Author: Robin

Newsletter – Special Spring Resilience Edition
“Freedom Grows From the Ground Up”

Neighbors, Patriots, and Friends—

As the sun thaws the earth and spring arrives in Pineland, now is the time to act. Not tomorrow. Not when the next government broadcast tells you to. Now.

With the global economy on shaky ground and weather systems more chaotic than ever, it’s up to us—neighbors, friends, and freedom-loving citizens—to prepare for the days ahead. History has proven it again and again: local collaboration builds lasting resilience. In the early days of COVID-19, Chinese villagers physically blocked military checkpoints to protect their communities. They didn’t wait for permission—they acted.

What You Can Do Today:

1. Prepare Community Garden Plots:

Till the soil. Share seeds. Raise what you can eat and barter.

Root crops, beans, tomatoes, herbs—grow what thrives in your microclimate.

Teach the young. Feed the old. Share the surplus.

2. Build a Neighborhood Work Coop:

Rotate workdays to help tend each other’s gardens, fences, or food storage.

Share tools and knowledge, not just opinions.

Assign roles: food, security, comms, wellness, youth.

3. Create a Local Barter & Supply Map:

Who has chickens? Who makes soap? Who’s got extra diesel?

Start a shared logbook or chalkboard. Knowledge is survival.

4. Form Watch Groups (Noncombatant):

Eyes and ears only—spot unusual activity, assist with alerts.

Maintain radio silence when needed, but readiness always.

Help evac vulnerable neighbors if needed.

Remember:
Resilience isn’t built by waiting for help. It’s built by becoming help to each other. We are not rebels—we are stewards of liberty. We are not violent—we are vigilant. And we are not alone—we are Pineland.

Stand strong. Stand together.
— Pineland Resistance Noncombatant Auxiliary
“Prepare the ground. Plant the truth. Harvest your freedom.”

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You haven’t truly deployed with 7th Group until your mission turns into a quinceañera… and the Team Sergeant ends up dancing with the mayor’s aunt.

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2.

7th Group: where Spanish is spoken fluently, but only when ordering cervezas and talking to informants.

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3.

*ODA SOP in Latin America:

• Infiltrate
• Train locals
• Eat everything
• Catch parasites
• Marry someone*

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4.

Only in 7th Group does a firefight pause for siesta.

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5.

Team Leader: “This is a FID mission.”
18B: “Cool. What’s the ROE if they offer us homemade aguardiente?”

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7th Group’s real mission: win hearts and minds—starting with your interpreter’s cousin.

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7.

*Every jungle op ends with three things:

• A machete fight with vines
• A mystery rash
• And a chicken that somehow joins the team*

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7th Group: Only unit where a drug lord’s bodyguard and your CI contact went to the same school… and now they’re both in your partner force.

By Nous Defions Gang

“Nothing like convincing a fake resistance to fake believe in your fake plan to fake liberate a fake country full of real ticks.”

If you’ve never bribed a farmer with MRE pound cake to use his barn as an HLZ, are you even Special Forces?

Robin Sage: where goats, moonshine, and role players with questionable hygiene are your new reality.

Robin Sage / Pineland Jokes 🔥

1.

“You’ll gain the trust of the indigenous population,” they said.
Translation: You’ll trade three MREs and a bottle of Tabasco for half a boiled squirrel and some moonshine that tastes like radiator fluid.

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Robin Sage is the only place where getting captured by a 12-year-old with a BB gun is a legitimate training outcome.

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3.

ODA Rule of Thumb in Pineland:
“If he owns goats, a CB radio, and says ‘We don’t trust the gubmint’… he’s probably your new battalion commander.”

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4.

Pineland intel reports are 75% hearsay, 20% ghost stories, and 5% actual truth accidentally overheard at a gas station.

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5.

During Robin Sage, I infiltrated enemy territory, led an insurgency, and trained 60 resistance fighters.
But I still couldn’t figure out how to get back to my RON site without stepping in cow poop.

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The only thing more dangerous than OPFOR in Robin Sage… is falling asleep in a barn and waking up next to a goat named Linda who now thinks you’re married.

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7.

Cadre Be Like:
“Remember—don’t let the roleplayers catch you!”
Meanwhile the roleplayers: retired SF dudes, deer hunters, and a guy named ‘Red’ who’s been in Pineland since Vietnam.

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8.

Pineland’s national anthem is the sound of two guys arguing over conspiracy theories on a HAM radio at 2 a.m.

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Robin Sage is the only exercise where you can start as a freedom fighter and end up with scurvy, trench foot, and a questionable tattoo from a moonshiner named Cleetus.

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“I have a guy.”
Most powerful sentence in Pineland.
Translation: I know someone with night vision, homemade explosives, and a plane that might be legal.

A Team MOS Humor – Everybody gets a bite.

18A – The Officer

“The Team Leader is like a hood ornament—useless in the jungle, but makes the truck look official.”

18A: Fluent in PowerPoint and confusion. Just don’t let him touch demo or comms.

18B – The Weapons Sergeant

“If it kills, 18B can use it. If it doesn’t, he’ll rig it to.”

Only guy who can make an IED out of duct tape, chewing gum, and bad intentions.

18C – The Engineer

18C can build a bridge, blow it up, then blame the 18B for improper placement.

He doesn’t carry tools. He is the tool.

18D – The Medic

“You’re not hurt unless the 18D says you are. And even then, it’s probably just dehydration.”

18D: Equal parts trauma surgeon, pharmacist, and witch doctor. Can start an IV blindfolded, drunk, in a hailstorm.

18E – The Comms Guy

“18E spends 80% of the mission setting up gear, 20% swearing at it.”

He can bounce a signal off the moon, but can’t get a call out of the DFAC at Bragg.

18F – The Intel Sergeant

“Knows everything… two days after it happens.”

The guy who says, ‘I assessed the situation,’ while we’re still getting shot at.

18Z – The Team Sergeant

“If SF was a religion, the 18Z is the pissed-off Old Testament God.”

The guy who tells the ODA, ‘This ain’t a democracy—it’s a dictatorship. And I’m the mayor of pain.’

180A – The Warrant

“Looks like he’s been on every mission since Vietnam—and maybe he has.”

Nobody knows what he does. But when the world ends, he’ll still be standing there, brewing coffee in a rusty percolator.

“Nothing like convincing a fake resistance to fake believe in your fake plan to fake liberate a fake country full of real ticks.”

“If you’ve never bribed a farmer with MRE pound cake to use his barn as an HLZ, are you even Special Forces?”

Robin Sage: where goats, moonshine, and role players with questionable hygiene are your new reality.

Commo Check….