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This answer may contain sensitive images. Click on an image to unblur it.Read this. Yes, YOU. If you ignore every other tip about precautions you should take regarding your health… don’t ignore this one. In fact, every person on Earth… You only have to do it once… every one of the thousands or millions who read this… I encourage you to do this one thing. It’s simple. It’s quick & easy. It applies to every single person. And it has a significant chance to actually keep you alive longer.Back in the 1970’s and 1980’s something was quite common, that has decreased in popularity over the past couple decades. This is unfortunate, because it was (and is) important; yet, it has slowly faded away because of our vanity. What is this thing? It is called the Medic Alert Bracelet. WAIT! … DON’T GO! … CONTINUE READING! … I’m not about to tell you to start wearing them. It’s something else. Although some people still wear them, usually older people, you rarely see them these days because sometimes they can be ugly and clunky. Sometimes people don’t feel comfortable announcing their conditions to every person they meet.These bracelets, or sometimes necklace pendants… or occasionally even anklets… are meant to give First Responders critical information about any conditions that you may have, that they would need to know before treating you in an emergency situation. Things like peanut, shellfish, or other allergies, blood type, conditions such as diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, etc. Information that needs to be known quickly, when seconds count.When a first responder first comes upon a person in distress, whether it is a professional paramedic, or a bystander who is on the phone with 911, receiving instructions while helping somebody in a crisis situation… one of the very first steps taken, after checking for breathing in the patient, is to check their wrists, necks and ankles for Medic Alert jewelry. But nowadays, you don’t find them very often. And crucial information must be retrieved in different, slower ways.However!… there is an alternative that will fit almost everyone’s lifestyle and fashion sense, and everyone should know about this, and use it. What is it? It’s on your phone! You all have cell phones. So go now and get it, and we will set it up together. Go on… I’ll wait…………..………………..Got your phone in hand? Okay. Let’s start. First thing you should know is that for iPhones, it comes standard… but, you still have to fill it out with the information, or else it’s useless. The app symbol is a white icon with a pink heart in the top right corner. Like this:For Android phones, it’s a different procedure. We’ll cover that later. So…To set up Medical ID on iPhone:1) Open the app store and locate the Health App (shown above)2) You will see four options in the bottom: Dashboard, Health Data, Sources, and Medical ID. Tap "Medical ID."3) From this page, you can add your birthday/age, known medical conditions, allergies and medications, spouse, mother and father's phone numbers, blood type, whether or not you are an organ donor and your approximate height.That’s it! You’re done! The important thing to realize is that this can be accessed even on a locked phone! These days, most first responders are trained to be aware of this fact, and if not… well, now you are!I urge all you iPhone owners to fill out that info now, which includes all important medical info all in one place, including Emergency Contact numbers. This all is important even for those of you who don’t have any specific “condition”. Just knowing that you have no conditions or allergies can be helpful when time is short. At the end of this article I’m going to give you a link to a site that gives better instructions than I gave above. It will include graphics to better guide you through it. Before that, let me get to my fellow Android users, who must do it a bit differently.To set up Medical ID on (most) Android phones:FIRST:1) Open contacts list.2) Tap on "groups" in top right corner.3) There should be a group set called "integrated groups" (ex. favorites, co-workers etc.). Tap on ICE - Emergency Contacts.4) Tap Add, and add up to four emergency contacts. These can be imported from pre-existing contacts or new to your contact list.NEXT, for those of you who lock your phone (I don’t)… once you have your contacts in the group set:1) While the phone is locked, tap "Backup Password."2) Tap "Emergency Call."3) A touch pad for dialing 911 should appear, along with four circles with plus (+) signs in them. Click on each (+) and pick a contact from your pre-saved ICE group set.So that will allow your In Case of Emergency #’s to be available even if your phone is locked.However, note that Androids do not allow for listing actual medical information (like iPhones do). So you Android people need to go one step further for your allergies, conditions, blood type and prescriptions to be available to first responders and Emergency Room personnel. We’re almost done here… so hang in there.Android people need to download this app:Open up your Google App Store and search for this app. It’s listed as:“iMed Alert - Medical Alert”It’s a quick download… about 20 seconds. It then shows you a single simple screen, with six partitions. Tap on each one, and fill in the info it asks. It even has a spot for your photo, to allow responders to be 100% sure the info they are looking at is yours.This icon, like the one for