Monday, November 16, 2020

What Air Force Survival Training Taught me

 I was in Two Ravens Idaho for a conference and the conference hired an Air Force team to give a survival course based upon crashing in a plane in the wilderness away from everyone.

I remember clearly what they said which was: "The people that die don't take and interest in their survival."

Many people often in a crash of a plane in the wilderness start spinning in their minds like a top asking questions like "Why did this happen?" "Why did these other people die?" "Why are these other people injured?" -"How could this happen to me?"

And they spin in these questions until they die or go completely mad and that is the end of them if someone doesn't take care of them.

No. If you want to survive the key is "TAKING AN INTEREST IN YOUR SURVIVAL!"

IF YOU DON'T TAKE AN INTEREST IN YOUR SURVIVAL YOU WON'T SURVIVE!

So, the real quest in learning how to survive is staying interested in staying alive. If you don't you are going to die!

So, the real key is asking questions like: "Where is there water?" "Where is there food?" Where are Warm clothes (if it is cold). "Where is the nearest city or gas station or house?" These are the questions you need to ask if you are going to survive all this.

NOT. "Why is this person screaming incessantly?" (Unless you are a doctor or nurse or EMT and can help them in some way or have a sedative or something).

The questions you need to be asking are: "Where is the water that is safe to drink?" "Where is the food that is safe to eat?" "Where are the nearest houses and cities of people that can help us survive this crash!"

So, staying interested in your mental and physical survival is how we all survive this thing.

If you can't stay interested and or you don't have someone who is staying interested in your survival, then you likely won't survive all this.

This is the reality of what we all face worldwide now.

So, Stay interested.

By God's Grace

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