U.S. Air Force survival handbook : the portable and essential guide to staying alive /

Presents a comprehensive guide to outdoor survival techniques that are designed for formal training in the United States Air Force.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: United States. Department of the Air Force.
Published: Skyhorse Publishing,
Publisher Address: New York :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: AF regulation ; 64-4, volume 1
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Summary: Presents a comprehensive guide to outdoor survival techniques that are designed for formal training in the United States Air Force.
Item Description: Book is a reproduction of an earlier U.S. Air Force Regulation, sold by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.
Carrier Form: 579 pages : illustrations, maps ; 28 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 9781510709140 (paperback : alkaline paper) :
1510709142
CLC: E712.54-62
Call Number: E712.54-62/U581
Contents: Mission -- Conditions affecting survival -- The survivor's needs -- Contributing factors -- Emotional reactions -- The will to survive -- Survival medicine -- PW medicine -- Weather -- Geographic principles -- Environmental characteristics -- Local people -- Proper body temperature -- Clothing -- Shelter -- Firecraft -- Equipment -- Food -- Water -- Land navigation -- Land travel -- Rough land travel and evacuation techniques -- Water travel -- Signaling -- Recovery principles -- Legal and moral obligations -- Factors of successful evasion -- Camouflage -- Nuclear conditions -- Biological conditions -- Chemical conditions.