Military consultant for film and TV sending equipment to Ukraine for war efforts

Marine veteran Jon Barton is aware of a factor or two about being combat-ready.

The navy marketing consultant for tv and movie served almost 12 years within the navy, together with time stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County.

“My specialty was uneven warfare and counter-guerilla techniques,” mentioned Barton, who now runs Night time Fireplace Media.

The consulting firm for TV reveals and flicks makes certain what you see in your display screen is navy correct.

“Any navy or motion film that you’ve got seen, I’ve had a hand in it by some means,” he mentioned.

Along with technical coaching and experience, he owns a whole bunch of genuine navy uniforms, tools and tactical gear, most of which sits in storage between productions.

However when Barton noticed the photographs of Putin’s battle machine attacking Ukrainian civilians, he knew he needed to do one thing.

“All of it clicked: uniform, boots, different tactical gear… I wished to make it possible for I acquired crucial essential gear on the market first. So I simply needed to look by every little thing and seize what I assumed was ‘mission important.’”

He’s delivering an estimated 1,000 uniforms and extra battlefield tools to St. Andrews Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Echo Park earlier than it’s flown to the Poland/Ukraine border. With each able-bodied Ukrainian man known as to battle off the invasion, Barton hopes the combat-ready tools will assist with the protection effort.

So long as the battle retains raging, Barton says he’s prepared and prepared to do no matter it takes to assist the Ukrainian folks stand as much as Russia and Putin.

“Ukraine is a wonderful superb sovereign nation and deserves their independence,” Barton says. “I believe, inherently, the U.S. Marine in me can’t abide a bully.”

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