Helo pilot here (Search and Rescue). Did all the first aid courses like TCCC and TECC, and the HUET (Helicopter Underwater Escape Training). However, I've never done any wilderness survival training.You guys have some good recommendations? I'm not military, so no SERE for me.
>>2795230As far as Ive been able to tell, wilderness survival courses are either low cost community college type ones where a random guy who goes outside a lot tells the class basic shit someone who goes outside a lot would know, or really expensive all-included courses that are really just paid outdoor survial themed vacations for rich people. The real question is what do you mean by wilderness survival? Do you mean meme tier "I'm gonna live off the land" bullshit or just the surviving long enough to be found or escape the wilderness. Because if it's the latter, you can really get all you need to know from basic online/literature stufft. works in sar
>>2795230cody lundin offers courses, but his techniques only work barefoot.
You don't need any of that.Surviving is easy.You just make sure you don't bleed to death and have shelter from the rain. Then you walk 20 miles to the next road. done.
>>2795230Why don't you ask the SAR team you fly for? They'll have much more relevant information tailored for your area. As the other anon said it's either courses at the local community college, or very pricey "survival school course" you'd have to travel for. I haven't seen any anon claim to actually take the survival school courses and they get brought up in a troll fashion. I just read the survival school site and watched their promo material to identify many of the skill sets to practice myself in the yard or inside. If you've got first aid covered you're already leagues ahead of most hikers. Talk to your SAR team or local hiker groups and they might have something good locally you can learn.
>>2795230I think SERE is pretty much it, if you want tried and true education. I used to be a guide, went to "SAR school", currently on a SAR team, and I think wilderness survival is mostly a larp. >>2795403 is right. The most important thing that you can do for your own survival is to get the hell out of wherever you are and get back to civilization. If that means a surprise emergency hike twenty miles to a road, then so be it. I've only had to do that once in my life but it was better than the alternative.
>>2795409this also make a survival bag. with fire, shelter, knife, folding saw, hatchet, cooking kit. compass, radio etc. bonus i you can take an ar-7 with u.
>>2795253What I meant was more like courses that teach you actual wilderness skills. Stuff like navigation, proper clothing, cooking, stream crossings, snow technique, finding food, starting fires, etc. Basically being able to stay alive for a while without ending up like Chris McCandless
>>2795230As a military pilot who has been through SERE, the actual survival stuff was actually the easy part. It was mostly a land nav course. Other than that, stay dry, stay warm, purify water and don’t be squeamish about what you eat. Have a way to signal for help. Don’t get injured or make injuries worse. They can fix sick. They can’t fix dead. The focus of sere was…the other stuff.
>>2795474Wilderness skills =/= wilderness survivalThe latter is just about lasting long enough to be found in an emergency scenario. Unless you are an idiot like mccandless or the 127 hours guy and don't tell someone your wilderness plans, people should be looking for you within days in an emergency. The focus is on not panicking, staying where you are, and keeping morale up
I'm trying to get a job which has some sort of wilderness survival training as a requirement. What kind of thing would I take for this?
>person asks thing>retarded nosess continuously evade and gatekeep, spouting semantics in a desperate attempt to keep the goyim from being independent.
>>2795610I have more experience than you ever will. All I have to tell you is that you're a fucking idiot.
I always wanted to be a Coast Guard pilot and I when I was 12 I told that to my friend's mother and she laughed at me and said I would never be able to do that, so it discouraged me entirely and I totally forgot about it and never even considered pursuing it, but now as an adult I've thought back on this and it pisses me off.Anyway, I know being accepted to be a Coast Guard choppa pilot is nearly impossible but I never even tried
>>2795622>being accepted to be a Coast Guard choppa pilot is nearly impossibleDon't know anything about it. What makes it impossible? Is it one of those roles that has no true path to it?
>>2795624No apparently due to their line of work, which are sea rescues, bad weather, low altitude, proximity to civilians, etc they only employ the highest performing pilots in the services. meaning they recruit the best pilots from the Army, Navy, SEALs, etc and let the other services keep the second-tier. the Coast Guard apparently does over 4000 helicopter rescues of all different types per year, and never do you hear about any accidents or disasters
>>2795625That's a load of bullshit. We have shitloads of officers that go to flight school, no experience needed. Even if you don't get picked up for OCS to go pilot, you can be on a flight crew if you go an aviation rate like AMT. All you have to do is score half decent on your ASVAB.
>>2795622Also that cunt that told you that is a piece of shit and probably a Yeoman
>>2795643I know they have their own flight skül of course, but I'm just saying they do accept transfers and I've heard they're very picky.Either way it's not easy to become a military pilot and certainly not with the domestic responsibilities the Coast Guard has.now my dad was in Vietnam and although he has utmost respect for what the pilots were capable of he also knows they're batshit crazy and all had a couple screws loose, so to speak at least.>>2795644yeah she's a bitch. as a kid you know which adults are full of shit and which ones aren't, and to me she was very smart and kind and reliable, so I just absorbed it and forgot all about my ambitions. o well I guess
>>2795644Fuggin K E K
The best way to learn how to survive in the wilderness is to go out in the wilderness and survive. Go hiking and camping Bro.
>>2795716100% agree. Ironically though this is also the best way to die in the wilderness
>>2795716I agree with this. Learn from experience. >>2795648Are you too old to join? If not, why not try for it. Or are there other things you're interested in?
>>2795719>Are you too oldyeah, actually. I'm an oldƒag now but also I have a really dedicated career and live in another country as well. between my age, my current shit eyesight, my country of residence, this possibility is long over. my current work and home I've spent 20 years working toward and I'm balls-deep in it now, and there's just no chance of changing everything again at this point. it's okay, I've done well. but I'm human and so I wonder sometimes
>>2795625What a load of shit! Coast Guard is hurting for pilots, any officer that applies for flight school basically gets picked up if they pass flight physical and meet all the standards. It's harder to get accepted intl OCS in the first place, but even that isn't bad since the entire military is understaffed right now. >Pic related, me - the Main Character. Pilots are just there to drive me to and from the action
>>2795730You forgot to to attach the pic, airdale
>>2795750Yeah I did, but then I remembered that's a good thing because I'd be an incredibly easy task to dox me. I haven't touched a sewing machine since a school, that's what airmen are for.
now I've been watching Coast Guard Alaska the last two days because of this thread
>>2795797Go forth and do cool guy shit.
>>2795824Yeah I reckon that's the right attitude anon. Thanks, I will.
>>2795474Nothing beats experience, spend all your spare time outside.
>>2795625The Sikorsky's and thr Augusta's and theur engineers deserve a lot of credit too.
>>2795858they sure as shit do