iPhones, then resides on your phone screen, for when it’s really needed. Put it on your screen, of course. In a corner is best. Candy Crush can move to screen #2 to make room. Candy won’t mind.If you have a condition and don’t like the Medical ID/Medic Alert jewelry (although I highly recommend you DO wear it)…… then please use the method I just explained. In fact, use both methods.And.. if you have no particular conditions, also please use this method. Knowing there are no conditions, and that there are No Known Allergies (NKA) is also very helpful, as is simple identification and emergency contact numbers, all in one place. It’s a technical world out there these days, so use the technology. Until we all get chips implanted under our skin, and all medical facilities have scanners… this is the next best thing (although, for some people, their phone seems to be surgically attached to their hand, so it might, in fact, be the very same thing!)This small, simple thing can save your life. One never knows when you will have that very very bad day.So… I hope I kept your attention to the end. Here is the website that goes over what I just explained, but it has pictures and graphics to help make it even easier to set up on your phone:In Case of Emergency... How a Cell Phone Can Save Your LifeDon’t be lazy or procrastinate. Just do it now, and it will be done. It’s quick.Tell your family and friends about this, as well. Send them the link to this answer, or that website. Get to it…. and, happy living!Another option is to tattoo all of that information across your chest, or add it to your sexy lower back tattoo (tramp stamp). Using the method I wrote about is probably more popular than the tattoo, though.Oh, one final, important point… make damn sure you fill in the correct blood type that you have. If you aren’t 100% sure of your blood type, wait until you are 100% certain. Go find out, and then fill it in. Although doctors or paramedics won’t necessarily depend only on this info that you provided, before giving you blood… it’s possible that they might have to, if there is simply no time to confirm it and your life depends on it. Be sure, first. Find out. This is something you should know, in any case.EDIT:Back to iPhones for a minute… if you are having trouble finding your Health App, try this link for some extra tips: My iPhone's Health App Is Gone! How Do I Reinstall It?EDIT 2: One small addition here. Android also has this now, on their newer phones. To access it, simply go into settings>system>about phone>emergency information and fill in your emergency contacts and medical information. This can be accessed just like ICE contacts from a locked phone by first responders. My own phone is older. It doesn’t have this option. So, you have a few options with the newest phones, that get you to the same place.CITATIONS:Instructions provided by Kindred Hospital.

There are plenty of things I wish passenger would stop doing during a flight. Although I am fine with most of the things but I am gonna list out number of things in order of boarding to deplanning.Please do not get upset if I ask you to show me your boarding pass at the aircraft door. I know you have shown it 4–5 times till you reach here and I also know that you are aware how to get to your seat but this last time is the most critical.Reason: There have been some incidents where a wrong passenger somehow has boarded the wrong flight. How such things happened is not understood but because such things do happen and it is a huge safety and security concern, airline ask us to make sure that boarding pass is checked last time before passengers board the flight, failure to show the crew your boarding pass at the door denies you boarding. On our certain flight to US we even had authorities coming on board as passenger and testing it out but because we are now very adamant on passenger showing the boarding pass at the door, the authorities left without concern.Plane evacuated as man arrested after getting on with 'wrong boarding pass'Please do not ask any of the crew members to lift your bags to the overhead compartment unless you are disabled, elderly, mother with infant, pregnant or with medical condition.Reason: The airline doesn’t allow us and has clearly told us not to help passengers with their bags unless those above reasons. We are not covered with insurance or any medical allowance if we happen to injure ourselves during this process. I know many crew who face injuries during the flight, I myself have couple of minor injuries. Some had to go on long unpaid leave because bag was so heavy that it fell on her shoulder and in some cases they had to take involuntary retirement. Why would we risk our job and career for something that the airline tells us not to do, so we can check it in cargo if it’s too heavy for you to lift it upI know you might be tired in the early morning or due to long transit but when I greet you with a smile, please at least make eye contact.Reason: On some of our aircraft we have 396 passengers in economy class and if I greet half of them and even few smile back then it means to us that we are going to have a smooth and happy a flight today since the passengers look happy.Boarding is a very critical time of the flight so please avoid asking things that can wait till we take off.Reason: Plenty of things happen during boarding time and if things go smooth then I might be helping passengers to their seats. So it might look that I am not that busy. However, at