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I used to say prep talks. So I want to first line out how I got into the field. Two, talk about what you can do to become more prepared based on my opinion, some philosophy on preparedness as a whole and then three, what the future looks like in educating you on the subject matter. I started in the preparedness field 11 years ago, 2015. I was in a shipping container in Pakistan, my chew where I lived and I was working for the agency at the time. And I thought to myself like I need to get out of this. I need something different with my life. I also want to start a family. Just being selfish. I wanted to have kids. Survival was my favorite genre out of all the genres, Tactical first aid, communications, survival was my favorite. I volunteered for every survival course I could go to, obviously as part of my pipeline. Crc, Survive, Escape, resist, evade. That was part of my protocol. But it was a glimpse into a world that I felt was most applicable to people. I did peacetime detention, covert communication, surreptitious entry operator, advanced course where we learned about homemade explosives and tactical interrogation. All this subject matter, breaking into cars and acquiring vehicles and all this stuff that was in the survival realm. I was most interested in it because it changed my mindset. It wasn't just a block of instruction on self defense or operations. It was something that changed my view of the world around me. Survival school High Risk C was very impactful as it was built off a green beret named Nick Rowe, colonel in Vietnam and his own personal experiences. Study and play come together on a Windows 11 PC and for a limited time, college students get the best of both worlds. Get the unreal college deal Everything you need to study and play with select Windows 11 PCs. Eligible students get a year of Microsoft 365 Premium and a year of Xbox game Pass ultimate with a custom color Xbox wireless controller. Learn more@windows.com studentoffer while supplies last ends June 30 terms@ aka mscollegepc he wrote a book about it called Five Years to Freedom, where he was captured and held in captivity as a prisoner of war by the Viet Cong for five years before he escaped. One of 17 men to escape captivity in the entire Vietnam War. When he came back, he started the schoolhouse and the requirement for us to be trained and how to operate behind enemy lines, how to escape the enemy, how to survive and how to deal with captivity detention. When I came out of that school, I was changed. It did change my mindset because I realized the stakes were high. This wasn't just a game of running around in the woods with blank adapters and playing against a fake enemy. An OP4. The consequences of getting caught, of not understanding the technical or tactical execution of surviving this kind of scenario meant death. It meant like the worst case scenario. So the question for me in that shipping container was, what am I going to do with the rest of my life? Sure, I could teach flat range. I've trained plenty of people across the world, really. But is that what I want to do now? That's what I had to do because that's where the popularity is. You see, when I started talking about preparedness, this idea of preparedness, I was criticized. What is this guy doing teaching civilians how to stop the bleed? They don't need to know how to apply a tourniquet. Oh, why not? Like, why would you not know how to apply the tourniquet? I'm not teaching you how to build a hot rod in your garage. This isn't very technical. You're not a rocket scientist. This isn't very hard to learn. I can teach you in three minutes how to apply a tourniquet. It's. The genre was not prepared for civilians, the civilian world, because it was just new. Survival in general was Bushcraft. Primitive survival. You said survival and it was like, oh, you mean you're going to go in the woods and a loincloth and learn how to rub sticks together naked and afraid in the wood? No, no, no, no, no. We're doing modern survival now. Nothing against primitive survival skill sets Bushcraft, but it's very different Coming from an operational background, yeah, sure technically you should understand primitive skill sets doing that thing. But there are a whole bunch of probabilities, statistical probabilities that are more likely to happen that you need to know. And also this idea of worst case scenario in combat is similar to the scenario that a civilian should be prepared for in a natural or man made situation. The tornado, the hurricane, the wildfire, the flood, the active scenario, I can't even say it by the way, if you want to follow my Patreon, it's linked down below where we do underground content doing breakouts this week on situational awareness, for example. And you can support the channel that way by subbing. I'll link it down below. But I thought to myself, why is so many people against this idea? Early on I predicted the pandemic, I talked about it, I said this is what you need to do to be prepared. And everybody came out of the woodwork with all the comments, fear mongering. And then it happened and everybody was like, oh. Some people even went back to that original post and deleted it, their comments because they were embarrassed. The reality is our world as we revolve around the sun continues to change and it doesn't become safer, became comes more complicated and potentially more dangerous. We have to understand how to operate in that environment. Now I'm not just talking about the bad guy scenario at the gas station two in the morning. What I'm talking about is a general understanding of how to survive in life, period. Where it starts spiritually, like my faith in God, my love and faith of God and in Jesus Christ is the foundation for everything that I do in preparedness. Because without that foundation set, everything else would be offset and falling off. I want it to be built on a solid foundation. So faith is the baseline. My personal health and wellness, my relationship with my family, all those elements are stacked in this pyramid of preparedness, Technical skill sets, mindset, they're all in there, but at the base it's my faith, my family. When I think about how I started to shape the world of preparedness to make it more simple to understand, it started with research. Now I didn't have AI. I wish I had AI at the time because it would have made it easier. But I read a lot of books. One of those books was Survival Psychology by John Leach, a survival psychologist who looked at catastrophes. And he made a lot of assumptions and his thesis