He said he was a city guy though. My guess is that he learned the minimal survival skills he needed to as a Marine.
True and he admitted that in the service he was backed up by all the support services provided to guys on a mission. That’s not the same kind of survival situation at all. But it was his attitude not his skills that sucked. All of his whining and blaming the girl was lame. She had a lot of skills and knowledge and he just dismissed it as useless. It wasn’t. She was making a lot of useful stuff.