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In the midst of preparing for any and every disaster that might come along, one thing that is often overlooked is the need to prepare for medical emergencies. Few of us have any real medical training, farther than giving aspirin and putting on a band-aid, and we tend to look at the profession of medicine a bit like the black arts. We see it as something beyond us, so we don't bother studying it. But medicine, like any other skill, can be learned. Have you ever gone to a doctor who you didn't' think was all that bright? Well, if...

As I've watched the prepping movement grow through the last few years, I've been somewhat surprised and intrigued by some of the topics which have been brought up by various preppers and authors. Back when I started as a survivalist, the main concern was getting out of the city and surviving in the wilderness. The idea of bugging in was impossible. After all, no home can protect you from a nuclear explosion. But the threats we face today are different than the threat we faced back then. All-out thermonuclear war is not a likely possibility in today's world, but an...

There's a fair amount of talk that goes around about what types of firearms to carry in a bug out or what types are useful for general survival. There's even people talking about "alternate weapons;" for those that don't have or don't want to have firearms in the home. Many have tried to identify a "best;" but the truth of the matter is that what is best for one person may not be best for another. Truthfully, I still haven't decided what is the best for me, let alone what's the best for someone else. Yet, weapons tend to be...

There are a number of different perspectives people have when looking at prepping and survival. It almost seems like people pass through these different perspectives as steps in their "growth." Most start with the basic idea of stockpiling food and move from there to expanding on what they are stockpiling. Before long they are working on their home, making it more workable as a survival retreat or build a retreat they can but out to. But the ultimate step for most people is one of learning skills. Actually, the idea of learning skills starts much earlier than that, but it...

American society today is highly mobile. Few of us work close to our homes, so we are constantly running from one place to another, burning gasoline and putting miles on our cars. According to the National Auto Insurer's Association, this is on the increase, with the average American driving twice as many miles per year as they did 30 years ago. With so much time in our cars and trucks and so much of that time being a ways away from our homes, it only seems logical to make sure that our vehicles are prepared to help us survive; yet...