If an aircraft goes down the vest the pilot is wearing might be the only ticket to survival. In use throughout the 20th century, the aviator’s survival vest can...
These commands were barked at me during the Warrior 1.0 pistol course with the Sayoc Tactical Group. After a course of fire, we students were told to assess our...
Human beings learn in different ways. Some people learn by seeing or hearing; some learn by doing, while others learn by teaching —and these are just some broad...
The water cycle is the continuous flow of water from and through the oceans, atmosphere and land. When we learn about the water cycle in school, we tend to thin...
Plant knowledge is true survival knowledge. My good friend, wild plant expert and former military/civilian survival instructor, Marty Simon of the Wilderness Le...
Unnoticed in the middle of the night, water crested the banks of the river south of town and quickly inundated the storm drain system, spilling into the streets...
Fanned by powerful winds, the blazing inferno rages out of control. Hundreds of acres in the once-pristine forest have been charred, and there is no end in sigh...
Jungles are literally and figuratively crawling with nasties from canopy to floor. Vegetation foreign to travelers hide three inch long thorns, crawling leeches...
“Where’s my child?”
This scenario is every parent’s worst nightmare. A parent’s protective instincts are not comforted by the unknown. For a small percentage o...
The lights go out. You’re in darkness. It could have been a car crash that took out the neighborhood’s transformer or a brownout from too much stress on the pow...
