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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

NC Boy Scout Found Alive

3/21/2007 04:18:00 AM 2 comments

Here are a couple of articles about the rescue of Michael Aubrey of Greensboro.

News-Record

Journal Now


What are they teaching Boy Scouts these days? Social and Networking skills?

I figured this guy would have a the very least have built a simple lean-to with a roof, and had a moss or bed of leaves in the thing.

One can be built with just hands, no tool of any sort, even without using rocks.

Of course, loosing his glasses was probably very traumatic and disorienting.

Folks need to remember the Number One Rule for Surivival when you get lost,

Do not stray from the area you are in where you first realize you are lost.

If you are moving, then you can move from an area that has not been searched, into an area that has been searched. This is what killed the guy from CNET that got lost out west earlier this winter. The urge to keep on the move is a deep instinct, and is destructive to someone who has no basic survival skills, especially if they are wounded or dehydrated.

If you are going to be in the woods, I would highly suggest that you take a rescue whistle with a lanyard, and wear it around your neck, 24/7. You might want to take a small mirror as well...even taking a ladies compact if you don't have a real signal mirror.

In my Evasion and Escape Training, one of the primary pieces of advice is to move into an area that has been searched, and temporarily operate near there until you have gaged the searchers capabilities. [This was not an official government course.]
I would bet that this was what Eric Rudolph did in the early days of the manhunt, even to the point of setting up camp where he could watch the Command Post.

Warning...do not ever let me be the fugitive in a multi-day paintball game!

2 comments :

We've decided to keep our food on us the next time to keep you from stealing it from the command post, rambo.

My nephews are Boy Scouts, and from talking with them, they aren't taught what I was, they are taught to get as many badges as possible, never focusing on mastering survival skills.
Their scout leader never goes into the woods unless it's a scout trip.

You and I should start something locally to impart some skills to these kids, like field-stripping weapons and making booby traps, because this federal government is getting too much like a tyranny, if you know what I mean.

You gotta sleep sometime, and I'll still get your food!

The kind of survival skills I'm willing to teach kids involve camoflauge, food gathering, holistic warfare concepts, and weapons training.

Oh, and Wilderness Caches: How to Store Your Armory on Federal Lands.

I bet we'd both be in the pokey after that little camping trip.

When I was in elementary school, we could bring our rifles and shotguns to school on the school bus, and leave our weapons in the principals office until after school to go squirrel hunting.
I can remember walking on the side of the highway with our guns, and dead squirrels with no one freaking out. And we always knew a sheriff's deputy would stop to talk with us about how many we got that afternoon.
Now, six kids with rifles and shotguns on the road would bring out the S.W.A.T. Team and national news coverage. What has this country come to?

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