Thank you for this S2. Just starting the video now but I was able to string my family and friends together on a simple baofeng network this week during Francine's impact and it was successful on all fronts (covered about 2 miles). That said, this is exactly the kind of content I look forward to. Keep up the good work, sir!
Fantastic! Glad to help, I know expectations are high and none of these tasks are particularly easy to learn or do. We've all gotta start somewhere though, and just by taking the first few steps you're already better off than most other people 👍
@@S2UndergroundI try to remind myself just this thing. Take stock of everything I’ve learned and prepped for rather than the things I need to still learn and buy.
Ive been doing some rudimentary gathering myself through social media and a scanner app. My local news isnt trustworthy after protecting a p3d0 that worked for them
@@latenightlive2982 my brother and I got our baofengs to work about three miles in urban conditions. We got the extended antenna on Amazon. Works pretty well, they fold and can be stewed on a go bag.
A year's worth of Intel training condensed in one hour, I can't begin to thank you for the tremendous value that this adds to the civilian prepping community. Thank you, sir.
Many years ago, when the Army still had steel pots and jeeps, I got detailed out of my infantry platoon to go work in S2 for a year. I learned two things really fast. First, the actual S2 needs proper comms--not just with the S3, but with scouts, recon, higher, and adjacent organizations, and sources from "outside" the group. Not just internet and radios, but secure voice, secure data, and most importantly, relationships with everyone. Intelligence is not just contextual work, but relationship based. Second, I learned that "processing" information is not enough. The whole shop has to be able to receive information, publish or forward to the right folks, AND understand the information and see both the challenges and opportunities it may present. In other words, one can not just be an analyst, one also needs to have a deep understanding of the operations and tactics of both your own organization and others. S2 tended to think in terms of threat analysis, but I watched the S2 get hammered daily in the TOC for not providing both potential threat "most likely actions" but also friendly "most likely actions" to the S3. ' Also, do not forget technical assessment and analysis. Someone has to be able to look at a new piece of gear or equipment that comes into possession and understand both how it works, and how it may affect both threat and friendly actions. We had a 4 person shop and if we had 8 personnel, sometimes that would not have been enough. And that is at battalion level in a light infantry unit. A heavier, and more mobile organization has a far larger AOR and AOI to cover.
Another lesson, if the S2 and S3 cannot work together seamlessly--nothing else works. Ops without intel is a coin flipping exercise and Intel without Ops is a guessing game.
@@nooneofconsequence7947 you can download the video. i would recommend asking chatgpt a step-by-step on how to download via Command Prompt (cmd) using yt-dlp as it can help you set up a lean method to download any video quickly using few prompt lines in the resolution and form you prefer (e.g. separate audio/video or combined, file format, compressed/uncompressed etc.)
@@nooneofconsequence7947get a bunch of USB drives and save this, get a copy of The Area Intelligence Handbook and digitize it and out it on them USB’s, get all your resources on them and make them by copy pasting your files, give em to friends
Here's my 2 minute summary of this 1hr video, colored by my (unfounded) opinions on it: There are 4 sets of responsibilities on the team 1: Analyst, the Brainiac He sees what's going on and then makes sure everybody can understand it. 2: Battle tracker, the Eye of Sauron: Keeps the battle tracker (think CoD style minimap) as up to date as possible, and keep a log of has previously happened. 3. Manager, Buffer Daddy: The mostly people to tell everybody else what the Intel shop has figured out. The buffer between the S2 shop and everybody else. Also backfills a lot of important but not immediate reports. 4. Future Ops, Oracle: The guy trying to figure out was is GOING TO happen, and mostly to be out there collecting their own data. Adjust to team size, divy out responsibilities in order of listing. Try not to have too many more than 4 people (per team), if you have 8 people or more set up shifts of 4 people. Remember: this is a volunteer force, plan around people, and all stardard leadership principles apply more so than in a military setting.
