Mykel Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual: Essential Strategies For: Shelter and Water, Food and Fire, Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling, Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive!

622 Pages·2009·29.26 MB·English

by  Mykel Hawke

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ESSENTIAL STRATEGIES FOR:
Shelter and Water, Food and Fire,
Tools and Medicine, Navigation and Signaling,
Survival Psychology and Getting Out Alive!
CapUlin jn tile U.S. Army Special Forces lind Director ofSpf!C Ops Inc.
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© 2009 by Mykel Hawke
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Publisher's Notice: The inlormation in this book is provided with the caveat that
the reader e~ercise e~treme caution when applying the knowledge and techniques
presented herein. Note that some activities related to wilderness survival can be
dangerous. Also. some information and techniques described-including but not
limited to trapping. lire activities. and more-are illegal outside 01 true survival
situations. Please apply common sense and use your own discretion. The publisher
will not be responsible for any injuries or action resulting Irom the use of this book.
DEDICATION AND
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I'd like to dedicate this book to:
The Past: My Fathers Enrl, Pete :md the Others no longer
with LIS, who gnve the ultimate sacrifice.
The Present: My wife Ruth; brothers Jon, Jay, Steve,
Russ, and Zoeh; and those family :md friends who stick by
through thick 3nd thin.
The Future: My sons Anthony, Nicholas, and Gabriel, and
the youth who will carry the torch when OLlI' flame has gone
out.
I'D LIKE TO GIVE
SPECIAL THANKS TO:
My Mother, Patricia, a true survivor. My sisters Naomi and
Michelle :lnd their families: loyal survivors. My in-laws: T0111
(for his personal editing) and El:linc, Joe and Georgia
generous and sharing, they survive through life's troubles.
Marnasan, Papasan, M:Ull:l 1-100, Papa Hoo, and Yedidia the
Tenciler. The men with whom I served, who risked much,
gave much, and asked little. The Great Spirit, who guided
me in the dark times and blessed me, even when I didn't
know it.
Other thanks along the Survival Trail:
My Pops-Eulie of Alaska, Kenneth of Oklahoma, Beth the
Mother, Karl of Aikido, Jim the Author, Mike the
Commander, Jake the Recruiter, OB of Africa, Ranger Ryan,
General Davis, and Greg of Books.
Contents
• Foreword by Jim Morris 9
Preface 13
Introduction: The Hawke Teaching Methodology 21
Chapter 1: The Psychology of Survival 27
Chapter 2: Shelter 63
Chapter 3: Water 101
Chapter 4: Fire 149
• Chapter 5: Food 195
Chapter 6: Tools 273
Chapter 7: Navigation 341
Chapter 8: Signals 427
Chapter 9: First Aid 457
Chapter 10: Nature 583
Last Words 627

If you think about it, and you won't have to think for very
long, you'll see that the term "survival situation" is
redundant. If you're in a situation it's a survival situation.
One thing I've run into a lot lately, particularly among
women, is a quest for the feeling of safety, To me the feeling
of safety is an illusion of safety, but in actuality the only place
safety exists is in the grave. If you're dead, nothing worse is
going to happen. Life is tough for everybody, but it's deadly
for the complacent.
Americans live in comparative safety. I live in Southern
California, where we have a much better chance of surviving
an earthquake than people in Guatemala. In the area where
llive we're surrounded by woods, and the place could go up
in an hour, starring from any time at alL So, we might be
isolated by an enrthquake or roasted by a forest fire, Am I
nfraid? No, Am I concerned'? You betcha. We have a first aid
kit, thirty gallons of water, enough gas in the car to get oucof
Dodge, and a bunch of other sensible stuff.
Do I feel safe? No. Are we snfe? No. Are we relatively safe,
and are we prepared. vh huh.
A.C. Hawke has writren a really valuable book here, not
because it's packed with surefire survival techniques. It has
some of those, but mostly it's about attitude, and I believe
that attitude is necessary for all of life, not just extreme
situations. What it's about is awareness, preparedness, and
being ready to take every aspect of your situation back to
zero, to look at everything around you for threats and tools.
It's about being calm when all about you are losing their
minds. It's about looking at things as they are, and not how
you wish they were or how you fear they are.
10 Hawke's Green Beret Survival Manual
A few years back I was getting ready for a flight to Texas
from Kennedy in New York. The flight was delayed for an
hour. My companion, who was a real dish, and moreover in
the movie business, stomped her little foot and said, "This is
unacceptable!"
Imagine, humanity longs to be able to fly for the entire
5,000 year history of our "civilization" and this one hour
delay is "unacceptable." This is not the attitude to take into
a survival situation.
Actually my companion was just playing the role of
"Cherokee American Princess." She could ride and she could
shoot. Other than the fact that she'd probably be wearing
heels and an Armani suit, there's no one I'd rather be thrown
into a real survival situation with.
But I digress.
Point is, you need the survival attitude for every aspect of
life. They're all survival situations to one degree or another.
What we call "survival situations" are sudden, unexpected
survival situations, being downed in the arctic or the desert,
having your safari overtaken by a civil war in some third
world hellhole.
But your home is a survival situation, your car, your job,
a day in the park. Everyone of those has potential threats
that you'd be better off to be aware of and prepared for,
better orf to keep a cool head and an open mind.
That's what my friend Hawke is about. Read this book
carefully. The journey will be fun on one level, and
instructive on another. I f it makes YOll one-tenth more aware
it may well have been the best investment you ever made.
- Jim Morris
Foreword 11