FM 21-76 Army Survival Manual

UPDATE: We have a newer version of the Field Manual available here. It is the FM3-05-70.

Don’t Get Bit has acquired the FM 21-76 US Army Survival Manual.

The FM 21-76 is the finest single source for self-reliance for all extreme circumstances. A must for anyone who wants to know how to survive in primitive conditions. The book is very straightforward with many pictures and user-friendly illustrations, written in easy to understand language. This is just some of the survival information that this book provides: All-climates: arctic, tropics, temperate forest, savanna or desert. All-terrain survival tactics. The Will to Survive.

Identify poisonous snakes, as well as edible and non-edible plants. Survival Medicine. Wilderness medicine. Techniques on first aid. Survival in the hottest or coldest of climates. Survival Planning. Make polluted water potable. How to find water. Ways to trap and collection techniques of water. Covers navigation and compass use. Find direction using the sun and stars. Weapons and Tools. Recognizing signs of land when lost at sea. Building life-saving shelters. Traps and snares. How to prepare wild game to be cooked also preserving food. All types of fire making. Water Crossings. Find direction using the sun and stars. Physical and mental fitness. Disaster preparedness. Again this is just some of the survival information is this book!

To download a PDF of this book please click here or the image of the cover above.

Artificial Blood For Combat Emergencies

Killing zombies is a bloody business. Trust us we’ve run the simulations. Not only is it bloody from the de-animated zombies but serious injuries can occur to survivors as well. Shrapnel wounds, wounds from exposed building materials and even friendly fire can cause someone bleed out in less time than you think. But not anymore! Say hello to ARTIFICIAL BLOOD! Stockpile now and be safe later, but with the price tag of $1000 a pint and the average human body holding in 10 pints of that red sticky stuff it would be spendy to have a full body’s worth of blood on hand.

July 17, 2010: The U.S. has finally developed artificial blood. It is grown from umbilical cord cells and genetically modified animal cells. It won’t be available for use for another five years (lots of testing and production optimization required), and will cost about $1,000 a pint (450 millileters). That’s about three times the cost of collecting and processing blood from human donors. But the higher cost is offset by lower waste and the ability to create larger supplies on demand.

While some blood is donated by troops in the combat zone, most of it is sent over from the U.S. or other areas with lots of healthy donors. Whole blood only has a shelf life of four weeks, and a lot of it has to be destroyed because it is not needed. That’s because a lot of blood has to be available in a combat zone, at all times, to deal with spikes in casualties. These spikes are unavoidable, and often unpredictable, given the nature of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. Combat casualties often involve massive loss of blood, and you have to have the blood for transfusions when you need it. The artificial blood will make it possible to maintain combat reserves without putting a strain on the civilian supply.

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No Doctor? Care For Wounds Yourself!

You never know when you may be faced with an open flesh wound after fending off several dozen hungry zombies. Just reading this post may put enough info into your long term memory for you to recall this in your moment of panicked screaming. Be sure to head on over to the Survivalist Blog and read the whole thing. Good luck and stay calm, everything is going to be alright.

A wound requires four simple things to heal: blood flow, oxygen, nutrients, and the ABSENCE OF INFECTION. If possible, a member of the group who’s wounded should get some extra food, and a vitamin pill a day.

In terms of oxygen and nutrients, these are all provided by blood flow. This brings up the subject of tourniquets. Tourniquets should ONLY be used as a measure of last resort, to prevent the patient from bleeding to death.

Remember – direct pressure stops 99% of bleeding. Take a piece of cloth, ball it up and press HARD against the bleeding area for five minutes by your watch – which will seem like five hours – then check and see if the bleeding has subsided – only if three or four attempts fail should a tourniquet be used.

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