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Emergency Food in Your Bug Out Bag

The main reason that many people fail to utilize the popular military MRE meals is simply after trying one of the packages they readily admit they do not like them. This is understandable since these meals are not for everyone’s taste. I personally have used the MRE’s and find that they really are not all that bad. The benefit of them is that after you have consumed your meal you can simply burn all the trash.

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How Not to Drown

Fallen overboard? Swam out too far? Rip tide pulling you out? In all of these situations you can improve your chance of survival by doing the bob.

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Time to Check Out Your Supplies

Well, we recently changed our clocks and at the same time we were advised to replace the batteries in our smoke detectors. Although this is sensible recommendations, I think that it should have been extended just a wee bit more and ought to have incorporated inspecting our preparedness supplies as well.

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Too Much BOB Junk

Ahhh, here we have the sweet life of a survivalist. Every now and then I decide to get away from it all and jump in the bug out van and merely travel a short distance from civilization. It tends to opens up ones sense of survival and produces some clear thinking. I made this exact decision just the other day. I packed up the laptop computer so that I could still do a bit of writing and headed for parts of Delaware that are relatively unknown. I took my cell phone in the event of an emergency and off I went.

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Bug-Out Bag for Your Bug-Out Vehicle

You have your BOB, your wife has her BOB, and the children each have their own bug-out bag, so what is left? Let’s take a moment and consider a BOB for your bug-out vehicle.