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When Your Loved Ones Get Hurt or Killed
December 28th, 2013 
SELCO 
Posted in Get Your Mind Right, Ways of the Warrior 
Comments Off on When Your Loved Ones Get Hurt or KilledConsequences of Killing in Post Collapse World Few People Think About
December 8th, 2013 SELCO Some three years ago the wife and kid of my friend were driving in the car, and on some intersection they hit another car. It was very small accident, both cars were driving very slowly and they only scratched cars. In other car there were 4 pretty drunk guys and they immediately jumped out of […]
Posted in Get Your Mind Right, Ways of the Warrior Comments Off on Consequences of Killing in Post Collapse World Few People Think AboutMy Budget Bug Out Bag
April 30th, 2013 SELCO Some call it 72 hour bag, Get Out Of Dodge Bag, Get Back Home Bag or however. Making the perfect bug out bag definitely can mean difference between life and death, and there are many philosophies about what should be in it and what not. This is my take on it. It is a budget […]
Posted in BOB (Bug Out Bag), Self Sufficiency, What Do You Need? Comments Off on My Budget Bug Out BagYou Survived But Are You Dead Inside?
April 7th, 2013 SELCO In last article I wrote about surviving combat and how I experienced it during my year in war. Today I write about the aftermath. Survival is not only hard on your body but can also kill you inside. So you survive but you are just empty shell. You all heard of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress […]
Posted in Get Your Mind Right, Recovery & Surviving (Getting Through It) Comments Off on You Survived But Are You Dead Inside?The Reality of Combat
March 26th, 2013 SELCO When SHTF nobody told me how hard is gonna be and what things I will have to do to survive, there was no training or simulations, through most of the stuff I was going for the first time in my life, and I was hoping it is only temporary situation, it is not going to […]
Posted in Get Your Mind Right, Recovery & Surviving (Getting Through It) Comments Off on The Reality of CombatThree Typical Reactions to Survival Scenarios
March 16th, 2013 SELCO Dealing with everyday problems when SHTF meant that you have to face whole new set of situations, from how to “take shower” with few liters of water to how to use pure violence when violence was not part of your life before. As I mentioned many times people used to find all kind of solutions […]
Posted in Get Your Mind Right, Recovery & Surviving (Getting Through It), Types of Survivalists Comments Off on Three Typical Reactions to Survival Scenarios10 Rules for Trading in Long Term Survival Scenarios
December 29th, 2012 SELCO All of us rely on our skills when SHTF. So we all hope that we can cover all of major skills that can lead us trough all basic needs in order to survive. So we choose to learn lot of things, how to fight , how to can, how to grow food, how to heal […]
Posted in Get Your Mind Right, What Do You Need? Comments Off on 10 Rules for Trading in Long Term Survival ScenariosHow to Help Kids Through Hard Times
December 16th, 2012 SELCO The terrible shooting in US that put 27 people to death, mostly six and seven year old children made me write this post. There is much controversial stuff. Media outrage about gun laws instead more talk about media making people like the Aurora shooter to some kind of celebrity, that inspires other people to go […]
Posted in Recovery & Surviving (Getting Through It), Women & Children Comments Off on How to Help Kids Through Hard TimesWhat Light and Darkness Meant for Us
September 17th, 2012 SELCO I remember when all was over, and electricity came back in street. We managed to repair some installations and wires inside house and lights go on. We were quiet for couple of minutes staring at the light bulbs like some tribe from Amazon that sees light bulbs for a first time. And then one of […]
Posted in Recovery & Surviving (Getting Through It), Security Comments Off on What Light and Darkness Meant for UsSurvival of Women During SHTF
April 9th, 2012 SELCO I spoke with first woman named Una, now 52 (so in her 30s back then) who took care of her family during that time. I asked JL to send me some questions she had on her mind and she did. If you have more women specific questions write in comments. I recorded interview and translated […]