You can legally use it to listen all you want, however, and learning to listen - to find your frequencies - is probably a great first step.
If any of your local emergency services are still using analog radios, finding their frequencies so you can reach them in an emergency is also a great idea. In a true emergency situation - either specific emergency for you or a local/state/national emergency - anyone can legally use any GMRS or ham radio frequencies.,
These types of radios can also operate as FRS radios, which are frequencies that anyone can legally listen and talk on. They are not technically legal due to their removable antennas and programmable-on-the-radio nature, but you can configure them to narrow band and low power, and you'll be operating essentially in spec with normal FRS radios and without interfering with anyone else. FRS is good for near communication.
They can also do GMRS, much in the same way as above, and a 10 year license for that is $70 and does not require any testing of any kind.
Here is a good printable cheat sheet that lists all the GMRS/FRS frequencies and here is the related video on how to program it manually.
The best way is definitely CHIRP but that's a big learning curve still.
Hopefully NIJ gets their new certification standards/system completed and the lvl III+/special threat category is acknowledged. I think lvl3 is okay but m855 is so common that it seems dumb to exclude it from specific testing. And having lvl3a not being rifle rated while lvl3 is just seems weird, too.
Everyone should get ceramic plates, though. The risks and weight of steel plates are not worth their lower cost.
That first link is a little wonky, because the NIJ doesn't have a level III+ classification, as you also correctly noted. Here's a handy 1 page sheet based on NIJ standards.
There are plates which are better than lvl3 but also not lvl4 - but there is no NIJ classification for them as of yet. NIJ is supposed to re-do everything and it's been overdue for months now. That might be what that particular brand is calling lvl III+, and there are also "Special Threat" plates that aren't officially certified to stop m855/m855a1/.308 but still can do it based on real world testing.
Supposedly it's like $30k to have NIJ certify your stuff, so that's where this mixed bag of in-between stuff has happened.
Everything else is great info and thanks for typing it up. I have Hesco L210s in the back of the carrier, and Highcom Guardian 4sas7 multi-curve up front. I bought two of each and intend to set up two carriers for me and a friend if I happen to get in it with someone. I have a Mayflower APC carrier and probably will get one of the new T-rex Arms carriers. Those dudes are good dudes.
Still need to get some mag inserts for the carrier and on the belt, and a proper OWB holster for a duty pistol. I'm getting there but not done yet, hopefully can get it before it's needed (and hope it's never needed, frankly).
You are welcome. I know enough to know I barely know anything. Guns are a great hobby because there's always more to learn, and you can specialize in a single firearm and even then never know it all.
Like the US Krag-Jorgensen. I am convinced that it is not possible for a single person to know everything about them.
https://i.imgur.com/jwhdmHE.jpg
This is what I have for rifle ammo, with a dollar bill for scale.
From left to money: 5,45x39, 55gr .223 rem steel cased, .223 rem brass cased, 7,62x39, 166gr .308 winchester, 7,76x54R, .30-06 150gr M2 ball, .30-06 black tip penetrator.
Level IIIa absolutely cannot defeat m855 and does not defeat any rifle calibers at all. It can even fail when pistol cartridges it can defeat as fired from a handgun are fired at higher velocities from PCC. Level IIIa is soft body armor still.
Level III can defeat some rifle calibers but is only specifically rated for up to 7.62x51 lead core. Depending on the construction materials of your plate, as all level III is hard body armor, it may defeat at least one round 5.56/7.62 with a steel core.
The only way to guarantee that is lvl IV body armor, however. There is no NIJ level III+ classification.
You can read more about it with this helpful PDF from NIJ: https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/nlectc/250144.pdf
m855 is 62 grain ball 5.56 ammo. It's a copper jacketed lead projectile with a steel tip/penetrator, identifiable by the green tip (which is the steel penetrator). It's sometimes referred to as armor piercing, but it was not intended to be armor piercing. It was meant to be barrier penetrating, like thicker, multi-layer clothing, brick, drywall, etc. The construction and addition of the steel "penetrator" also affects ballistics because the steel can vary round to round, and they are not the most accurate round. m193 is generally preferred for higher accuracy and similiar penetration in bulk "military grade" ammo.
5.56 cartridges - and really any rifle ammo - is very high velocity and has a lot more energy to transfer on impact as compared to essentially every single handgun/pistol ammo., So again while it's not intended to be armor piercing, because of it's construction, size, and velocity, it's very good at penetrating lower levels of soft and hard body armor that are only rated for handgun ammo.
All lvl4 plates - steel or ceramic - can defeat m855 ball ammo, and that's good because at least until recently it was a very commonly available bulk ammo. Common special threat ceramic plates - the Hesco L210 comes to mind - can also defeat it, but are not rated for 7.62x51/.308. Those will stop a .308 round but likely the backface deformation means you'll have some broken ribs or worse.
The US military is now using m855a1 round, which is a copper jacketed steel core. Not steel tipped any longer, and not lead cored. It's more environmentally friendly, but it's also more accurate and penetrates well. This ammo is not widely available on the civilian market as of yet.
Two tail numbers:
https://prijet.com/ownership/N908JE
Owned by JEGE: https://www.bizapedia.com/de/jege-inc.html
JEGE = Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine ~Maxwell~~ Epstein? I dunno, just a guess. It's owned by a trust, so it would take some digging to see who it really is (CIA i bet)
And N908GM that isn't listed there.
Plus a helicopter:
121TH
Not the flight log BS again. Someone please tell Lin that they were NOT EPSTEIN FLIGHT LOGS.
Seriously, with as wrong and as often as he says this, it really does make me question everything else he says.
Read this post: https://thedonald.win/p/HXk4T0ae/scotus-justice-john-roberts-wasn/
And since it's all public information, fact check it yourself. It checks out, but don't be a lazy git and believe everything you read on the internet. Follow the trail yourself and confirm it.
Their office is in Belgrade, which is located in Serbia.
What evidence do you have that they have an office in Siberia? And where in Siberia is it located? That is quite a large region and also entirely owned by Russia. Are you claiming here that Dominion is actually a Russian owned company?
None of this seems to jive with reality so I have a hard time taking anything else you've said very seriously.
One image has been photoshopped, so what you are seeing isn't real.
https://mobile.twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1085915185146150912
The original was posted by Barry Soetoro on their anniversary. https://mobile.twitter.com/BarackObama/status/1085915185146150912
Every few days someone tries to post one of the two versions that had been photoshopped - one altered the jawline, the other his brow. They are either dumb or psy-op.
We know Michael is a man, so what good purpose could be behind using intentionally altered photos? Imo it's to detract from the other undeniable, un-altered images and video.
OP needs to delete or add the proper shitpost flair so more pedes aren't misinformed.
You'll notice the Russian flag on his uniform, too.
As I recall it, this image was based on a Russian soldier, Alexander Prokhorenko, who called an airstrike on his own location while in Syria and surrounded by very bad dudes. The airstrike was successful and the bad dudes died, but so did he.
The picture in his pocket is maybe meant to represent his girlfriend. While calling in the airstrike, he allegedly told them to tell his family he loved them. His wife was pregnant at the time of his death, however.
The picture looks like that physically attractive Russian female, Natalia Poklonskaya, who serves in the military and turned into kind of a meme.