 And on behalf of Colonel Lloyd, I want to commend him for you. I'm cooler than where you've been, I know. We've tailored a course for you that I think will suit your needs. And hopefully, Wednesday I'll see you when you come back from the field with Colonel Lloyd, and hopefully we'll hit the target there. If we haven't, please give us some feedback on what you think the next class might need, and we'll adjust our course for you. Thank you. Well, welcome to the Northwest. I don't know if any of you have been up in this part of the country before. Is anybody from the state of Washington? Anybody? Oregon? Okay. We're going to arrive up in the field about 16, 30 hours this afternoon, somewhere about that time. Not a lot of daylight left. Certainly in the mountains the sun goes down quicker than it does around here. But you can simulate that that's the time that you suddenly found yourself on the ground. And you'll be broken up into four groups. Each group will have an instructor. And you'll be working with that instructor, and we're going to have some guided discussions, and we're going to do some problem-solving and organizing. And you're going to find out, and I have found out over years of survival training, that's really what survival is. It's problem-solving and organizing. Leadership comes in. You're going to find a lot of that, because you're not alone up there, you're going to have to work together. You will be able to cope with the situation. However, it's going to take some resources, namely knowledge, equipment, and what we call the will to survive. I define the will to survive for you. We talked about what you can use to strengthen your will to survive, and this is the most important thing. A positive mental attitude is the single most important ingredient to strengthen your will to survive. In addition to that, realize your survivor's mission. Tap into something greater than you. Fear, hate, love, whatever it takes to tap, religion, whatever it takes to tap into, tap into it. In addition to that, maintaining and building a good physical fitness will help you strengthen your will to survive. Being prepared ahead of time. We talked about that. And then understanding how you react to each of these stresses. This will help you. Alright, the first thing with this Mark 13 flare. Does anybody know where it's packed or where it's located? It's going to be in your seat kit. How many of you folks fly with a vest? Do you fly with a vest on or just a seat kit? All your signaling devices that you're going to find, they're going to be located in your seat kit. Now, there's two ends of this flare. There's a day end and there's a night end. How do I identify the night end? This should be a quick review for you. Okay, things go bumpin' at night. And it's red. Tell you about halfway. Okay. And then hold your lanyard in your bare hand. Go up in your right hand, 90 degrees and pull down. Ready? Go ahead. Now, see how it is in flaming? What you can do is kind of shake it a little bit or tap it on the ground if you're in water. You can go ahead and kind of submerge it in the water. Now realize, the paint upon the environment you're in, if you're in a real cold environment, the smoke's going to stay right on the ground. In this environment, it will raise a little bit because we have a little bit of heat. So, if it is a misfire, just wait three to five seconds, preferably five, and then you're set to get it. It takes about nine seconds to go to the entire height. So, load it in there, slightly into the wind. There you go. Keep your head down just a little bit so you don't feel that. Can you feel that it's working in a little bit? Okay. Okay, look where you're aiming. Pull down. There you go. Good job. That's pretty good. That's almost directly overhead. Nicely done. For the first time, that's pretty good. Okay, two others? Yes, sir. It's got a serious handle-power burn in it. That gate will stand full, and it won't go off. We need to get one of these. One of my skills ahead. We got spaghetti tonight. Ooh, what a deal. Okay? Are we all done? Are you just holding up the line? I'm just holding up the line. This is great. The most important thing, Leroy, keep your sleeping bag dry. Oh, a fiddle patch. A fiddle patch. I think that's her. All right, follow me. Zeus. Zeus. Come with us. That way. Follow back. There she comes. All right, let's go. You guys have fun this week, huh? Yeah, you too. First of all, it is very easy to get disoriented out here. Okay? Turned around. So if you do happen to go walking off from your camp, please let your instructor know or at least take somebody with you. If you happen to fall down and get hurt, and we have had people get hurt out here worse, but I think last time we took on what, 10 stitches? From various reasons. We do have a medic, so if you do hurt yourself, if you get cuts, fall down and twist an ankle or something like that, please let your instructor know what happened. Just so that it can't get any worse. I think we've got some goggles out there. Does anybody have any questions? I think we've already got you broke down and basically we don't have any established camps out here. We're just going to kind of wander off. You're going to have to carry the stuff. If you have to make two trips, just kind of set it off to the side and you can come back in a little bit and get it. And then you're going to go out and just find your place. Just kind of let you folks know we're kind of short on daylight right now, so we have our five basic