 So, what do we do with all this? We looked at a lot of cool gear today, whether it's a medical kit, a ham radio, a firearm, if you buy it, read the manual and stick it under your bed, it's not going to be a whole lot of good. So you've got to train. Stuart Rose is the founder of both Keeper. Keeper once said that training trumps gear, community trumps training. So that's really the end goal of everything. It's not just to buy a bunch of gear but to build a community of people that know how to use it. All right, both Keepers in 2012 went active. Prior to that, they just were recruiting people. What they went active with was the community preparedness teams. They broke it up into five categories of engineering, communications, security, medical, and preparedness. This fits very much in line with what the Missouri Militia's core mission is, which is to build a group of NCOs for the state. We kind of get into that in a minute, but it's modeled after the special forces. They generally have teams of 10 to 12 guys. They drop behind enemy lines. Their job isn't to fight. Their job is to train people to fight. They're the ones that have the skills and the abilities to help other people, whether it's cleaning up and turning it over or whatever else. So between these two organizations, we work together to try and fulfill this mission. Make sure you don't miss anything. So the Missouri Militia, it's actually chartered in the Constitution of Missouri. Most people don't know this, but everyone under, what is that, Title V, Chapter 41 of the Missouri Constitution is a member of the Militia. If you're 18 to 64 years old. The only difference with our organization, while we are statewide, is we get together and train regularly. Most people don't. Our organization does have contacts in Jefferson City, and technically we can be called up by the governor the way that we ever were. But we are above the board. We work within that. And again, you're the perfect constitution of the state. Everyone is a member of the Missouri Militia. The Militias have gotten a very bad rap in the media. It's got kind of a bad word to it. So that's why they always keep it all up. Community preparedness teams, it's really the same thing. I highly recommend, these are two movies made by the Oathkeeper National Organization. First one is Molan Lave, came out a couple years ago. Second one, Midnight Ride, just came out this year. You can buy them, I think they're $20 from the website. You can buy them from the local chapter, or you can watch them online for free. Phenomenal education, every American should watch them. And this isn't one man's opinion, this is going through the historical documents. They're interviews with people from all over the country on what the role of the Militia is. The Militia is the people. What it means to be an American, we've very much lost touch with that. So I highly recommend watching this. Great little saying. General Hugh Perches, I got this from an embassy that went to once, really brought it home to me. He once boasted before the Revolutionary War that he could cross the colonies with his troops. He said, gild all the male colonists with no resistance. No one would dare raise resistance. The colonists were ineffective and coward. All right? He was at Lexington and Concord. He was part of the British Army. The entire continental British Army came with him one hour of being completely destroyed that day. In a later letter, Percy wrote, whoever looks upon them as an irregular mob will find himself a much mistaken. They meant amongst them who know well what they are about. Great quote. So how did these Continentals do this? Did everybody grab the right pole and run into the street? You know, Paul Revere just rode around yelling. It didn't happen that easily. They practiced and they prepared. Every town practiced regularly. The religious group, committees of communication, correspondence, they called committees of correspondence, communicated. Paul Revere was one of several writers. He had a route he wrote. He hit one point. Several writers went out from that point. It was a network. They had it all put together beforehand. We have cell phones. We have email. We can't do anything near what they could do then. A little quote from Rommel. This is first class training. It's the best welfare for troops. The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle. They were ready. They didn't wait until the last minute to do something. Why would we need a militia now? Or people that are preparing now? Just some things that are going around the world. And this is actually a little dated. There's been a lot more since we did this slide. Foreign and domestic terror acts. It just happened, what, last week? Chemicals in modern life. Hazardous materials. We saw that in Java. We saw that in Katrina. You know, there's people exposed to that. 9-11 people were exposed to stuff. Volatile weather patterns. Seismic activity. New Madrid fall. We live on it. People are more vulnerable than ever before in a lot of ways. One little analogy I like to ask people is, it kind of brings us home. I think it's a more modern, small perspective. You're driving down the road, you have a car accident. And your kids in the back seat, your grandkids, whatever, bleeding to death. The majority of Americans would hope the cell phone works down 9-11. And wait, maybe try to stop the bleeding. But how many really know how to identify what kind of bleeding it is and how to stop it? How many have a kid like this handy to try and do anything about it? Probably some people in this room, I know. But for the majority of people, they just don't. They don't think about it. They're not prepared. You know, had the colonists been like that, this would be a very different country today. You got to think ahead and be ready to do these things. And the time to do it is now, not waiting for the last minute. All right. We talked about the NCO4 that we're trying to see around the state of the CPT teams. This is not the community. This is not the neighborhood watch in our area. I just grabbed this off the internet. But one of our members recently, there's been some crime in their neighborhood. Tim mentioned that he was going out on, they started a neighborhood watch. He's been going out on patrol. Well, a lot of the skills he learned from training using the radio, basic patrol operations, you know, preparedness, things like that, he was able to