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NARRATOR: IF THE FLOOD WATERS RISE, IF THE VIRUS SPREADS,
IF THE BOMBS GO OFF THESE MEN ARE READY.
FOUR MARINES WHO KNOW HOW TO SURVIVE.
JOEL STEVENS.
JOEL: I was actually there on 9/11;
I saw how society broke down very quickly.
NARRATOR: MARK PUHALY.
MARK: In the Marine Corps we're taught to thrive in chaos and
operate in a chaotic environment.
NARRATOR: MIKE KOZELISIKI.
MIKE: I Have a lot of ground combat experience,
definitely,saw a lot of death. You never have your guard down.
NARRATOR: AND JIMMY CAMPBELL.
JIMMY: You have to understand being self-reliant.
Or you're in trouble.
NARRATOR: THEIR HEADQUARTERS - FORGE SURVIVAL SUPPLY COME
CRISIS OR CATASTROPHE.
THEIR TECHNIQUE, IMPROVISATION.
THEY KNOW THAT IN AN EMERGENCY HIGH TECH IS HIGH RISK.
THEIR MISSION USING THE STUFF ON HAND AND THE FIGHTING SPIRIT
THEY TEACH THEN TEST THEIR CLIENTS HOW TO SURVIVE.
NEXT, AN EDUCATION IN IMPROVISED WEAPONS.
JOEL: You've got to get to the ambush site.
NARRATOR: SECRETS TO SURVIVING IN POST APOCALYPTIC NEW YORK.
Inaudible: Yelling go, go get him off of you.
NARRATOR: A YOUNG FAMILY LEARNS HOW TO BUG OUT.
MARK: And you know it's time to move.
Those windows are a potential threat.
These alleyways are a potential threat.
NARRATOR: AND A CRASH COURSE IN THE KILLER INSTINCT.
FROM ITS PERCH IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS,
JOEL STEVENS RUNS FORGE SURVIVAL SUPPLY.
THEY HAVE SURVIVALISTS AND PREPPER CLIENTS ALL AROUND
THE COUNTRY, INCLUDING NEW YORK.
DENSELY POPULATED, DEPENDENT ON THE POWER GRID,
AND WITH ONLY A FEW WAYS IN AND OUT,
MANHATTAN IS A SURVIVALIST'S NIGHTMARE.
JIMMY: God, I would not want to get trapped here.
MARK: Trapped here and you are dead.
NARRATOR: TODAY, MARK AND JIMMY ARE IN THE BIG APPLE TO MEET TWO
NEW CLIENTS JAY AND DANIEL WHO ARE WORRIED ABOUT HOW TO GET OUT
OF NEW YORK IN AN EMERGENCY.
JIMMY: One of the most aggressive busy cities
in the world.
Mark: There's gonna be complete chaos; anarchy.
JIMMY: But you gotta think about how many people are gonna
be flooding down these stairwells into the street.
People coming out of there subways.
I mean there's going to be cars stuck on the street.
This is New York man anything goes, right?
NARRATOR: JAY AND DANIEL HAVE BEEN LIVING IN MANHATTAN FOR
10 YEARS.
BUT RECENT EVENTS HAVE THEM SCARED.
JAY: We were here in the blackout,
the hurricane last summer and I thought we live in Manhattan,
which is an island, and we need to get out, like,
not sure how that would happen.
MARK: Have you prepared in any way?
DANIEL: At the last hurricane, I bought like 12 gallons of water,
which is now in our closet.
JIMMY: Great. What about feeding the dog?
MARK: If you're trying to get out covered and concealed,
if the dog makes noise, it could compromise you.
Yeah that's things to think about.
Are you gonna stay? Are you gonna get out of dodge?
Are you gonna stay held up for a week? A month?
You know, 12 gallons will only go so far.
JIMMY: And when your neighbors are beating down your door for
your water because they don't have any.
And they know you have 12 gallons of it.
MARK: Or more.
DANIEL: Things I've never thought of.
JIMMY: It's gonna get scary quick.
NARRATOR: THE FIRST STEP - WHAT DO JAY AND DANIEL HAVE ON HAND
TO DEFEND THEMSELVES IF THEY WERE ATTACKED IN THEIR APARTMENT
JIMMY: All the glassware.
You might have to break up the glasses in case uh you need to
use it as weapons in shrapnel. Bottle openers.
This is a great thing to punch somebody with. You know?
I mean there's a lot of things that you need to think about.
MARK: This saran wrap and foil for packaging stuff.
JAY: Okay. JIMMY: With wounds.
You want to stop the bleeding, don't leave a trail.
DANIEL: But you think like people are just gonna freak out
and start killing Mark: Absolutely.
DANIEL: each other and stuff?
JIMMY: All this stuff is valuable stuff that people don't
even think about in their homes. DANIEL: Yeah.
JIMMY: But if someone's trying to harm you, the dog, Jay,
you're going to react in a much different manner than you ever
thought about.
NARRATOR: ITS CLEAR THE NOVICE PREPPERS DON'T GET IT...
AND JIMMY ISN'T OPTIMISTIC.
JIMMY: We've gotta get them toughened up.
MARK: We gotta get 'em hard and thinking combat mindset.
Jimmy: Well this isn't gonna be easy.
NARRATOR: WHILE JIMMY AND MARK ARE IN NEW YORK,
JOEL AND MIKE ARE AT THE STORE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS OF
COLORADO.
THIS IS WHERE CLIENTS WHO WANT TO PREPARE FOR APOCALYPTIC
SCENARIOS, OR PREPPERS, COME TO BUY GEAR AND GET ADVICE
ON EVERYTHING FROM WATER PURIFICATION TO IMPROVISED
WEAPONRY.
THEO: Good to meet you too. MIKE: My buddy Joel.
NARRATOR: THEO WILSON IS A PREPPER WHO IS WORRIED THAT
NATURE MIGHT TURN AGAINST MANKIND.
THEO: You know a lot of people think that doomsday is about
what human beings will do, but the fact is,
is that we got this big mother nature here that can do anything
she wants to at any time so you need to be ready the best that
you can.
