and so does EVERYONE else who knows their asses from holes in the ground, for the civilian survivalist. It's POINTLESS to discuss what's what for the military, you aint IN the military, don't have their problems or their solutions. The military has 100 taxpayers coughing up 5% of their gross income, for every troop that's in a combat zone. YOu have to pay for ALL your gear and training by yourself. The military has planes, smoke generators, thermal imaging, fire-control computers, choppers, rockets, tanks, cannon beltfeds, grenades, mines, poison gas, napalm, safe bases to run back to, state of the art medical care, all sorts of crap you can't have.
The troops don't have to forage, you do. Their "answers" and problems can't be your answers, cause most of their problems are of their own choosing. YOU have to be smart enough to only have about 5% of the sort of problems that the military has. You do this by sticking to either darkness or thick cover, and by being a very minor target, by having a silencer, by having an autorifle, by having a .22 unit, by wearing concealable armor, by employing strategic movement, caches, etc. That is, IF you have enough sense to poor piss out of a boot, with the instructions on the heel.
The troops don't have to forage, you do. Their "answers" and problems can't be your answers, cause most of their problems are of their own choosing. YOU have to be smart enough to only have about 5% of the sort of problems that the military has. You do this by sticking to either darkness or thick cover, and by being a very minor target, by having a silencer, by having an autorifle, by having a .22 unit, by wearing concealable armor, by employing strategic movement, caches, etc. That is, IF you have enough sense to poor piss out of a boot, with the instructions on the heel.