Survival Acronyms To Keep You Focused and Alive

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. 

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M.O.S.T.T.T.

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M = Mission (Why must you survive?)

• How do you benefit?

• Who else benefits?

• What will be the impact of a bug out bag that's needed and saves your life/

• What are the spiritual; benefits to you and others?

• What are the mental benefits to you and others?

O = Operation (Where can you survive?

• What are the strengths and weaknesses of your location?

• What are the opportunities and threats to your location?

• How can the strengths and opportunities be optimized and the weaknesses and threat minimized?

S = Strategy (What will it take for you to survive?)

• What changes do you see taking place?

• What problems or threats are these changes creating?

• What new opportunities exist within those problems?

• what other gaps, conflicts or opportunities do you see opening from the changes?

• What countermoves can you make to seize the opportunities?

• What countermoves can you make to avoid problems or threats?

• If the problems and threats are unavoidable, how do you handle them?

T = Tactics (How will you survive?)

• Interaction with others?

• Isolation from others?

• Shaping actions that create or preserve your situation?

• Decisive actions designed to accomplish a specific goal?

• Eliminate or removal of a threat?

• Integrate with someone else?

• Negate a problem?

T = Tools (What do I need to survive?)

• S- Shelter, seeds & silver

• W - Water, weapons, & weather

• A - Awareness, Ammo, & First Aid

• G - Gold, Guns, & Gardens

T = Techniques (What must you do to survive?)

• Daily to do's

• Activities

• Work plans

• How to's

• Actions

• Tasks

• Steps

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S.T.O.P

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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.

• T - think clearly and positively

• O - Observe your surrounding and others around you

• 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

• S - Size up your situation

• U - Use your senses. What do you see, hear, smell, feel, taste?

• R - Remember where you are and don't rely upon others to do it for you.

• V - Vanquish fear and panic. Use STOP.

• I - Improvise, what do you have on hand to use?

• V- Value living, don't give up.

• A - Act like a native, blend in.

• 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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