Episode 67 S2-32
Survival Acronyms To Keep You Focused and Alive
Featuring:
Without Land Ch 32
Special Guest:
Your Host: Sara F. Hathaway

M.O.S.T.T.T.
This is an acronym from Zachery Carver, a fellow survival author. You can find Zachery at the Survivalist Victory Garden page on Facebook. I am a Pinterest.com lover and I find and share a ton of useful information on this site. I found Zachery's acronym there and immediately saw it's usefulness not just for my novel but for my own preparations as well. It is a unique acronym that focuses more on the tactical applications of survival rather than the basics.
M.O.S.T.T.T.
M = Mission (Why must you survive?)
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How do you benefit?
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Who else benefits?
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What will be the impact of a bug out bag that's needed and saves your life/
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What are the spiritual; benefits to you and others?
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What are the mental benefits to you and others?
O = Operation (Where can you survive?
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What are the strengths and weaknesses of your location?
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What are the opportunities and threats to your location?
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How can the strengths and opportunities be optimized and the weaknesses and threat minimized?
S = Strategy (What will it take for you to survive?)
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What changes do you see taking place?
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What problems or threats are these changes creating?
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What new opportunities exist within those problems?
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what other gaps, conflicts or opportunities do you see opening from the changes?
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What countermoves can you make to seize the opportunities?
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What countermoves can you make to avoid problems or threats?
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If the problems and threats are unavoidable, how do you handle them?
T = Tactics (How will you survive?)
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Interaction with others?
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Isolation from others?
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Shaping actions that create or preserve your situation?
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Decisive actions designed to accomplish a specific goal?
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Eliminate or removal of a threat?
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Integrate with someone else?
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Negate a problem?
T = Tools (What do I need to survive?)
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S- Shelter, seeds & silver
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W - Water, weapons, & weather
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A - Awareness, Ammo, & First Aid
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G - Gold, Guns, & Gardens
T = Techniques (What must you do to survive?)
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Daily to do's
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Activities
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Work plans
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How to's
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Actions
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Tasks
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Steps
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Purchase Zachery Carver's book: The Bug Out Bag List
S.T.O.P
Another one of my favorite acronyms is from James Hart's book Wilderness and Urban Survival, Emergency Preparedness and I use this all the time. Although this acronym comes from a survival
manual it is a tool that should be applied to daily life: just STOP!
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S - stop moving, sit down and relax.
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T - think clearly and positively
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O - Observe your surrounding and others around you
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P - Plan a course of action
S.U.R.V.I.V.A.L.
The other acronym that I rely upon is from the Army Manual and is more comprehensive that the STOP acronym but more suited for a survival situation whether that be urban or wilderness:
SURVIVAL
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S - Size up your situation
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U - Use your senses. What do you see, hear, smell, feel, taste?
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R - Remember where you are and don't rely upon others to do it for you.
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V - Vanquish fear and panic. Use STOP.
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I - Improvise, what do you have on hand to use?
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V- Value living, don't give up.
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A - Act like a native, blend in.
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L - Live by your wits but for now learn your basic skills.
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Make sure you take some notes and keep these acronyms fresh in your mind. They can help you reduce stress on a daily basis and may save your backside in a survival situation.
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