Survival and Preparedness Library and Reference lounge

As time permits I will add to the library. The LDS Preparedness Manual is a great way to start off on the right toefoot. I am not of the religious type but the material is just that.....good information.


FM 21-76 Survival: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...8YHYDQ&usg=AFQjCNHpcMMwumR-JKXqzTOGJjUcBzjw-A


LDS Preparedness Manual: http://www.green-trust.org/freebooks/Preparedness.pdf


FM 21-11 First Aid: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...8YCYCw&usg=AFQjCNHl1lAhGyVbQEdjZXODOn4z7S7jnA

 

Planning a Garden: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...cKEGGxo4HSRswpjid1rRHCQ&bvm=bv.41934586,d.b2I

Family Survival Planning: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...OIAgQep33hW06oZmRrAaBtg&bvm=bv.41934586,d.b2I

 

Homemade twinkie recipe...
if you're going to die in the zombie apocalypse, at least die happy...

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/homemade-twinkies/

 

Everything thing to do with backyard chickens: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...NL-XFyAscdu1OrYuexJZKSg&bvm=bv.41934586,d.b2I

 

Here is a wealth of information. If the links are broken just go to 4shared and type the file name. It is free and have downloaded many files to thumb drives and disk.

Skills and Trades: [link to www.4shared.com]
Communications
Trade Skills
Homesteading and Pioneering
Blacksmithing
Engineering and Manufacturing
Fuel
Human Resources and Management
Tools
Science and Chemistry

Construction and Shelter: [link to www.4shared.com]
Greenhouse
Shelter Basics
Fallout Shelter
Farm Buildings
Above Ground Shelter
Camp and Outdoors Construction
Shelter Operations
Storage
Advanced Shelter
Underground Shelter

Medical: [link to www.4shared.com]
Surgery
Full Guides
Preventative and Plans
Natural Medicine
Female Medicine
General Medicine
Sicknesses
First Aid and Combat Medicine
Drugs
Pediatric Surgery and Medicine
Dental
Poison Radiation and Biological
Maritime Medicine

Food and Water Part 1: [link to www.4shared.com]
Farming and Gardening

Food and Water Part 2: [link to www.4shared.com]
Storage Sanitation and Preparation
Hunting and Trapping
Finding Food
Cooking
Fishing
Alcohol
Implements

Smuggling, Caching and Scrounging: [link to www.4shared.com]

Survival, Security and Travel: [link to www.4shared.com]
Survival Guides
Nuclear
Secure Travel
EMP
Wilderness
Security
Chemical and Biological
Evasion and Resistance
Psychology
Weather

Field Manuals and Military Handbooks: [link to www.4shared.com]
Tactics
Dealing With The Military
Nuclear Biological Chemical
Terrain and Maps

 

Here is the source for all Army current FMs. Free to download:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=YY1XHMm49za-PJbnI38kig&bvm=bv.42080656,d.b2I


Marine manuals:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...=29VI6OrGk0jMeFlmtPKU2g&bvm=bv.42080656,d.b2I

Marine Close combat:

http://www.combatical.com/

 

In my former line of work, I still have a bunch of manuals I was issued, that are not practical as survival guides...for example,unless you've got access to a Lear jet, this won't do much good.


However this one is in my bug out bag...USAF Survival Training Manual
600 pages covering:

first aid for illness and injury.
finding your way without a map.
building a fire.
finding food and water.
using ropes and tying knots.
mountain survival.
concealment techniques.
signaling for help.
survival at sea.
building shelters.
animal tracking.
predicting the weather.

and much more...

Free to download-
http://www.tacticalintelligence.net/USAF-Survival-Manual-644.pdf

 

An emergency water filtration system that I suggest every house have.