on understanding why certain people live and why certain people die in these catastrophes, he came up with this 108010 rule where 10% on top of the population survive, they adapt, they have critical thinking skills under pressure, under stress. And then you have like a bottom 10% where they always perish. They make the mistakes and they're always there. There's always people live and there's always people that perish. And then in between it's 80%, half and half, 40% of the top somehow make it because they make the right decision. But some of them don't make the right decision. The bottom line is there was a breakdown of this. And I thought to myself, translating this into an actual course, how could I make people the top 10% that could critically think through scenarios? So I had to formulate a training protocol process. One of the first classes that I started with was this course called Ops, Observe, Prepare, survive. And the idea was I put people through this stressful scenario where I took them in a car, we reversed, we did a j turn, we went down into this little scenario and we did this shooting. Now I was the shooter, they were just observing. And after their adrenaline was spiked through the roof. And then I said, by the end of this course, you're going to go through what we just experienced, except you're going to be the shooter, you're going to be the one in the, in the hot seat. You're going to have to j turn, you're going to have to go down, you're going to have to get through the shooting scenario. And they were like, what? I have to do this? Yes. How do we do it? Well, there's a protocol called isolate, rehearse, repeat. I taught this when I was in Special Operations when I would teach a host nation cqb, for example, close quarters battle is a collective culminative, common core task, meaning there's several people. And you go through this culmination scenario where there's a lot of specific technical things happening at once. For example, you go up to the breach point, there's a whole breaching block of instruction, there's an isolation on breaching. What kind of tools are we going to use? We're going to use a Halligan. We're going to use a breach, a breaching tool. Are we going to use ballistic? Are we going to use explosive? Is the hinges on one side or the other? Is the knob turning? What kind of locking mechanism in it? All of these things are very technical. We need to isolate them, we need to rehearse them until we've optimized and then we need to repeat that optimization to commit it to muscle memory. And then when we do that. We need to break out all these individual skill sets and then culminate them back together after we've isolated them. So that's what I did. We isolated the J turn, we isolated the defensive driving, we isolated the shooting scenario. And then we rehearsed it, optimized it, and repeated it until we were experts at it. Well, you're not gonna be experts in a day, but generally you understood how to get through the scenario. And then we ran it and then the mindset was like people where they went, I will never be able to do this. This is impossible to isolating, practicing, repeating it, committing it to memory and then doing it. They're like, whoa. So that's the process. The process is, this isn't that hard. It's why special operators could fast rope on top of a building and not be consumed with adrenaline because they're conditioning themselves for the specific technical skill required and culminating under pressure, under stress. And that's the key, because anybody on a flat range could sub second draw on a target in front of them. But can you do that against an adversary and an opposition force that could shoot back? Can you do that in real life against a real person that's trying to take yours? That is the ultimate validation is yeah, we could train technical skills, but doing so under pressure, under adrenaline, under cortisol and stress, that's the testament to validate your technical skills. So we need to create that protocol. So we did look flat range work, the, the edc, the self defense course, the home defense course, very popular, but not more probable than for example, stop the bleed. But it's all important. Situational awareness, technical skill sets, all these elements are equally as important. It's like writing off primitive survival. Sure, you could do that, but I would rather have an open mind and be exposed to as much as possible to learn. Which brings me to the point that all of this philosophically requires you to have a mindset that preparedness is a lifestyle. It is not a part time hobby. This is not something you do part time on the weekends. You are not in the National Guard of preparedness. You have to be on active duty, you have to be proactive, you have to live this life. So at base, what does it mean? Well, foundationally, I think you having faith and a relationship with God is the start point. You having a relationship with your family where you can communicate to them, you could be vulnerable to them, you could teach them imperative and then you having a mindset that, for example, your health and wellness, your fitness, taking care of yourself, not Consuming alcohol. You're, you're going to be an operator in this. That's what you are. See, an operator isn't specifically an expert at one thing. They're great at all things. They're the jack of all trades. They need to know how to plan, how to execute, how to technically be proficient. But they also need to be humble, have empathy, be intelligent, critically think through strategy and circumstance. So it's not just a definitive specific niche and role. You have to generalize this and turn it into a culture. This is what I try to do with Fieldcraft Survival now on Fieldcraft Survival coming full circle. I am coming back. I'm actually am back. Fieldcraft couldn't survive on its own. I'm sure there's people who are listening to this that are curious about it. I'm still working through the legal administrative process, but I'm basically going to reacquire the assets because the alternative is it dies and my baby is not going to die. I started Fieldcraft by myself in that shipping container in Pakistan. I didn't do it for money. I did it because it brought me profound purpose in teaching people. And when people were reaching out saying, hey man, I had a Philcraft survival kit or first aid kit and I survived. I actually thrived in my environment. Hey, you taught me situational awareness and this situation happened and I was able to get through it. Hey, I went to your decision point class and I learned self defense and