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Episode Date: March 10, 2026

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Self-r-r-Lines and is a business. The PEPA Broadcasting Network. We have to hit the reset button and create a true culture of preparedness, starting at a very young age and filtering all the way up. Welcome to the Gun Metal Armory. Here's your host, Dane D. What's up, everybody? Is Dane from the Gun Metal Armory? Just stopping in to say hello. So, I wanted to, real quick, before I got started, first thing I wanted to say is, Goody, team gunmetal. I also wanted to let you guys know

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So moving on. I want to get right into it because I don't have a ton of time today. So I want to get right into what we're going to be talking about. We are going back into World War II Resistance Network information and how all of this is done. So we're going into the Resistance Network training again. World War II and how resistance forces fought the Nazis. So we are going to talk tonight about operational orders. What orders would you get from, let's say, the guy in charge, you know, the agent in charge, whoever it might be.

Back then it was going to be an OSS or an SOE agent. So what kind of operational orders would you get? How are they given? And why? Okay. So they talk about the fact that it is vital to issue orders accurately, but it's more vital to issue orders securely. Okay.

It says to draw up your plans and any orders that you have, have under definite information. You need to draw them up with definite information in mind. The definite information that you need to keep in mind as you draw up your operational plans are information, intention, method, administration, and intercommunication. They basically give the instruction to the spies that they're training and the resistance networks that they're training that they need to memorize that framework and they need to adhere to that simple, very, very simple form, the very simple list. And by doing so, it will basically make it to where it will be much more understandable and much easier to communicate to the,

other resistance network agents. It's also, if you keep the orders very simple, when the agent in charge is passing on the orders to the guy below him, and then the guy below him is passing orders on to the guy below him, it makes it way easier for the subordinates to keep all those details in line. That's the whole point of it, is keeping the details in line. So, excuse me, that is why they make it very, very simple.

Now, again, the framework is information, intention, method, administration, and intercommunication. So, I-I-M-A-I, okay? Or, you know, however you want to memorize it, you know, you could make a word out of it. you could make the word Amy out of it. A-M-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-I-A-I-A-E-I-I-A-M-I-A-E. You know, and that would be administration, information, method, intention, intercommunication, if you wanted to do it that way. But I like to make anagrams or whatever you want to call it.

I think it's an anagram. but I like to make words with the first letter of things like this, information, attention, method, administration, intercommunication. Okay, so, moving on. You need to consider all of these,

each one of those, each one of those five pieces of that framework. You need to consider each one in detail when you are planning an operation. The operational orders need to be planned in that, within that framework.

Okay. Information. For example, information, okay? You need information that is relative to the target. And basically any information that's been obtained through Recky, through Humant, SIGant, you know, even nowadays would be, you know, social engineering or Aawcint, you know, open. source intelligence. You know, any of that stuff is extremely important. And even back then, it was extremely easy to get all that information just as it is now.

So keep that in mind when you're doing your training there at Camp X. Okay. So any and all information that is relative to the target. All available information obtained. all of that needs to go into your planning. It says that each operator receives anything that directly concerns his part in the operation. It says to sketch a plan if necessary, but to destroy it immediately. So a modern day version of this might be like a whiteboard or something.

You know, you sketch out your plan and then you destroy it. you could, you know, some, some guys like to use a dirt map, you know, okay, here's the base, they draw it in the dirt, using rocks for buildings and, you know, tree branches for, you know, trees. So that's one way to do that. But anyways, each operator only needs to know whatever directly concerns his part in the operation. next thing anything that is relative to your own forces nothing more than it is essential for each man to carry out

his part in the operation how do I word this if cooperation is being received from the outside your guys need to know that okay so like let's say you've got the SOE, you know, operating in Nazi-controlled France, the French marquee need to know, or your guys need to know if the French marquee is going to be coming to help. Because if your guys are in the middle of an operation and the French resistance comes in and they start shooting up, you know, the Nazis and shit, you don't know if they're on your side. You don't know if they're on their side. You don't know who's who.

