A Green Beret’s Guide to Improvised Home Defense, Part 2

Monday, September 5, 2016
By Paul Martin

Jeremiah Johnson
ReadyNutrition.com
September 4th, 2016

“Look around….choose your own ground.”

– “Breathe” by Pink Floyd, album: “The Dark Side of the Moon.”

Here we go, ReadyNutrition Readers, with “Part 2” on the series on prepping your home turf for battle. In Part 1, we covered the things needed for those in a rural and suburban setting. Now we’re going to focus our efforts on similar measures for those in densely-populated suburbs and cities. As you have probably deduced, combat operations in a city area and the preps for them have a whole host of different factors for you to consider. In the service, such operations were referred to as MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain), and there are a number of military publications you can research online to cover such a broad topic.

`There are a number of these factors that need to be mentioned. We mentioned some terms such as cover and concealment in the first article. To refresh, cover protects and can hide you, concealment usually hides you with a slight protection factor in many instances. In an urban environment, there are many structures in a firefight to provide you with cover, such as brick or masonry buildings, and also large public works structures such as tunnels and concrete subway and sewer accesses and portals. Due to the increased amount of structures that are very durable in nature, cover is more readily available in a city, and can also by its nature conceal you.

Conversely, this deals with the exterior of buildings. The interiors are different matters. Drywall (the universal construction “substance”) provides minimal or no protection from small arms fire. Another drawback in high rises or townhomes are the windows…great for light, but not great for either providing concealment or cover for you. The greatest challenge that you will face, however, is in the numbers of people you encounter in an urban environment.

“World War Z,” the movie with Brad Pitt has an excellent illustration of this toward the beginning of the film when he and his family are in New Jersey. Watch the scene, and realize the sheer amount of humanity moving around you during a disaster, each one of them desiring the same things as you, with the same needs as you. Now to factor into all of this is where you live. Remember, if you live in a really big city (such as New York or Los Angeles), your primary consideration should always revolve around your city being a target in a nuclear war, in which case most of these considerations mentioned in this article are secondary in nature to what you will face with that.

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