Free Military Manuals Online

[tacticalcity]

I have a college education, and consider myself pretty sharp. Yet I have always had a lot of trouble reading military manuals. I had trouble with them when I was in the military and still have trouble with them now. The writing style almost always makes for a difficult read. Which is ironic since the goal is to be as straight forward as possible. Don't get me wrong, my test scores were always top in my class. I just never enjoyed the writing style embraced by the military. I found it to be counter productive. I actually learned a lot more from commercially available books on the same subject matter written by former military personnel and cleanup by professional editors than the official manuals. If only because they don't put you to sleep.

Still, this is a great resource. Especially since it is free! I'll do my best to put it to good use.

[MudCamper]

Arfcom's manual page

[Southwest Chuck]

Here is THEE best sight for military supply and hardware manuals, From operating and servicing that water purifier you bought surplus, to that howitzer you've go stashed in the barn at your BOL.

http://www.liberatedmanuals.com/

This website is a comprehensive source of government manuals, in PDF format, free to copy, republish and distribute as you want. The goal of this website is to "liberate" government manuals from the dirty hands of CDROM selling mafia.

I like this guy!

[mnguyen84]

this thread has given me a boner.

[SDS-Ruger]

DownThemAll in firefox makes the downloading of the entire site easy. There are 506 PDF files.

How do you downthemall in firefox in one step?

[Glock 21]

thanks bud

[Librarian]

survivalismforum.com seems to be dead.

[Google it Research]

50's to 70's manuals hardly seem worth reading. Technology has changed by leaps and bounds.

[wpage]

Great info...

[TapRackBang]

Great stuff fellas. Much Appreciated.

[Breadfan]

tag

[ewarmour]

http://www.enlisted.info/field-manuals/

[RegulusOne]

50's to 70's manuals hardly seem worth reading. Technology has changed by leaps and bounds.

Out of curiosity... Where would you point someone if they were looking for current technology?

[Librarian]

Oooh, thanks Rp3589.

Shall we say survivalism forum was overtaken and re-purposed? Very NSFW.

[The War Wagon]

While military FM's are all well & good for us grownups, what if you have "little guys" in your bug out/retreat location someday? "Ragnar's Improvised Explosives" might still be a BIT too much for 'em.

As this is the 1965 version, it's PRE-political correctness, has clear illustrations, and is written to be understood by a 6th grader. It'll also give the little ones USEFUL and age-appropriate skills to employ around the homestead (moreso than cellphone or Nintendo "skills" ). And UNTIL you get to the boogaloo bugout, it still has LOADS of useful camping/hiking/outdoor activities you can train on in the interim.

The 1965 Boy Scout Handbook (1967 printing)... in pdf.

https://archive.org/details/officialboyscout71967boys