Desert survival
Annoying little flying insects and mosquitoes take turns attacking him. Lister endured, warning himself that he could not move yet. Due to high levels of nervousness and lack of water, he felt thirsty. When night fell, he planned to hide in another, more dense jungle, which seemed easier to hide.
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
For two days, a dog patrol from the Secret Service and an "enemy squad" had been tracking him. Curiously, however, they had not even found any trace of him. There are still three days left, and if Lister is not caught in these three days, then the victory will belong to him.
Three days and nights passed, and Lister estimated that he had walked about dozens of miles in the past few days. He took cover entirely from what he had learned from the textbooks, and only operated at night, finding a safe and hidden place to hide before dawn. He also carried a life-saving kit containing a life-saving map, a radio transceiver, smoke flares and a palm-sized spherical positioning receiver that receives satellite navigation signals and determines their exact location.
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
Another life-saving kit includes a backup radio station, batteries, first aid kit and more flares. In addition, his life-saving items include a green warm blanket, camouflage nets, facial cosmetics for disguise, a plastic bag and a sponge to absorb and store water.
By far the most troubling thing for Lister was not hunger, but thirst. That afternoon, he drank the last drop of water he had brought with him. The life-saving place icon shows the creek in the opposite direction of his route, and he cannot risk arrest for fetching water.
There was a thunderstorm in the middle of the night. The rain was like charcoal in the snow, alleviating his urgent needs. He opened two plastic bags to catch the rain, sucked the water around him with a sponge, and drank greedily.
The cold after the rain made Lister shudder, and the wet military uniform clung to his body, sucking the heat inside him. No one would come out and walk around on such a night, so Lister packed up his belongings and decided to enter the mountain in front of him as soon as possible.
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
At dawn, Lister entered the mountains and found a place to hide. After a night of tossing and turning, Lister wanted to sleep for a while, but the hunger began to work again. He had trouble sleeping, and when he saw some yellow ants crawling in the grass next to his elbow, he tried to grab a handful and put it in his mouth, but only pinched a few. The ants didn't even wet his tongue.
As dusk fell, Lister, who had been suffering from hunger, began to feel thirsty again. The rain has long since been drunk. He took off his damp boots and squeezed a few drops of water out of his woolen socks, which, though astringent and smelly, had relieved the urgency slightly.
Late on the fifth day, with his wit and boldness, Lister finally escaped the pursuit and came out of the terrible forest. But at this time, he was already the same as the original judgment.
Wild survival confrontation training
It turned out that this was the green beret members of the US special forces conducting field survival confrontation training, with the purpose of enabling the special operators to conduct fierce unconventional special operations with the "enemy" who came from a fierce "tracking and pursuit" in the harsh environment such as deep mountains and dense forests or swampy areas, so as to cultivate the ability and strong and indomitable perseverance of the special combatants to "survive, evade, resist, and escape".
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
The U.S. military believes that special forces will have to fight behind enemy lines in most cases, and it is difficult to get sustained logistical support from the outside, so they must have the ability to complete tasks in the absence of material support. Field survival training is essential for special operators. Therefore, in survival training, the US military often places the trainees in the deep mountains and old forests, the wasteland and desert, exposed to the scorching sun, ice and snow, and exercises their ability to use local resources to survive in an environment where water is cut off and food is scarce and isolated. The basic survival skills they need to master include: familiar with the methods of catching and cooking in the wild in places such as shellfish, fish, snakes, beasts, birds, insects; being able to distinguish edible plants, medicinal plants, poisonous plants, etc.; mastering drinking water purification methods, fire essentials, and using tents or local materials to build waterproof, thermal insulation, and insect-proof facilities.
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
Fighting in a harsh environment, there are often casualties and diseases, so the content of survival training also includes simple treatment of external injuries and fractures, emergency treatment of fever, heat stroke, bites, poisoning, frostbite, etc., how to perform artificial respiration for drowning people, and methods of transporting wounded and sick under harsh conditions.
In order to truly implement survival training throughout, the U.S. military designated the Caniclau National Forest in Washington State as a special forces field survival training base. This is a national protected area, with towering trees, intertwined vines, branches and leaves, and the ground is covered with more than two feet of rotten leaves and dead grass. The forest is full of poisonous ants, scorpions, centipedes and north American venomous cobras, as well as wolves, foxes, leopards, tigers and other beasts of prey. It is also an ideal place for special forces to conduct comprehensive training. The soldiers of the special forces are to be tested in the most severe way here.
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
Every day, instead of milk bread and canned champagne, they eat wild sheep, hares, snakes, grasshoppers, earthworms and other animals they catch, and even swallow live ants in large mouths to fill their hunger. Finding water is also very difficult, don't look at the forest is full of streams, puddles, but most of the water contains many harmful bacteria and even toxic. Soldiers had to follow the animals and birds and fetch water from where they drank. They couldn't find a source of water, so they had to use their brains on the plants. They used multi-purpose bayonets to cut down a thick section of kudzu vine, and 6 people held the ends of the kudzu vine in separate hands, and twisted the kudzu vine like twisting clothes, and they could actually get about 500 grams of water. However, if the squeezed juice is milky white or slightly bitter and salty, it must not be drunk, otherwise it will be poisoned and die.
