Long Term SURVIVAL! What Does It Take?

What does it take to survive a long term survival situation? How do your priorities change after 72 hours? Shane, Patrick and Jason discuss survival strategies for the long hual.

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[aaronbrogley]

Great video. I have a question do you think someone that has Boy Scout lesson as a child could or would be able to go through survival situation or do you think that person needs more training

[johnndavis]

You can will yourself to stay awake for days but at some point your brain will shut you down.
Your eyes will go out of focus and you can shake it off, once twice maybe three times. Then your eyes will roll back in your head and everything goes white.
Long haul truckers used to talk about this before logbooks were a thing.

[megandonahue]

I'm so glad that you mentioned the perception of others productivity and that it is a dynamic situation that will change over time. I'm a 60 year old cancer survivor who might appear weak, low energy and at first glance, many would think that would be an unreasonable burden to many. But I was a hospital nurse for 30 years, I did avionics and disaster preparedness in the military during Desert Storm/Desert Shield as base support and hospital liason. At least in my area, I know where my edible wild vegetation is, I'm not afraid of harvesting road kill, killing and preparing animals and I had been homeless in a time in my life where I learned exactly what life would be like if I lost everything. I have survived some of my greatest fears and survived 100% of my days. I can deliver babies, do minor surgery, diagnose and treat many illnesses, help with keeping elderly and children healthy and meet their daily needs. The list goes on and on. But at first glance, I would not be a first choice candidate.

[bbhome]

My experience with survival was cancer. Mindset is everything as others have said in the comments. Faith in God was everything. When Mr. B got word from a truck driver I knew I would be okay. The driver told him "God has this." He never called me in the afternoon from work, just at lunch. That day he called me right afterwards. That set my mindset. I was going to make it no matter how little sleep I got, how fuzzy headed I got, or how sick I got. I kept my routine as much as possible, exercised, ate good food (thanks to Mr. B) and got better. There are days you don't know how you make it but you make it. All my training in life has brought me to this point and I am blessed by God.

[sajahb]

Enjoying seeing more of your videos on SD

[xj]

Mindset definitely, you have to have the will to push on even when your alone and exhausted. You don't want to survive, you won't

[aaronbeach]

Great video guys love the collaboration of opinions. I work as a binman here in 🇬🇧 last summer was 34 degrees C. Suffering with heat stroke, my supervisor thought I was drunk, slurred speach, lack of motorskills and general awareness. When in that situation you deffinatly know you're limits and learn to see the signs of environmental exposure.

You're survival environment deffinatly dictates if you priorities food, water or shelter first 👍😎💪🇬🇧🌲🌳🌲🌳

[dirtisbetterthandiamonds]

I agree, mindset is the key to survival. The meteorologist who recently said a prayer for the town as he realized a monster tornado was going to drive right through it, said "Right now, YOU HAVE TO TRY TO SURVIVE"! They were going to have to switch mindsets from whatever they were doing and get into survival mode. At that point, they only had a couple of minutes to shelter or potentially die. We have to be as ready as the firefighters at the firehouse with our skills, gear, and mindset.

[Markus_go]

I always come back to three quotes and what they mean IMO concerning long-term survival:

1. Bear Independent: "Collapse now, avoid the rush." - Break away from a fragile system BEFORE it collapses.

2. Pastor Joe Fox: "Become a neo-pioneer". - Create an environment as self-sustainable as possible. Now.

3. Jason and Joe (from another vid):"If you only interact on social media, they're not your friends." - Find out now who you can really count on.

All three steps will give you a head start now, because most people won't act before something bad happens.

Get your houses in order and take care.

[xj]

Always practice and be honest with yourself, if not your only shorting yourself

[lorkainenkingg]

Great topic and discussion! I would make a couple quick observations on testing your boundaries: 1) it is a good idea to either test your limits in a group, or at least have someone that can check up on you so that you don't unintentionally carry your experience into an unrecoverable (or otherwise debilitating) emergency/medical situation; and 2) retest yourself periodically, because your tolerances will change throughout your life -- especially as you get older. If some major event affects your health, for example, you are going to have a harder time enduring a survival situation where that new condition impacts your performance. The best tip in the video IMO is to develop that "proper mindset" for survival. I believe that is what carries survivors through situations they 'technically' should have died from.

[timmybugg]

I do prefer the skills videos. My daughter and I like to use them as challenge videos for ourselves. My son is more of a “glamper” lol

[wanderer]

A good Mindset and mental strength is about 90% of long term survival in my opinion very few people have this I think unless you train hard at it you’ll never know your weaknesses

[CRAZY-bifz]

I spent two years in the blue ridge mountains and three years near George Washington forest alone for all of it. It truly takes more than you think chickens and seeds for a garden with get you far if you’re alone mentally most people couldn’t handle it I mean five years in the wild is a lot to take in. Your health is important I pulled multiple teeth without any medication using a multi tool I’ve glued cuts that required stitches I’ve got two fingers that are useless just tape them together and kept going so yeah long term survival is a struggle. My own struggles and in life is what allowed me to adapt and overcome whatever challenges I have faced the tough times and general experience in it all changed me and my whole perspective on life. Truly a blessing to be here today honestly

[jacobkonkel]

Survival Dispatch, J3 especially, always make skills the focus of their content. Be it intentional or not, my favorite videos are where Jason has forayed into the wilderness with subpar gear, or no gear, and "survived" on wits alone.

[gordaro]

Great stuff, great content, great advice. Get out there and LEARN...and have fun 😎

[colvindl]

Honest. Three humble, honest yet capable men. That's why I dig your videos. Thank you.

[shtfengineering]

Great discussion about abilities and skills as preformed under duress! When I hear someone say how they can do a survival skill, I always ask them if they can do it with one arm in a sling. It adds an extra dimension to the sleep and/or calorie deprivation. Definitely worthy of practice because many folks WILL be injured by trying to do the things required for survival. It takes exponentially more physical effort and concentration to build a fire "from scratch" when you haven't eaten or slept in 4 or 5 days, AND your dominant arm is in a sling. If you get that figured out, it is time to tie one foot to your thigh with a belt, and try again with one leg. 😂👍 Get creative and really push yourself to failure. Otherwise, you won't know where that is and expend precious calories trying to do something you should know you can't in your current state. We all have limits. If you don't know where yours are, you can't push them!

[aaronbeach]

First like and first comment 😊👍😎💪🇬🇧🌲🌳🌲🌳

[Stoney_AKA_James]

Good discussion guys!
Mindset is key, then skills, then equipment.
Part of the experience in Ranger School is sleep and food deprivation. During the 62 days, one may get a total of 24 hours of sleep and eat only one meal a day all the while under stress and physical exertion.
And yes, some did hallucinate.