This is a pretty good synopsis. I'll add my own thoughts - see if you would agree with my assessment. Overall, the video was primarily a breakdown of the roles from a military setting. It isn't really clear exactly how it would translate to a civilian scenario. However, this isn't simply due to the variability in roles depending on the team size. I think the overall objective hasn't been defined for the citizenry. An Intel unit, ultimately, has a larger mission. Information is being gathered for a reason - there is a purpose. It's hard to justify all this just to give Ethel down the street a PowerPoint slide that won't make any sense to the average normie. I kind of envision an operational model that has two different modes. The first is just passive monitoring of the routine, day to day situation. The second is full deployment in response to an incident. Things are pretty uneventful (boring) where I'm at... not that it's a bad thing. Normally, the first 2 positions will be the Senior / Junior Analyst combo, but they will work independently, periodically comparing notes. Since we don't have all of the fancy DARPA satellites, we don't really have a reason for #2 to be stuck in front of a screen all day. In reality, we would have radios on in the background while we're doing stuff around the house and digging into stuff on social media on occasion. Best case scenario, if you hand a decent number of people involved in the community - just paying attention to what's going on - they could contact the team if they encounter anything unusual, so we could look into it. If you already have channels in place, information may as well travel in both directions. I like the idea of having a dedicated PR guy as member 3, but I think as a manager, it would be better served as more of a community organizer and not have much to do at an operational level. Their main role is dealing with the network of families and coordinating various events. Considering it will probably be tough to get a full roster anyhow, you really just need someone connected to the outside world that is loosely affiliated with your data collection. They need to understand what is being presented, so they can coordinate the necessary actions by the HOA and the Elks Lodge, etc. I would consider the 4th person more of a field agent that's out and about collecting HumInt... if they happen to have a drone... that's sick. Though, it would be more beneficial if they were just a sociable person with a bunch of contacts around town. Again, it would be optimal if this person is filling multiple roles. Ideally, this would be the comms guy if you had a team of operators that you were working with. Then if shit pops off, you can coordinate with them if necessary. At that point, the military framework becomes much more relatable. Even in non-combat scenarios - say a flood or something. Being able to act as HQ and relay comms to a response team that's going around by boat to rescue people. This just ties back into my original point - you kinda need some greater objective. If you're not really doing anything with the Intel you're gathering, you're collecting it just to collect it. You might as well be out there catching Pokemon. You don't really need a dedicated Intel operation unless there is a demand for it. If the situation doesn't really call for it, it's probably best to try to gain some proficiency in each of the 4 roles, so you can fill them if and when the need arises.
It's amazing how much a proper field intelligence operation can contribute. A historical note - A friend of mine's father was in the 101st Airborne (501st) in WWII and was assigned to an S2 unit after jumping into Holland on D-day. They went on constant recon patrols and one of his primary jobs was recovering the "Soldbuch", that little booklet that each German soldier was required to carry. It recorded all his unit assignments and payment locations, and the S2 units used these to reconstruct German movements. I'll always remember him telling me that one of the big reasons the Germans lost the war was all the intelligence they unwittingly provided in those little booklets.
From my personal experience, since my town was flooded in 2017, yeah 90% of your "civil defense force" job is going to be helping your family and maybe (if you care enough) your neighbors with things like food, power, shelter etc. with only like 10% or less being standing outside with your rifle to scare off the random hecklers that always appear after such events to either scam someone or steal their stuff.
Thank you for this, S2. Please do an individual video for person 1 and person 2. That is the most likely situation people will find themselves in, 1-2 people running the Civ S2 shop. In my vocation I am the IR Lead and i feel those skills would lend themselves well to running a Civ S2 shop, but i need a better understanding of the particulars, like this.
I am in a large 55+ community, in the desert, 49 miles from the open AZ/Mexico border. Bad stuff happening out here yet my neighbors tend to have their eyes wide shut. Very difficult to get people to even recognize the need for a community plan to defend ourselves. I started with a case of SUTS3 SMARTBOOKS distributed to the few I could get interested. We have some amazing knowledge, skills & abilities here, but knocking off years of cobwebs from retirement, golf, pickleball, poolside sun basking and age related atrophy has been a herculean task. I am going to look closer at your intel structure and getting briefings out to these people. They dont realize it, but we are easy prey when the situation heads south. Intel briefings might help bring them around. I want us to go down fighting albeit it wont be in the shade😅 Appreciate all you do - keep it coming. Wish us luck. Thank you 💜🙏💜
Awesome work. I'm in the four corners area. I work graveyards. I've seen MS13, Cartel, Coyotes and probably worse. We need more people like you. It's not going to get any better. Unfortunately I'm kinda a one man show right now but I keep my eyes and ears open, have good relations with local law enforcement and am working on upgrading my radio coms. ( Police, EMS, ECT are moving to encrypted digital at 800mhz. Just some minor upgrades and I should be able to pick up those transmissions.) in addition I have a digital library of everything from Bushcraft to military operations. I don't know many people interested in having copies or to connect with.
