"MILITARY GRADE"'s TRUE MEANING & AN ANALOGY!
EDUCATION & FACTS DEBUNK FEAR FROM THE ANTI's!

by Eric Saperstein for Black Wire Media August 19, 2019 www.cnjfo.com/join-us

Mr. Potato head – aka "Military Grade"

It’s time to focus on debunking the fixation that the misinformed have on a term known as “military grade” – or “milspec” to those with a basic 101 understanding of armed forces vocabulary. So let’s talk a little bit about Mr. Potato head, for you millennials this was a toy that existed before your time, a plastic doll shaped like a potato used to entertain varmints of its day by providing a platform to secure facial components to creatively develop a variety of characters and personas. Don’t get your social justice warrior panties all knotted, there was a Mrs. Potato head too.

Anyway … here is how it worked. Any potato head figure could accept a variety of accessories to adorn its spudly shape with expressions and emotions. The parts from one toy could interchange with any other toy in the line. Your friend could have one variant, and you another and you could trade and share eyeballs and ears and lips. Any kid who played with Mr. Potato head has a basic understanding of military grade without even knowing it.

Now let’s introduce some more adult topics – economies of scale, infinite scaling and distribution of manufacturing, multiple supplier sourcing, supply chain streamlining, parts interchangeability, maintenance and repair simplification. These principles are all the baseline of military specifications.

The military will use one set and specific design for each required item. This design will use as many standardized (off the shelf) components as possible without jeopardizing the intended purpose. This design will allow an open source style blueprint so that any supplier or manufacturer who picks it up can provide a complete product or any combination of one or more components.

Economies of scale presents that the more of an item that is in demand, the more suppliers will exist, and the balance will result in the lost cost per item possible. By sourcing Mr. Potato head to many manufactures we give the opportunity for competition, innovation, and market growth.
Infinite scaling of manufacturing means that anyone with the tooling and skills to use it can produce a component or complete item. Mr. Potato head’s nose could be made by Mattel, the eyes by Fisher Price, feet by Hot Wheels. Why limit it to just toy makers? General motors could go ahead and make the body, and International Paper is producing the box.

Ford, GM, and Chrysler are all capable of producing the same vehicle, or any component of a vehicle designed and graded for military issue. In times of war, all vehicle manufactures would engage in providing to the supply chain. From there their suppliers could each engage to produce any required component for the vehicles. This instantly scales up the manufacturing capability beyond the reach of any one manufacturer alone. When every kid in the world suddenly wants a Mr. Potato head because some marketing genius made it look cool in a commercial we can expect the demand to be fulfilled. In addition, it distributes the manufacturing to compensate for any one that may be destroyed by a bombing campaign and/or invading forces.

Multiple supplier sourcing, simple, it allows for bidding. Request for proposals are issued and manufactures offer a bid response. Competition equals lower cost … remember military grade at the end of the bidding process goes to the LOW BIDDER! Let’s keep Mr. Potato head in reach of every kid for their birthday.

Supply chain streamlining, when components can be utilized for multiple purposes the cost of supplying, storing, shipping, and utilizing parts decreases. This means the same alternator may be used in multiple variants of military grade vehicles for different intended purposes. Refer back to economies of scale, now this single component is in greater demand and as a result is cheaper to produce.

Supply chain streamlining, its basic, the more you repeat a part the less variety of parts you need. Your supply chain has less items to track, store, ship, and train to install and maintain. Going right into parts interchangeability when the alternator can be quickly cannibalized from a broken down jeep and used to restore function to a truck, your ability to stay in the fight longer improves when you can quickly make repairs. Just for fun, I’m gonna note that Mr. and Mrs. and Jr. Potato head’s components all interchange. Too far of a digression? Not really, the concept is sound and a whole family of inbred looking potato people can emerge from your imagination.

From here – ask yourself the following question: WTF does any of this have to do with how many people a military grade weapon can kill? The answer is absolutely NOTHING. The media has tricked you into believing that the term “military grade” or “milspec” is directly representative of machines that kill. Guns that by specification can kill more people than anything designed for the civilian market. The angry black rifles with scary shoulder things that go up and nasty jagged looking bird cages on the pointy end vs your grandad’s old double barrel fuddgun.

If you’re not up to speed, not familiar with the business terms mentioned here? Sue your school board, sue your history teacher, economics teacher, and business teachers. Hold them accountable for failing you miserably and falsifying your education. Education, knowledge, is the foundation of a citizen’s ability to self-govern, and is the enemy of oppression. Flip your anger towards our nation’s media for outright lying to you through propaganda and agenda driven broadcasts. Personally, I’m demanding every member of the regressive liberal media present their colon with a Mr. Potato head suppository.

EDITOR's NOTE:

Saperstein has a long history of pro-2A involvement, is a collector, hunter & shooter of every platform of firearm. He's also our Youth Day at the Range Committee Chair. And yes, he played with a Mr. Potato Head as a boy :) CNJFO is proud to bring you, our readers, thought-provoking facts that stimulate your brain and provide the educational resources that you need to "have the conversation" with those friends & relatives that CAN BE SAVED before the brainwashing is complete. Thanks for reading & commenting!
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