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TRIBE HOW 3

We have established the need to train and condition yourself.  Super easy, barely an inconvenience.  The first one is going to be the hardest, so make it the easiest.  Ambushing an unsuspecting target is almost as simple as practice at the range.  Once you can get yourself to kill, then you get better at it.  Then you are no longer on an unequal standing with all the other dumb asses who had to fight their way through the die-off, as you were safe and sound tucked into your underground hovel eating whole wheat crackers and freeze dried kangaroo.

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Remember, those that survived aboveground have in theory fought their way to the present.  If you didn’t engage in patrols of opportunity and ambushing, you will be at a disadvantage and would never be accepted into a group.  By this time, food is scarce, and that old antiquated notion of supporting “critical personnel” such as on-grid dependent doctors or fuel and spare parts dependent mechanics is being seriously questioned.  I have doubts you’ll get into a group because you hold some mystical future value.  But combat qualified?  There is an immediate need for that, you can be sure.

Just to reiterate, the thirty day 99% die-off is to the best of my ability to ponder and calculate logically a pretty darn good guess.  I mean to mislead no one here.  But I trust you understand that you NEVER assume anything when your life is on the line.  When you’ll checked that your weapon is loaded for the third time, it is because you have learned to NEVER assume.  I think after a month of no transportation in a system 100% dependent on transportation for every single thing, the die off will be largely complete.  Just don’t assume without verifying.

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Now, one trusts you also understand that being John Wayne alone isn’t enough to get you a place at the Big Boy table.  They have warriors.  Yes, they need more, because the antibiotics run out before the bullets ( those tribes that would in theory still be spraying and praying the countryside utilizing Industrial Oil Age logistics have already died off, the surviving groups actually having figured out no more ammo is en route from non-existing factories, some Bright Boy actually knowing 2+2=reality rather than fantasy ), and replenishing the ranks gets first priority.  But they must also be fed.

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If you can bring food to the new tribe ( one imagines a vetting process testing your martial abilities, then a negotiation ), you just might have purchased your initiation fee.  Just as a dowry proves the ability of future earnings and security ( now worthless in an economy of credit and debt ), a food stash AND combat experience proves that you are capable and intelligent.  It does more than prove you can survive.  Hell, cannibals and hookers can survive.  It proves you had the discipline and street smarts to be more than a survivor by luck.

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Now, this is also where your martial prowess becomes a necessary component.  Anyone that survived to this point obviously has steady nerves under fire, and can hit smaller targets than the broad side of a barn.  By your reputation or demonstration of ruthlessness, you have risen above the average infantryman in performance.  Remember, at this point you are a NON tribe member.  They could accept you provisionally with no intention of doing anything other than taking that food ( they are desperate by this time, the MRE’s and #10 cans of chili long gone, with dandelion stew on next week’s menu ).

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Remember our discussion on their fear and greed?  They must both fear you and covet your abilities to protect them by being on their side.  And, you brought food in.  Which is the great part of this equation.  You are spending the equivalent of ONE person being outfitted to bribe the tribe.  A large 330 gallon tote can be as low as $125 for a refurbished food grade unit.  A five gallon bucket holds 33 pounds of wheat.  330 gallons is 66 buckets, or a ton of wheat, literally.  40 bags at $10 a bag ( if unable to buy in bulk ).

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Most likely, your cost of wheat with storage container is under $600.  That was the initial guesstimate on what it would cost to arm one potential tribe member with a rifle, ammo and wheat.  For the same price, you get a whole tribe.  In theory, obviously.  Hell, the body count could be even higher than I’m imagining and there is literally no one left to join up with, at least not in a tribal structure.  There might be onesies and twosies of sad sacks still wandering around, being useless for much of anything.

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This is just playing the odds.  If you are wrong, you still have an extra five years of calories, to go with your other personal food stash no one ever gets to know about. Which you keep secret from everyone including the new wife.  And you keep through all circumstances.  Enter into the new tribe with a bit of exposed aboveground food storage, as camouflage.  Also have a buried in a separate location a small stash of silver and food you can quickly give up under torture or the threat thereof, as another insurance policy.

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If there is no tribe to join, you just make due with a clan or family and get to the most remote spot possible to homestead in relative safety.  Of course, how you would transport that wheat is problematic.  One bicycle load at a time, I imagine.  Say, 100 pounds maximum, pushing ( don’t max it out, to conserve tire spokes ).  Ten miles off the road over hiking or game trails. It won’t be fun, but you could do it pretty quick.  Then, from that new spot, a FURTHER  ten miles away remotely as a fall back to your hidden lair ( partially stockpiled ). 

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And for goodness sakes, plan on travelling however far it takes in the future to capture or buy a bride for the occupants, to avoid siring banjo players.  No plan is perfect, but consider this one as an alternative to conventional wisdom of staying in place with other useless idiots riding out the die-off.

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