Preparedness You Can Hold

Army Combat Fitness Test, Initial Operation Capability establishes the Army’s doctrine for the physical testing of Soldiers. It presents a summary of exercise and equipment options and performance optimization techniques.

Boobytraps: FM 5-31 is the official Department of the Army field manual originally published in 1965 during the height of the Vietnam War. We have re-formatted and re-published this book for today’s audience. This heavily illustrated book…

Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making was first published in 1881. The book is a complete, illustrated guide revealing how to catch everything from bears to squirrels and mice. There is general advice on camping…

Civil Disturbances provides discussion and techniques about civil disturbances and crowd control operations that occur inside and outside the continental United States. United States (U.S.) forces deploy in support of unified action…

This is the 2008 in-depth report to Congress on the threat to the United States from an EMP. They conducted tests on equipment and vehicles and project what would happen if the U.S. was subjected to an EMP. Chapters include Electric Power…

The TEOTWAWKI Tuxedo (The End Of The World As We Know It), focuses on personal equipment designed for security and defense, a subject that can be daunting to beginning preppers. The book provides no-nonsense guidance on how to dress and…

Two books in one! The Complete Military Working Dog Manual combines the U.S. Military’s Dog Training Handbook and U.S. Army’s Guide to Veterinary Care of Military Working Dogs into one book. This is a way for the dog owner who is…

Membership in the Naval Special Warfare (NSW) community requires an extraordinarily high level of total body physical fitness. A combination of muscular strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness is essential to carry out assigned…