times we shouldn’t leave our zone for long as there could be medical emergency, may be aircraft is refuelling and I need to be at my door, may be there is someone who is elderly and needs help with bags, seat change or upgrade requests and it could be endless. So things like asking for water can waitPlease do not challenge me when it comes to safety and security.Reason: Do I really need to reason this out?Please pay attention while I read out the menu choices to you during meal service rather then making me repeat just because you had your headset on.Reason: In my zone I can be serving anywhere around 70–80 passengers not only meal but drinks too. If I have to repeat to every passenger then you can imagine how tough the job would be. By the time I have finishef the service, trust me my mouth becomes super dryDuring collection of the tray, please hand over the tray exactly in the same manner as you received it and this is of great help.Reason: Eevrything in aircraft is a super design. I mean it’s design to fit in a particular way and will only fit in that way. The way the tray is given is the only way the tray will go back in the cart. So if you give me a messed up tray or a tray with all the things lined up on each other then I have to rearrange 70–80 trays before I put it back.Please do not keep pressing the call light through out the flight. Trust me we discuss every single thing and passenger in the galleyReason: In my airline we attend the call light within 5 seconds (May take about 15 seconds to reach the passenger) because it could be a medical emergency. But certain flights there are so many call lights that we can’t attend them and if we have to attend these call lights then the service would never start which will be delay to other passengers who don’t press call light. Let’s keep the call light for only emergency please.Please be polite to crew members and fellow passengers, we notice every single person on the flight and the polite ones always get special attentionPlease follow rules and instructions at all times, there is a reason why these rules are in place. Don’t assume that it’s never happened to you or you have never seen it happening means it doesn’t happen.Reason: Example:- Some passengers get up when the seat belt sign is on, looking at which the other passengers also get up and they think it’s safe to do so. There can be sudden turbulence so bad that you might be tossed around in the flight. I know such things don’t happen often but they do happen so follow the rulesThese are just few small points you can do to make flight attendants job easier.Happy Flying.

Mark,What you are going through now, as an individual and as a people, is one of the most important stories of our time. Many would consider what I am doing by helping you to be reckless and that I should tell you to just sit back and seek shelter. I won't do that. I won't deny you advice I have because of some misplaced sense of right and wrong. I believe the Ukraine should continue to exist and I am proud to support a patriot who is going to do what he is going to do, whatever he is called to do. If not for people like that, Ukraine, as well as any good place worth living in would soon cease to exist. I've compiled everything I could think of that might benefit you in the coming months be it dealing with an insurgency or with the threat of a Russian advance. I've been up writing all night and the sun is rising here, so you'll forgive me for not proofreading this so that the information can get to you sooner. That said I, along with everyone else, sincerely hope you never need anything I mention in this answer, but now you have it. I'm incredibly grateful to have had the chance to get to know you in the few times we've talked and am inspired by your dedication to service. Mostly, I am proud that you would ask me to for advice during this time of your life. Having said that, I want to do everything I can to help you see a day when the Ukraine is at peace.Semper Fidelis,Jon-Know your situation:Situational awareness will be your most valuable asset throughout. It doesn't matter if we are talking about on guard at night, driving a truck at night, exchanging rumors with other members of your unit or sitting at home watching the news, knowing exactly what is going on will be the thing that let's you make smart decisions or avoid dangerous situations.At this point what your country is engaged in is insurgency warfare. The nature of insurgency is that you will be fighting an enemy that is elusive and doesn't always operate in face-to-face combat. In fact, they will try to avoid it. Insurgents operate with very few people and a limited budget. To maximize their effect, they will try to do most of their fighting when they aren't actually there or when they aren't in danger. This means that tricks, traps and improvised dangers will be common. For example, be very cautious if you are operating in an area that the enemy has had access to. They may have rigged it with some kind of trap. Piles of trash on the ground could be hiding explosives. Holes could be dug with sharp spikes, poles or sticks which can wound or maim. Abandoned equipment you discover may be booby-trapped. With the advent of cellular phones, the enemy can watch you from anywhere and remotely detonate at any time.For this reason constant vigilance is your greatest defensive asset. Once you are a uniformed soldier of the Ukraine, you will always be considered a target by the