This should come in handy when [insert catastrophe here] happens.
Springing from the legendary scouting, tracking, wilderness survival skills of Apache warriors, onPoint Tactical offers superior training for modern-day professionals and civilians who require or desire advanced outdoor skill sets to survive and thrive in today’s demanding world.
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onPoint Tactical offers professional certification in Scout, Tracker, and Wilderness Survival disciplines. Course topics include Urban Escape and Evasion, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) training; Search & Rescue (SAR) tracking, primitive wilderness survival, winter survival, scout reconnaissance, animal trapping, booby traps, sniper fieldcraft, camouflage, off grid medical care, force protection, combat and pursuit tracking, counter and anti-tracking, animal tracking, hostile environment training, and land navigation.
From their Urban Escape & Evasion Course:
While on an international business trip, you are kidnapped and held for ransom. Or, a terrorist attack closes the business district of your city and you find yourself in a dangerous, chaotic fix. How do you stay alive? How do you get to safety on your own?
[...]Topics covered include covert movement (day vs. night), the judicious use of caches, understanding urban baseline movement and urban awareness training, the use of disguises and false papers/identification, lock picking, escaping from unlawful custody, obtaining and driving local transportation, the use of “specialized” urban gear, and instruction on how to develop urban escape and evasion go-bags.
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Saturday’s exercise will begin at 8:30 am and involve putting your new skills and mindsets to the test in a real-life scenario lasting most of the day until around 5:00 pm. You will be “kidnapped”: hooded, cuffed and taken somewhere dark and uncomfortable to start your day. You will be expected to escape, find your own transportation legally using your social engineering skills, and make your way to the first cache location, where directions for a series of tasks using all your new skills await.Meanwhile, expert trackers will be hunting you down, and if they catch you, you will have to start again from a more distant location.
Nowhere in the military do women meet the same physical standards as men – not in the military academies, not in basic training, and certainly not in the field. “equal opportunity” has been allowed to trump military readiness and national security.
My brother in law was a SERE instructor and now works for a private contractor in NC. I have heard some stories.
I’m to old and to fat.
The times they are a changing. We have had the luxury to live soft and for some of us to get fat headed.
That sort of thing isn’t going to last. When the bleep hits the fan the tough and the lucky survive and the rest die without issue. Hard on the individual but good for the species.
“Springing from the legendary scouting, tracking, wilderness survival skills of Apache warriors….”
What, not ninjas?
I signed up for this but washed out on the first day because I could not crack a walnut with just my buttocks.