Sept. 22, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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| All right, welcome to this special interview. | |
| Mike Adams here with an operator, a deployment leader on the Texas southern border who's been using these satellite-based bivvy sticks for very effective communications. | |
| And he's here to just give us a few words about How these bivy sticks are operating, how it's helping he and his team members. | |
| And remember, these are available through the satellite phone store, sat123.com. | |
| It's satellite-based text messaging works when no cell towers work or aren't reachable. | |
| So, sir, thank you for joining us in just a few minutes with your thoughts. | |
| What can you tell us about sort of who you are? | |
| I mean, not your name, but what you do. | |
| Working on the military side and special operations in conjunction with LEO and federal agents on the border in southern Texas in Terrell County, where there is little to no radio communication or cell communication in some of the areas we're working. | |
| As usual, Mike, it's always good to see you and come and visit and given a chance to give this report. | |
| We use these to communicate GPS cords to when we are seeing drug runners or people carrying stuff. | |
| We've had bust up to 13,600 pounds worth of marijuana and fentanyl that That we have been on operations with in conjunction with federal agents and supporting them and their operations. | |
| So in a lot of these areas then, what there are no cell towers whatsoever or they're spotty or what's the deal with comms? | |
| Very sporadic and more towards the I-10 corridor, but down in that area, there's no coverage. | |
| Even for radio comms and repeater towers, the radios are very sporadic. | |
| A lot of times, we'll be doing human tracking of these groups coming across, and we'll be in a canyon and come up on a group of 10 to 15 and having to send that information out To get the arresting agents on site and get the vehicles to pick them up, or we have to lead them out so we have to be tracked where we're going for our own safety and communication. | |
| And I can say at least 12, 13 times just in this past couple weeks, the bivvy stick has been so useful in doing so to be able to get those communications out by GPS coordination and coordinates of that. | |
| So you're turning on the geolocation on purpose so that others can monitor your position in case something bad happens or you guys run into something unexpected? | |
| Yes, that's correct. | |
| And also sending text messages saying a headcount, what I have, if it's drug runners or if it's If we are on top of just a group of individuals coming across, if there's any medical attention or emergency issues, if we have any medical attention or issues ourselves, we're able to send that out and still get air flight in to recover us or pick us up and move us to a different location. | |
| So in coordinating across the network, it is awesome. | |
| I'd say the shortest end of this is, and thank you for The donation of these to us to use, we could take about 15 or 20 more. | |
| Well, that's the satellite phone store. | |
| They donated them. | |
| They know that I'm connected to folks like you and other teams. | |
| And so, yeah, they send them to me. | |
| I get them to you. | |
| You get them to your team. | |
| I mean, it's an underground railroad of satellite comms. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| But it is so necessary. | |
| Now, Of course, other higher-ups are working on fixing this better communication scenario, but it's so far behind the power curve. | |
| And we have, a lot of times, especially when it was real hot, it's starting to cool down a little bit. | |
| But when it was real hot, we were having to use IVs to save IAs, illegal aliens, that were on heat cat, that were on their... | |
| That's about to die. | |
| And so getting those coordinates out and being able to communicate that is imperative for not only them, but for our own safety as well. | |
| Are you using the map functions on the BIVI or do you have some other kind of mapping comms that's provided? | |
| We do use other types of mapping comms as well, but we do use the mapping system on the BIVI also. | |
| We use it to pretty much, from our standpoint, the donated level of interaction with the Bivy account. | |
| But I know that we are all talking about getting some funding to open that account up all the way so we can actively track each other better. | |
| Yeah, absolutely. | |
| Now, you mentioned sometimes you're traveling through terrain such as canyons. | |
| Now, I want to ask you specifically about that because canyons are horrible for cell phone reception, but satellites are overhead. | |
| So are you able to effectively use the bivvy sticks when you're traveling in canyons? | |
| Just on my specific end with my team, we have the satellite sticks, the bivy sticks, set up to 15-minute intervals to sleep, and then every 15 minutes wake up and shoot a checkpoint. | |
| So they're able to do that on their own without us interacting with them, and they're small and lightweight and extremely durable in the weather and the things that we're doing that they don't Interfere with our actions and our physical actions to deal with our climbing, our moving through the canyons, or actually doing things with coordinating the movement of the IAs. | |
| Right, and you guys are fully kitted out doing this whole thing, right? | |
| That's correct. | |
| Yeah, plate carriers, helmets, and so forth. | |
