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Whether in a temperate, tropical, arctic, or subarctic region, you might find yourself alone in a remote area with little or no personal gear. This thoroughly revised new edition of the classic U.S. Army Survival Handbook provides the information you need to survive. Widely recognized as the finest single source on the subject, it is standard issue for U.S. Special Operations Forces and pilots, and has been used by foreign militaries the world over. An essential resource for all preppers and outdoorspeople - including campers, hunters, hikers, and anglers - the U.S. Army Survival Handbook is a comprehensive volume replete with hundreds of two-color, easy-to-follow, user-friendly illustrations.
About the Author
Matt Larsen, a career Army Ranger who is best known as a hand-to-hand combat expert and the father of the U.S. Army's Modern Army Combatives Program, served in the U.S. Marine Corps and the 75th Ranger Regiment during the course of a 22-year career in the military.He enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1984, serving in both the 5th Marine Regiment as an infantryman and a sniper, and in Marine Corps Security Forces were he served on a Special Reaction Team.After four years he left the Marines and enlisted in the Army and after being selected for the Rangers was assigned to 1st Battalion in Savannah, Ga., where he served for six years, parachuting into Panama during the 1989 liberation and as part of the only Company from the Ranger Regiment to take part in the first Gulf War in 1991.Larsen then transferred to 2nd Battalion in Tacoma, Wash., where he served for four years before transferring to the Ranger Regimental headquarters at Ft. Benning, Ga., where, in addition to other duties, headed up the hand-to-hand combat training for the Regiment.Larsen also served as a Ranger Instructor while assigned to the Ranger Training Brigade at Ft. Benning before founding the United States Army Combatives School where he wrote both the 2002 and 2009 editions of FM 3-25.150 (Combatives).Since retiring from the Army in 2005, Larsen has worked as a private security contractor throughout the Middle East; trained US Marine Corps personal security detachments (PSD) for deployment to Iraq; served as commandant of the US Army Combatives School which he founded; designed a Combatives systems for the Canadian Special Operations Regiment; and, consulted on the design of Combatives training systems for the US Air Force, the British Royal Marines and the British Infantry.
