PURPOSE. This Manual is for your use and has only one purpose - to aid and insure your survival and rescue regardless of geographic location or climatic condition. The contents of this Manual are the results of actual individual and group survival experiences and the recommendations of explorers and World travelers, representing many years of experience in the desolate and isolated areas of our world. The value of this Manual and its intended purpose can be compared to the value you place upon your own life.
2. CONTENT. This Manual will tell you what to do, how to do it, where to do it, and when to do it, whether your survival condition be in the arctic, desert, or tropics - on land, on sea, or on ice. It recognizes your immediate and probable future problems and attempts to aid you in the solving of these situations. It describes the proper use of the equipment provided in your survival kit and, as important, will aid you to recognize and utilize the natural resources at hand. This information, your ingenuity, plus the will and desire to live, are necessary to insure your survival, your location, your rescue.