The Martian The Ultimate Survival Fiction Book review by James C. Jones After a while I get tired of the...
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Author Bio: James C. Jones is the president of Live Free USA, a not-for-profit organization devoted to advocating and supporting emergency preparedness and family self-reliance. Live Free USA publishes the American Survivor newsletter, conducts seminars and supports chapters. They can be contacted at www.AmericanSurvivor.Org, LFINOW@AOL.COM or at Live Free USA, Box 3295, Munster, IN 46321
100 Deadly Skills by Clint Emerson Book review by James C. Jones Most of the skills are not actually “deadly”,...
Surviving Survival By Laurence Gonzales A book review by: James C. Jones Laurence Gonzales’s book Deep Survival (reviewed in an...
Picking Locks as a Survival Skill By James C. Jones EMT/CHCM Certainly we all regard lock picking as a rather...
Camp Independence Endures! Camp Independence 2015 was conducted at Tippecanoe River State Park near Winamac Indiana on May 16th 2015....
The police chief of a large Midwestern town is awakened at 2:40 AM by the local 911 dispatcher. She...
A busy Live Free booth at the Birch Run Expo PREPAREDNESS EXPOS Preparedness Expos large and small help to build...
At a recent preparedness expo I observed a demonstration of an “in home” freeze drying machine. Up until now, freeze-drying...
The number and variety of Emergency Preparedness Expositions and Conferences has exploded in recent years. While there are scores of...
Survival Smoke There are times in an emergency where being very visible is good and other times when being invisible...
By James C. Jones, EMT/CHCM I have been openly advocating and teaching survival preparedness for over four decades. I...
Bounty Hunters Are After Your Guns Actually, I don’t believe in “conspiracies” because the world and life is just too...
On a recent winter camp outing we had the opportunity to test three different types of “rocket stoves” under winter...
By James C. Jones, EMT/CHCM I have reviewed a lot of different rocket stoves recently, including the BioLite ™ and...
We hear a lot about the handguns and the rifles that are recommended for home defense and survival, but the...
American Blackout National Geographic Special Reviewed I very seldom watch any survival related programs. While they are occasional informative their...
Written By: Jim Jones, EMT/CHCM The very definition of ‘survival” is someone starting a fire without matches. What survival class...
There are times in an emergency where being very visible is good and other times when being invisible are a...
Pry bar for urban survival Surviving in an urban or suburban environment requires some tools that are not required or...
Written By: James C. Jones EMT/CHCM Each of the “principles” discussed here have been covered in more detail in past...
Written By: James C. Jones I have always considered the machete to be a jungle survival tool. They are generally...
By Jim Jones, EMT/CHCM Cold Rain, Natures Most Deadly Combination While I seldom cancel any kind of “survival” training program...
What's in your coat pocket? By Jim Jones One of my mantras is “ It’s not what you have, It’s...
Bedside drawer We spend about one-third of our lives in bed so there is a thirty-percent chance that the life...
Live Free USA Those of use who have proudly carried the title of “survivalist” from the 1960s have experienced a...
Bandanas have a wide variety of uses In my various articles and classes where I talk about what you should...
