Subject: SAC OPERATION TECHNIQUE

OUTLINE OF PRESENTATION
 Introduction V – Value Living
 Learning Goals and Objectives  As we know our life is but only one, so conserve your
 Definition of Terms health and strength. Your best weapon to overcome
 Aids to General Survival mental obstacle is your will to survive. Secure
 Deciding Factors for Survival yourself from hazardous creeps during rest or night
 Causes for Survival Problem time.
 General Problems of Survival A – Act like a native
 Methods of Eliminating Discomfort  Accept and adopt local costumes and traditions
 Sources of Food (habits) but avoid direct contact with them. Blend with
 Survival Rules on Edibility them in all aspects and you will a greater chance to
 Jungle Survival Techniques survive.
 Medicinal Plant L – Learn basic skills
 Camouflaging  The best assurance is to make sure that you learned
 Evaluation the techniques and procedures for survival
 Summary thoroughly. In a certain locality there are some native
skills which are not known to you. Be inquisitive to
SURVIVAL TECHNIQUE search for additional survival knowledge.
Learning Goal
To learn the jungle survival techniques in times of shortage of AIDS TO GENERAL SURVIVAL
food and materials during practical exercise of PNP trainees/  Your individual and unit training in the army.
students.  Special instruction received formally and informally.
 Your initiative.
 Strong will power.
 Suggested survival equipment.
 Will to live.
 Strong will power.
 Suggested survival equipment.
 Will to live.

DECIDING FACTORS FOR SURVIVAL

 Determination to live.
 Ability to make natives work for you.

