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An Area Study Can Save Your Life
The Area Study focuses your preparation efforts and saves time & money. An Area Study will not only help you prepare, it will also make you much more aware of your situation and improve your quality of life. It assesses your own, and your team’s, assets and liabilities. It can be useful not only in preparation, but in choosing where to live as our environment is changing around us.
Everyone’s situation is unique. We’re different individuals. We have varying households/situations. We live in places with differing climate, terrain, and potential natural and man-made disasters. Thus, before we begin to ‘prepare’, we must know what specifically we’re preparing for and what we’re working with.
By doing a good Area Study, you save time and money because you’ve focused on your priorities. You need to know your assets and your threats. You also have to get the right supplies, training, and gear for your specific situation.
Too often, preparation is looked at as a one-size-fits-all.
When my Special Forces A-Team received a mission packet while in Isolation, the first thing we did was an Area Study. We had to understand where we were going and how that impacted the mission.
This is what we all need to do where we live, work and go to school. This process is what you will do in this workbook with…
