Who has undergone a survival course?

golok

golok

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A colleague of mine actually paid a couple of hundred bucks to get a taste of life in the wild.

According to him, it was an exhilirating experience. He thoroughly enjoyed it. The final test was being alone in the jungle for 72 hours and surviving on minimal rations. Of course, the instructor was somewhere close by, in case some wild animal make a mess of things for the survivor (who may not survive the unexpected).

Anyone else has participated in a structured, formal course in survival?
 
Near 44 years of life and near 25 years of law enforcement doesn't qualify??

How about FBI Firearms Instructor School and Street Survival?

;) Mike
 
Griffon, nice site with some great pictures. I bet the participants had a great time.
 
I attended the Army SERE course. 19 days total. Most of it is practical application, mainly outside. Great course, still remember much of it even though I attended in 1989

Doug
 
Wilderness camp when I was a juvenile delinquent. Kinda a cross between training school, and summer camp, but it lasted a year. We built our own tents with hand tools, (And tarps) cooked over wood fires, etc.
I also tried some solo survival by running away several times. Usually survived about 3 days before wandering back, or getting picked up. Unorthodox, but free survival training.
 
I haven't been in a structured "survival" course unless you count martial arts and qi gong which is about survival of the body ie Health.

which I beleive is a big part of survivalism to me. who cares if you can live in the desert if you die from heart disease at 50.


but as far as unstructured I have had the trial by fire course where you get lost in the Canadian woods far way from civ and it is sleeting snowing and night time course. I have had a few others too! and survived them all.
 
As an S&R scout in my teen years we studied survival skills, although it was not a structured course, per se. We did weekend training in the mountains. We built shelters, learned to ascend and repel, learned to track, took 1st aid, learned to secure crime scenes, and who knows what else. We finally did a night on the top of Elk Mt. with minimal gear. We had to build our own shelters, build a fire, boil water, and show up in the morning with at least 3 food sources in hand. Each person was assigned an area in which to "live" for the night and we were not able to help each other out. All we were allowed to bring was a map, compass, pocket knife, string and matches. We had to show up in our normal hiking clothes - no extra layers allowed.

Also in our local schools all kids whose parents won't sign the release for them to take sex ed are instead instructed in outdoor survival skills. At lease it used to be that way. I was one of those kids. I guess they figured that if we didn't know about such things they'd rather we just got lost. But it was cool being able to take two weeks of schooling and apply it to learning outdoor knowledge.
 
7 days in a swamp outside of Mobile alabama in the middle of summer. Lost 13 lbs but it was a blast!
Check out stalkingthewild.com Tensas wilderness trip.
Highly reccommended. Learned alot.
Bill
 
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