Emergency Cooking Without Power
Learn about essential emergency cooking gear and techniques, including camp stoves, solar ovens, and other methods, so you can continue to cook and feed your family even when the grid goes down.
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Situational Awareness Without Psychological Overload
Premise:In chaos, perception becomes your first line of defense. But hyper-vigilance can lead to burnout, paranoia, and bad decisions. True resilience means learning to see clearly without getting emotionally hijacked …
The Preparedness Mindset – Key To Overcoming Life’s Challenges
Having a preparedness mindset means being ready for the unexpected. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive, planning ahead, and having the mental fortitude to face any challenge head-on.
The Importance of Recognition in Situational Awareness
Recognition means moving beyond merely seeing to perceiving — noticing relevant cues or anomalies and understanding their significance.
Observation: The Backbone of Situational Awareness
Situational awareness starts with one fundamental skill — observation. Observation is more than casually looking around; it’s the deliberate act of noticing details in your environment: people, objects, patterns, and behaviors.
Maintaining Situational Awareness
Maintaining situational awareness is critical in a crisis. It helps you make informed decisions and respond effectively to evolving situations.
Growing Your Own Emergency Food: A Guide to Urban Homesteading
You don’t need a rural property to grow your own emergency food. Explore the basics of urban homesteading, including container gardening, small-scale farming, and ways to ensure your family can produce fresh food even in limited spaces.
Why Outdoor Skills Matter
Why bother practicing outdoor skills when, ideally, we’ll never need them? If you ever find yourself starting a fire without matches, filtering water from a creek, or navigating by the …
How to Practice Cooking with Your Emergency Food Supplies
The true test of your preparedness comes when you need to cook and eat under pressure—during power outages, natural disasters, or any crisis.
The First Decision: Clarity in the Fog
In a crisis, the first decision you make is rarely perfect—but it’s often the one that determines whether you keep moving forward or get stuck.
Power Down, Communication Out—Are You Ready?
Your quiet evening is about to test your readiness. Imagine this: the lights flicker, then everything goes dark. Your phone is dead—no power, no signal, and no clear answers. What …
Leadership Starts with the First Step
In a crisis, the first person to take action sets the tone for everyone else. That first step can be the difference between confusion and coordination.
What Every Parent Needs to Know About Kids and Food Storage
As a parent, preparing your family for an emergency goes beyond simply stockpiling food and water. It’s about ensuring that your children are not only safe but also able to manage and understand the basics of preparedness.
Dark Psychology: Awareness & Countermeasures
We believe that mental resilience is just as important as other categories of preparedness. AmCon member Chad Davis, who organizes the Mental Resilience Training group on our members platform, writes …
When the Grid Goes Down, What Will Keep Your Family Going?
Six days. That’s how long Mark’s neighborhood was without power after the storm. While others were melting ice in coolers and lining up at gas stations, Mark’s family was cooking from their garden stores, filtering rainwater, and keeping lights on with solar backups. His secret? He didn’t panic—he planned.
5 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Stockpiling Food and Water
Stockpiling food and water is an essential part of any preparedness plan, ensuring your family’s safety and survival during an emergency. However, many families fall into common traps that can …
What Would You Do If the Stores Closed Tomorrow?
The shelves are thinning again. Eggs are up, lettuce is wilted, and your neighbor just bought a $12 tomato. You’ve thought about starting a garden—maybe even storing a few things—but life gets busy. Still, something nags at you. A feeling that being unprepared isn’t just uncomfortable—it’s risky.
Daily SITREP for July 7, 2025
– Anker recalls another five power bank models this month
– Musk announces formation of ‘America Party’ in further break from Trump
– Russia’s cognitive warfare strategy exposed in new ISW analysis
– Devious AI models choose blackmail when survival is threatened
– Protest and Civil Unrest Around our Area
The Daily SITREP for July 6, 2025
– Federal permitting reformed to support energy sector
– ‘Summer of Bugs’ is here
– US military controls one-third of southern border
– Some facts about Camp Mystic, where Texas floodwaters swept away dozens of girls
– Protest and Civil Unrest Around our Area
The Daily SITREP for July 4, 2025
– Waffle House eliminates surcharge on eggs.
– Cooked turkey bacon recalls due to potential listeria contamination
– Amazon Prime offers members $1 off per gallon for holiday
– DHS and FBI warn about potential lone wolf attacks ahead of July 4 celebrations
– Protest and civil unrest around our area