[video=youtube;pKZovzy5hu0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKZovzy5hu0[/video]

 

PDF for edible Plants:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...bxFsY23by9nhCkc4ftbwpng&bvm=bv.42080656,d.b2I

 

PDF Guides for home canning. I also like the Canning Blue Book that you can pick up at any major Book Store:

USDA:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...z4G4BQ&usg=AFQjCNHK2AF6ubb25FYqvIcgIXWKEV9JgA

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...z4G4BQ&usg=AFQjCNEYXbqsYTvdpc1XC9ZtGyHU8b1GcA


Cooking & Canning With The All-American Pressure Cooker

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...o4CoDw&usg=AFQjCNGWohflGzbe1xtpNsmwAEDoe-2hpg




Canning Fruits. Vegetables. Pickles. Jellies:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...z4G4BQ&usg=AFQjCNFXCKfkQAl3dkwqua2gQY_R-gBBmA


Canning Meat, Poultry and Fish:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...z4G4BQ&usg=AFQjCNFz0RmVldvYz3BBFn09m5qvqNGFOw

 

Wanted to add a good website for trapping:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...YXO2sxEAxkpcAio9Rdhlw3A&bvm=bv.42965579,d.b2I

 

More great resources and website, copy and paste: http://paleoprepping.com/ebooks/

Titles and subjects covered in above ebooks website and free to download:

General Survival
3 Day Emergency Preps
72 Hour Supplies
All Hazard Preparedness Workbook
Common Sense Guide To Being Prepared
Compact Survival Kit
Complete Worst Case Scenario
Disaster Handbook
Emergency Preparedness Checklist
Emergency Preparedness Manual
Emergency Supplies Checklist
FEMA – Are You Ready?
FRC Preparedness Handbook
How to Prepare for Any Disaster
LA Fire Department Emergency Preparedness
Mini Urban Survival Kit
National Security Emergencies
Ragnar’s Urban Survival
Surviving in the City

Communication
Bass Pro Shop Radio Guide
Best Buy FRS Radio Guide
Disaster Communications
Disaster Communications 2
Hams to the Rescue
How to Buy a Two Way Radio
Radio Amateur’s Handbook
Radio Info
Reconnecting After Disaster
Shortwave Radio 101
Shortwave Radio Handbook
Survival Communication 101
Survival Communications Primer

Cook Books
Belgian Cook Book
Cloud City Cookbook
Genesee Valley Cookbook
Kenton Cookbook
Modern Women of America Cookbook
Most For Your Money
Native American Health Recipes
Pleasantville Cook Book
Riverside Recipe Book
Second Parish Cookbook
Vegetarian Cook Book
Westminster Cook Book

Cooking Methods
Base Camp Trail Stove
Bush Fungus Stove
Double Drum Sawdust Stove
Emergency Bread
Food Bucket Stove
Rocket Stove
Sawdust Burning Stove

Energy, Fire, Light
Biodiesel Safety
Bow Drill
Cheat Solar Power
Choosing a Back Up Generator
Emergency Power Options
Fighting Fire
Fire by Can
Generator Sizing WP
Getting Started In Solar
Homemade Windmills
How Much Is Enough
Making Charcoal
Power Outage Checklist
Solar Power
Solar Water Heater
SunWize RVkits specsheet
Tinder Fungus
Water Proof Matches

Food and Storage
3 Month Supply Of Food
Emergency Food and Water
Emergency Food for Babies
Emergency Preparedness Food
Family Food Storage
Food Storage for 1 Year
Food Storage for Survival
Food Storage Guide
Food Storage in the Home
Food Storage and Rodents
Get Ready Now
Grain Dehuller
Grain Thresher
Grains And Legumes
Growing and Harvesting Wheat
Hand Operated Winnower
Improvised Grain Mill
Keeping Food Safe to Eat
Mylar Bag Sealing Methods
One Year Emergency Food Supply
Peddle Operated Grain Mill
Plant Identification
Preserving Vegetables
Shelf Life of Food Storage
Stocking Food
Stocking For Small Spaces
Storage of Wheat
Survival Food Storage
TACDA Emergency Food and Water
Vacuum Packing Seed

