Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival Skills, Tactics, and Techniques

by Jay Mccullough and U.S. Department of the Army

Book Overview

Drawing from dozens of the U.S. Army's official field manuals, editor Jay McCullough has culled a thousand pages of the most useful and curious tidbits for the would-be soldier, historian,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1435114027
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
• Weight: 4.70 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Best I have ever seen!

i am so excited to recieve this volume at so reasonable rate! It is Hudge! and is full of most emergancy things that will be needed. I am very happy with this volume! K.Davis

The Ultimate Guide to U.S. Army Survival Skills, Tactics, and Techniques (2007)

This Ultimate Guide is must have for most households, and especially for those whom enjoy camping, hiking, or extreme adventures in the great outdoors. It is a rich book that should accompany one's first aid kit. With this 962 page text, readers will learn about: * the psychology of survival * survival planning and kits (tools, essentials) * first aid (e.g. wound, bite, and sting care; fracture, climatic injury, toxicity treatment; and more) * rescue and transportation procedures * common problems/conditions * decontamination procedures * shelter planning, designing, special operations and situations * water and food procurement * dangerous insects, arachnids, snakes, lizards, fish, mollusks, and other animals * survival use of plants (and poisonous plants) * plus much more [...]

A Little Different Than What I expected

It is obviously an incredible source for survival and combat. I bought it as a gift for a friend and was looking just for an out-of-doors survival guide, I was surprised to see so much on weapons and warfare. I should have looked through the book before I ordered it. We are non violent and do not carry arms so much of the information is wasted on us and our friend. None the less, it certainly carries an encyclopedia of information about all kinds of situations including some psychology items about persevering under impossible circumstances as well as excellent illustrations and descriptions, very important for identifying edible and poisonous plants.

A Must for Everyone

This book is a must for everyone! Even if you don't plan to live alone out in the wilderness, there is information everyone can use. If you go camping, take this book along for first aid and identifying poisonous plants. Yes, there are chapters in self defense, but what single women wouldn't benefit from that?!

Wow!

We're very happy with our purchase of this survival guide. As others have stated, it is a very complete and detailed book on survival skills for almost any occasion. It also has a very good first aid section. We haven't had time to read through too much of it yet, but we feel more confident hiking and camping in the more secluded areas of the Rockies. This guide is very thick and a little too heavy to carry in a backpack on some occasions, which is why we'll take copies of some of the pages with us on our camping trips when we can't carry the whole book along with us. It has definitely been a good purchase for us.