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| Introduction | |
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| SEAL Mindset and Survival Psychology | |
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| Expand Your Comfort Zone | |
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| Increase Your Physical Toughness | |
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| Increase Your Mental Toughness | |
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| Mental Preparation | |
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| Emergency Conditioning | |
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| Visualization | |
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| Rehearsal | |
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| Muscle Memory | |
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| Create a Trigger | |
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| Violence of Action | |
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| Situational Awareness | |
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| Composure Under Pressure | |
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| Combat Breathing | |
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| Checklists | |
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| Use the Rule of Three | |
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| Long-Haul Survival | |
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| Survival Scenarios | |
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| Abandon Ship | |
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| What to Do When Boarding a Ship or Boat | |
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| What to Do When a Ship Is Taking On Water | |
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| Abandoning Ship | |
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| Mayday | |
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| Going into the Water | |
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| Active Shooter | |
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| Active-Shooter Incidents | |
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| Police Response Time | |
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| Situational Awareness: Exits, Cover, People | |
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| Once a Shooting Begins 0 Reverse 911 | |
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| Movement Techniques | |
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| Bullet Penetration | |
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| Decoys | |
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| Moving as a Group | |
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| Set an Ambush | |
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| Encountering Law Enforcement | |
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| Airplane Crash | |
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| Preflight Preparation | |
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| Where to Sit | |
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| Gathering Intelligence on Your Plane | |
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| Situational Awareness on the Plane | |
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| Impact Brace Positions | |
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| Postimpact | |
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| Finding the Best Exit | |
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| What to Do Once You're Out | |
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| Animal Attack | |
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| Dogs | |
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| Black Bears | |
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| Brown Bears | |
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| Polar Bears | |
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| Mountain Lions | |
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| Auto Accident | |
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| Seat Belts | |
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| Air Bags | |
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| Other Safety Features and Precautions | |
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| Avoiding and Minimizing Accidents | |
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| Four O'clock and Eight O'clock Hand Positions | |
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| Tire Blowouts | |
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| Postaccident Actions | |
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| Biochemical Attack | |
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| History | |
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| Early Signs | |
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| How to Protect Yourself and Escape | |
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| Improvised Gas Mask | |
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| Shelter In | |
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| If You've Been Exposed | |
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| Bomb | |
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| Car Bomb | |
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| Situational Awareness | |
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| Individual Precautions for Community Safety | |
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| Structural Safety | |
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| IED and Booby Trap | |
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| Suicide Bombers | |
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| If a Bomb Detonates | |
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| Bridge Collapse | |
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| Crumbling Infrastructure | |
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| Bracing for Impact | |
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| How to Escape a Submerged Vehicle | |
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| On the Surface | |
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| Burglary and Robbery | |
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| Crime Facts | |
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| Prevention | |
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| Point of Entry | |
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| Being a Good Neighbor | |
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| Neighborhood Watches | |
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| Exterior Lighting | |
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| Doors and Locks | |
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| Windows | |
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| Interior Lighting | |
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| Alarms | |
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| Dogs | |
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| When a Burglary Happens | |
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| When a Robbery Happens | |
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| Encountering the Invader | |
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| Convenience Store and Bank Robberies | |
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| Carjacking | |
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| Being Alert | |
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| Typical Strategies Carjackers Use | |
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| The Bump and Jump | |
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| The Good Samaritan | |
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| The Ruse | |
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| The Trap | |
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| Surprise Attack | |
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| Prevention | |
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| During a Carjacking | |
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| When a Carjacking Becomes an Abduction | |
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| Carjacked as a Passenger | |
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| Locked in Your Trunk | |
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| Earthquake | |
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| Secure the Compound | |
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| If You Are Outdoors | |
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| If You Are in a Vehicle | |
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| If You Are Inside | |
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| Drop, Cover, and Hold On | |
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| Triangle of Life | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Buried in Rubble | |
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| Tapping | |
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| Elevator Emergency | |
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| Situational Awareness | |
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| Elevator Entrapment | |
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| Free Fall | |
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| Falling Through Ice | |
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| Going In | |
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| Swimming Out | |
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| Rolling Out | |
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| Stop and Save It | |
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| If You Are a Bystander | |
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| Fighting | |
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| Prefight | |
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| Commanding Presence 'Distance | |
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| The Fight | |
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| Protect Your Face | |
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| Stay On Your Feet | |
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| Hit Hard | |
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| Vulnerable Points on the Body | |
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| Punches | |
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| Palm Strikes | |
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| Feet | |
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| Elbows | |
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| Knees | |
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| Chokeholds | |
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| Thumb Drops | |
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| If They Have a Knife or a Gun | |
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| Final Note on Fighting | |
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| Fire: Forests, Buildings, Homes | |
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| Situational Awareness: Know Your Risk | |
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| Outdoor Fire Threats | |
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| Preparation Checklists | |
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| Building and House Fires | |
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| Renters | |
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| What to Do in a Fire | |
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| Flash Flood, Flooding, and Tsunami | |
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| During a Flood | |
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| Aftermath of a Flood | |
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| Tsunami | |
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| Know Your Location | |
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| Animal Behaviors | |
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| Foot Pursuit and Being Chased | |
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| Mindset | |
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| Use Your Environment | |
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| Gang Violence | |
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| Wrong Place, Wrong Time | |
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| Distance and De-escalation | |
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| Punch and Run: Fight and Flight | |
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| Hijacking | |
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| Before You Board | |
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| Settling Into Your Seat | |
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| Observe Your Passengers | |
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| Air Marshals | |
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| Assess the Hijacker | |
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| Charge! | |
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| Improvised Weapons | |
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| Explosives | |
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| Search, Handle, Restrain | |
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| The Outside World's Response | |