Gardening
A Better Way to Gardening
Amateur Garden
Building a Hydroponic Garden
Container Gardening 1
Container Gardening 2
Container Gardening Vegetables
Growing Container Vegetables
Growing Mini Gardens
Growing Sweet Corn
Growing Vegetables at Home
Growing Vegetables Basics
Growing Vegetables from Seed
Growing Vegetables in Containers
Keeping Food Safe in an Emergency
NC State – Growing Vegetables
NC State – Home Vegetables
Raised Bed Gardening
Short Season Vegetable Gardening
SM Space Gardening
Small Plastic Greenhouses
Start a Small Garden
Start a Vegetable Garden
Start Garden Transplants
Vegetable Gardening Encyclopedia

Health, Medical, Sanitation
Animal Bites First Aid
Base Campe Hygiene and Health
Blisters First Aid
Burns First Aid
CPR Instructions
Diabetes Disaster Guidelines
Edible Medicinal Plants
Emergency War Surgery
First Aid For Soldiers
Isolation Planning
Mass Casualty Planning
Medical Emergencies
Medical NBC Battlebook
Survival Medicine
Survival Wilderness Medicine
Using Safe Burial Practices
Wilderness Med Kit

Nuclear, Biological, Chemical
CBR Nuclear War Survival
Chemical Emergencies
EMP Commission 7MB
EMP Executive Report
Fallout Protection
FEMA CBR Nuclear War Survival
FEMA Nuclear Survival
Nuclear War Survival Skills
Nuclear Weapons Effects
Radiological Defense Preparedness
SM-12f Home Fallout Shelter
Threat to U.S. from an EMP Attack
What if Nuclear War is Imminent

Official Manuals
Canada CD Notebook
Canada CD Operations
Canada CD Public Information
FM 3-06 Urban Combat
FM 3-3-1 Nuclear Contamination
FM 3-4 NBC Protection
FM 3-5 NBC Decontamination
FM 3-9 Chemical/Biological
FM 3-11-4 Mulitiservice Tactics
FM 4-02 Nuclear Casualties
FM 4-25-11
FM 5-20 Camouflage
FM 7 NBC Field Handbook
FM 8-50 Bandaging
FM 8-284 Treatment of Casualties
FM 21-10 Field Hygeine
FM 21-11 First Aid for Soldiers
FM 21-75 Combat Skills
FM 21-76 Survival Manual
FM 21-150 Combatives
FM 90-10-1 Combat
US Army Dairy
United States Marine Survival
US Marine Corps MCRP 3-02F
US Marine Corps MSVX.02.01

Self Defense, Weapons
Choosing a Weapon
Citizen’s Homeland Defense Guide I
Citizen’s Homeland Defense Guide II
FN High Capacity 45
G&A SR9
Glock Versus M1911
Homeland Defense 45
Military Operations On Urbanized Terrain
Smith & Wesson Sigma SW9VE
Springfield XD Review
Ruger SR9
Stag Review
Survival Guns
Survival Weapons
Tactical Ready Guide

Shelter
Basement Shelter
Build a Fallout Shelter
Build a Shelter
Home Shelter Above Ground
Home Shelter Outside Concrete
Shelter Management Handbook
Shelters
Survival Wilderness Shelter Types
Taking Shelter
Wilderness Shelter Types

Water
Emergency Disinfection of Water
Emergency Water Purification
Priming the Berkey Filter
Purification Of Water On A Small_Scale
Purify Water in an Emergency
Solar Photovotaics
Solar Water Heater
Water Survival Course
Water Treatment
Wind Machine for Pumping Water

