http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/2012/11/the-air-force-survival-guide-dont-leave-home-without-it/ AirSpaceMag.com Blog Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/2012/11/the-air-force-survival-guide-dont-leave-home-without-it/comment-page-1/#comment-12639 Hector Escalona Sun, 24 Feb 2013 05:22:54 +0000 http://blogs.airspacemag.com/daily-planet/?p=21315#comment-12639 I flew for the US Army for 21 years. After a few years of thinking I was a professional aviator I was required to attend a jungle survival course in Panama that lasted 5 days. The last three days of the course we were dropped off into the jungle without food and only three canteens of water. We had to walk miles through the jungle to a spot where we were supposed to be rescued. During the course we were taught what jungle plants are OK to eat and which poison humans. For those days I ate flowers and leaves and dropped water drops off leaves into my empty canteen. I did not have a map but I was told what heading I should follow off my compass. On the third day I made it to the large marked tree that I had been told if I followed any heading between 355 and 005 degrees I would end up on the beach where rescue would happen. I made the beach and was a passenger on a M151 that took me back to Ft. Sherman. Wait, Air Force pilots can bail out WITH a handbook? Man I joined the wrong branch!!! I flew for the US Army for 21 years. After a few years of thinking I was a professional aviator I was required to attend a jungle survival course in Panama that lasted 5 days. The last three days of the course we were dropped off into the jungle without food and only three canteens of water. We had to walk miles through the jungle to a spot where we were supposed to be rescued. During the course we were taught what jungle plants are OK to eat and which poison humans. For those days I ate flowers and leaves and dropped water drops off leaves into my empty canteen. I did not have a map but I was told what heading I should follow off my compass. On the third day I made it to the large marked tree that I had been told if I followed any heading between 355 and 005 degrees I would end up on the beach where rescue would happen. I made the beach and was a passenger on a M151 that took me back to Ft. Sherman. Wait, Air Force pilots can bail out WITH a handbook? Man I joined the wrong branch!!!

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