As I am one of your most trusted employees I am very glad you have given me the task of creating a team that shall be able to survive a life threatening unknown situation. In order for me to complete this task I had to ask myself what truly is survival, so I came up answer: Survival is the ability to live through a mental or physical state of a crisis or circumstance. I have begun the attempt to create this team of outstanding individuals, by determining what are and are not the most important qualities and traits are essential for survival. The individual must be able to work well with others, emotionally be capable and ready for any situation thrown at them, and lastly the must be physically in shape and fit for any climate that we might…show more content… One of which being that the person must be capable of working well with a team and other people who have similar but also different traits to them. This trait enables effective work ethics and the ability to get more tasks done in an amount quicker time, while also giving all the people and opportunity to step up and help the group because their lives depend on it. In the article, “The day Tammy Duckworth was shot down,” Duckworth illustrates how in a time of crisis she only survived due to having her copilot there with her. Duckworth was in the military and was flying over a bunch of trees in Iraq when a rocket grenade hit her helicopter and it went down, she lost both her legs and severely injured her right arm. In the article she says, “The crew members could not speak to or hear one another. Duckworth didn’t realize that just to her left, Milberg was still trying to fly the helicopter.” If it wasn’t for being together Duckworth would have died in that helicopter because she was incapable of flying at that moment. Another example from that article is from the aftermath of the crash. Most of the men thought Duckworth was dead so they did not rush to her for immediate medical attention, but helped her copilot instead. He had noticed that Duckworth was still bleeding, meaning that her heart was still beating. He refused to let them take care of him until they looked at her. Duckworths life…show more content… In order to be on my team they must be mentally prepared to undergo the hardest things a person can endure. If they are able to survive the mental block in their brain, surviving past anything else should be much easier. After researching a lot into mental capabilities I found from the article, “How to survive a disaster,” that being unprepared mentally will most likely lead to the opposite of survival, in most cases death. The article states, “ The only reliable way to shortcut this kind of impaired thinking, most survival experts agree, is by preparing for an emergency in advance. ‘Practice makes actions automatic, without(the need for) detailed thinking.’” If a person is prepared to overcome emotion troubles, they will be most capable and ready in times of crisis. As well as being emotionally ready an individual must be in good physical condition and fit so they are able to move well in any condition. In the short story, “From deep Survival,” Laurence Gonzales describes how fatigue lessons your chance of survival. The storys says, “His class had been crossing a vast field of slushy snow, which made the going rough. The pilots began to suffer from fatigue, but Kerns kept driving them… Suddenly everyone wanted to give up. They just sat down and lost their will.” This shows how your have to
