Captain Dave's Survival Center


Auxiliary Crisis Pack

© 1987 E. Michael Smith

Packing it:

  • Daypack or small duffel with small stuff bags inside.

Directions

  • Air Force Survival Manual or Outdoor Survival Skills by Larry Dean Olsen

Water

  • Stored
    • 1 or 2 quart jug or canteen
  • Purified
    • Filter straw
    • Coffee filters
    • Iodine tablets
    • Baggies

Food

  • Stored
    • 4 MRE's, 4 LRP's
    • Soup & Cocoa Packets
    • Coffee Packets
    • Food bars
    • Vitamin pills
    • Salt & pepper
  • Gathered
    • Medium fish kit
    • Snare/trap wire and twine
  • Preparing
    • Sierra cup
    • Tea ball
    • Pot lifter

Environmental Protection

  • Space blanket type survival suit or space blanket bag or second space blanket.
  • Poncho
  • Medium and large garbage bags
  • Hammock
  • Tube tent or lean-to tarp

Signaling

  • Orange cloth (or tube tent)
  • Smoke bombs
  • Flares - highway and signal
  • (see also: fire making and light, below)

Navigation

  • A real good compass
  • Altimeter
  • Star chart and contour map

Fire Making

  • Fire sticks (Swedish match)
  • Bic lighter
  • Sterno stove
  • Metal match (magnesium)
  • Hexamine tablets
  • Magnifying glass - min. 3 in.

Light

  • Spare flashlight batteries
  • Second flashlight
  • Candle lamp and/or candles
  • Calume stick

Health and First Aid

  • Sport Kit (see attached list)
  • Triangle bandage
  • Snake bite kit (see attached list)
  • Jungle juice
  • Allerest, Bufferin, Senocot, Dramamine, Kaopectate

General Tools

  • Hunting knife
  • Sharpening stone
  • String - 162' 150lb break twine
  • Cord - 100' 1/8" parachute cord.
  • Wire
  • Fish netting
  • Mosquito netting
  • small pulleys
  • Screwdriver, multi bit
  • Aluminum foil 10 ft/sq
  • Combo saw - wood, metal
  • Nails
  • Crow bar
  • File +/or rasp
  • Leather work gloves
  • Super glue, epoxy, silicone, +/or wood glue
  • Duct tape
  • Windshield ice scraper
  • "Funny" wrench
  • Watch
  • Thermometer
  • Monocular
  • Vice grip pliers
  • Vaseline
  • Wire ties
  • Clothes pins

Social Survival

  • Folding scissors
  • Cork screw
  • Soap
  • Shampoo
  • Disposable razor
  • Door lock
  • Sunglasses

Entertainment

  • AM/FM radio
  • Playing cards

Carry Also

  • Clothes, lots of them
  • Money
  • Water
  • Food
  • CB radio +/or ELT
  • Flares +/or strobe
  • Tent
  • Sleeping bag and pad
  • Vehicle tool kit (see attached)
  • Small firearm and ammunition

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