pro-Russian forces. Remember that, at no point from then on will you ever truly be completely safe. Someone less than a hundred kilometers away would love to get their hands on you, no matter what your job is.You should also consider what your job will be. I can only guess, but if I were put in charge of you, an untrained, inexperienced member of what amounts to a reserve militia, I would not have much faith that you are ready for front line duty. If it were me, I would free up more capable fighting men to do the fighting while having you do other tasks that need to be done, but aren't exactly front line infantry stuff. I would take people like you and use you for rear duties that would involve guarding equipment and logistical tasks, like driving trucks filled with people and cargo. This doesn't mean the rear is a perfectly safe place. When in convoys you are at your most vulnerable and must remain vigilant throughout. It was during these times when, in Iraq, we were attacked by enemy insurgents using improvised explosive devices, or roadside bombs. The only thing that could possibly save your life in such an event, is staying focused and watching out for trash on the side of the road that looks out of place.Insurgents also use civilians for different purposes. One of which is that sometimes they will be used as figurative shields in battle situation, sometimes as literal ones. For example, often times we fought insurgents who would fire rockets or mortars from civilian locations such as schools, hospitals or apartments. When an automatic system fired back at their locations, the evidence showed that the Americans had bombed an apartment building for no apparent reason. Similar tactics are being used today in the warfare that is taking place throughout the Levant. This is an experience situation, because if you are given the chance to make a bad choice, one in which you are not completely aware of your surroundings, you may play into a media trap for the insurgents. If, for example, a person is firing on you and you fire back, not realizing that behind him is a church, school or worse, a crowd of people, you have just given them a massive strategic tool to use against your forces. The insurgents will use the captured evidence to show that your actions are that of tyrannical regime. They will use it as a recruiting mechanism for spies and future insurgency fighters and your fight will become much harder.Information warfare:Knowing your situation is vital, but it is also important to know how to gather and communicate information as well. One thing you should start doing is carrying a journal to write down rumors you hear, information you come across, odd observations, or changes in the environment. You need to take the hyper-vigilance and put it to use. Do this especially when out on convoys and on guard detail. Make sure to report anything up your chain of command. What you don't realize is that mundane information to you, may be a missing puzzle piece to a commander somewhere else. If you are always supplying your commanders with puzzle pieces they will make better more informed decisions that will ultimately keep you and your team safer.You aren't the only person who can be an observer. Teach everyone you know the importance of forward observation. Thinking about how you and your friends can gather information will be vital for all of you to keep going. Try to come up with methods for gathering information that might be specific to you. Consider websites that might be useful for communicating with friends and family across the country and even consider building an internet community to gather and share information on enemy troop movements. If you have people who are willing to help out, you should allow them, making it possible for them to become eyes and ears of the military. This is something that could put them in danger. They would be considered conspirators and collaborators. If they don't want to do something like that, don't ask them to. If they come to you wanting to know how they can help, that's what you should do. Teach them every way you can imagine on how to feed you information about what they hear and see. Learn to filter it and figure out how to get it to command.You also need to adopt the point of view of a combat journalist. Carry documentation material like pen and paper with you and more importantly, a camera for taking pictures and videos. As this conflict escalates, choices are going to made which will be very ugly. Someone will need to document things to communicate them. There will be times when you will come across something horrible or something which means that your allies are in immediate danger. You must be able to capture this evidence. This is part of being vigilant. By having a means to record data and communicate it, you give your command something to use to make better decisions. As you spend time in the military you will see that worst case scenario is when command does not have enough information. A video or pictures, along with your accounts, could give your command immeasurable amounts of information to act upon, far more than you know.The second reason that you should consider yourself a combat journalist is that you will be needed to combat enemy efforts at information warfare. Everything that I am telling you is already being done by the enemy. They are taking videos of everything and editing it to suit their needs. If it airs to the public that is because someone wanted