So any kind of cooperation needs to be planned at the outset. And everybody needs to know about it to the point that is necessary. Okay, I hope that makes sense. I'm trying to word it as simple as possible. Let's see. Intention. Okay, that's the next thing in that framework. Intention.

Each operator needs to know and receive a concise, simple statement of the intention of the operation. Insofar as it concerns his actions and his morale. Okay. So if I'm going into an operation, I need to know what my job is so I can complete it. If my job is to watch that door, you know, or sit up on the roof with binoculars or whatever it is. I need to know exactly

what my role in that operation is to make sure, number one, that I can do it correctly. Number two, that I've got the skill set. And number three, you know, basically to keep me from having my morale plummet.

You know, I mean, you know, your guys need to know exactly what they're supposed to do. Now, they talk about OPSEC. They talk about operational security in here. They say that for security reasons,

do not give more than the minimum information about the objective of the entire operation. It may be necessary, however, to indicate this in general terms so that the operator appreciates the importance of the operation. It's like something like the total effect of passive resistance on that operation or the total effect of passive resistance when carried out by all employees in a department. So that kind of thing, you know, the operator needing to know that there is a passive resistance operation going on within their, let's say your operator works at, I don't know, freaking Nabisco or some shit.

and all the employees are going to run a passive resistance campaign. Well, it's very, very important that your operator knows what the operation is and the overarching theme of that operation is to take down the Nabisco company or whatever, however you want to look at it. But they need to know the overarching theme to make sure that their morale stays up and to make sure they know what the overall objective is within the framework of security. Okay. So moving on to the next thing.

The next part is method, the method of the attack for the operational orders. Method. Now, they talk about this area, here detailed instructions, must be given to each operator or multiple operators in a group, separately of what he is to do and how he will do it for the period of operation. This is the part where they get detailed instructions. If you've got somebody who runs a scoped rifle, or you've got somebody who is good with explosives,

or you've got somebody who does this or that or whatever, that's when they're going to get their detailed instructions on what they need to do. For example, you know, let's say, you know, you've got a guy who is a sniper or, you know, an old-school hunter or something. You know, he would be best to be using a scoped rifle, right? So that's all these kinds of things that should be considered. and you know, what orders you need him to have is the next thing.

So they say that the following points need to be considered. Sabotage weapons such as drought, sand, passive resistance, fire, water, the mishandling of instruments or explosives. But they say, interestingly enough, to use explosives only, as a last resort. I would challenge you to think, just for a moment, while I take a drink, why would they want to use explosives as a last resort during any kind of operation? Go ahead and think about that.

I have some theories on why. My personal opinion as to why they would want that to be a last resort is because it's loud and it's destructive, right? So it's loud, so you're going to give away your position or give away that something is going down, right? And it draws a lot of attention, right? It creates a massive, massive mess, and it might also trigger some reprisals. So, explosives only as a last resort. The next thing, it's talk about the next point they talk about being considered is what so the next thing they talk about is any kind of sabotage could it appear looking like an accident could appear to be an accident

is there a way to make your resistance efforts look like nothing more than just a basic accident that happened. Is it possible? Is it not possible? You need to look at those things. I'm guessing that, you know, modern day stuff would be a little bit different, but, you know, current type stuff, you know, there's a lot of nuance there. Maybe someday I'll do a show on all of this stuff from the modern perspective, but, you know, or who knows, maybe I'll teach a class on it. Hmm. Funny, you should mention that. Anyways. Okay, so the next thing they talk about is circumvention of security measures at a target. Now, this is a big one. This is a very, very big one. When you're talking about method and you're talking about instructions, detailed instructions given to each operator in that group,

if you look at the ability to circumvent security measures. Now, back in the day, you would have like some guards, you probably have some guard towers. You're going to have like barbed wire pill boxes, you know, sandbags, you know, things of that nature. You're going to have pretty decent guards, you know, and things of that nature. but security can get really lax, really quick, depending on the environment that you are in. So keep that in mind when you're thinking about that kind of stuff. And I'm sure that they would be keeping that in mind as well. However, nowadays, circumvention of security measures goes way, way, way, way beyond anything that you can.

