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Episode-906- Caleb Causey of Lone Star Medics

Posted on May 22, 2012 by Modern Survival| 1 Comment
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A Recent Training Exercise at Lone Star Medics

A Recent Training Exercise at Lone Star Medics

Caleb Causey is the owner and Director of Training for Lone Star Medics.  Caleb started his career riding out with Medstar ambulance services in Fort Worth Texas; as part of the Boy Scouts of America’s Explorer program at the age of 16. After high school he joined the U.S. Army as a Combat Medic.

Caleb has been deployed to various locations in the Balkans; where he has worked as a line medic with the 82nd Airborne and in the ER of the 212 MASH. He especially enjoyed his duty as an OPFOR Medic while stationed in Louisiana. After serving his country, Caleb joined the City of Benbrook’s Fire Department and served there as a volunteer Firefighter/EMT.

Over the next several years Caleb was involved with the department’s rescue dive team and worked as the Tactical Medic with local area SWAT team. Caleb also has worked with multiple Private Military/Security Companies as a Medic and as an Operator. Caleb completed Paramedic school in College Station, Texas. This is where he attained his American Heart Association’s BLS Instructor, Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support and Pediatric Advanced Life Support certifications, Heartsaver Instructor, and Emergency Medical Services Instructor for the state of Texas.

Caleb has proven to have a true passion for teaching medicine to people of all walks of life. Most of his classes are full of knowledge, experience, and laughter.  He joins us today to discuss the role of tactical medical training for the preparedness lifestyle.  After today you may see the phrase “tactical medical” in a new light as it doesn’t always involve bullets and an active shooter scenario.  Anytime there is a lack of support, an element of danger (natural or man made) and an imminent need for treatment, we can find ourselves in a “tactical situation”, which of course means it can happen any given day of the week.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-902- Sailing as a Prepper Skill Set

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Modern Survival| 31 Comments
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A Sail Boat might be the Ultimate BOV

A Sail Boat might be the Ultimate BOV

Franz is the founder of two websites on sailing, TravelTradeExchange.com and MedSailor.com and is in his words, 58 years young.  He lives in Salt Lake City UT and has been listening to The Survival Podcast since the first couple months and is proud to have all the episodes still on his iPod.  This means he is very familiar with and a part of our community.

He is also an expert sailor and holds a US Coast Guard Masters License.   In 1997 he sailed accross the Atlantic in a boat that he personally built.   He also built his own BOL (a home in the mountains)

Franz feels preppers can learn a lot about water, refrigeration and 12v electricity, food storage, medical emergencies and communications from small boat cruising sailors.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

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Episode-895- Will Bratton and Sam Bagot on Open Source Agriculture

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Modern Survival| 18 Comments
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Sam Bagot and Will Bratton are woking togehter on an open source agriculture project called horto domi.   Horto domi is an open hardware raised-bed garden unit with environmental control and monitoring via web-interface thanks to Arduino Ethernet. DIY sensors, such as those collecting moisture and temperature data help monitor the environment within the dome and will eventually be used to automate conditions.

The goal is to grow whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you are. Horto domi is Latin for ‘Garden at home.’ It’s a statement to healthful food independence, a “neo-renaissance” tip of the hat to Arduino, and it sounds like horticultural dome. Particular consideration was taken in this prototype’s design to maximize the mineral and nutrient value of the beyond-organic produce and minimize environmental contamination risks.

Sam and Will are looking for Kickstarter funding that will satisfy all the elements necessary for an open hardware publication per the definition provided by FreedomDefined.org/OSHW. However, with additional funding they will be able to pursue further open source innovation, development and publication. They hope our community will support their idea for using contemporary open technology to achieve relative food independence so that we may all better address the goal of individual and community self sufficiency.

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-894- Nurse Amy and Doctor Bones of DoomAndBloom.Net

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Modern Survival| 28 Comments
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This is "The Book" on Collapse and Survival Medicine

This is "The Book" on Collapse and Survival Medicine

Today on The Survival Podcast we are joined by Doctor Bones and Nurse Amy to discuss collapse medicine, everything from emergency dental needs, to creative ways to get antibiotics and natural healing along with their new book, The Doom and Bloom Survival Medicine Handbook

Dr. Bones was a practicing Board-Certified Fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology as well as a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons for many years.

