u/iamliberty

I have long been friends with the guy who brought the Area Study to the prepping community. I loved it from the beginning and took the time to produce my own area study.

For those unaware, the area study is something anyone can do on their own time. It is the process of getting to know the resources, influences, plans, projects, and infrastructure, gangs, threats, and such in the area where you live.

How many people are doing this kind of intel locally? To me, it has given me a much better understanding of the REAL things I should worry about.

Every year, we do some kind of "Operation" and we are lucky enough to have some very capable people help us out with it.

We have done things like simulated bugout and cache recovery, overnight movement in brutal terrain, avoiding detection within operations, also food focused skill challenges that allowed us to better understand what relying on survival food might really look like.

Does anyone else put themselves or their group through simulated exercises like these? I think they are invaluable and every single one of them has taught me a huge prepper lesson. Just interested to see if others are doing these kinds of things.

Monday night, we tested our POClink emergency group. Pinging each member and getting a simple check-in from various places around the country.

The idea here is to be able to gather intel from a larger group even if SOME cell signal or carriers are lost. This will be added to my current PACE Plan for emer comms (Primary, Alternate, Contingency, Emergency)

Do you have a PACE plan to have 4 means of communication in the event of a disaster that disrupts cell service? What are some of your alternate comms methods?