Picking and digging wild fruits to feed the hungry is also one of the means of survival for soldiers. In order to distinguish whether a certain type of plant is poisonous, they have an extremely simple method: use a knife to cut a hole in the plant, sprinkle a pinch of table salt, if it does not change color, it can be edible, if it becomes black or other color, it must not be eaten. In addition, in the dense forest, it is also necessary to wear tight waterproof clothing, and tie the neckline, cuffs, and pants cuffs with ropes to prevent the invasion of poisonous snakes and scorpions. March through the dense forest, and look for the footprints of large beasts as much as possible, so as to avoid straying into poisonous areas or falling into swamps. When camping at night, choose a commanding height to avoid the wind, and if possible, multiple campfires should be lit around the camp to prevent the invasion of predators. In this way, when the one-month comprehensive training is over, they can get out of the dense forest.
U.S. Special Forces Field Survival Training
In addition, in addition to the Caniclau training base, the US military has a tropical jungle training center at Luzon Island and Panama Air Force Base in the Philippines, a polar climate training center in Alaska and a desert training base in desert areas.
It can be said that field survival training is the most insurmountable barrier on the road for new members of the Army's special forces to officially become members of the "Green Berets". Every year, I don't know how many new players are eliminated in this training subject. This training subject not only challenges the limits of human survival, but also tests the psychological endurance of special team members. Thinking back on this, Lister would tell people about another of his experiences.
be unexpectedly rescued from a desperate situation
It was the afternoon of April 9, 1996, when Lister was parachuted into a desert for training across the desert. Although the weather in April is still cool, at noon, the surface is hot under the sun's rays. During the day, Lister dug a hole in the roots of the red willow tree to take some cool sand to cool off on the navel; at night, he began to rush. In the beginning, he walked twenty or thirty kilometers a day, nibbling on dried bread slices when he was hungry, and sucking on a mouthful of water that he carried with him when he was thirsty. However, after 4 days and seeing that there was little dry food and water left, Lister had only walked less than half the way. God did not do beauty, and at dusk this day, the "Great Desert Demon" that Lister had been worried about finally appeared. The yellow sand storm roared and rolled in, and the sand and gravel were raised, accompanied by a roar of "whining". Lister first poked the wolf-beating stick he carried with him deep into the sand, and then leaned back against the wolf-beating stick, covered his face with his hands, and lay reclining on the ground, fighting the sudden sandstorm for more than 20 hours. His nose and ears were full of sand, and his body was red and swollen with sand grains in many places, but fortunately he was not buried alive by the sand.
The U.S. military that suddenly encountered a sandstorm
Late one night, the exhausted Lister found a leeward place to rest. He spread out his blanket and was about to lie down when he suddenly saw burning green eyes staring at him, and these green lights soon came closer. He was shocked: Oops, it was a pack of wolves. Frightened out of a cold sweat, Lister quickly calmed his mind, suddenly turned on the flashlight to illuminate a circle, and shouted, and hit the wolf stick at one of the she-wolves, and the wolf fell to the ground in response, and the other wolves scattered and fled. At this point, Lister was exhausted, and he only felt that his eyes were black and paralyzed.
After about 5 minutes, Lister recovered from his panic and coma, and he only felt thirsty and picked up the water bottle he had carried with him. However, Listvan did not expect that the little water left in the pot would actually run out during the fight with the wolf. At this moment, he saw the wolf that had just been killed, and he drew his dagger and stabbed it into the wolf's chest. With a "poof", a strong smell of blood came out of the wolf's stomach. At this point, Lister couldn't take care of it anymore, and he hesitated slightly, then swooped down and sucked greedily. When he looked up, his face was covered in blood.
desert
Seven days and seven nights passed, and Lister entered the heart of the desert, and by this time he had not eaten a single grain or drunk a drop of water for two days and two nights. His footsteps were staggering, described as withered, and there were cracked blood channels on his body, hands, and feet, and flies and mosquitoes with a keen sense of smell kept circling around him. For two days, when he was hungry, he fed himself with flies, mosquitoes, spiders, beetles, ants, and four-legged snakes. Later, he told the people: flies are delicious and have a faint sweetness; ants are unpalatable and very cheeky; spiders have no taste. When he was thirsty, he drank his own urine at first, once, twice, three times, and by the fourth time, the urine was gone. At this moment, List, who faintly felt a hint of despair, lay in the warm yellow sand, his eyes staring at the deep illusory sky... He wanted to write a "suicide note" to let his teammates remember that he was alive and thirsty, and in the future, when paying tribute to him, don't forget to bring a bottle of water.
On the fifth day of food and water, Lister found a plant called Da Yun, and he quickly pulled it up and swallowed it with a root and skin. After a big chew, Lister's body gained some moisture, although Dayun would have a poisoning reaction when he ate too much, and his mouth began to feel a little numb, but at this time he could not take care of so much. What made him desperate was that by the time he was about to fall, he had reached the edge of the desert, and the growing number of plants and small animals saved his life.
American troops in the desert
On April 22, after 12 days of tenacious fighting and overcoming countless difficulties and obstacles, Lister finally came out of the desert. He cried, looking at the endless sea of sand, and he murmured, "Great Desert, you can't stop me from moving towards the green beret, I finally won!" Win! ”
It is after several times of such harsh, somewhat impersonal, and even very dangerous training that they are qualified to become special soldiers, and the dangers faced by these soldiers in the wild are often unimaginable to ordinary people, but it is these personal feelings and personal experiences that make them master the skills of survival in the wild, truly have the ability to survive in the wild, and lay a solid foundation for the success of future special operations missions.