look into EMT classes at your local community college... most are free to those over 50 who audit the course(no test to pass)
Posted on 01/22/2011 7:34:29 PM PST by Kartographer
In the survival/emergency preparedness community, there is an inordinate amount of discussion devoted to exactly what kind of gear and how much each would-be survivor needs to live through whichever approaching cataclysm they foresee. While the nuts and bolts of survival gear are certainly important, it is the intangible aspects of attitude, knowledge and skill that truly separate the survivor from the person who just bought a bunch of stuff. Before you start throwing money into a survival kit, you need to start thinking like a survivor.
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look into EMT classes at your local community college... most are free to those over 50 who audit the course(no test to pass)
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BUMP for morning coffee and gun cleaning... :)
The recent issue of handgunner has a good read on getting cart before the horse regarding survival / prepper shopping and education and skill sets etc ...such as this threads subject.
John Connor at Handgunner magazine relates how folks who didn’t think it ALL out almost died.
http://fmgpublications.ipaperus.com/FMGPublications/AmericanHandgunner/AHJF11/?page=32
Hope the link works....., goes to a PDF thang !
Stay safe folks......
Making a survival kit, part one
Not really.
If you don't have clean water, food, shelter and warmth...and a firearm when you need it...what's in your head will benefit you little.
Somehow, that's comforting.
Well said M. I’m retired well, live high up in the mountains, (on the grid currently but ready for the alternative to immediately switch from/off when it comes), and have been of the ‘survivalist’ thought or the now more current term, a ‘prepper’, for quite a few years. I and my group are ready for a natural disaster......or something else. Myself and my group’s entire premise/motto is to at least ‘go down swingin’. Hell, we are all gonna die but damn at least make it count. No getting lined up above a ditch and shot into it or overrun by those who did not prepare and came for my/our group’s food, water, shelter, heating fuels etc, etc, etc. We count on no one but ourselves. Mindset is fine and it is what gets/got most of us started long ago but as you said the 4 ‘must haves’ you mentioned are paramount. FReepers, if you are interested, survivalblog.com is the best site going imho on this. Great links, archives and daily updates from fellow preppers and the site’s founder James Wesley Rawles. Get ready...’it’ is coming, (and if ‘it’ does not...well, why not be ready anyway?), At least ‘go down swingin’. Fight for what you have and your loved ones. At least go down swingin’. Get prepared FReepers as much as you can.
Rule 1, lots of bullets and hooks as all game rules will be off.
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Thanks for that suggestion about EMT classes! I’ll have to look into that!
most welcome...
Good info, thanks!
Had to be careful not to get Liquid Wrench in my java this morning....:)
I highly disagree! That advantage is every bit vital to survival. It mostly entails the ability to create those vital living environments with just what skills you have. From scratch, with nothing else but your knowledge and bare hands. Any unfortunate people who have no such skills are doomed.
Recently an older friend of mine who is a city dweller shocked me with his urban survival knowledge. I asked him how he learned all of that info. He said “Quit reading novels and started reading survival manuals.” How simple is that? He gained a great deal of knowledge in one year simply by switching out what he read.
I turned him on to your manual. It is his current reading.
Yikes!!! Got the shakes this am?
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