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Countdown: Top 10 Bug-Out Basecamp Essentials: #9

August 13, 2013 By E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy

Your city is in chaos. Yesterday you made the decision to leave the packed environs of the metropolis and to bug-out to your basecamp retreat in the country. In our Basecamp Essential #10, you packed up your Eberlestock G4 Operator Pack with food and supplies to get you to your basecamp. Now you’re headed out of town. On the way you want to make contact with your family members. Your mother in the suburbs and your son at college are already clued in to your evacuation plan, but with cell service overloaded in the city, you haven’t been able to get through. What to do? You need a better form of communication that will be more resilient to localized disasters.

Number 9 on our countdown of Bug-Out Basecamp Essentials is the Iridium 9575 Extreme. The Iridium is a satellite phone, with pole-to-pole (as in North Pole to South Pole) coverage that you can trust. Iridium has real time GPS tracking and can even be used as a Wi-Fi hotspot. That could come in handy if you have installed some webcams at your basecamp to make sure no one has gotten there before you. Best of all, the Iridium is the first military grade 810F compliant phone. That means durability; dust proof, water resistant, and shock resistant. At least one of these Iridium phones should be part of every family’s disaster preparedness plan.

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E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith - Your Survival Guy
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998.

E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH, NH, where he completed course-work in Practical and Defensive Handgun, Conceal Carry Pistol, Shotguns, Precision Scope Rifle and Kidnapping Prevention.

E.J. plays a Yamaha Recording Custom drum set with Zilldjian cymbals. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zildjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West (RIP JB) and Paris.

Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@yoursurvivalguy.com

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