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What makes Special Forces elite is our training and, most importantly, our planning. Before going on a mission, we would conduct “Isolation” where we would be in a secure compound and plan our mission. We’d conduct an Area Study, which focused on the Area of Operations where we would be doing the mission. We’d plan the mission from infiltration, actions on the objective, through exfiltration. Key was war-gaming what could go wrong. We’d try to think of every possible contingency using Murphy’s Law: What can go wrong, will.
With that in mind, given I’ve already written The Green Beret Preparation and Survival Guide based on my training, deployment experiences, and having taught at the JFK Special Warfare Center & School at Fort Bragg for a number of years and it included a section on pandemics, I’ve added the same Appendix to both it, and the Pocket-Sized Survival Guide (smaller and compact without the preparation part), focused specifically on COVID-19, the Coronavirus.
There’s a Good Chance We Will Be Exposed to the Coronavirus.
Why is it likely? Because the unique combination of how long a person can be infected before it manifests itself and the fact we have no vaccine for it and won’t have one soon. Also, even with a vaccine, it won’t go away. It will become something else we need to get a shot for every year. Once the shot is invented.
Don’t panic, though. You might be asymptomatic (show no symptoms). You may develop mild symptoms and be…
