Not in definition. but lots of other training Wilderness EMT, LifeGuarding, Outward Bound, tons of first hand "out there" experiential education by being placed in the wilderness and needing to improvise one way or another. I think if you are attune to this stuff anyway you grasp alot of it. The military has lots of schools with differing mission appropriate "bents", but nothing like that in my military backround, just basic, and NCO School. A lot of it is the mental end of things, the old Kurt Hahn (Outward Bound founder) realizaton that old seaman faired much better surviving than younger more fit mariner's due to just being "hardened". This has been put in practice all around the world in settings to teach some degree of endurance and mental preparedness that "this too shall pass". The trick for much of this is to create "subjective" (safe)dangers that folks have to work through, experience to become a little more hardened, and resourceful. Even BUD School (SEALS) uses a model like this, to totally max out the canidates to see if they will "washout", once they are thru that there is a strong likelyhood not much will faze them physically, and usually mentally. Though BUD School the dangers are much more objective (drowning, etc..)

Some urban areas have Clubs that have Schools or training sessions for this sort of stuff, Seattle Mountaineers (also Spokane sub-group), Pittsburgh Explorers Club, just to name a few. Check with local outdoor stores to see if there are any such groups in your areas. The collective experience of some of these groups can be AMAZING. Be careful though, you may meet your future spouse there (it happened to me)

Ironwood


Edited by Ironwood (10/31/12 03:03 AM)