Btw, here is a good Escape and Evasion article, worth a read
This is what it all boils down to... They want to find you, and you fix it
so they can't.
To find you they have to use their senses. But you become one with your
environment--- invisable and inaudible, so their senses won't work. Confuse
them and they can't think. Attack them, Harass them, trap them, destroy their
minds, then their hearts, and finially some of their tired, beaten bodies,
and the only thing that WILL work is their emotions. Then, You own them.
Stealth is your great ally. Speed is only used for emergencies. Many people
think that the idea in escaping and evading is merely to put distance between
you and your pursuers. That's wrong--- with one exception. In this game of
life and death, stealth, and the ability to scheme are relative. It's them
against you. In the beginning of the chase, flat out speed often works to
your advantage, because it forces them into hot pursuit immediately, so they
never get a chance to organize.
Even if you are running scared, so that the more lead time you have the
better you like it, the answer may not be for you to run faster, but to make
them run slower. Take at least one member of their party out and the rest
will slow down to a crawl. When they start out after you with superior
numbers, better weapons and dogs, they will press on and enjoy the chase. As
soon as one of them dies, all will scare, and start thinking maybe this isn't
fun after all.
DON'T PANIC; Stay cool! If you Panic you loose the ability to scheme and
plan. Then you are dead meat. You have to know the power of the enemy and
plan for every possibility. Dont just move. Think. Scheme. You must be able
to PRECISELY assess the situation and then Plan and scheme around the facts.
Never make a maneuver that requires a strength you dont have or a weapon you
don't own. On the contrary, Force THEM into over-extending, hurrying, and
running scared. Why Tangle with them when they are fresh, confident and
ready to fight. Wait. Sooner, or later, they will make a mistake.
The seconday factor is your physical condition and how well you maintain
yourself as you escape.
Finally, distance is helpful, but remember--- ONLY HELPFUL.
DO NOT attempt to hide in Water. Every War movie from Rambo on back, puts the
hero into the drink. He breathes through a reed while they pass, and then
comes out behind them. That's show biz; Here's real life:
You go into the water. If they have dogs, the doggie will turn and say,
"this is where he went into the drink because I can't smell him anymore."
(Even if you have bathed 100%, you develop Maggot breath in the woods, and no
dog could miss it.)
Then the Handler will fan left or right and find a place for the dog to pick
up your trail on one side of the bank or the other. If they find no trail,
they know you continued to bathe. They will find you. "But," you say,
"you're hidden under a bunch of sacred lilies, Which they don't dare to
disturb, so they can't see you." (yeah, right.)
So--they will just wait you out. Water takes away your body heat at a
phenomenal rate, about 7 times faster than air. Your natural body
temperature is about 98.6 degrees. Even if the water is a comfy 74, in time
you will suffer from hypothermia. They will wait, and you will freeze.
Even if they didn't have time to wait (but they certainly will...you are
their priority), detection is a big problem. You have to get deep enough so
they can't see you through the water. You also have to breathe. Now, we
already know that you wouldn't be in the water if you didn't believe in
fiction, so you just happen to have with you a special camouflaged hose six
feet long.
At first you breath fine. But then it becomes labored. Why? You exhale
carbon dioxide, which does not clear the hose, so you breathe back in your
own carbon dioxide, and re-use the unexpended oxygen... you run out of air.
You end up cold and sucking gas as you bubble to the top. Yes, water
hideouts are great, but only in the movies...
Finally, there's the one about running in the creek. Then a scent dog can't
track you and you get away. No,no.
First, you run a tremendous risk of injury travelling in creeks because all
the rocks on the bottom are slippery. You'll think somebody designed them
just for breaking ankles. Second, you move more slowly in water than you do
on land. Anybody can walk faster on the bank than you can run in the
water... And you will make God's own noise while running. Hypothermia is,
again, a problem, and at very least you lose calories, and therefore stamina.
The creek getaway is an armchair dream; it won't work either.
If you go up a tree, the enemy will make a monkey out of you. As you sit at
home and think about it, treetops are alluring. Here's the scenario: With a
slingshot you shoot a shot weighted fishline over a high limb. The fishline
is tied to a parachute cord (550 lbs test) and you pull it over. With your
foot in the loop on one side of the line, you Hand-over-hand up the other
until you're into the tree tops. Then you connect tree to tree, and you
befuddle the whole Posse. Bull; it really goes like this:
You finally get up in the trees and, miracle-- the branches are thick enough
to connect. It takes a long time to pull this off so you lose lead time, and
it is tiring. Also you could have fallen on your Butt and broken something,
but you made it! Now, you're ten-twenty trees away, and they arrive.
The dogs either bark tree'd or stop and look up. So the posse fans out and
goes heads up also. You don't dare move. If you happen to have a gun and
shoot, you'll kill one, and the other 19 will venilate you. You are
cornered. They WILL find you, day or night, because they know you can't
move. If you do.. they will probably kill you (weapons or the fall). Yes,
the tree plan sucketh. Ask any dead bear or coon that has ever been
tree'd---DONT TAKE TO THE TREES.
You can't evade if you don't preserve yourself. If you let your diet
go or get a case of food poisoning, you're history. You have to eat.
No 7-11's in the woods, so you will have to go native, and eat what's
available.
Most often in an E&E situation you must feed yourself on the run.
Snake, birds and rodents are great, But it takes a ton of lead time
to catch them. You are better off with ants, Termites and grubworms,
because these are plentiful and take very little stopping time to
catch and prepare. Even grasshoppers take some time and energy to
catch. Ants, termites and grubworms are the fast food of the
jungle. Just think of this as the escapee's Kentucky Colonel. You
can even sing, "We do termites right."
Turn over a rock and catch a bunch of ants on a leaf or piece of
paper. Scoop them into a cup, add water, heat 'n serve. It will
taste sweet. Break off a bottom chunk of wood to find termites, and
flick these into the same cup. Incidentally, replace the log so that
trackers won't know what you're eating. Add water, boil; enjoy.
Grub worms go down like a large pill. Break off the head and swallow
the body with a swig of water. These are best because the fat content
provides you with energy.
With enough lead time developed to enable you to build a small fire,
you can upgrade your menu. Rodents, birds, squirrels, etc, make
great meals. A fat rat isn't much less than a skinny rabbit. I am
not in favor of snakes because the risk isn't worth the low fat
diet they provide. Birds can be snared alright, but they take a long
time to prepare, and you have to boil any carrion-eater because they
are full of parasites. Fowl are wonderful to eat, but they make a
racket you would not believe when snared.
Plants are another chapter entirely, but as a rule grasses are edible
unless they have saw toothed edges; this will tear up your digestive
system. Avoid eating any plant with a mily sap, except dandilions,
which are fine to eat cooked or raw.
This is from
http://dnausers.d-n-a.net/prepared/skills.html
And here is a sweet site
http://www.survivalbill.com/phpBB2/index.php
Have fun.
!). They have the grenade launchers on them, lol. Wouldn't that be a formidable camp defense: rifle grenades! A few claymores, too... 