NARRATOR: THEO IS WORRIED ABOUT HOW HE'LL SURVIVE NATURAL
DISASTERS RANGING FROM CATACLYSMIC VOLCANOS TO KILLER
BLIZZARDS.
THEO: I'm from the Denver area and the vulnerability of urban
living, and I did a little looking around and I realized
it's about time for me to get back to nature.
NARRATOR: NO MATTER WHAT HAPPENS,
THEO WANTS TO BE SELF RELIANT IN EVERY WAY,
INCLUDING WEAPONS FOR SECURITY AND HUNTING,
AND HE'S COME TO FORGE SURVIVAL FOR HELP.
MIKE: We've got a few ideas of improvised weapons that we
wanted to go over with you.
JOEL: One of the things we're gonna start off with is stuff
that is always available in an urban environment you could use.
THEO: Yeah.
MIKE: It's weapons of opportunity.
Uh, it's just a matter of thinking about putting a couple
things together.
So you got this paper it gives you some good strength here on
the end.
Put one of the scissors in there like this.
It's very simple.
It's a matter of just putting a couple of uh,
implements that you've got easily accessible together.
And again, you know somebody's coming in the door or in
your office-- right there! You got your weapon.
You're coming down with it. JOEL: That works.
MIKE: All right so, what do we all have in our house?
We've got some tape, whether it's-- any kind of tape,
a basic kitchen knife and your broom handle.
We'll grab the uh, tape and let's wrap it around.
THEO: That is phenomenal.
It's so simple and nobody wants to stand in front of that.
JOEL: No.
MIKE: The intimidation factor. The intimidation factor.
THEO: I mean it's intimidating that you thought about it.
JOEL: So Theo, not only can you use this as a spear-type weapon,
but you can also brace this into the ground and one of the other
things we thought of was, you know, we could put some type of
five-fifty cord to the end of this and use this as a
fishing-type weapon or a hunting-type weapon,
where you could throw it and actually bring it back to you.
THEO: That is thinking.
That is good survival thinking...period.
NARRATOR: MIKE AND JOEL CAN SEE THAT THEO IS MOTIVATED - THEY
PLAN TO TEACH HIM HOW TO IMPROVE HIS PREPPING AND BETTER DEFEND
HIMSELF.
BACK IN NEW YORK CITY, MARK & JIMMY ARE GETTING DANIEL AND JAY
OUTFITTED AT A SPORTING GOODS STORE FOR THEIR BUG OUT.
MARK: We need to get some protective gear. Good on the
noggin.
NARRATOR: WHERE SOME SEE SPORTING GOODS,
MARK AND JIMMY SEE WEAPONS.
Mark: Aw yes. Jimmy: Bingo.
This will take somebody down. Nice, hard maple.
Mark: We should get black ones. Jimmy: Yup.
Old school mace. Mark: Yeah.
NARRATOR: TO BE CERTAIN THEY ARE DOING EVERYTHING THEY CAN FOR
DANIEL AND JAY, MARK CALLS JOEL, THEIR BOSS BACK AT FORGE
SURVIVAL SUPPLY.
MARK: Hey Joel, it's Mark. JIMMY: What's up dude.
MARK: We got our hands full with these two guys.
JOEL: Are they going to survive or not?
MARK: They have the motivation to do the right thing,
but they're gonna need our guidance.
One guy's overweight, he's strong as an ox,
but his endurance needs to definitely increase.
And then, his partner is in relatively good shape and
aerobically fit.
JIMMY: We're just gonna try to get him physically ready.
Joel: Yeah why don't you guys run em through their paces and
make it hard.
Do a practice run, see how they do.
Mark: we're gonna show up, knock on the door,
tell them they have a 20 minute drop dead time to be out of the
house and get ready to bug out.
Joel: Alright, sounds good guys. Mark: Alright, we're outta here.
For our initial bug-out we're gonna go to the water.
JIMMY: How are they gonna carry their load, into the water,
deploy a raft, and have the water take them where
they need to go?
MARK: We're gonna take Danny and Jay into the park so they can
use some cover and concealment with the vegetation, the trees,
et cetera.
Then we're gonna move 'em north picking up Morningside park,
and they're gonna continue west until they hit the water.
And then launch the raft into the water.
JIMMY: Can't they cross the East River and then go east?
MARK: The currents in the East River is tons of chop,
whirlpools.
It's a much more treacherous body of water compared
to the Hudson.
Based on the tides, we'll either take them straight across
to Jersey, or either south to Governor's Island--those are
our two options once they're in the water.
JIMMY: Let's make some weapons.
NARRATOR: AS ALWAYS THE FORGE CREW LOOKS TO DIY SOLUTIONS
FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS.
MARK: Looks Good. JIMMY: That looks great.
MARK: This looks mean. JIMMY: That is a bad day.
Let's get outta here.
Let's go show these guys how to use this stuff.
NARRATOR: SURVIVING IN A POST APOCALYPTIC NEW YORK COULD BE
A CHALLENGE FOR ANYONE.
BUT THE FORGE TEAM WANTS DANIEL AND JAY TO CHANGE HOW THEY THINK
THE FIRST STEP, TEACHING THEM HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT.
JIMMY: They're gonna have to step outside of themselves and
they're gonna have to learn how to be aggressive and understand
what it means to take care of business when it comes down
to it.
MARK: Combat mindset at all times.
DANIEL: Okay. MARK: From this day forward.
Especially when you're executing your bug-out plan.
Constant awareness.
And we want to try and create some of that today.
And we're gonna get aggressive.
JAY: Okay. DANIEL: Okay.
MARK: How do you think I'm gonna come after you to steal
your pack?
Am I gonna come after you kinda half assed or am I gonna come
after you and attack you?
JIMMY: That's right. MARK: Right?
JIMMY: The best thing ever, anybody approaches you you wanna
keep your hands up.
One hand forward, whichever your dominant hand,
so one hand forward, one hand back.
This will allow you to keep distance,
but also keep people out of your personal space, okay?
So you want to keep your arms bent--you want to keep a frame.
This is called keeping a frame. Now, he'll crash into me.
You have this; you can control 300-pound man,
just by creating a bridge like this.
MARK: I don't weigh 300 pounds.
JIMMY: This would be- So This would be knee strikes,
right into chokes,.
