Group/Tribe Training

[odgreen]

Our Group/Tribe has been working together for many years.  We are located in the north where about half the year we deal with the cold and snow of winter, so we spend about 6-7 months during warm weather doing range & outdoor work, and during the winter months we get outside as much as we can but sometimes we have to be inside.

Currently we have been training in (But not limited to):
Firearms Skills: Pistol, Shotgun, Carbine & Battle Rifle out to 500yds, Sniper Rifle to 500yds  
Individual & Group Tactics (1, 2, 3, 4 man, and larger group tactics)
Bounds, Immediate Action Drills, Peels, etc
Mission Planning & Rock Drills
Patrolling
Tracking & Counter Tracking
First Aid & Trauma, Medical
Convoy & Escorts
Ambush & Counter Ambush
Urban Tactics & Building Entry
Breaching
Scouting & Stalking
Site Security
Trapping, Hunting & Fishing
First Aid & Trauma
Communications (Radio, Verbal, Hand signals)
Firearms Maintenance
Firearms Familiarity (Most everyone uses the same firearms, but we want everyone to know how to maintain & function all types of firearms)
Bug Out Bags & Long Range Bags
Food Preparation, Packing & Storage, Canning, Meats (Curing, Smoking, Butchering, etc)
Hides, Camo, Ghillie Suit making
Water Preparation & Storage
Archery
Combatives (Empty Hand, Knife, Improvised Tools, Weapon Retention & Takeaways, Ground Fighting)
Ham Radio
Lumberjack & Pioneering skills
Farming & Gardening
Ammunition (Loading & Reloading)
Wood Gasifier & Storage
Orienteering (Map, Compass, GPS)

I am specifically looking for ideas and topics of things that we may have overlooked, this includes indoors as well as outdoors.  We are coming into our warm weather soon which means lots of outdoor range work to do as well.   

[panzer0170]

Weather, and the understanding of it. High and low pressure. What weather does it bring? What sort of time scale do you expect cold periods, or wet periods to last for? If you look up into the sky and see clouds, how high are they? what does that mean is coming? How often do you get frontal rainfall vs rainfall from relief?

When you can't get on a weather forecast, knowing what is happening is important. It'll be useful for crops, for going outside in the right clothes. For not dying from exposure because 'it looked warm when we set out'...

[rmplstlskn]

With short warm seasons, you have your work cut out for you, but you also will have "die off" much faster and massive migration out of a cold land if things go bad for whatever reason... So the amount of people to be concerned about, I think, will dwindle down within one winter, I suspect. So that makes it easier for you to do other stuff rather than constant security and patrol.

Your list is impressive and pretty good. I would expect "Farming & Gardening" will be a major focus in a WROL or SHTF event, as your window is very small before weather changes again. Hunting can only take you so far. Run out of food, or health declines due to lack of veggies, then training won't help much at that point.

Looks like you have the right understanding of things...

Rmpl