needs, which we need to start meeting. If we were to start looking at them just real quick, we can start identifying them. We have health, which is just medical problems, protection from the environment, sustenance, and then making sure, you know, travel and recovery bring that a signal. We're going to kind of take this as an immediate action type of landing. We just hit, we have these basic needs before nighttime fall. Which of those needs do you think is most important right now before darkness comes? Okay, shelter, protection from the environment. Okay, now we're walking. Try to keep a little bit of distance between you and if you're going to go, if you've got branches on the trail, make sure you push them down make sure that you stay together. If someone's dropping something, help them out. They try to stay together. We don't want anybody to get lost out here. So make sure you can see the person in front of you. We got all seven, correct? Yep. Let's go. But I'd rather be safe than sorry, because if you pick up Giardia, I'd tell you what, it's not. So let's stay to the count of what we got. Then break into the group. Let's break up with two of them. We've got a better level. We've got a life raft. We've got a water bank there. There's the items you've got to work with. Decide if we're going to do individual or... We probably ought to decide what kind of shelter and how many we'd like to build. Oh, these are nice. Those are nice. Looks like we've got two. I had a question for you. Before we down all this water and have to wait for the purification tails, is this freeze dried stuff we have to add water to? No, those are already set to go. They're set to go. Big difference, because if you add water... You add water to lurps? Yeah, the long-range patrols you do. Well, I think those are all MREs. Okay. Are they making those anymore? I don't think they are. I haven't seen any new ones up for a long time. We could probably get an actual line if we need it. We have two lines. I have the engineering task of... Yeah, here's a long one that works. Okay. Great. Maybe you take off this part of it. Oh, you want to prop it up here, okay. We're not at that point yet. Let me finish getting one inside. But as far as the other basic protective need that we have here, and some people have asked about bears and that, it'd be a fire. You take a look at a fire and it does. It meets a whole lot of different needs. Probably one of the biggest needs for me, not necessarily that of the warmth, but that of the comfort and making me feel a little bit more at home. I know with that fire, the bears and everything else away from me. And that, to me, is important. Because you hear those things that go bump in the night and it does, it can keep you up and ruin a good night of sleep. I never used one of those things before. One of what things? Oh, the striker. Yeah. You ready? You're doing perfect. See how she's got the metal match aimed down into the tinder? That's what you want. You're directing the spark right into the tinder. You're going to get the heat of that spark and then go for it. We'll see how this goes. One more. One more time. Okay. Really pretty. There you go. Yeah, that worked. Okay. We're going to put our head toward this bigger tree. That sounds good, since there's a animal hole down here. I want to wake up with a frucky raccoon in my face. Just grab him on that. Grab him and kill him. I'm going to move your bear here. See how, if you use your watch to find north, you've got to know what time it is. Wait, we're going to make a list of them. You've got the shadow coming from there. Take the suns coming across. That will give us the most. Halfway between the hour hand and 12 is the south direction. See anybody bringing compass? Yeah, I brought a compass down here. If you want to check that, see how accurate that is. This is what we thought was south. Especially if you consider it's really 9 o'clock sometime. North should be over your left shoulder. Good. Use this somehow or another if you want to figure that into this. East-west should be this way. North should be this way. You're going to have to grab this one on your ankle, sir. They really did it twice. Why did they do it twice? Well, they left them open the first time. So it wouldn't be neat. Good. Very good. At least I did enough. These are the last few fingers on. Is it pork and beans? But they are good. It says bean compass. I've seen signs down in the highway. I stress that a little. Ground beef with spice sauce. Spice sauce. Mystery meat. That's what that went back. Beef diet with gravy. Sounds better all the time. Ham and chicken loaf. Bean component. Where's the filet mignon? Beef stew. Those are all good. Some are just better than others. Right. Yes, sir. Excuse us if we don't scrabble for it. Keeping this stuff. That's all the way. Peaches. Pears. Hey, what happened to my peaches I had earlier today? Oh, here you go. Here's the cheese spread for you. Oh, here's the beans. All right. Oh, here's the toilet paper. Want a brownie? Yeah. Okay. Oh, is that a brownie? That's a brownie. Oh, it's heavy. When you let that go. Okay. Explode. It's a very substantive brownie. By the way, do you see stuff in here that you don't want like the beverages and cocoa and stuff in there? Yeah, just throw it in there and that's what everybody wants. What's the big advantage of the shelter we had last night? This one right here? Yeah. That's just showing you how to use that parachute material. And it does give you a little bit more