can consider, you know, that would have been back then. Security measures now involve all kinds of different cameras, all kinds of like different motion sensors and thermal, infrared sensors. I mean, backscatter freaking X-ray. Golly, man, there is just so many things that go into modern-day security that I don't know, man. That's a lot. And there's things that even the average person doesn't know about, right?

So keep that in mind. I'm glad I'm, you know, it would have been, maybe it would have been easier to operate back then. But, you know, I think it would have been easier than it is to operate now. Not easy, but easier. Let's see. So the next thing that should be considered is your, your ingress and egress from the target. How are you going to get to the target and how are you going to escape from the target?

So if you have to go into an area for any reason and do, let's say, sabotage or something, once you've been in there and done that sabotage, how are you going to get back out of there? after you've sabotaged the area and done what you needed to do. You need to be considering that because we don't know how that works. So that's something to keep in mind as well. The next thing, the next thing on the list is arms, like weaponry, and what type of weaponry? and you keep in mind

arms could be anything it doesn't necessarily have to be guns it could be you know knives it could be grenades it could be I don't know fucking poison I don't know

whatever what method is going to be used and the details around that that's something to consider as well you know is it a sabotage mission

do you need something that's going to do more damage sabotage wise, do you need something that is going to maybe cause havoc in the area that you are headed into? And the final thing, as far as the method goes, is the duration of the operation. How long are they going to be out there?

The time of the operation, is it going to be during the day, during the night, both, so on and so forth, and which day is the operation going to begin and which day is the operation going to end on? Are you going to be on that operation for seven days, like an observation post might be, or a sniper spotter team might be? You don't know how long you're going to be there. So give that some thought. You know, how long are you going to to be at that target until you actually give the orders or they give the orders to move in on it. You know, you might be at that target for days before the guys say, hey, we're going in there to do that

thing, you know, whatever that thing might be. So that is all operational planning that must take place for you to be successful. The next thing is administrative arrangements or administration. When it comes to general organization, they talk about you need to pay particular attention to the time before and after any kind of operation. You need to think about a cover show. story for each of your of your guys and girls of course you need to think about a cover story for each one of them uh it doesn't have to be some secret ninja clandestine um cover story either okay it can be just a normal

person cover story but it can also be a um a covert cover story too a clandestine type one but you cannot mix the two together. The cover story has to be a basic normal open cover story or it has to be a clandestine type cover story. Okay? One of the other, not both. Let's see.

The identity of the leaders or the people that you're going to be in contact with, that kind of stuff should only be put out there if it's necessary. You definitely do not want that kind of information. out there if you guys get caught. Okay. So keep that in mind.

Let's see. The next thing is heavy supplies of arms, money, food, explosives, clothes, and the information on where and how they can be gotten. How do I obtain these things? Are they cashed? Where are they cashed? How much is in each cache, what do I need to get first and so on. Okay? Let's see. The next thing is a way to evacuate and care for any kind of injured people in the group, any casualty at all. You need to consider if it's an overt operation. The casualties may have to be basically

kind of not really taking care of very much until the operation's over. Okay. I remember during active shooter training that they told us that the, when SWAT comes in, if SWAT comes, you know, if it's not you handling the problem yourself, you know, run, hide fight, right? That generally SWAT, if they're called in, are going to walk right past any. who's hurt. Because the way that they help the best is to get to and stop that threat as fast as possible. Because the sooner they stop the threat, the sooner people stop dying. That's important. So that's kind of what they're talking about here is the casualties that may have to be ignored for the time being. Or if the operation is a clandestine one,

any kind of casualty may have to be concealed. So if you're trying to escape back across the border after you, you know, hit the heavy water plant, you know, just like those Norwegian operators did during World War II, you know, they had to get back across. They had to get the heck out of where they were, right, after they, you know, took out the heavy water plant. So if they had any casualties and they're trying to get across the border or something, they'd have to conceal those casualties. It would not work. So just something to keep in mind there. Next thing, any kind of transportation, any kind of conveyance, anything.

