Teach a man to fish. From: Flying Safety | Date: May 1, 2001| Author: KASMENN, MSGT BRYAN | COPYRIGHT 2001 U.S. Air Force, Safety Agency. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Getting food helps survivors maintain their emotional, as well as physical, well-being.

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."

This old adage sums up much 88 of the guidance/philosophy of survival training. To put it another way, we survival instructors don't extract or rescue our students from a situation, we teach them how to deal with it. After spending 11 years teaching aircrews who flew almost a...