Reference library
Medical & First Aid
15 guides, every one legally redistributable and traceable to its source.
ATP 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 · ~10-20 MB
CDC 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 · A few MB for a curated fact-sheet pack
Emergency Childbirth — Medical Self-Help Training Course, Lesson No. 11
Clean-license, step-by-step unassisted-delivery instructions written for untrained laypeople in disasters — fills the childbirth gap that otherwise only restricted sources (Hesperian, WHO) cover.
US Office of Civil Defense (DoD) · <2 MB
Emergency Disinfection of Drinking Water
The canonical boil/bleach-dose quick card (exact drops-per-quart tables) — ideal offline one-pager; pairs with CDC water pages.
US EPA · ~755 KB
Emergency War Surgery, 5th Edition
Definitive austere-environment trauma/surgery reference (damage control, mass casualty triage, burns, blast injury) for the 'worst case, no hospital' tier of a survival library.
Borden Institute, US Army Medical Center of Excellence · ~25-60 MB
FM 3-05.70 Survival (2002) — Appendix B (Edible Plants) and Appendix C (Poisonous Plants) with color photos
This is the key redistributable ILLUSTRATED edible/poisonous plant reference: ~100 edible + ~50 poisonous plants with color photographs, habitat/distribution, edible parts, preparation. Commercial reprints of exactly this content are common (e.g., 'The Illustrated Guide to Edible Wild Plants'), confirming reuse is normal practice. Also mirrored at https://irp.fas.org/doddir/army/fm3-05-70.pdf.
Headquarters, Department of the Army · ~30-60 MB
HRSA Poison Help materials
The 1-800-222-1222 number and household poison do's/don'ts (no ipecac, when to rinse vs. call) are exactly what an offline quick card needs.
HRSA (HHS), Poison Control Program · <5 MB
Joint Trauma System Clinical Practice Guidelines
The Prolonged Casualty Care guideline is uniquely relevant to disasters (caring for casualties for hours-to-days when evacuation/hospitals are unavailable); burn, crush injury, and hypothermia CPGs also map directly to disaster scenarios.
Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency · ~100-300 MB for full set; 1-3 MB per CPG
MedlinePlus health topic summaries
Thousands of lay-language, physician-reviewed topic summaries in English and Spanish, bulk-downloadable — instant breadth for an offline health encyclopedia (anaphylaxis, burns, dehydration, wound care, etc.).
National Library of Medicine, NIH · ~50-150 MB for full health-topic XML set
NEETS — Navy Electricity and Electronics Training Series
The standard public-domain electricity/electronics curriculum: DC/AC basics, wiring techniques, circuit protection, batteries, generators, motors, antennas/wave propagation, radio — underpins both the electrical-repair and ham-radio content areas.
U.S. Navy / NETPDTC (hosted on Internet Archive, marked Public Domain) · ~100-200 MB for all 24 modules
NIOSH Cold Stress and Heat Stress fast facts
Compact, illustration-ready hypothermia/frostbite/trench foot and heat-stroke recognition & first aid — good building blocks for in-app quick-reference cards.
NIOSH / CDC · <5 MB
Plants Poisonous to Livestock in the Western States
Illustrated federal reference covering the major toxic range plants (larkspur, locoweed, lupine, hemlocks, death camas, nightshades...): identification photos, toxic principle, signs of poisoning, and management. Serves both the poisonous-plant and livestock-basics briefs with a clean license and redistributable IMAGES.
USDA Agricultural Research Service, Poisonous Plant Research Laboratory (Logan, UT) · ~5-15 MB
ST 31-91B — US Army Special Forces Medical Handbook
Legendary in the prepper market (strong SEO/conversion draw); covers improvised care, dental, veterinary, obstetrics in austere settings.
US Army Institute for Military Assistance · ~16-20 MB
TC 4-02.1 First Aid
The long-standing Army first aid manual widely mirrored in prepper communities; simpler than ATP 4-02.11 in places.
US Army / Army Publishing Directorate · ~5-10 MB
TCCC
The gold-standard evidence-based prehospital trauma protocol (MARCH: massive hemorrhage, airway, respiration, circulation, hypothermia) — the basis of civilian Stop the Bleed. Index page: https://jts.health.mil/index.cfm/committees/cotccc/guidelines
Committee on TCCC / Joint Trauma System / Defense Health Agency · ~1-5 MB