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How to Survive Anything: What to do when a crowd starts to crush you

While most of the survival skills we’ve addressed so far involve being in the wilderness, there are plenty of risks we face in the Urban Jungle as well. One of the most dangerous places you can be in here in the developed world is in a large crowd when panic strikes. In terrible situations like […]

How to Survive Anything: You hold your breath wrong (yeah, you)

If you’re out on the water, maybe fishing or just going for a swim, you may find yourself needing or wanting to spend some time beneath the surface. Maybe you’re looking for something you dropped, hunting for Catfish to noodle, or avoiding detection from people on shore… regardless of why you’re under water, there’s one […]

Important tips on transitioning from military to civilian life from a Navy SEAL

I lost everything I owned three years after leaving the Navy, including my marriage. Then I picked myself up, dusted off, and built a new life outside of my service. It was a tough, lonely, and sometimes scary, road. As we are experiencing one of the largest migrations of combat veterans to civilian life since […]

EMT who’s seen it all talks about the night he wishes he could forget

People often ask me: “What was the worst thing you ever saw on the ambulance?” I think they are expecting some gruesome story about a decapitation or something. I’ve seen dead kids, people shot in the head, chest, and legs, burns, and stab wounds to the heart. I’ve seen strokes, heart attacks, cardiac arrests, overdoses […]

How to Survive Anything: Determining what plants are okay to eat

Learning what plants in the region of the world you live in are edible is a great way to help prepare for a survival situation. However, if you find yourself surviving in the wild and you aren’t sure what plants are okay to eat, there’s a way you can increase your chances of avoiding severe […]

Darkness and confusion may be the biggest killer in future wars—will anyone be safe?

Today’s world, while safer for most than at any other time in human history, is ripe with burgeoning conflict, simmering just beneath the surface. Civil wars and regional spats in nations like Yemen and Syria draw powerful militaries into proxy-conflicts. Looming concerns about a resource-scarce future have prompted Russia to lay claim to the Arctic, […]

The problem with military leadership, as told by 3 monkeys and a step ladder

The military is made up of all sorts of people. The good, the bad, and the ugly all find their ways into uniforms, and although much of the training service members undergo is intended to improve upon our abilities to lead, some aspects of good leadership are innate and unlearnable. Some men and women just […]

Watch: See what it’s like to be on the receiving end of an A-10 Warthog strafing run

The 30 mm General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger rotary canon first entered into service in 1977. The 619 pound monster Gatling gun measured just shy of 2 feet wide and 20 feet long when completed, but more than compensating for its gargantuan size by boasting a terrifying fire rate of 3,900 rounds per minute, fired from […]

Three things that seem like they’ll kill you (but probably won’t)

People have always been fascinated with death, and for good reason. Despite the massive breadth of experiences that one can accumulate over a lifetime on Earth, our final disposition after we exhale our last breath remains a unique kind of mystery: one we will all eventually solve, but can never relay to others. Death represents […]

SERE School from the perspective of a Delta Operator: Surviving as prisoner of war

While taking part in a training course for a special mission, I understood that I would be attending SERE school at some point during the six-month course, though I didn’t really know when. Our SERE training was split into an administrative phase of classroom training, followed by a no-notice internment phase in a prisoner-of-war camp… […]