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.

U.S. Special Forces Captain and outdoor survival expert Mykel Hawke provides the most practical and accessible survival skills and information necessary to survive in the outdoors. These methods are based on Hawke’s 25-year career as a Captain in the U.S. Army, as founder of the survival training company Special Ops Inc, and as a popular survival expert on television–including his new series,Man Woman Wild, which debuted on The Discovery Channel in summer 2010.

Geared to the untrained civilian, Hawke’s Special Forces Survival Handbook provides illustrated how-to info on shelter, water, fire, food, first aid, tools, navigation, signaling, and survival psychology. Now with a flexibind cover and small format perfect for the glove compartment and backpack, this edition gives readers the tools necessary to survive the worst circumstances and make it out alive.

SURVIVE HARSH TERRAIN, EXTREME CONDITIONS AND LIFE-THREATENING SITUATIONS

Packed with tips, tricks, and clear instructions, Special Forces Survival Guide presents the vital techniques used by the world’s best trained soldiers to stay alive in the wild, including how to:



•Find Food and Water
•Build Shelter
•Start a Fire
•Craft Tools and Weapons
•Navigate without a Compass
•Signal for Help and First Aid

This book presents the field-tested skills of the most elite commandos including the:

•Navy SEALs
•Army Rangers
•Delta Force
•Green Berets
•Royal Marines
•French Foreign Legion
•Australian SAS