Three seconds--that's all it takes.
Basic strike points you guys wanna focus on.
Soft targets--eyes, jugular and corroded, Ok?
You want to go for groin obviously.
You can throw off their body rhythm;
it's easier to break somebody down.
Once you strike you're going to create someone's head up
their nose might be bloody you want to end it.
So, strike, strike, grab the back of the head...
come here, scissors across the corroded.
Drive the knee, drive the knee, drive the knee.
And then just throw them away.
JAY: Okay. JIMMY: Okay?
JAY: Strike, strike, strike.
JIMMY: You've got my head down-- nope, don't bear hug.
One hand here other hand on top. Now pull me down. There you go.
And just turn your thumbs. There you go.
MARK: So we are going to do the choke again, ok good.
OK, good. Good.
Just basic techniques to escape, get rid of your assailant,
and then move on and assess.
Daniel: Alright Mark:OK
NARRATOR: JAY IS SURPRISED AT DANIEL'S AGGRESSIVNESS.
MARK: Get rid of me
JAY: I've never seen him do anything like this before.
I've never seen him be this physical against somebody.
MARK: Get rid of him JAY:It makes me a little afraid.
NARRATOR: MARK AND JIMMY ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH THE LEVEL OF
AGGRESSION EITHER MAN IS SHOWING.
THEIR PLAN TO AMP IT UP? A COMPETITION.
NARRATOR: TO STRENGTHEN THEIR COMBAT MINDSET THE TEAM STAGES
A MATCH BETWEEN JAY AND DANIEL.
MARK: You need to be the aggressor.
JAY:Mmhmm
MARK: And then you need to be the defender.
JIMMY: Break him down, there it is, no. There it is!
Now control the head down.
Heads in a bad position.
There it is. To the front. Don't grab his arms.
MARK: Yeah, slow him down.
JIMMY: If you try to re-attack. Perfect.
DANIEL: So being physically aggressive isn't something
that I really like, but it is something that I feel with
the training that I got from them that I could do.
MARK: Next time we meet, we are going to put you through
something more.
The bug out challenge. DANIEL: Getting out?
MARK: Getting out of Manhattan. DANIEL: Alright.
NARRATOR: BACK IN COLORADO, JOEL AND MIKE ARE HONING THEO'S
COMBAT INSTINCTS, TRAINING HIM WITH IMPROVISED WEAPONS.
MANY PREPPERS BELIEVE THAT IN THE POST-APOCALYPTIC WORLD
BULLETS WILL BE SCARCE.
MIKE: Alright so we want to teach you to be able to
effectively employ this weapon.
What you're imaging is that you have a hole right here
and you are going to try to put it right through there.
And that's how you're gonna be throwing it- It's your
traditional javelin throw.
THEO: Woo! JOEL: Nice shot.
NARRATOR: THE FORGE TEAM RECOMENDS SLINGS TO CLIENTS
AS A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE IMPROVISED WEAPON.
Mike: Alright so you wrap the rock around it.
And then this is your trigger, ok so right here as you throw it
you're gonna release and that's what's gonna let it go.
NARRATOR: EASY TO CREATE AND DEADLY IN SKILLED HANDS,
THEY'RE USED AROUND THE WORLD.
MIKE: Strike you down David.
Woo!
Come on little fella, show us what you got.
THEO: Alright. You see that, it was the right way.
MIKE: Yeah but, Your first rotation was too slow,
Go like this and get it going and then kinda whip in to it.
THEO: I got a better feeling about this one.
I got it in there. Alright..
Alright, let's see what we got. 1,2. Goddang.
JOEL: So your basically just come back and you slash all
the way through it. THEO: Yeah.
JOEL: Bring it all the way around,
slash through and you can also follow with the jab right there.
MIKE: Now back and forth, rock it, rock it,
and go into a full rotation.
JOEL: Shhh, I got it! THEO: OH!
I like Mike, he's a good guy, cause you get this feeling that
this guys actually been there, you know.
I believe he's seen combat so he knows what it is actually is
to be in the situation when your adrenaline is pumping.
Alright, here we go.
MIKE: There you go nice. JOEL: There you go, nice throw.
MIKE: Ooooo! Almost!
THEO: Almost, OK. Right. Slash like that.
...There you go, that's it, that's is...
JOEL: there you go. Ohhhh, Nice shot. Nice one.
THEO: Take it and- MIKE: Be mean!
JOEL: Yeah that's it. THEO: One, two, three!
MIKE: Nice one. JOEL: Perfect! Good job.
MIKE: Each time you got more aggressive with it,
more comfortable with it.
It takes those rehearsals, the practice,
so just cut them and back, cut them and back.
THEO: UH! MIKE: Yeah!
JOEL: You can see how aggression carried the day,
when you got aggressive with that thing you really got more
penetration, more force, and more killing blows.
THEO: I have a lot of faith in that weapon that it could do
the job. JOEL: Good deal.
I have a lot of faith in you that you could get out of
a sticky situation.
THEO: It's good to know, MIKE: Handle your business.
THEO: If you don't train full out,
then you are not going to be able to practice full out,
so I put my mind there, let's go, you know, life or death,
its felt good.
Jimmy: time to go, let's go, let's go.
NARRATOR: BACK IN NEW YORK JIMMY AND MARK HAVE DEVISED A BUG OUT
PLAN FOR DANIEL AND JAY.
BUT WHETHER THE TWO WOULD BE PREPPERS CAN EXECUTE IT
IS ANOTHER QUESTION.
JIMMY: They have to move quickly so we are going to force them
to pack their bags, and get to the water,
and give them 30 minutes to do it all.
MARK: Mental toughness, physical toughness,
and what it takes to really execute their plan.
JIMMY: Let's go boys! MARK: We gotta go!
JIMMY: You're down to 3 minutes Mark: you are evaccing out here.
JIMMY: Go, go! Now move. Move!
JAY: Daniel! MARK: Grab your bleep, let's go.
JIMMY: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4 3 - You're done, let's go.
Here we go...
MARK: The elevator is not working, take the stairs.
Secure that bug out bag when you get outside so you don't lose
your gear.