I am despondent because I see it as well, but the people around me are also eyes wide shut. Even most of my family. Their mantra is, "if it is not happening in my immediate environment or AO, then it doesn't affect or concern me.
Patrick Wood from technocracy news lives out there, but he had severest health issues lately. look for individualists among old school churches like e.g. the WELS. kingdom workers have a cool guy down there who knows what he does.
@@chrise-ih4ix no. Many of the systems use a standard encryption which, with right software, can be unencrypted. My local law enforcement apparently uses a double encryption method. EMS, Airport Traffic and Search and Rescue, I believe, are not encrypted. Actually EMS, I think is. Still DragonOS is a Linux based os designed for radio. As I mentioned, with a few upgrades it should be possible.
Glad to see folks trying. With Pre-SHTF, I agree that effort is needed. But "An Eagle cannot convince a flock of buzzards or turkeys to act differently". My hope is your flock are Eagles!
You are so right about coms being a priority. Here's an idea for some folks who are already interested in radio and don't have an excuse to buy a bunch of radio stuff. I already had a bunch of short range radios (FRS/GMRS) because I would hand them out to volunteers on events I used to be involved in. So now they are going to be handouts to my neighbors. I bought HF/VHF/UHF equipment and will add to it CB and Marine. I already have a scanner with a comprehensive list, including AIR and local utilities. If the internet is down, and media news is the "approved" news, I can still pull information from afar and disseminate it locally. If local internet bandwidth is just limited, then we can have individuals take pieces of things to monitor online and report in. If power is down for most people, we can limit talking on the radio to on-the-hour, etc. (edit: premature send😂)
Last night I had a dream, and I was going through Soldier readiness program, and a Sergeant was asking me the shops, S2,S3 and S6 Etc primary functions were. Curiously, I specifically remember the S2. Strangely, I was also enrolled in college to go to banking school.
I got the chance to lead a big team next year for an airsoft milsim 100+ people of various skill and im going to apply everything I've learned from your channel to prep the battle space and planning. Hoping what I've learned is useful and that i learn alot more from actually implementing things pays off long-term.
I’m calling on all Vets with PTSD to have a “TALK” with the top 20 donors to both political parties on the direction and future of our nation. People say what can we do it’s like chasing ghosts? Well all public news outlets have always tipped us off by saying, follow the money! So I’m calling on all Vets with PTSD to have a “TALK” with the top 20 donors to both political Parties on the direction and future of our country! I believe Guys like you have earned the right to conduct such a talk! If you are out there, I thank you for your service so guys like me can exercise our rights! I salute you!
One problem is that the minute you tell someone you want to set up a professional S2, they will probably blab about it. Compound that with my name was on the mailing list of the likes of Paladin Press and Loompanics.
