Survival Style?

[Mortblanc]

You folks are making your assumptions based on movies and TV.

Did no one ever tell you that it is not real?

Boot camp, in the U.S., does shape a soldier into an order following entity. That is because most of their raw material has been mouthing off every time they were told to do something since birth!

After that initial basic training, all other training is dominated by the thinking process.

They even have classes on when NOT to follow orders!

And officers have classes on when NOT to give orders!

Adapt, Improvise, Overcome is the dominant theme in this day and age.

1. Some of the variations I see on TV are due to the mission oriented philosophy of military work. One survives so they can complete the mission. Risk, injury and hardship is weighed based on time and completion factors with accomplishing the mission the final test of success.

This also makes good TV, builds to a conclusion, adds excitement and provides a clear winner and loser that can be either rewarded or punished. It requires constant movement, no time for rest or efficient food gathering and only minimal shelter building. All activities expend calories and the reward is never enough calories to replace those expended and only the winners get that.

Put athletic people with a high metabolism rate in that situation and they will always fade faster than the others. We had the same problem inside the military, believe it or not!

2. In wilderness/disaster survival staying alive and unharmed and achieving rescue is the goal.

3. TEOTWAWKI will require both systems to be blended into a whole. One will need a long term plan and will have long term goals that MUST be accomplished with as little risk and harm as possible to the persons engaged in the activity. And there will be no rescue.

People that do not learn to do that will starve on one side of the equation and on the other side will die for lack of tactical knowledge.