JIMMY: Let's go, let's go, let's go, faster, faster, faster,
outside, outside, outside, outside!
MARK: Now Jay you are athletic, but let's see how athletic
you are under a load.
DANIEL: Are we actually running?
MARK: Ok, but we need to get to the park into some cover.
You can move as fast as your slowest man but I am going to be
on you...
Now keep looking ahead where can obvious threats be?
Threats from the rooftops, lookouts.
JIMMY: All clear is always a good word to use.
JAY: We're all clear.
NARRATOR: AS DANIEL AND JAY MOVE THROUGH CENTRAL PARK,
THEY SEE THE LANDSCAPE WITH NEW EYES.
MARK: Cheking in, Staying spread out you're nice and dispersed.
Check for potential threat areas.
This is nice and open. You wanna see what's going on.
Spread out some more so you're nice and staggered.
You wanna also see what else is going on in the street
if you can.
See if there is any chaos. Keep moving.
JAY: It's scary, I feel like, I feel panicked.
I feel like I don't have any of my wits about me,
I'm not thinking, I'm just listening,
but if it's just us I am going to have to have this voice
in my head.
And be thinking about this stuff.
MARK: Lets go, get across, get across, get across.
Get through the tunnel, let's go.
JAY AND DANIEL HAVE BEEN DOING BETTER THAN JIMMY EXPECTED
SO JIMMY UPS THE ANTE.
Fight him off, fight him off. Yeah! There it is,there it is.
Good work, good work, good work, good work.
Get him off of you.
Don't let him get your stuff here.
Take care of him Jay.
Get out there, get out there, get moving.
He's secured.
Get him on the ground and get, there you go.
Get your gear and get out of there. He's done.
JIMMY: Move on, move on, move on.
Let's go; let's let's go.
MARK: All right guys, hold up, we're going to talk about
what just happened. JIMMY: I thought it was great.
You were ready to throw the jab; you let him get too close
to your body though.
But he almost uncorked that bat, you would have hit him. Ok?
But you did a great job, I like the fire, man.
I'm totally shocked.
I have to admit I've never seen anybody get that quickly ready
to *** back the bat, and you were going to use it as a
jabbing weapon.
That's exactly what you need to do.
You guys assessed the threat, ok.
NARRATOR: DANIEL AND JAY PASSED THIS TEST WITH FLYING COLORS,
BUT MORE CHALLENGES LIE AHEAD.
BACK IN COLORADO, IT'S TIME TO PUT SOME OF THEO'S NEWLY LEARNED
SKILLS IN IMPROVISED WEAPONS TO A TEST.
MIKE: Oh yeah! Get mean! JOEL: Yeah!
NARRATOR: THE QUESTION IS, DOES THEO HAVE THE KILLER INSTINCT?
MIKE: How do you use the terrain to defend your area?
JOEL: This is a perfect ambush sight;
these rocks are perfect for making you enemy go where you
want them to go, or food, if you want deer to go into a certain
spot or elk. THEO: Alright.
JOEL: As the enemy approaches, we would block them into
position, and ambush them a high position.
MIKE: You've got a small pit here for a fire trench.
That is going to make either the enemy or the game stop.
JOEL: Why don't we go up top and put uh, some rocks up there?
And kind of prep the ambush sight so to speak.
THEO: Ok.
MIKE: You want to make sure that you've come up here;
you've identified the areas where you are going to be
shooting, or throwing.
You can throw the spear; you can use some type of other
improvised weapon.
You've got your ammunition pre-positioned up here,
and it is matter of trying it over and over again,
because think about it as far as what is over you,
what is to your left & right, that could impend your,
or effect your ability to actually hit the target.
THEO: Ok.
MIKE: So we probably ought to knock back some of these
branches. Here, watch yourself.
NARRATOR: FOR THEO'S NEXT EXERCISE,
MIKE USES THE MOST BASIC OF WEAPONS - ROCKS.
MIKE: OK Theo so as you can see from up here we've got good
view, good vision of our impact area,
why don't you go ahead and grab one of those,
and uh launch it and get a feel for it.
THEO: Alright. MIKE: There ya go.
Now how affective to you think that would be?
THEO: I think that would be good because these rocks weigh a good
15, 20lbs.
MIKE: Yes, see if you can hit that one. There you go.
THEO: If that was to descend on somebody, that thing is done.
MIKE: You are picking up the concept that is the most
important thing.
Using the terrain as an improvised weapon.
That is in this environment, if you were looking from a second
or third story window in an urban environment,
it is going to be able to ward off an angry mob, a crowd,
someone who knows that they are trying to come into your space.
JOEL: Right Theo, there is an angry mob behind us;
we've got to get to the ambush sight.
MIKE: Lets go, get up there, get up there, move, move come on!
NARRATOR: NOW JOEL AND MIKE HAVE SET UP A TEST TO SEE IF THEO HAS
WHAT IT TAKES TO PROTECT HIMSELF.
SOME ROCKS AND A CONTROLLED FIRE ARE HIS ONLY DEFENSE.
THEO: You want it? Come get it...
Nobody is taking my stuff, URGH!
WOOHOO!
MIKE: It has to come from right here,
before anything else can happen, you have to know are you willing
to survive, or are you going to lay down and cower and die.
THEO: That fire line was crazy, it lit up way more powerful
than I thought it would; That was a fire that was a fire!
And so I mean if I was on the receiving end of that I would be
shocked for just long enough, I believe it would work because
there is nothing like seeing that happen, for real,
and then bam, you take care of your business.
The more prepared you are, the less you have to worry about
your wits coming up with something on the spot,
you already got it laid out.
NARRATOR: THEO HAS PASSED HIS FIRST TEST AND IS ON HIS WAY
TO BECOMING A SERIOUS PREPPER.
MIKE: When that flame went off, Theo said to me,
all you need is that split second.
THEO: The fact is this is preparedness;
this is doomsday preparedness.
And so you've got to take a step forward,
and uh be proactive in your own defense, it's your life.
You know...
NARRATOR: REACHING THE WEST SIDE OF MANHATTAN DANIEL AND JAY ARE
CLOSING IN ON THEIR GOAL: THE HUDSON RIVER.
