Special Solutions

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

RULES FOR EVASION

This guidance is applicable to a downed pilot or other persons forced to walk across enemy territory to escape to safety.

  1. Think about possible solutions to your situation.
  2. Do the unlikely.
  3. Camouflage yourself. Use soil rubbed on skin and clothing. Also attach vegetation to your clothing so that it looks natural.
  4. Move slowly and carefully.
  5. Stay out of the open and off of trails, roads, lakes, or rivers.
  6. Take advantage of shadows, darkness, and vegetative cover to conceal movement.
  7. Make yourself obscure by staying off of ridges and out of direct sunlight.
  8. Also avoid people, farms, towns, villages, streams and riverbanks, and railroads.
  9. Plan your route of travel.
  10. Live off of the land without leaving obvious signs of your presence.
  11. Frequently double back and observe your route of travel to see if you are being followed.
  12. Observe for all possible threats from all directions. Scan from your feet up to an angle of 45-60 degrees. Look right and left, and behind as you move.
  13. When trapped in an urban area, go into hiding until it is reasonably safe to move toward the countryside.
  14. If you cannot move, remain hidden until the situation changes.
  15. Do not loose hope or patience.