My youngest Son “Hank” is in his early thirties, married seven years and has children. College and Dad educated. Hank has a State firearm permit to carry.
Hank and family live on the southern edge of the city “Grant” with a population of 24,000. North of Grant and adjacent to Grant is larger city “Lee” population 350,000. They have lived at the house for two years and are familiar with the neighbor’s routines.
South across the Son’s street is one row of houses and then a large undeveloped swamp.
Son’s family has flown out of state to visit her side of the family. Excellent time to test some of his preps.
Friday afternoon. Son parks one of their vehicles a ½ mile west from their house at a public park. Their second vehicle he parks ½ mile east in a commercial parking lot. He has scouted the commercial parking lot earlier and parks #2 out of view of the security cameras he saw on the building.
Friday at midnight. Son is dressed in full camo, plate carrier, backpack, loaded AR and sidearm. He is going to stealthily enter the swamp, find a place to camp for a few hours, watch and cook a meal. Well before daylight he will proceed to one of his vehicles, if that vehicle location is compromised he will hike to the other vehicle location. If things really go south then just walk back to his house. As he is getting ready he has ignored his ringing cellphone.
All house lights are off. He is standing back from the Living-room window observing. Ready to head out on his adventure when his cellphone rings again. He answers this time. It is the Grant Police Department. They have been trying to get in touch with him. Does my son know where his vehicle is?
Son has the presence of mind not to ask, “Which vehicle?” He answers, “Parking lot”. GPD tells him that the playground is known for its after hours meeting area for drug and sex. Son thanks the GPD Officer, tells him he’ll be there in an hour to get his car.
Son remembers his Dad’s worst case warning, a night in jail, weapons confiscated, explanations to his employer and a long period of time to get his weapons back (if ever). Son cancels his prep test, changes clothes and walks to the playground to get his vechile.
Now why am I boring you with this story? Son had it all planned out right down to want to eat. But just like a real life TEOTWAWKI a totally random event blew his entire plan out of the water. Don’t have tunnel vision, so focus on the goal that we carry on at all costs. We need to remain flexible and have the presence of mind to make adjustments to our plan(s), postpone or even cancel them all together.
Hank and family live on the southern edge of the city “Grant” with a population of 24,000. North of Grant and adjacent to Grant is larger city “Lee” population 350,000. They have lived at the house for two years and are familiar with the neighbor’s routines.
South across the Son’s street is one row of houses and then a large undeveloped swamp.
Son’s family has flown out of state to visit her side of the family. Excellent time to test some of his preps.
Friday afternoon. Son parks one of their vehicles a ½ mile west from their house at a public park. Their second vehicle he parks ½ mile east in a commercial parking lot. He has scouted the commercial parking lot earlier and parks #2 out of view of the security cameras he saw on the building.
Friday at midnight. Son is dressed in full camo, plate carrier, backpack, loaded AR and sidearm. He is going to stealthily enter the swamp, find a place to camp for a few hours, watch and cook a meal. Well before daylight he will proceed to one of his vehicles, if that vehicle location is compromised he will hike to the other vehicle location. If things really go south then just walk back to his house. As he is getting ready he has ignored his ringing cellphone.
All house lights are off. He is standing back from the Living-room window observing. Ready to head out on his adventure when his cellphone rings again. He answers this time. It is the Grant Police Department. They have been trying to get in touch with him. Does my son know where his vehicle is?
Son has the presence of mind not to ask, “Which vehicle?” He answers, “Parking lot”. GPD tells him that the playground is known for its after hours meeting area for drug and sex. Son thanks the GPD Officer, tells him he’ll be there in an hour to get his car.
Son remembers his Dad’s worst case warning, a night in jail, weapons confiscated, explanations to his employer and a long period of time to get his weapons back (if ever). Son cancels his prep test, changes clothes and walks to the playground to get his vechile.
Now why am I boring you with this story? Son had it all planned out right down to want to eat. But just like a real life TEOTWAWKI a totally random event blew his entire plan out of the water. Don’t have tunnel vision, so focus on the goal that we carry on at all costs. We need to remain flexible and have the presence of mind to make adjustments to our plan(s), postpone or even cancel them all together.
I gone die first hour
