I am not a professional survivalist. Nor have I been through any military training for same. I have previously been a research scientist for DoD, with training in geology. Thus I have been through a pretty long and hard field camp of 6 weeks in desert terrain in the summer. I have also been out in forested area camps where they were staffed for semi-wilderness survival in areas that had been logged 50 years previously and other unlogged areas of virgin hemlock woods which are true wilde