Miscellaneous
Art and Science of Dumpster Diving
BOB Survival Kit
Bug Out Bag
Bug Out Vehicle Basics
Desert Survival
Earthquake Preparedness Guide
Earthquake Tips
Get Out Of Dodge
Handbook of Knots and Splices
How to Avoid Getting Lost
How To Find Your Way
Knots For Camping Climbing Utility
Pioneering Knots and Lashings
Poisonous Plants
Wilderness Survival Techniques
Winter Survival
Winter Survival In Your Car

 

Excellent thread and good to see some of us are trying to be ready for a possibility of the grid going down, looks like I will not be alone when the dust settles.
There are a lot of sources out there for those preping and I noticed the increase in magazines now available for people interested in survival if the ballon goes up. Obviously some believe in the thought that it is better to be prepared and never need it than to need to have been been prepared and did nothing to ensure that they and their family survives whatever may come. Personally I believe something will happen and it is why I have been preping for years now and still have a long way to go.
I will add my own links and suggestions when I have some more time, but as I said it is good to see some people are interested in the topic.
Be Well, Be Prepared.

 

So is there a website or sites that go into USAF basic training courses?

 

I had an All-American Pressure Canner, different from a cooker. I used it
to can vegetables and meat products.

 

Great thread, Toefoot.

The link to your Army Survival Guide (FM 21-76) is dead, so I thought I'd post this PDF version here:
http://www.pssurvival.com/ps/military_fms/fm_21-76_us_army_survival_manual_2006.pdf

Or one can but it at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/US-Army-Survival-Manual-21-76/dp/0967512395


Storey's publishes a lot of fine homesteading books for folks doing the "practical prepper" thing at home. The Basic Country Skills and
Country Wisdom & Know-How books are good over-all references:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_n...s=Storey's+guide&rh=n:283155,k:Storey's+guide


There are a lot of great "prepper" shows on TV these days. I don't buy into the doomsday scenario stuff, but one can learn a lot from Doomsday Preppers.

Perhaps, my favorite show of this genre is "Hillybilly Blood", which runs on Destination America:
http://www.destinationamerica.com/tv-shows/hillbilly-blood

Those guys come up with some truly ingenious tricks to create stuff made from natural and/or found materials (I think there's more to that Eugene character than the producers are letting on). The most amazing project was the wood burning gasifier that can be hooked to a generator to create electricity (Season 2 Episode 10 "Hillbilly Prepper"):
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=ELxWuyRvh6QFk

Be prepared. Words to live by.
.

 

I need to get busy and post more info. Have a great garden this year and canning season is coming quick.

 

We've had an excellent growing season here in Virginia, too.

When it comes to preparedness, my wife and I have broken it down into short and long term projects. The first thing we did when we moved on to our spread in the boonies was buy a 14kW stand-by whole home generator that is hooked-up to a 500 gal. propane tank. Since we're located on the remotest fringes of the electrical grid and there are no gas lines out here, it's necessary to be prepared for power outages that can last anywhere up to 2 weeks. We already had a 8kW portable generator, but there are several major shortcomings to relying on a smaller gas-powered unit.

Long-term, we've been working at making the land productive. The first thing we did was start planting fruit and nut trees and berry shrubs. After that we broke ground on vegetable and herb gardens (we also have quite a few fruits, veggies and herbs growing in containers). Simultaneously, we built a large compost bin to support the soil in the gardens.

The best prep I ever saw on Doomsday Preppers was a simple, practical prep on a plot of land that was capable of generating enough food (plant and animal) for a couple to live on indefinitely (much as our ancestors did on their farms). They should have gotten a higher score than they did, but what got them knocked down was the lack of defensive fortifications on the property. However, given the fact that they were located in a remote mountainous area in Virginia the likelihood of attack is pretty low.

 

If you're working on raising the sustainability of the land you're on, perhaps the most valuable resource you can turn to is your local cooperative extension office. The best part of this service is that you can get an agricultural expert to come out to your place and talk with you about what will work best on your property and its soil conditions and how to improve what you've got. The next best thing is the information that the coop extensions provide on-line, such as this library of free publications provided to the public by Virginia Tech:

http://pubs.ext.vt.edu/

As you can see, they cover just about every subject and project one will encounter in the process of establishing a plot of land that can supplement or sustain your basic needs.