Recently retired, Dr. Bones is drawing from his experience with the many hurricanes that plague his part of the country to put together a medical strategy for those who find themselves in a collapse situation.

Nurse Amy is a Certified Nurse Midwife and an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner for many years.  Also recently retired, Nurse Amy has devoted herself to urban homesteading with an emphasis on growing food and the re-learning of skills no longer commonly seen in a modern stetting.

Dr. Bones and Nurse Amy have a number of common interests that are in sync with the TSP Audience:   gardening, aquaculture, medical, world and U.S. history, and the collection of  medical and history books from The 19th century and earlier.  They maintain an extensive library on many subjects.  Both Nurse Amy and Dr. Bones are master gardeners for the state of Florida.  Nurse Amy has succeeded in having her property declared an official Butterfly  Sanctuary and a Certified Wildlife Habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

Dr. Bones has taught at local medical and nursing schools and is a member of MENSA.  He has been published in popular preparedness web sites and will have an article in a popular survival magazine later this year.

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Episode-892- Richard Morgan from GreatNorthernPrepper.com

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Modern Survival| 22 Comments
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Check Out GreatNorthernPrepper.com

Check Out GreatNorthernPrepper.com

Richard Morgan grew up in the arctic and later joined the Marine Corps completing two tours in Iraq. After leaving the Marines he contracted with a well known defense contracting agency for about three years in Afghanistan and Iraq.

During this time he became interested in the Prepping lifestyle after reading James Rawles’ books and spending time on a friend’s “remote military outpost” in northern New Mexico. After that experience Richard decided to approach prepping in same fashion until later when he stumbled upon a more even minded approach.

He soon discovered sensible prepping was about setting realistic goals, building on them with more knowledge, increasing self reliance supplies and above all teaching others so they could be be more prepared in a time of crisis.

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Episode-888- Carla Gericke from the Free State Project

Posted on April 25, 2012 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Carla Gericke - AKA Queen Quill at Porc Fest 2011

Carla Gericke - "Queen Quill" at Porc Fest 2011

Carla Gericke is also known as “Queen Quill” was born in the in the police state of South Africa and immigrated to California after winning a green card in a lottery.  She practiced law as in-house counsel at Fortune 500 companies in Silicon valley before redirecting her efforts to liberty activism and writing.

In 2008, Carla moved with her husband from New york City to New Hampshire.  In 2009-2012, Carla was the organizer of the Porcupine Freedom Festival, which grew significantly under her leadership.

When not wearing her Porcupine Crown, (in other words her day job), Carla is a Program Director for a NH based arts non profit company, where she also teaches writing.  Carla speaks and writes on liberty topics, and she is currently working on a book about the Free State Project.

She like cooking, traveling (less now that the TSA exists), yoga, keeping law enforcement accountable, voluntary monarchies and killing the occasional turkey with her bare hands.  We call her the Quill Queen because in addition to all of the above she is also the currently serving president of the Free State Project.

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-884- Brandon Shelton of Bella Medical Ministries

Posted on April 19, 2012 by Modern Survival| 25 Comments
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Brandon on Relief Work in Haiti

BELLA Ministries on Relief Work in Haiti

Brandon Shelton founded BELLA Medical Ministries after his first medical relief trip to Haiti immediately following the earthquake in Jan. 2010 that killed over 250,000+ men, women and children as well as left over 1 million homeless. BELLA’s core team is made up experienced Paramedics and Critical Care Paramedics who have either a prior military or LEO background. These prior life experiences enable them to adapt to the austere living/working conditions and unstable security situations that make up the disaster zones and areas of extreme poverty to which they deploy.

The BELLA teams (both in disaster deployments and larger follow up support missions) arrive in the operational area with the ability to be 100% self-sufficient (for 2 weeks) in the areas of food, water purification equipment, shelter, security & a large inventory of medicines/supplies. They do this so as not to be a burden on the already overwhelmed support systems and/or to their hosts. This self-sufficient model dovetails into the preparedness lifestyle very well.