concealment. Actually, I'll show you to where you can almost close this off if you had a lot of insects and things of that sort flying around that are bothering you. Come over here. I did the same thing. It would be worth the t-shirt right now. The circle's on a cross. I'll get it for you real quick. I want to go back camp, you guys. You need to sew and stuff. Stuff till your heart's content. Realize. What steps do we get to do this afternoon? Maybe put out some snares. What should I ask? Snares, talk about medical. We'll discuss a little bit more water as far as global water. Firecraft will do another fire. There we go. But I can't get him. Oh, no, I didn't. I thought I had him. He was hanging on there for a long time. See, I didn't clean the water. You can hold that and pose for that camera. Okay. Yeah, these are the ones I caught down there all the stuff you were filming before. Before we head up, let's make sure all our water containers are filled up also. Seem to work pretty well, too. All right, 320. Nice sleep now? There you go. Time apart for two more. We have one more. Wow. Yeah, one more. You don't want to do it now. Three. There you go. Oh. And again, I'm kind of a lower percentile, so. But our terrace might have a little bit harder. You think so? Okay. Yeah. We're going to do that. We'll do that. We'll eat now. Or we'll start a fire, cook some up, eat it, and then make shelters and then have another meal. Whenever we want to. Good. Good. Sergeant Firmary, do you hear that? Okay. So where do you want to start the fires? Okay, well, we'll do them in here then. Now, are you getting it? Yeah. I don't know that anybody eats that. It's small. Dave, I'll try the peaches. Don't try the peaches. Peaches aren't bad if you add a little water in there. Let them breathe. You add it right into the package here? Yeah. That's what we're doing wrong. We're adding the peaches to the water and they're kind of dissolving. It's great. You'll like this. Totally awesome. Here we have some peaches. We have some peaches. We have some peaches. We have some peaches. We have some peaches. We have some peaches. Here we have some peaches. We get a lot of secondary burns. People pick their canteen cup out of the water or out of the fire. And they get lines across their hands where they get like little blisters. Hey, how many guys did that last night? Did you guys heat up any water on the fire? Okay. You guys shake. I see some doubt out there. Okay. So you're going to want to be careful without reaching into the fire. Things like that. You don't want to prevent all that injury as all possible. What other kind of injuries could you have other than burns? Great. Okay. Before we get to that, let's talk about bleeding because that's probably going to be one thing you'll want to control. I'm going to wait until he gets about at the end of that meadow and I'm going to give him a hot mic. You got it on him? Yeah. Rescue, rescue, rescue. This is porcupine 0-1 alpha. Take heading 1-7-0. Are you hurt? Are you hurt? That's negative. No injuries. We just have another one. We have six survivors. Take heading 1-4-0. You can get a good vision on him. I feel it. He's behind those trees right there. Okay. He's coming straight at us. Move left. Move left. Rescue, rescue, rescue. Say again, please. Negative injuries. We have eight survivors. Continue to turn to 2-0-0. Roger, we have mirrors and reflective panel on the ground. Turn right. Turn right. You'll be overhead my position at my mark. Ready, ready, mark. The helicopter to make up there, we probably wouldn't really notice it down here. If it makes you feel better and you're comfortable doing it, then do it. That's my critique to you. Everybody did an outstanding job. Did you get the helicopter overhead? You did a good job. If it's five degrees that you want to correct them, you do five degrees and correct them. If it's left turn or right turn like you were doing, then that's fine. Do it. Whatever works for you. It is flipping off. Everybody will have some good stories to tell about that, I'm sure. Some folks... Feedback, I got some folks slept pretty darn good. Yeah, must have been. At least it gives you some idea of something, the problem that you're going to have. We've had a pretty good time. Right? Somebody tell me one time if you're not having a good time at what you're doing and you're probably not doing it right. And I think there's a lot to that. But to seriously think about the possibility of ever having to put to use what we've been talking about in the last couple of days. Consider that ejecting from a T-38 is going to be a pretty harrowing experience. Depending on your altitude, there may be some freefall involved. The automatic timer is set to open at 14,000 feet. You're going to operate a parachute. You maybe have never done that before. Find yourself on the ground. You're going to be in shock, guaranteed. Nobody goes through something like that and doesn't come out of it and says, well, phew, I'm glad that's over and walks away from it. You're going to be in shock. Statistics show that you're going to... chances are there will be some sort of an injury. And then you're going to have to deal with it from there. To try to make the decisions that you need to make at that point in time without giving any thought to the situation ahead. You'll remember this. And hopefully a lot of the stuff that we've passed on to you will be something that will be something that you can grab on to and will get you through. So much for survival.