My only memorable experience was a desert survival "exercise". The USAF dropped off about 8 of us in the desert somewhere around Fort Huachuca AZ. We had knives, tent shelters, shovels, plastic for solar stills, a radio, and some meds. We made it for 10 days; or at least 6 of us did. The others were evaced out. The summertime temps was in the 130's. We ate some interesting things that we foraged. We all lost a little bit of weight but had been pretty carefully selected. I started out at 135 pounds and only lost about 5 pounds. We kept wondering why we were doing it.
The 6 day war between Israel and neighbors started about 60 days later. We were guinea pigs.
Last edited by Dave Davidson1; 11/11/13 09:13 PM.
