Bugs are fine when you get hungry enough, less effort involved to catch and prepare. I subsisted off of prickly pears...nobody else would touch them because of the thorns. I just dealt with them and lost half as much weight as anybody else.

 

I liked those little potato chips we made out of some root, though I didn't mind eating them raw either. There wasn't anything growing up in the Maine mountains in December - so I don't even remember what we did then. It was my first time (and last) on snow shoes though! I've never even skied - so I'm glad that I did the 'Summer Rock Package' at the Moutain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, CA instead of the 'Winter Package' which included more cold weather survival and cross country skiing and the likes. The one survival course that I thought sounded interesting, but never had the chance, was the Arctic Survival Training held by the Canadians for all of their people that forward deployed in support of NATO way up north! I thought I might get the chance when I applied for the Canadian Exchange - but no such luck (or was it luck??? )

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Most of us go through life without any sort of real privation ever, those of you who may have reservations about eating certain things will quickly lose them in a few days. The mind and body will surprise you with it's innate will to survive that you may not be aware of at all right now.

Knowledge and experience can help, as can the experiences of others who may have learned over a period of years that they can survive what to most of us is an impossible situation.

Three days without any food, cold and high physical activity can change your outlook fairly quickly.

 

Are they still requiring the Mile swim in flight Gear? sans boots? I am a pretty good swimmer but there was a Marine in our class who swam freestyle the whole thing and crushed it.

 

Me too, and I graduated in 08. That actually got me interested in all the places we had pilot training in the T-37 era.....it's very interesting to see all the random UPT bases we once had.

 

Best not take any chances.....

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What year did you go through

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