This current version of the Ranger Handbook is a guide for the U.S. Army Rangers, a globally elite military unit. The techniques herein have been tried and trued during hundreds of years of American warfare, and are guaranteed to be the best in the world.

Topics include how to lead and decide under stress, motivate individuals, and manage teams. Military scouting, fighting, ambushing, and modern urban warfare, such as building entry and sniper operations are explained in detail.

Fieldcraft such as concealment, first aid, navigation, and finding food and water are also covered. Moreover, there is practical information on mountain climbing, tactical use of explosives, navigating rivers, and aerial maneuvers such as parachute insertions and helicopter-based assaults.

In simple language, the Ranger Handbook gives practical ways to conduct warfare and win. Not for the weak or fainthearted.

Prepare for your wilderness adventure as you learn to positively identify the plants along your way. Not only will you be able to recognize these beauties of the wilderness, but with this illustrated guide you'll learn which plants can safely be used for food and medicine, how to prepare wild plants for eating, and what dangerous plant properties to beware of. For your wilderness survival, don't leave home without it

In a situation where survival is at stake, plants can provide crucial food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and a solid awareness of any dangerous properties they might have. Familiarity with the botanical structures of plants and information on where they grow will make them easier to locate and identify.

The Illustrated Guide to Wild Edible Plants describes the physical characteristics, habitat and distribution, and edible parts of wild plants. With color photography throughout, this guide facilitates the identification of these plants.

Originally intended for Army use, this book serves as a survival aid for civilians as well. Anyone interested in the outdoors, botany, or even in unusual sources of nutrition will find this an indispensable resource.

Army Survival Manual is the finest single source for self-reliance for all extreme circumstances. A must for anyone who wants to know how to survive in primitive conditions. The book is very straightforward with many pictures and user-friendly illustrations, written in easy to understand language. This is just some of the survival information that this book provides: All-climates: arctic, tropics, temperate forest, savannah or desert. All-terrain survival tactics. The Will to Survive. Identify poisonous snakes, as well as edible and non-edible plants. Survival Medicine. Wilderness medicine. Techniques on first aid. Survival in the hottest or coldest of climates. Survival Planning. Make polluted water potable. How to find water. Ways to trap and collection techniques of water. Covers navigation and compass use. Find direction using the sun and stars. Weapons and Tools. Recognizing signs of land when lost at sea. Building life-saving shelters. Traps and snares. How to prepare wild game to be cooked also preserving food. All types of fire making. Water Crossings. Find direction using the sun and stars. Physical and mental fitness. Disaster preparedness. Again this is just some of the survival information is this book

This is the Official US Army Ranger Handbook TC 3-21.76 dated April 2017.

The famous US Army Ranger Handbook is required reading for all students of the army's Ranger School at Fort Benning, but you don't have to be a Ranger to get the most out of it. It's an excellent reference for all military personnel, law enforcement, preppers, airsofters, or anyone who wants to know.

The Ranger Handbook draws from bloody lessons learned from two centuries of special operations combat. The manual includes valuable information on:

• demolitions,
• booby traps,
• communications,
• patrolling,
• tactical movement,
• battle drills,
• combat intelligence
• and much more
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You'll see hard-won US Army Ranger lessons in: Leadership including:

• duties responsibilities and assumption of command;
• Operations such as troop leading and combat intelligence;
• Fire support planning,
• tasks,
• call for fire;
• Tactical marches
• danger areas;
• Patrols;
• Battle drills-react to attack, ambush, indirect fire and clear a trench;
• Communications including antennas;
• Aviation and waterborne operations;
• Mountaineering;
• Survival,
• evasion,
• First aid;
• Demolitions.

The US Army Rangers are the world's premier light infantry fighting force. This book contains all of the materials of the official Ranger handbook carried by all Ranger school students.

U.S. Army Special Forces Guide to Unconventional Warfare contains incredibly detailed information and visuals provided by the U.S. Army. With this guide, you will be able to easily apply its material to understand and create initiators, igniters, and incendiary materials.

This is an anarchist cookbook of sorts by army guys. It is an improvised munitions handbook made from U.S. Army intelligence. The table of contents includes gelled gasoline, fire fudge, napalm, silver nitrate, concentrated sulfuric acid, fuse cords, spontaneous combustion, and delay mechanisms. Brimming with special forces secrets, this guide is a critical tool for any provocateur-in-training and provides insight into how American special forces are fighting our enemies overseas.

