Any instruction I received was done at some type of SERE training (survival, evasion, resistance & escape). The school isn't available to everyone in the Army, just folks who may find themselves in that type of situation. What I'm saying is that the course is not mandatory. I speak mainly of the Army because that's who I served with. You may have heard stories from guys in basic training or other combat arms related schools taking about eating bugs, I don't think it was part of their training as much as something that came up as one of those hardcore infantry moments.OldSarge, the military will train some of the men and women to eat bugs if they don't have anything else, or is this just another wives tale that people have told me?