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Re:Success Lessons From The Man Who Was Lost In the Jungle by bootload on Sunday October 25, 2009 @03:45AM (#901368)
"... First of all, we don't need to learn survival. We know it. Nobody needs any course, any kit, any book. It's completely nonsense. We know survival very well, that's what we know best. ..."

There are 2 reasons this statement could be wrong. The first is this survivor bias, we dont read the stories of non survivors. The second from the transcript...

    "... Well, the obvious reason was I finished my military service. ..."
Basic includes lots of handy tips for survival. Untrained beginner he aint.
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Re:Success Lessons From The Man Who Was Lost In the Jungle by nir on Sunday October 25, 2009 @01:33PM (#901818)
Having gone through similar Basic Training to Yossi's, I can testify it contains less jungle survival knowledge than most boyscouts pick up during their training.

Basic Training is short, and most of the time is spent on elementary soldier skills such as handling your equipment, coordinated movement etc (a lot more difficult to learn than it seems in CoD4 :)). Since he didn't have a gun with him in the jungle, his odds would be pretty much the same as the average young backpacker.

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Re:Success Lessons From The Man Who Was Lost In the Jungle by bootload on Monday October 26, 2009 @10:24PM (#904643)
"... I can testify it contains less jungle survival knowledge than most boyscouts pick up during their training. ..."

thanks I didn't expect IDF basic to be so "basic".

"... his odds would be pretty much the same as the average young backpacker. ..."

Didn't expect that.

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