S.W.A.T. December 2007 - McKeesport Police Department

AGAINST ALL ODDS
Self-made survival kits should include a fixedblade
knife to allow the user greater potential for
success when building shelters and fires.
BUILd YOUR OWN
SURVIVAL KIT
» BY JEFF RANDALL
When you receive this issue of
S.W.A.T. and begin to thumb
through the pages, my partner,
Mike Perrin, and I will be in the
middle of the Amazon jungle teaching
a jungle survival skills class. Once the
ferry boat drops our team off and leaves
us 100 miles from any civilization, we’re
on our own with no way of getting out
except to live off the jungle, then build
rafts and fl oat ourselves to the Amazon
to hitch a ride back to civilization.
The only thing the participants will
have with them (except the clothes on
their backs) is a small backpack that will
contain their passport, machete, compass,
water bottle, pocket knife, mosquito
net, rain poncho, personal fi rst
aid kit and fl ashlight. There will be no
commercial food, no sat phones and no
As the author and the Peruvian military have demonstrated many times, a
small backpack with essential tools is more than enough for a person to
survive indefinitely in the wilderness.
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