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From time to time questions and posts arise about guns and ammo and amounts, reloading, body armor, old time weapons that require very little to make etc. The main topic is battle survival.
There are alot of posts related to this matter and I will touch on them some
My question to you is what is your casualty rate going to be if you engage in battle? Who will it most likely be? Who are you going to lose and how is it going to effect you? You do realize that you will lose some family every time you do battle don't you?
Having got that gray matter thinking now is the time to start thinking about NOT getting into the battle to begin with.
Location was discussed in a podcast recently which is of the utmost importance. It is a given fact that the less populated the better however it doesn't mean you won't be effected. The more populated the greater the risk of contact with unfriendly therefore the higher the casualty rate. Those "neighborhoods" are also fire risks some of which will be inadvertently or intentionally set during firefights. The firefighters wont be there to save your preps or people in the HOA once it kicks off. Some country people are no better off surrounded by knee high dry kindling, underbrush or falling torches in tree form with wind swept embers.
Not allowing anyone close enough is key to not getting into a battle
Knowing the farthest you can engage in is a piece of the puzzle too
Keeping in mind that just because the weapon can reach the marked areas doesn't mean the shooter can unless properly trained.
The window to bugout will be very short before battle begins. Maybe minutes, maybe days. For those who bugin, are you there or are you a ways away? How far? How far in bad juju? Maybe you aint so bugged in unless you work at home and then what about the rest who will help you run the 24hr ops? How many might be lost on the way en route? How do you predict those percentages of casualties? How do you replace them?
How bout animal attacks? How many kids or smaller framed folks will go down? Do the bears eat the garbage that will no longer be available in PAW? Do the Mt lions and Coyotes eat a steady supply of cats that will no longer be there?
https://www.survivalandpreparednessf...Dog-quot-today!
Now to disease:
Every time a disease or virus rolls thru you will encounter loss as there are too many to prepare for in most cases which is what make disease so effective against it's hosts.
How about plain old life injuries and illness? The odds are great that something like a farming accident will happen, a infection will set in, the ticker will tock and the knees will knock. How many of us are close to these days of aging? Aging is alot younger without constant medical help just ask a cowboy or mt man. How bout bad food or water? What's the casualty rate of those with mental illness now and can't get medications or mental illness obtained post event with no help such as PTSD or Postpartum Depression. How does one live with the fact that his kid was gunned down in battle because they didn't want to live with minor discomfort like being more than a mile from the grocery store? Yep that will make one crazy.
What's the casualty rate of all this without the regular Dr visits?
The Belly:
How much food do you need to grow to not have casualties? How much to prosper? How much water so no one is lost to dehydration? What's the casualty rate if your water become contaminated by radiation, spilled chemicals from abandoned plants, dysentery from waste in the water from mcnastys upstream washing themselves and defecating openly?
We all strive to survive and as a father and retired platoon sergeant my goal is/was always 100 percent alive and well but reality is it never happens not even in heavy training. Pre-mission in the Army we always had to give assessments of worst case and mission capable. I think many prepper/survivalist underestimate the amount really needed to run ops day to day with casualties.
So not wanting to throw a problem out without an answer the answers are discussed here on S&P often. It planning, training, preparations, always actions, constant thinking and even discussion sometimes pissy discussion but thought towards a common goal nonetheless. All of there are done to counter Casualty Rates. So what's yours?
There are alot of posts related to this matter and I will touch on them some
My question to you is what is your casualty rate going to be if you engage in battle? Who will it most likely be? Who are you going to lose and how is it going to effect you? You do realize that you will lose some family every time you do battle don't you?
Having got that gray matter thinking now is the time to start thinking about NOT getting into the battle to begin with.
Location was discussed in a podcast recently which is of the utmost importance. It is a given fact that the less populated the better however it doesn't mean you won't be effected. The more populated the greater the risk of contact with unfriendly therefore the higher the casualty rate. Those "neighborhoods" are also fire risks some of which will be inadvertently or intentionally set during firefights. The firefighters wont be there to save your preps or people in the HOA once it kicks off. Some country people are no better off surrounded by knee high dry kindling, underbrush or falling torches in tree form with wind swept embers.
Not allowing anyone close enough is key to not getting into a battle
Knowing the farthest you can engage in is a piece of the puzzle too
Keeping in mind that just because the weapon can reach the marked areas doesn't mean the shooter can unless properly trained.
The window to bugout will be very short before battle begins. Maybe minutes, maybe days. For those who bugin, are you there or are you a ways away? How far? How far in bad juju? Maybe you aint so bugged in unless you work at home and then what about the rest who will help you run the 24hr ops? How many might be lost on the way en route? How do you predict those percentages of casualties? How do you replace them?
How bout animal attacks? How many kids or smaller framed folks will go down? Do the bears eat the garbage that will no longer be available in PAW? Do the Mt lions and Coyotes eat a steady supply of cats that will no longer be there?
https://www.survivalandpreparednessf...Dog-quot-today!
Now to disease:
Every time a disease or virus rolls thru you will encounter loss as there are too many to prepare for in most cases which is what make disease so effective against it's hosts.
How about plain old life injuries and illness? The odds are great that something like a farming accident will happen, a infection will set in, the ticker will tock and the knees will knock. How many of us are close to these days of aging? Aging is alot younger without constant medical help just ask a cowboy or mt man. How bout bad food or water? What's the casualty rate of those with mental illness now and can't get medications or mental illness obtained post event with no help such as PTSD or Postpartum Depression. How does one live with the fact that his kid was gunned down in battle because they didn't want to live with minor discomfort like being more than a mile from the grocery store? Yep that will make one crazy.
What's the casualty rate of all this without the regular Dr visits?
The Belly:
How much food do you need to grow to not have casualties? How much to prosper? How much water so no one is lost to dehydration? What's the casualty rate if your water become contaminated by radiation, spilled chemicals from abandoned plants, dysentery from waste in the water from mcnastys upstream washing themselves and defecating openly?
We all strive to survive and as a father and retired platoon sergeant my goal is/was always 100 percent alive and well but reality is it never happens not even in heavy training. Pre-mission in the Army we always had to give assessments of worst case and mission capable. I think many prepper/survivalist underestimate the amount really needed to run ops day to day with casualties.
So not wanting to throw a problem out without an answer the answers are discussed here on S&P often. It planning, training, preparations, always actions, constant thinking and even discussion sometimes pissy discussion but thought towards a common goal nonetheless. All of there are done to counter Casualty Rates. So what's yours?
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