they get the Senkakus. And we should not think the Chinese are limiting their anger to the Japanese. Last week’s events have been compared, in their intensity and their aims, to the anti-foreigner Boxer Rebellion, which began just at the end of the 19th century.
That, unfortunately, is a historical parallel we should remember. Rioters on Tuesday attacked and damaged the car of American ambassador Gary Locke while he was in it.
China at the moment is unstable, and that puts foreign businesses there—not to mention the Chinese economy—at risk.
A reader sent me a recommendation for this movie which I have not seen. He writes:
In 1920, the Mexican government launched a nationwide attack on the Catholic Church; priests and religious were murdered, churches burned and desecrated, Catholics beaten, imprisoned and killed for their faith. This is all historical fact.
As the screws tightened, Catholics rose in arms against their oppressors, and the War of the Christeros followed. Three years of deadly combat followed. A civilian militia armed with 'sporting weapons' fought the regular army and police in a guerrilla campaign.
The movie "The Greater Glory" tells the story, available on DVD and in a few theatres. Try to see it and try to get others to see it. It's worth a buck or two, especially in our present circumstances.
Don't tell Morris Dees, he might have a stroke.
Amelia Foxwell is the new face of citizen militias in Florida. At 33, the Sarasota resident is younger than most militia members. She is Web-savvy, eloquent and a mother who is working on a master's in psychology.
Foxwell and fiancé Darren Wilburn are founding members of the Florida Charter Oaks Militia, a Sarasota- based group with about 25 active members who travel from around the state each month to train in survival tactics and firearms use.
Their group — and a growing number of similar militia organizations across Florida and the nation — does not want to be judged by the Oklahoma City bombing or other crimes. Members see the group as a constitutional militia, based on the Second Amendment principle of a well-armed and prepared citizenry.
The couple typify the new-style militia leaders. They are young, well-spoken and physically fit — a far cry from past militia commanders known for camouflage-clad beer bellies and outlandish statements. They are open to scrutiny, are deft at public relations, and will soon be featured in programs on MTV and the National Geographic Channel, focusing on their firearms training.
I haven't done business with the company but the prices are about right for today's market.
New River Salvage Company:
(910) 455-1252
Email contact address: edcaram@yahoo.com
.223 stripper clips $60 per thousand or 7 1/2 cents each
4 Pocket bandoleers (cloth only) $1 each
Cardboards , now in stock, 18 cents each (bandoleer takes 4 cardboard inserts)
Stripper clip guides $1 each
.223 M-27 links $30 per thousand
.308 links $25 per thousand
50 cal links $50 per thousand
Plastic SAW box $10.00 each
End tabs $1 each
Bandoleer for plastic box $1
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." -- Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents (1770)
As near as anyone can determine, Edmund Burke never said, "All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." The closest Burke sentiment that can be identified is the one above. However, Wikipedia notes:
This purported quote bears a resemblance to the narrated theme of Sergei Bondarchuk's Soviet film adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's book "War and Peace", in which the narrator declares "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing."
Both quotes are true on the face of it, although I can see how more folks are comfortable assigning to Burke the more succinct version of a Soviet film maker.
However that may be, Kurt Hofmann has come up with an even more pithy and appropriate reconsideration of Burke as illuminated by the ghastly lights of 20th Century funeral pyres: "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it."
For the temerity of tweeting this sentiment, Kurt has once again been denounced by the government-monopoly-of-force advocates of CSGV. I'm jealous. He's now ahead of me on the collectivist "enemy of the people" minute-of-hate denunciations.
I liked the quote so much that I have assigned it a place of honor at the top of my masthead quotes to the right of Sipsey Street.
Coincidentally, I was just forwarded this link from the London Daily Mail which further reinforces Kurt's point:
'I liked to shoot everything - women, kids... it was kind of sport': Secret Nazi tapes reveal how ordinary German soldiers were responsible for war crimes and not just SS
Secret recordings made by British intelligence during the Second World War have revealed for the first time the horrific atrocities carried out by everyday German soldiers.
For years the blame for horrific war crimes, rape and genocide were laid at the hands of the SS and Hitler's right hand men but a new book details how widespread the barbarity went.
Transcripts taken from hidden microphones on prisoners of war have been collated for the disturbing book Soldaten: On Fighting, Killing and Dying: The Secret Second World War Tapes of German POWs.
Between 1940 and 1945 the British and Americans bugged about 13,000 German and several hundred Italian soldiers of all ranks and services - many of which in the Trent Park detention centre for POWs in north London.
It was hoped the recordings would reveal military secrets of potentially strategic importance, instead they catalogued open and uncensored conversations about war experiences - often as to boast.
They detail not only the extreme level of violence but a disturbing sense of enjoyment from the soldiers.
One example of many recounts: 'There was an event in the market square, crowds of people, speeches given. We really sprayed them! That was fun!'
The story goes on to quote one German: 'I liked to shoot everything - women, kids... it was kind of sport.' So always keep in mind, folks, Kurt's rework of Burke's dictum: "Remember: Evil exists because good men don't kill the government officials committing it."
Burke in 1770 would certainly have been shocked by the directness of it, but then, who knows? He never experienced the ghastly Twentieth Century massacres by governments of their own, and other, peoples.
While you're waiting around to see when the civil war is going to start, now isn't a bad time to pull an inventory of your gear, ammo, and logistics. Tote up what you have, evaluate what you need and get it while the getting's good.
Sorry for the lack of original work.
