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Contents
Introduction
Part One: SEAL Mindset and Survival Psychology
EXPAND YOUR COMFORT ZONE
INCREASE YOUR PHYSICAL TOUGHNESS
INCREASE YOUR MENTAL TOUGHNESS
MENTAL PREPARATION
Emergency Conditioning • Visualization • Rehearsal • Muscle Memory • Create a Trigger •
Violence of Action • Situational Awareness • Composure Under Pressure • Combat Breathing •
Checklists
USE THE RULE OF THREE
LONG-HAUL SURVIVAL
Part Two: Survival Scenarios
ABANDON SHIP
What to Do When Boarding a Ship or Boat • What to Do When a Ship Is Taking On Water •
Abandoning Ship • Mayday • Going into the Water
ACTIVE SHOOTER
Active-Shooter Incidents • Police Response Time • Situational Awareness: Exits, Cover, People •
Once a Shooting Begins • Reverse 911 • Movement Techniques • Bullet Penetration • Decoys •
Moving as a Group • Set an Ambush • Encountering Law Enforcement
AIRPLANE CRASH
Preflight Preparation • Where to Sit • Gathering Intelligence on Your Plane • Situational
Awareness on the Plane • Impact Brace Positions • Postimpact • Finding the Best Exit • What to
Do Once You’re Out
ANIMAL ATTACK
Dogs • Black Bears • Brown Bears • Polar Bears • Mountain Lions
AUTO ACCIDENT
Seat Belts • Air Bags • Other Safety Features and Precautions • Avoiding and Minimizing
Accidents • Four O’clock and Eight O’clock Hand Positions • Tire Blowouts • Postaccident
Actions
BIOCHEMICAL ATTACK
History • Early Signs • How to Protect Yourself and Escape • Improvised Gas Mask • Shelter In •
If You’ve Been Exposed
BOMB
Car Bomb • Situational Awareness • Individual Precautions for Community Safety • Structural
Safety • IED and Booby Trap • Suicide Bombers • If a Bomb Detonates
BRIDGE COLLAPSE
Crumbling Infrastructure • Bracing for Impact • How to Escape a Submerged Vehicle • On the
Surface
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY
Crime Facts • Prevention • Point of Entry • Being a Good Neighbor • Neighborhood Watches •
Exterior Lighting • Doors and Locks • Windows • Interior Lighting • Alarms • Dogs • When a
Burglary Happens • When a Robbery Happens • Encountering the Invader • Convenience Store
and Bank Robberies
CARJACKING
Being Alert • Typical Strategies Carjackers Use • The Bump and Jump • The Good Samaritan •
The Ruse • The Trap • Surprise Attack • Prevention • During a Carjacking • When a Carjacking
Becomes an Abduction • Carjacked as a Passenger • Locked in Your Trunk
EARTHQUAKE
Secure the Compound • If You Are Outdoors • If You Are in a Vehicle • If You Are Inside •
Drop, Cover, and Hold On • Triangle of Life • Aftermath • Buried in Rubble • Tapping
ELEVATOR EMERGENCY
Situational Awareness • Elevator Entrapment • Free Fall
FALLING THROUGH ICE
Going In • Swimming Out • Rolling Out • Stop and Save It • If You Are a Bystander •
FIGHTING
Prefight • Commanding Presence • Distance • The Fight • Protect Your Face • Stay On Your Feet
• Hit Hard • Vulnerable Points on the Body • Punches • Palm Strikes • Feet • Elbows • Knees •
Chokeholds • Thumb Drops • If They Have a Knife or a Gun • Final Note on Fighting
FIRE: FORESTS, BUILDINGS, HOMES
Situational Awareness: Know Your Risk • Outdoor Fire Threats • Preparation Checklists •
Building and House Fires • Renters • What to Do in a Fire
FLASH FLOOD, FLOODING, AND TSUNAMI
During a Flood • Aftermath of a Flood • Tsunami • Know Your Location • Animal Behaviors
FOOT PURSUIT AND BEING CHASED
Mindset • Use Your Environment
GANG VIOLENCE
Wrong Place, Wrong Time • Distance and De-escalation • Punch and Run: Fight and Flight
HIJACKING
Before You Board • Settling Into Your Seat • Observe Your Passengers • Air Marshals • Assess
the Hijacker • Charge! • Improvised Weapons • Explosives • Search, Handle, Restrain • The