it to. Often times insurgents try to maximize their effect by releasing misinformation into the media through doctored videos or by taking events out of context. Eyewitnesses can also be produced, or manufactured, from civilian populations to say and do whatever they want for the camera. These eyewitnesses have a massive impact on spreading information and misinformation to international powers. The word of some middle-of-nowhere farmer can have such a great effect on the hearts and minds of the international community that it can increase how much assistance you receive in the future.What that means is a few months from now, it may bring about billions upon billions of dollars, extra equipment, and allies.The international public has far more influence on your conflict than you would like to believe. For them, perception is reality and all they need is to perceive that something unjust is going on and they will pull all support from your cause, whether or not what they have been told is the truth.Sometimes these witnesses are actual supporters, sometimes they are people who have been bribed or intimidated into action. Remember that local accounts of events are often unreliable. People being interviewed don't owe anything to the people recording them. They know that when the camera goes off they won't be protected by the cameraman, and the enemy will still know where they live. They will say whatever they have been told to say so that their family gets to live. That's why you have to be the guy with a camera of your own. You need to be the guy who can disprove what others are saying that isn't true. You need to prove them wrong by showing opposing information that invalidates what they are saying and proves their source to be a liar, invalidating everything they say from that point it on. It will also shifts public opinion in your favor if you can show that the other guy is untrustworthy and should not be allowed to rise to power. Lastly, disproving the eyewitness does not harm him. Remember, he may being forced to say whatever the enemy wants him to say. Even if you disprove him, he has fulfilled his obligation and has committed no crime against his assailants.Finally, in the event you don't get called up, you should consider starting a blog or vlog on Youtube. You should list what you see, what you hear and everything you know about the conflict and make it a matter of public record. Right now the world is watching you. By communicating and sharing on Quora, where you already have a significant following, you will sway public opinion further in your favor.Most of this advice won't keep an individual alive in battle. But it may keep a national alive for months. Hopefully when all this is over, you will have many, many more friends to share beers with on celebration day.Survivalism Practice and training:As others have shown, the United States military has published many good resources that are available online. I've gone through and added a few that I think will be the most important to you at your level.INSURGENCIES AND COUNTERING INSURGENCIESPage on armypubs.army.milThis will help you understand and combat those who fight utilizing insurgency tactics and techniques. It will help you to identify threat areas in your defense and let you know where to direct your vigilance when in the field. It also gives good tips on the importance of information warfare.BOOBYTRAPSPage on www.lexpev.nlThis will train you to better identify dangerous traps which insurgency fighters may use against you.SURVIVALPage on survivalebooks.comThis will teach you many, many good ideas on how to survive in the field. It will give you advice on what and how to pack, and how to live when you don't have a strong logistical backbone to keep you supplied.FIRST AIDPage on armypubs.army.milThis is an in depth primer on first aid techniques that are used in training across the United States military. You should learn how to make a first aid kit that you will carry on you at all times. One piece of advice I have not seen mentioned so far is to pack one item that will be considered odd by most people: Tampons. You should carry at least three in your first aid kit. Tampons are made of super absorbent materials that swell to much greater sizes when they take on liquid. This means that they are excellent for stopping bullet wounds. If people laugh, oh well.BATTLEFIELD INTELLIGENCEPage on fas.orgThis pub will instruct you and others on how to inspect and prepare a battlespace so that you can maximize what you can learn from it and communicate that accurately to others.The tips that everyone else on this question have given I think have equipped you with immeasurable advice. What I would ask that you do is to try to get some practice applying it before you are forced into it. If you still have time, my advice to you is to start a "camping club". You gather friends who are in the same situation as you are and what to learn the skills they will need if they are called. You plan an outing into the woods. The goal is to put into practice what have learned from studying. The goal isn't to starve yourself or see how far you can go before dying. The goal is to test the advice you have been given, see what works and what doesn't before you are really required to use it. You should try to pack as much as possible into as little a carrying case as you can. You should pack more clothes than you need, more food than you need and more equipment than you need. After a