IT'S TIME TO BUG OUT.
MARK: So after that long movement through the parks,
now we're going to move to the water and test their skills
again.
JIMMY: This water's gonna be real difficult,
it'd be difficult for anybody that's not under duress,
not under pressure, and not physically exhausted.
We'll see how they do.
MARK: Inaudible Watch your footing.
All right guys let's go.
You've got a minute to get your gear out.
It looks like there's some people forming up on there,
the bridge, so let's go.
We gotta hurry up and get out of here.
Down packs off.
NARRATOR: ENTERING THE RAFT CAN SEEM VERY SIMPLE BUT IT CAN
PROVE TO BE A VERY DANGEROUS POINT IN THE VOYAGE.
JIMMY: Ok, if you guys can't get this done, you are dead.
MARK: Now secure that.
JIMMY: Make sure that you keep your center of gravity low.
As you enter you can either lower in forward,
or you can either lower in backwards.
Get to your knees this will keep your center of gravity low in
the boat. Jay: OK.
NARRATOR: THE CURRENT ON HUDSON CAN BE FAST AND DANGEROUS.
MARK AND JIMMY AREN'T SURE HOW THE NOVICE PREPPERS WILL DO.
JIMMY: OK, Now get deployed. MARK: Now get rolling.
Push off, push off, push off.
JIMMY: In concert, watch. There you go.
MARK: Escape from Manhattan.
Good guys.
Very good, very good. Look at you just cruising.
JIMMY: I think they're gonna make it.
I think they're gonna do all right.
NARRATOR: FOR JIMMY AND MARK, IT'S THE END OF A JOB WELL DONE,
THEY'RE READY TO GIVE THEIR NOVICE STUDENTS HIGH MARKS
BEFORE THEY RETURN TO COLORADO.
DANIEL AND JAY HAVE DISCOVERED A PART OF THEMSELVES THEY DIDN'T
KNOW THEY HAD.
JAY: So honestly this is like a paradigm shift for me.
I don't have to wonder what would happen,
this is what we would do if something like this happens.
DANIEL: Definitely adrenalin was going through my veins and I was
in attack mode myself.
NARRATOR: AT THE FORGE STORE A NEW PREPPER IS ARRIVING.
JOEL: Hey how ya doin? BILLY: Hey, what's up man?
JOEL: Whoa. BILLY: Don't worry, it's clear.
JOEL: All right, let me see it real quick.
BILLY: No problems.
He was a little put off when I first walked in with the AR15,
but he just wanted to know if I was being safe with it.
NARRATOR: BILLY WANTS TO HONE HIS GUN SKILLS AND LEARN HOW TO
LIVE OFF THE GRID AND PROVIDE FOOD AND SHELTER FOR HIS FAMILY
IN A POST APOCALYPTIC WORLD.
BILLY: My wife and I mostly focus on the possibility of uh,
economic collapse if we happen to see a second depression,
great depression that's something we want to be
prepared for.
JOEL: He grew up in the city; he grew up in PG County,
right outside of DC, that's a tough urban, area.
BILLY: So we moved out here just to have a better life for
our daughter. JOEL: Right
BILLY: Not have her deal with the stuff that
we did growing up.
JOEL: Talk to me a little bit about what you're trying to do.
BILLY: You know the next big step is food storage
JOEL: Ok.
BILLY: and how do we eventually live off the grid?
JOEL: So, you're saying that you want to be off the grid get your
family prepared. You've moved into a safer location,
you've secured some firearms for protection.
You don't have food you don't have water.
BILLY: Right yeah.
JOEL: You have a wife and a child.
BILLY: And a long way to go.
JOEL: You need to step up and really get into this.
NARRATOR: BILLY HAS BIG IDEAS AND A THIRST FOR KNOWLEDGE BUT
JOEL ISN'T TOO IMPRESSED WITH BILLY'S ACTUAL READINESS.
JOEL: My first impression of Bill is he's a little bit of
a mall ninja.
You know, a guy that has a lot of knowledge in his head,
seen a lot of YouTube videos, read a lot of books,
maybe some comic books, but didn't have a lot of practical
application. That looks pretty nice.
BILLY: I wanted to get some optics on here.
This is my first AR and I haven't had a chance to get
this sighted in. JOEL: Ok.
NARRATOR: BUT JOEL DOESN'T WANT TO SELL BILLY HIGH TECH SCOPE
UNTIL HE KNOWS HOW TO USE THE IRON SIGHTS - THE BUILT IN METAL
SIGHTING DEVICE ON TOP OF THE RIFLE.
JOEL: So you haven't shot this yet you just got this brand new?
BILLY: No I haven't put my eyes through it yet.
JOEL: You always wanna be able to fall back on your iron sights
So the very first thing we need to do is do what's called a BZO
or battle sight zero. BILLY: Ok.
JOEL: So that's basically just sighting it in so you can hit
something at, you know twenty five yards up to a hundred yards
BILLY: That's what I'm looking for.
NARRATOR: TO GIVE BILLY HIS FIRST LESSON IN USING A RIFLE
PROPERLY, THE TEAM TAKES HIM TO A DESERTED SITE IN THE MOUNTAINS
MARK, THE WEAPONS SPECIALIST, STEPS IN TO SHOW BILLY THE
OPTIMUM PLACE TO PUT HIS EYE AND PLACE HIS BODY
FIRST, HE NEEDS TO SET WHAT PEOPLE WHO KNOW GUNS CALL
BATTLE SIGHT ZERO.
MARK: You know a lot of people they go to the gun store and
they're like oh man I'm gonna get this high speed awesome
two thousand dollar weapon, and these big optics,
and they go and they try to shoot it and they're not hitting
the target. Ok?
So the first thing you always wanna do is you wanna zero
the weapon.
Now your zero is probably going to be different from Melody's.
BILLY: No kidding. MARK: Yeah.
Based on our bodies, how we look over the weapon,
how we have the weapon on our shoulder.
BILLY: I didn't know that. MARK: Yeah.
Now we're going to shoot three rounds, go check our target,
see if we have to make any adjustments to the weapon,
fire three rounds again, make any necessary adjustments and
then fire four rounds.
We should have a zero by that point.
