This comprehensive new edition of the U.S. Army Survival Manual, issued by the Department of the Army and thoroughly revised by Colonel Peter T. Underwood USMC (Ret), is ideal for military personnel and all outdoors enthusiasts. From the psychology of survival and basic medicine to personal camouflage and signaling techniques, this essential resource provides all the information you need to survive.
Colonel Peter T. Underwood, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret), holds a BA from the Virginia Military Institute, an MA in history from Duke University, an MA in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College, and is also a graduate of the Air Command and Staff College and the Armed Forces Staff College. His career has included multiple assignments in the Far East and Europe, and he is a veteran of Operations Desert Shield/Desert Storm, Desert Fox, and Southern Watch. His staff assignments have been at the battalion, regimental, air group, division, component command, and unified command levels. He commanded MEU Service Support Group-31, 31st MEU, and Multi-Commodity Maintenance Center, Albany, Georgia. He has also served as a history instructor at the U.S. Naval Academy and as Professor of Strategy at the U.S. Naval War College. He currently works as an independent consultant and lives in Norfolk, Virginia.