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The survival library that works when nothing else does
Curated, verified reference material — survival manuals, first aid, edible plants, maps, and repair skills — packaged for offline use with no signal, no grid, and a dying battery.
Survival & Preparedness
Manuals for every hazard, from storms to the worst day imaginable.
Medical & First Aid
Current military first-aid doctrine and lay health references.
Plants, Food & Water
Edible and poisonous plants with photos, canning, safe water.
Repair, Skills & Comms
Fix the car, the house, the generator — and talk when networks fail.
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AFH 10-644 Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE) Operations
The most comprehensive modern US military survival text (2017): arctic, desert, tropical, open-ocean survival, shelter, fire, food/water procurement, navigation, signaling. Deeper than ATP 3-50.21 and a differentiator vs. competitors who only ship FM 21-76.
US Air Force (e-Publishing)
Public domainATP 3-50.21 Survival
The current (Sept 2018) official Army survival doctrine — successor to FM 21-76/FM 3-05.70. Covers water, food, fire, shelter, signaling, and survival medicine. The flagship item for a survival-manual library. Also the strongest free source on food procurement — plants, fishing, trapping and snares — and on water sourcing and treatment, which is why it is shelved under Plants, Food & Water as well.
US Army (Army Publishing Directorate)
Public domainATP 3-90.97 Mountain Warfare and Cold Weather Operations
Cold-weather and mountain operations doctrine: cold injury prevention, clothing layering (COLD principle), improvised shelters, movement over snow/ice, altitude effects. Fills the cold-climate pillar alongside AFH 10-644's arctic chapters.
US Army (Army Publishing Directorate)
Public domainATP 4-02.11 — Casualty Response, Tactical Combat Casualty Care, and First Aid
The current (released 23 Mar 2026) official Army first-aid doctrine for NONMEDICAL personnel — bleeding control, airway, burns, fractures, environmental injuries, casualty movement — written for laypeople-level responders and fully redistributable.
US Army Medical Center of Excellence / Army Publishing Directorate
Public domainAUXFOG — Auxiliary Communications Field Operations Guide v1.1
Training and reference for volunteer/amateur emergency communicators (AuxComm): equipment, nets, message handling — bridges ham radio and official disaster response; CISA's own offline app validates the exact use case.
DHS CISA / Office of Emergency Communications
Free with creditCDC emergency-health web content
Authoritative, lay-readable coverage of exactly the dimension's topics: boil-water/bleach ratios, hypothermia, heat stroke, snakebite do's/don'ts, carbon monoxide after power outages, post-flood food safety.
CDC / ATSDR
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