BILLY: Makes sense.
MARK: Safety rules when handling the weapon,
muzzle awareness at all times, keep the weapon pointed down
range. BILLY: Yup I gotcha.
MARK: Get in a prone position, laying down;
Aim center mass on that target. Focus on the front sight tip.
Front sight tip is centered in your rear sight.
Pull your hand completely to the rear.
Couple deep breaths, then when you're ready you may commence
fire.
Ok. Go ahead and put the weapon on safe,
pull the magazine out of the weapon,
pull the bolt to the rear, lock it.
BILLY: A lot of pressure when everybody's watching me.
Let's hope I hit the uh boxes at all.
JOEL: It's a tight group. MARK: There's a group.
Look at that.. You're just off target.
JOEL: That's great, it's great. Good job.
MARK: That's a good group. BILLY: Thank you.
MARK: We just gotta adjust it.
So we're gonna have to move you to the right,
and we're gonna have to move you down,
so in this case we want to bring the runs down,
so we're going to raise the front sight post up.
Now we're going to move the rear elevation knobs to bring
the rounds to the right, which is actually going to move
this to the left.
BILLY: It's like bowling. MARK: It is. All right you set?
BILLY: Yeah, I think so.
Ok, I brought you down too much and I didn't bring you over
enough.
Better grouping over right here with these two rounds,
this one's a little bit off.
So I brought you down a little bit too much and we need to move
you over some more.
OK, now you have four rounds for this stream of fire.
BILLY: Ok.
MARK: All right looks like we got you in there.
BILLY: Nice.
JOEL: Good shooting. MARK: Good shooting. Good group.
BILLY: Thank you.
MARK: For having never shot your weapon before you maintained
a decent group.
With more practice you can get that group tighter and tighter
and tighter. BILLY: Awesome
MARK: If you look down range,
we got a little watermelon target set up for you.
BILLY: Ohh yes, look at that.
MARK: Alright Billy so this is the leader of the mob coming
to get you, coming to get your wife, take your daughter,
take your gear, what are you gonna do about it?
BILLY: I'm gonna take him out. MARK: They're coming for you.
Fire when ready. EVERYONE: Yeah!
BILLY: That's awesome. MARK: Good job.
One shot, one kill.
BILLY: This was really my first experience with rifles.
I don't know if I wanna call it beginners luck,
but uh let's see where it goes.
NARRATOR: BILLY IS LEARNING HIS WEAPON.
BUT THAT'S JUST THE BEGINNING.
SHOWING HIM AND HIS FAMILY SURVIVAL TACTICS COMES NEXT.
BEFORE BILLY RECIEVES HIS NEXT LESSON A NEW CLIENT
WITH BIG IDEAS OF HIS OWN ARRIVES AT THE STORE.
TYLER: I'm 25 years old; if bleep hits the fan I'll be
one of the few that survive.
NARRATOR: TYLER SCRABLE BELIEVES HE'S PREPPED AND READY
TO SURVIVE AN APOCALYPTIC EVENT.
HE'S COME TO THE FORGE TO SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING MORE FOR HIM
TO LEARN.
JIMMY STARTS BY GOING THROUGH HIS BUG OUT VEHICLE AND GEAR.
TYLER: you got it man.
MIKE: They can hear you coming from miles away with that.
JIMMY: Watch that gents. MIKE Watch your head.
TYLER: Alright. MIKE: Yeah, Ok.
JIMMY: So let's look at this thing. Let's break it down.
Now you can pull everything apart because it's your rig
and you have it set up the way you want.
Exteriorly looking at it obviously compass, whistle,
noisy water bottle.
MIKE: Conceptual thing is everything needs to be tight so
when you move it moves with you.
You don't want to have your backpack loose or sleeping bag
and this stuff loose, so that's a conceptual thing we'll have
to fix. So let's open it up and see what you got.
TYLER: Alright.
MIKE: Wow, this is tactical, is this is blue bunny,
I almost want to have him put that on,
have you bounce around like an little animal.
TYLER: I go camping and this is my outdoor stuff for my dry
stuff there. A pair of sweatpants and a fleece there.
MIKE: Ok, is that cotton? TYLER: It is cotton.
MIKE: All right Jimmy what do you think about cotton?
JIMMY: So cotton, worst thing in the world.
When it get's wet it's gunna keep you cold,
really tough to dry.
We're gonna look towards wools, multilayer's,
they dry very quickly, hide the body odors.
TYLER: Ok.
This in here I got uh, these are my medical supplies.
I have a bunch of different pills that I take with me.
MIKE: What what wha, JIMMY: This guy like to party.
TYLER: I have IB Profin in there, Tylenol,
MIKE: It needs to be labeled, and also rotated,
you need to know when this stuff expires.
JIMMY: And the other thing is the zip-lock bags are not going
to keep them fresh, a little drop of water and every pill
you have is done.
Absolutely lose all their value. TYLER: OK..
NARRATOR: WHILE TYLER THINKS HE'S READY FOR ANYTHNG,
THE TEAM IS UNIMPRESSED
MIKE: Alright, what else do we have?
TYLER: Uh, just the flint stick. Jimmy: Ty's gear is so weak.
Powder blue sweat gear? For camping? Maybe.
But when the bleep hits the fan, he's the first one to die.
MIKE: Right, now keep this in mind,
is that you got a lot of straps and stuff.
All this stuff is loose, and not tied down tight,
something you want always want to keep in mind, is that
things need to be tightly rolled,
even if this strap is not being used, you roll it up,
put a little bit of black tape on it,
its nice and tight and neat.
Those small things go along way when this is all you are
carrying.
TYLER: All right so do I get a chance to redeem myself?
MIKE: Why don't you take that out to the car, bring those
couple of weapons in, and we'll talk about that next.
NARRATOR: FURTHER UP THE MOUNTAIN - 9100 FEET HIGH -
BILLY AND HIS WITH HIS WIFE ARE GETTING ANOTHER REALITY CHECK.
JOEL'S TAKEN THEM TO SEE WHAT HIS DREAM OF AN OFF THE GRID
LIFE IS LIKE IN PRACTICE.
