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Family Emergency Response Planning & Survival: Priority-of-Work - Pause and get ready.
SwampSession 04-18-24
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Life is busy (time, space, money, assets, work) and the many competing priorities cause the what-ifs in life to take a back seat. The process of conducting prudent emergency planning for your family can be overwhelming. The question is not if to decide, but how to decide to move forward. It includes understanding the factors that go into assessing your current situation and applying the actions necessary to ensure your family is going to be best prepared to handle any situation. This forum is here to help you easily funnel your energy and resources and translate your end-state vision into action.
Periodically you should halt, look, listen, think, and assess your status against the changing environment and measure your progress towards the mountain top.
Along your trail fog may move in skewing your vision and the best option is to temporarily halt and establish a hasty base. A mountaineer must make quick assessment of the planned route and make potential adjustments based upon realized intelligence along the way.
Priority-of-Work: Yes, we are all busy, but regardless we should commit the commensurate amount of time and energy to ensure reduction of our Family Pain Factor (FPF) – which is the level of discomfort and pain your family will ensure if proper preparation is not taken.
Priority One: Life-Saving Water – I think water and the ability to capture, hold, sterilize, and manage water for consumption and maintenance of life support the Self Reliance Outfitter (https://www.selfrelianceoutfitters.com/) and 4Patriots (https://4patriots.com/) are great resources to start if you need tested, well-thought-out gear.
Make sure you acquire & rehearse Concepts of Survival Support (CoSS) to hold water (metal canteens to heat water, plastic canteens to hold water, foldable water bottles to expand water storage, water disinfection methods, ability to heat water, etc).
It does not have to be a Total-Catastrophic-Disaster (TCD). Many situations can turn into disasters quickly. A few of my personal examples:
· A near-death experience with the face-front terror of a tornado.
· Sudden blizzard while climbing very high mountains.
· Vehicle break-down on an Afghanistan road w/o radio or cell phone signal…complacency resulted in limited water, food, commo, etc. while stranded.
· Massive unpredicted rainfall creating a sudden wadi washing away a gorge during the night.
· Traveling in the Dakotas with the onset of a blizzard blocking roads.
· Caught in the deep woods while hunting with deep snow, darkness fell, difficulty navigation – all leading to a dangerous situation.
· What examples can you guess are probable in your shear of life?
· Sudden blizzard of 3 feet of snow blocking in for days.
· Rain flood area knocking out power for days.
· Traveling late in a major storm and roads are blocked by flooding, down trees, power lines, etc.
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Yes, I am busy too – sadly enslaved to a day-job – while we work towards our dreams at the top of Mount Success, life (time, space, money, assets, work) and the many competing priorities cause the what-ifs in life to take a back seat. The process of conducting prudent emergency planning for your family can be overwhelming. The question is not if to decide, but how to decide to move forward. It includes understanding the factors that go into assessing your current situation and applying the actions necessary to ensure your family is going to be best prepared to handle any situation. This forum is here to help you easily funnel your energy and resources and translate your end-state vision into action.
Reference Gator Publications excerpt - GT1.3: GRASP’ing the GDMP
Gator Rapid Action Survival Plans (GRASP) the Gator Decision Making Process (GDMP)
This guide will help you rapidly prepare & execute specific alternatives:
Summary of the GDMP, which includes the following variables:
• Political, economic, social, information, infrastructure, physical environment, civil & military organizations proximity & jurisdiction.
• Regardless of a global, national, or regional level disaster, ground zero is where you & your SGU are when disaster hits. We are subject to the risks in the probability of the occurrence of natural or man-made disasters.
• Your preparation can help ensure you & your SGU are able to handle any situation.
• Get FIT (physically, mentally & spiritually) to build resiliency to withstand any disaster.
• Disasters come in all forms (i.e., hurricanes, tornados, blizzards, floods, tsunamis, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, train accidents, chemical spills, nuclear, pandemics, wildfires, terrorism, violence, mass shootings, etc). Do not limit preparation.
• Integrate emergency disaster planning everywhere you go & in everything you do – at home, on vacations, travel & during mundane errands. No car should ever be w/o an emergency kit in the event of an individual mobile disaster. You will quickly find out how severe a situation can become in an emergency (i.e., sudden flooding, blizzards, vehicle malfunction, road closures & even running out of gas) can lead to life-threatening situations.