S2 this is Comanche SIX Reconnaissance Report for AOR PINAL COUNTY 16 September 2024 SP 0755 West along ASR SASCO RP 1105 FOB RED ROCK 0804 observed 1 MAM (age 60-70) outside of his 1990s era red Toyota Tacoma picking up fired 9mm and 5.56mm casings vicinity 32°33'47"N 111°21'56"W. 0807 observed 1 MAM (age unknown) in a white 2020s Ford F250 with 2 dirt bikes in the truck bed vicinity 32°33'51"N 111°22'16"W. 0810 linked up with known prepared citizen and his partner concluding small arms training with Galil ACE 7.62x39, Draco 7.62x39, and Glock .40 vicinity 32°33'53"N 111°22'23"W. Observed 1 dual prop red and white small aircraft (5-8 PAX) on approach to Pinal Army Airfield with landing gear deployed. Took picture of the aircraft because it is an uncommon type for this airfield and appears civilian. 0837 observed 3-5 MAMs conducting farming operations vicinity 32°33'01"N 111°23'47"W. 0849-0908 observed known small arms training area and recovered approximately 7 pounds of spent brass caliber 9mm, 5.56mm, 7.72x39mm, and 30-06 vicinity 32°32'19"N 111°26'40"W. 0916-0925 observed known small arms training area and recovered approximately 40ea 6.5 Creedmore and 40ea 5.56mm. Trash indicates 5.56mm was Horanday 77g Black. 5.56mm brass has significant carbon residue indicating use in a gas operated weapon equipped with a silencer. Steel targets were observed vicinity 32°32'01"N 111°27'13"W and 32°32'25"N 111°27'43"W providing the training location with shots at 600 and 1780 yards respectively. 0926-0955 maneuvered to additional known training locations 32°31'22"N 111°26'30"W, 32°31'23"N 111°26'49"W, and 32°31'49"N 111°27'00"W. NSTR. 1007- 1029 Maneuvered to known small arms training location 32°31'47"N 111°25'54"W. Recovered approximately 4 pounds of spent brass caliber 9mm, 38 Super, 5.56mm, and 30-06. Recovered 9ea unfired 9mm rounds with damage (projectiles were smashed into the casing) indicating the weapon consistently failed to feed reliably. 5.56mm casings were covered with significant carbon indicating use in a gas operated weapon equipped with a silencer. 1035 observed a single stationary white Jeep Cherokee equipped with a roof nest and operated by a single mid 30s male with full beard vicinity 32°32'14"N 111°25'36"W. 1041 Recovered approximately 50 9mm casings vicinity 32°31'20"N 111°23'50"W. This is not a normal shooting location and no targets were identified. 1045-1056 Maneuvered to known small arms training location vicinity 32°30'45"N 111°23'52"W. NSTR. 1057-1105 Maneuvered East along ASR SASCO and RTB. Intelligence is the bread and peanut butter and Maneuver Warfare is my jam. Alive in Tucson
If one were to start practicing this stuff as a one-man-band, what would be the place to really start? Assuming one has full time employment, family, kids, online college classes, etc. It seems like preparing a weekly GRINTSUM wouldn't require you to be glued to your PC at every waking hour. Unlike grabbing your rifle to patrol your neighborhood, building intel is something you can actually practice in real life here and now before things get "bad enough"
You can get good exposure to this type thing in many county emergency management offices. Some even pay for advanced training. Even dispatch gets pretty good experience (and usually training from near zero KSAs). During any event - even training exercises - an EOC is good practice. It will blur the lines, between S2, S3, and S4 usually, but it is real life experience accessible without enlistment. If you go into it to intentionally learn, it will pay off. If nothing else you will learn how to gather and pass on information effectively.
I've been doing this work on and off for several years now and one of the things that I didn't expect was the level of isolation I have to keep that part of my life separate which means that I can't exactly stroll down to the VFW and talk tradecraft and I've had to learn to be judicious with what information to share and what not to share because let's be honest we all know things we just we didn't know so it's a lonely road
As a retired Analyst, this is a pretty good run down of how to organize a civilian S2 shop. It is absolutely right that expectation management needs to be done because people always expect Intel to know everything. Then they get upset when you don't.
Mike Shelby's "Area Intelligence Handbook" is pretty much this exact topic and all put into a nice book and is a good dummies' guide to intelligence operations. Thanks to S2's reading list I also got the Battle Staff SMARTbook. I also found a 2013 Army tactics field manual at half price books for cheap. If S2 published I'd preorder. His videos are good but books are nice especially with all the graphics to reference.,
I know a few people who are all about guns, guns, guns. I explain that I am not allowed to have that sort of thing, my name is on the wrong list so I can expect to be raided and detained at any time. I say I should serve "The Movement" with first aid or commo, and they just look at me.
I remember having to hand draw units and locations on a giant floor to ceiling map for 2 months down range. It took two of us to draw, one to track and gather updated info, and one fsnco to tell me to draw more clear-lier. That was just for one battalions battlespace.
