You can download a LOT of field manuals and survival guides yourself online. I'm sure there's also a local hunting or outdoors association that would happily take on a newbie to learn practical bushcraft & navigation. First Aid training can be picked up anywhere. Weapons handling and marksmanship is best learned at a gun club. If you're training for the Zombie Apocalypse, your best option is to obtain one of the most popular long arms for your area (not the best, the most popular - ammo and spare parts are critical), and train with it.
You can also find your local militia for practical experience. This is your entry point for training in urban warfare, if that's your jam. Over the last 10 years or so the West has been training their police in urban warfare to engage Active Armed Offenders, plus a lot of battlefield experience from the sand pit is out there, so the pool of men with that knowledge is much larger than it was in the past.
I did five years in the equivalent of the NG; they train you for your corps, not much else. While I was able to access a lot of field time, and enjoyed it for the most part, I can honestly say that my time in my early twenties would've been better spent learning a useful life trade, like construction.
Whatever the "basics" are, I guess. 🤷♂️
You can download a LOT of field manuals and survival guides yourself online. I'm sure there's also a local hunting or outdoors association that would happily take on a newbie to learn practical bushcraft & navigation. First Aid training can be picked up anywhere. Weapons handling and marksmanship is best learned at a gun club. If you're training for the Zombie Apocalypse, your best option is to obtain one of the most popular long arms for your area (not the best, the most popular - ammo and spare parts are critical), and train with it.
You can also find your local militia for practical experience. This is your entry point for training in urban warfare, if that's your jam. Over the last 10 years or so the West has been training their police in urban warfare to engage Active Armed Offenders, plus a lot of battlefield experience from the sand pit is out there, so the pool of men with that knowledge is much larger than it was in the past.
I did five years in the equivalent of the NG; they train you for your corps, not much else. While I was able to access a lot of field time, and enjoyed it for the most part, I can honestly say that my time in my early twenties would've been better spent learning a useful life trade, like construction.