A Green Beret’s Guide to Improvised Home Defense Strategies
ReadyNutrition Guys and Gals, this article is going to explain some methods to help you better defend your property. These are some simple and inexpensive methods that are not subject to power loss from an EMP or station failure. They are simple to employ as well as remember, and they can be tailored to meet the needs of your property.
Obviously if you live in a high-rise apartment building or a multi-family structure, your methods are going to differ, and that will be addressed in Part 2.
Sector Stakes
Now, firstly, what are a sector stakes? The sector stakes are prepositioned markers for use as boundaries for the field of fire of your weapon. They physically allow the firer to concentrate on his or her sector of fire without haphazard lateral movement. By utilizing one on your left and right, they establish left and right limits for you to employ your rifle or firearm. These stakes are best used between multiple team-members. The sector stakes are driven into the ground or firmly emplaced vertically, so as to allow the defender’s weapon to traverse (move laterally) back and forth and be bounded within the confines of his or her sector. See Diagram A, “Sector Stakes” to get a picture of how it appears.
Your sectors need to range to the end of your property, or out to about 500 feet, whichever is closer. The sectors need to interlock, so as to create interlocking fields of fire, a condition that is met where the left and right limits of two adjacent firers intersect one another, and permit overlapping fire on an enemy. See Diagram B, “Disposition of Sectors of Fire” to illustrate this concept. Each sector stake must be measured with a compass to provide an azimuth for the entire straight-line length of the right or left limit.
It is important for you and your team to walk the entire length of the property, and pace out the areas where obstacles that can provide dead space, cover, and concealment to the enemy are known, along with their exact distances. It is also very important for you to be able to make laminated copies of these sector sketches, and using a grease pencil (dry erase are garbage) to note down your information of things found in your sector. Identify each fighting position (FP) by number, not by the person’s name! If you’re overrun, you don’t want your names going into someone else’s head or intel files.
Another key reason for these sketches is if for a reason such as changing a guard shift, or a shift between team members to one another’s fighting positions. In this manner, you have a nice laminated diagram that gives them all of the information they need about the position. The midline (middle of the sector) should also have its own azimuth and azimuth line. Take note of the concentric circles. This is to establish an increment (I used “feet” to make for ease of understanding in this example), and the sample sketch has each circle in 100’ increments.
If you’re going to defend a fixed position such as a house, you need to have sector sketches for each fighting position, bottom line.
Another thing that you can do is to employ paintball guns in practice with this, for periods of low light and low visibility. This will give you a good idea of how well you know the sectors, as to where your paintballs mark the area. Just because there is not an item within your sector does not mean you cannot fabricate one as well, such as a couple of crossed boards affixed to the ground midline to the sector out at 300’, and/or smaller stakes with small markers or tapes affixed to them. These are pre-measured distances, and when you see a “zombie” staggering across your yard, when his feet are on the “X” it’ll help you to light him up.
For some further reading, get ahold of a Soldier’s Manual of Common Tasks, or a Soldier’s Handbook for the basics we have outlined here. Be prepared to deal in metric units. This is a general overview to get you started. On “Part 2” we’re going to go over how to take similar measures in an urban/heavily populated environment. Until next time, keep up the good work, and remember: when bad guys are coming over, before your barbeque and fireworks display put down the Porterhouse steaks and go to your sector stakes! JJ out!
Jeremiah Johnson is the Nom de plume of a retired Green Beret of the United States Army Special Forces (Airborne). Mr. Johnson was a Special Forces Medic, EMT and ACLS-certified, with comprehensive training in wilderness survival, rescue, and patient-extraction. He is a Certified Master Herbalist and a graduate of the Global College of Natural Medicine of Santa Ana, CA. A graduate of the U.S. Army’s survival course of SERE school (Survival Evasion Resistance Escape), Mr. Johnson also successfully completed the Montana Master Food Preserver Course for home-canning, smoking, and dehydrating foods.
Mr. Johnson dries and tinctures a wide variety of medicinal herbs taken by wild crafting and cultivation, in addition to preserving and canning his own food. An expert in land navigation, survival, mountaineering, and parachuting as trained by the United States Army, Mr. Johnson is an ardent advocate for preparedness, self-sufficiency, and long-term disaster sustainability for families. He and his wife survived Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Cross-trained as a Special Forces Engineer, he is an expert in supply, logistics, transport, and long-term storage of perishable materials, having incorporated many of these techniques plus some unique innovations in his own homestead.
Mr. Johnson brings practical, tested experience firmly rooted in formal education to his writings and to our team. He and his wife live in a cabin in the mountains of Western Montana with their three cats.
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No evacuation plan? When I listened to a special forces guy give a podcast on home defense, he said his number one plan was to escape his home if possible, call the cops and track their location from afar.
You would do much better to listen to your green beret as opposed to this fake one here.
This entire article was expanded from 2 pages of the IET Soldiers Handbook which is given to every new recruit in basic training. It is the most basic of defense technique for a dug in position. A real green beret would tell you how to make an orderly retreat while providing cover fire and flank the opposing force (if the op-for is not superior in size and equipment) to overcome them. This basic training reject will get you killed in short order with his advice.
Guys at the beginning of the article he states that he is going to give you advice for defending your home. This is hypothetical situations that we are dealing with so in this scenario it is easy to imagine a defensive posture. If the article said, “I am going to show you how to make an orderly retreat and then flank an enemy” it would be different. If you wan’t to learn how to flank an enemy, look elsewhere. This is basics on home defense.