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If SHTF a guy who hasn't trained or proven himself with an organization they claim to be with is going to be lower on the totem pole for support than unaffiliated individuals. Better to develop your individual skills privately, or join an organization and take training seriously. Half-heartedly doing both is not effective.

Attached is a PowerPoint used to deliver Antiterrorism Level 1 training (basic personal protective measures and terrorism awareness.) You may use it to build your own antiterrorism/terrorism awareness program. Also attached is MCRP3-02E Individual Marine's Guide to Understanding and Preventing Terrorism which can be required reading. I wouldn't recommend using FM 3-37.2 Antiterrorism. That field manual really focuses more on doctrine. It is useful for an intelligence member though, as it discusses threat assessments, criticality assessment, and other similar tools. MCRP3-02E Ind

Interesting to stumble on this community. Unlike many of you, I'm not actually interested in joining any kind of organization, and I don't hold any beliefs in the sudden restriction of the 2nd Amendment, a takeover by Muslims, or anything like that. What attracts me to this community is the opportunity to share and build our individual skills to protect our families and respond to natural disasters. I'm studying French and would like to learn Arabic. I've got some familiarity with intelligence analysis though not a veteran.

I looked around but I haven't seen much discussion of the possibility of using e-learning (as in, actual courses rather than just text posts.) I think e-learning has the potential to improve the delivery of material that currently is "locked" in lengthy field manuals and other resources. Many sources have compiled hundreds of PDFs, and yet it takes a lot of work to go through them, discern what is valuable, then take that information and package it into a way that you can continue to learn from it. Here are a few resources I think might be useful: DisasterReady Con