| You don't want an extra five pounds on top of all that. | |
| No, no. | |
| We do have some sat phones that are out there available for us to use, but it seems like we have had nothing but problems with some of the ones that we're using. | |
| The baby stick outperforms everything that we've been using. | |
| What about battery life? | |
| Are you getting a day plus on standby or even better? | |
| We are getting a full day of work out of them, but we also have solar battery packs that I carry on my military fast attack vehicle. | |
| I'll just say that. | |
| And we keep it on top, tethered, and then we can plug into that if we feel that we might be having battery usage that is too much. | |
| But other than that, we have not had any problems of one shutting off on us and not being able to communicate. | |
| Right. | |
| Okay. | |
| Very cool. | |
| So just to understand the national security implications of this. | |
| So these bivy sticks are really helping you guys do your job, which is to interdict many different types of threats. | |
| You already mentioned... | |
| You know, some drugs and so on, but are there also elements of this involved in weapons trafficking, perhaps, or terrorists moving through? | |
| I mean, anything you can talk about? | |
| I don't know if you can talk about it. | |
| Unfortunately, I can't relay information on too much of that, but I will put it this way. | |
| When we are observing nighttime or daytime movement or using satellite thermal imagery on targets, we are definitely using the bivvy sticks to push geolocation of that activity to the arresting LEO agency or federal agency involved to be able to coordinate our ability to support them. | |
| Okay. | |
| Alright, good to know. | |
| One other question. | |
| Again, I don't know what you can talk about, but what about Ukraine? | |
| I know a lot of other people are sending these units to Ukraine. | |
| I don't know where they're ending up over there or other parts of the world, Middle East, you know. | |
| Do you know guys who are using these worldwide? | |
| I do know worldwide usage of these as far as even the Sudan and also Ukraine and Afghanistan. | |
| And it's just onesies and twosies, but they're still being used out there to be able to report to us locations on HVT targets that we're keeping an eye on where other government agencies are no longer paying attention to. | |
| Yeah, right. | |
| So the supply of these, you know, the electronic components are somewhat challenging to get. | |
| I think the manufacturer of this was very smart. | |
| They stockpiled some components, I believe. | |
| And so they're able to keep some supply right now, but it's not a huge supply. | |
| But that sounds like that's your number one request is you just get more of these into the hands of more of your people, right? | |
| Absolutely. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| We could easily put these to work if we had the number I said earlier. | |
| Which was what again? | |
| Would you say 50? | |
| Yeah, 15 to 20 easy. | |
| We could put, you know, the more the better because we have anywhere from across the agency's And LEO and ourselves, just on the border of Texas, we have, you know, hundreds of people. | |
| But overseas, I have contact with other individuals that we have, you know, 10 here, 5 here. | |
| And unfortunately, we have lost Americans that have been tortured and killed. | |
| And killed in Ukraine by the Russians that have been caught during the operations with Ukraine. | |
| Unofficial, of course. | |
| Unofficial, right. | |
| Like volunteers or contractors? | |
| Yeah, or who have family over there that have married a Ukrainian woman or a Ukrainian man, and they have gone over to help get those families out and have been captured and are killed. | |
| Well, these are serious times for our world, but I'm glad that folks like you are out there, you and your teams helping to try to secure America's border. | |
| The scope of that is almost so overwhelming, but you're making a difference. | |
| Yeah, we need to quit. | |
| Capturing them and turning them over, we need to stop them from coming across the border, period, would be the better goal, is to put people like the units that are working out there on the river and stop them from coming, deterring them from coming across in the first place. | |
| Okay, there you go. | |
| Well, sir, I want to thank you for all of your service to our country and your team members as well. | |
| And thank you for spending a few minutes with me to talk about this technology and what it means to your team. | |
| We really appreciate you. | |
| Yes, sir. | |
| It's always good seeing you, Mike. | |
| Well, thank you. | |
| And for those folks, if you want to get these baby sticks, you can buy them as civilians. | |
| They're legal, they're affordable, they're available for now. | |
| Don't know how long, but you can get them at sat123.com. | |
| That company is a sponsor of our network, and they've been providing these services, and they've been donating these. | |
| To folks like the man I've just interviewed here, they donate them to first responders, and they've donated satellite phones to thousands of people over the years, first responders during floods and all kinds of things, hurricanes. | |
| So they are pro-America and pro-humanitarian in helping to keep our country and our community safe. | |
| Thank you for listening. | |
| I'm Mike Adams, Brighteon.com. | |
| Everybody, God bless America. |
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