The Official U.S. Army Survival Guide: Updated Edition

15 hourslife-saving survival informationextensivecomprehensiveCreated and trustedEssential preparedness for any survival situationindispensable field manual PREFACE As a soldier, you can be sent to any area of the world. It may be in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region. You expect to have all your personal equipment and your unit members with you wherever you go. However, there is no guarantee it will be so. You could find yourself alone in a remote area—possibly enemy territory—with little or no personal gear. This manual provides information and describes basic techniques that will enable you to survive and return alive should you find yourself in such a situation. If you are a trainer, use this information as a base on which to build survival training. You know the areas to which your unit is likely to deploy, the means by which it will travel, and the territory through which it will travel. Read what this manual says about survival in those particular areas and find out all you can about those areas. Read other books on survival. Develop a survival-training program that will enable your unit members to meet any survival situation they may face. It can make the difference between life and death. CONTENTS Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 2. Psychology of Survival. Chapter 3. Survival Planning and Survival Kits. 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 Hazards. Appendix A. Survival Kits. Appendix B. Edible and Medicinal Plants. Appendix C. Poisonous Plants. Appendix D. Dangerous Insects and Arachnids. Appendix E. Venomous Snakes and Lizards. Appendix F. Dangerous Fish and Mollusks. Appendix G. Ropes and Knots. Appendix H. Clouds: Foretellers of Weather. Appendix I. Evasion Plan of Action Format. Glossary. Provided for information purposes only. Any action you take is at your own risk. Published in the U.S.A. by CARLILE MEDIA. Author - US Army. Narrator - Robert Hunter. Published Date - Wednesday, 03 January 2024. Copyright - © 2022 Carlile Media ©.