THIS WILL HELP THE NEW PREPPERS DETERMINE IF THEY'RE CUT OUT FOR
AN OFF THE GRID LIFESTYLE.
JOEL: So Scott these guys wanna live off the grid.
They come from a kind of urban setting.
I told him about you and about your situation.
SCOTT: Alright, fantastic! You guys want to take a tour?
BILLY & MELODY: Yeah absolutely. SCOTT: Alright!
So we split all our own wood, that's how we heat our home
in the wintertime.
BILLY: How much wood do you need to get through the winter?
SCOTT: The amount that I can stack here only lasts me
three week. BILLY: Wow!
SCOTT: You constantly have to be working.
Constantly cutting firewood.
Constantly working on the buildings, improving the fences.
Improving the situations for my livestock so that other animals
and predators can't get in.
JOEL: It's like a second job.
You work forty hours a week at your regular job,
you come home here and get another forty or fifty hours of
work to do on this property.
SCOTT: Oh I could work here full time,
all the time and still have plenty of work to do.
Have you guys ever lived in the mountains?
BILLY: No definitely not.
Always been pretty uh urban/suburban.
SCOTT: We moved out here about twelve years ago.
We lived in a cabin for about two years to see if we'd really
like it.
A lot of people come up here and buy a place right away and
pretty blown away by the winters we get.
BILLY: Oh yeah.
SCOTT: 8 months of winter you gotta be willing to deal
with that. BILLY: Adapt. Adjust. For sure.
SCOTT: As far as the alpacas we've got three llamas,
two alpacas.
I raised those for packing into the back country.
In an emergency situation you have hundreds of pounds of meat.
We raise chickens, we've got fourteen chickens we'll get
fourteen eggs a day.
All right watch your step.
BILLY: It's pretty hot, its tropical.
SCOTT: So right now it's ninety-five degrees in here.
As you can see we've got a lot of things in progress.
One of the issues we have at 9000 feet is a short growing
season so the greenhouse is the only way to grow.
MELODY: Cool!
SCOTT: And we have an automatic watering system.
My goal is to be self-reliant. Self-sufficient.
I'm looking to provide as much as I can for my family based on
the property I have.
Living off the grid and up here, you're ten miles at least from
the nearest emergency response vehicle.
JOEL: You basically are the first responder,
so if something happens you're the first guy on the scene.
You have no paramedics no nothing.
You have to be the paramedic.
BILLY: I've read plenty of books on it but never had any hands on
training so that's a very valid point.
Of being kinda I guess stuck up here, you know,
when things go down.
NARRATOR: FOR BILLY IT'S AN EYE OPENING EXPERIENCE - PROVIDING
FOOD AND SHELTER OFF THE GRID IS FAR MORE DIFFICULT AND INVOLVES
MORE SKILL AND RISK THAN HE HAD IMAGINED.
SCOTT: Up here the kind of weather we get,
I've gotten eight feet of snow in three days
BILLY: Wow.
SCOTT: And when that happens I was snowed in for six days.
JOEL: That minivan BILLY: Not gonna make it.
JOEL: It's not gonna cut it.
BILLY: A lot of work to do man, a lot of work to do.
But I'm looking forward to it.
I'm actually still pretty excited about it.
It seems like you're pretty happy with what you got at
this point. So uh...
SCOTT: Oh I definitely am but it's taken over ten years
for me to get to this point. It takes a little time.
BILLY: It's been an honor.
You definitely opened my eyes to a lot of things that I didn't
know about, so I really appreciate that you're a man
of the land. Scott's place - It was amazing.
That's really where we wanna be and I actually hope to talk to
him more about what he's doing and how we can get there.
NARRATOR: SINCE BILLY AND HIS WIFE STILL LIVE IN AN URBAN
ENVIRONMENT, JOEL TAKES THEM TO CENTRAL CITY,
A NEARBY TOWN TO SIMULATE AN EMERGENCY BUG OUT.
JOEL: This is Armageddon so people are gonna be
assaulting you, they're gonna wanna steal your stuff,
so have that mind set as we go into it,
cause, you're gonna be encountering threats here.
MARK: Some of the things we've done in the military we've done
a terrain walk. Like in the woods.
Today we're just gonna do an urban terrain walk and talk
about some of the threats you could possibly encounter getting
out of dodge.
BILLY: Right. MARK:OK?
NARRATOR: JOEL KNOWS THAT THE PICTURESQUE MOUNTAIN TOWN WOULD
LOOK VERY DIFFERENT IN AN ARMAGEDDON SITUATION.
JOEL: This is Armageddon so people are gonna be assaulting
you, they're gonna be wanting to steal your stuff,
so have mind set as we go into it, you know,
you're gonna be encountering threats here.
MARK: So spread out.
BILLY: So she's gonna be on the right.
MARK: She's gonna be in... BILLY: I'm gonna be on the left.
But I'm taking; you're taking the rear.
YMARK: You want to be staggered so you can spread out some.
BILLY: Ok.
NARRATOR: MARK PROVIDES BILLY AND MELODY WITH POTENTIONALLY
LIFE SAVING TIPS FOR URBAN ESCAPE IN THE EVENT THAT RULE OF
LAW HAS BROKEN DOWN.
MARK: You're gonna cover her side.
BILLY: Right.
MARK: Every three to five steps you're checking your six;
you're checking your rear to make sure no one's coming up
on you.
Now remember right now you guys are kinda walking on line.
But you want to be staggered and you want to have what I call
implicit communication.
You can get a simple nod and then know you're gonna move up
you're gonna cover his side.
Those windows are a potential threat;
these alleyways are a potential threat.
Every corner, every door, someone can be in there.
So you still wanna spread out some more.
MELODY: OK.
MARK: These drain they can be ***-trapped.
There can be a grenade in there; there can be some guy in there
trying to get ya.
Remember we're getting out of dodge we're getting
to our homestead location in the mountains.
BILLY: Right.
MARK: If someone's chasing you speed offers security.
You don't want to get too close to the building if someone
shoots at the building: ricochets.
So you want to be 4-5, 4-6 ft.
away from the sides of the building.
