U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide

U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide

U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide
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Editor: John Boswell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-08-01
ISBN: 0312331223
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary of U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide

Get the same survival training that the U.S. military uses for its troops.

The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the only source hikers, campers, explorers or families focused on emergency preparedness will ever need.

The U.S. Armed Forces Survial Guide covers everything a modern outdoorsperson needs to know to make it in tough terrain and tense situations, from the psychology of survial and overcoming fear to building a shelter and making it through a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or earthquake. Every kind of environment--from tropical to desert, aquatic to arctic--is covered.

Topics include:
--how to orienteer with or without a map and a compass
--how to cross quicksand, bogs and quagmires
--how to signal for help
--how to set a fracture and tend a burn
--how to forecast weather
--how to trap, fish and set snares
--how to indentify poisonous plants, insects and animals
--how to survive unusual conditions, such as plane crashes and nuclear attacks

The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the most comprehensive and thoroughly tested survival manual ever published.

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