Very frankly, what you (and probably most of us, including me) need is training.
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I know you have said that training in your area is hard to come by.
This probably applies to most of us. Medical and combat skills -- highly valued in the imagination of emergency preppers -- are just really hard to come by unless you use them in your profession. Sure, you can take classes, but you gradually lose those skills from lack of use. It wouldn't be an exaggeration to say I've put in easily over $10,000 into such classes, but I just don't get to use knowledge I acquired -- fortunately, I should say. My life is largely boring and dull.
How do you get around this? (Not the life boring and dull part, but maintaining skills...)
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