NARRATOR: PUTTING BILLY AND MELODY THROUGH THIS DRILL HELPS
THEM VISUALIZE THE REAL DANGERS THEY WOULD FACE ESCAPING IN AN
EMERGENCY.
MARK: Good job guys.
BILLY: If this is a real scenario,
thinking about all those threats,
it's really kind of mind-blowing.
MARK: What's your daughter doing,
how much gear's on your back, am I moving up hill?
Is my primary route blocked?
Is it compromised, when do I need to go to an alternate
route?
NARRATOR: IT'S CLEAR TO THE TEAM AND TO BILLY HOW MUCH NEEDS TO
LEARN - BUT IT'S JUST AS CLEAR THAT HE'S COMMITTED TO BECOMING
A REAL SURVIVALIST.
BILLY: It was extremely informative.
Uh, these guys really know what they were doing and it was
really a pleasure to work with them.
Mark: Preparation is constant.
Right? Never stops. BILLY: Yup
MARK: Alright.
BILLY: If it comes down to it, we my wife and my daughter are
gonna survive.
There's nobody that's gonna stop that.
NARRATOR: TY SCRABLE SEES HIMSELF AS A PROFICIENT
SURVIVALIST - HE'S COME TO THE FORGE TO GET JIMMY AND MIKE
TO ASSESS HIS READINESS.
AND SO FAR THEY HAVEN'T LIKED WHAT THEY'VE SEEN.
NOW HE'S TRYING TO PROVE TO THE TWO EX MARINES THAT
HE'S THE REAL DEAL. HE'S PACKING 22 AND 45 CALIBER.
JIMMY: Mentally what happens when you hit something,
I don't know if you've ever hit flesh with a round and seen what
happens, it's devastating, and it's a mental thing that
you have to get through.
We've found that watermelons usually do encompass the same
type of density a human head would.
Good, now slide back.
As you pull it back that round should eject.
MIKE: Pull it fast.
NARRATOR: BEFORE A SHOT IS FIRED,
JIMMY SPOTS A PROBLEM WITH TY'S WEAPON.
JIMMY: There is something wrong with these magazines,
there should be plenty of play in this magazine,
your springs are too tight, for this little bit of a magazine.
MIKE: Alright, well we have enough rounds in here to get
started.
JIMMY: Yeah, Going hot, range is going hot.
Slap it in there. There you go.
Now, rack around. There you go.
MIKE: OK. JIMMY: Live fire.
TYLER: Oh? MIKE: Yeah it misfired.
JIMMY: Misfired. Go ahead and rack it.
Ok, now you're gonna push your bolt forward.
OK you're your gonna put your weapon back on safety.
You are going to drop your magazine.
MIKE: Finger off the trigger. JIMMY: Finger off the trigger!
Drop that magazine now wrap that round out.
There you go.
OK Remember what I said about your magazines?
That is a magazine feed problem; this weapon just failed you,
now you have a 4lb paperweight.
MIKE: So at this point I wouldn't recommend shooting
this weapon any more until you get it checked out.
Because one it's not safe and two if you really need
to engage with it, you are going to get killed.
TYLER: OK.... MIKE: So let's look the uh 45.
TYLER: My 45.
MIKE: Yeah let's see the other 45.
Have you ever shot one before? TYLER: Yes I have.
MIKE: Ok, so it's going to be the same thing;
we'll get you a couple of rounds.
TYLER: Alright, are we ready to go live?
JIMMY: We are ready to go live. TYLER: Alright.
JIMMY: Let's take a look at your stance OK?
TYLER: OK.
JIMMY: OK one thing I want to talk to you about now
you don't want your thumbs overlapping,
because when this slide comes back,
its taking off the top of one of your thumbs.
TYLER: OK JIMMY: Ok, very, very painful.
It's also going to get this gun very comfortable in this groove
of your hand. TYLER: Mmhmm.
JIMMY: Last thing is you want to make sure your weight
is slightly forward, so this doesn't pop back and bust
you open. Mike: Right...
There you go, you don't want to be back on your heels.
Bend your knees a little bit. JIMMY: There you go.
MIKE: There you go, that's good. JIMMY: Good posture.
MIKE: You've got 2 rounds in there, good, there you go.
LIVE FIRE!
LIVE FIRE. Safety is off. Engage the target.
MIKE: Don't anticipate it. TYLER: Oooo
MIKE: Yup see you anticipated it.
TYLER: Well it's not, going back.
MIKE: OK, go ahead, tout it JIMMY: Put it on safe.
TYLER: Shall I take this out? MIKE: Take the magazine out.
NARRATOR: TY'S ATTEMPT TO PROVE HIMSELF IS NOT WORKING OUT
THE WAY HE PLANNED.
MIKE: Rack it back. JIMMY: Misfeed.
TYLER: JEEZ, both of them are goin!
JIMMY: OK, weapon off. Let's take it down here.
Hey stay back here. He has got to get that round out.
Towards the burm Mike? MIKE: Yeah.
NARRATOR: A BULLET IS LODGED IN THE CHAMBER,
A POTENTIALLY DEADLY SITUATION.
JIMMY: If he is out with some buddies maybe that round does
come out, unglued; it does rip off his hand.
You know that could be fatal.
Put it on safe, we are going to have to box the weapon.
That weapon is not considered safe.
MIKE: I can't get it to disassemble either.
JIMMY: Alright, Mike I'm coming with the box.
NARRATOR: JIMMY AND MIKE ADVISE HIM ON THE SAFEST WAY
TO TRANSPORT HIS WEAPON.
JIMMY: So what happens here is when you transport that,
that weapon has to be in the back, facing not into traffic,
it has to be facing one of the sides.
MIKE: The safest thing we can do.
I can't get it to fire, I can't get it to dissemble we treat it
as a loaded weapon.
NARRATOR: JIMMY AND MIKE HAVE MADE THEIR ASSESSMENT - TY IS
NOWHERE NEAR THE HARDCORE PREPPER HE THOUGHT HE WAS.
TYLER: Thank you, I learned a lot,
and I still got a lot to learn obviously. But uh..
MIKE: We all do. But don't ever stop learning.
JIMMY: Two out of two weapons failing,
I am glad he came out with us.
TYLER: Sure made me realize I was more of a camper than
a survivalist.