What you need to be prepared to survive.
Posted 12-29-2010 at 07:49 PM by dinosaur
There's a lot of survival talk on this site and it has occured to me that not everyone here would survive a major problem.
I am a survival expert. That does not mean I can survive in every situation or that I have more skills than others on this site. But, I will be 62 next May and collecting Social Security. I've been all over the world and done just about everything. My daddy taught me survival training when I was still in single digits on age. Daddy was OSS in WWII. You nay need to look that up to see what it was. He taught survival to Special Forces in the forties. I might be as good as he was or better. I don't know, but I'm pretty good. I managed to live through a lot of crap in the late sixties and seventies. I had some sterling moments in the eighties before I realized I was too old for it.
I was probably too cocky in the nineties and now that the oughts are over, I know I'm too old for it. The problem I have is that I also know that I'm still more able to deal with disaster than most people a third my age. It is the reason I seek out sites of this ilk. It is the reason I call myself Dinosaur.
I know I am not the last dinosaur. But, I fear I am exactly that. I don't belong here anymore. I see things differently than most. I am not as civilized as most and never have been due to my early training.
I love my family and I love my country. I don't trust my government in any way. I'll give the shirt off my back to anybody but a politician or a lawyer just to keep them warm. I'll rescue you from a burning building, I will kill those who attack you, I will grab you and pull you up from the precipice. I'll do it because you are there and I am your last hope.
The first time I did this I was thirteen years old. I saved my best friend from drowning in a mud wash that probably should have killed me to. We lived and he went on to be a good man with a family. I went on to be what I am.
I am a survival expert. That does not mean I can survive in every situation or that I have more skills than others on this site. But, I will be 62 next May and collecting Social Security. I've been all over the world and done just about everything. My daddy taught me survival training when I was still in single digits on age. Daddy was OSS in WWII. You nay need to look that up to see what it was. He taught survival to Special Forces in the forties. I might be as good as he was or better. I don't know, but I'm pretty good. I managed to live through a lot of crap in the late sixties and seventies. I had some sterling moments in the eighties before I realized I was too old for it.
I was probably too cocky in the nineties and now that the oughts are over, I know I'm too old for it. The problem I have is that I also know that I'm still more able to deal with disaster than most people a third my age. It is the reason I seek out sites of this ilk. It is the reason I call myself Dinosaur.
I know I am not the last dinosaur. But, I fear I am exactly that. I don't belong here anymore. I see things differently than most. I am not as civilized as most and never have been due to my early training.
I love my family and I love my country. I don't trust my government in any way. I'll give the shirt off my back to anybody but a politician or a lawyer just to keep them warm. I'll rescue you from a burning building, I will kill those who attack you, I will grab you and pull you up from the precipice. I'll do it because you are there and I am your last hope.
The first time I did this I was thirteen years old. I saved my best friend from drowning in a mud wash that probably should have killed me to. We lived and he went on to be a good man with a family. I went on to be what I am.
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