The renewed nationwide interest in fitness has been accompanied by many research studies on the effects of regular participation in sound physical fitness programs. The overwhelming conclusion is that such programs enhance a person's quality of life, improve productivity, and bring about positive physical and mental changes. Not only are physically fit soldiers essential to the Army, they are also more likely to have enjoyable, productive lives.

The Official U.S. Army Pistol Training Manual provides the framework for training and using a service pistol, including equipment, ammunition, and shooting.

First aid is the emergency care given to the sick, injured, or wounded before being treated by medical personnel. Because medical personnel will not always be readily available, the nonmedical service members must rely heavily on their own skills and knowledge of life-sustaining methods to survive on the integrated battlefield. This publication outlines both self-aid and aid to others. More importantly, it emphasizes prompt and effective action in sustaining life and preventing or minimizing further suffering and disability.

The purpose of this field manual is to provide a standardized source document for Army-wide reference on map reading and land navigation. This manual applies to every soldier in the Army regardless of service branch, MOS, or rank. This manual also contains both doctrine and training guidance on these subjects. Part One addresses map reading and Part Two, land navigation. The appendixes include a list of exportable training materials, a matrix of land navigation tasks, an introduction to orienteering, and a discussion of several devices that can assist the soldier in land navigation.

U.S. Army's Guide to Rope, Knot Tying, and Rigging is the ultimate book for all those who need and use these skills: construction workers, farmers and ranchers, truckers, sailors, arborists, climbers, campers, hikers, fishermen, survivalists, and many more.

This comprehensive book includes instructions for tying 18 different knots, 15 hitches, and 3 lashings. It gives easy-to-follow instructions on splicing, creating attachments, and constructing rope ladders. It also has sections on the following:

• Using chains and hooks, slings, blocks and tackle systems, and winches to make hoists
• Creating anchors and guy lines
• Lifting equipment, including gin poles, tripods, shears, boom derricks, stiff-leg derricks, and light hoisting equipment
• Moving equipment, including skids, rollers, and jacks
• Five different forms of scaffolds
• Nearly 150 figures to help the user visualize how to create the knots and rigging described in the text
• 19 tables covering knotting terminology and definitions, properties of ropes and chains, safe loads on hooks, and much more.

The U.S. Army's Guide to Rope, Knot Tying, and Rigging is an essential, vetted manual trusted by military professionals and outdoor experts alike. This guide, draws directly from U.S. Army training and offers highly detailed instructions on the use of ropes, knots, and rigging in both field as well as combat operations. Jam-packed with charts and diagrams, it's the definitive resource for mastering rope work, whether in emergencies or day-to-day tasks.

Designed for practicality and precision, this guide covers everything from basic knots to advanced rigging techniques. With clear, step-by-step illustrations, even complex concepts are made accessible for everyone - irrespective of your skill level. If you're a survivalist, prepper, hunter, or outdoor enthusiast, this manual equips you with skills that go beyond mere theory-it's the real-world knowledge used by modern soldiers.

Here, you will gain insights into fundamental and complex tying techniques that have been used to save lives in critical situations. This guide helps you develop an innate understanding of knot applications for safety, efficiency, and reliability.

Key insights:

• • Master the bowline knot for creating secure loops in any situation.
  • Learn how to tie a clove hitch for effective anchoring under heavy loads.
  • Understand the principles behind proper splicing techniques for stronger ropes.
  • Discover the advantages of using hitches for quick, adjustable connections.
  • Practice building sturdy, makeshift ladders using knots and rope alone.

Develop the skills to secure, lift, and move with confidence. From rescue scenarios to everyday outdoor tasks, learn the techniques that ensure safety and reliability. Elevate your rope-handling capabilities today with these proven military methods.

_{Originally written by the US Army, this specific product has been reformatted for easier publication. It has not been edited in any way for widespread, unrestricted, unendorsed distribution.}

The U.S. Army's official guide to map reading, determining location, and navigating

For a soldier, knowing where you are is a matter of life and death, and so it comes as no surprise that the Army has produced the most complete, clear, and thorough guide to map reading and navigation available.

The book starts with a comprehensive explanation of the meaning and uses of maps, whether photographic, planimetric (standard-style), or topographic, then proceeds to the use of those maps, discussing compass techniques, celestial navigation, and determination of distance. There is a detailed section on interpreting topographic maps, with notes on tactical considerations for differing terrain, as well as determining the ease of movement through an area.

