This OFFICIAL Field Manual 21-76 is based entirely on the keyword SURVIVAL. The letters in this word can help guide you in your actions in any survival situation. Whenever faced with a survival situation, remember the word SURVIVAL.S=SIZE up the Situation; U=USE all your Senses; R=REMEMBER Where you are; V=VANQUISH Fear and Panic; I=IMPROVISE; V=VALUE Living; A=ACT Like the Natives; L=LIVE by your Wits, LEARN BASIC SKILLS.CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 2: PSYCHOLOGY OF SURVIVAL; CHAPTER 3: SURVIVAL PLANNING; CHAPTER 4: BASIC SURVIVAL MEDICINE; CHAPTER 5: SHELTERS; CHAPTER 6: WATER PROCUREMENT; CHAPTER 7: FIRECRAFT; CHAPTER 8: FOOD PROCUREMENT; CHAPTER 9: SURVIVAL USE OF PLANTS; CHAPTER 10: POISONOUS PLANTS; CHAPTER 11: DANGEROUS ANIMALS; CHAPTER 12: FIELD-EXPEDIENT WEAPONS, TOOLS, AND EQUIPMENT; CHAPTER 13: DESERT SURVIVAL; CHAPTER 14: TROPICAL SURVIVAL; CHAPTER 15: COLD WEATHER SURVIVAL ; CHAPTER 16: SEA SURVIVAL; CHAPTER 17: EXPEDIENT WATER CROSSINGS; CHAPTER 18: FIELD-EXPEDIENT DIRECTION FINDING; CHAPTER 19: SIGNALING TECHNIQUES; CHAPTER 20: SURVIVAL MOVEMENT IN HOSTILE AREAS; CHAPTER 21: CAMOUFLAGE; CHAPTER 22: CONTACT WITH PEOPLE; CHAPTER 23: SURVIVAL IN MAN-MADE AREAS

"U.S. Army Survival Handbook" covers all survival skills and techniques that a person can use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment. The techniques are meant to provide basic necessities like water, food and shelter... Nevertheless, it takes much more than the knowledge to build a shelter, get food and make fire in order to survive successfully. A key ingredient in any survival situation is the mental attitude. It will help you develop your survival skills, as well as the will to survive. It will prepare you for any type of situation, either physical or psychological ordeal. Contents: Psychology of Survival Survival Planning and Survival Kits Basic Survival Medicine Shelters Water Procurement Firecraft Food Procurement Field-Expedient Weapons, Tools, and Equipment Desert Survival Tropical Survival Cold Weather Survival Sea Survival Expedient Water Crossings Field-Expedient Direction Finding Signaling Techniques Survival Movement in Hostile Areas Camouflage Contact With People Survival in Man-Made Hazards

The U.S. Army Field Manual is the most successful selling Field Manual of it's kind. It covers a variety of topics from building fire and creating shelter to trading and water procurement.

United States Army manual on survival.

2010 Reprint of 1957 edition. The Army Survival Manual is the finest single source for self-reliance for all extreme circumstances. It is considered essential for anyone who wants to survive in primitive conditions. The book is straightforward and profusely illustrated with drawings and illustrations. It is written in easy to understand language. Includes information on survival in all climates: arctic, tropics, temperate forest, savannah or desert. Also includes information on all types of terrain survival tactics. Topics covered include: the will to survive, identification of poisonous snakes, identification of edible and non-edible plants, survival medicine. wilderness medicine, techniques on first aid, survival in the hottest or coldest of climates, survival planning, making polluted water potable, how to find water, ways to trap, collection techniques for water, navigation and compass use, how to find direction using the sun and stars, weapons and tools, recognizing signs of land when lost at sea, building life-saving shelters, traps and snares, how to prepare wild game to be cooked, food preservation, fire-starting, water crossings, fitness and preparedness, and much more.

This is the official US Army guide to surviving all manner of extreme, life-threatening situations. Field-tested and time-honored, the strategies and techniques within have been recorded by the US Army and are used regularly for official training. Topics covered include:* Psychology of Survival* Survival Planning and Preparation* Basic Medicine* Shelters and Firecraft* Procurement of Food and Water* Edible and Medicinal Plants* Poisonous Plants and Dangerous Animals* Weapons and Tools* Water Crossings and Obstacles* Direction Finding and Signaling* Survival and Escape of Hostile AreasThis guide also contains chapters on survival in specific climates like the desert, tropics, cold weather, and the sea, and dangerous man-made conditions including nuclear, chemical, and biological hazards. This is important information for soldiers, hikers, backpackers, hunters, and climbers. If you want to be prepared when things get real, this is the book you need.

Finally, a complete print edition of US Army Field Manual 30-5.70 Survival! Unlike others, which are hurriedly put together from internet-sourced text files and low-res pictures and tables, this edition is complete and unadulterated with high-resolution graphics and images. The page count, table of contents, illustrations, photos, tables, index and appendices are all precisely where they should be in this definitive 676 page print edition. As far as military survival training manuals go, there are none to equal FM 3-05.70 Survival for sheer usefulness. When tasked with updating the old and outdated FM 21-76 Survival back in the late 1990s, those SERE experts at the US Army's John F Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School took their collective decades of field survival experience and combined it all with classic and effective survival methods; traditional bushcraft and primitive skills and wrapped it all up in a highly-practical, exhaustively-tested, scholarly and encyclopedic approach to rescue, survival psychology and living off the land in order to ensure our fighting men and women have the best chance to make it home from any given survival situation. As a result, these Special Forces SERE experts made Field Manual 3-05.70 one of the best military survival guides ever written! FM 3-05.70 Survival covers topics such as: The psychology of survival; Survival kits; Survival planning; Survival medicine; Shelter; Water; Firecraft; Food; Wild edibles; Poisonous plants; Dangerous animals; Improvised weapons; Tools; Desert survival; Jungle survival; Cold weather survival; Survival at sea; Expedient navigation; Signaling; Evasion; Movement in hostile areas; And much, much more! Aside from the obvious military uses for the techniques described in this manual, the prepper, outdoorsman and woman will find the manual indispensable. Studying it will make you better in the bush, and as a bonus, it could save your life! This field-sized edition makes it easy to throw into your ruck while practicing the techniques in the field. Every prepper, sportsman and outdoorsman should own a proper, readable print copy of this outstanding survival reference manual.