Solkoa Suuma Survuval Kit.

[CharlesHarris]

The fire building test test they used to do out at Camp Darby. They put every size of wood that a person would need to build a fire in a 5 gallon bucket and filled it with water. Tent peg and broom sticks up to cricket bat sized timber which had sat in there for easily 5-6 hours. Could have been more depending on what we had to do that first night. Rain or shine and no matter the temp we had the project. I carried a KBar back then, picture that in your minds eye, if raining my Batman and I would start batoning the thick stuff while Taco set up his parachute shelter over us. It sucked but we were young and hard and wanted to prove ourselves. We would split that timber down as small as we could get it. Match stick size was the best for getting it going. Some times we would have to cheat and go fine some pine lighter knot. Usually that would happen when Master Chief would use all pine and no oak in the bucket. Fire is fire no matter how you get it going. By the way that KBar has split more wood and opened more ammo and ration cans than Obama has golf balls. That is no embellishment either.