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Basic Training Manual – FREE DOWNLOAD

We have decided, in the interest of reaching as many people as possible with our message, to make the .pdf version of our Basic Training Manual FREE to download. We have taken quite a soft approach at defining what problems face America and our people, but we can see already that more needs to be done. With false front like “Oath Keepers”, whom are rightly referred to here as “Gate Keepers”, withholding the truth from our Armed Forces and Law Enforcement personnel, we took the initiative to stir the pot and disrupt their fallacious endeavors by creating ROK. Due to the fact that the information contained in our training manual is exactly what this other group is hiding, we have decided to make that information free to everyone who seeks it.

The hard cover edition of our training manual is still available for purchase only. Since we don’t do the printing ourselves, there is no way to avoid this, but there is no substitute for having a hard copy in your hands that you can share with others. Nothing is better than actually owning a copy of our manual that you can use to teach people around you, and use as a reference. Something about putting a real book into people’s hands, makes a big difference in the way they perceive the information. Needless to say, you still NEED the hard cover version of our manual to effectively spread the message contained within. Digital format just doesn’t have the same impact.

We do ask that those who appreciate the information, and the work put together by ROK that you hit our Donate Page and help further our mission. The front lines will falter without a strong supply line. No push into enemy territory will go very far if our lines of supply are cut. Without your help to push this message further, our front lines are no longer leading the charge, they will be faltering and in retreat. So, it is up to YOU to help out and make a difference. We’ve done more than our fair share, so step up and pitch in today.

Click HERE to visit Lulu and get your copy of the manual today. If you’d like to download it for FREE, you may do so by clicking the link that says “Also available as a download“. Get your equipment in order and mount up revolutionaries, patriots, and Soldiers. It’s time to JOIN THE FIGHT!

UPDATE:

The book has been banned by Lulu Publishing, because the enemy can’t have something this damaging floating around.  You’ll have to CLICK HERE to download it from our servers, because it’s doubtful anyone else will publish the book.  There’s a good reason they banned it….find out who “they” are and why “they” banned it by downloading it now.

Pentagon Study Links Fatalities to Body Armor

This is just another example, in a whole line of them, that those at the top are not concerned with the safety of our Soldiers on the ground. There is no real rush after years of war, to make sure all of our troops are well protected. Unfortunately, many troops fail to realize they are simply being used as cannon fodder to oppress ancient enemies our the same tribe that has infiltrated our government at every level. The good news is ROK members are very clear on who the enemy is, and fully understand why there is no major concern for troop safety. As long as there are enough bodies, no worries about body armor. When the bodies run low, then it’s time to ramp up the armor. The Marines waited until SEP05 to buy armor, and the Army is still making up it’s mind, but field commanders take no chance and opt for anything they can get.

As many ROK members know, fighting wars FOR enemy usurpers who have no concern for human life comes with serious consequences. The good news is you too can finally join up and learn to identify these usurpers for yourself. You can finally learn the real reason we are sent to fight and die in far off countries that never have posed a threat to our security. Not only will you learn who the real terrorists are, but you can hear exactly what they think of you, in their own words. Get our Basic Training manual, read, learn, and join us. Real homeland defense starts with identifying the threat, and ROK does this unlike anyone ever has before. Your people need you. The world needs you. Fight with us one last time, to set all of this right again.

Source: NY Times
Date: 07JAN06

A secret Pentagon study has found that as many as 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to the upper body could have survived if they had had extra body armor. Such armor has been available since 2003, but until recently the Pentagon has largely declined to supply it to troops despite calls from the field for additional protection, according to military officials.

The ceramic plates in vests now worn by the majority of troops in Iraq cover only some of the chest and back. In at least 74 of the 93 fatal wounds that were analyzed in the Pentagon study of marines from March 2003 through June 2005, bullets and shrapnel struck the marines’ shoulders, sides or areas of the torso where the plates do not reach.

Thirty-one of the deadly wounds struck the chest or back so close to the plates that simply enlarging the existing shields “would have had the potential to alter the fatal outcome,” according to the study, which was obtained by The New York Times.

For the first time, the study by the military’s medical examiner shows the cost in lives from inadequate armor, even as the Pentagon continues to publicly defend its protection of the troops.

Officials have said they are shipping the best armor to Iraq as quickly as possible. At the same time, they have maintained that it is impossible to shield forces from the increasingly powerful improvised explosive devices used by insurgents in Iraq. Yet the Pentagon’s own study reveals the equally lethal threat of bullets.

The vulnerability of the military’s body armor has been known since the start of the war, and is part of a series of problems that have surrounded the protection of American troops. Still, the Marine Corps did not begin buying additional plates to cover the sides of their troops until September, when it ordered 28,800 sets, Marine officials acknowledge.

The Army, which has the largest force in Iraq, is still deciding what to purchase, according to Army procurement officials. They said the Army was deciding among various sizes of plates to give its 130,000 soldiers, adding that they hoped to issue contracts this month.

Additional forensic studies by the Armed Forces Medical Examiner’s unit that were obtained by The Times indicate that about 340 American troops have died solely from torso wounds.