was in a self defense scenario and I got through it. That's what drove me. So I won't let this die now. It's going to change. Feelcraft Outpost is not Feelcraft Survival because Philcraft Survival has actually been dissolved. It is Philcraft Outpost. But Outpost is going to have experts like Clint Emerson, the subject matter expert in all realms of preparedness that I highly respect. Eight books, books that I have in in my cabinet that are very important to understand from that perspective. Teaching you via content on YouTube. In fact, please follow that YouTube channel. I'll link it down below. It's Phil craft survival on YouTube and subscribe. So when we live this as a lifestyle, the things we do matter, right? Our mindset matters. We don't haphazardly go into life situations winging it. We're just more deliberate. Now. A lot of people who don't understand this field think we're paranoid. They're like, oh, look at these, these tinfoil hat paranoid people. I'm not paranoid at all. In fact, all the gaps in which I would be paranoid are filled with with technical skills, understanding and education. My mindset's different, which makes me more prepared, which makes me more confident. So take out fear and impending doom and insert confidence in yourself, in the situation. That's the key. But it starts with you. If I'm stacking the deck here, God, family, health and wellness. In your situation, you need to be healthy and well for yourself in order to be capable. If you're looking down at your gut and you're like, how did this happen? That's the first recognition of self awareness to bring profound change. That's what we need in our lives, accountability, self awareness. Because, look, I don't want you to be perfect. I'm not perfect. I'm far from it. But I'm constantly thriving to be better than I was before. The man I am today is not the man I was a year ago. I'm improving. Do I make mistakes? Yes. But do I self critique and evolve and adapt? For sure. And that's a preparedness mindset. That's a preparedness lifestyle. So at baseline, what are things that you could do? Well, one, you can have the conversation with your family, like, hey, we're changing our lifestyle. Two, you can operate the outdoors and get more in line with recreating, especially in the outdoors, because it prepares you for these catastrophes and circumstances, because of your willingness to be able to operate and thrive in the outdoors. What do you mean by that, Mike? Well, here's a. Here's an easy example. I like to overland and off road the family. I like to be isolated in the middle of the woods with my family, exploring, mushroom hunting. Being in the outdoors is healthy for me and my family. Well, to do that, I need to be prepared. The off road vehicle I'm in has to be able to get to our destination. I want contingencies and navigation and communications. I want to have a first aid kit because if something happens when we're isolated, that matters. My sleep situation, my food, my water, my supplies, the planning, the navigation, all these elements I have to prepare for in advance to live that life. The more you operate the outdoors, the more likely you are prepared for that circumstance that happens once in a blue moon. The three elements of this that I've lined out for Fieldcraft Outpost are mobility, adventure and preparedness. Mobility, why? At baseline, we spend a lot of lives in our vehicles. It's one of my favorite recreational activities. But also you're around your vehicles as a lifeline for a lot of things. You have to get in your vehicle to get logistics, to get groceries, to get gas, to get, to get resupplied, to bug out, to bug in, to move, to be safe, to be secure. So it's an important aspect of this lifestyle adventure. Operate the outdoors. This is not just about being in a mobile home with antennas all over it in the middle of Baghdad, Arizona. I don't want you to live that life. I want you to adventure life and thrive. And when you do that, by default you are preparing yourself for the catastrophe and preparedness overall. All the things that I talk about, fire, water, shelter, necessities, but also modern survival, situational awareness, SDRs, bugging in, bugging out. So if you follow into this lifestyle then the next question is how do I learn more? Well one, you can follow my Patreon. I'll educate you there. I have lots of content that are there. 2 subscribe to Fieldcraft Survival's YouTube and also all the things that we do and go on longhaulsupplycompany.com and I'll link that down below so you could actually add yourself to my email. I'm going to be doing about two emails a week on this field of expertise in educating you with pro tips from the experts, from Clint Emerson's of the world, from Green Beret, buddies of mines, who's going to educate you and and then join along. It's a fun world, the world of preparedness. It can be toxic, there's plenty of toxic people. But just keep the fundamentals in mind. This isn't complicated, doesn't have to be scary. It could be completely fun and let me know like in the comments. What's your favorite part of preparedness? Do you like the Bushcraft? Do you like the combo? Do you like the loadout? I love the loadout mobility. It's one of my favorite things because it's so satisfying to like lay things out, load it out, go on the adventure and then live through that experience. Like I was so prepared because I had all the things or here's some deficiencies and next time I'm going to make sure I don't make that mistake. That whole process is magical. It's my favorite realm. Obviously I'm passionate about it and I wrote a book about it, prepared a manual for surviving worst case scenarios. You can check it out in the links down below. Also, there's 48 hours left. Actually less than 48 hours, 36 hours left. Carnival got into Amazon. Congrats because you and I helped Carnival get there, but they had to buy up a whole bunch of freeze dried beef, chicken and pork to hold an inventory in Amazon warehouses. Because of that they have an overstock of 25 year shelf life, 25 year shelf life beef, chicken and pork. In that they're giving back the savings to you guys because you're my followers. In the link down below you'll find this discounted meat for a limited time the next 36 hours. It ends Wednesday afternoon. You guys can get that deal and I'll link that deal in the description down below. I appreciate you guys. Thanks for listening to me run my suck about a genre I'm so passionate about and I hope you follow along in the journey with me. I'm excited about it. Philcraft Outpost Till next time. Peace out guys.