By Todd Ratermann
A Bug out bag, or BoB, is basically a survival kit in a back pack. Usually
designed to give you the basic survival items needed to make it through
the first 72 hours of a disaster.
The list below is just a general guide to help you get started. Each
person or family will have different needs that should be covered by their
specific BoBs contents. However, each BoB will be complete survival kit.
In other words the BoB's should not be divided up so that one
person is carrying the food and another carrying the first aid and another
carrying the tools. If you did this and a pack was lost, stolen, or if you
became separated no one would have the complete survival necessities need.
Instead, each pack should have a proportional share food, water, shelter,
fire, and first aid items.
Not only will each persons BoB vary from the next persons, the same
persons BoB will vary depending on factors. For example a heavy coat may
be important during the winter in the mountains, it would be a counter
productive item if you carried it in the summer through the desert.
When building a BoB or survival kit you should keep the rule of three's in
mind. You can live three weeks without food, three days without water, and
three hours without shelter (in extreme heat or cold).
Another important thing to remember is that no matter what survival situation you find yourself in,
or preparing for, the basics of surviving always falls back to six key
survival factors:
shelter, water, food, fire, self defense and first aid. Although each
survival situation will dictate the priority of the list, the list
itself remains unchanged.
Below is a list of Bug-out Bag items. The six survival factors above are
the primary categories of your BoB items.
Shelter
Water
Food
Fire
Self defense
First Aid
Bug-out Bag Contents:
- Camp Stove (or other white gas or multi-fuel camp stove)
- Stove Fuel
- Food & Water Kit (Below)
- Cook set
- Flashlight
- Batteries
- Candles
- Lighter
- Automobile inverter
- Axe, hatchet
- Two-way radio(s)
- Cash in small bills
- Radio AM/FM, NOAA Weather radio (battery powered)
- First Aid Kit
- Toilet Paper
- Multi-tool
- Sharp Knife
- Tarp (at least 8' x 10')
- Hand Warmers
- Duct Tape
- Paracord (at least 50')
- Hand Sanitizer
- Wet Wipes
- Garbage bags
- Rain Ponchos
- Super Glue
- Whistle
- Aluminum foil
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Food & Drink Survival Items:
- Food for 3 days
- Water (5 gallons)
- Potable Aqua - Water Purification Tablets with PA Plus
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- Fire extinguisher
- Basic Tools
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Food & Drink Survival Items:
- Food for 3 days
- Water (5 gallons)
- Potable Aqua - Water Purification Tablets with PA Plus
Water
- Fire extinguisher
- Basic Tools
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