FM 21-76 US ARMY SURVIVAL MANUAL

This is an excellent source of information on how to stay alive in any number of situations. Anything from being stranded in your car during a blizzard, to a terrorist nuclear attack, you would be glad to know the material in this manual. Here is a link to the PDF file for the manual...

http://www.ar15.com/content/manuals/FM21-76_SurvivalManual.pdf

Read it, get familiar with the skills and concepts outlined in the manual. Download it, so you can memorize it. There is much specific information contained in the manual, from how to build a survival shelter, to how to fabricate your own survival tools, to identifying poisonous plants and animals. Buy it. Get yourself a hard-copy of the manual to keep in your car or your "Bug Out Bag." Chances are, that in an actual event where you would use this information, you won't have electricity to run your computer and access this file. Even if you have done a pretty good job memorizing it, much of it will probably be forgotten by the time you might actually need it. The brain has a way of making unused information go stale. So skim through it again from time to time.