(20 January 2012, 09:49)NorthernRaider Wrote: You need to focus primarily but not totally on fieldcraft such as Navigation using map and compass to 8 figure grid references, shelter building, cammoflage and concealment, field hygiene, first aid, camp cooking, patroling, obtaining water, identifying edible flora and fauna, evation techniques, obsticle crossing, fire lighting etc, Get the SAS survival guide and read it properly, but courses and lots of practise will help, as I said before LSG and the like have ran some good courses according to feedback.
That's a pretty good list.
Things I can already do from the list:
Navigation using map and compass to 8 figure grid references
first aid
camp cooking
obtaining water (solar stills, boil catchment, streams/freeflowing water, leaf extraction, fluid recycling, etc)
Those are ones I'm good with.
Shelter building, depending on what's around, I should be okay with. I can build a log cabin, a frame, tin roof, bamboo roof and gutters, connifer Aframe, and even as far as an Earthship (if using urban reclaimed materials).