The book's crucial, well-illustrated chapters have invaluable information on:

• Training Strategy
• Maps
• Marginal Information and Symbols
• Grids
• Scale and Distance
• Direction
• Overlays
• Aerial Photographs
• Navigation Equipment and Methods
• Elevation Relief
• Terrain Association
• Mounted Land Navigation
• Navigation in Different Types of Terrain
• Unit Sustainment

There is also information on field sketching, the tricky art of map folding, units of measure and conversion factors, map symbols, orienteering, and the global positioning system (GPS).

2022 Reprint of those portions of the Department of the Army's manual of survival by consuming edible wild plants. Illustrated with over 100 Photographs of individual plants and a description of their nutritional and survival value. This illustrated guide to identification of edible wild plants in nature is extracted from Army Manual for Survival, the comprehensive Army guide to survival in emergency situations. Only sections on wild edible plants are included in this edition, making it a compact, portable, and handy field guide to learning and mastering this important survival skill. From Abal to Water Hemlock, 127 plants are described, most with color photographs, indicating each plant's potential for providing nutrition and survival.

The purpose of this field manual is to provide a standardized source document for Army-wide reference on map reading and land navigation. This manual applies to every soldier in the Army regardless of service branch, MOS, or rank. This manual also contains both doctrine and training guidance on these subjects. Part One addresses map reading and Part Two, land navigation. The appendixes include a list of exportable training materials, a matrix of land navigation tasks, an introduction to orienteering, and a discussion of several devices that can assist the soldier in land navigation.

The Official U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Field Manual is the newest edition of this critical U.S. Army field manual about the nuclear, chemical, and biological threats to our military members and civilians and covering a soldier's--or anyone's--use of protective gear and equipment to make himself and herself and their families safe.

Modern combat is chaotic, intense, and shockingly destructive. A soldier will experience confusing and often terrifying sights, sounds, smells, and dangers--and he must learn to survive and win despite them.

This field manual, containing the essential combat skills the U.S. Army teaches its soldiers, is the Army's most recent edition, which has been completely updated for Lyons Press by the soldier who wrote the manual for the army: Sergeant First Class Matt Larsen. Distributed to all soldiers, this is the must-have guide for those who want to know how U.S. Army soldiers are trained to prepare for--and perform during--combat. It includes photos, illustrations, and diagrams throughout depicting weaponry, combat maneuvers, warrior drills, survival techniques, fighting positions, camouflage, and basic field medicine.

In a situation where survival is at stake, plants can provide crucial food and medicine. Their safe usage requires absolutely positive identification, knowing how to prepare them for eating, and a solid awareness of any dangerous properties they might have. Familiarity with the botanical structures of plants and information on where they grow will make them easier to locate and identify.

THE ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO WILD EDIBLE PLANTS describes the physical characteristics, habitat and distribution, and edible parts of wild plants. With color photography throughout, this guide facilitates the identification of these plants.

Originally intended for Army use, this book serves as a survival aid for civilians as well. Anyone interested in the outdoors, botany, or even in unusual sources of nutrition will find this an indispensable resource.

The Army version Map Reading and Land Navigation is the simplest and most straightforward explanation of how to get around with just a compass and a map. This guide is perfect for any outdoorsman or for teaching Boy Scouts how to use a compass.

The M48 Patton is an American medium tank and the third and final tank to be named after Gen. George S. Patton. Patton, commander of the U.S. Third Army during World War II, was one of the earliest American proponents of tanks. The M48 was a further development of the M47, and served as the U.S. Army and Marine Corps's primary tank during the Vietnam War. The M48 was a completely new tank design, and the last U.S. tank to mount a 90mm gun. Nearly 12,000 were built between 1952 and 1959. It was initially outfitted with a somewhat unreliable gasoline engine which, during the Arab-Israeli conflicts, proved vulnerable to conflagrations when hit by enemy fire. Beginning in 1948, some units were upgraded to the M28A3 model which used a safer and more reliable diesel engine. In the mid-1970s improved M48A5 models were created which carried the 105mm gun. These served well into the 1980s with American forces and many continue in service today with foreign armies. Created in 1955, this field manual reveals a great deal about the M48's design and capabilities. Intended as a manual for training and operation, it details many characteristics of the tank, and explains in detail the fire-control instruments. Furthermore, it describes the firing duties, crew drills, and service of the piece. Originally labeled restricted, this manual was declassified long ago and is here reprinted in book form. Care has been taken to preserve the integrity of the text.