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| Home Invasion | |
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| Tiger Kidnapping | |
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| Prevention and Rehearsal | |
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| Safe Rooms | |
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| When Violence Comes | |
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| SERE (Survive, Evade, Resist, Escape) | |
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| How to Escape Restraints | |
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| Alerting Others | |
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| Hurricane and Tornado | |
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| Hurricane Preparation | |
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| When to Evacuate | |
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| Holding Your Position | |
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| Caught Outside | |
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| It's Not Over Yet | |
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| Tornado Survival | |
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| Jail | |
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| Jail Types and Stats | |
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| Mental Preparation | |
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| Just Locked Up | |
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| What Not to Do | |
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| Violence Behind Bars | |
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| Be Good | |
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| Lightning | |
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| Know the Enemy | |
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| Targets | |
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| The 30/30 Rule | |
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| Action Checklist | |
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| Lost at Sea | |
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| Survival Priorities | |
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| Staying Afloat | |
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| Retaining Heat | |
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| Avoiding Sunstroke | |
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| Getting Water | |
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| Getting Food | |
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| Signaling | |
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| Raft Survival | |
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| Sea-Induced Delusions | |
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| The Long Haul | |
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| Shark Attack | |
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| Lost in the Desert | |
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| Survival Priorities | |
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| Shade | |
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| Finding Water | |
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| Building a Solar Still | |
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| Types of Shelters | |
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| Walking Out | |
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| Lost in the Frozen Mountains | |
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| Survival Priorities | |
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| Finding Shelter | |
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| Building a Quinze | |
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| Starting and Maintaining a Fire | |
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| Dry Clothing | |
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| Getting Water | |
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| Getting Food | |
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| Trapping | |
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| Lichen | |
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| Moving and Navigation | |
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| Improvised Compasses | |
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| Nuclear Attack | |
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| How a Bomb Works | |
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| EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) | |
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| How to React | |
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| Materials That Protect from Radiation | |
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| Avoiding Radiation by Sheltering In | |
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| Avoiding Radiation by Outrunning It | |
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| Decontamination | |
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| Pandemic | |
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| Methods of Transmission | |
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| Preventing Infection | |
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| Pandemic in Effect | |
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| Disruption of Services | |
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| Minimum Food Essentials | |
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| Your Crew | |
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| When You're the Sick One | |
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| Sickroom | |
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| Homemade Protective Gear | |
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| Handling the Dead | |
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| Riots and Stampedes | |
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| Awareness of Likelihood | |
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| If You Are in a Riot | |
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| If You Live in an Area Where Riots Are Occurring | |
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| Stampedes | |
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| Road Rage: Defensive and Evasive Driving | |
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| Letting Go of Anger on the Road | |
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| Defensive Driving: Expect the Worst | |
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| Evasive Driving | |
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| Basic Techniques for a High-Speed Chase | |
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| Advanced Techniques | |
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| Y-Turas | |
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| J-Turns | |
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| Barricade Breaching | |
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| Being Rammed | |
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| Driver Down | |
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| Search and Rescue | |
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| Step Up and Help! | |
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| Gear Up | |
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| Going In | |
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| Marking Your Results | |
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| Extracting Survivors | |
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| Levers | |
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| Cribbing and Shoring | |
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| Stalker and Surveillance Detection | |
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| Stalking Stats | |
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| If You Are Being Followed | |
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| Change Your Routine | |
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| Surveillance Detection Route | |
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| Ambush | |
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| Torture and Being Held Hostage | |
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| Torture's Many Forms | |
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| Why Me? | |
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| Accepting Your Situation | |
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| Stress Management | |
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| Time | |
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| Thoughts of Escape | |
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| Become the Gray Man | |
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| Managing the Pain | |
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| Give Something vs. Give Nothing | |
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| Trouble in a Foreign Country | |
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| Before You Go | |
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| Friendly Embassies | |
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| Avoid Trouble | |
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| In Trouble | |
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| On the Run | |
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| Part Three: Gear and Improvised Weapons | |
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| Gear | |
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| Go Bag Essentials | |
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| Go Bag Advanced | |
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| Firearms | |
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| Thoughts on Firearms | |
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| What Weapon Is Best? | |
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| Basic Firearm Operation and Safety | |
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| Improvised Weapons | |
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| Survival Medicine | |
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| Step Up and Help! | |
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| Casualty Assessment | |
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| Get into Action | |
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| Initial Assessment | |
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| Triage | |
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| Immediate Priorities for Treating the Injured | |
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| ABC (Airway, Breathing, Circulation) | |
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| Rescue Breathing | |
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| CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) | |
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| Stopping the Bleeding | |
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| Dressing the Wound | |
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| Tourniquets | |
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| Protecting Wounds | |
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| Fractures | |
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| Dislocations | |
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| Transporting the Injured | |
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| Shock | |
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| Causes | |
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| Prevention and Treatment | |
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| Heat Injuries | |
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| Dehydration | |
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| Heat Cramps | |
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| Heat Exhaustion | |
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| Heatstroke | |
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| Cold Injuries | |
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| Hypothermia | |
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| Frostbite | |
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| Trench Foot | |
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| Trench Foot | |
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| Choking | |
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| How to Help Someone Who's Choking | |
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| If You Are Alone and Choking | |
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| If the Victim Is Unconscious | |
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| Burns | |
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| Burn Types | |
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| Short-term Treatment | |
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| Long-term Treatment | |
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| Bites and Stings | |
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| Bees and Wasps | |
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| Spiders and Scorpions | |
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| Snakes | |
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| Acknowledgments | |