• You must develop a concept as soon as possible balancing life, work & major issues (i.e., pandemics) using available resources to enable the best preparedness level possible. In this program, I will give my best effort to provide you w/advice & lessons learned on sustainment, communication & survival requirements. Especially w/focus on those aspects of the E in the SHAPE stage (Equipment), the stage REAL (Rehearse, Educate, Assess, Logistics & Lessons), PLANS stage (Procedures, Leading, Actions, Needed, Survival).
• Learning quickly & getting outdoors into the field & practice skills to help when real hardship is imposed due to an unpredictable event.
• Focus on priorities of life-saving capabilities (short versus long-term) when considering resource needs. Once safety from an immediate threat is achieved, water is a life-saving critical resource.
Thereafter the scenario & duration will drive other needs, such as food, shelter, etc.
• Maximize the newest technologies to keep up w/competing the demands of your ongoing livelihood, such as solar panels for power management, yet in the event of catastrophic losses, become less reliant on technology & building basic capabilities.
Hope this helps in your PREP FOR GOOD & SHAPE’ing REAL PLAN’s
FREE ONLINE COURSE – Free eBook inside. Gator FERPS Workbook One (GFWB1)
https://g3cacademy.com/courses/basic-survival-training/
See the publications overview:
Below: Excerpts from the Gator SUMIT Program.
“And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south” (Zech. 14:4, KJV).
Source: https://bible.knowing-jesus.com/Zechariah/14/4
Source: https://g3cacademy.com/courses/basic-survival-training/
Gator Family Emergency Planning & Survival (FERPS) Lulu.com books link
Straight from the Swamp: Gator Family Emergency Response Planning & Survival Tactical Standard Operating Procedures (GFTACSOP1 & GFTACSOP2). Two book equating to over 1,200 pages of compacted data for almost anything you need in the field – if not they come w/note space to annotate continuous learning. All Gator publications support total-life learning & continuous notetaking. The workbooks help plan in garrison; the handbooks provide field manuals for training & the TACSOPS provide Tactical Standard Operating Procedures for action in the field - below is a general overview:
• GFWB1: Program Overview to the FER PS Process & General Disaster Planning Guide
• GFWB2: Basic Survival Training Preparation & Planning
• GFWB3: Camping Orientation Basics & Equipment Preparation
• GFHB1: Swamp Sustainment (i.e., Water, Food, Tool Task & Purpose, etc).
• GFHB2: Swamp Expediency (i.e., Shelter, Fire, Safety, Indigenous KSA's, Knots, Ropes & Cordage, First-Aid, Commo, Land Navigation & Map Reading).
• GFHB3: Swamp Deployment Planning & Execution & Camping & Survival Readiness.
• GFHB4 & GFHB5: Lower cost consolidated materials from all of the Workbooks & Handbooks.
• Optimal Purchase Options: You have the choice of purchasing GFHB1 to 3 or GFHB4 to GFHB5 to help in field training. The Gator TACSOP's help in real-world action for quick ready access.
NEW: Gator FERPS TACSOP’s
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12 And, behold, I come quickly; and My reward [is] with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. 13 I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last” (Rev. 22:12-13, KJV).
WARNING: GET READY! Alternate “arks” will not save you. The only true way is through Jesus Christ, sent by God to die for your (our) sins. Prepare for the greatest Bug-Out in history when the Lord calls His children home. This book contains information in a consolidated study guide format based on your current understanding w/all facts & information at hand. As knowledge increases, what we thought were facts may become skewed as He divulges more information based on our spiritual maturity. The Armor-of-God Campaign Tactical Workbooks (AoGCTWB1 & 2) are abridged versions of the AoGC Handbook (AoGCHB). The AoGCWB’s are condensed to provide a more affordable and realistically portable version of critical information to help consolidate a study map.
In the AoGC Campaign workbooks there are several tables to help with understanding the phases of the world and how they apply to what is behind, and what is ahead for this fallen world. The World History Phase-Lines (AoGT#14.2) show the trek of several dispensations (i.e., God’s Dispensation-of-Judgement).
AoGC Books Links:
Armor-of-God Campaign Handbook - Digital Version (AoGCHB-DV)
Armor-of-God Campaign Tactical Workbook One - (AoGCWB1)
Armor-of-God Campaign Tactical Workbook Two (AoGCTWB2)
God bless in the Name of His only begotten Son – Jesus Christ.
GET READY! Time is short. The BIG ONE is coming.
JLTW!