General Preparedness: Grow lots of tomatoes? How can you store them? Canning? Sauce, ketchup even casseroles can all be prepared and stored for long term.

Gardening tips, jams, meals in a jar. What items to always have with you (every day carry – EDC) Items to have in your car if you are stuck away from home.  If you need to leave your home for an extended amount of time, remember to take your Bug Out Bag with you.

Have you thought of everything? These team people have, and they can help you be ready before you get into that tough spot.

Americans are told by FEMA to be able to self-rescue and self-supply for at least 72 hours, but clearly emergencies can last much longer. You need to be able to take care of yourselves and each other for extended periods, including effective food storage. We will show you how.

Even if you are not a veteran, you are welcome to join us and get trained, and then help train others. We find that nearly everyone has some skill or life experience that is useful to the community, and we will help you pick a training track to focus on, and get trained up by more experienced team member mentors.

And even if you have physical limitations that would prevent you from being on a field team, you can still help with support, security as a “home guard,” and logistics.

And if you already have an existing group, such as a neighborhood watch, church group, veterans group, political or social group, we would be happy to train your group in all of the above skills.

We believe that strong neighborhood watches are the most critical first steps toward a strong America, working from the bottom up to provide local security while we also strengthen what is already there (search and rescue, volunteer fire, volunteer emergency medical, CERT teams, reserve deputy and police auxiliary, etc.).