The Sandy Sandfort Field Manual Series

Sandy Sandfort

Field Manuals

Operator-grade preparedness, written down — one capability at a time. Not borrowed research. What's actually in my house, my vehicle, and my life, with the math that explains why.

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FM-DGB · First Edition

Digital Go-Bag Field Manual

Build a Document Archive That Survives Fire, Flood, Evacuation, and Your Own Death

You packed the food, the water, the gun, and the dog. You forgot the filing cabinet. This is a build-it-yourself plan for a digital archive of the documents that prove who you are and what you own — captured, encrypted, and copied in enough places that it survives the building it lives in. Fire, flood, theft, ransomware, a cloud account locked overnight, even your own death: built so any single failure costs you a few hours, never your irreplaceable records. A single weekend gets it done.

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The Field Manual Series

FM-DGB
Digital Go-Bag

The records that prove who you are and what you own — encrypted and redundant enough to survive the building they live in.

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FM-RK-1
Resilient Knowledge: Dynamic Data

Running a private AI at home so you keep natural-language access to information when the cloud isn't there.

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FM-RK-2
Resilient Knowledge: Static Data

Building the offline reference library that AI reads from — the curated knowledge that doesn't change.

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FM-SS
Silver Stacker

Stacking physical silver as insurance: what to buy, how to store it, how to think about it.

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FM-B
Barter

How trade actually works when markets fail — valuation, trust networks, and the deal at the table.

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FM-W
Water

Securing water before, during, and after a disruption.

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About the Author

It started in 1992 with a tornado — no stored water, no backup power, no plan, and a refrigerator with nothing in it but ketchup and a couple of beers. That was the moment I started prepping. In the three decades since, I've read, researched, built, used, and discarded all sorts of survival techniques and tactics. The Field Manual series is the synthesis of that work — earned by actually doing it in my own life, not assembled from internet research.

You're welcome to disagree with any of it. I don't ask you to take my word for the conclusions; I ask you to read the math.

— Sandy Sandfort, Boise, Idaho

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