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    So now your taking up crocheting?
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    YUP!!! Not much left do with the VX and RS, so I have lots of free time. I am on this survival kick right now, you should see our walk in closet, looks like a bunker. LOL. I talked some guys at work to go to Uwharrie and hike the trails with me. No trucks allowed until april. I think I am going to be surprised how big those obstacles are when tackled on foot.
    We are all testing our B.O.B.s. I got a paracord bracelet as a gift, and thought, hey, why can't I do that? It gives me a cheap, time consuming, and very rewarding time killer. Strangely enough, my arms and back are sore from doing it, I am using muscles that wouldn't normally be used!
    Pics soon, I am almost done.

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    Here are the pics, I just finished. I decided to weave in the nite-ize S-biner for another survival device. Those things are incredible convenient. If I need to use it, I can just pull it out, use the belt as a conventional notch type belt. Good thing about this weave, it does have some elasticity to it,and I can unweave sections as needed without taking away the function of the belt. Total length was just over 96 feet of line.






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    Talk the navy into sending you to SEAR school! Tons of fun...of course I saw it from the other side as an aggresser!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triathlete View Post
    Talk the navy into sending you to SEAR school! Tons of fun...of course I saw it from the other side as an aggresser!
    All the cool navy programs are NNNA -Nukes need not apply, they are afraid we will get hurt, and we are way too expensive to be doing funs stuff like that

    I forgot to mention, that belt took me 4-5 hours to make from start to finish. I just ordered some SS D rings, gonna think of some new projects that are practical, yet creative. I know there are a ton of sites out there, but I prefer to think of it myself and get that Eureka! moment. Then I will find some site that has 10 better ways to do it. Next weave is to practice the Slatt knot. Something alluring about pulling one strand and having 100 feet of line in seconds with no unknotting!!!!! It is a huge PITA to get started. Need to work with something bigger than paracord until I get the hang of it I think.

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    Yea...but what if you nuke heads get captured?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triathlete View Post
    Yea...but what if you nuke heads get captured?
    Ummm, I have intelligence +15 and charisma -5. I need a 17 or higher on a 20 sided die, and I am safe. LOL, that is the stereotype we have anyway. No way for us to get caught, we work below the water line of the ship...waaaayyyy below the water line.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Triathlete View Post
    Talk the navy into sending you to SEAR school! Tons of fun...of course I saw it from the other side as an aggresser!
    I remember YOU!!!

    This is all they taught me to create. (Hey, it's a FORK!!)



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    You were about 10 years before me so it must have been some other guy that tortured you

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cobrajet View Post
    I remember YOU!!!

    This is all they taught me to create. (Hey, it's a FORK!!)



    Survival
    Evasion
    Resistance
    Escape

    Been there...done that!
    Quote Originally Posted by Triathlete View Post
    You were about 10 years before me so it must have been some other guy that tortured you
    Who you kidd'n...with a fork of that magnitude you could EASILY overthrow (or at least, evade) any nasty dictatorship the world has ever seen...

    Or maybe just eat beans...

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