help. So, I like this picture because you see there's three paid officers over on the corner. So imagine that street. You know, those three guys have, who knows how much area to patrol? Well, now there's a problem. They're blocking out to help. That's the force, that's where the word force multiplier comes from. Instead of three guys with a huge area to patrol, you know, have 20 people on that street keeping an eye out. What we found is whenever there's a gun grab or a terrorist attack, people start emailing these organizations and looking to come out. And then it kind of tapers off. You're going to find that. But if you become a member of either organization and take this stuff seriously and train, you're going to be somebody that can help. So if a person in that group has some training, he's going to be able to help everybody else come up to par a lot faster. So, you might not know anything today, but you might know a lot more than other people on your street if you do this regularly. You become the block captain. You rank swap. Now you have two, three hundred people that you can possibly train. That's the force multiplier idea. Does that make sense to everybody? Some stuff we have done, it was mentioned. We went to Joplin to help clean up. There were a few ones for a lost child. It was a rule share. A little anecdote about that story that I like. A lot of people showed up. The Sheriff's Department said we need volunteer to help a surgeon rescue. Anybody ever walked through the woods in Missouri in summertime, not the trails, the woods? People showed up in shorts, T-shirts, brought a water bottle from the grocery store. Our guys showed up in gear. Our guys had canteens. We were organized so you could talk to one person and he could disseminate the information. The deputies didn't have to watch us. They could focus on other things and we would do the surgeon rescue. So it's just little things like that. So don't think it's out of your reach to be able to do some of this stuff. It's all very doable stuff. Quote from Edmund Burke, all is required for evil to triumph as for good men to do nothing. Who can join? This is in particular for the militia, but those keepers do that. I don't know if it has any requirements. You should have to join that one. It is in for the constitution, but for our particular training purposes you cannot be a fugitive from justice and illegal alien, a convicted felon. You cannot use drugs, be mentally defective or an undercover agent or agent for bombardment work. We do do a background check on everyone, so feel somewhat safe for everyone you're working with. So what exactly do we do? Training is a vital part of our operations. It occurs continuously. Training atmosphere is professional and skill-focused. We emphasize on learning and executing skills rather than rigorous physical exercise. Our state admission is to be a support unit to the state guard. That's it. So there's not going to be a bunch of jogging you're not going to run a mile and a half every day or anything like that. We focus on how do we use this stuff. That decompression needle Kevin had you really need to know what you're doing to use that. You can kill somebody really easy. But we do this stuff on a regular basis. We meet twice a month, whether in a classroom or out at various training sites we have and we practice all this stuff. Twice a year we go out and camp at a private land where we can do a lot and then once a year all the state units get together and do a joint training exercise. So a lot of opportunities to get out and practice and do these things. And that's really the tip. Remember, training trumps beer and community trumps training. So one more thing. This is the basic training. This is the stuff we cover on a regular basis almost every month we touch on some of it. So in community with Ham radio you're talking about getting radios. When Egypt got attacked a couple of years ago it really went to partner areas where it was just Mad Max. One of the guys who survived that wrote a memoir and I think it was five or ten points about what he learned and what he would do differently. One of them was Ham radio. They were trying to find food or armed people running around. Like three blocks from him everything was fine. So he said he would definitely get a Ham radio because he just couldn't get communication from the ROF, cell phones ROF. There was no way to get information in or out of where he was. So within all this training we do it but we also practice and we build that community. Those deeper schools Ham radio nets twice a month where you can practice and test your equipment. We've had people that have changed their equipment around so they can get in touch with other people. So let's say you're in that neighborhood watch group and something bad is happening. Not only do you have the Ham radio to talk but you need to have someone you can talk to that you know you can reach that you know you can keep. Committee of correspondence 21st century style. So that is really our goal. So Oath Keepers of Greater St. Louis They meet twice a month. Weeknights either Tuesday or Wednesday night and it varies in location. This page is great if you scroll down there's a bunch of YouTube videos on various trainings and lectures that they've had over the past couple of years. There's a lot of information on this side. Frank did you win your next meeting? It'll be in January. We're just going to have a fellowship on the 29th at the BFW on Big Bend south of Fort. So of course 2nd Wednesday 2nd Wednesday 4th Tuesday And as for the you can join our group without joining Yep, you can join the local chapter of Oath Keepers without joining the national organization there's no charge or anything. You can come check it out without joining. And we do a lot of the metaphor and presentations. We've had politicians out we've had law enforcement out to speak. Yes. Yeah, this site we're also going to post from today on this site. Missouri Militia, this is the 3-2 page. This is the St. Louis chapter that is the URL at the top. If you Google Missouri Militia it'll take you to the main page for the whole state. It's a little hard to find the unit sometimes so I gave it the URL. We're going to try to post the slides to that as well. Alright, and now we have questions. If anybody like that can any of the presenters? I want to ask how many Militia units are there in Missouri? I don't know anything. There's about nine.