CAUSES FOR SURVIVAL PROBLEMS

 Shipwrecked
 Air crash or plane crash
Learning Objectives  Crash landing
After this lesson the trainee will be able to:  Lost Patrol
 Define the meaning of survival  Unit cut off from main body.
 Identify edible and non-edible plants and animals in  Extended operation without supply.
the jungle.
 Identify ways of cooking food for the animal and plant. GENERAL PROBLEMS FOR SURVIVAL
 Identify ways of cooking food for the animal and
 Adjusting to the strange environment of the general
plant.
area
 Enumerate hunting ground for survival.
 Overcoming the harsh physical elements:
 Perform making traps, shelter and fire using available
a) Rugged terrain
resources in the jungle.
b) Climate
c) Vegetation and wildlife
DEFINITION OF TERMS
d) Obstacles
S - Size up the situation
1. Natural
 Consider yourself, the country, people and
2. Artificial
environment.
 Be calm, recall survival training and expect it to work.
 Psychological condition.
Hope for the best but be prepared for the worst.
a) Fear of the unknown
 Try to determine where you are always.
b) Fear of discomfort
c) Fear of the people in strange country
U – Undue haste makes waste
d) Fear of your own weaknesses
 Do not act easily, remain calm and patient. Be sure
e) Lack of self confidence
that every move counts never do something if you do
not know the result. Doing something without proper
 Water and food acquisition.
planning may mean your life.
 Method of travel for infiltration of the general area.
 Health preservation.
R – Remember where you are.
 Shelter accommodation.
 Your location and your habits may reveal your
identity. Doing habits that come naturally may indicate
METHODS OF ELIMINATING DISCOMFORT
that you do not belong in a particular area. Try to
adopt habits and custom in the area.
 Fear of the unknown – by proper training and
V – Vanquish fear and panic when you are accidentally in
indoctrination
a strange place
 Learning about the geography, topography,
 Control being in the state of fear and panic which may
vegetation, wildlife and climate of the area of
turn to loneliness and hopelessness which may
operations.
subsequently cause you to surrender or commit
 Fear of the unknown – by proper training and
suicide.
indoctrination
 You have to overcome this by planning how to
 Learning about the geography, topography,
survive.
vegetation, wildlife and climate of the area of
I – Improvise
operations.
 Figure out and determine what you need and take
 Learning how to find natural shelters, and how to
action to obtain or substitute it. Don’t be afraid to taste
construct improvised and hasty shelter to suit the
strange food. Make an improvised shelter.
 length of time of stay and the impending tactical 2) Spear whip 4) Monkey trap
situation.
 To learn that rest is more important than speed. Method of fishing:
 Fear of the people in strange country by: 1) Knots and scoops 3) Spearing
a) Previous knowledge of their common ways of life and 2) Damming 4) Hoof and line
characteristics.
b) Common sense Shelters:
c) Knowing their custom, traditions and religion a. Making of lean-tos and huts from local materials
d) Using common decency in dealing with them. b. Finding ideal location of camp site
c. Use of natural ground formation, like caves and
SOURCES OF FOOD overhanging cliffs
Plants foods
 Expert estimated that there are about 300,000 Fire making:
classified plants growing on the earth surface a. By use of flint stone
including those in the mountain tops and ocean floors. b. Rubbing two dry sticks
120,000 varieties are edible. c. Use of lens solar heat
 FUNGI – there are 16,000 varieties fungi growing in d. Firebox and drills
different parts of the world, examples are: Mushrooms
– fungi edible to man. MEDICAL PLANTS
 Ampalaya to be boiled
Animal food • Leaves good for antiseptic, for wound
 Anything that swims, flies, creeps or crawls are edible • Stem and seed cures malaria
 All four legged animals are edible  Anonas barks and fruits for diarrhea
 Anything that monkeys and birds eat are edible  Atis barks and fruits for diarrhea
 Anything that four legged animals eat are edible.  Balimbing good for gonorrhea/lagnat
 All eggs and larvae are edible  Cashew – fresh fruits – good for diarrhea
 Almost all sea lives are edible  Damong maria – leaves, stem and roots – good for
 All crustaceans and mollusks are edible but must be gas pain
cooked  Dayap/Kalamansi – juice – good for colds
 All reptiles are edible  Dita – bark – good for malaria
 Most fish caught in the open sea and other bodies of  Duhat – bark – good for diabetes
water are good to eat  Kawayan – roots, leaves and shoots – good for
 Eels are good to eat but not sea snakes kidney trouble
 All snakes except sea snakes are edible (remove 6  Katuray – bark – good for stomach ache or gas pain
inches from the head and skin them)  Kaimito – bark and fruit good for diarrhea
 Cook animal meat as soon as possible after killing it  Makahiya – roots – for hemorrhage
 Frogs, turtles, lizards, alligators and crocodiles are  Orange – rind, leaves and juice – for anti fever
edible except toads.  Cogon – roots – for kidney trouble/diarrhea
 Oregano – leaves – cough
SURVIVAL RULES ON EDIBILITY  Malunggay – leaves – TB
Never eat large quantity of strange food without  Kangkong – leaves – TB
tasting it first. Prepare a cooked sample, then take a mouthful,  Papaya – fruit – TB
chew it and hold it in your mouth for five minutes. If it tastes  Tanglad – leaves – diarrhea
good, go ahead and eat it.  Okra – seeds – fever
If the taste is disagreeable, don’t eat. If you want to  Kamyas – fruit – fever
try a wild fruit , try it with the tip of your tongue, and once the  Luyang dilaw – tuber – stomach spasms.
taste is bitter or itchy, keep on spitting until the bad taste is  Banana – fruit – diarrhea
gone. A burning taste is a warning of danger.  Ipil-Ipil – leaves – anti-worm
 Adelfa – leaves – Snake bite
 Plants eaten by birds or animals are safe to eat.  Bayabas – leaves – sunburn
 Don’t eat unknown plants with milky sap or silk  Bawang – bulb – toothache
contact your body or skin.  Katakataka – leaves – toothache
 Don’t eat unknown plants that taste disagreeable.  Acapulco – leaves – ringworm
Bitterness is a sign of danger.  Lagundi – leaves – chicken pox
 Non-poisonous mushrooms are edible.  Dara-Dara – leaves – stop bleeding
 Most root crops are edible but must be boiled  Katuray – flower – cough
thoroughly.  Fukien tea treeTea extracted from leaves is taken to
JUNGLE SURVIVAL TECHNIQUES ease stomach aches, diarrheas and dysentery.
 Sambong is a tall, erect, shrub that grows in
 Ways of cooking for the animal and plant food. grasslands, open fields, waste areas. This strongly
• Boiling, baking, roasting or broiling and aromatic herb with elongated leaves and yellow
parching. flowers can reach 4 meters tall at maturity. Extraction
• Preservation of food: of leaves is effective against fever, kidney problems
a. Freezing c. Smoking and cystitis.
b. b. Gutting d. Salting
1. Preparation of wild food (Fish or Animal) CAMOUFLAGE
a. Bleeding c. Skinning  Camouflage is one of the basic weapons of war.
b. Gutting d. Sealing  Camouflage measures are important since the team
2. Hunting grounds for survival: cannot afford to be detected at any time while moving
alone, as part of another element, or while operating
a. Along seacoast between high and low water marks. from a firing position.
b. Areas between beaches and coral reefs.  Camouflage, Concealment, and Decoys, provides
c. Marshes and mud flats. more details.
d. Mangrove swamps where a river flows into the ocean
or into larger river banks TYPES OF CAMOUFLAGE
e. Inland water, holes, shore of ponds and lakes.
f. Margins of forest natural meadow, protected • Natural camouflage- is vegetation or materials that
mountain slopes. are native to the given area.
g. Attended cultivated fields. • Artificial camouflage- is any manmade material or
substance that uses for coloring or covering
Pointers of food gathering. something to conceal it.
Kinds of traps: COVER AND CONCEALMENT
1) Dead drop 3) Cage trap
• Cover- is natural or artificial protection from the fire of
enemy weapons.

• Concealment- is natural or artificial protection from

enemy observation.