You need to be considering that. That's more of the administrative arrangement side of things. Okay. identification, passports, clothing, any of that stuff, okay?

The next thing they talk about is making sure that all of your guys before the operation that they search their clothes. They make darn sure that they don't have any ID on them, anything to identify them,

and anything that can make them give away who they work with and how and why. Let's see. If at all possible, you'll want to synchronize your watches. I know that seems kind of silly. Synchronize watches. But it's important, especially if you tell all your guys,

hey, you know, the operation's going to begin at 10 p.m. And everybody's watches are a couple of minutes different. You know, mine's 10.05 and yours says 957. Then that's probably not going to work out so well. So synchronizing watches is a good thing. I would even say that in modern context, you know. Some people are like, oh, you know, I'm on, you know, the same time as everybody else on GPS or whatever, you know, on my phone. I've seen them be very, very different from each other.

Okay. So keep that in mind. Let's see. The next thing that they talk about is how the teams are going to separate from each other. How are they going to disperse, right? So if you are pulling off an operation in the middle of the city, you certainly don't want everybody to be bunched up hanging out together after the operation is done. You don't want everybody standing next to each other.

Hey, James, that was fun. Yeah, Bob, that was so cool, man. We totally took out those freaking Jerry bastards, man. It was way cool. Good job. High five. Definitely, definitely don't want that. So you need to figure out how you're going to disperse,

where you're going to go and how, right? You need to know all that stuff ahead of time. Let's see. So communication between your own forces, intercommunication. That's the next section, okay? Before, during, and after an operation, intercommunication between operators or teams taking part is most important. So you need to consider these possible.

things. A password or recognition signal. You know, like you come running into camp and you say thunder and they say lightning, you know that it's them. Okay? Et cetera.

Action signals, okay? The signal to go. Go, go, go, go, go. Or we're going to start at 10 o'clock and everybody's got their watches synchronized, so on and so forth. Or it can be something that you definitely know is going to happen in a certain time. I don't know what, but that's what it could be. Let's see,

cancellation signal. There's got to be a signal to say stop. Don't do this. Forget, forget the operation. Cancel it. Let's see. The next thing is a general warning, a general warning of, hey, guys, I think we might have been compromised or, hey, we have what we need, but we can't get out. You know, we could be being following. you know, so on and so forth, okay? There needs to be an individual danger signal. So each team member has their own signal to indicate when they think they might be in danger or being followed or something like that.

That's extremely important. You need to have other means of communications, okay? Absolute, absolutely. As many means of communication as you can get without, you know, bankrupting yourself, right? And then finally, you need to know exactly where the leader of your operation is during the operation. So where is, you know, James or Bob or Frank or whoever the frack is, whoever the guy is. You need to know where he is during the operation.

So if you need more orders or you need more guidance, you can go back and talk to him. It's very, very important, okay? All right, guys, that is going to do it for me today. I am sorry. I've only been able to do half hour shows lately for the past couple months, but things are rumping up and accelerating here, and it's just been crazy, crazy, crazy, as I'm sure everyone knows, with inflation, gas prices and stuff like that.

I'm doing the best I can. So I hope it's okay, guys. I hope you're enjoying these World War II resistance. sell talks. I hope you guys are enjoying everything about these. Until next time, please again, check out my website, gunmetallosec.com, and go to my YouTube and subscribe. I'll only need like 500 more subscribers. Pretty close. That is freaking awesome. If you guys know anybody who subscribes, please have them subscribe to me. That would be really, really cool. Okay. All right, guys, y'all have a wonderful night and we'll see you next

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