 

Outstanding setup and thinking. How long have you been working the land Talon?

As for the wife and I we will be selling our land and house here in Colorado within a few years and purchasing in N. Arkansas (Water, good soil, plenty of trees and a well in the Beaver lake region) and basically doing the same as you (7-10 acres). We should have enough profit from the sale along with our savings and retirement pensions to bring our paradise to realization of being dirty foot hippies on steroids until we kick the bucket.

Our family have been gray preppers for almost 18 years but being career Army kept us limited until I retired and could make real coinage in my current field.

Love the idea of having a 14kw tied in with conventional and non conventional resources. Our plan is to make it sustainable and workable with age consideration. Being 52 now will not be the same at 67 so we have planning with that in mind.

Agree with your short and long term goals. Nothing better than making a pie or syrup from fruit on your land or canning from the garden and not worrying about the grid.

 

We've only been at it for two years, Toefoot, and one of the greatest and most time-consuming obstacles we have encountered is re-clearing the land. It had been cleared many decades ago, but the previous owner let it fall into disrepair so much of it got overrun by gum saplings and poison ivy - both of which are extremely invasive and can take years to completely eradicate. This has required me to spend an inordinate amount of time and heavy labor hacking and pulling up stumps, cutting the "mother" trunks of the poison ivy and then spraying Crossbow on the shoots that spread through the ground from them. In fact, I spent most of our first year dealing with those tasks while my wife began the less laborious work in the gardens.

Awesome plan. Are you moving to the Ozarks by any chance?

You're wise to consider your age and current income in your considerations - those factors have figured prominently in our own planning. All of the stuff that requires heavy physical labor and/or considerable monetary expense are on our list of things that have to get done in the immediate to near future. On top of that, you have to take care of things like planting fruit and nut trees right away since many of them will take years to become fully productive. To make a long story short, we're front-loading all the hard work and expenses now so we won't have to deal with them later when we're older and on a fixed income. It's all common sense, but it helps to have an organized, manageable plan that takes all of these things into consideration.

That's for sure. My wife and I hope to make our own adult beverages one day, too.

One of the things I've been grappling with (mid-term project) is how to minimize our reliance on the grid. Building a fireplace has enabled us to cut down on our consumption of propane, but supplementing our electrical needs is a more involved question. I have a friend in Hawaii who went solar and is completely off the electrical grid now. I'm exploring that and wind power - we may be able to utilize both - but I've got a lot of homework to do before we can even determine whether or not it will be worth all the effort and expense.

 

When you deploy in the USAF, the 10-100 is your Bible...the Airman's Manual.
Below is the 2004 edition. Not sure of it's applicability to survivalism, well some chapters are relevant I suppose. Anyway...when we deployed, we're issued this, and the pages on mine are dog eared from the many times I've referenced them.

http://www.phsource.us/PH/PHT/afman10-100.pdf

 

The area I am interested in is in the War Eagle Mill area and Eureka Springs to the N. East, beautiful area with little population:

https://maps.google.com/maps?es_sm=...a=X&ei=mJfzU97YC9L5oASV2YK4Aw&ved=0CHsQ_BIwDQ

zoom out the map a bit and and go earth mode and you will see all the resources available for the area.

Man you have put a lot of effort into clearing. Are you holding down a full time job on top of all the work? Nice you have a wife that is also a partner in the venture. We are being very picky when it comes to selecting the property to avoid massive effort and cost on our part. I learned many things doing that here in Colorado.

 

On the American Pressure Cooker on the site seems to be wrong information about the number of pints and quarts it holds. Unless things changed in last 5 years mine only holds 14 qt.s. We haven't done pints but they stack 3 levels instead of 2.

 

I wouldn't put too much weight on those manuals. They're utter garbage.