few days, reflect on what was the most important and on the next trip, pack more accordingly. Keep learning how to pack tighter and tighter so that you can be as prepared as possible.While you are on these camping trips you can also use the time with your friends to exchange information you have learned and train each other. That, is perhaps the best way these trips will help you. The skills you all learn and exchange in these trips may be the very skills which ensure you will still be camping with each other 30 years from now.Equipment Usage:As a former Marine marksmanship instructor, I would be shocked and a little more than dismayed if you receive no training whatsoever. But, in such an event, I have done some searching for you. I created a YouTube video playlist that lists as many videos that I could find in a few hours that show good weapons marksmanship techniques and practices. You should familiarize yourself with them:Mark's List - YouTubeIn it, I have (so far) collected 3 hours worth of video that describe basic marksmanship, care and maintenance of the AK-47 platform, weapons safety rules for firing, various videos for learning to load, reload and stoppage drills, maneuvering, use of cover and concealment, first aid on the battlefield, packing your first aid kit, prioritizing how to set up your gear, as well as a few ideas on equipment you might want to buy. It's made from videos put together by American Army, Marines, and Special Forces as well as Police officers, medical personnel, survivalist experts and even Russian Spetsnaz. Don't be surprised that I included videos from Spetsnaz. They are probably the world's greatest force in terms of the AK-47 weapons platform and it is indeed ironic that you might be using that against them. The complete collection, which I will improve upon in the future, teaches you far more than I possibly could given the 9313 kilometers that currently separate us. Share it with your friends.If you can, you should get hold of a weapon and try it out. You need to find a friend who has a weapon and let them take you out into the woods to fire it. Do this only after you have watched all the videos I've shown, particularly the weapons safety videos in the beginning. I want to be absolutely clear: This is literally the only time I have ever said that a person should try out shooting without having a trained instructor present. But these are clearly exceptional conditions. In this case, you have indicated a very real possibility that the first time you ever fire a weapon will be when you are under attack. That is the worst time to be firing a weapon for the first time. You need to feel it go off. You need to practice aiming with the sights. You need to spend time performing drills to load and reload, and from what you communicated to me, the Ukrainian government is not prepared to give you that. While on one of your "camping trips" I would suggest that you and your friends run through the training videos with no rounds to practice fundamentals. I'd also suggest that you each take turns to experience pulling the trigger while aiming down range. You need to know what that feels like.One piece of advice I can give you specifically about the AK-47 is that you will be tempted to use it in the fully automatic setting. This is not the way it is meant to be used. It is a rifle which means that it was intended to be used to fire single shots. Common sense may tell you that firing more rounds is better, but the truth of the matter is that none of them are going to hit the target, besides maybe the first. The AK-47 fires a somewhat larger round than other weapons systems. This means that it has more recoil and you feel a strong kick when you fire it. That recoil has an important effect on the muzzle of the weapon, it will make the weapon jerk backward so much that subsequent shots will no longer be on target. At this point you will just be fighting the weapon to keep it in place, wasting ammunition and declaring to everyone in the vicinity exactly where you are. There are very few times I would ever consider using the automatic fire setting. Focus on placing well-aimed shots.Another thing that I couldn't find mentioned was the use of a technique the Marines and others use that they remember by reciting the phrase, "I'm up, he sees me, I'm down". This means that you have about one second in the open before a person can see where you are, adjust their aim and fire upon you. You only have that much time to poke your head out, look around and then back down. There are two videos in the list that show drills for this. I just wanted you to know what the drills were for. Never stay in the open.Safety FirstI want to leave you with one last piece of advice and that is to always focus on the safety of you and everyone else around you. Think of it this way, you are surrounded by your friends and teammates. They have guns they have not learned to use. They may not know how the safety works. You have now been given access to a lot of information and you are now responsible for dispensing it to them.The single greatest killer is accidents and complacency. You need to think about every accident as a potential enemy hit. Every time you or one of your team accidentally points a weapon at each other, that is like the enemy pointing at them. It really doesn't matter if someone is taken out by an accident or enemy action - you are missing someone who might have been able to save your lives. That is the real