I.

CONDITIONS:

Given a combat situation and you

are faced with:
1. Shortage of food and material.
2. Experienced sudden illness
II. STANDARDS:
1. Learn the jungle survival
techniques.
2. Create fire using the available
resources
3. Classify medicinal plants.
 III. PERFORMANCE STEP:
A.In the conduct of combat operations, survival which is the
person’s desire to live longer or the will to survive is of paramount
importance. It is then a must to know the meaning of SURVIVAL in
line with the conduct of operations:
S – Size up the situation.
- consider yourself, the country, people and environment.
a. Be calm, recall survival training and expect it to work. Hope
for the best but be prepared for the worst.
b. Try to determine where you are always.
 2. U – Undue haste make waste.
- do not act easily, remain calm and patient. Be
sure that every move counts never do something if you do
not know the result. Doing something without proper
planning may mean your life.
3. R – Remember where you are.
- your location and your habits may reveal your
identity. Doing habits that come naturally may indicate
that you do not belong in a particular area. Try to adopt
habits and custom in the area.
4. V – Vanquish fear and panic when you are
accidentally in a strange place.
- Control being in the state of fear and
panic which may turn to loneliness and
hopelessness which may subsequently cause you
to surrender or commit suicide. You have to
overcome this by planning how to survive.
5. I – Improvise

- figure out and determine what you need and

take action to obtain or substitute it. Don’t be afraid
to taste strange food. Make an improvised shelter.
6. V – Value Living
- As we know our life is
but only one, so conserve your
health and strength. Your best
weapon to overcome mental
obstacle is your will to
survive. Secure yourself from
hazardous creeps during rest
or night time.
 7. A – Act like a native
- Accept and adopt local costumes and traditions (habits)
but avoid direct contact with them. Blend with them in all aspects
and you will a greater chance to survive.
8. L – Learn basic skills.
- The best assurance is to make sure that you learned the
techniques and procedures for survival thoroughly. In a certain
locality there are some natives skills which are not known to you. Be
inquisitive to search for additional survival knowledge.
 B. Knowing the different sources of food is not enough for
secure one’s survival. One must learn the rules on edibility in order
to be safe in eating of food.

1. Never eat large quantity of strange food w/o tasting it first.

Prepare a sample , take a mouthful, chew it and hold it in your
mouth for five minutes, if it taste good, eat it but if otherwise don’t
eat it. If you want to try a wild fruit, try it with the tip of your
tongue, and once it taste bitter or itchy, keep on spitting until the bad
the taste is gone. A burning taste is a warning of danger.
 2. Plants eaten by birds or animals are safe to eat.

3. Don’t eat unknown plants with milky or silk sap, or contact with
your body or skin.
4. Don’t eat plants with bad taste . Bitterness is a sign pf danger.

5. Non- poisonous mushrooms are edible.

6. Must root crops are edible but must be boiled thoroughly.
C. Aside from knowing the sources of food and rules on
edibility, it is also necessary to know and classify
medicinal plants in-order to be utilized when needed
such as the following:

1. Ampalaya – to be boiled
a. leaves – good for antiseptic, for wound
b. Seed and stem – cure Malaria
2. Anonas – Barks and fruits – diarrhea
3. Cashew – Fresh fruits – for diarrhea
4. Kawayan – Roots, leaves and shoots – for kidney
trouble
5. Makahiya – roots – for hemorrhage
D. Jungle Survival Techniques:
1.Ways of cooking for
the animal and plant food.
•Boiling 2. Preservation of Food
•Baking •Freezing
•Roasting •Smoking
•Broiling •Cutting
•Parching •Salting
3. Preparation of wild food
•Bleeding
•Cutting
•Smoking
•Salting
4. Hunting grounds for survival
•Along seacoast between high & low water marks
•Areas between beaches and coral reefs
•Marshes and mud floats
•Mangroove swamps where a river flows into the ocean or into the
larger river banks
•Inland water, holes, shores of ponds and lakes
•Margins of forest , natural meadows, protected mountain slopes.
•Attended cultivated fields
5. Pointers of food getting
Kinds of traps
•Dead drop
•Spear whip
•Cage trap
•Hoof and line
b. Methods of fishing
•Knots and Scoops
•Damming
•Spearing
•Hoof and line
6. Shelters
•Making of lean-tos and huts from local materials
•Finding ideal location of camp sites
•Use of natural ground formation, like caves, and
overhanging cliffs
7. Fire making
•By use of Flintstone
•Rubbing two dry sticks
•Use of lens solar heat
•Fire box and drills
E. To eliminate discomfort; you must consider the following ways;

a. Proper training and indoctrination.

b. Learning about geography, topography, vegetation, wildlife and
climate of the area.
c. Learning the ways of travel by map reading , jungle navigational
aids and all available aids.
d. Learning the procedures and ways of acquiring food and water.
e. Learning to find natural shelters, and to construct improvised and
hasty shelter to suit the duration of stay and impending tactical
situation
f. Knowing that rest is more important than speed.
g. Handling fear of the people in strange country by:

1. Using of common sense and common decency in dealing

with them,
2. Recalling the knowledge of their common ways of life,
characteristics, customs, tradition and religion.
h. Knowing the sources of food is a great help for survival. It
is classified into two sources, the plant food and animal food.
a. Estimatedly, there are about 300,000 classified plants
growing on the earth surface including those in the mountain
tops and ocean floors and 120,000 are edible.
b. The following animal foods are edible:

1. Anything that swims, flies, creeps or crawls are edible

2. All four legged animals
3. Anything that monkey and birds eat
4. Anything that four legged animals eat
5. All eggs and larvae
6. Almost all sea lives
7. All cooked crustaceans and mollusks
8. All reptiles
9. Fishes caught in the open sea and other bodies of water
10.Eels but not sea snakes
11.All snakes but not sea snakes( remove 6 inches from the head and
skin them)
12.Cooked animal meat asap after killing it
13.Frogs, turtles, lizards,alligators and crocodiles except toads.
IV. EVALUATION PREPARATION:

Set-up: The student shall be placed in a simulated jungle area where he

has no supply of food and equipment. Furthermore, inform him that some of his
companions suddenly got ill and no medicine is available.

Brief Student: Tell the student to apply jungle survival techniques

which can be used in a selected area with a given time and available resources.

V. PERFORMANCE MEASURE: GO NO GO
1. Ability to gather and cook food
available in a given area within the
prescribed time. _________ ________

2. Ability to create fire using dry sticks

Or any available source ________ ________

3. Ability to classify medicinal plants

In the given area. _________ ________
VI. EVALUATION GUIDELINES:

Score the student GO if all performance

measures are passed and NO GO if performance
measure is failed. If the student scores NO GO,
show him what was done wrong and how to do it
correctly.