Survival Ready: Life-saving skills and expert advice for surviving any threat at any time
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Survival Ready: Life-saving skills and expert advice for surviving any threat at any time
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Overview
Learn how to help ensure your survival and safety under any circumstances. This book is packed with skills and lessons in situational awareness, personal protection, travel security, and critical thinking. Learn how to think like trained military and intelligence operatives and arm yourself with the tools to meet and conquer any situation.
Check Freedman and Billy Jensen draw upon decades of personal experience in surveillance, counter surveillance, anti-terrorism tactics, survival, evasion, resistance, escape, armed and unarmed combat and much more. From pandemics and riots to active shooters and other survival situations, Survival Ready presents hundreds of lessons to help ensure your safety, no matter what circumstances you might find yourself in.
- Decision-making in an emergency
- Critical thinking
- Wilderness survival
- Urban survival
- Natural and man-made disaster survival
- Situational awareness
- Crisis planning and response
- Social engineering
- Human psychology
- And hundreds of additional skills designed to make you into a force to be reckoned with.
Survival Ready provides the information and skills you need to be confident in your ability to handle any situation.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781948174749 |
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| Publisher: | Media Lab Books |
| Publication date: | 05/11/2021 |
| Pages: | 352 |
| Sales rank: | 661,383 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Billy Jensen is the CEO of Captive Audience Prevention Training and Recovery Team. He is a Personnel (Hostage) Recovery Professional and honorably retired Special Forces Soldier (Green Beret). During active duty, he spent more than a decade on assignments as a Special Forces Intelligence NCO. Billy has worked as an anti-terrorism instructor and is highly trained in terrorist and criminal network analysis. Billy is currently certified as a Crisis Hostage Negotiator, Critical Incident Stress Debriefer, Private Investigator, Locksmith, Martial Artist, Master Scuba Diver, and Certified Missing and Exploited Child Investigator. Billy has a Bachelors in Science and is a Masters of Arts Graduate of Norwich University and is currently pursuing a Doctorate in Community Counseling and Traumatology.
Jack Cambria is a former member of the NYPD who contributed 34 years of exemplary service. He has served in various ranks and assignments including patrol, the Emergency Service Unit and the Hostage Negotiation Team, of which he is their longest tenured commander. He now teaches negotiation, de-escalation and active shooter survival strategies for corporations at the local, national and international level.
Table of Contents
Foreword 8
Intro 10
Survival 101 12
Advance Preparation of the Battle Space 13
There Is Only One Shape of Gray 16
The Importance of POSEC 18
Every Day Carry 19
The Bug-Out Bay 22
Shelter in Place 24
Force Multipllers 28
Lead, Fellow or Get Out of the Way 29
The Fulcrum Principle 31
Self-Sufficiency 32
Pace Planning 34
The OODA Loop 35
Train, Train and Train Some More 36
Decide to Act 38
Check Your Gear 39
Your Body 41
Rabid Chipmunk 42
Priorities 43
Combat Breathing 44
A Medium of Exchange 45
Layered Security 47
In a Multitude of Counselors, There Is Safety 49
Gear Recommendations 50
Calm Is Contagious But Panic Kills 52
Always Be Kind 55
Ask 56
Personal Preparedness 57
Liar, Liar 58
Trust Your Instincts 59
Left of Incident 61
Money! 63
A Good Name 63
Toxicity 65
Bad Company 66
Communication is Critical 68