reason we take care of each other so much out there, because with every one of us who lives, our own chance of survival increases exponentially.I'll put it to you another way. We had a saying in the Marines, "If you screw up... it won't be you who gets killed." Remember that and teach it to others. Make them realize they are responsible for far more than their own lives.Final Notes on Insurgency Warfare:You need to do everything you can to understand insurgency warfare and tactics. You have to obsess about everything they are doing and how they are operating. You're going to need to investigate them from all sources you trust. Know where they are getting their funding, their training and who exactly is giving is giving them support. You may be able to meditate on the situation and figure out holes you wouldn't have thought of because of knowledge only you have. Perhaps your finance background could show a certain pattern of spending and you could help others to lock up funds that are used to fund insurgents based on information you have gained on the ground. I can't tell you, but you need to gain as much information about them as is possible.Second, you will need to try to understand what tactics they would employ by asking yourself what you would do to cause the most damage to your own forces with the least amount of men, equipment and risk. Creativity is good, but creative ideas can often be situational and not useful. You need to think in terms of replicable, something that an insurgent can teach to another insurgent and use over and over again. Imagine passive resistance strategies that could defeat them. Passive means that no human needs to be involved to think, know, or react to a situation. Humans may not be there or react in time, no matter how well trained they are. The passive defense systems are always active even when human operators are sleeping, eating or incapacitated. An example here is that in the Marines and Army we have large troop carriers. These vehicles are armor plated, but a rocket propelled grenade could do a lot of damage, along with killing or injuring the Marines inside. To defeat this, a special type of fencing, similar to heavy duty rails you might install in a yard, was bolted the vehicles a few feet out. This caught the weapons a few feet out and detonated them in mid air, doing far, far less damage to the vehicle. Speak with other veterans of the conflict you are in to get their knowledge and try to imagine passive ways to defeat every tactic without using people to do it. The passive defenses completely shut down an enemy tactic across the country, saving a lot of lives and severely damaging their capability to harm your people.Last, you wrote that you are concerned about an invasion by the Russian people. If this is the case then you will really understand why I want you to focus on insurgency. In the event of a Russian invasion, you will become the insurgent. I'll be honest, not many people have faith the Ukrainian government could hold out long against a full scale attack by the Russian military. That means that, in all likelihood, your government will be overrun in a matter of days or weeks. If you decide you still wish to fight you will have to do so much without a structured support of a command that can give you gear, equipment, or even ammunition. You will understand then just how important it was that you learned how to equip yourself and not rely on the gear given to you by the military.You should also expect that no help will be coming. Imagine the case of the world. I really hope that in such a case the world would come to the defense of the Ukraine, but imagine what that means. Most of the major world powers will now be involved with a direct military conflict between each other. Events like that could easily lead to a full scale world war. There are going to be many, many who would stand in the way of such a thing being risked and that means that the forces of people who want to aid you will be slowed by those who are willing to sacrifice Ukraine for continued peace elsewhere. That means you will be alone, perhaps forever.Once you are the insurgent you are going to need to take the imagination of those you fought and turn it around on your occupiers. Remember how you tried to devise methods to take down your own defenses? Now you create a plan of implementation. One thing you should study is actually from Russian history. Study the Battle of Stalingrad. As German troops took over parts of the city, many of the fighters who remained were reserve units who transitioned in asymmetric insurgency warfare. It is a great study on urban insurgency warfare from the point of view of the insurgents. A definite source of good advice is a study of the Soviet war in Afghanistan. Here you will see insurgency fighters using direct action against Soviet heavy weapons and using cheap methods to bring down a massive war machine. You can learn a lot from it since much of the Russian military philosophy has not greatly changed. More so than that, it will serve as a testament to remind you all what is possible.You should also consider setting up a fall back location in another country. For you in Kiev, I would look at towns in Belarus along the border. As I see it, the Polesky State Radiological Preserve might be a good place to hide for a short time. As I understand it is the site of the radiation leak from Chernobyl, but this is the route that followers will be afraid to take. Short trips