delectric
10-07-2006, 11:17 PM
Ok, I'll tell you a little about me and how long I've been at this...
I've been doing this since 1973 ACTIVELY, prior to that it was a passive endeavor. During 1973 I became what would be called a BACKPACK SURVIVALIST, the guy with a 72 hour pack, a weapon, and pair of boots. When I got married we both of us were prearedness oriented, we went from BACKPACK to RETREAT IN PLACE. So we prepared and looked at defending the turf we had.
Things in the 'hood' changed and with children we went into RETREAT SURVIVAL MODE, we established a retreat, started building a cadre of similarily thinking people around us, aka family, friends, work associates and recriuts.
I enhanced my knowledge, even wrote a few articles for American Survival Guide, became a regional leader of LIVE FREE (a survivalist organization), and published my own survival newsletter called the REGION FIVE REPORT (it was region five of the Live Free network), I also did a few things that enhanced my training skills and did contract work for private OPFOR group for about ten years. This work got me counter-terrorism trained, and very knowledgable in the operations local, state, and federal SWAT and HRT teams.... it was fun, and got to go to interesting places, meet interesting people and play war games with them.
During this I just kept on the survival endeavor, picking up a good retreat and even better friends, some came and some left, but we just kept on trudging right along. Food and supplies have been enhanced to a level that we could make it for a year if we supplimented, which is what we wanted to do. At that point we should have recovered or developed to a level that we would be growing crops and raising our livestiock.
I've had a few set-backs thru the years, 1st wife and I split up, lost a second to breast cancer, older kids grew up and became STUPID. And now I'm raising a eight year old daughter alone, so don't anyone bitch about their problems, I'm Mr Mom now and still keeping my preps going.
It ain't perfect, but it's an endeavor, and it won't end.
I've been doing this since 1973 ACTIVELY, prior to that it was a passive endeavor. During 1973 I became what would be called a BACKPACK SURVIVALIST, the guy with a 72 hour pack, a weapon, and pair of boots. When I got married we both of us were prearedness oriented, we went from BACKPACK to RETREAT IN PLACE. So we prepared and looked at defending the turf we had.
Things in the 'hood' changed and with children we went into RETREAT SURVIVAL MODE, we established a retreat, started building a cadre of similarily thinking people around us, aka family, friends, work associates and recriuts.
I enhanced my knowledge, even wrote a few articles for American Survival Guide, became a regional leader of LIVE FREE (a survivalist organization), and published my own survival newsletter called the REGION FIVE REPORT (it was region five of the Live Free network), I also did a few things that enhanced my training skills and did contract work for private OPFOR group for about ten years. This work got me counter-terrorism trained, and very knowledgable in the operations local, state, and federal SWAT and HRT teams.... it was fun, and got to go to interesting places, meet interesting people and play war games with them.
During this I just kept on the survival endeavor, picking up a good retreat and even better friends, some came and some left, but we just kept on trudging right along. Food and supplies have been enhanced to a level that we could make it for a year if we supplimented, which is what we wanted to do. At that point we should have recovered or developed to a level that we would be growing crops and raising our livestiock.
I've had a few set-backs thru the years, 1st wife and I split up, lost a second to breast cancer, older kids grew up and became STUPID. And now I'm raising a eight year old daughter alone, so don't anyone bitch about their problems, I'm Mr Mom now and still keeping my preps going.
It ain't perfect, but it's an endeavor, and it won't end.