Hand-picked survival PDFs you can download, print, and stash in your bug-out bag. Every file on this page is a U.S. federal government work in the public domain, which means it's free to download, free to print, and free to share. No email signup. No paywall. No tracking cookies dressed up as "premium content." When the grid goes down, you can't Google anything — so pull these now and keep a copy offline (or better yet, on paper).
A PDF on a dead phone is worth exactly nothing. Print the manuals you actually expect to need, store them in a waterproof sleeve, and keep a backup copy on an offline USB stick in your kit. Digital convenience is a peacetime luxury.
The actual field manual issued to U.S. soldiers. Shelter, water procurement, food, navigation, signaling, field medicine, survival psychology, and environment-specific tactics from desert to arctic. No commercial fluff — this is the primary source most civilian survival books quote from.
The joint-service first aid manual covering bleeding control, airway management, shock, burns, fractures, heat and cold injuries, bites and stings, and casualty evacuation. Written for non-medical personnel when no medic is coming.
A fill-in planning document for households: out-of-town contacts, meeting locations, medical info, school and workplace details, and emergency numbers. Print one, fill it out, give copies to every family member and keep one in each bug-out bag.
Before, during, and after an earthquake — structural hazards to fix in your home, drop-cover-hold-on drills, aftershock protocols, and recovery steps. Applicable well beyond quake-prone regions for general home-hardening.
Pre-season preparation, evacuation decision-making, sheltering in place, storm-surge awareness, and post-storm safety. Short, practical, and built around the decisions you have to make on a clock.
The definitive, science-based reference for safe home food preservation — pressure and boiling-water canning for fruits, tomatoes, vegetables, meats, seafood, jams and jellies, and pickles. If you are stockpiling the means to preserve your own food, start here. Eight-part set.
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