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Day 143



1700 hrs



One of the things I did notice at the pageant conference was girls texted probably five times an hour, now the cell phones are at the bottom of their rucksacks.Hopefully one day we can use them to call home but the odds of that are slim, because everyone one is probably dead. For one, nobody is on the other end and we're constantly moving in a mountain range so you couldn't use them if they did work, so that's all in the past.

Most of the girls are…

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Day 136

1345 hrs

Our reconnaissance patrols have noticed more and more refugees are walking down the rural roads in groups, looking like a wild herd of game in Africa, the term safety in numbers never applied more than now. A lone military Humvee with a .50 cal M2 in the turret, fired a good 30 - 40 rounds with a 5/1 mix of tracer rounds as it sped through the abandon cars while going down the road. Refugees hit the ground as the 700 gr tracers were hitting a…

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Day 132





0700 hrs





The Spanish Conquistadors first intoduced the horse to New Mexico during the 1500's, now we use several horses we have found running free on some of the ranches we have occupied for reconnaissance patrols. Some girls from the pageant are expert horse riders, and are training others to ride. Our horses can carry lots of supplies and now our patrols are going farther and farther out. We have used dirt bikes and ATV's in the past but they tend to… Continue

Day 113

1345 hrs

Our patrols have found lots of different compound bows among the many abandon trucks and cars on the road and in some abandon trailers in the past several weeks, So we now have hundreds of arrows both broadheads and practice point and have put them to good use after hours and hours of training. Our patrols have used them to take out individual infected at close range without drawing attention to themselves and wasting a 9mm round from our HK…

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