through the reserve will be a safe haven, especially if you set up some sort of safe house, perhaps in the town of Narowlya. Being that it is in a third party country will allow you to continue operations without being hunted down. If they do try to get at you, they risk detection and progressing the fight into yet another nation. Belarus will be preparing to join in the fighting the same way you are now. For Russia, choosing to follow you will come with a massive international backlash and may be enough to sway others to your favor if they haven't already. As I said before, this is what the Taliban did to us in Pakistan and it works. It's a dirty insurgency trick, but it works.The most important thing that you'd have to remember though is that in the event of such an invasion, you surviving is the best thing you can do to defend your nation. The best tactics are passed on by the survivors. Know your surrounding and know that there are many, if not most times, when you will say, "I can't win this fight." Even, "I may not be able to win this fight." Nothing is worth losing more than an engagement that you aren't sure you can win. This is why insurgents use ambushes and boobytraps. The simple fact is that you can't afford to die in some heroic gesture. It is a waste of resources that will never again be able to support your country. The same goes for your friends. Being brave is being stupid and if they get themselves killed then that is just one less person who later be used to fight and train others. You must live, more for your cause's sake than for your own.Insurgencies win not when they have won some stunning military battle but when they fought for so long, and whittled down the enemy so much and caused so much cost to the enemy nation, that they no longer view staying as worth the trouble. Those who die in the first weeks in some glorious charge during the preliminary invasion don't help anything. They are great stories to tell, but their names are forgotten by all but their closest friends in less than twenty years. It is the smart insurgent who, months and months later, long after winter has set in, are able to conduct a mission as part of a small team, plant a bomb, head back to town and the next morning wave and smile at the Russian soldiers patrolling their streets, never arising suspicion. That's the person you should become if you are afraid of a Russian invasion.Only once you show that you are willing and capable of surviving as a burden to the enemy will outside help start to filter your way. Build up your information networks to channel information from the world to you and to the back to who you need to know it. Direct information about the war from your point of view; pictures, videos and testimonies from the inside will gain you support from the outside and put pressure on the Russians government to leave. Learning to survive in the wilderness by relying on your training and your equipment will allow you to make it through the hard times when food and supplies may be scarce. Taking care of your friends and keeping them safe will allow you to continue on fighting long, long after you were supposed to have given up and died off.While this is happening you will be faced with many choices. All I can hope is that you make choices that you would want to be associated with the history of the Ukraine. Using civilians against their will through bribery, intimidation and murder can get you a long way closer to a victory. Others will instruct you to do what must be done. It doesn't have to. You have to consider with every choice you make in fighting against the occupation if would you want to raise your children under leaders who did the things you are planning to do? If you say no, and there is no other option to gain the victory you want, you should consider the very real possibility the Ukraine you knew is already dead and will never be able to return.The last thing I am going to leave you with is a question you must ask yourself. Should I give up? Ask yourself everyday. There is a point when nothing you do is worth the lives you will be a part of destroying. Innocent people are always caught in the middle of insurgency warfare. You have to ask if the government you want is worth the risk of your life or the lives of your people that might, and probably many will, be lost. If you are serious about defending your homeland, that is what it will mean. There is a definite point when you have to consider that the Ukraine may in fact be gone as you knew it before. At that point you should leave, flee to some refugee camp and get in contact with people on the outside who can help you. Seek asylum with various nations as best you can and start a new life. Use your new freedom to speak out about the conflict and about your aggressors. You may find one day that giving up allowed you reach out to speak to millions and perhaps save other nations and other people from the same threat you are facing today.I think that what you are doing is very brave. Accepting the duty of safeguarding your nation's survival is truest act of love a human could display. That is why I wrote to you the best answer I could, given the time you have to read it.And in the event that my worst fears are realized...Give them Hell and give them my regards.Thanks for reading!For more answers like this check out Global Outlook by Jon Davis and follow my blog War Elephant for more new content. 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