Outside World’s Response
HOME INVASION
Tiger Kidnapping • Prevention and Rehearsal • Safe Rooms • When Violence Comes • SERE
(Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape) • How to Escape Restraints • Alerting Others
HURRICANE AND TORNADO
Hurricane Preparation • When to Evacuate • Holding Your Position • Caught Outside • It’s Not
Over Yet • Tornado Survival
JAIL
Jail Types and Stats • Mental Preparation • Just Locked Up • What Not to Do • Violence Behind
Bars • Be Good
LIGHTNING
Know the Enemy • Targets • The 30/30 Rule • Action Checklist
LOST AT SEA
Survival Priorities • Staying Afloat • Retaining Heat • Avoiding Sunstroke • Getting Water •
Getting Food • Signaling • Raft Survival • Sea-Induced Delusions • The Long Haul • Shark Attack
LOST IN THE DESERT
Survival Priorities • Shade • Finding Water • Building a Solar Still • Types of Shelters • Walking
Out
LOST IN THE FROZEN MOUNTAINS
Survival Priorities • Finding Shelter • Building a Quinze • Starting and Maintaining a Fire • Dry
Clothing • Getting Water • Getting Food • Trapping • Lichen • Moving and Navigation •
Improvised Compasses
NUCLEAR ATTACK
How a Bomb Works • EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) • How to React • Materials That Protect
from Radiation • Avoiding Radiation by Sheltering In • Avoiding Radiation by Outrunning It •
Decontamination
PANDEMIC
Methods of Transmission • Preventing Infection • Pandemic in Effect • Disruption of Services •
Minimum Food Essentials • Your Crew • When You’re the Sick One • Sickroom • Homemade
Protective Gear • Handling the Dead
RIOTS AND STAMPEDES
Awareness of Likelihood • If You Are in a Riot • If You Live in an Area Where Riots Are
Occurring • Stampedes
ROAD RAGE: DEFENSIVE AND EVASIVE DRIVING
Letting Go of Anger on the Road • Defensive Driving: Expect the Worst • Evasive Driving • Basic
Techniques for a High-Speed Chase • Advanced Techniques • Y-Turns • J-Turns • Barricade
Breaching • Being Rammed • Driver Down
SEARCH AND RESCUE
Step Up and Help! • Gear Up • Going In • Marking Your Results • Extracting Survivors • Levers •
Cribbing and Shoring
STALKER AND SURVEILLANCE DETECTION
Stalking Stats • If You Are Being Followed • Change Your Routine • Surveillance Detection
Route • Ambush
TORTURE AND BEING HELD HOSTAGE
Torture’s Many Forms • Why Me? • Accepting Your Situation • Stress Management • Time •
Thoughts of Escape • Become the Gray Man • Managing the Pain • Give Something vs. Give
Nothing
TROUBLE IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY
Before You Go • Friendly Embassies • Avoid Trouble • In Trouble • On the Run
Part Three: Gear and Improvised Weapons
GEAR
Go Bag Essentials • Go Bag Advanced
FIREARMS
Thoughts on Firearms • What Weapon Is Best? • Basic Firearm Operation and Safety
IMPROVISED WEAPONS
Part Four: Survival Medicine
STEP UP AND HELP!
Casualty Assessment • Get into Action • Initial Assessment • Triage
IMMEDIATE PRIORITIES FOR TREATING THE INJURED
ABC (Airway, Breathing, Circulation) • Rescue Breathing • CPR (Cardiopulmonary
Resuscitation) • Stopping the Bleeding • Dressing the Wound • Tourniquets • Protecting Wounds •
Fractures • Dislocations • Transporting the Injured
SHOCK
Causes • Prevention and Treatment
HEAT INJURIES
Dehydration • Heat Cramps • Heat Exhaustion • Heatstroke
COLD INJURIES
Hypothermia • Frostbite • Trench Foot
TRENCH FOOT
CHOKING
How to Help Someone Who’s Choking • If You Are Alone and Choking • If the Victim Is
Unconscious
BURNS
Burn Types • Short-term Treatment • Long-term Treatment
BITES AND STINGS
Bees and Wasps • Spiders and Scorpions • Snakes
Acknowledgments
About Cade Courtley
To my teammates both here and above