Military officials said they had originally decided against using the extra plates because they were concerned they added too much weight to the vests or constricted the movement of soldiers. Marine Corps officials said the findings of the Pentagon study caused field commanders to override those concerns in the interest of greater protection.

“As the information became more prevalent and aware to everybody that in fact these were casualty sites that they needed to be worried about, then people were much more willing to accept that weight on their body,” said Maj. Wendell Leimbach, a body armor specialist with Marine Corps Systems Command, the corps procurement unit.

The Pentagon has been collecting the data on wounds since the beginning of the war in March 2003 in part to determine the effectiveness of body armor. The military’s medical examiner, Dr. Craig T. Mallak, told a military panel in 2003 that the information “screams to be published.” But it would take nearly two years.

The Marine Corps said it asked for the data in August 2004; but it needed to pay the medical examiner $107,000 to have the data analyzed. Marine officials said financing and other delays had resulted in the study’s not starting until December 2004. It finally began receiving the information by June 2005. The shortfalls in bulletproof vests are just one of the armor problems the Pentagon continues to struggle with as the war in Iraq approaches the three-year mark, The Times has found in a continuing examination of the military procurement system.

The production of a new armored truck called the Cougar, which military officials said had so far withstood every insurgent attack, has fallen three months behind schedule. The small company making the truck has been beset by a host of production and legal problems.

Troops Buy Own Body Armor

Troops heading for Iraq are forced to purchase their own body armor, but the sad part of the story is, those sending them to war really don’t care. The only reason the usurpers within our once great nation would even supply body armor is because, the bodies themselves are in short supply. The article says those who get killed are just “happenstance”, but it is no coincidence when you realize there is a specific agenda to these wars. That agenda includes using U.S. troops to subdue the enemies of our own usurpers, while they wreck the homeland in the process. With our Soldiers busy in the Middle East helping subdue enemies of Israel, their work is sure to be that much easier. Our members here make absolutely no mistake about why these wars started, and why they will continue for a long time to come. Not only that, but our members are clear on who these subversives are, and what their game is all about. You’ll have to take our Basic Training and join us to find out.

Source: USA Today
Date: 26MAR04

Soldiers headed for Iraq are still buying their own body armor — and in many cases, their families are buying it for them — despite assurances from the military that the gear will be in hand before they’re in harm’s way.
Body armor distributors have received steady inquiries from soldiers and families about purchasing the gear, which can cost several thousand dollars. Though the military has advised them not to rely on third-party suppliers, many soldiers say they want it before they deploy.

Last October, it was reported that nearly one-quarter of American troops serving in Iraq did not have ceramic plated body armor, which can stop bullets fired from assault rifles and shrapnel.

The military says the shortfall is over and soldiers who do not yet have the armor soon will. But many want to avoid the risk.

“What we hear from soldiers is that they are told that they are going to get body armor just before they leave or just after they get there. But they don’t want to take a chance,” said Nick Taylor, owner of Bulletproofme.com, an online distributor of body armor in Austin, Texas.

Inquiries rise and fall with the rate of deployments, fueled by stories of units falling under attack as little as a day after being issued body armor. Whether they are true, the stories are prompting families to think about buying the equipment, Taylor said.

Reliance Armor in Cincinnati, which makes armored vests for soldiers and police, has nearly doubled in size as a result of the shortage.

“We’re getting people locally who are deployed National Guard and parents, specifically, coming in and buying,” said Don Budke, the company’s vice president of sales. “The military people don’t want to advertise the fact that there are people doing this on their own.”

Dan Britt paid about $1,400 for body armor for his son, a medic stationed in Kuwait who had orders to move into Baghdad. He recently heard his son received it.

“In war, as we’ve learned through all our history, who gets killed and who doesn’t is just happenstance,” said the father from Hamilton, Ohio. “But if I can raise the odds, then I’ll feel better.”

Those that need the armor most are already certain to have it, said Army spokesman Maj. Gary Tallman, and families should not buy the equipment.

“What we have told family members who have contacted us is that the Army cannot attest to the safety or the level of protection of body armor purchased rather than issued for a soldier,” Tallman said.

The Defense Department says it has contracted with one manufacturer for its armor. Point Blank Body Armor, which produces the Interceptor brand, has all but stopped selling to the public.

Nancy Durst recently learned that her husband, a soldier with an Army reserve unit from Maine serving in Iraq, spent four months without body armor. She said she would have bought armor for her husband had vests not been cycled into his unit.

Even if her husband now has body armor, Durst said she was angry he was without it at any time. Her husband also has told her that reservists have not been given the same equipment as active duty soldiers. “They’re so sick of being treated as second-class soldiers,” she said.

Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, who serves on the Armed Services subcommittee, said she knows soldiers who were told by the military to buy body armor before leaving, rather than risk arriving with nothing but their shirts.

“We lagged far behind in making sure that our soldiers who are performing very difficult and dangerous missions had protective equipment,” she said.

A bill being considered in Congress would reimburse families who bought body armor before the Army asked for increased production to bridge the gap between soldiers who had armor and those that did not.

Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor who has talked with hundreds of families who bought body armor for soldiers in Iraq, said the military lost the trust of soldiers’ families.

In that regard, it is not surprising that families bought body armor in spite of what military advised, he said.

“There still is a lingering level of mistrust with some families as to whether there are people thinking about the best equipment and needs of their loved ones,” Turley said. “No one that I know of has been truly held accountable.”

Troops Futily Sandbag Humvees For Protection

Sandbags and boxes full of dirt in humvees is not enough protection for sophisticated roadside bombs with remote controls shaped charge explosives. What you have to ask yourself is, where the enemy is getting them from and where could they possibly be hiding them? The problem is, the enemy is hidden amongst the ranks of our troops, and they are not Muslim or Arab people.  What needs to happen is our troops need to figure out who the real enemy is, but this would mean understanding that those passing out your orders are the real traitorous terrorists.  Our troops would have to leave the Middle East and focus on the real problems here at home. The enemy has infiltrated into the White House, Congress, Senate, Judicial and almost every other facet of our lives. You can never be heroes attacking sovereign countries while the enemy wrecks your homeland from the inside out. Things can not improve if your efforts only help further increase the strength of the enemy within.

Source: Baltimore Sun
Date: 27MAR04

FORT POLK, La. — When soldiers of the Army’s 1st Infantry Division rolled into Iraq several weeks ago, they lacked enough armored Humvees for everyone. So, like the soldiers in other units, some of them had to stack sandbags behind the Humvees’ front seats – an all-but-useless way to fend off the bullets and roadside bombs that have killed scores of U.S. troops.

One year after U.S. troops invaded Iraq, soldiers are coursing through dusty country roads and teeming city streets without adequate armor protection. Troops in Iraq and Afghanistan are equipped with roughly 2,300 armored Humvees – only about half as many as commanders say are needed to guard against the roadside bombs that have become the insurgents’ deadly weapon of choice.

Some U.S. lawmakers have complained angrily that soldiers are being killed and wounded in Humvees sheathed only in canvas or light sheet metal. Production of armored Humvees and add-on armor kits has been sharply increased. But Army officials concede that they won’t be able to fill the need until midsummer at the earliest.

The 12,000 soldiers from the 1st Infantry have 500 armored Humvees, said Maj. Neal O’Brien, a division spokesman.

“Most people are required to have 50 sandbags,” Spc. Joe Alger, a 21-year-old soldier from Crystal Lake, Ill., said in a phone interview from the Sunni Triangle, the dangerous area north of Baghdad, where the 1st Infantry Division has taken over the task of trying to stabilize that region. Alger’s headquarters’ company has only “a few” armored Humvees.

Is a sandbag inside a Humvee adequate to protect an American soldier in Iraq?

“It’s not,” Gen. Peter J. Schoomaker, the Army’s chief of staff, acknowledged during a recent visit to Fort Polk, La., a training base in the woods of central Louisiana. “Our requirement is just around 4,400 [armored] Humvees. Now we’re on a glide path to 5,000. It’s a huge effort.”

Before the Iraq war, Schoomaker explained, the Army had no intention of producing thousands of Humvees, which are designed for use by Army scouts and military police who are less likely to engage in combat.

For soldiers in open combat, the heavily armored M-1 Abrams tanks and Bradley fighting vehicles are the vehicle of choice.

But the stubborn insurgency that lurks in the narrow confines of Iraq’s cities and towns requires a different kind of vehicle – an armored one – and more of them than the military had anticipated.

One Army officer said the Army should have learned its lesson 10 years ago in Bosnia. In that peacekeeping operation, soldiers also used sandbags to try to protect their Humvees – until the Army could find enough of the existing armored version and ship them to the peacekeeping mission.

“This was a lesson learned,” said the officer, who requested anonymity, noting that the Army failed to boost production of armored Humvees and used its money for other priorities. “We should have known this.”

Schoomaker said the Army is sending thousands of add-on armor plating kits to shield the unprotected Humvees. The Humvees are also being used, on a smaller scale, by Marines and Air Force personnel.

About 1,500 of the kits have been applied to Army vehicles, and 6,900 more kits are expected between May and midsummer. The Marines are sending their kits from their maintenance center in Albany, Ga.

Even though the add-on armor is an improvement, it has gaps and lacks the full protection of the armored Humvees, officials said. They described using the kits as an “interim step.”

The 1st Infantry Division has about 275 armored kits applied to its Humvees, with 600 more expected, said O’Brien, the division’s spokesman.

Still others are turning to sandbags and spreading Kevlar blankets across the floors of their unprotected Humvees. But such measures have limited effectiveness.

“They can be [effective] for small arms,” said Schoomaker. Another Army official said those emergency efforts could offer limited shielding from fragments of roadside bombs, as long as it’s not a direct hit.

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat who serves on the Senate Armed Services Committee, complained on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday that several soldiers from Massachusetts have been attacked and killed in Iraq while riding in Humvees that lacked full armor protection.

“We’ve lost 17 boys in Massachusetts,” Kennedy said. “Seven of them had been killed from Humvees that didn’t have [armor].” cont’d