Maybe I missed it, or maybe it is assumed; but as "S6" I'm focused on getting teams competent at reports. I see my job as gathering and delivering what S2 needs. Without reporting standards, we're just increasing the noise. Weather, ham chatter, local politics, regional issues, and such are easier to glean than something like, aprx 100 "mostly peaceful" protesters moving East on Central Ave, wearing black and red, at 2100, with umbrellas, helmets, sharp PVC and frozen bottles; they appear to be on a planned route.
Kind of an interesting comparison - the Incident Command System suggests 3-7 subordinate resources to 1 superior, with 5 being ideal. Anything less than 4 or more than 8, including the superior, requires a shuffle in the command structure. It's close to what was mentioned in the video, but if you only have 6 total resources, you may want to wait for a few more before splitting some off into a new team.
Sometimes, the Wire reports are written to allow for easy transmission over JS8Call, though some of them are really long and not best suited for that. Most Wire reports are either on here (the shorter nearly-daily videos I do), or via text on Twitter or Telegram. Either way, I've got the format and familiarity down, so if I needed to transmit these reports via HF radio myself, I could do so seamlessly. Some people already take my Wire reports, condense them, and send via HF (which is great).
Thank you so much S2 I am so thankful we are all together in this. Like minded guys like yourself are very important to our survival. We are in a state of psychological warfare/5th gen events we don’t even see. No media attention, god forbid you Notice(oy vey) regardless, the masses are slowly awakening to the certain ethnicity that cracks the financial whip upon us. Every dog has its day,and ours is nigh.
Street level intelligence: keep eyes on enemy and use runners. Pick your toughest and smart person to lead. Always follow up with more; intel and attacks. Victory goes to the swift and determined. Everything has become overwhelmingly integrated and complex so keep it simple. The guerrillas strength is in rapid mobility, simplicity and surprise, outlast a bigger opponent and reuse or destruct resources as appropriate. Be aware of location transmitter devices. My two cents, good luck patriots.
Hey S2 Underground have you thought about setting up a platform to facilitate S2 shops being created for each state? With the intention to coordinate with other like-minded groups, such as American Contingency for example? This might be a good way to get all these different groups coordinating with each other, because everyone needs intel
We need intel advice for small, rural towns that don't even have police departments. For example, the town 45min down the road has a bus load of H. migrants dropped off. How can we look for signs that an NGO has designs on our community, next? What can we do to get ahead of something like that? How can we approach our city leadership with this intel without coming across as xenophobic or a conspiracy nut???? This is the info people desperately need.
For those who don't know, it's a free weather imaging broadcast anyone can tap into if you have an SDR dongle, notch filter and appropriate antenna. GOES satellites are geostationary so once you get your antenna pointed it can remain in place. You can DIY an antenna but there are also kits available for about $100 (if you already have the SDR dongle) that include a dish and filter. NOAA satellite data can also be downloaded but it's a little more involved as they move across the sky and are polarized so you're looking at a helical antenna that has to track plus software to predict a pass.
Years ago There was this one intelligence brief for the state that had a section with "a novel attempt at intelligence gathering." So I made a post repeating that, with my ass after it just a few words, then took a resume to the offices that they "did not" have in the state. Went to the door no answer, used painters' tape to the large envelope, with RESUME and my name on it and "a novel attempt at intelligence gathering" on it. Then added will be in the area till 5. by 130 I was in an interview at an outdoor restaurant. Then I had state troopers showing up to flee markets, kids' birthday parties, a park with a family reunion, and left a note on the cars "Hook, Hook!" Then the last one, "Come on guys you are looking like Keystone cops, Hook Hook!" Then again, we had an Airforce public affairs officer, two people that worked in intelligence a SEAL, two SF in the mix along with a few elected officials. Yep, novel attempt at intelligence gathering, my ass!
Nobody knows it all nor can do it all, hence we all need to work together for the common good, but also, we need to respect the rights of the individuals who make up the whole. Hence also not only the US Constitution but also the 'bill of rights' in the US Constitution. It's our 'constitution' in how to exist while we exist.