Elicitation 71
To Answer or Not to Answer 73
Stoplight Risk Assessments 75
Countering Surveillance 76
Surveillance Detection Routes 77
Flashy Bling 79
Be Alert 79
Careless Talk 80
Colorful Logos 81
Bumper Stickers 81
Participant or Spectator 82
Stand Tall 83
See It Their Way 84
Low Blood Sugar 85
Battle Buddies 85
Loyal Opposition 87
Teamwork 88
Untrackable 88
PVC Caching 89
Know the Law 90
The Power of Choice 90
An Excuse to Win 91
Practice What You Preach 92
Don't Write It Down 94
Nothing Succeeds Like Success 95
Fires Grow Fast 95
It's Only Your Life 98
Mental To 99
Image Projection 100
The Survival Implications of Addiction 102
Preconceived Ideas 105
Boundaries and Principle-Based Living 107
Pre-Made Decisions 109
Incremental Decision Making 110
Think Differently 112
Small victories 116
Don't Compare Yourself to Others 118
Personal Responsibility 120
Declining Optional Stress 121
Projection 122
Relentless 123
Keep Your Eyes on the Goal 123
Understanding the Mental Arts 125
The Four Kinds of People You Meet in a Crisis 127
Defeating the Amygdala 130
F.LA.P.S 132
Survival Reactions 134
Coping Mechanisms 138
Practical Theism 141
The Power of Submission 142
Act, Don't React 145
Keep It Up 146
Absorbers, Reflectors and Projectors 148
Complacency 149
Boredom 150
Laziness Pays 151
Continual Improvement 151
Confronting Biases 152
RASCLS + Social Engineering 162
Self Defense 165
The Timeline of Self-Defense 166
Dressing Defensively 167
Concealed Cary Draw Techniques 170
What is Behind Your Target? 172
Found Object Fighting 173
Know Your Enemy 175
Train Like You Fight 176
Bushcraft Basics 179
S.T.O.P. 180
Ground-to-Alr Symbols 181
How to Make a Compass 182
Pace Counting 182
Responsible Drinking 183
How to Test If a Plant Is Edible 184
How to Jump into Water Safety 185
Caring for Your Feet 186
What to Wear by Environment 188
Every Day Carry for Every Environment 191
Shelter Tips and Other Considerations 194
Fire-Starting Techniques 195
How to Dispose of Food 201
Helping Others IN Crisis 203
Slow Down 204
80% Listen 205
"I" Statements 205
Truthfulness 206
Minimal Encouragers 206
Label Emotions 207
Validate Emotions 207
Paraphrase 208
Mirroring and Parroting 208
Establish and Build Rapport 209
The Signs of Human Trafficking 210
Urban Survival 214
Facility Security 215
Active Shooter Response 217
Barricading a Door 218
Hiding in Plain Sight 220
Fire Alarms 222
Stadiums and Auditoriums 223
Urban Conceal 225
Finding Your Way in the Dark 225
Field Medicine 228
Rule of 3 229
Airway, Bleeding, Shock 229
Spider Bites 231
Weather-Related Injuries 232
Improvisation 237
DIY Solar Still 238
How to Make a Water Filtration System 240
The Many Uses of Sticks 241
Duct Tape Tourniquet 242
Open Your Closed Garage Door 243
How to Make Plastic 244
The Mighty Poncho 245
The Amazing Paracord 246
Alternate Uses for Everyday Things 247
Survival in the Digital Age 261
Persec 262
Infosec 263
The Risk of Public Wifi 265
Same Old Password 265
How to Destroy a Laptop 266
Audio Surveillance 267
Video Surveillance 268
Disguise for a Video Camera 269
Disallow Video Recording with Light 269
Creating Static 270
Signal Surveillance 270
Visually Discovering Vehicle-Based Tracking Devices 271
Using Technology to Detect Vehicle-Based Tracking Devices 272
Travel with Care 273
What to Pack 274
Selecting a Hotel 281
Hotel Security 286
Airplane Security 292
Taxi Security 296
At Your Destination 297
Extreme Survival Situations 313
How to Handle a Sinking Car 314
Cooperative Evacuee 315
Surviving Volcanoes 316
The Questions to Ask to Formulate a Target Search Area 317
Surviving an Avalanche 318
Surviving a Grenade 321
You've Been Kidnapped 322
All About Terrorism 328
Afterword 337
Further Reading 339
Index 340
About the Author 346
Acknowledgments 347
About Captive Audience 348