BELLA’s founding members are all preppers and each deployment or follow up mission trip they do gives them the opportunity to test gear and skills that we have in their personal preparedness plans. Following an initial disaster deployment they return home with detailed reports that they deliver to local churches and other groups so that they can become involved in ongoing relief efforts by either sending supplies/funds that are needed or by having BELLA lead a team of their members back to the effected region.

Additional Resources for Today’s Show

Brandon’s Links

Special Note – I donated 100 dollars to Bella while doing this interview, I will donate 100 dollars more up for each 1000 dollars donated by TSP, Branden will let me know as the donations come in.  All in all if the community donates a total of 4,000 dollars I will add 500 to it making it a 4,500 dollar contribution.  If you guys will “like” their facebook page I will chip in another 100 dollars just for that.

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Episode-883- Victor Alfieri on the Urban Homesteading Movement

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Modern Survival| 46 Comments
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Vic Alfieri with His 3 Hens

Vic Alfieri with His 3 Hens

Victor Alfieri lives just 17 miles from New York City on a 1/4 acre lot but he hasn’t let that stop him from being a modern homesteader.  For Victor It all started after hurricane Katrina hit the gulf coast when he started to see things a little differently.   While he wasn’t directly effected by the hurricane it got him thinking about being more prepared.  He began researching the aftermath and to him there was one thing that stood out.

 No one was prepared not the general public, not the local government and certainly not the federal government.

Then a year or so later, he and his wife who both had financial business backgrounds began observing signs of bad times ahead. This put them on a course for research which began with the internet and frequent trips to the library.

Victor found an old book about the depression in 1930′s and started to remember the stories my grandmother would tell me about how they survived the depression.  Eventually he discovered square foot gardening and small livestock, specifically keeping laying hens.  His hens eventually put him on a course of conflict with his local government where he continues to fight for the right of people to simply provide themselves with top quality home grown food.

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Episode-881- Joe Nobody on BOL Security and More

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Modern Survival| 31 Comments
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Security is Priority #1

Security is Priority #1

Joe Nobody is the author of several best selling books including “Holding Your Ground” ,”The TEOTWAWKI Tuxedo”, “Holding Their Own” and “Without Rule of Law”. Joe has over 30 years as a government and private contractor experience and is a professional firearms instructor and competition shooter.

He joins us today to discuss setting up a BOL or any other location for defense if it all falls apart.  Joe brings a blend of practical knowledge, creative improvising and real world observation to the table.  His understanding of a complete sociatial breakdown and the terrifying reality it presents is the result of on the ground experience in some of the worst modern examples of lawlessness.

Join Joe and I Today as we Discuss…

  • The biggest single mistake when it comes to BOL defense planning
  • The first five things to set up for defending a location
  • The most common myths about defense and security of a location
  • How much does it cost to set up the typical home for effective defense
  • The single most important aspect of defending a home during TEOTWAWKI
  • The role of dogs in home security
  • The value of remote locations and assessing a property
  • Looking like no one is there and how that helps
  • The role of remote monitoring and other force multipliers

Resources for Today’s Show…

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Episode-879- Julie Behling on Essential Oils for Emergency and Everyday Care

Posted on April 12, 2012 by Modern Survival| 36 Comments
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Julie Behling of EssentialSurvival.org

Julie Behling of EssentialSurvival.org

Julie Behling founded Essential Survival in 2010 with the goal of helping as many people as possible be equipped to take care of their health in the event of a natural disaster or economic collapse where medicines are expected to be scarce, as well as on a daily basis.

Essential Survival combines the effectiveness and purity of essential oils from Young Living Essential Oils with Julie’s passion for and extensive knowledge on both natural healing and disaster preparedness. She joins us today to discuss medical preparedness, how to prepare medically for an economic collapse.

Join Julie and I today as we Discuss…

  • What is projected to be the #1 cause of death in the event of a global economic collapse?
  • What other medical hazards would an economic collapse bring?
  • What exactly are essential oils?
  • How do you know quality oils from cheap imitations?
  • Why are essential oils ideal medicines for preparedness?
  • Examples of how you can use essential oils for first aid
  • How essential oils can help with heart disease, diabetes, and depression/anxiety

Resources for Today’s Show…

Details on the Special Offer from EssentialSurvival for the rest of the week is as follows

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