Survival Training at Milites Dei Academy

Survival Training

At Milites Dei Academy students have to build shelters in the bush and as evident from the pictures below they get very creative. They also skilfully constructed a bush oven.

According to Boys’ Life Magazine, “Being prepared to survive in the outdoors starts with knowing what to be prepared for. You can live days without water and weeks without food. People who don’t survive in the outdoors most often die from losing their body heat, not necessarily from starvation or dehydration. You need to be able to start a fire. And perhaps most importantly, you need to be able to build a shelter to stave off wind, rain and snow, and to keep your body heat trapped where it belongs: near your body.” Read more on http://boyslife.org/outdoors/3473/taking-shelter/

More specifically, survival skills are techniques that a person may use in order to sustain life in any type of natural environment. These techniques are meant to provide basic necessities for human life which include water, food, and shelter. The skills also support proper knowledge and interactions with animals and plants to promote the sustaining of life over a period of time. Survival skills are often basic ideas and abilities that ancients invented and used themselves for thousands of years. Outdoor activities such as hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, fishing, and hunting all require basic wilderness survival skills, especially in handling emergency situations. Bush craft and primitive living are most often self-implemented, but require many of the same skills.The students also learn how to make a bush stove, referred to as the Dakota Fire Hole. The pictures below also show a delicious chicken being cooked. The chicken was acquired from a good Samaritan on a neighbouring farm.

The Milites Dei Academy Facebook Page shows students participating and successfully completing training at the academy: http://www.facebook.com/SPECIALIST.OPERATIVE/